Chapter 934 (1/2)
Paolo brushed himself off and frowned at Alana. “Does this mean I’m disqualified?”
Alana glanced back toward the arena. Kayle continued to dismantle Randidly’s strange skeleton creature, while Randidly seemed to be setting his own shoulder on fire. It must hurt. But Alana’s instincts told her allowing him to continue with the process would be a bad idea. Not that she could do anything about it as a spectator.
Which Alana didn’t really mind. All in all, it was a very good fight to watch.
Then she scratched her head. At this rate, she could sense Randidly was going to turn the fight around. It would be a shame if Paolo couldn’t participate in the rest of it. “Well…. Technically no… but…”
Sighing, Paolo nodded in agreement. “You cushioned my fall. To protect civilians, but I should bear that interference, not Randidly. So… punch me. Once, in the stomach. To even up the damage.”
The two were standing in the five-meter crater that Alana hadn’t been able to prevent Paolo from making in the stands. Randidly had truly smashed him back with a huge amount of force. And to stop that momentum, Alana had used a spear strike. Even then, this was the damage that resulted.
The people who Alana had shoved out of the way gazed at the two of them with wide eyes.
“How hard?” Helen asked half-heartedly, even though she thought she knew what the answer would be.
“As hard as you can.” Paolo’s face was covered in blood from his shattered nose, but it was nowhere close to the damage that Randidly’s spell had wrought on his chest. The flesh was blackened and burnt, with puss and blood leaking out from the cracked wounds. Even Alana had been shocked at how powerful that single spell had been.
Something to watch out for when she finally got her turn to walk out onto the stage.
“Alright, here goes,” Alana grunted. Then she twisted her body and smashed her fist into Paolo’s stomach.
She hit him so hard that he crashed into the stands once more, probably doubling the size of the collapsed seats. After a few seconds, Paolo limped out.
“Okay okay,” He slapped his bloody face and then beat his fists against the third-degree burns on his chest. “Got to get back out there before Kayle gets to have all of the fun.”
Alana watched Paolo hop down off of the stands and hobble back toward the arena as the stone weavers hurried over to repair the damage. Yet Alana found herself smiling as she looked down at her bloody knuckles.
Yea, this is a good fight to watch. But it's a better fight to be a part of.
Suppressing her excitement, Alana returned to the VIP section. Her turn would come soon. That terrible darkness that Randidly was now summoning assured her of it.
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Congratulations! Additional Skills are being assimilated into the Skillset…
White Phantom’s Half-Step (Un) Lvl 95 has been assimilated!
Fighting Experience (Un) Lvl 159 has been assimilated!
Phantom Onslaught Lvl 42 has been assimilated!
Calculating gains…
Recalculating…
Warning, continuing without sufficient energy may result in debilitation and death. Do you wish to continue?
Resonating… Synchronicity Percent: 96%!
Warning-
Congratulations, Skills have merged to create the Descent of the Grim Chimera!
Your Skills All is Ash (L) Lvl 102 and When a Shadow Departs, Fireflies Dance (Un) Lvl 65 have merged to form Chimeric Avoidance (L) Lvl 149!
Your Skills Breath of the Spear Phantom ® Lvl 84 and Wild Phantom’s Embrace (A) Lvl 197 have merged to form Cursed Appetite of a Wraith (L) Lvl 233!
Your Skills White Phantom’s Half-Step (Un) Lvl 95 and Fighting Experience (Un) Lvl 159 have merged to form Monstrosity’s Appalling Physicality (A) Lvl 191!
Your Skill Frigid Ash, Extinguishing Storm (Ru) Lvl 59 has evolved to form Reaper’s Mantle of Catastrophe (L) Lvl 75.
Your Skill Inevitable Phantom Arrives (Un) Lvl 120 has merged with the caustic and fiery image of ash to form Molten Fang of the Pariah (L) Lvl 160.
Your Skills Spear Advances, Ash Trails Lvl 108 and As the Sun Stills (A) Lvl 80 have merged to form Man is Proud, but the Chimera Takes (L) Lvl 140.
Your Skills Inevitable Phantom Arrives Lvl 120 and Phantom Onslaught Lvl 42 have merged to form The Chimera Weeps as Man Mourns (L) Lvl 126!