Long before Laura's laser broke itself apart, but after the largest killing spree any human had successfully gone on in this arena, a fraxion appeared that had more than just the bare essentials on itself. It carried a massive shield and spear, the former of which it was already holding in front of its face. WHile it did not know exactly what was killing its comrades, it knew it targeted the head. Combined with enchanted external armor over its natural armor plating, watchers of the arena worried over Laura's safety.

After revealing her abilities, revealing she was actually a force to be reckoned with, many bets were placed on how many fraxions the Enchantress could defeat. None had initially believed she'd make as many bodies as she had. Even the most optimistic had believed her rampage would be less than half of what it had already been, and she had only had to directly fight three fraxions until this point.

Before it began moving, the fraxion attempted to move the known hazards, trying to lift the enchanted plates that Laura had scattered all around the neutral area. It refused to budge under its telekinetic might, though it didn't try too hard. Wasting magic against this powerful foe would be a mistake.

It pushed down on one with more than the force it would exert should it stand on one leg on one. Nothing happened. It tried smashing them with a boulder, which also resulted in nothing more than a rock suddenly being in the arena. It tried moving a corpse of its bretheren onto the field of dangerous plates. Nothing happened.

So, the armored fraxion stepped onto one of the many, many land mines Laura had placed around the arena. The resulting pointed spike missed the fraxion's head as it reared back, uncertain its armor could take a blow from such a pointed piece of metal traveling as fast as it did. The subsequent needle explosion splattered uselessly against the beast's enchanted armor.

It seemed like the enchantment Laura put on the plates would only reacted to a live fraxion, or maybe living material in general. How it detected the difference between normal force and a fraxion was unknown to anyone but Laura, but it meant battles would either have to take place on the sky, they would have to somehow bring Laura to them, or the mine field would have to be manually dealt with.

Meanwhile, Laura seemed to not even notice the intruder to her murderous wonderland. She was too engrossed in pumping out more land mine plates to notice the newcomer not dying immediately. Either that, or she was purposefully ignoring them.

Either way, it meant the fraxion had freedom of the first real move in this fight.

It took flight to avoid the mines, hindered slightly by the increased bulk from its equipment, and charged Laura, spear held point forward. The enchanted tip could slice steel like butter and the enchanted shaft could endure tons of force before snapping. Even if she had some sort of defense against being sliced open, the spear would come out unharmed. Simultaneously, the fraxion created a massive pillar of metal behind Laura, pushing her towards it.

She looked up at the movement of the fraxion, somewhat surprised one had lived the laser, but not so much it delayed her reaction. She began to fly to the side to avoid the charge, but was hit in the back by the metal pillar. While she was a strong mage, she did not have eyes in the back of her head. While she rolled out of the way of the incoming spear, she rotated the laser to point at the fraxion's head once more, but its helmet blocked the laser from hitting its body due to the angle it had to be fired.

Spear met metal pillar and the pillar gave way, the spear tip slicing in with no strain on the wielder's arm, at least until the shaft attempted to enter the hole and failed. The fraxion stopped its momentum and tore the spear horizontally, tearing through the pillar as it aimed a slash at Laura's neck.

Fully escaping the attack risked giving Laura whiplash, so she backed up as much as she safely could.

The spear tip tore into her neck, ripping apart skin, muscle, tendon, and blood vessel as it created a very clean cut through her. As she was backing up, and the spear not being a weapon designed for slashes and having a small cutting area, the wound was small, if normally deadly. To the fraxion's horror, the wound stitched itself back together behind the spear tip. Not a single drop of blood not directly pushed by the spear head escaped the wound.

The fraxion pulled the spear back to begin another thrust, creating thick metal pillars around Laura's arms and legs in an attempt to keep her stationary.

Simultaneously, Laura dropped the plate she had been enchanting and let three enchantments in her left breast experience the ambient magic currents, bringing them to life.

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The spear met a translucent green shield, which slowed the spear tip. With much effort, it carved through the shield, but, like with the metal before, the shaft of the spear was too large to fit in the gap created by its tip, especially exacerbated by the fact that the arm carrying said spear had been ripped from the fraxion's body.

The arm and the spear it contained fell limply to the ground after a beam of raw essence of severance had torn through the fraxion's enchanted armor, its armor platings, and its arm. A cut appeared on Laura's shirt where the beam originated from, revealing a couple inches of blackened flesh from the enchantment drawing too much magic for Laura's flesh to handle.

