After the scuffle with Alya, Ryan went directly back to his domain. He found Mesma and Masme gone and so decided to vent out the remaining adrenaline at the spurring area. He took off his shoes and shirt and stepped into the arena, switched on all the three spurring bots and stepped back to the centre of the arena. He tied his locs back as the robots started positioning themselves around him.
All three robots raise an arm aimed at Ryan and shoot their arms off as projectiles. Ryan dodges the three projectiles skillfully grabbing hold of one of the arms and hitching a ride with it as it was pulled back toward its robot. He hit the robot with a knee jab before using it as a shield for the shots from its two other counterparts. The robot Ryan was using as a shield suddenly does a 180 degree turn while still in Ryan's grip and holds him in a bear grip and sends a surge of electricity enough to power a small city through his body. The electricity makes Ryan's muscles constrict and expand unnaturally which makes him convulse and spasm letting go of the robot and giving it a window to attack Ryan with a kick to his thighs which puts him on one knee and a jab to his face which added up with the electrocution disorients Ryan even more.
The other two robots see this chance and rush in; one of them shooting out its fist as a projectile toward Ryan. He moves to dodge it but unwittingly goes right into another jab from the bot that had gotten the better of him. The other two robots have now closed up the distance and grab hold of Ryan's arms spreading them apart to constrict him as the third bot goes to town on his body throwing jabs. Several jabs in Ryan retaliates by pushing off the ground with his legs and using both legs to kick the assaulting robot straight across the arena into the force field acting as the border of the arena. He then uses brute strength to throw the robot holding his left arm right across the arena crashing into the one he had kicked. He uses the same maneuver for the one on the right but since it had already seen its colleague fall for the same it counters by holding onto his arm with its detachable arm. The rest of its body is flung towards the two of its counterparts except for its arm and the cord that connects the arm to the body. Using the logic established by its counterpart it sends a surge of electricity via the cord to the arm and ultimately to Ryan.The electricity has the same effect as previously but the stun doesn't last nearly as long enough as needed and Ryan collects his wits and severs the cord conducting the electricity before prying the robot's arm off of his arm and dropping it on the floor.
The three robots stand now facing off against Ryan , Ryan on the opposite side of the ring doing the same. In an instant tension builds and rises and just as fast it dissipates as both parties charge towards each other fists up. The robots surround Ryan throwing jabs and kicks and shooting off pulses and beams. Ryan manages to get in several good jabs between the blocking and dodging of all the jabs and shots but he majorly just redirected the robots' attacks against each other. All though it was working he knew he couldn't keep at it like this , it was only a matter of time before the bots realized and calibrated making the tactic ineffective. In all sense the robots were top tier combat facilitation bots but the ones Ryan had his hands on were better than whatever the rest of the military had access to. The creator of the robots had made these ones custom to be able to keep up and learn from top fighters who they went against as well as have a hive mind connection so whatever one of the bots found out or knew it would be relayed to all of its counterparts and just to add the cherry on top of the cake Ryan being the only Reaper who can embue his aura into sentient and non-sentient objects had allocated a little portion of his aura to the bots to act as a power source as well as to buff them up.
A robot aimed a beam at Ryan but he redirected it toward another bot but instead of firing it stopped and changed tact hitting Ryan with a sweep kick; they had learnt. Ryan countered the sweep acrobatically doing a flip and landing on his feet before taking off again this time on top of a robot locking his legs on its torso, perched up on its shoulders. Before the robot could throw him off or electrocute him he clasped his arms into a ball and started bashing in its head damaging its circuits and stopping it from electrocuting him. With the robot going haywire it started firing off beams and throwing jabs all around the arena hitting the other two robots making them step back and take cover.
Ryan sees this as his chance and rips off the robot's head holding it by the cords, like a chain hooked up to a ball, and jumps off and pulls out the robot's back plate to use as a shield from all the shots the damaged bot was making. He then kicked the bot forward to get some space from it, he was hoping even though it was damaged it would still be able to use its sensors in close proximity to the other two robots and attack them keeping them occupied for him to get an opening. It didn't work the attacks were still random and scattered. Using the backplate as a shield he made his move charging towards one of the disarrayed bots and using the damaged bot's head as a weapon he attacked aiming for the joints of the limbs in a bid to constrict its movement. Despite its attempts to retaliate Ryan got the better of it and using the backplate he managed to rip off the robot's limbs one at a time. The other robot had already taken care of the haywire bot after deeming it as a threat, it had punched a hole right through its back getting to its exposed core due to the lack of its protective backplate.
