Shaula remains floating in the air while hearing the shouts of laughter coming from the marchers and the guards as they see her impaled body at the edge of the diamond spear. The person who is holding the spear is Quinn Tritol.

He would laugh along with them if he could, but he doesn't like this outcome one bit. At one point, this unknown woman had moved so fast that he almost lost sight of her.

How was this woman able to move like this? He wonders to himself. Fuck… I'm fairly certain I stabbed her through her heart, but she's still alive. She's quite stubborn…

The woman remains alive, her eyes darting around back and forth. He stares at her through his mask. She doesn't look at him, she only looks at the stab wound that went directly through her heart. Her arms hang limp to her sides. He still can't see any details in her face through the light spell that she's using.

All he can see is the helmet of fire on her hair and the mask of light covering her eyes, forehead, nose and cheeks.

Is this another noble trying to get in the way of Brother's plans? He told me he hadn’t launched or retaliated to any cold wars since he assumed control of the barony! Could this be someone angry against Father? But, how could…

Quinn tries to reason his way through figuring out which faction this woman is working for. Yet, none of his guesses seems to define this woman; there is always some discrepancy. He doesn’t even know why she made a spectacle of herself. He looks at her dress for any clues to her noble family. Her shoes…

Her shoes are on fire.

Quinn looks at her face for a moment and notices something unsettling. She's smiling widely.

All of a sudden, her right hand grabs the spear shaft. Her bright blue hand melts and shatters his spear pole like it was nothing, separating the spear into two pieces: the one that Quinn is holding and the one that remains impaled in the woman’s chest.

That's impossible, she's stabbed through her heart!! How the fuck could she move, use her body, do fucking anything after that? Should the pain have crippled her too?

Shaula lands softly, her feet melting the ground into a puddle below her. She also gracefully presses down on the broken edge of the diamond spear still in her chest, pushing it out through her back. This diamond spear tip flies towards a city guard who remained to help the Baron deal with this woman.

He uses a shield to block it, but is knocked back by the force that Shaula had used to remove it from her heart. He falls to one knee but is not injured. Quinn watches the sight carefully, his heart fluttering at the sight of her uncommon, heroic-level strength.

She might even be stronger than me…

As soon as the remaining spear half leaves her chest cavity, she feels her heart, her arteries, and the bit of her lung that was torn apart, repair and regenerate themselves. Upon receiving the feeling of her insides knitting themselves back together, she feels tremendous ecstasy. She has escaped death, rather it wasn't even close to catching her to begin with!

Even a fucking strike to the heart… Even that has no long term consequences on me… Holy fuck, Ajax is going to shit himself when he hears about this…

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Quinn and the guards around her stare in shock and fear at her sudden display of strength and absolutely inhuman vitality.

Only nobles capable of heart reconstruction tier healing magic can shrug off wounds to their hearts. The only person of this generation publically capable of this feat is the pope of the church of Osva.

Shaula doesn't bother to consider what the people around her are doing anymore, she has a singular task ahead of her. All she has to do is watch out for the crystal mage. She doesn't know how but he was able to stab her in the middle of her superhuman vault toward the statue. She stares at him for a moment.

Keeping her eye on him, she starts moving towards the diamond statue. Luckily for her, he appears cautious to directly engage in combat with her as well.

The crystal mage doesn't back down though. He manifests a second crystal spear out of thin air. Meanwhile, Shaula starts climbing the surface of his diamond statue as if she were a spider. Every spot on the statue that she touches starts burning brightly. She's even able to dig her hands into the diamond to get footholds since her hands can directly melt it.

Quinn sees his creation being defaced before his eyes. He clenches his jaw in anger. Shaula keeps an eye on the masked man as she starts by first trying to separate Hideza's head from her body. She grabs the statue’s neck and Quinn's spear comes flying at her head. Shaula dodges it and laughs.

"What the fuck was that? I thought you could move a lot faster… or did you just catch me by surprise with your spear?"

"..." The crystal mage doesn't answer her provocation, instead attempting to impale her again and again.

She only keeps dodging and climbs to the opposite side of the statue. The only quick way he'll get to her is through the statue and he's not prepared to destroy it.

Though she certainly is.

With a wide smile, she grabs the back of Hideza's neck and pushes it off her head as if she was just a glass sculpture. Quinn fumes while being unable to catch her.

However, though he is the biggest threat, there are some inconveniences around. One person is trying to spray that pain potion on her. Of course, it fails to have any effect. Others try to throw hatchets at her as well as arrows. She’s wary about the hatchets but doesn’t need to face them. The moment they enter her perception range, she dodges them.

She can feel the air pressure change at the region they’re coming from. It was something she hasn’t tested that often but in this situation, it plays a wonderful part to keep her from getting unnecessary cuts. Though, she doesn’t dodge the arrows anywhere near as easily.

In order to ensure they have no effect on her head, she wraps her entire head and neck in a superb heat. This has the chance of burning her dress apart but she doesn’t care about that right now.

Arrows that reach her head melt and burn upon contact within a foot of her skull and neck. Quinn meanwhile desperately tries to follow her around the statue. He keeps trying to impale her to no avail. He feels only fear and desperation as he sees his statue fall apart before his eyes.

Meanwhile, Shaula realizes that her attempts to protect her dress are useless at this point. So, she decides to just let it all go. Her dress is completely incinerated as her naked body is engulfed in heat which produces a bright white light. The guards around her start to run. Quinn meanwhile backs away at the sight of her.

Seeing her perfect opportunity she completes her mission, deciding that she’s spent enough time. She completely burns and melts what’s remaining of Quinn’s statue.

At this moment, the guards and the marchers around her, who seem to be the most trapped, start backing away in panic. This causes a small stampede as guards and marchers fall over themselves in an attempt to escape. Though Shaula could care less about any of that.

"No!!!"

She hears a shout of rage and panic behind her. Quinn wishes to approach her to kill her but he cannot. In a last ditch effort, he quickly tries to coalesce a magic spell capable of freezing her. However, Shaula cannot feel anything but overwhelming joy. She was able to destroy this statue and got to prove that even her heart can be destroyed without consequences.

Now, all that remains to do is flee the area as if she were just a natural disaster.

She can’t wait to tell Ajax about all this.