While her overall magic capacity was significantly larger than what that blast took, the flesh that made up the enchantment was protected by a significantly smaller portion of her magic capacity. It was unknown exactly how magic capacity worked, but it was known that drawing in magic through imagined spellforms protected your body from the backlash of magic use in some way, while direct use of magic through enchantments, like she had on her body, was subject to simply some property of the material the enchantment was in.

Flesh was particularly poor for enchantments. Most enchantments sold on the market could last literally forever, the ability for flesh to handle magic covering the cost of powering said enchantment indefinitely.

Creating a beam of raw essence, something that couldn't exist without magic, was not a typical enchantment.

Much less one that could slice through this fraxion's armor.

As the fraxion went to grasp its stump, Laura peeled the pillars surrounding her arms like bananas, then flew back as she waved her arm. As before, a fireball and many spikes of ice flew out in arcs toward the fraxion. It was too shocked to react in time to fully negate the attack like the previous time it was used, but it did manage to get its shield up between its vitals and the incoming fireball.

This had been accounted for by Laura.

All the spikes of ice converged just ahead of the shield. The fireball exploded, the kinetic force of the blast converting to heat and fire that burned raw magic. The fire superheated the ice, turning the ice from a dozen spikes into extremely hot steam. The explosion knocked the shield back into the fraxion and the fire licked across its armor, unable to get into the low-air-flow regions inside.

But the steam had no such qualms, the expansion from solid to gas allowed the steam to force its way into the joints and ocularium of the armor before slipping in between its natural armor plates, scorching its flesh. While not immediately deadly, it was highly damaging for how little magic it took.

While the fraxion pulled back from the steam cloud, both to regain vision of its opponent and to escape the burning cloud, Laura rotated the laser back to the fraxion. At the angle it was hitting the centaurish creature, it was able to boil the blood in its open arm wound. This did not last long, as the metal finally gave out and the whole thing crumbled. Bits of broken wire and dust hit the ground as Laura let it out of her telekinetic grasp.

She used some of her own precious pool of magic capacity to send out another beam of severance. Invisibly, it marched forward as the fraxion picked up its spear and telekinetically flung it at Laura's head from outside her vision. Unable to see very well due to the steam eruption damaging its eyes, it instead pierced through her rib cage and into her right lung as its head was cut in half.

Laura reappeared in the neutral starting spot, spear still in her chest. She ripped it out by hand and mended her wound. She wished she'd brought an extra set of clothing with all the holes being made in her current ones.

Her opponent, just another normal fraxion, unaware of what had been going on in the arena, attempted to strap Laura down with raw telekinetic force. She let it believe it had succeeded and it ran forward, stepping right on a mine.

Its head exploded into a rain of needles.

As the dozens of fraxions that hadn't looked at the video feed of the arena in the last two hours died upon her mine field, Laura conserved magic capacity, just standing there as stupid fraxions attempted to strap and decap her without paying attention to their surroundings. Eventually, another fraxion that had actually paid attention to her fight so far appeared and immediately took flight.

While using the entirety of your magic capacity was not an immediate death sentence, long ago, Laura decided she didn't want to deal with a slowly decaying body as she gradually ate up more and more of her body to continue a fight she would eventually lose.

Thanks to the armored fraxion using up more of her magic capacity than she'd wanted, she was nearing her capacity. She was annoyed to still have around 30 active land mines unused as she enacted the second to last step of her plan.

Her entire body instantly decayed, leaving only her head untouched, as she crushed the opposing fraxion into paste. The next fraxion appeared. They had been watching the arena for most of Laura's fight and was visibly surprised by the sudden change. They were cautious of her, but seemed ready to fight.

They'd never get the chance, as she impaled her own brain with a metal spike.

She died.

All her spoils disappeared, including all the land mines she'd enchanted but had gone unused.

Another human appeared.

The entire arena turned into a crater as the enchantments on Laura's body detonated, instantly killing both the new, unknown human and her fraxion opponent.

Unlike every other time someone had died in the arena, it did not instantly return to its neutral state.

It stayed a smoking crater multiple miles deep for over five minutes as it seemed even the self-proclaimed all-powerful gods could not instantly repair the damage done to the arena.

Laura's nickname on the wiki instantly changed from the Enchantress to Bombshell.