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(7 Panels)
Panel 1: Smaller Panel. Four of the mercenaries
approach JI XI with their weapons drawn.
JI XI stands and waits
as they approach. He looks mostly harmless in his present position.
MERCENARY COMMANDER: (From
Off-Panel) [Something]
JI XI: (Thought Box)
<They choose to attack.>
Panel 2: Smaller Panel. Close up on JI XI’s face,
with special attention paid to the symbol for the 13th Artifact on
his forehead. His eyes are now filled with aggression – you can tell things are
about to get serious and that the mercenaries approaching are about to be destroyed.
JI XI: (Thought Box)
<I am disappointed by their decision.>
Panel 3: Panel is positioned behind JI XI.
Combat starts as JI XI
crouches and sweeps his arm across the ground in front of him. The force he
does this with kicks up a wall of dirt and dust in front of him, obscuring the
four mercenaries and making it impossible to see anything beyond them.
A smoky, steamy trail
follows the movement of JI XI’s arm to represent the extra power the 13th
Artifact is granting his moves. This should continue throughout the fight with
any other combat moves that JI XI performs.
SFX: (Accompanying the
wall of dust that’s kicked up.) k-K-k-rrr-ii-sHhhh
JI XI: (Text Box)
<The Artifact, it seizes upon the moment.>
13th ARTIFACT: (Text Box) KILL THEM.
JI XI: (Text Box)
<For now, I will oblige its demands.>
Panel 4: This is a very active panel - JI XI bursts
through the wall of dust as it hits its climax. The back half of his body is
still obscured as it hasn’t come through yet.
JI XI leads with a
closed palm strike to the chest of the nearest mercenary (#1). The impact is
clearly visible all across the mans body as he reacts to being hit with a force
that is about to send him flying several feet backwards.
The smoky trail of JI
XI’s movements should be mixed with some of the dirt and dust from the wall JI
XI created in the previous panel as it gets caught up in the movements.
JI XI: <But I shall attempt to be merciful.>
JI XI (2): <Quick deaths. No suffering.>
JI XI (3): <They shall hardly even know what is
happening.>
SFX: (From the point
of impact on the mercenaries chest.) CRACK!
Panel 5: JI XI follows by swinging his other arm
around to hit the next closest mercenary with a palms up spear hand to the
throat of MERCENARY #2. The Mercenary is just starting to react to the blow in
a way one might expect someone to react when being hit in the throat by an
exceptionally powered martial arts master.
The smoky trail
follows his movements from panel 4 to panel 5, showing that the two moves have
happened in relatively short order – not super speed, but far faster than any
normal human should be capable of.
Some of the dirt and
dust that got mixed into the trail from the previous panel should follow the
moves through into this panel as well, and while JI XI has passed the wall of
dirt and dust he kicked up in panel 3, it hasn’t fully settled on the ground
yet.
MERCENARY #2: GgGuUGg…
SFX: (From impact with
throat) tthhuk
Panel 6: Panel set near the ground from behind
MERCENARY #2’s position.
JI XI drops to sweep
MERCENARY #2’s legs out from under him before he’s even finished reacting to
having his throat collapsed. Bullets fly over the heads of both JI XI and
MERCENARY #2 as MERCENARY #3 and MERCENARY #4 shoot at JI XI from off-panel.
SFX: (From impact of
leg sweep) Crrk
SFX: (From guns firing)
thhw-thhw-thhw-thhw-thhw-thhw-thhw-thhw
Panel 7: The smoke trail follows JI XI’s leg as he
completes the sweep and brings the leg behind him. He has used this same leg to
help propel him up and forwards as he delivers a blow with both fists at once
into the chest of MERCENARY #2, who is half-way to the ground and currently ‘lying’
horizontal in the air – the panel takes place right at the moment of impact as
the fists hit the chest, allowing us to see the very beginning of the
connection.
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