'Even down to the correct word, I can almost taste how delicious your screams will be!' Gideon says and then recomposes himself, realizing.
'Wait a minute, no… don't fall for it, he knows that I know that I need this lamp oil to douse him… so… if anything he'll either try to use Geomancy to create a solid wall to waste the oil, or outright dodge… I…'
Gideon then proceeds to turn tail and run.
'I need to get him somewhere without immediate earth! Wait, no that's too long! I'm just gonna have to do what I know earlier, and distract him again!''
"Hahahaha! You actually called the bluff?! You're fucking funny!" Giono then disrupts a portion of the ground beneath and begins to surf a slab of stone rapidly towards Gideon, creating a Jagged Lance of raw ore before reaching out to stab Gideon.
But at that moment, Gideon turns around, and with the shepherd's sling shoots the lamp oil at a high speed Giono.
'SHIT-' Giono tried to swerve but the oil vial broke and caught all of its contents on top of a hastily brought up stone wall.
'Hah! Your impatience is your downfall, you idiot!'
Wait, when did lamp oil smell like Peppermint? Or… made no glass breaking sound. Giono took a glance at the stone slab shield using his built-in Appraisal skill, and found just a splatter of green that suggested a ball of weeds.
"FUCK!" Giono was too late to realize he got distracted again, turning around to look for Gideon, he finds him running further away and towards the synthetic waterfall… the lamp oil nowhere to be seen on the sling.
Giono creates a whole wall around himself to block every direction, unsure of how this man may… but as Giono looks up to try and cover the ceiling, the sound of shattering glass and the slickness of oil drenches him.
The walls come down fast, Giono may be able to not suffer from glass shards unlike Anthony did due to having a fully-enclosed helmet, but that doesn't mean the few porous holes in his body weren't struggling from the horrid stench of kerosene.
Gideon snaps his fingers, and from afar lights up the man's entire body with a simple Apprentice-Tier Spell [Ignite], all it did was replicate the effects of lighting a fire, be it a campfire, a lamp, or anything that could normally be lit with a matchstick.
But that was just it, a magical matchstick, with two key differences: Near infinite vision cast range, and its instantaneous nature.
Meaning, something like a person covered in oil wouldn't take time to catch on fire, but rather instantly be on fire as if 5 minutes of the fire's persistence had passed.
Gideon almost celebrates, but then receives a terrible gut feeling that forces him to retreat further away from the sizzling Geomancer.
Unfortunately that feeling was correct as Giono bursts out of his old [Full Body Adaptation] of steel, like a butterfly from a cocoon. Now composed mostly of rock, laughing hysterically.
"Fool, your plan almost worked, but now is the time I think I will end this fight."
Gideon felt the force of a car hit him, and then pinning him straight into the synthetic waterfall, Giono stands there underneath the waterfall's grace, cooling down his body as he then says.
"You thought you did something cool, didn't you? Burning me alive with that? Heh, as if. With my [SS-Rank Supreme Geomancer] class and Defense Index of [B-Rank], what did you think you could accomplish? A victory of attrition? no… no you couldn't have even in your wildest dreams, you thought you did, but now…"
The grip around Gideon's collar tightens, dragging Gideon up against the wall as a spiked mace appears on Giono's right hand, Giono presses it against Gideon's chest and threatens.
"Any… final words? I'd love to hear what a weakling like you has to…to…ngh, s-say… brrr…" as Giono realizes that something was happening to him, eyes glancing to Gideon's left hand with a now empty pouch, and doused over Giono's shoulders a fine fertilizer powder all over their body, cracking into their fresh stone adaptation.
The cutting sensation and sharp pains of a rapidly descending temperature, as though he was sitting in-front of his old world's air-conditioners... before the sensation turns into a painful recreation of holding dry ice with your bare hands! Throughout their adapted stone body, thick and deep cracks begin to form, destroying the magical stone body.
Giono tries to adapt into a steel body but then… nothing…The [SS-Rank Supreme Geomancer] class wasn't resisting this, Reincarnator powers always had status resistance, it was infuriating Giono
"Ha-ha… If there is one thing I've learnt so far from… you Divine blessed Reincarnators, is that… the System registers some… kind of… attack from another party, or even one the Gods know beforehand… and prevent it beforehand, but it seems like this… this right here… haha, proves… your Gods…"
"...ain't shit… for not having the imagination and risk taking of a human!"
Gideon then unbuckles a sledgehammer, the Giono now frozen solid from Saltpeter paralyzing the stone body from way deep inside of the porous rock [Full Body Adaptation] tries to move, or even burst out but the blazing sensation of the cold hurts the nerves and body ridiculously fast.
"My… last words? Fuck… off!"
As Gideon then makes one strong swing with all of his strength upwards into the frozen Giono, as the rock body armor shatters violently! Sending the losing Geomancer flying through the waterfall and into the shallow river.
Gideon rushes through to look for where he is, panic stricken.
'Fuck wait! If I kill someone on school grounds that'd be bad for my retention!'
Having worried over murder, despite already tormenting two other students with very traumatizing methods, legs wading through the shallow river fast to search for the Geomancer, his feet kick something…
…and reveals a naked Giono?
The fellow then rises out of the water with his consciousness barely with him, and then he mutters
"S-status…" while Gideon seemingly is getting something strange in his care, and Giono tries to sweep his legs with their superior Strength score of S-Rank, but finds no such avail as Gideon stuns Giono's head with a blow from the Sledgehammer.
-2 HP!
HP: [38/112]
Giono is shocked seeing that notification of a ridiculously low HP.
'W-what's the fucking point of good stats if a bunch of fertilizer removes half of my HP?!'
"-is what you're thinking of right now, right kid~" Gideon smirks, and swings the Sledgehammer once more from on top of Giono's head like Gideon is playing a carnival game of whack-a-mole, normally lethal to any human, but Reincarnators were the furthest from human.
"Guess what? A common theme between you losers is that your system just tells you what's going on, and what to do. It's still you that's gotta do most of the work!"
Critical Hit! -4 HP!
HP: [34/112]
["Warning! You are stunned from taking a critical hit to the skull from a lethal swing!"]
Giono staggers across the water, head and stars flying around in circles around their vision before another painless slam against their face followed by disgusting broken-crunching pain.
Giono goes flying as they're flung right next to Maurice's body, with Gideon taking the stance of a baseball player hitting a home run, enjoying this moment of finally beating two of these fellows.
"Phew, now time for a break…" Gideon goes over to the white plastic chair that had been left relatively unharmed over their conflict, and takes a seat in it, enjoying a refreshing sip of water from a flask on his person.
Before a powerful streak of thunder crashes into the glass of the Mega Garden, the glass survives the discharge and then turns red as it sets off the alarms for unauthorized student use of magic!
"You have got to be fucking with me…" Gideon sighs.