Onwards to Helion (Maxsuz/Inv)

The gentleness of the land would soon be disturbed by the arrival of someone foreign to the tribes and Earth. Something Jackie couldn't quite recognize. At rest, this energy dwarfed most she could currently gauge and it was headed right her way. The outer lying tents and Karinga had their own thoughts as a few of them stopped what they were doing in order to check on this new guest of theirs. A couple of the men stood on standby, more guarded and careful as they were the first to step up a little. As humans, they didn't really stand up well on their own power. Lucky to get over a hundred when they were pushed. Well, unless you were someone like Jackie.

"Hello stranger! Did you need help in the forest?"
Korin's was known to be maze-like, but he did come flying in. Out of respect the Kami did not interject immediately. Letting the Karinga speak for itself and ask what this mysterious figure wanted. She would, however, stand up and wander away from her place of meditation and though in order to stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the men here. She did not hide her presence or anything, more so just stood on guard to see how this blonde warrior treated speaking to a local.

She definitely fit the description Max was given. Her very ki seemed full of light and warmth, warding off even shadows it casted. She stood there with a slight smile on her face, pleasant and friendly but she wasn't about to interject herself. She had little clue if this was just guy stopping between trips or not.

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The man taking front and center greeting this stranger was watching him, careful as he finally... took the knee. He and a couple others keep their wits about them, still unsure of how to take the proceedings. Jackie could tell immediately that this would probably be aimed towards her, judging by the man's open and 'honest' response. Where he came from, and why he was here. Simple and straight to the point, unlike so many. While she couldn't really read deceit about him, the way he came forwards was uncharacteristic for an Earthling.

"An honor? Ahh, well, it's good to meet you as well mister Zul. Name's Jackie."
Much more casual than what reports might indicate. Jackie eventually breaks from the crowd as a few now watch her, expectant. She was usually around for things like this, from de-escalation or helping those who come to their tribes. The kami offers a deep nod in response to his kneel, a more genuine smile she gave. "A nod, wave, or a handshake would suffice. Not really royalty demanding the knee, ya know. I appreciate the gesture regardless." Rather than try 'correcting' an alien on etiquette, she faced it as a preference. Lord knows the last thing she wants is to be revered like that to her face. She didn't have the ego for it.

"Glad you came by for one of our tournaments! It's tradition, I just hope customs and authorities haven't been giving you much trouble. We've had a few... policies introduced by our president after a few attacks on our cities."
She opens up with this same genuine surprise, gauging his reaction to her words here, seeing if he was hiding any complaints like that under the character with his word. It wasn't some 4-d chess move, but it would gauge how much business this Hollowl stood on if he held back complaints out of respect.

"I teach and train before anythin', is there something you need of me? Just a chat? Our friends here will be having dinner soon if you wish to join."

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"And I'm not very accustomed to your ways, you'll have to just keep correctin' me. Hopefully that doesn't come off as offensive, I'm just ignorant is all."
Huh. Good to know. Honestly, she wasn't really aware of what a 'Alkguirio' was, how to pronounce it by just reading it, or what other considerations she figured to take, but offering the meal regardless was a prerogative of hers. The kami didn't go around suspecting any tomfoolery, so any ploy or underhanded workings, even lying about a whole culture she knew nothing about, would probably work to bypass the need to reveal himself here. To be so disarmed, around vulnerable people here, you'd figure she'd be a bit more cautious. But she perhaps didn't operate like everyone was out to get her or her fellow man.

"A spar, huh?"
Jackie didn't usually consider it for guests, especially if they had no other business here. Given how polite and upfront he was being about helping if needed though, she couldn't help but tap her chin and shrug. She actually was a little uncomfortable being revered in such a way, especially by aliens visiting. Maybe she just saw it differently and acted accordingly, never overstepping into ego for being a 'savior' of Earth. It's not why she did any of this. "Well, I dunno whose telling people I'm some 'legendary hero', but I don't mind helping out if they're also using that practice and lesson to help others. I have got to ask one thing before I consider picking a spot out further away- " She makes a little circular motion with her other hand's index finger, perhaps indicating the 'ring' she was about to mention ahead of time.

"Will you feel cheated if we're going to be facing each other in this bracket anyways? This'll likely be giving us both an edge in that regard."
If Maxsuz were being at least any big genuine, it would be an honest question to ask someone who was also fighting in that same tournament.

