Reborn: Apocalypse Ready. War Goddess by My Side novel Chapter 564

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Every cut she’d mastered had been honed to absolute perfection.

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Blow after blow crashed down on her opponent, each strike carrying tremendous force, until the young man found himself struggling to keep pace at all.

It didn’t take long before he sensed something was wrong.

Several times now, she’d clearly had the opening to land a real hit on him, and every single time, she’d held back.

That realization sent a wave of humiliated fury crashing through him.

What am I, some kind of joke?

She was stalling for time again, just like her teammate before her!

He’d had enough. This was absolutely unbearable.

Was he really being treated this way, like both these Three-Sigil fighters saw him as someone they could beat without even trying?

Only he understood exactly how crushing that feeling was.

He knew perfectly well that Fiona was stalling too, and yet he still couldn’t find a way to beat

her.

Fury and shame burned through him in equal measure.

Before long, more and more people in the stands started catching on to what Fiona was actually doing.

There really wasn’t much to say about it at this point.

A quiet, disbelieving laughter rippled through the crowd.

What had that poor kid done to deserve being treated like a punching bag by two different women in a row?

The young man had no way to voice his frustration, and honestly, his luck couldn’t have been

worse.

He roared, “You’ve gone too far!”

He decided that even if he couldn’t beat her outright, he refused to let her keep stalling any

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longer, or he’d become the laughingstock of all Orroux Academy.

He roared again, and his third Divine Sigil surged to life, falling back on the same tactic he’d used before.

He charged straight at Fiona.

That massive war hammer began condensing in his grip once more.

The moment he closed within striking range, he bellowed out, “Earthbound Cage!”

Interlocking pillars of stone shot up from the ground, trapping Fiona in their grip.

He swung the hammer down with everything he had.

His face twisted with savage determination. There was no way she could shatter his Three-Sigil pattern power a second time.

The instant he moved, Fiona moved as well.

Her third Divine Sigil erupted to life.

Frost condensed around her, thickening the very air until it felt heavy and dense.

A pale blue, frigid light blazed to life in her eyes.

Frostdragon Thousand-Blade Cleave!

The straight-bladed saber in her hand crystallized into a colossal weapon of solid ice, stretching over thirty feet long.

The saber gave a sudden jolt, and then she shattered the stone pillars trapping her into fragments.

Her gaze remained cold and distant as she swung that massive frost blade directly into the incoming hammer.

At the same time, a storm of icy blades erupted from her body, tearing through the air straight toward the young man without any restraint.

The frost blade and the stone hammer collided with tremendous force.

The impact rang out like thunder across the arena.

Shards of ice and clouds of shattered stone burst into the air.

The collision shook the entire stadium.

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Both the hammer and the blade dissolved into nothing in the aftermath.

That clash alone had been genuinely impressive.

But this wasn’t destined to end in a tie.

The storm of frost blades slammed into the young man’s body, sending him flying backward through the air.

Blood sprayed from his mouth.

He crashed to the ground, completely stunned.

He’d lost to another Three-Sigil fighter. Again.

Is there no justice left in this world?

What kind of monsters have I stumbled into?

This felt like nothing but blatant disrespect, like they saw him as nothing more than a toy to stall for time.

Fiona didn’t press the advantage or move to finish him off. She simply stood there, waiting.

As long as he refused to surrender, the fight would keep going, buying more time regardless.

The young man pulled himself up off the ground and looked at Fiona.

“Does your entire academy breed nothing but monsters?”

Fiona said nothing in response.

The young man let out a bitter, defeated laugh. “I’m done. I’m not sticking around to help you kill more time. This is humiliating enough already.”

He turned and walked off the stage without another word.

Fiona’s brow furrowed slightly. Did I use too much force again?

Every eye in that stadium had turned toward Fiona and her teammates by this point.

It really did seem like Rowenville produced nothing but monsters.

Steven alone had already been terrifying enough. Then came Bianca. And now Fiona had joined the list.

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Both women, Three-Sigil fighters, had just dismantled Four-Sigil opponents with ease.

Robby cleared his throat. “Fiona wins!

“Does anyone else want to try their luck? Fiona, you’re free to rest.”

Fiona returned to Bianca’s side and said, “I think I overdid it a little too.”

Bianca shook her head. “There wasn’t much else you could do.”

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Right then, Steven spoke up, his eyes still closed. “You two don’t need to stall for me anymore. I can fight normally now.”

Hearing that, the two of them finally relaxed, relieved they hadn’t needed to keep drawing things out after all.

The challenges continued.

Given everything that had happened, a few more competitors still wanted to take their shot.

Nobody dared approach the three of them again, though.

Instead, they turned their attention to competitors from other academies.

A handful more matches played out.

Despite everyone’s best efforts, not a single challenger managed to pull off an upset.

Making it this far meant these competitors were only a hair’s breadth from real strength, and their struggle here was less about winning and more about leaving the arena without regret.

Finally, the top ten had been decided.

The second round of drawings began.

Steven opened his eyes.

Should I try to draw Griffin’s number?

In the end, Steven decided to let things play out naturally and not interfere too much. There was no need to interfere more than necessary.

Both Fiona and Bianca would draw before him, so if Griffin ended up matched against either of them, there wasn’t much he could do about it.

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Fiona might struggle against someone like Griffin, but Bianca could handle him without much trouble.

He’d already made sure both of them understood one simple rule. Avoid any physical contact with that man, no matter what.

As for himself, there wasn’t much to plan for. If their paths crossed, he’d simply fight him.

The drawing began.

Ten competitors drew lots to form five matchups.

The draw wrapped up quickly.

Steven let out a small breath of relief. Neither Bianca nor Fiona had drawn Griffin’s number.

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