“(THIS IS BAD!!)”
Mari comes out of her green fire dome and stands on the outside on top. She prepares her straightened right palm, and they catch green fire.
“SOUL EXTINCTION!!!”
*FWWWOOOOMMMM*
Mari swings her right hand and sends out a large green fire slash.
“GRANDE!!”
*FRRRWWWWOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM*
Her green fire slash suddenly explodes in size, and it is now 2 kilometers in length, and it launches upwards at a slightly faster speed than Lukia’s Leviathan.
*FWWWWOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHHH*
Mari’s gigantic green fire slash and Lukia’s enormous Levitahan clash in the sky, and it causes a 9 Richter scale magnitude quake in the sky, but the shockwave that shakes the entire city only has a 3.5 Richter scale magnitude and at most, cracks some weaker buildings across the entire city.
.
.
.
*pant pant pant pant*
Outside the stadium, hundreds of Believers have gathered across all the different exits and entrances. They have been trying to break the giant green fire dome this whole time, hitting it with all they’ve got using their Faith power.
*pant pant pant*
Their attacks amount to nothing, yet they never stop hitting the green fire dome. And after some time, they have exhausted their physical capabilities. They have run out of breath as well.
*pant pant pant*
“Everyone! *pant pant* Let’s take a few moments to take a break and breathe! *pant pant* And then, let’s continue hitting this green thing no matter how hopeless it seems!! *pant pant pant*”
“*pant pant* AGREED!!!”
Every Believer in the vicinity shouts in harmony as they also try to catch their breath. Some of them are holding on to their knees with their heads down, some of them are lying on the floor with their back facing the floor, and some are crouching as they either lean against each other’s backs or lean against some lamp posts, concrete pillars, or iron poles in the area.
Everything has become slightly darker in broad daylight, but none of them notices it because of how exhausted they are.
“Water?”
Some Non-Believers offered water to a lot of the Believers resting on the ground. And when they open the bottle and lean their heads upwards to consume it, they finally see the enormous Leviathan high above the sky.
*THUD*
Most Believers drop their water bottle in shock, and it spills everywhere.
“E-Everyone. . .”
One of the Believers points their finger towards the sky.
“Look. . .”
Everyone in the area follows his command and looks towards the sky.
*!!!!*
Despair quickly filled their hearts as soon as they gazed upon the sheer size of the Leviathan made of water in the sky.
*!!!*
But then they see the fire that looks similar to the giant green fire dome, trapping the entire stadium, grow massively in size, and the green fire was launched upwards against the incoming Leviathan.
*GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
At the moment of impact, a gigantic shockwave reverberates through the entire city multiple times without a break. Though when the shockwave reaches everyone on the ground, it just becomes a really strong wind that will send clothes flying at most.
“It’s over. . .”
One of the Believers fell on his knees.
“How could any of us ever hope to compete against that?”
His words bring all of the other Believers’ spirits down, and they no longer have the will to keep attacking the green fire dome behind them.
.
.
.
Mari’s gigantic green fire slash and Lukia’s enormous Leviathan are pushing against each other, playing a massive game of tug-of-war in the sky.
*GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
Their attacks clash constantly sending shockwaves throughout the entire city. Both Mari and Lukia are confident that their attacks can break through each other’s in the end.
But then. . .
*!!!*
“Ah!”
“Oh!”
The Second State time limit is up; it has been five entire minutes, and now their appearance has gone back to normal. Both of their Second State ended here, but all of their wounds from earlier were completely healed, except for their fatigue.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM*
*GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
*BWOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH*
At the same time, their gigantic attack clash also causes an enormous explosion that is visible from across the entire city. The gigantic green flame pushes all of the water in all directions, and it creates a heavy rain that lasts for 15 minutes. The entire city experiences rain even though the sky is clear and the sun is shining brightly.
“*pant pant pant* It’s over. . .”
“. . . .”
Mari comes back down inside her green fire dome, and she quickly notices that Lukia falls freely with her head down towards the ground below.
“EI-CHAN!!!”
*BANG*
Eissen had already teleported and caught Lukia before she even shouted.
“I got her, Mari-chan!”
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*THUMP*
Eissen activated his Vein Armor, and he landed safely with Lukia in her arms. He then gently puts Lukia down on the ground.
*THUMP*
Mari lands near both of them with her Vein Armor on as well.
*pant pant pant*
“It’s over, Ei-chan. . . I don’t know if I can call that victory, though. . . *pant pant* At the very least, I successfully prevented her insane attack from ever reaching the city. *pant pant pant*”
Eissen walks next to Mari and wraps his right hand around her shoulders.
*tap tap*
He taps her right shoulder a few times.
“Good work, Mari-chan!” said Eissen with a smile.
“. . . . .”
Mari is frozen in place as her face turns bright red.
“T-T-T-T-T-Thank you. . .”
*!*
Mari quickly notices that the water wall protecting the audience is still up.
“Wait a minute. . .”
