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📍 SKY STADIUM – RING AETHER 04
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Match One: Fan Yumei vs. Tian Rou
Combat Type: Aerial Beastmaster — Sky-Class Engagement
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The rings above the stadium rotated, casting down soft-blue scanlines and auto-target markers as the announcer called out:
🎙️ "Ring Aether 04 — Match One: Fan Yumei versus Tian Rou. Begin ascent."
From the opposite quadrant, a jetstream of heat and combustion erupted, spiraling upward.
Tian Rou surged into the air, riding atop her Blaze-Titan Roc—wings wide as solar sails, feathers edged in burning gold. The sky shimmered around her as she banked into formation, body fluid and practiced.
📛 Opponent Beast Identified: Blaze-Titan Roc — Vertical Jetstream Compression, Flame Collapse Tactics
🔥 The Roc's wings burst into dual vortexes of heatfire, forcing a turbulence buffer between her and Mystic.
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🐳 Name: Golden Thunder Cloud Sperm Whale
Class: Unknown Leviathan
Grade: Unknown (Myth-Class Suspected)
Bonded With: Fan Yumei
Location of Bonding: Private residence, under family-sanctioned spiritual containment
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🧬 Bloodline Classification
A mysterious skyborne leviathan — suspected fragment of the Sky Dao. No valid entries in current Federation beast registries. Theoretical status: living anomaly.
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📜 Known Titles
• Whale of the Cloud and Skies
• Mysterious Being
• Skyborne Leviathan (unconfirmed)
• Bond Seal: Formed without resistance — initiated by the beast
• Behavioral Traits: Enjoys physical affection with Lufei, dislikes sharp auditory frequencies, often reacts to humor—particularly when it involves Uncle Hanji's misfortunes
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⚔️ Offensive Skills
• Thunder God Strike — Golden lightning beam from forehead crest. Effective against shielded units and grouped enemies.
• Storm of the Fallen — Cloud-wind-rain vortex. Limits enemy visibility, impairs aerial stability.
• Sky Cloud Domain — Activates localized storm field; doubles Mystic's aerial speed, disrupts enemy reflexes and positioning.
• Call of the Whale — Releases soul-level resonance:
– Can stun low-rank targets
– Boosts morale of nearby allies
– Triggers environmental storm formations (emotional-state dependent)
• Memory of the Sea — Temporarily invokes ancestral sea power; minor healing, qi restoration, limited air-phasing
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🛡️ Defensive Skills
• Sky Mantle Veil — Shrouds in electro-cloud cover; obstructs visuals, redirects projectiles
• Pressure Coil — Air-density pressure shield; slows enemy approach and mitigates blunt impact
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☠️ Weaknesses
• Spatial compression fields (limits maneuverability)
• Nerve/soul-point strikes (bypasses bulk defenses)
• Dry-climate or anti-storm environments
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🧷 Classification Metrics
• Element Affinity: Lightning / Wind / Cloud / Water (hybrid)
• Type: Unknown Mythical Beast
• Size: Approx. 18 ft — full growth potential unknown
• Age: Infant class — hatched days ago
• Current Status: Bonded, qi-synced, emotionally calibrated
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Fan Yumei didn't wait.
"Sky Cloud Domain."
Mystic sang—not roared—her body blooming with gold-charged qi, wind threads and thunder pulses rolling outward.
🌩️ The domain field ignited, stormlight expanding midair.
Cloud spirals sealed the field in flickering arcs, visibility faltering. Mystic's movement sharpened—tripled in velocity.
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⚔️ Round One: Begin — Combatants and Beasts Engaged
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Tian Rou pointed from above, voice echoing across the skyfield.
"Flame Collapse Pattern Two!"
The Roc folded inward, diving sharp. Flame clustered around its core—its jet-burst spiraling inward, building for high-impact disruption.
Fan Yumei's expression didn't shift.
"Thunder God Strike—arc the flank."
Mystic's lightning burst didn't hit the Roc—just the air beside it.
The pressure rupture destabilized the Roc's dive spiral, forcing Tian Rou to abort trajectory.
"Storm of the Fallen," she followed up.
Mystic dropped into a dive, summoning a violent downdraft and a curtain of slicing wind and stormwater.
Visibility tanked.
Tian Rou vanished inside the fog-dome.
Fan Yumei closed her eyes.
"Now."
Mystic spun along the storm barrier's edge, predicting the Roc's exit path. When Tian Rou emerged—
—she was already too late.
Mystic hit from above.
A coiled spinburst crackled across the Roc's left wing, scattering burning feathers into the storm haze.
But—
Tian Rou's voice rang clear.
"Jetburst Rise!"
🔥 The Roc blasted upward in a vertical ignition, slipping just under Mystic's retaliation. Mystic veered off-course, lightning missing by inches.
Fan Yumei exhaled.
"Still overrelying on direct bursts. Let's end Round One."
Mystic reared back, body shimmering.
Call of the Whale activated.
🌀 A sonic qi-ripple cascaded outward—stunning the lighter skybeasts across nearby rings, reverberating off the dome's pressure field.
The Roc faltered.
Just enough.
Mystic coiled into a dive, then uncurled—body launching a full-body shock spiral of lightning and vaporized wind, slamming across the Roc's front chest plating.
Tian Rou gritted her teeth, barely staying mounted as her beast reeled off-center.
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But Fan Yumei didn't descend.
She knelt low, hands pressed against Mystic's glowing dorsal fin. Qi surged through her frame—conducted upward like lightning into skin.
"She's not dismounting," one of the distant observers muttered, voice tight.
Overhead, a pressure anomaly rippled.
Fan Yumei stepped off Mystic's back—not falling, but hovering, balanced atop a qi-condensed storm platform.
Mystic's domain was forming terrain.
Her hands shimmered with raw atmospheric charge. Qi-laced wind curled around her wrists.
She raised one palm toward Tian Rou.
"Let's end this properly."
Mystic rocketed forward.
Stormlight clung to her form. Her fins shimmered with velocity.
Fan Yumei—calm as a loaded railgun.
"Wind Blade."
She swept her hand.
A compressed air arc tore across the sky—fast enough to leave sonic rips in the clouds.
🔥 Tian Rou's eyes narrowed.
"Not fast enough—!"
The Roc twisted—rolling into evasive maneuver as the blade passed. A narrow escape. The vortex left a visible spiral rip in its wake.
But—
Yumei was already gone.
"How—!?"
A crack of lightning.
Yumei reappeared—body arcing midair, form streaked in white-blue domain-channeled qi.
She rotated, then kicked Tian Rou straight across the lower back.
"Move."
Tian Rou spiraled downward, limbs flailing. She dropped ten feet before catching herself—barely breathing, stunned.
Her lips moved out of reflex.
"Lys… come!!"
🔥 The Blaze-Titan Roc shrieked, abandoning the Mystic clash and dove like a meteor.
A streak of flame.
It caught Tian Rou midfall—gently.
Talons braced. Wings flared. Velocity halted.
The Roc hovered beneath her, smoking along the chest—Mystic's last lightning spiral still burning into its feathers.
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✅ Round One Result: Fan Yumei — Dominant Advantage
🧾 Note: Storm-based platform conjuring observed. Partial qi amplification via bonded beast aura.