Building My SSS-Rank Universal Empire: From Trash to Cosmic Overlord Chapter 91: Metal body

"That’s not a good impression," Alyndra comnted, her eyes drilling into Vale.

She not only enjoyed gambling and the thrill of using others for her entertainnt, but she also liked seeing her opponent get crushed. She loved seeing the hopelessness reflected on their faces.

But not this ti. Tiber was as calm as ever, and Vale only smiled, raised his cup, and wet his lips with the wine in his hand.

"Hummmmmmm," was all he said as he watched Slya get ramd into the wall.

"Oh shit! She’s going to die! You have to get her out of there! Team 14’s mber is too much for her, not to talk about a vice leader! Please, get down there and get her!" Xan said, his face carved in panic.

Alyndra smirked. "Maybe you should listen to him."

Yet again, Vale didn’t say anything. He simply raised his cup and pointed back to the pit.

Slya had picked herself up from the ground, and she wasn’t smiling. She scowled and slapped the dust off her clothes. She hadn’t expected that sneak attack.

"Huh, you’re not dead." Mawion was standing on a tal platform, floating in the air. He yawned. "I hate it when they don’t die after the first squashing."

Slya’s face twitched, and her eyes darkened. "You just called an insignificant insect?"

Mawion’s face showed so amusent. "I like that description of yourself." Then his face twisted with disgust. "So why don’t you just die? You think you and that fool can just waltz in here and get what you want? Dream again!"

Slya’s shadow, along with the others in the pit, lengthened and ripped, trembling as they darkened the stage. The corners seed to hold more shadow than they should.

Dark blades, five of them without hilts, throbbed with red fire like embers. They ford around her, and she reached out to hold one. She said with flat certainty, "You have invited a raging dragon into your midst today. I am here."

Then she used Vale’s own moves against Mawion, sending the swords flying at him before shadow-stepping to the space above him. Her swords t a wall of tal and screeched as they scratched the surface.

Simultaneously, she fell from above, slashing at his head, only to be stopped by a small band of tal.

Clank!

Mawion didn’t seem bothered at all as he held the wall, the small tal band, and finally created a pillar that slamd into her stomach.

She gasped as she fell, hitting the ground with a thud. She rushed to her feet, but she was clumsy, and the shadows she forged were gone.

At the stands, the silence Vale was feeling was replaced with mocking laughter.

"That was disappointing," Fell said, not sounding disappointed at all. Though he would have liked to be the one to crush Vale, he was still happy that Slya was getting crushed anyway.

"Well," Dlodus said in pity. "It’s to be expected. He’s Team 14’s vice leader. She should just wish for a fast end."

Vale didn’t reply. He rely looked down into the pit.

Mawion floated closer to her, subsequently creating a small tal ball that hovered near her. "Shatter!"

The ball exploded. The ground cracked with the force as shards of tal were hurled forward with a whine. She managed to throw a shield up in ti, but she was sent stumbling. This ti, however, she didn’t wait.

With a single formation she held in her mind, she added another and then poured essence into it. The darkness around her shook, and long spikes of forged shadows blasted out at her floating opponent.

Above, below, and from the sides, they appeared like the fangs of a large monster, sharp enough to tear through steel, but not through Mawion’s skin.

His body rippled with dark brown waves of tal, and he was suddenly enclosed in it. Not every inch of his skin turned to tal.

Can she do sothing like that too? Vale thought. He watched closely as she had already dropped one of her formations, leaving only the one behind.

A shadow spear ford in front of her, and then she leaped forward, disappearing and reappearing through shadows just beneath the floating Mawion.

She threw her spear upward. It pierced through his tal platform with a screech but paused before going fully through. It wobbled, and before the man could regain balance, more spikes blasted at him, sparking off his skin.

Damn! Just how tough is that skin of his? Slya thought.

He finally discarded the floating platform and touched down on the ground. "You’ve done it now, little bitch."

She created a sword and flung herself at him, but she suddenly stopped. "What’s this?"

The area surrounding Mawion was hazy. She stared at it in confusion, raised her sword, and brought it closer to the haze. Suddenly, the air humd, her hand shook, and the weapon in her hand trembled before being reduced to half.

It wasn’t cut, but it seed to have been eaten away.

Mawion laughed. "I’ve surrounded myself with sharp, strong iron fillings. They’re densely packed too. Do you know what happens when you move them at high speed?"

He began to move closer, forcing Slya to backpedal to avoid the attack.

"It’s a difficult technique to master, and I have to be in my tal form to use it. How about we end things now?" He reached out, and the hazy tals beca visible, spinning into sothing resembling a whirlwind with a small tail at the end of the spinning cone.

He grabbed that tail and then flicked his hand, using the tal storm like a whip.

Wham! The air howled and whined.

Slya constructed a shield and shadow-stepped backward. It was a good thing too, because her shield was eaten through as if it wasn’t there.

"Stay still!" Mawion shouted.

Slya didn’t have ti to shout back ’Why in the Infernal hell would I stay still?’ All her focus was on shadow-stepping to keep away from Mawion and his storm of eating tal. But the man was getting dangerously close to predicting her moves.

Up above, Alyndra said the sa thing. "She’s keeping up, but it won’t be long now. This is not the overwhelming victory you promised ."

Vale chuckled. "You’re right."

Then he added essence to his voice, making it louder. It rang throughout the coliseum. "Haven’t you had enough fun already, Slya?"

Down below, she suddenly stopped shadow-stepping and smiled. "Co to think of it, I was thinking the sa thing!"