*BAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMM*

  Irina sends the two giant hands of sand at Ardina, and they clap and trap her inside. All of the swords of sand launch themselves towards the giant clapped hands and pierce through to the inside.

  *BWWOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH*

  *!!*

  The giant clapped hands exploded into sand, and Ardina was nowhere to be found afterwards. Irina looked behind and saw that she was already behind with her right hand turned invisible. Ardina punched her, but Irina erected a thick sand wall between them in a really quick fashion.

  *BAM*

  *BRSSSHHH*

  She immediately breaks the sand wall apart to engulf Ardina’s invisible hand.

  *!*

  *GRABS*

  Ardina’s right hand quickly turns back to normal, escaping her sand hold, and Irina was suddenly grabbed from behind.

  “UKH!”

  “SMASH HER, MELI-CHAN!”

  Irina was lifted high into the air and then was thrown violently towards the arena below. Irina controls the sand in the arena to create a thick cushion underneath where she would fall, and she lands safely without any major damage.

  Ardina rushes down towards Irina. Irina creates ten saw blades, rotates them quickly, and launches them all at once at her. Ardina keeps running without a care in the world, and when the first saw blade reaches her, her invisible being crushes it to bits.

  “I’M COMING, PRINCESS!!”

  “You need to see how your face looks in the mirror. That is far away from what your cheerful personality lets on!”

  “I COULDN’T CARE LESS HOW I LOOK RIGHT NOW, PRINCESS!”

  “Fair enough!”

  Ardina keeps running towards Irina, and her invisible being crushes all of the incoming saw blades. Irina grips her palm, and a giant palm of sand rises from underneath. When the giant palm of sand grips itself to trap Ardina, she is picked up by her summoned being upwards, dodging the sand’s grab, and is thrown at Irina.

  Ardina immediately turns her right hand invisible to punch Irina. Irina creates a giant hand of sand quickly and throws a punch as well.

  *BAAAMM*

  The impact of their clash creates a shockwave that clears the sand from all around Irina. But she quickly creates another large amount of sand all around her and traps herself inside a giant ball of sand.

  *!*

  “UKH!!”

  *BRSSSHHH*

  Irina is once again grabbed by Ardina’s invisible being. She went through the inside of the giant sand ball and grabbed her directly. She was forcefully pushed outside of the giant sand ball, through the wall of sand of the giant dome of sand, and she was slammed to the grass below.

  *!!!*

  “OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! ARDINA SLAMS IRINA OUTSIDE THE ARENAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

  “IS IT OVER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN??”

  Everyone in the audience sees that the Irina that was slammed into the grass turned out to be a sand clone, as she was clearly made of sand.

  “OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! IT WAS A SAND CLONE!!!!”

  “I FORGOT SHE HAS THAT TRICK UP HER SLEEVE!!”

  “THEN WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THE DOME RIGHT NOW?”

  Turns out, while inside the giant sand ball, she created multiple of her sand clones and moved around inside, swapping positions with them, and Ardina’s invisible being grabbed one of her sand clones instead. All of the sand inside the arena also helped camouflage her sand clones well.

  Inside, Irina has hidden herself after discarding her giant sand ball and sends all of her sand clones towards Ardina, exploding them back into sand to blur her vision.

  “UKH!”

  *BAM*

  *BWOOOSSHH*

  Ardina instructs her invisible being to smash and blow all of the sand away. After her vision is clear, she looks up, and she sees a giant wolf head, five times bigger than her, with its jaw wide open, crashing down towards her.

  “Size doesn’t scare me, Princess!”

  The giant wolf head made of sand stopped when it was 30cm away from reaching Ardina’s head.

  *BRSSSHH*

  Her invisible being caught it in its track and crushed it back into sand. Ardina jumps high above after bouncing off her invisible being. She raises her right hand, and it turns invisible.

  “Where are you, Princess?”

