If you guys like my work consider looking at my other fics. I'd like to think I have some pretty nice ideas. I also have a bunch of OneShots that I write. I really should just put some of them in the Panda's Snippets.
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"Barriers!!" McQueen yelled out, the less experienced members got out of their shock and raised their hands forming barriers, the ones with more experience immediately put up some barriers once they noticed the attacks.
But their leader didn't bother to put up any defense, like a beast he charged through the spells, they broke as soon as they hit his skin. On his hand there were some knuckledusters made of unknown material.
'Classic Mana Skin, he really poured all of his focus in melee. Mana levels Mid Class, less than mine'
Power Classification was always complex. Not everything can be summarized into I have more mana therefore I am stronger.
The easiest way to determine someone's class is how much destruction they can cause. This was true for magicians. But what about those who don't focus on destruction? Thousands of years ago the answer was simple and it stayed so all the way to the present.
People rely on different things, mana, their body, weapons, poisons. So they kept it simple. If you can defeat or kill a Mid Class, you are a Mid Class Threat. If you can beat a High Class, you are a High Class Threat.
McQueen was perfect example. He had Mid Class mana reserves, but due to extreme training his body is that of a Early High Class. With his skills in martial arts as soon as gets close to someone with his superior speed it's over for them.
Spells? Dodge or tank them.
Barriers? Tear them apart with force.
Just brute force.
McQueen reached Harry a barrier appeared in front of him blocking his way, the man responded with a simple right hook.
'Hmm?' Harry raised an eyebrow, with the contact to his barrier he figured out what the knuckleduster was made from. The entire thing is some sort of tungsten-titanium alloy, but what was special was the front of the duster, it was coated in a thin layer of Orichalcum.
A metal famous for its hardness and infamous for its difficulty to to focus magic through it. It wasn't anti magic but it makes for a very good shield. It was also very difficult to create, requiring a skilled Alchemist.
'It must have cost him a fortune to get that thin layer on there. It also explains why its so effective against barriers. At it's core a barrier is a shield made out of mana. This was a very hard metal, and the whole point of a knuckleduster is to focus all of the power of a punch in a single point or line in this case.
Its also the reason why knuckledusters are considered lethal weapons for mortals. A knuckle duster is the equivalent of a hammer, without the awkward hold and a lot more power. And this was a muscle maniac boosting his strength with mana and possibly several body type boost spells.'
Harry didn't stay in one place. He backed off and started moving. He also started to fire the Unforgivableles at them. McQueens eyes widened as he quickly dodged, the spells missed him, but hit four of his people behind him. Two dropped dead, two fell on the ground and started to scram and spasm.
'Good instincts' Harry complimented the man in his head while shooting another Killing Curse at him. McQueen punched the air, and the force of the swing shot out an air blast that hit the curse head on creating a Bang when they hit each other.
Harry kept his barrier up, blocking spells from the other grunts and officers, but he never stopped casting, the bombardment kept on going. He conjured snakes and poisonous insects, threw poison fog at them and AOE Confundo
The troupes start to panic and throw spells around like crazy and swinging their weapons like they were hallucinating enemies.
'Nothing like a bit of friendly fire' Harry smiled once he saw the chaos. His inner gremlin was jumping from joy. 'The Officers though are holding out, well as expected of Mid-Class fighters.'
Their mana and stamina was draining. Harry while he was spamming spells it was to clear the weaker enemies, and they were dropping like flies.
He still had to conserve strength. He was a genuine High Class now, but his strength was split apart. Maintaining a barrier this big wasn't easy. But that didn't mean he couldn't save on mana.
McQueen kept chasing Harry around and once the grunts were burnt, electrocuted, poisoned or just killed by their friends. Harry sent a signal to the clones to start shrinking the barrier. From that 50 meter cube it shrunk down to 30.
Normally this would be a very stupid idea since the opponent was a melee fighter. But this also meant less cover for them. The entire squadron was down to 6. Again. One High Class and five Mid Class, but they were in rough shape. Harry was much stronger compared to his fight with Reginald.
And he had learned a lot. After the grunts were down for the count, he switched to specific spells to keep them busy. Harry slammed his staff into the ground. From the Earth four massive golems rose up, each four meters tall and at least a meter wide.
Harry started to lay down some enchantments on them to make them more durable and send them on their way. The Golems started to rip out trees and threw them at the Officers while closing in on them.
They had to defend from spells coming from above and now physical items were being thrown at them, meaning another barrier and more things they needed to split their focus on.
McQueen acted swiftly. He couldn't let his men get cornered like this. The Low Class were a pity but they could always get more. Mid-Class fighters were more difficult to convince to join the group.
One of these Officers was his son. Gregory. A fact he had kept a secret so his son wouldn't grow up to be an incompetent baboon because of nepotism. He fought his way up and became his second in command.
He rushed towards his son as the golem was closing in on them. With one punch he shattered it into pieces, before throwing a few quick jabs, pushing the golems stumbling with just the force from his punch even at a distance
"Regroop!" McQueen yelled out and turned back to the boy only to see that Harry had a wild grin on his face as he pointed the staff at them. All of the mouths spoke the same word at the same time. "Fiendfyre!"
One moment it was normal, the next it looked like they were in hell. An inferno shot out from the staff engulfing them in seconds. It looked like they were swallowed up by an orange sea of flames.
Even with his defenses McQueen felt the heat as it burned his skin. Blisters started appareling over all exposed areas, his knuckle dusters heating up and his enchanted clothing catching on fire.
"RAAHHHHHHH!" McQueen swung his fist into the ground. A giant shockwave erupted as earth was flung into the air pushing it and flames away from the group. He turned around to see his four Officers break down into ash, but his eyes were only on his son.
