She wasn't sure at oint had she sat again after that happened, nor how was she taining all the shadows in pce, was the crazy old man using his skill again to restrain her?

  "[Mistress....Please....tain.....your....mana....]"

  Oh...had her own [Minions] betrayed her?

  "[Please...think....about....the....pn....]"

  Ah...Right, they had made a pn about how to deal with Akira, right..."Deep breath Elizabeth Starbright...Deep breath...." So she calmed down the raging mana in her mana circuits, and tained all the bad emotions, she felt her trol over the shadows calm down, and slowly but surely she could flex once more the shadows in the Arena.

  Almost all anyway, most of those near Akira were barred from her, not by Akira or the crazy old man, but by her own [Minions], she had delegated most of the trol of shadows near Akira ao her [Minions]. She wasn't sure what she would have done if not for that.

  It took all her effort to not forcefully wrestle the trol back from the [Minions], and as she had shown, she could circumvent that by moving shadows from the outside of the radius she had granted her minions total authority.

  "Are you okay Eli-Eli?" But her always lovely Rossie mouthed the words at her from the Arena.

  She couldn't help but turn her eyes to the empty seat o their spots.

  But she couldn't worry Rossie now, she was about to fight! So instead she just her.

  "[Did Akira's mana or skills affect the shadows used against him?]" And focused on something more productive, like prodding her Royal Mages for information.

  "[So far there is no evidence of corruption from the testing, no shadows seem to behave weird. So far the testing seems promising. We move further in the pnning...Please do not repeat this without inf us ime Mistress.]" Her Royal Mage spoke back.

  Of course, she wouldn't, ime she tried to do that Akira wouldn't have Rena to defend him, it would be in the Arena. She would be challenging [Down], so Rena would not be able to save him.

  "If that was all, then we move...[Sylphie Starheart] vs [The Lost Healer] Fight!" Agatha started the fight.

  So instead of seething thinking about how no one seemed to want to go help Rena who was on the floor unscious...She focused on the fight (While sending some orders to her [Shadons] to put a b under Rena and a pillow).

  "Let's see how it goes," Rossie said on the [Arena], she was able to listen in thanks to her shadons reying the information.

  "Thank you for the opportunity to prove my point." [The Last Healer] answered back to Rossie. Did they know each other? "[Nullify Pain], [Ability Boost], [Regeion]."

  And then the mad girl cast three spells oer ahe first oo nullify her sense of pain. That was usually used as ahesia si didn't have an offensive use... Unless you did like her and boosted your abilities beyond reason and cast a [Regeion] spell afterward to heal the damage that is.

  "GRAAAH!" And after doing so she started bleeding all over.

  Elizabeth quickly cast "[Appraisal]" To firm it, but the girl had increased her status points by almost twice the normal. And her body was suffering from the sudden increase.

  The girl was barely D-Tier whearted and now she was on the cusp of Middle C-Tier.

  Would this happeo her if she had jumped that many points in one go?

  Elizabeth didn't know, but if anything she wondered how her Rossie would react, sihe irl didn't seem to be hostile towards her girlfriend. How would Rossie deal with this?

  "It is a good increase in strength." Her Rossie said while standing there waiting for the irl to hit her? "But you o get more power if you want to make your point stand."

  Her lovely girlfriend hadn't moved yet, and the irl seemed to be lost in pain and adrenaline from the boost she gave herself.

  "Rossie!" Elizabeth screamed while trying to think of a way to help her girlfriend without getting disqualified herself etting Rossie disqualified.

  "[Area]+[Affix]+[Diminish]+[Agility]+[Strength]+[stitution]= [Weakening Field]" Rossie intoned and created a weird distortion in front of herself. The thing stuck to the berserker girl and thearted to visible slow.

  Not enough to stop her mad rush of course, but enough that Rossie simply jumped out of the way. "First of all, you don't have any i behind the attack." And if that wasn't enough Rosie started speaking to the irl.

