"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! WE ARE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKK!!!"

  "IT IS TIME FOR THE LAST MATCH OF THE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!"

  "WOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

  "Hello, everyone!" said Lukia.

  "LUKIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!"

  "LUKIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!"

  "WE LOVE YOU, LUKIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!"

  "AND NOW! THE LAST MATCH OF TODAY!! THE 8TH MATCH OF BWC!!!"

  "REVON RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!! VERSUS! IRINA AGAPOOOOOOOOOOVVVV!!!"

  "REVON-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!"

  "SO HANDSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMEEEEE!!!!!"

  "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

  "IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

  "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!"

  "WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! HOW POETIC IS IT, FOLKS!!! FOR THE FIRST TWO FIGHTERS TO BE INTRODUCED YESTERDAY TO BE THE LAST TWO DUKING IT OUT IN THE LAST MATCH IN THE FIRST ROUND OF BWC!!!"

  "BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! FATE SURE IS MAGICAL!!! THIS IS THE TYPE OF STUFF THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE LOTTERY!!!"

  "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!"

  "OUR LAST TWO FIGHTERS!! PLEASE STEP INTO THE ARENAAAAAA!!!"

  "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  Irina and Revon walk towards the arena. They both have a serious expression on their faces. They stepped into the arena and are now facing each other at the center.

  "Let's have a good match, Princess Irina!" said Revon as he bowed his head slightly to Irina.

  "Save me the flattery, Revon-san! I shall not lose this match!"

  "Heh! What a confident remark! Don't let me make you eat your own words!"

  "It is fine! I have always held to my own words ever since I was a kid! This won't be any different!" said Irina as she smiled confidently.

  "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!! WE BARELY STARTED AND THEY ARE ALREADY TALKING SMACK!!!!"

  "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!!!"

  "IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

  "REVON-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

  "WAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! THIS IS GOING TO BE GOOOOOOOOOODDDDD!!!"

  "I can tell their seriousness even from here! Those two have good fighting spirits! And I can kinda tell that they both have been in a lot of battles throughout their entire life!" said Lukia.

  "AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET US START!!!!"

  "THE LAST MATCH OF TODAY AND THE FINAL MATCH IN ROUND ONE OF BWC!!! REVON RAY! VERSUS! IRINA AGAPOV!"

  "BEEEEEEGGGGGGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!"

  *GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG*

  *!*

  Both Irina and Revon instinctively jump away from each other, creating a 20-meter distance between them.

  Revon raises his right hand forward, and liquid iron suddenly appears out of nowhere, swirling around his entire right hand. Irina also raises her right hand forward, and sand appears out of nowhere, swirling around her entire right hand.

  They both pointed their right palm towards one another.

  "Sand spikes!"

  "Iron barbs!"

  Irina shoots out spikes made of sand while Revon shoots out iron barbs. Their projectile attacks crash into each other's, and all of Revon's iron barbs pierce through all of Irina's sand spikes.

  *Desh Desh Desh Desh Desh Desh*

  Irina erected a wall of sand and caught all of Revon's iron barbs. All of the iron barbs fall to the floor as they all fail to pierce through her sand wall. She discards her sand wall, and the sand swirls again on her right hand.

  Revon smirks. He points his index finger forward and then upwards. All of the iron barbs on the floor near Irina gather and merge into one big fist, which is as big as an adult human's head. The iron fist launches itself towards Irina's head.

  Irina moves out of the way of its trajectory, but then she turns around and moves her hand as if she's grabbing the iron first from afar. And then a large amount of sand appeared and caught the iron fist. The sand gradually changes shape into a human hand.

  "You can have this back!" said Irina with a confident smile.

  The giant sand hand pulls itself back and then throws the iron fist at Revon. He simply raises his right hand at the incoming iron fist. The iron fist lands on his right hand, and it splashes into liquid form. Immediately, the liquid iron sticks to Revon's entire body.

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  "Ah, I like this 'suit' the best!" said Revon as he looked towards the sky and opened both of his hands wide to the sides.

  The liquid iron acts like a mechanical armor covering Revon's entire body, leaving only his face and hair open.