There was no hair left on his head, his skin was scorched and it was cracking, his arm and a part of his torso was burned away. His eyes were liquified falling down his face like tears.
Following in the footsteps of his father he also used the same style. But neither his body or his mana could protect him from the cursed flame
"F-Fat-her" the man could only say so much as even his throat was burned. He fell forward, is scorched corpse breaking apart, leaving him split in pieces.
"GREGORY!!" An almost inhuman roar left McQueen's mouth, it was full of grief and anger.
The Barrier was lifted. But McQueen didn't seem to even notice that, he charged at Harry with fury in his eyes "DIEEEE!!!!"
He swung his leg toward Harry who anticipated the kick, a few dozen small flat barriers appeared in front of him. McQueen broke through them but the last one which was tougher than the others held and sent Harry flying back.
Shhh
A magical rope wrapped itself around the man's leg, it was tied to Harry. McQueen instantly lost balance and fell to the ground as his leg was still being pulled. Just as he was about to stit up and tear the rope, his instincts screamed even as rage had consumed him.
McQueen quickly rolled over to the side.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud...
Spears embedded themselves on the previous spot. The spears were heavy and sharp, seeing as they were half embedded into the earth. The man had narrowly escaped but this made his positioning unstable.
BOOM!!!
A spell hit him in the head sending him flying. He grabbed the side of his head as he noticed it was bleeding. He got hit again on the shoulder, this time by a green spell creating another small explosion.
"Ahhhhhh!!!!" McQueen screamed out in pain. He felt as if tiny blades were ripping apart his muscles. 'What is this?!'
'Huh, thought the Bombarda would do more damage, but man he sure tanked the Killing Curse. The explosion damage was minimal, as he was protected by his Mana Skin. But the nature of the spell didn't change. It kills anything it touches. That part of his shoulder was dead, but I don't know how much'
Harry was unconcerned, he had McQueen surrounded, his four clones had joined him in the fight.
"You wanted to find and capture me, look how that turned out for you. If you had minded your own business your sad excuse of a son would have survived"
Even if he had the advantage, a little more couldn't hurt. And provocation in these moments when your opponent is emotionally unstable is the perfect time for it.
"You BASTARD!" McQueen appeared in front of Harry in a surprising burst of speed, he used it all, all of his strength, all of his power, he poured it all into one punch, aiming right at Harry's face.
And then Hexagonal Barriers lined up one after another.
BOOOOMMMM!!!
Crash! Crash! Crash!... Cling!
'What!?' McQueen's eyes widened in surprise and it was understandable. The barriers he had been breaking all this time suddenly got much tougher, he only broke seven of them. Harry takes advantage of this short momentary loss in focus.
A clone from behind used a greatly overpowered 'Sectumsempra' cutting his Achilles Heel. The other clones shot out Bakudo spells and lightning spells.
It was over, McQueen had been captured.
'Well that takes care of that. But damn if he didn't earn some respect. Seven of my new super hard Hex Barriers shattered like glass. Tough luck for him, if it was any other High Class human he might have stood a better chance.
Magic users don't play fair. And that goes double for me. Melee fighters are at a big disadvantage against a magician who knows what they are doing. Things would have been different if he knew Touki. With that he could sit still and just tank everything I throw at him'
The Harry squad tied him up and sealed him. It was time to go home.
'But his panic about me having multiple sacred gears is completely understandable. it was common sense, with one exception, that a few people know about. The only known person to have two sacred gears is Mitsuya Kanzaki.*
(A/N Okay the next part I imagine as HxH narrator. If you don't like this type of style I can get rid of it, I just always though it was so damn cool for the narrator to explain it. )
[ Mitsuya Kanzaki isthe luckiest and the most unlucky bastard in history, he was born with two Longinus Class sacred gears. Innovate Clear and Telos Karma. Mitsuya should have died on the spot when the two Longinus's sensed each other.'
Telos Karma has the ability to create and enforce choices that aren't possible forcibly, no matter how small the percentage of that happening in reality.
Innovate Clear can create an ideal world in a fashion similar to Dimension Lost's, with the additional ability to create nearly-perfect imitations of living beings much like how Annihilation Maker can. However, anything made inside Innovate Clear's world can only exist in that world.
But by sheer luck or fate. Telos Karma forcibly awakened itself early and as a survival instinct it activated. Telos Karma made it so it was possible for two Longinus to coexist. Even if the chance of that happening was so close to zero it might as well have been infinite.
But that kind of massive change requires a lot of power, power that Mitsuya didn't have. So yes he survived, but he price was his health. He has chronic illnesses, it was nothing fatal but most of them were like Arthritis and Asthma.
Making his life very difficult forcing him to take medication for all of them, this naturally made him depressed so he was taking medication for that as well. And then there was the conceptual weight in his soul the Longinuses might coexist, but the strain on the soul was massive. And both only made him a target for other factions. So he was on the run hiding himself from everyone. ]
' Even i tried to find him, but no luck there. I'll wait until I'm better at divination before trying to find him again. Two Longinus isn't something one ignores. Especially innovative Clear that i really, really want to have. It was a Researchers wet dream. '
Harry stretched as he looked at the bodies on the ground 'Well time for a clean up. And looks like quite a few of them are still alive. Good I was running out of test subjects. How ironic, for most creepy mad scientist human lab rats are the hardest thing to get since kidnaping people would alert someone.
I on the other hand just have to wait and idiots will come after me regardless if I take the initiative or not. Fate is a bitch marking me with a prophesy and making me a trouble magnet, but damn if it doesn't come in handy.'