  "GRAAAAAH!" Who seemed to be still uhe bloodlust of her own making. And quickly focused on Rossie and rushed towards her again.

  "Sed, while the boost in strength is useful, you are burning more [Mana] healing than what yetting, and if you 't even use your power well enough the disadvantage..." And to make a point Rossie made a visible Barrier in front of the irl.

  It was cast far away from her body, so the irl only o detour to get over it...A she crashed straight into it and started bashing her fist into the barrier to try and break it.

  At this point, the girl was g tears of blood.

  Was...was this even a fight?

  "...stop it...I will avenge you Mary...just....stop it..." She heard someoter, and turnitention she found the [Avenger] walking back to the barrier that cut the access into the Arena.

  "See, even your boyfriend thinks you aren't made for this." Rossie poi [The Avenger] whose hands were covered in bandages and he had magical circles h and keeping in pce his hands with a Barrier.

  Had someone healed him then?

  She didn't see Rossie do it, so maybe there were other petent [Healers] around. Not that she had seen Rossie do much [Healing]...

  "...I...will....recover....my....honor....myself..." [The Lost Healer] said amid grunts as she kept walking toward Rossie.

  Not that she made it very far, the area debuff Rossie stuck her in was draining her magid in turn making it harder for her to keep healing her damaged body.

  Rossie didn't wait while she kept trying to move forward, and even before she tilted to the side ao the ground she was there waiting to catch her.

  "No, you will not. Since Elizabeth will deal with him before you even have a ce..." Rossie whispered to the [Lost Healer] as the girl's magic disappeared with the st vestiges of her mana. "[The Lost Healer] doesn't have mana anymore, nor does she seem able to tinue fighting."

  Then ying her on the floor Rossie turo Agatha in the VIP room, "Do I o tihis fight?" And asked as such.

  Everyone in the arena turo her in turn, it was obvious what they were thinking, sihe st fight hadn't ended even after it was obvious who the winner was.

  "[Lost Healer] do you wish to tihe fight?" Agatha asked, and the girl seemed to want to answer, but didn't find the strength to do so.

  "Please Mary...No..." [The Avenger] at the side pleaded with tears on his face.

  What had happened with those two?

  "[The Lost Healer] has not said her io tihe fight, the victoes to [Sylphie Starheart]," Agatha said and the barrier broke down, the first to move was [The Avenger] who ran toward the girl in the arena floor.

  "HEALERS!" And Agatha ignored him as she called for healers to treat the girl.

  "I'm back Eli-Eli!" And Rossie just jumped towards their seating while g the [Shift] when she was near enough to let her momentum carry her the rest of the way. "How did I do? Did I do well? I tried my best to not hurt the girl too much. Was I good?"

  Who was this cute creature? How could someohis adorable while speaking about not hurting too mueone?!?!?

  "Yes, you did good Rossie. Good job." Elizabeth obviously didn't tain herself with the plimeher. Rossie had done a good job, she hadn't even attacked the irl!

  Really, she wondered why they had such a bad image of her girlfriend, she hadn't seen her hurt anyone so far and everyoed like she was a demon!

  Granted, she may have turned somewhat demonid more hot) oime...But that hadn't been her fault!

  "With that out of the way... is...[The Sage]!" Michael stood and shifted as she jumped into the Arena, he nded softly as winds carried him to one side of it. Show off.

  "Who are you fighting?" Asked Agatha as Michael eyed everyone around.

  "If I decide to fight someohat is unscious is that valid?" Asked Michael, starting a round of whispering and a gre from Agatha.

  "You will not be allowed to fight a dowudent uhey accept it. If not everyone would gang on the defeated students." Agatha answered in a steady voice.

  "But the one I want to fight didn't get downed, she fainted on her own a few minutes ago." Michael's answer made everyourn their gazes toward where Akira was.

  The bastard was resting his feet atop Rena's body, it took all her sense of trol to not start sending another spear of shadows toward him...Also, it helped that Rossie's warm hand was on top of her leg distrag her.

  What was she doing? Nothing of course.