  *CLAPS*

  *BWWWWOOOOOOOOSSSSHHH*

  Ardina claps her invisible giant hand against her own summoned being and creates a burst of wind downwards to clear all the sand away from the surface of the arena. Irina was nowhere to be found. Some of the sand moves towards Ardina, and eventually, they all engulf Ardina’s summoned being in full, and she makes sure it stays there this time. Ardina and her summoned being land in the arena.

  “COME ON OUT, PRINCESS!”

  *!*

  And then, as she wished, Irina came down from above, and there were 20 of her. They all land in the arena with each of their right hands transformed into a long sword made of sand. It is very obvious that they were clones of sand, given how they look.

  “Using clones to fight in your place, after all that talk about being strong, is quite hilarious, Princess!”

  The 20 clones all charge at Ardina, thrusting their long sword at her.

  *ZZZRRRRRSSSSHHHH*

  Their long swords break into sand when they reach her. Ardina’s invisible being is protecting her in all directions. The 20 clones jump above, and their right hands transform into a giant drill. They all rotate their sand drills and launch them at the same time diagonally downwards at Ardina. Ardina was thrown above by her sandy summoned being and completely dodged all of the incoming drills of sand. The giant drills all break apart back into sand, and they latch onto Ardina’s invisible being, creating thicker and heavier layers of sand, engulfing it.

  From all four sides of the walls of sand, four giant sand hands come out and approach Ardina, who is airborne at the center.

  This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

  *ZZZZRRRRRRSSSSHHHH*

  The four giant sand hands engulf Ardina inside yet again.

  “Tch! WHAT’S THE POINT OF DOING THIS SAME ATTACK OVER AND OVER AGAIN, PRINCESS?”

  *ZRAAASSSHHH*

  Ardina breaks free of the sand by turning her right hand invisible.

  *!*

  But, as soon as she breaks out, the real Irina comes down from above, wielding a giant cutlass made of sand. The giant cutlass is 3 meters in length and is 5cm wide on its flat side.

  *ZRASSSHHH*

  *BRRRSSSSHH*

  Irina slashes Ardina with her giant cutlass of sand, but Ardina catches her cutlass with her invisible right hand and crushes it back to sand.

  “Tch!”

  Irina keeps falling down towards the arena. She creates more sand underneath and covers the entire arena again. She lands on the sand and immediately slips through beneath the sand and disappears. Her 20 clones grow wings made of sand and fly high towards Ardina. Their right legs transform into a giant drill again, and they point the tip upwards and launch them at the same time at her.

  “Sigh. . .”

  Ardina points her palm downwards, and it turns invisible. She defends herself against all of the giant drills of sand flawlessly.

  “I’m getting tired of seeing these attacks over and over again. MELI-CHAN!!”

  *?*

  Ardina’s summoned being was buried deep under a thick layer of sand in the arena. It cannot move as it’s being weighed and held down by all the sand.

  “Just so you know, I can just re-summon Meli-chan after all that setup you put on her.”

  The 20 sand clones are closing in on Ardina. They all change their entire shape into giant drills yet again.

  “Grrrr!!”

  *BRRRSSSSSHHHH*

  Ardina spins herself with her invisible right hand and slaps all of the sand clones away, breaking them back into sand.

  *!*

  From above the ceiling, where the giant human face resides, it opens its mouth wide, and it shoots down a violent sand tornado that lifts all of the sand into the entire arena, creating a very blinding sandstorm inside the dome.

  Ardina covers her face with both of her hands in reflex. A giant hand made of sand rises from the arena below, and it reaches past Ardina’s height in the air.

  *BAAAAM*

  “ARGH!”

  The giant sand hand clenches into a fist and punches Ardina down towards the arena.

  Ardina points her right invisible hand downwards and breaks the momentum of her fall when she touches the floor below. She lands safely after flipping forward.

  *!*

  She immediately looks up and sees that same giant sand hand throwing its punch down at her position through the violent sandstorm. She smiles and stands completely still.