She quickly turns towards Lukia, and she sees her sitting on the ground with a very exhausted expression and body language.
“*pant pant pant* I am so. . . freakishly exhausted. . .”
*!*
Eissen was surprised to hear her voice as he was very sure that Lukia had passed out when he caught her in his arms earlier.
“EH? YOU’RE STILL UP?”
“Oh, c’mon! No need to shout! *pant pant* I am so tired, I don’t think I can even stand up on my own!” said Lukia with her head down.
*THUD*
*!*
Mari suddenly falls to her knees as well.
“MARI-CHAN!! You okay?”
Eissen quickly crouches to check on her.
“*pant pant* I am, but. . . Now I have no more stamina to fight against that woman. . . Sorry, Ei-chan. . . I messed up. . .”
“. . . It’s fine, Mari-chan! I don’t want you to murder anyone anyway!”
“Well, I guess. . . *pant pant pant* we don’t need the walls anymore.”
Lukia waves her right hand down, and all the water walls surrounding the audience disappear. Although the audience has always been able to see through the water walls, now they get a clearer picture of what happened between Mari and Lukia.
“Lukia doesn’t win nor does she lose. . .”
“If even someone from the Ten Commandments of God can’t defeat that woman, then who can?”
“It’s over. . .”
“We’re never getting out of this place. . .”
The audience was filled with despair ever since they saw that both Lukia and Mari were no longer fighting. A deafening silence once again falls over the entire stadium.
. . . . . .
Nobody says anything for approximately 3 minutes, until someone suddenly shouts, or more accurately, two people shout.
“DON’T GIVE UP FOOOOOLLLKKKKSSS!!!!” shouts Daniel.
“YEAH!! NOW’S OUR CHANCE!!!” shouts Radomin.
*!!!*
Both Radomin and Daniel suddenly jump towards Mari and Eissen.
*ZZZZRRRRTTTTT*
Daniel’s right hand is engulfed by white lightning while Radomin summoned his golden hammer and is ready to swing it at them.
“MARI-CHAN!!!”
Eissen activates his Vein Armor, and both Radomin and Daniel have appeared behind them.
“RELEASE THE HOSTAGE THIS INSTANT, YOU TERRORISTS!!!” shout Daniel and Radomin in harmony.
Daniel swings his hand down, and a white thunder strikes from the sky towards Mari, and Radomin swings his giant golden hammer at her head.
*BAAAAMMM*
*ZZZZRRRRRTTTTTT*
Eissen caught both of their attacks with both of his hands. He received Daniel’s white thunder with his right hand and grabbed Radomin’s golden hammer with his left.
“UUUUUURRRGGGHHHHH!!!! GET AWAY FROM MARI-CHAAAANNN!!”
*BAAAMMM*
*BAM*
“UAAAARRGGHHH!!”
“AAAARRGGHHH!!!”
Eissen punches Daniel in the face and throws away Radomin’s golden hammer and punches him in his belly. They were both sent flying away and fell to the ground, 5 meters away from them.
“They’re not alone, Army-Man-san!!”
*!!!*
Ardina suddenly appeared in front of Eissen. She immediately swings her invisible right hand at him.
*BAAAAMM*
“HRRRGGHH!!!”
Eissen blocks her punch by crossing his arms, but he is pushed back little by little.
“And she’s not alone as well!!”
*!!!*
Suddenly, Selam, Megumi, Revon, Sylvianna, Arthur, Erika, Yuichi, Kenichi, Jeremiah, the Pharaoh, Gabrielle, and Phil have appeared above Mari, surrounding her with each of them already readying an attack to swing at her. Every BWC fighter, except Irina, has woken up and regained consciousness during Mari and Lukia’s fight.
*BAAAAAAMMMMM*
*BOOOOMMMM*
*BWWWOOOOOSSSHHHH*
They all land their attacks on Mari, and their combined attack explodes and creates a thick smoke on the ground.
*SSSSSHHHHHHHHHH*
After the smoke faded away, they were all surprised that Mari was nowhere to be found. All they did was create a hole, 5 meters deep and 2 meters in diameter, in the ground.
“W-Where did she go? said Selam in panic.
*!!!*
Suddenly, they realized that Mari had jumped high into the sky and was now falling down rapidly towards all of them.
*SLASH*
Mari summons her giant scythe and lands directly behind Selam, and she immediately throws her scythe towards them, and it spins and pierces through everyone, but there is no bloodshed at all.
*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*
Suddenly, everyone who surrounded Mari fell on their back on the ground, losing consciousness. Mari resummons her scythe, which is still flying forward, back into her arms. The audience quickly noticed that all of the BWC fighters’ ethereal bodies were hanging on her giant scythe like they were barbecue stakes.
“E-EVERYONE!!!” said Ardina in panic.
*BAM*
“ARKH!!”
For a split second, Eissen felt Ardina’s push weaken, so he immediately dodged out of the way to the right, stepped forward, and punched Ardina away on her belly. Ardina’s back lands on the ground 5 meters away from him. He immediately turns around and runs towards Mari.
