"I'm a high human, yet her kick could damage me?" Lararthius muttered to himself.
Aurianna jumped a few meters back and summoned her hover gun. However, this time it was larger than before, almost the size of a bazooka, as it floated before her. Hena noticed Aurianna's grin, and deduced that she was going to use a strong attack. Hena acted swiftly, pulling a blue wristband from her pocket and activating it just before a great boom swept dust away from Aurianna. A bright flash of light momentarily blinded everyone…the projectile sped through the air and collided with a blue force field, causing a huge explosion.
Aurianna leaned up against her gun, waiting for the smoke to dissipate. Slowly, the smoke wafted away, and Aurianna raised her eyebrows in surprise. Hena was kneeling in the sand of the coliseum, blood trickling from the corners of her mouth, and running from her nose. The blue force field around her flickered before shattering into pieces. She struggled to her feet on wobbling legs, as she spat blood onto the ground and glared fiercely at Aurianna in defiance.
"Hena!" Mirke cried.
She ran to Hena's side to support her, letting Hena's arm wrap around her own shoulders. Aurianna chuckled at their pitiful display of friendship. Mirke shot Aurianna a spiteful gaze and summoned four magic circles around her. Six wolves made of magical mist emerged from the round luminescent circles, growling and snarling at Aurianna, their fiery green eyes all aimed at her. They were huge, Aurianna estimated that they were approximately six feet tall and seven feet in length. They fanned out, surrounding Aurianna in a way that there were always three wolves that she could not see.
[ Engaging with 6 Level 50 spirit Mist Wolves.]
"Attack!" Mirke commanded.
"These wolves remind me of those Goiglers," Aurianna muttered to herself, her hover gun disappearing.
She summoned two curved blades and held them defensively. She tried to stay aware of every wolf, but it was almost impossible. Mist suddenly crept into Aurianna's view. She focused…listening in for any sound that would give the spirit wolves away. She heard the heavy tread of a wolf behind her and leapt into the air, dodging a bite from the beast's great jaw. She prepared for an [ace kick ] on the wolf's head, but it quickly jumped backwards, disappearing into the mist.
The galloping of the wolves began to intensify, and two wolves appeared, leaping from opposite sides of Aurianna. They swept their large paws at her, but Aurianna dodged one paw and blocked the other with a kick from her platinum heels. The platinum sunk into the mist form, causing ripples in it. The wolf whimpered, Aurianna felt no remorse for the pain she inflicted and quickly finished the mist wolf off by lunging at it and stabbing both her blades into its corporeal skull. The mist wolf swiftly dissipated with a light poof sound.
Before Aurianna realized it, another wolf was already mid-attack, the green flame in its eyes flared up: convinced it had caught its prey. Aurianna did not share the mist wolf's conviction and shot upwards in a lightning fast movement. She held a hand out behind her and cast a shockwave through the air, propelling herself toward the wolf. She sped straight through its fading mist, landing on the ground, where two wolves attacked her at once, trying to overwhelm her with numbers. Aurianna unleashed a flurry of blade strikes all around herself, the wolves crashed into the rushing blades and disappeared.
[ Death Magic: gunners despair ] Aurianna mumbled, spawning twenty guns scattered neatly around her. She looked around steadily as she saw many figures moving swiftly around her.
'One is that Cira girl, the others are the wolves and Lararthius. Mirke and Hena don't seem like the close combat type. My, this is fun!' Aurianna thought as she scanned the room.
She then heard several sounds coming from all directions, each progressing towards her.
"Illusory Reality," Aurianna muttered.
Cira emerged from the mist, airborne and wielding a great sword. She released a piercing war cry as she slashed through Aurianna's body. Cira's swing felt no resistance, passing straight through and causing her to lose balance.
"Gotcha!" Cira yelled as she stabbed Aurianna's shoulder, but her figure immediately disappeared just like before, leaving Cira confused.
Aurianna stood behind her and Cira felt a strange object shove into her back and she immediately lept aside. She noticed Aurianna's malevolent grin as she disappeared into the mist, and she looked around cautiously for any incoming attacks.
Her sapphire eyes were unflinching in their cruelty, and Cira felt goosebumps run over her body as she stood up and brandished her great sword in front of herself.