  *BAAAAAAMMM*

  *BBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH*

  The giant sand hand punched Ardina’s invisible summoned being, and it broke apart into sand. She has re-summoned Meli-chan merely one second before impact, and it was freed from its thick layers of sand.

  From all four sides of the sand walls, four giant sand hands sprout out and throw punches at the same time towards Ardina. Ardina stands still, and her summoned being blocks all four punches and breaks them into sand.

  “. . . Guys, I am confused, why does the princess keep repeating the same attack pattern over and over again?” said Revon.

  “I’m in the same place as you, Revon-san. I have no clue.” said Arthur.

  “Is she maybe. . . trying to exhaust her stamina? But I see no point when you’re fighting against a Summoner type.” said Selam.

  “Or maybe she’s trying to come up with a plan herself, and she’s buying time to figure something out?” said Erika.

  “That might be the most plausible thing.” Said Yuichi.

  “Hmm, whatever it is, I just don’t see the Princess winning against that! Her invisible being’s physical power is still far above hers.” said Kenichi.

  “Ah, true! She blocked every single attack the princess threw at her.” said Phil.

  “Except for that one punch that pushes her down towards the arena.” said Gabriel.

  “I guess, pretty women do their own things!” said Megumi.

  “I have no idea what the correlation of what you just said towards any of what we’re all talking about. . .” said Sylvianna.

  “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!! THE PRINCESS IS ATTACKING NON-STOP!!!”

  “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”

  “IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

  “ARDINA-CHAN IS FORCED TO JUST REACT TO EVERY ATTACK WITHOUT HAVING ANY CHANCE TO ACTUALLY FIGHT BACK AGAINST IRINA!!! THE PRINCESS REALLY IS CRUEEEELLLLLLL!!!!!”

  “WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”

  “ARDINA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!”

  “FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!”

  Ardina turns her right hand invisible and slaps all the sand away yet again from the surface of the arena.

  “THIS IS GETTING REALLY REPETITIVE, PRINCESS!!! I THOUGHT YOU SAID, FIGHTS BETWEEN BELIEVERS WERE A FORM OF ART?”

  20 of Irina’s sand clones land on the arena, scattered and surrounding Ardina at the center. Their hands turn into saw blades that are rotating at high speed. The closest sand clone runs towards her and swings its right handsaw sideways.

  Ardina stands still, and her summoned being breaks the clone’s hand saw. The sand clone thrusts its left hand saw, but she was smashed entirely from above by her invisible being.

  5 of the sand clones run at Ardina from five different directions. The first two reach her first and swing their right hand saw vertically. Her invisible being blocks the attacks, but at the same time, another three of the sand clones reach her and thrust their right saw blades forward.

  Ardina turns around and smacks away the three sand clones with her invisible right hand. Her invisible being crushed the two sand clones behind.

  The rest of the sand clones run forward in two teams, five on the ground, five jumping high above, all from five different directions as well. The five sand clones on the ground jump a bit off the arena floor and spin themselves with their two saw blades vertically, imitating five giant buzzsaws. The five clones from above throw their saw blades at Ardina at the same time.

  Ardina is ready to let her invisible being handle all of the attacks, but suddenly, four giant hands of sand appear from four sides of the sand walls and grab onto her invisible being.

  *!*

  “WHAT?”

  They lift the invisible being away from her, leaving her open to all of the previous attacks.

  “TCH!!”

  Ardina spins herself with her right hand turned invisible to blow away all of the incoming attacks.

  *BRSSSSHHH*

  *!!!*

  But as she spins herself, deflecting all of the sand clones' attacks, she was suddenly shot in her left forearm, and it pierces through it.

  “AAAARRRGGHHH!!!”

  The pain made Ardina stumble and fall to the floor, but she had only deflected half of the clones’ attacks.

  “MELI-CHAN!”

  Ardina re-summons her summoned being back to her, and it protects her from all of the incoming attacks from the sand clones. But then the four giant sand hands grabbed her summoned being and lifted it away again.

