Season 46, Week 3
Nergal
(Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword)
 
How do you beat Assault Buster? Defense. Nergal has it is spades, boasting great toughness to physicals that few others can honestly claim to having. And the powerful magic Ereshkigal as counters are just the thing that the little runt Jude fears, hitting him with high grade magical power to send him spiraling off into oblivion. He can't out-range Nergal with his gunfire either, leaving him hoping that one shot kills the Dark Druid... bwhahaa. No such luck, boy. On the off chance he survives the first magical blow by some fluke, a second one will assuredly shortly follow on it's heels and send Jude back to his precious little Filgaia in quite the record time.

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Jude's blazing guns have sniped down Arche Klein; now, yet another magician is showing up to taste some lead! The evil warlock Nergal may have caused plenty of trouble in his original story - however, he can't hope to stand up to Jude's Assault Buster. Being terribly slow and actually surprisingly frail, not even his magic can handle Jude before he shreds Nergal with the lightning-fast slashes of Assault Buster. And, if he wants to play it safe, doubled Silver Launchers will handle Nergal as easily as his up-close attacks, and can also avoid his counters. With such a strong advantage in speed and strength, Jude has this fight in the bag.


Taishyr
"A message from Lord Nerg-ASFNIASEG MY SPINE, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SPINE?!"

So Nergal actually had to show up instead of locking Jude into a text loop. However, things went quite a bit differently than either fighter anticipated...

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"So, Yulie." Raquel said, leaning on her sword a bit. "Precisely why is Jude running around hitting people in the head with that vile tome-"

"Ereshkigal." Yulie interjected, working with Raquel's hair as she relaxed a bit.

"-Ereshkigal and screaming 'A BLESSING FROM LORD NERGAL!' at the top of his lungs?"

"My, has he done it to you already?" Yulie giggled, earning a slight glare from Raquel that turned into a sigh.

"Twice."

"Well, apparently Mr. Nergal thought Jude had some talent as a druid. Jude, being the everlasting optimist..."

"Thought he was talking about the caretaker of nature sort of druid." Raquel sighed.

"Yep. So this is part of his training."

"When will he catch on?"

Yulie tilted her head. "Well, I've got bets on five days, Arnaud's insisting it'll take a week, Nils and Ninian both put twenty down on at least a week and a half, and apparently Sephiroth's got it at about a month, with a week taken off each time he hits Ghaleon with it."

Raquel turned and stared at Yulie. "We have to get you out of here; you're starting to sound like everyone else."

"Mmm. On the other hand, that gypsy girl Jean and Mia have taught me how to style hair wonderfully. Here, look."

Raquel glanced in the mirror, then off at Jude 'blessing' Rudy and Cecilia, then back at her hair. "I think we can stay a bit longer in this world. But be careful."

Yulie nodded serenely. "Don't worry. I will be."

Nergal: 22
Jude Maverick: 31