Dimensional Descent

Savahn steadied herself, lowering her waist into a stance that looked like a martial art Leonel had seen in many movies before. Her palms faced her opponent and her gaze looked tranquil.

Leonel realized at that moment that he had never bothered to learn much about Savahn's fighting style, he didn't even know what her Ability Index was. Though, honestly speaking, he didn't really know Yuri's either. Everything he did know was thrust upon him at some random time or another, while Savahn had been lost to them for a very long time after the Metamorphosis.

He always wondered how this girl had survived.

Much like Leonel, after she saw Aina kill someone with an arm through the chest, Savahn had alienated herself from Aina and Yuri.

Unlike Leonel, rather than coming back in just a few days to what was basically the same baseline, it took Savahn years to truly get over it. In fact, if not for experiencing the hardships she had, it was unlikely that she would have ever gotten over it.

It took realigning her views on the world and understanding that living in this sort of environment meant that murder was no longer an objective wrong...

The battle began and Savahn's arms moved. A delicate wisp of air seemed to move with her, following the tips of her fingers and leaving trails of a foggy energy everywhere she moved.

Her arms left afterimages in the air despite their slow pace, and when she suddenly accelerated, she seemed to magically bypass the spear of the Half-Spiritual and strike against his chest.

The Half-Spiritual stumbled back a step, a bit surprised, but his spear wasn't slow, dancing in an attempt to counter, but its blunt tip passed right through Savahn's arm and leg as though they were just illusions and a second palm landed right in the same place.

Savahn and the young man should have been on equal footing, but it quickly became obvious that for whatever reason, the young man was no match for her.

Leonel, who was high above, realized the problem instantaneously.

'What an interesting Ability Index... it should be unique... She should be similar to Emna...'

The martial arts style that Savahn was using was very much like kung fu, it was fluid and it also didn't look as though it held much strength or not. In practice, at least on Earth, only a layman would claim that kung fu was a deadly art to begin with.

"Did Savahn practice martial arts?" Leonel asked Aina.

asked, he already knew that answer was no. If Savahn had practiced martial arts in her youth, kung fu would have been the last she chose

shook her

That was what

likely that Savahn hadn't had any experience at all and just used

fu at all, instead it might as well be her own self-created method because while it had the form, in function... it was nothing like kung fu

became and the more powerful her strikes were. In the end, it became akin to

hand to hand combatants were at a disadvantage. That was because they were used to their hands being

in this situation, though, there came a point in the battle where the young man's feet couldn't even touch the ground, being hit

lost herself...' Leonel thought

the sickening sound of bone breaking echoed

"Time!" Alderian called out.

of Savahn's strikes carried on, three

BANG! BANG! BANG!

even have to see it coming, but

"I said enough!"

shook the stadium. A raging torrent of Force shot toward Savahn, causing her expression to change. She put her hands up to defend, but she was only in the Seventh Dimension while Alderian was in the Ninth. Although the latter obviously hadn't used his full strength,

halberd that

BOOM!

concentrated into a blade aura so profound and deep that space seemed to split in two at the

SHIIIIIIIIING!

splitting the arena in two. However, before it could attack the old Lord Guard, it

alright?" Joel turned toward Savahn who was smiling bitterly. She looked into his eyes and somehow felt both happy and helpless at

was happening, but he had no

in a

had no intention of getting