  If anything the pink-haired girl seemed i oing how much she could worm her hand under her skirt in public while Elizabeth fought inside her brain for what to think about.

  "..." Agatha for one wasn't quite sure what to a that.

  "If you challenge Rena I WILL INTERCEPT that challenge." So she said as much, she was sure that Akira wouldn't do it, and was sure no one else would do it.

  "You don't have to do it, Lizzy, this one will wake up if you kick her hard enough towards the Arena," Akira said while throwing a pop kerowards Rena's head.

  "Some of us have decy, I will not let aake advantage of an i girl," Elizabeth answered back with a gre to Akira, then turowards Michael. "So? Will you challenge Rena?"

  "While a wonderful show of [Heroism] the board of judges has decided that should someone challenge an unscious student the challeudent will have sixty seds to prepare...Should no-oercept the challenge." Agatha said in a tired voice, "Of course, their legal guardian dee the challenge should they-"

  "I will not dee any challeowards Rena." Akira said befatha finished speaking, "She o learn how to deal with the sequences of her as...Also, I will not allow ao intercept her challenges."

  HE WHAT?

  HE COULDN'T!

  "...Noted Mister Akira," Agatha said, she didn't test him on that. "Do you wish to renouny other advahat Miss Rena is supposed to have?"

  And she asked icily, oh...

  "Hmm...Now that you mention it, yeah why not. This bitch ruined my mood by saying in public that I [Raped] someone, imagine. Me? The true [Hero] doing something as hideous as [Raping] someone?!? Preposterous!" Akira went on and on about that.

  Making it more obvious by the sed his true nature, wasn't he even trying to hide it anymore?

  "So yes, Rena is no longer allowed [ANY] advantage, she is hurt? Well bad luck bitch, better spit on it and carry on." Akira said while kig Rena's body once more.

  She felt some of her mana drain away as the b her shadon covered her with was coated in her shadows, blunting the damage toward Rena.

  "...Noted Mister Akira." Agatha said while shaking her head, then turned once more towards Michael, "So? Will you challehe Demon Sying Sword]?"

  Agatha seemed tired, and only wrote something in a notepad.

  "What? Are you crazy? Of course not. I don't want to be killed yet." Michael said while shaking his head vigorously. "So please stop sending those vibes my way. I didn't even thought you had [Space Magic] !"

  What?

  "Eli-Eli...your [Bloodlust] is leaking," Rossie said at her side.

  Her Bloodlust?

  Oh....Elizabeth took a deep breath and checked where her mana was, she found that she had made more shadow spears and dispersed them, then noticed a few s made in the shadows, those she left lying around.

  Her perception seemed to have expanded once more, so she closed all those extra eyes that had opened in the ceiling, and going one by one she started dismissing the extra shadons that had raised all around the arena.

  "Thank you," Michael said in the arena, "So as for my challenge...I will challenge...[The Fluffy Menace]!"

  The what menace?

  "Of course you will." Agatha sighed and then announced "[The Sage] vs [The Fluffy Menace]...Fight!"

  And without waiting a sed a buff-looking man jumped into the arena all the while in the air he shoh a bright white light. And then...[That] was standing on the arena floor.

  The Arena barrier came up and the ughter of Michael got cut off with that, in one side was standing a sage-looking blue-haired man. And oher side was this 4-meter-tall yellow e with a bird theme and a silver metal bat covered in spikes.

  "...so cute..." And at her side, she heard her girlfriend mutter those words.

  That was cute? She didn't think it was cute, but if Rossie said it was cute surely there must be something cute going there?

  ...she was not seeing it though.

  No matter how she tried to find it, "Are you ready for your match Eli-Eli?" Asked Rossie at her side bringing her out from her attempt of finding cute in that fluffy one.

  "Yes, my shadows weren't affected by whatever weird skill Akira has," Elizabeth said as the fighting started.

  Michael started by casting [Fly] and was staying away while trying to pelt the -bird man. Who in turn was using his metal bat to fling everything away or baichael.

