Owls & Butterflies

Chapter 13

*Two more months pass by*

Luz was sitting on the floor of the library, intently staring at a book opened before her.

She looked to the side of her, blood, check, wood, check, various other stuff, all check, she was ready, she was finally making a rune.

Or a magic item..which was more RPG..but accurate description.

Deciding what rune to make was downright torturous to her, there were so many options.

She looked into various different things, 'The healing rune, could come in handy, in a fight or outside of it', 'The stamina rune, also useful, but what did I do all that training for...', 'Hypnosis rune, useful but considering that I hated manipulating my teacher into letting me in school, I do not think I would survive manipulating someone over something more serious, she could get free ice cream with it tho...but that would also be stealing so nope, not this one.'

Luz very quickly found out that the Order had a lot of different runes, but almost none of them were suited for combat, it seemed they really were rather peaceful people.

She shook her head, now was not the time to think about these things, with no valid options there was only one thing she could do, design and make her own rune.

But that was another Pandora's box, what kind did she wanna create?

It was a month ago, when she really racked her brain with this question, she watched dozens or more hours worth of videos of Ladybug and Chat Noir fighting, trying to figure out what would be most useful.

When helping them fight..or possibly..fighting against them..

And pretty soon she had a general idea, but even having that, it brought her no closer to her rune of choice.

Her idea was rather simple, 'I need to augment my movement,' from what she could gather, both Ladybug and Chat where not that much stronger than her at this point, judging by the feats of strength they performed, she was certain she could compete with them in terms of sheer power, which was kinda an insane thing to admit to herself..

But regardless of that, speed and movement..that was a different cup of tea altogether.

And that's not where all her problems ended, after watching them for some time, she had a pretty good idea about their strengths.

She huffed, just thinking about her conclusions, they were superhuman, of course she was as well, in some ways, but they were different.

They were kinda...rounded, was a best way to describe them, she imagined them like a game character, they had 500 health and 50 in every stat, while Luz had 60 or 70 strength, surpassing them slightly, but she lacked in everything else, she was kinda 20 health, 65 strength and 10 to 15 in everything else and her problem was that she could not really go any higher than that.

They had insane reflexes, while hers were better than those of a normal human, they were still miles under theirs, she tried getting them higher, but her adaptation ability worked only when it considered her threaten, she would need actual combat to get them any higher and when she would be in actual combat, it would be far too late to train.

But her greatest weakness was endurance, she saw both heroes take waaaay more punishment than what would be survivable by a normal human and again, she could not get any tougher, she could get stronger...

Like if she punched Ladybug for example, she would probably do some damage, but nothing that bad, but if Ladybug punched her, she would break all of Luz's ribs.

Luz was superhuman strong, but not superhuman durable.

She had shields and barriers she could conjure with magic, but it still did not change the fact that if she got properly hit, by an akuma, guardian or anyone else, she would go down fast.