"That's it. You can hold a sword properly, after all."
"Die you wench!" Cira cried.
She instinctively rushed Aurianna, engaging a careless strike that left her completely exposed, especially since Aurianna had easily sidestepped to avoid the attack. A heel stabbed in between Cira's ribs, puncturing her lungs. She gasped, the air being knocked out of her from the intense pain. Aurianna locked Cira's body onto her shoe and slammed her onto the ground, resulting in blood bursting from her mouth like a volcanic eruption.
Cira made an awful gurgling noise, making Aurianna beam at her suffering. A mist wolf suddenly appeared behind Aurianna and dove at her, opening its mouth. Aurianna sidestepped, resulting in Cira being snatched into the mist wolf's mouth. Its sharp teeth dismembered Cira's right leg from the knee down and her top half from the rest of her body, which was gulped down into the wolf's stomach.
The last wolf leapt towards Aurianna ready to bite her head off, but Aurianna remained unfazed. She held out her hand, forcing the wolf to bite her arm. The teeth made contact, but they only sunk in shallowly, Aurianna stared unfazed at the mist wolf. She scoffed at the weak magic before summoning a revolver inside of the wolf and blasting its insides, causing it to puff out of existence. She looked at her bleeding hand and then at the crowd.
'I guess I can't use my healing abilities now.' Aurianna thought, 'After all, humans don't have healing abilities.'
"Noooo!"
Aurianna raised her eyebrow at the shrill scream, and the remaining wolf disappeared, and with it their mist as well. The battlefield was no longer covered in the impermeable mist and Aurianna looked with glee at Mirke who was distraught from Cira's death. At her own hands, even...her own spell.
Aurianna began sprinting toward Mirke and Hena and when close enough she tensed her legs and quickly pushed up in a lightning movement. She sped through the air, her white hair stained with flecks of Cira's blood, blowing wildly in the wind.
Aurianna activated a skill which caused her feet to glow a molten white. She began to descend from the sky, her platinum heels aimed for the two ladies on the ground. Mirke quickly cast a spell, pushing Hena to the side, and watched through teary eyes as her fate closed in on her… Aurianna's foot collided with Mirke's face first, her skin melted away in the heat and then her face was smashed inwards, crushing her sizzling brain into a million fleshy and squishy bits of ooze. Mirke's headless and half melted body flopped onto the ground and began seeping blood from the gaps in the charred bones and cauterized flesh.
The stench of burning flesh filled Hena's nostrils, she lean over to retch an assorted mess of food all over the ground. Hena looked at Aurianna, and her eyes flicked between her eyes and great smile. Tears began to roll down her cheeks, making Aurianna's smile disappear from her face, she looked at Hena with disapproval and disgust.
"Princess Aurianna Vanlaud." Hena pushed through tears. "Why do you find enjoyment in the pain and suffering you inflict? All this because Gein saved a child you almost ran over!"
"Should I care about the life of an insignificant commoner who doesn't have enough common sense to know when to cross the road and when not to cross?" Aurianna replied, squatting next to her. "It's refreshing when I get to see all the ways I can punish people who think they can be rude to me and get away with it. You are an inferior human, and you don't even deserve to look upon me, you should feel blessed to be killed by me, Princess Aurianna Vanluad. If I were a bad person, I would have tortured you all until you begged for death."
"You're a Monster."
"How am I a monster here when you agreed to duel me for a Magic Coin?" Aurianna asked with an eerie smile causing Hena to tremble, "The reason why you're in this situation is because of your greed!"
Aurianna's expression soured. She stood up and raised her foot, ready to kick her head in.
"Halt woman!" Lararthius called out.
"What!?" Aurianna snapped. "Can't you see I'm trying to kill your friend. She has pissed me off immensely."
"Fight me first," his voice echoed from within his suit of armor. "You dealt me quite the blow and have prevented me from fighting alongside my now fallen allies. My distaste for you is immeasurable, but I wish to die to the same one who killed my comrades. So duel me."
"If you seek death quickly, I might as well get over with it." Aurianna purred, Lararthius' willing acceptance of his fate impressing her.
Lararthius approached cautiously.
