*does not move* I apologize for now, but I cannot fight with you at the moment. I am somewhat wrapped up in my duties. Once I can clear that up, we will fight. [spoiler]I'm fighting some other people right now, but once I'm done, I'll fight you.[/spoiler]

"It's cool. Patience is the key after all." *sits on dojo floor and begins to meditate*

*I approach once again* Still up for a fight?

Of course are you? [spoiler]in class so I won't respond as fast[/spoiler]

Indeed I am. *readies sword* If everything is in order, then let's begin.

*a pillar of rock rises from the ground and is transformed into a sword* "Then we shall begin" * more rock rises and creates a strong yet light armor*

You can control stone... Impressive. *I activate both of my swords, which begin radiating fire and lightning respectively*

Not just stone *stretches unarmed hand out for second* *lowers arm and charges forward. You try to dodge the first swing of sword across chest but look down and see that your legs are encased in a mixture of stone and iron*

*I block the swing with my electrical sword* While I have never seen an ability like this before.... *Uses heat from fire sword to melt the rock and iron into magma* ... It is not the first time I have been encased in rock. *I jump out of the magma, and land in front of you, burned slightly from the heat* But still impressive nonetheless.

Impressive use of your flame sword, I'll have to fix that. *alters the positioning of iron in armor. Drops sword back into the earth and charges forward. Once again holds in place with stone and iron and manages to grab both swords* so as you have seen I can only physically move iron and stone. But that is not the limit of my studies. I have learned how to alter how strong and how weak the bond of any metal elements are in any substance. *snaps flame sword and fires iron wire from my now free hand into your shoulder. I redirect the lightning from your sword back into your body and proceed to snap the Lightning sword.* Could have dealt with the flame sword differently but I thought it might be rude to change the iron in your body into a saw blade and cut the arm off from the inside.

The lightning has no effect on my body, but I am bleeding from the iron rod* It's my armor. I had my allies make a little something to prevent things like that. Quiggles did well.. As for my weapons...Everyone always tries to break the swords... I swear I'm patching the damn things up every session... Ah well. Would you like to know where the fire comes from? *I begin concentrating, as the a sword of pure fire forms in my right hand, the concentration begins to strain me* You see... The blade was simply a conduit... *I rush forward*

*i feel the incoming heat and strain myself to maintain armor in solid state as I jump back.* Man that thing gets hotter when you are mad apparently. * slightly burned from incoming heat I incase myself in a 4 foot thick dome. You can't see what's happening but you feel a slight tremor.*

Something like that.... You are doing extremely well... Tell me, have you been trained somewhere before? *I stand back in preparation*

*a thick dome surrounds you* I urge you not to do anything rash you will regret it. I have trapped you in a dome and there is another dome that surrounds that one that is connected to the one you just saw me create. That tremor you felt? Leads to the core of the earth so magma has been pushed up and surrounds the dome so any attempt to escape will result in death. Now you ask if I have trained somewhere? No. I was a freelancer, well bounty hunter. But before that I was apart of a team and one day we decided to take on probably the deadliest bounty we ever faced. We couldn't pass up the money because if we finished it we would have enough money for life. You might know him. Ever heard of Kratos? The bastard. He slew my allies... My friends... My wife also hunted with us... I couldn't protect her fast enough. It was then in that moment that my true potential was finally revealed and I was able to move stone just by thinking about what I wanted it to do. Up until then I couldn't do anything but mess with the metals in people's bodies and weapons. I killed him and ran solo ever since. Training every day to make sure I never lost someone again. Killing off bastards that did similar things to people that Kratos did to me. A year ago I finally figured out how I was able to move stone and now I'm trying to learn how to move all the metal elements. I heard of this place and thought any magic scholars hear might be able to help seeing as it is a renowned dojo. Not to mention the difficult bounties to test my limits. Now back to business. The way I see it you have a couple of options. 1. You can die from lack of oxygen. 2. I can bring the atoms so close together that it becomes singularity and you die in the process. 3. You can try to escape and die from lava Or Your fourth option could be: allow me to join this dojo as your new blacksmith. I will improve and repair weapons and armor better than any black smith in a literal fraction of the time. All for free. I could even fix your swords so that they are virtually indestructible. (Unless someone else like me comes along that isn't)

*sigh* I believe we are at a misunderstanding. One moment.... *The fire that makes up my sword forms a shield, protecting me from the magma as I burn a hole through* Being leader of the dojo means I've experienced many different scenarios... Let's just say I've been kicked into a volcano once or twice before...Now, anyway..... you don't have to threaten me to become a member of this place. That isn't how we do things here. While fighting is priority here, we do not kill unless necessary. I was under the impression this fight was to display your skill.

Ahhhhh it is to display skill and I expected no less from the leader but my thing is how can you really test the skill of someone unless their life is at risk? I apologize if it came across otherwise. I understand that we are not to kill each other but we should always push each other's limits to constantly improve correct? And learning what other people do when they are put in said situations no?

No need to apologize. I understand your reasonings, but we must find a limit to how far one should go in situations like this. There is not a need to create necessary risks.

Understood. So what's the status as of now? *picks up your sword shards and repairs both swords to a stronger state than before and tossed them back to you* There they shouldn't break anymore.

Thanks. *sheaths swords* For now, just go get acquainted with some of the other members of the dojo.