  It seemed that his bat wasn't merely decoration, she wondered how he tweaked his [Shift] to make it show with fresh blood i, that was an iing application (If ohat seemed to waste extra mana).

  " Are you sure you want to do this here?" Rossie asked her, she didn't want this pn to move forward, mostly because it put her in a direct flict with Akira in a public setting.

  Both Rossie and her shadow minions wanted her to do an assassination and be doh, but she his to be public, mostly so there wasn't a risk of Rena jumping in. She could barely ma if it was only Akira, having Rena jump in would make everything harder.

  "Yes, we o do this like this. Lest Rena joins and makes everything more plicated." Elizabeth answered, "Besides, I o make sure we don't o expin what happens to Rena, if it starts in public away from us then Akira will not have a way to pin it on us should he survive."

  And that was the crux of the matter, would Akira make it alive?

  She hoped that he didn't, but the man was a cockroach, she was also wary of his [Unique Skills], those weren't showing on his atus s. But she still remembers them, Unique Skill: Regressor & Unique Skill: Transmigrator.

  If he somehow mao activate them...It would mean that he could get possibly get a sed ce, or worse...Run away (Again).

  And while she wouldn't mind it should he decide to run away...

  "I'm sure everything will be okay Eli-Eli!" If his [Soul] pulled Rossie...

  She wasn't sure if their link would be enough to stop Rossie's soul from joining him in another reination in another pne, or if their link would rip her soul in pieces from the strain.

  And more importantly, should Akira mao run away, more than likely Rena's soul would go with him.

  "Do you wish to tihe fight? " Agatha asked and Elizabeth turned her attention to the match, Michael was on the arena floor with a metal bath from [The Fluffy Menace] pointing at his neck.

  He was defeated by a yellow ? What the hell?

  "I yield," Michael said, and then both turned off their shifts. "Good fight."

  And like nothing had happehey shook hands a on their merry way towards the bleachers to sit and speak. Agatha seemed amused at that event, and didn't say anything besides "The winner is [The Fluffy Menace]." With a smirk on her face.

  Then turnitention towards the list she moved on to the fights, some sted longer. Some sted less, Akira at some poi up and picked a fight with [The Avenger].

  But the kid didn't accept it sihe Lost Healer] had grabbed his hand while unscious and didn't let go.

  "Hah, and here I let you have a go...Pathetic." Akira said while earning himself a win by default.

  You could see the pure and unadulterated hate in the [Avenger], but his friends didn't let him go and he himself didn't want to wake up [The Lost Healer].

  And so after that, the fights ended faster and faster, as the most powerful were left and so the number of people you could challehout incurring in losing points was diminishing.

  At least till her turn finally came.

  " is...damned pnes..." Agatha cursed under her breath and sighed, "[The Stardust Weaver]...please select your oppo, and remember the rules...Rules are important."

  Agatha pleaded at her, she teleported toward the Arena floor in one [Shadow Step], one sed she was in her seat with Rossie as Elizabeth Starbright and the she was [The Stardust Weaver].

  "I challehe Warden Of Justice]", the words tasted like sand in her mouth. But she said them evenly as her HUD gave green lights as the test was finished. "And since I'm challenging down and Rena no longer has any privilege...You will not yield this challenge, will you? [Hero]?"

  Before Akira could even utter a word or do anything, she left her challenge in the air, striking directly at Akira's Ego.

  His demeanor ged as he looked her up and down.

  "Noould I let this bitch have you? No...You will be [Mine]." Akira said as he jumped and [Shifted] in the air, nding on the ground with one koug the arena while the stretched behind him. He had one hand firmly on the ground for bance as his other hao his sword.

  As he stood he drew the sword and poi at her "SuperHero nding, this means the victory is mine already." Akira said.

  And she couldn't help but wait with anticipation fatha to start the bat. There was a horde of shadons waiting for this, and she wouldn't let them wait lohan needed.

  "You will go down, and Rena will be free." So she now waited for the start of the bat.

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