Before she could react, he was already infront of her, he moved faster than sound but did not even produce any sonic booms. He was firmly beyond the speed of sound. Lize raised her claymore to block.

She could barely react to his movements. This confused her as she was able to dodge attacks much faster than him before. (What she did not know was that even researchers still did understand why that was case.

People could react to attacks moving at tremendous speeds but had a harder time reacting to living beings moving slower than those attacks.

One theory suggest that it because there's more will and intent in peoples souls than attacks or object without souls, everything is know to posses will but object with essence are said to have more will than others and souls have even more will than that.

Peoples will and Intent are believed to interfere with perception thus reducing your ability to react to them. The answer is said to lie in souls.

That is why attack from awakeners are more dangerous than science based weapons even if they are both as destructive, because of will and Inten. It is also believed that is why soul based attacks are much harder to dodge.)

The collision sent her flying for hundreds of metres. His attack had more momentum than before. Since he turned smaller he bacame denser as well. She could feel her arms shaking from the collision.

She stopped and he was already there but she did not block this time, she went straight for his neck. He panicked and jumped back to dodge. You crazy, he screamed. She just laughed like a maniac.

Come, come you maggot this is this ladys first dance, don't disappoint me. They all rushed towards her while Black circled around her. She ran straight towards them. The first to meet her was the whip lady.

Her whips became shorter and harder like swords. She swung them towards her and she met them with her sword. The ladys six arms buckled, she was pushed pack by a dozen metres and Bull swung his giant hammer at her.

She did not dare block the giants attack so she slipped below it, the hammer caused shockwaves which pushed Wolf who was behind her. She ran past Bull when dozens of sound waves came at her from the front.

Siren was swinging her arm around like a conductor. She dodged and blocked some but most were able to land on her. Her skin bust open sending her blood flying yet she did not stop.

She rushed into the crowd, they tried to attack her but none of them were close enough to be strong enough to really hurt her. With each swing she drew blood. Blood and limbs were flying in the air.

They noticed that with each swing, she became more precise, she had more control of her strength, she made less unnecessary movements and the flames around her sword became more condensed.

The sword was starting to look less like a flaming sword but more like a red saber. She's using us as practice, said Siren. More and more of their attacks started missing her. This truly infuriated Wolf.

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He howled to the sky and jumped towards her. She deflected his attack while moving backwards. The whip lady swung her arms like a whirlwind, her whips stretched and covered everything within 30 metres of Lize like a net.

Fortunately for her teammates they had retreated before she could attack. Lize raised her claymore above her head. A 30 metre long blade made of flames appeared above her.

This was the first time she has used an actual battle technique. She swung down her claymore and then it replica above her followed suit. It broke the whip net and continued towards the lady.

She opened her mouth and screamed, the sound wave from her scream collided with the flame sword causing an explosion in the air. The shockwave ripped the ground apart. The sword was weakened but it continued towards her.

Before it could land, a giant hammer collided with it causing an explosion that ripped everything in a 100metre diameter around it. She kept watch on the four of them but suddenly felt danger behind her.

She turned around and a glowing white fist was coming straight for her face. She blocked with her sword and was sent flying backwards for a few metres. Everybody was quiet.

The person who had attacked was Lucy. Lucy then jumped backwards and touched a guy with a burning sword wound in his chest. His wound started closing up and two seconds later the guy was fine.

Lize looked around and noticed that almost everyone she had put down was back up. She turned and looked at Lucy and asked with a smile, who are you? Lucy didn't answer.

Lize didn't mind, afterall they were enemies. You have hidden yourself well Lucy, said Wolf. Lucy just turned and looked at him without saying anything. Her friends looked at her.

Now there five people who could threaten her yet she still looked excited. Lucy jumped towards her, her body glowing white as if covered by light innate gift SoftLight. She was fast, second only to wolf and in strength she was only below Bull. I see, she's using her healing abilities to boost her cells, she's quite daring, I like it.

However if we talking overall she might even be stronger than them. The thing though is she was still in the early stages like Lize. This got Lize really excited while wolf was eyeing Lucy like he want to eat her.

Lucy sent a fist towards Lize but she swung her sword at her. Flames were nolonger on her body but her skin had turned red as if she was burning from the inside and infact was, she had sealed those flames inside her.

This made her stronger and faster but it was really hard to maintain. Fist and sword clashed hundreds of times in a second. At first Lize thought she wasn't hurting her but soon realised she was but she was healing faster than she can get hurt.

The constant collision lasted for a few seconds before the others interfered. They have been fighting nonstop for hours. Lize would sometimes wound them, especially Bull who was slower than the others.

But with his size and thick skin, those wounds did not mean much to him and it did not matter because Lucy would just heal them. It was getting frustrating for her but also exciting, she just kept improving during the fight much to the fear of Siren.

At around 4am the next day everybody was panting, wounds covered Lize entire body. Even her facial features were hard to make out. The whip lady had gashed her face leaving a terrifying scar.

She had broken bones all over her body. They were not as wounded as her, mostly because of Lucy but also because fighting the five of them at once was not easy for her. When they saw her condition they released a sigh of relief.

They were out of essence and could nolonger use their innate gifts, innate gifts afterall use a lot of essence. You guys are strong, if you had proper techniques or she was already mid stage you could've won. With her insane essence regeneration and healing ability, I would not have beaten you.

They looked at her like she was crazy, can't she see her body, she's almost dying but Lucys face turned ashen. Green flames covered Lize body. Innate gift Life flames.