BXBX NOVEL Chapter 271 Half Immobile
Orun stood in the arena ground faced with the four Elven council who are standing opposite him.
The four council of elders have had a change of attire, now putting on pants reaching to their knees with an armless top.
The colors of their clothing on the other hand still represents the elemental they each stand for.
Orun had dropped down the top layer of his clothing, revealing the inner path that he had always worn around after his evolution.
"Please Spirit King, do not go easy on us".
Alluin of the Inanin Clan ( fire Elemental representative ) admonished any actions of Orun partainig to him trying to go easy on them.
What he wants is to test his true strength against Orun, to see how far he could go against an elemental king.
Just like how Orun also wants to test the extent of power he can draw out in his base form, so does the four council of elders who are curious as to know how strong they are together against an elemental king.
"You got it. I will definitely give it my all".
Orun assured the four council of elders because he also had no plan on going easy on them.
How else would he be able to know how strong his base form is if all he does is go easy on them?
"Alright, who is going to come first".
Orun breathed in before asking for who was going to face him first. If they were all going to come together at once or if one of them was going to volunteer first, to test Orun\'s before the rest of them make their move on him.
"We are coming together".
The four council of elders simultaneously moved together, going after Orun at the front.
They had almost gotten to him when all four of them splitted, each coming from the sides.
The fire elder was coming from the front, the water elder somehow managed to get herself behind Orun, changing her position from being in front of him to be at his back.
The wind elder took her feet off the ground and propelled herself upward so she could fall back down, but in Orun\'s direction.
While the other elders were moving themselves and going about in several ways, the earth elder stayed behind the others.
He started the movement with them but eventually stopped when they all splitted, focusing his attention only on Orun.
The actions of the earth elder bothered Orun greatly, but he could not invest too much of his time on it due to the other elders that were still making their way toward him.
The fire elder came at Orun from the front, thrusting out his fist in Orun\'s direction.
From above also came the water elder, using her movements as she had her body dropping down on Orun.
The wind elder did not leave herself out of the combo as she came charging from the back with her destination being where Orun was.
"We have only just started, yet you guys are already so worked up".
Their combo against Orun was definite. Moving themselves in different direction and each coming at him from three sides.
It was a means of distraction and a way to trouble the mind, making it hard for one to decide who to attack first.
Orun does not know how fast they are or if their speed is the same as his own in his base form, so he has to be careful in deciding on what to do.
He got himself ready to fight back, waiting for the moment when they will move closer to him before choosing who to attack first.
Orun as he had prepared himself before they got closer, noticed the weird shift in his leg muscle.
The muscle was responding as he wanted it to, but there was something that kept changing the path the muscle moves in.
The change cannot be noticeable for some, but for Orun who is connected to every part of his senses and muscle fiber, he can tell when something is not where it is supposed to be in his internal organ.
It is similar to how a needle is standing upright with half of its body buried to the ground and the other half facing the sky.
"So that was your plan".
Orun tried to move his leg to the back but it was misdirected and slipped to the front, making Orun lose his footing.
He was however quick to have his footing solid back to the ground to avoid himself from falling.
Orun tried to get his two feet off the ground so he could jump above, but he could not pull it off.
He stopped trying and turned his gaze to the front, not to look at the fire elder, but at the one standing behind the fire elder.
"I should have known. As the elder for the earth element, you would surely have at your disposal a skill that connects you to the earth".
Orun said with his eyes fixated on the earth elder who only stood still and had his eyes in one direction like he was in a trance.
He had somehow trapped Orun\'s feet on the ground and rendered him half immobile.
It wasn\'t that Orun could not move his feet. The problem lies in the motion carried out by the feet once he decides to move it.
Orun sending a message to the feet to go left would have the feet attempting to go left like the message had said, but ends up performing an action opposite to the instruction Orun had given it.
His legs is not what is being controlled by the earth elder, but rather it is the ground that Orun is standing on, changing the movements of his feet.
Just like how the other elders have a connection to their element representative, so does the earth elder.
He is using that connection to control the earth beneath Orun\'s feet to stop it from making the precise message given to it from the brain.
The other three elders have all gotten within Orun\'s range and would have their attack touching him with seconds more.
"A fine skill, but you made one mistake, and that is forgetting what I am".
Orun\'s movement have been temporarily taken by the earth elder, but he is not without his own ability.