*Clang
The clash between power sabers was heard.
Either Miriam or Indara both had surprised expressions, Indara because she didn't think that Nerd was so strong to make her hands tremble and almost drop her energy saber.
Miriam that Indara could block her energy saber without backing down, you should know that her energy saber was a self-propelling technique that will be very popular in the future, designed to greatly increase the pilot's strength for fractions of seconds, is Due to this, Miriam collided head-on with Indara, however, Indara was not pressured and withstood the force very well...
(It's stronger?!)
In the previous timeline, Indara still did not have the strength to withstand Self-Propulsion, she must know that when they competed in the Quitor, it was Miriam who eliminated Indara thanks to this technique that Arthur taught her.
And at that time although she is more vital than now, she did not have the experience and fluency that now.
Miriam couldn't understand...
But this was to be expected, since in that timeline, the Indara whom Miriam defeated was consumed by jealousy, her mind was disturbed and her movements lacked elegance, she wanted very much to make Miriam who was Miriam's 'girlfriend' suffer. Arthur at that time, therefore tortured her and exhausted her magical power, leaving her defense greatly weakened, concentrating on the attack.
In addition, Indara underestimated her opponent, since a Nerd couldn't beat her, which caused the Self-Propulsion to take her by surprise and knock her out.
The Indara of this time is different, she was not jealous and lived a very good life, although she no longer lives with Arthur, she visits him daily, enjoying the latter's food and also his 'benefits', even now the image of Arthur leaving the bathroom was not erased from his mind.
She therefore does not hate Miriam who has no contact with Arthur and what she wanted was to return to Arthur as soon as possible.
"Tch! Give up already!"
Without an option, Indara hit again, in the same way, Miriam blocked again...
*Clang.....
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(Self-propulsion? Another technique of mine?)
Arthur who followed Lynne muttered to himself, everything inside the Artificial Dungeon was his eyes, so he could see the fight between Indara and Miriam.
And just as he suspected, Miriam was hiding more tricks that the monsters weren't going to force her to pull.
"It's interesting..."
The fact that Miriam was able to use one of her techniques is possible through a stroke of luck, since both parties could have had a similar inspiration, after all, Arthur in no way thought that he was the only one with creativity in this world who she can create original techniques, everyone has potential and all-powerful people had their original ultimate techniques, so it was still acceptable for Míriam to use one of her techniques by chance.
But two, that was no longer a coincidence, something was up.
[Mouu~ that's not good, Arthur...]
Pouting, Akagi's voice sounded in his head, causing Arthur to tilt his head in confusion.
And noticing this, Akagi explained.
[When a man is interested in a woman there is a high probability of falling in love... You definitely can't do it, Arthur!]
Akagi was afraid that Arthur would fall in love with a human, since for her Arthur's heart was her goal, something he had to achieve to obtain a happy 'married' life, just imagining her passionate and romantic future, made her drool.
So she had to cut any fantasy at the root, even if she believes in Arthur she doesn't fall in love with her, still, it's better to avoid raising flags.
"Fell in love?"
Arthur smirked at this, he spent a lifetime trying to fall in love and when he thought she was, he was wrong in the end.
Love sucks and more than pain, all it brought her was irritation.
Therefore something like falling in love was not in Arthur's dictionary, no matter how much interest he had, in the end, it was still just that.
Interest.....
"No way that's going to happen..."
[I hope so...]
Akagi still wasn't convinced, but she decided to drop the matter for now, since it was more important to finish off the trio of sisters...
"Are you sure you want to fight them?"
Lynne asked worriedly, that trio of sisters is strong and their level is higher than Arthur's so they were different from the other groups.
"Sure"
She came to this Artificial Dungeon to fight, she wouldn't let the fun get to others, so she continued and thanks to the Artificial Dungeon's locator they easily found the trio...
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*Clang
*Bang
The confrontation between Miriam and Indara continued until now neither had an advantage over her opponent, this irritated Indara.
