A single step was all it took.
Rui sabotaged each and every attack by shifting the very world around them with the Scriptures of Terra, allowing him to ensure that each and every attack missed. The system of thought allowed him to be extremely subtle in his warping of the world. While conventional earth-bending was noisy and clumsy, the Scriptures of Terra allowed it to become a surgically accurate process.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!
He didn't just evade his opponent's attacks, no.
With each moment, he healed all his wounds with the combination of the pluripotent exotic matter and Weaving Blood.
He had rendered all the damage that Anthea had inflicted on him entirely moot.
Anthea's ethereal eyes grew irritated as he raised his foot, stomping the ground.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!
In one fell swoop, he displaced a mountain's worth of land from the ground, leaving them fighting midair once more.
