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Almost simultaneously, a man with long brown hair and blue warrior's garb stepped into the arena. He had a decent sized swallow attached to his back, but nothing else was shown. It didn't take too long to get about 10 feet into the arena, where he stopped. Yet, the instant he stopped he began to pull pieces of paper from his cloak, seals, which he lay around him in a circular shape.

They stuck to the ground, amazingly, even though it was just sand. Although, for now they just sat around him as he crouched, his eyes unwavering from his opponent.

Even before the man had put his fingers through his hair, the seals had flown up and landed onto Kuralds chest, sinking into it as though he was water. As that happened he stood up to watch his opponents, procession, tribal tattoos begin to cover the skin on his face and hands. He simply grins as he sees the man brush his fingers through his hair.

He simply stands there as he watches the man throw the hair darts, and they go right for him, he doesn't move.

Yet, something was strange, they flew right to their appropriate spots, but there was no damage. They had all stopped literally a few millimeters from him, as though embedded in something beyond breaking. The needles were slowly vanishing as well.

If one looked carefully they could see a small piece of the tattoo vanish, although the change was so slight, it's doubtful that anyone would be able to tell.

He was unharmed, and with that he slowly pulls his swallow off his back, the twin blades gleaming a deep bluey-black. With his feet lowering and his weapon out in front of him, he watched his opponent with hard eyes, in a ready stance.

Kurald chuckled as the man got closer and closer, beginning to run. Then, the moment the man leapt from the ground, he shot his hand out and yelled.

"Stasis cage!"

In an instant, there would be a yellow electrical cage surrouding Greed, round in shape. Yet the special thing about this was that it instantly sent out electrical pulses and EMP waves to paralyze a person's nerves, as well as any gadgets or the like that they possessed. Hence the name of the Stasis cage as it would basically freeze whatever was inside of it in place, and even if they managed to continue moving, the instant they touched it they would be electrocuted to an extreme degree. Also, the constant inward pulsing would keep a person in the air if they so happen to be.

The instant he had created the cage around the man, his arms had shot out and more seals flew out, covering the cage completely. Once it was completely covered he would activate the seals, creating a massive implosion which would pretty mcuh crush and obliterate anything inside of it. The stasis cage would not interfere with the implosion as the seals were on the outside of the cage.

SUM UP: Basically as you jumped, I made a stasis cage appear around you, see above for effects. Then I released a crapload of seals to cover it, and they exploded. It would happen very quickly since you'd still be supended in mid-air.

That was the one thing Kurald missed, and that was that his seals weren't completely impervious either and even a harsh enough fire could burn them up. Which, to his dismay, is what happened.
He could feel the heat before the flames even got to him and he ran full speed under the stasis cage and as far to the wall as he could, turning around quickly.

His shield was gone, the fire having done enough damage to destroy it, but luckily he had gotten out with only a minor burn on his cheek and a few crispy spots on his clothes. He then raised his swallow in front of him and began to spin it, readying. He would have to get much more serious now that his shield was eliminated.

((OOPS! Forgot one thing! EDIT EDIT!))

Greed had been freed from the stasis cage as Kurald lost concentration shortly after running under it.

Luckily for Kurald, he wasn't stupid enough to try and stop a guy who was made of metal with his bare limbs. Instead he quickly rolled out of the way, just before his opponent took off from the ground. As a signature, he had left a little present. There was a seal there that exploded just as Kurald rolled away, which wasn't a deadly explosion, but an intense smoke bomb.

Now it was time to make some space, and get some speed. With that he activated the seals that he always keeps on his feet, and suddenly he was darting to the other side of the arena, moving back and forth quickly to make him extremely hard to hit with any form of projectile. It was as though he was skating on the ground, when in actuality the seal allow him to slide on air when he need to. It made him more than twice as fast and he is able to activate and deactivate them as needed. He got about 60 feet away from Greed before fully turning around with his swallow out in front of him, which he was spinning. It going faster and faster and was actually no longer in his hands, it was merely floating in front of his left hand and spinning about as fast as a plane propellor. Which as a result would send an extremely large amount of sand towards Greed, and pretty much anything in from of Kurald. As this was happening he had raised a seal between two fingers in his right hand, and was chanting.

NOTE: The seals on the bottom of his shoes are carved in, not just paper seals.

Cept, Kurald wasn't quite stupid. Since the man started coming towards him, he had reactivated the seals on his feet and just before Greed went to punch the ground, he activated the seal onto his swallow. So, as he started to slide down the slab, since he would simply slide, rather than lose his footing because of the foot seals, The swallow's blades would glow blue, dully. Although given the speed it was spinning, it just looked like a glowing-ish blue disc.

Anyways, he had just begun sliding when he pulled back his hand that was controlling the swallow and threw it forth, releasing the blue disc, a.k.a. his swallow.

Now the seal he had used was a special one, designed for getting through literally tough spots. The blue glow it generates, literally devours matter. In simplier terms it disintegrates it, and absorbs it into itself. So no matter the density of an object(or person in this case sweatdrop ) it would melt and eat through it. He figured that if this didn't cut through that guy, then who knows what the hell could? The man looked to be made of some kind of stone or metal or something like that, so Kurald naturally assumed the hardest thing he could think of and thought of what could cut through it.

Also, he wasn't one to just go head first into a person, especially if he just threw a disc of death. So instead he jumps shortly after releasing the disc, and lo and behold, he skates on the air. Over Greed's head by about 5 feet. Once he's about 20 feet for so away from Greed he'll deactivate the seal and jump to the ground in time to catch his swallow which in theory should have cut right through Greed. He didn't see why it wouldn't given that Greed should have no idea what the blue glow did, and he seemed to be rather impervious, then why would he try and avoid it?

SUM UP: He activated the seal on his swallow and as he's sliding down he throws the swallow at you and then jumps to skate on the air over your head, fairly quickly as before.

Instead of flying and bouncing along the ground, the swallow instead turned sideways onto it's edge. It continued flying along straight, cutting a thin line through the earth. When Kurald had landed, he landed slightly beside the path of the swallow. It flew past him, but instead of continuing on towards the wall, it tilted and curved to do a U-turn of sorts and fly to Kurald's other side, where his hand was held palm out, waiting. The swallow stopped as it reached his hand, and slowly stopped spinning until he grasped it firmly. This whole process, from him landing, to him catching the blade took only about 5 seconds.

Given that the blade had moved unnaturally, even an idiot could figure out that Kurald was obviously able to control it in some way. Although, there seemed to be nothing visible. The blue glow continued to radiate from the blades of the swallow, the effect obviously still there.

The man raised another seal to his face, wielded between two fingers. What it's effects will be is, obviously, unknown.