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Definitely different from how Jackie would see things, and how she was used to seeing people conduct. But if this was truly the culture of another world gracing her with some tradition, who were she to deny the offer? She thought on it for but a moment, crossing her arms with an incessant finger tapping on her own arm. If Max were less patient, he'd probably assume she was stalling, but it was more along the lines of wondering where the hell they'd set up a spar out here.

"Huh! Alright, then let's see what the would-be knight here has to offer in a fight. I've got just the spot for us. Just a few hops away from here, if you don't mind to follow."
By this point, the villagers had gone about their own ways continuing where they left off before. Only the man addressing the knight first standing vigilant for a while long before Jackie suddenly leapt into the skies. Assuming the disguised alien would follow in suite, she just made a short few hops. Large leaps that cleared entire acres in moments on towards her destination. It turned up to be an outer lying field just outside the forest itself, empty and cut between seasons and without any plans to be reused in the next by the lack of equipment or fencing round.

"Hyip!"
She lands squarly down at its center, straightening up and lifting her arms to stretch them over her head with a sigh. She continue stretching in several different ways in order to limber up. She spoke while doing this, casual as she was before.

"So! How's this? Nice and plain enough for a bout, yeah?"

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"If we start getting ahead of ourselves, we can always knock the other one up into the air. All's fair until we start destroying entire mountainsides."
She suggests as an alternative, perhaps as an additional challenge to avoid causing too much havoc in either one of their cases. If this man was to believed, he at least respected rules of the planet he was on. He should have little issue following up with her on this limitation. Aerial Combat, it's a likely result of all of this but it's not how this usually starts. Reforming the tight grip of her hands into fists a few times, she keeps her stance limber and at the ready as she finished her stretching. A foot digging behind her as she adopted a middle ground stance with an arm forward and one held closer to her torso for protection.

"Typically, outside the sport of it, spars go on until one gives or calls it for themself. As with any martial practice we have here on Earth, we don't usually go to the point of nearly killin' each other, it's more a game of endurance before it starts wearing on your spirit."
Her forward fist pokes a thumb out over to the large, long dilapidated fencing that surrounded the huge swath of empty and deserted farmland. "We can go as high up as we want, but no pushing beyond the barriers of the treeline behind us and the fences on the other three sides. That'll be our the area we work in. Should be a big enough square."
Forming a fist back with that hand, she waited for him to get fully limbered up and readied before the flash of a faint orange aura flares from around her. Surging for just a second before disappearing into the air around her. The pressure put on by her spirit increases over a dozenfold, more impressively matching up against the alien who wished to meet a guardian of Earth in a friendly manner. She wears a smirk as she breaths a sigh through her nose.

"We go together. You, as a guest, should know this isn't about win or loss. We, or at least I, prefer an even test of skill. Let's go!"
She doesn't count, but she gives max every indication she's going to move once he does. Running at a breakneck pace across the empty field straight his wait, keeping her feet work solid and firm as she started simple. landing near him, she would lead with a very quick jab. Testing how much of that strength was in might or speed. You could tell a lot by how someone reacted to a punch.

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Jackie could tell just by the way this man carried himself and his strength that a full blitz into it probably wasn't going to land with much success. She keeps her feet firmly planted as she twists into the jab, only to have the arm caught in a bind, the himonus more than capable of anticipating and getting a grip on her. Her eyes were full of focus looking back at him. Serious as one could be, but at the same time restrained. He could clearly pick this up in the way she flared her power before and called out for it as well.

He wanted a bout with more power getting thrown around? Wasn't exactly how she sparred. She doesn't break the grip immediately, seeing as he and her were both pausing here in a momentary pause. One speaking, the other thinking. When it came time to actually yank herself free and jump back a dozen or so meters in one large bound, she chuckled and reassumed her readied, stout stance as she did before.

"Usually don't start the spars all out from the get go, but if you wanna see it fine. I can fight comfortably going all in too."
What constituted as going 'all in' for Jackie was a form she had complete mastery over. The fake light himonus would watch as she tenses, this time at her muscles. Rather than exploding in a foray of energy via her aura popping off, her muscles constrict, flex, and then suddenly bounce back a little larger in size. The earth underneath her feet sinks in just a bit as she's holding much more of her energy at the ready with pure brawn alone. It probably looked like she had an instant 6-month bulking.

"Alright, show me what ya got!"
She lights a fist on fire as she brings up away from her side, igniting in a great show of sparks and energy before she pulls it back and punches straight into the air. Aimed at Max, this fiery ball of energy lobs off her punch and heads towards him as an explosive payload of energy. Sending up dust and dirt if it made any successful hit on him from sheer combustion alone.

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