'Hena still needs time to regain her strength. It seems the shield did more damage to her than I thought. I have to be careful when I fight Aurianna,' He had seen what she was capable of and knew he had to be careful. His great suit of armor clanked as he stepped closer and closer to Aurianna, whose blades disappeared just to be replaced by two guns. However, these were different and had two AGL .45 Colt revolvers.
Aurianna suddenly appeared behind Lararthius, she was crouched low and was thrusting her guns toward the gaps in Lararthius' armor. Lararthius's eyes widened in realization, 'She has bayonets mounted to her guns! This is going to be tricky.'
"[ Illusory reality]."
Aurianna's double faded away, Lararthius, who was a High Human, had enhanced physical and mental capabilities and was not as slow as the rest of his party. He knew that without him, his party would long be dead. He spun round, batting the guns away with a clang and sparks. Likewise, he followed the parry with his own attack, Aurianna successfully blocked with her guns and flew backwards due to the force of the blow. She used her newfound distance and immediately unleashed a barrage of bullets. It landed on Lararthius' armor, causing many dents, dents that jutted into Larathius skin. Not enough to hurt, only enough to cause discomfort.
"What the hell was that attack?"Lararthius cursed under his breath '"It's good that my armor is magic resistant.'"
Aurianna noticed the ineffectiveness of her magic gun and resolved herself to beat him with physical attacks. The armored brute approached her, quickly closing the distance, he swung fast and precisely. Aurianna sidestepped and dodged backwards to avoid having her arms jarred from blocking one of Larathius' blows. Aurianna lept high into the air and extended her leg, she then began to fall back down towards Lararthius, her kick charged up.
Lararthius held his shield up and Aurianna's foot clashed with it. The power from the two opposing forces caused a shockwave to ripple through the entire arena leaving cracks. Lararthius gasped in pain, his arm came crashing down and his shield shattered into pieces. Aurianna wasted no time in taking advantage of her enemies' paralysis. She jumped, pivoting sideways to kick her legs into Lararthius' stomach, exerting an immense amount of strength.
The armor caved in and split open, Aurianna's heel stabbed into his stomach, causing his blood to come gushing out. Lararthius sped backwards, racing across the arena until he collided with the wall, becoming jammed into it. Aurianna summoned a sniper rifle, quickly taking aim at Lararthius' exposed stomach and firing a shot. The sniper rifle flicked up into the air due to the extreme recoil. The condensed magic flew into Lararthius, and he exploded from the inside, his body being turned into a jelly like substance that oozed out from the gaps in his armor.
Hena covered her mouth and threw up at the sight. Aurianna turned and watched her in disgust.
"You'll pay!" Hena yelled as a bright purple aura flared around her body. Cracking sounds thundered throughout the arena, while hundreds of lighting spears appeared around her body in midair, launching towards Aurianna.
"Instead of you sitting there and crying like a baby, you could have used your power to support him as we fought," Aurianna spat.
She dodged the lightning spears, but their course changed, homing onto their target. Aurianna felt nervous seeing this, but an idea came into her head. She muttered, "[ Invisibility ]," and phased out of sight and Hena panicked, unsure of where to direct her lightning.
'How the hell does she have so many elements?' Hena thought, knowing she had met her maker.
"Bye bye." Aurianna's smug voice whispered into Hena's ear.
Hena closed her eyes and felt a cool blunt object get pressed between her shoulder blades. A bang resonated throughout the arena. Hena's chest burst open, a magical bullet passing through her. Blood splattered over the ground, sinking into the sand and staining it. Chunks of flesh scattered everywhere. A gaping hole was left in Hena's chest from which her innards slipped out. She flopped onto the ground with a thud and Aurianna fired another shot into the back of her head, causing it to explode, sending pieces of cruor to stain the arena even more.
The crowd was silent.
"The princess just slaughtered a party, and one of them was a High Human." Somebody whispered, and the crowd began to grow rowdy.
"That wasn't a battle, It was a bloody massacre!"
"There was no enjoyment in that."
"Only the Princess would enjoy killing people like that."
Aurianna scoffed at the crowd and spat on Hena's corpse.
"Now then," She said to herself, an eerie smile lighting her face. "All I have to do is wait for the main cause of all this bloodshed."
She summoned her hover gun, jumped on it and laid down as playfully kicked her legs and hummed a song.