Ryan picked up the bulk of the bot without its limbs and flung it at the remaining bot. It dodged it and started toward Ryan aggressively. Ryan picked up two of the bot's limbs that he had dismantled; an arm and a leg also started his charge. He threw the arm toward the bot's feet tripping it. Before It could get up he was already on top of it bashing its head with the metallic leg before he decided to abandon the limb and just use his arms to rip off the bot's head. The bot tried to reach for Ryan but it only had one complete arm(It had lost it while trying to electrocute Ryan earlier) which made it hard for it. Its squirming made the job of pulling its head off hard for Ryan but just as he was starting to make headway the bot got an idea it reached for Ryan's throat with the limb that was missing a part and placing the damaged part sent a surge of electricity via the exposed wires making Ryan pull back and grunt in pain but not letting the bot go. The bot taking advantage of the distance Ryan now had to keep from its arm distracted him by pretending it was going in for another shock but instead placed its arm on Ryan's torso and let out the biggest pulse it could manage to fire without damaging its arm. Ryan was shot straight upwards the wind knocked out of him, he hit the roof of the force field before gravity gave him some attention and he started to plummet toward the ground. Before he could hit the ground the robot gave him a good kick right in his gut which sent him across the arena straight into the force field causing it to develop a crack from the impact.
The robot takes this chance to quickly repair its arm with the one that Ryan had ripped up from its counterpart. Ryan gets up angry. He aims for the bot with his right arm, TORRENT BLADES; Thorn seal. Instantaneously his Torrent blades shoot out wrapping the bot in chains and sawing right through it leaving it in pieces. Ryan stood there breathing heavily as a result of his anger.
"Hardly fair for the poor bot. It thought you'd stick to hand to hand combat." A voice says from behind Ryan. He turns to see who it is.
"Grim… How?"
"I tracked down one of your subordinates and got them to bring me here. Unfortunately I couldn't get here in time to save their circuits from your wrath." Grim replied as he takes off his coat folding it neatly and placing it on the grassy meadow before stepping up to the arena.
"What are you doing?" Ryan asks Grim eyeing him wearily.
"I'm here to avenge the bots u just massacred. You obviously still have a lot of adrenaline and rage pent up or are you scared?" Grim asks a he manifests his aura weapon Soul sceptre; a scythe/spear much like Alya's.
Ryan manifests both of his torrent blades and stares down Grim.
"You've got two of them that's hardly fair now is it." Grim says as he starts to move around the arena still eyeing Ryan who mirrors his action.
"Would you take this seriously old man!" Ryan retorts.
Grim grins slightly and starts to twist out his neck as if stretching.
"Just remember you asked for it." Grim says as he splits Soul sceptre into two a scythe and baton.
Both of them charge at each other.
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Far off in Cargeant the territory belonging to The Perils; The five sisters sit to discuss their next move after news of the attack on Rekonitri reaches them.
"Rekonitri is gone along with three hundred and seventy thousand of our soldiers not to mention artillery and ammunition." Ketsia the Peril of War stated.
"Are we certain the attack was from a Reaper?" Taxine the Peril of Despair asked her voice a little uneasy.
"There were only three enemies. You know of any other people who can do that much damage within that period of time with only three people?" Olivia the Peril of Constriction and Entrapment chimed in.
"The sighting confirmed it was The Dreamtaker and his subordinates; The Bloodwind Reaper and The Titanfall Wraith." Sega the head of the Perils stated.
"That's odd that kind of destruction is characteristic of Grim not The Dreamtaker. I thought his squad specialized in assassinations?" Kateline the Peril of Plague asked.
"I'm certain it was them and just because he usually does his work quietly in the shadows doesn't mean he's incompetent in the battle field… He's proved that much." Sega responded.
"So how do we go about this? I have a feeling its only the beginning on their part." Ketsia said.
"First we bolster our defenses around our borders and recently acquisited territories. Kateline, Taxine and Olivia you're in charge of that also prepare a force ready to attack but don't send them out until you get the go ahead from me." Sega said. "Ketsia you and I have to go get more soldiers to fight for our side. As much as I hate to admit it that attack took down a majority of our forces and we cant afford to wait to recruit and train more of them. We'll need mercenaries, The Blood Merchants."
"Going forth even if The Reapers attack again during my and Ketsia's absence you are not to engage or retaliate unless they attack the capital. I'm certain that The Graveweaver (Alya) has a hand in this plan and underestimating her would be a dire mistake." Sega added.
"Not to mention The Void Reaper." Taxine says her voice shaking slightly at the mention of the name.
"If Grim appears don't even think to fight!" Ketsia shouts the warning to Ketsia.
The room remains in silence slightly before Ketsia and Sega bid the rest farewell and set out to leave for Talknara the capital of the flame. Usually they'd travel like royalty being chauffeured but they couldn't risk the information that they weren't in the capital get out so they had to travel discreetly.