  "I call this form, Iron Liberator!!"

  "Oh, really? How American that name is!"

  "Hey! I'll take that as a compliment!"

  A mechanical pair of wings grows out of Revon's back. He crouches on the floor and launches himself forward at her. She takes a stance to punch, and the giant sand hand follows her movement, pulling itself backwards to gather momentum.

  "Careful of getting sand into your eyes, Princess!!"

  "Wow, so funny!"

  Revon reaches Irina. Irina swings her right fist, and the giant sand hand follows after. Irina punches Revon with her giant sand hand. Revon blocks the punch by crossing his arms, and the liquid armor on his arms enlarges and solidifies into a giant wall.

  *BOOOOONNNNNKKKKK*

  Irina's giant sand hand does not affect the giant iron wall in the slightest. She scatters her giant hand sand into smaller grains of sand all over the arena. All of the grains of sand are floating everywhere.

  "Now then! Let the game begin, Revon-san!!"

  Revon discards his giant iron wall and notices the floating sand all over the arena.

  "Hmmm, nah! I'm not in the mood for games!"

  Revon creates a giant iron fan in his right arm.

  *BWOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHH*

  He spins himself multiple times to blow all the sand out of the arena.

  Meanwhile, Irina is high above the sky, riding on a sand platform. She is almost as high as the roof of the giant stadium. He creates a giant human leg with sand. Its height is 30 meters, and it is 5cm in diameter. She also made it so that the giant human leg is wearing a giant high heel. She raises her right leg, and the giant leg also ascends a bit higher into the sky.

  "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  "LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!"

  "IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

  “STEP ON MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”

  "WAHAHAHAHA!! THE MALE AUDIENCE SURE IS HYPED UP ALL OF A SUDDEN!!"

  "IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY'RE SEEING THAT GIANT LEG IN THE SKY!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

  "I just think they're weirdos. . ." said Lukia.

  "Goodbye, Revon-san!"

  Irina stomps her right leg hard on the sand platform, and the giant human leg falls fast towards the arena and to where Revon is below. He looks upwards after realizing that Irina was nowhere in the arena.

  "Princess, you have no idea that there are many people in this world who want to be in my spot right now!"

  Revon creates an iron ceiling that covers the entire arena. He also creates giant spikes on the topside of the iron ceiling's surface.

  *BRRRUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

  The giant sand leg hits the giant iron spikes and breaks apart into smaller grains of sand.

  "My turn, princess!"

  *BWUUSHH*

  Revon launches his giant spiky ceiling above towards Irina in the sky.

  "Now that is not good!"

  There's no space to dodge Revon's attack; Irina would be forced to ring out if she were to dodge. She has no other option but to block the attack.

  Irina creates a large amount of sand in the sky. She creates a large cube that is the same size as Revon's giant spiky ceiling.

  *BWUUSSH*

  She sends the large sand cube down, and it stops the rising giant spiky ceiling in the air.

  She creates another large cube of the same size and throws it down as well, and the weight of the combined cube sends the giant spiky ceiling down towards the arena.

  "Wow, that is also not good!" said Revon.

  Revon crouches and then launches himself upwards towards the sky. The falling giant spiky ceiling turns back into liquid and flows into him. It also changes shape into a drill.

  "WE MOVE!!"

  *WRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG*

  *BWWWUUUSSSSSSHHHHHH*

  The drill floats above Revon and spins, and they both pierce through the combined large cube of sand coming down from above. Revon keeps flying high up towards Irina's level. His drill has melted back into liquid form and merged with his armor.

  Revon is finally at the same elevation as Irina.

  "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!! FOLKS, THEY ARE SO HIGH UP IN THE SKY!!!"

  "THIS WILL BE THE FIRST SKY BATTLE WE'VE GOT IN THIS TOURNAMENT!!!"

  "Hoooooo!" said Lukia.

  "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "DO YOUR BEST IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

  "GET HER, REVON-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!"

  "Why are you so high up in the sky, princess? Scared of ground-based combat?"

