Dimensional Descent

Simona's pupils constricted. The instant Aina moved, it was as though the weight of an expert bore down from all sides. Her powerful thighs grew a size, her toned torso flexed, her slender arms pulsed with a power their slight frame had no business having… Every movement was efficient to an extreme and refined to the final detail.

She was a work of art.

Simona's expression calmed, her arms leaving their relaxed position and her hands raising. The long, painted nails that graced them curled like claws, shimmering with delicately designed gems.

Her arm swept at the air even as Aina's ax swung downward.

BANG!

Claw and blade met. On one side, a dark violet gown danced wildly in the wind and on the other, a long cascading river of jet black hair flowed as though a single cohesive whole.

Sparks flew between them, neither woman taking even a single step backward.

Simona's arm trembled, her gaze narrowing further. In that instant, what looked like a stalemate collapsed.

BANG!

body out from below as though a strong air

had been equal to Simona's suddenly erupted past her, forcing Simona to quickly

backward, her delicate and seemingly dainty feet left deep craters in the ground, the little puppy that had been dancing around her ankles quickly dodging

flickered as Leonel's lip twitched. Well, he had given Simona a warning. It wasn't his fault that she hadn't listened. But, then again, by the time he had given said warning, it was probably already too late for his advice

own counter in that instant. Then, when Simona was feeling confident that their

was clear. Simona had come into the exchange with intent to probe. Aina had entered the exchange with intent to humiliate. And, the only

her final stomp stopping what was left her momentum just before

Aina's strong suit but it wasn't even something Simona would list in her top three best qualities. However, it was

do this. Instead, she had thrown down an obvious gauntlet. She didn't just plan to win this battle, she planned to cruise to its ends. She didn't just

grew, a fog

fact her

if I were you." Aina said lightly. "Unless you're seeking to be humiliated again, that

of the hide of a dragon. Her left palm

was a specialty of the Pyius family. A tail-like whip and a stinger-like

its hem to her hip, revealing a gorgeous sight of supple calf and thigh. A

her leg to take a second

air, only to be

short sword split the wind in two, only to have its