*!*
Mari looks towards all of the souls in her scythe and realizes that someone is missing.
“(Huh? Where is Erika?)”
Mari took out 12 BWC fighters, leaving Ardina alone. There are 12 souls hanging on her scythe, yet Erika is not there. Nobody notices what Mari saw. But before she tried to look properly, she was distracted.
“Mari-chan! You okay?”
“Huh?? Ah, yeah! I’m alright, Ei-chan! I was just surprised to see these guys think that they can get me just because I am exhausted. One of the great things about Faith power is that our output doesn’t decrease just because we’re physically tired.”
“Phew! I’m glad you’re okay, that you can even babble for that long.”
“EI-CHAN!! YOU MEANIE!!!”
*pok pok pok pok pok pok pok pok pok pok*
Mari repeatedly punches Eissen with the bottom side of her fists, gently against his chest.
“P-please stop it. . . It’s annoying. . .”
“(And adorable. . .)”
“RETURN EVERYONE’S SOULS THIS INSTANCE, YOU TERRORIST!!”
Suddenly, Ardina appears above, behind them, ready to swing her right hand, that turned invisible. Mari and Eissen both activate their Vein Armor and turn around. When Eissen was about to confront her from the right, Mari forcefully pulled him back and whispered.
“No, Ei-chan! You handle her directly!”
Eissen didn’t ask any questions and obeyed her completely. He swings his right hand forward, and it clashes against Ardina’s invisible giant hand.
*BAAAMMMM*
*GRAAAHHKKK*
Meanwhile, Mari grabs Ardina’s invisible being with her left hand and slams it to the ground, breaking it into tiny pieces, and her invisible being disappears.
“M-MELI-CHAN!!”
Ardina was distracted when she clashed with Eissen.
*BANG*
*BAAAMMM*
“UUURRRGGGHHHH!!!”
*GRAAAHHKKK*
He swiftly swaps places with his bullet and appears above her. He spins himself and hits Ardina with a spinning axe kick right at her shoulder. Ardina was kicked towards the ground, and her face kissed it first.
“Alright, alright! I’ll return everyone!!”
Mari swings her giant scythe, and all of the fighters’ ethereal bodies are launched away in all directions. Every ethereal body flies properly back into its respective physical body.
“URRGGHH!!!”
“Arrrgghh. . .”
“Ouch! Ouch!! AWW!!!”
One by one in quick succession, all of the BWC fighters regain their consciousness. They all held their heads as they tried to sit on the ground.
*BAAAAMM*
Mari slams the bottom edge of her giant scythe’s handle to the ground.
“Don’t you have any funny businesses, or else, I’ll drag your soul out and put it back in, and then drag it out again, and put it back in again, over and over and over and over, until I get bored with toying with your life!”
All the BWC fighters understood completely that they were no match at all against her. They all put their hands and heads down, and despair quickly filled their hearts.
“(Erika is standing. What is going on? She wasn’t there when I took out everyone’s soul. I didn’t get a chance to look at who I extracted from her. Weird. . .)”
*!*
*THUD*
Mari falls on her butt while still holding on to her giant scythe.
“Urgh! I am so tired. . .”
“Go rest, Mari-chan!”
“Yeah, I think I will.”
“Just don’t actually go to sleep or pass out on me, alright?”
“Are you kidding? If I pass out, we can’t drag that woman here anymore! Not to mention tha---!!!!”
*BAAAAMMMMMM*
*!!!*
“W-WHAT?”
Suddenly, everyone in the stadium heard a loud banging noise coming from above.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMM*
And again, the loud banging happens a second time.
“W-What is that, above the green fire dome?” asks Eissen.
Everyone in the stadium looks towards the ceiling of the green fire dome.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM*
They all see something big and dark, trying to break through to enter the green fire dome.
. . . . .
And then the loud banging stops.
*WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*
And a different sound was heard coming from the same spot, but this time, everyone recognized it as the sound from a spinning helicopter’s fan blade.
*WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*
Upon closer look, everyone sees that there is a helicopter high above outside the green fire dome. And that there is someone standing directly on top of the green fire dome.
“. . .”
Mari points her giant scythe upwards and opens a small hole that can only fit one thin person through. The person standing on top signals something to the helicopter, and it leaves. The person immediately jumps down the small hole and enters the green fire dome, and the small hole quickly closes in.
The person falls freely, but a chunk of the earth suddenly forms out of nowhere under the person’s feet, and the person swiftly but safely descends towards the ground.
*grahk*
The chunk of the Earth falls apart into tiny pieces and disappears. Everyone in the stadium quickly realizes that the person is a female. She looks to her right and left, and finally looks towards Mari.
“Long time no see, Mari-chan. . .”
“Long time no see, Si-chan. . .”
Her name is Sierra Pendrago, the 8th Strongest Believer in the world. The one they called Terraformer.