  "And are you scared of heights? Let's just enjoy the fight up here!! After 7 whole matches, nobody else fights this high! Let's entertain the people!! A fight between Believers is a form of art after all!"

  "Hahahaha! Well, I do love that appreciation you have towards battles! Be my guest then! Just so you know, from the few clashes we've had! You cannot pierce my iron! How are you even going to win now?"

  "And just so you know, you've dealt zero damage to me as well, and I am just wearing normal clothing! We're in the same boat, don't you think?"

  "Hahahahaha! This princess sure is talkative! I'll give you that!"

  "Thank you for the compliment!"

  Irina puts her hands together and creates an upside-down triangle shape. Above and behind her, sand gathers into a single point and takes shape into a giant upside-down pyramid with an eye at the front side. The upside-down pyramid is 7 meters tall and 13 meters in width on its widest topside.

  "Hm? What is that?"

  "You'll see!"

  "Well then, two can play that game!"

  Revon creates more of his liquid iron in large amounts. He shapes them into 20 floating Gatling guns. Irina opens her right palm to the side, and a small sand tornado appears on top of it.

  "Have fun!"

  Irina throws her sand tornado forward, and it immediately enlarges to 10 times her height. The tall sand tornado travels towards Revon.

  "Well dang, my Gatlings are useless against that! Nice!"

  Revon pulls back his right fist and swings it forward. He launches something with his punch.

  *SPLAT*

  Revon launches his liquid iron in liquid form. It sticks to the sand tornado, weighing it down, and it slows down its rotation speed, causing the entire tornado to fade away.

  *!*

  After the sand tornado faded away, Revon was quite shocked by what he saw.

  "Okay, that is the one thing I can't replicate using my liquid iron."

  Revon sees that in front of the upside-down pyramid, there are 20 Irina made of sand floating in the air. All of the 20 Irina sand clones have a 99% likelihood towards one another. One obvious thing is that they are all made of sand, but also the fact that Irina herself is absent.

  "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! IRINA CREATED SAND CLONES OF HERSELF!!! THERE ARE 20 BEAUTIES IN THE SKY, FOLKS!!!!"

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

  "IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

  “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”

  "BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! NICE COMMENT, RADOMIN-SAN!! ALTHOUGH I AM MORE INTRIGUED BY THAT UPSIDE-DOWN PYRAMID, PERSONALLY!!"

  "Hmm, that is the most basic thing I've seen from an elemental Believer. And I agree, Daniel-san! That pyramid is interesting to say the least." said Lukia.

  "So that sand tornado wasn't an attack! She just wanna hide from my view and create her clones! Heh!" said Revon.

  "(Though it is quite obvious where she is hiding at. . .)" said Revon in his head while staring towards the upside-down pyramid.

  "Well, then I'll play your game, Princess!"

  Revon points his right hand forward and signals his 20 Gatling guns to shoot at each of Irina's sand clones.

  *WWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

  *RATATATATATATATATATATATATATA*

  Revon's Gatling guns are firing bullets of small iron marble. Each of Irina's sand clones erected a thick sand wall in front of them.

  *DESH DESH DESH DESH DESH DESH DESH DESH DESH DESH*

  The thick sand wall caught each of Revon's iron bullets, and none of her clones were damaged. The 20 sand clones discard their thick sand walls and fly towards Revon.

  "Well, shit!"

  The first sand clone approaches him. The sand clone swings its two hands in a cross and sends out two sharp sand crescent attacks.

  *DAHK*

  *BRRRSSSHHHH*

  Revon blocks them by crossing his arms, and his iron armor's toughness breaks the sand crescent into pieces. The sand clone changes both of its arms into the shape of an axe. It swings its two axe-arms at Revon.

  "HRGH!!"

  *BASH*

  *BRRRSSSSHHH*

  Revon punches both of the axe-arms away with both of his armored hands, destroying them.

  "HRAAAH!!"

  *BASH*

  *BRRRSSSSHHHH*

  Revon spins himself and kicks the sand clone, and it breaks apart into grains of sand. Three of her sand clones are closing in as soon as the first one breaks apart. They all change their right arms into axes as well, and they swing their axes at him.