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.

that answer was no. If Savahn had practiced martial arts in her youth, kung fu would have been the last she chose as the foundation of her

shook her

That was what

experience at all and just used whatever methods she

what was clear was that over the years, whatever method she was using here wasn't kung fu at all, instead it might as well be her own self-created method because while it had the form, in function...

energy around her became and the more powerful her strikes were. In the end,

sort of situation, though... hand to hand combatants were at a disadvantage. That was because they were used to their hands being lethal, so

touch the ground, being hit so many times in

Leonel

expected, the sickening sound of bone breaking echoed and the Half-Spiritual let

"Time!" Alderian called out.

Savahn's strikes carried on, three attacks erupting before

BANG! BANG! BANG!

extinct. She didn't even have to see it coming, but she felt Alderian's aura

"I said enough!"

she was only in

figure appeared before her, brandishing a halberd that glittered with

BOOM!

into a blade aura so profound and deep

SHIIIIIIIIING!

and catapulted toward Alderian, splitting the arena in two. However, before it

bitterly. She looked into his eyes and somehow felt both happy and helpless at the same

knew what was happening, but he had no

just one in a long list of many that had already occurred and were likely

had no intention