  Ardina is still struggling to stand up. Her left arm is bleeding, and the pain is starting to distract her concentration.

  “Urgh. . .”

  Ardina finally stands up after toughing herself up.

  “Where did that attack even come from?”

  *!!!!*

  All of a sudden, Ardina felt a presence behind her in the violent sandstorm. It was Irina. She finally showed her real self in the arena. She is holding the giant cutlass made of sand from before.

  Ardina quickly turns around while Irina swings her giant cutlass diagonally downwards.

  *ZZRRRRRAAAAAAASSSSSSSHHHHHH*

  “AAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!”

  Irina slices Ardina across her entire torso. Ardina jumped back at the very last second, and her wound ended up being shallow.

  “Don’t worry, I have no intention of killing anyone! I only want to tire you out slowly and surely.”

  “Grrrr!”

  Ardina turns her hand invisible and punches Irina away, but on contact, Irina breaks apart into sand.

  “Another clone?”

  “No! I was there, but I slipped away easily behind this sandstorm and created a clone afterward.”

  “Urgh. . .”

  “(This wound is painful. . .)”

  *!*

  Irina is suddenly behind her again with her giant cutlass in her hands. She swings it sideways towards Ardina’s back.

  *BRRRRSSSHHHH*

  Ardina’s invisible being was resummoned behind and blocked the giant cutlass. The invisible being flies to and smashes Irina from above and crushes her. But it turns out to be yet another sand clone.

  “. . . . I HAD ENOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”

  Ardina was lifted upwards and thrown fast towards the ceiling of the giant dome of sand, where the giant human face resides, by her summoned being.

  “YOU’RE ACTUALLY THERE, AREN’T YOU, PRINCESS?? PLAYTIME’S OVER!!! TIME TO FINISH THIS!!”

  Ardina reaches the ceiling in no time.

  *BAAAAAMMMMM*

  *ZZZRRRRSSSSSHHHHH*

  She resummons her summoned being, and it punches a hole through the human face. Ardina went up through the hole, and she’s finally outside the giant dome of sand.

  “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”

  “THERE SHE IIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS!!!’

  “ARDINA-CHAN IS FINALLLY OUUUUUTTTTTT!!!!”

  “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

  “ARDINA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!”

  “PRINCESS!! LET’S GO ALLL OOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!” shouts Ardina.

  Ardina screams at the top of her lungs so that the entire stadium can hear her. She is incredibly pissed and is currently consumed by her emotions, specifically anger.

  All of a sudden, she was enveloped by a white sphere, and from the top of the sphere, a bright white light shot up above towards the sky.

  *!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

  Slowly and surely, the bright white sphere disintegrates, and Ardina comes out of it.

  Her appearance is entirely different. Most of her body is invisible, leaving only her head, her chest, her waist, her forearms, and her lower legs visible. Her hair is now all white, tied into a very long ponytail. Her bangs cover her forehead. She has a see-through scarf that is floating and coiling through her invisible upper arms and her invisible stomach, as well as her invisible back. Her eyes are glowing in a dim white color. She is wearing a white traditional Indonesian long-sleeved shirt with a long traditional Indonesian white skirt that reaches her upper ankles. She is also barefoot and is floating in the sky. There are floral and batik motifs all across her clothing. There are golden arm bracelets on her forearms and golden ankle armors on her legs. She also wears a small golden tiara that holds together her long ponytail.

  Ardina Restu has entered Second State.

  “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH??”

  Everyone in the stadium was confused about what on earth Ardina was doing.

  “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHH???????”

  “S-S-S-S-S-SEEECCCOOONNDDDD STATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!?!?!?!” said Daniel.

  “ARDINA-CHAN!!! THAT’S A VIOLATION OF THE RULES!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING??” shouts Radomin.

  “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?????”

  Everyone watching has their jaw dropped over this blatant violation of tournament rules. Even Irina, her opponent, has her jaw dropped as well.