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Time limit extended to two weeks

It was time for the sorcerer to prove his worth in the arena. Two wins by default did not get him warmed up as much as he would have liked to (or at all in general), but now this was not something that he could take care of. He had to go in with the capabilities that he had and hope for the best.

He would proceed to make his entrance from the southern end, opposite of his worthy opponent. Cloaked in pure black, he would not be visible until he reached near the center of the arena itself, where the sun would rid space of the shadow, leaving only the tall man in the black cloak still shrouded. As he slowly trudged towards the arena, he would keep his head facing towards the arena floor, appearing as a druid from an old church. His hands would be folded in his front until he stepped 30 feet inside, at which point they would go to his sides.

Lifting up his head, yet still keeping it wrapped under his cloak, he’d spy grey-shirted man, taking particular interest to all of the colors surrounding him that gave a deep contrast to his clothing. What could they be for? Julius would have to figure that out on his own, in the middle of the heat of battle. Guessing now could only bring consequences for later. For now, he would take his left hand, covered in titanium, and would reach inside his cloak, pulling out a medium-sized deck of what appeared to be guardian cards. Yet, they were a tad different, but not by much. The deck would soon float out of his hands and spread out around him, each glowing a different colored aura. The cards would have different characters printed on them, save one, which would be blank. The cards would then reform into a deck and would float back into Julius’ hand, which would then pocket them back in the cloak. However, at the distance between the two, his opponent probably would not be able to read the characters. Even so, they’d more than likely would be of a language foreign to him. They would probably appear nothing more than glowing auras that would soon disappear.

Upon the loss of sight of his opponent, Julius was a tad perplexed. Attacks were useless if he couldn’t see them, so naturally his first and primary objective was to establish sight of his opponent…but, how should he go about doing that? When invisible, a person’s body does not absorb any light, so simply observing shadows cast from the sun would not work, as light would theoretically pass right through his body and not cast any shadows. A life detection spell, which would allow the sorcerer to see organic matter, would work well…had the chain not have been a problem. Therefore, he decided that the best way of going about this problem was heat vision.

A nifty thing about his “guardian” cards was that the majority of them could be combined together to form limitless combination spells. So, take for example, the heat sensing. Based off of deposed gods he would take out the deck, causing two separate parchments cards to float before him. The characters on these cards, both in Ancient Greek, would read “Sun” and “Fire” respectively. The “Sun” card was also responsible for the gift of sight. Alone, as a personal effect, the card would allow night vision, or perhaps more acute vision. However, neither of those effects would help him. Therefore, he brought out the “Fire” card. Fire was something often associated with heat, which would give him the effect he desired. Though literally being fire vision, it would not translate over in that sense. While Julius swiftly closed his eyes, the two cards would glow a bright yellow and orange respectively. When he would open them, the majority of his field of view would be a blue color as his cards would float back inside his deck. However, in the distance, he would be able to see a yellow, orange, and red figure. It was his opponent giving off heat, which he would be able to distinguish for the duration spell. After a few turns, the effect would simply vanish, causing him to recast. However, this would not happen yet, and would give him some time to open up the battle. His current mode of sight would allow him to see a full outline of the body rather than a small aura generated from the center, which would give him some guessing ability about what his opponent would do next. As a measure of precaution, he’d be able to snap his fingers and return his normal vision. The spell would still last the same amount of turns, even if he went a whole one without using it. However, this would only provide basic sense. For the rest, he would have to listen, and listen well. It was easy to sense that this battle would test his ability to hear and pre-meditate what his opponent was doing, lest it would cost him.

What Julius had now hoped for was that the physical limitations of invisibility would take effect. With no light passing through his body, his opponent would theoretically remain blind without his eyes absorbing photons. That’s not to say that he couldn’t have already come up with a stopgap solution for this. Magic IS magic, after all. Briefly glaring at the huge amount of heat coming from his right hand, he’d instantaneously look back at his opponent, waiting for his next move. He was now prepared to eye where he was going, but what he would be doing would still be an unknown variable, and he’d just have to hope for the best. Julius wouldn’t attack either. If he attacked, it could potentially give away that he could spy what happened to his opponent. The element of surprise was ever so important. He’d keep his heat vision on until his opponent would begin to move oddly, where he would be forced to defend from an attack. But, for now, he’d remain motionless save for the deck of cards still in his hands, incase the need for some basic spells came up.


(Heat Vision: Commenced 0/5)

Upon noticing the "blob" of heat surrounding Torment, Julius would begin pondering what was causing that. Considering that his opponent went invisible, and fast, he would not have had proper time to notice anything causing the flames. But, nevertheless, it was blocking his view, and that was all that matters. He would have to think of a way to get that cloud of heat to die down, if even possible. However, his opponents next move would change his focus from a clear view of everything his opponent did to self-preservation.

He would notice an on and off sensation developing around his legs, amplified due to the fact he was wearing a black robe, notorious for keeping people hotter in desert conditions. He would look down and spy blobs of heat, signified in his vision by the color red, appearing and disappearing constantly at his feet. He'd make a quick snap of his fingers in order to see exactly what. Upon spying the black flames, he would try to move around to simply get away, but to no avail. Judging by this, he'd figure it had to stop at one point, so he'd carefully move around, waiting for the moment which, IF, the flames stopped so he could get out of the way. It wouldn't be much, just a few feet left and right strafing, but enough to tell what was going on.

This time, he would pull out another two cards, and use them one at a time. The first card would once again be the sun card, causing a small, very bright ball of light to float above his head. The holy light had the power to potentially "purify" some attacks, usually those relating to poisoning. It would also provide defense to any attack from above and those related to shadow and darkness. More importantly, the light would have the power to temporarily blind opponents if they stared into it. Because of where it was with in proportion to Julius, it would be hard not to, and could give him a chance later to launch an attack. Perhaps it would cause his opponent to lose concentration, but no one could be sure at the moment. The other card, simply translating into "sky", would dissapear without a trace. What it would do, or what it did, would be currently unknown. With the sun card back in the deck, he'd snap his fingers again to see if he could distinguish anything his opponent would do until his supposed attack came.

(Holy Defense: Commence 0/3; Heat Vision ON 1/5)