She is a military cadet trained by the army, she had a higher level than her opponent and still, she couldn't win against this Nerd.
It was very humiliating, luckily Arthur wasn't looking at her or so he thought.
(This is bad....)
Although the fight was pretty even so far, Miriam knew that she couldn't go on like this, she was getting tired very easily and his magic power was draining very fast.
(How was she to be expected of a military cadet...)
The battle experience of both of them was almost the same and the reason why Miriam kept persisting was due to the techniques that Arthur taught her, otherwise with her fighting instincts she would be no match for this military cadet.
"I've had enough of you! I'll finish you off with this!"
"...!!"
Removing another saber from her suit, Indara took her stance, Miriam sweating coldly when she saw her...
She didn't hesitate for a second and she ran, question marks appeared in Indara's mind.
He couldn't understand how the nerd who had bravely fought head-on suddenly became so cowardly, it was as if he was running away from his ability, but there was no way that was true, he rarely uses his innate ability and very few people know what it is. what is it?
"Ah! Shit! Don't run!"
As she was about to get out of the attack range, Indara didn't linger any longer and both energy sabers lit up.
"[Tomb!]"
With both power sabers stuck into the ground, the space in front of Indara darkened and beneath the ground, a huge coffin illusion opened…
"...!!"
Miriam used all of her magical power in her thrusters, trying to escape the darkness, but seeing her getting closer to her her heart sank, she knew that if the darkness caught her she was screwed.
Indara's innate ability was very strong, almost to the point that there was no way to escape if the Coffin caught you, it was a seal and at the same time a prison where all your power is filtered, further strengthening the Coffin and as Miriam remembers, her ability innate can mummify...
It was too horrible.
That's why she ran away when she saw Indara's posture...
(Shit! Shit!)
Even using her maximum speed the darkness was faster, Miriam was desperate.
(Aghh! You forced me! That's how it is, I don't care anymore!)
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<<0.01>>
A magic circle appeared on the bottom of her feet and then disappeared...
"Hey?!"
Indara widened her eyes...
(Disappeared?! Impossible!)
Indara couldn't believe it, the darkness almost caught that Nerd and she just disappeared, there was no logic in this.
"..!?"
And it was then that she had a very bad feeling she turned around in an instant and what she saw left her in shock.
*Shiiii
Miriam appeared behind her and her lightsaber stabbed into her back, splitting her energy shield like tofu...
"I win...."
These were the last words that Indara heard before her body decomposed into light particles and she left the Artificial Dungeon.
"Haa....haa...."
Breathing hard, Miriam's legs trembled, just as the burden of her body gave way before...
"Ugh! It hurts"
Tears pooled in the corners of Miriam's eyes, she looked down at her legs and several veins were still visible, as if they had been exposed to extreme stress.
But that was to be expected, <
In that timeline, she made it through to the third step, which was a painstaking accomplishment.
Right now she barely and could use the first step only once, rendering her legs useless.
But it was necessary since Indara's innate ability is very scary.
"Fortunately... there was no darkness on her back..."
In the future, Indara's innate ability evolves and creates 360-degree darkness, making it impossible to hit her.
"Hey?"
Absorbed by her victory, a laser beam suddenly aimed at her body, Miriam froze at this, swallowed in panic, raised her head and a white light attacked her...
"Bye~..."
*Bam
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"I knew this would happen..."
Shaking her head, Libe blew the muzzle of the cannon at her that was still smoking.
In front of her, a crater formed, and there was no trace of Miriam, it was obvious that she had been eliminated.
Likewise, Libe was also a bit disappointed, she knew that Míriam would win against Indara, all FMC creates miracles against villains, this was common sense in light novels, that's why she stayed hidden for the whole time waiting for the opportunity to sneak attack Miriam.
She thought that it wouldn't be easy to catch her and set other traps, but it wasn't necessary, Miriam couldn't move so her plasma cannon was enough.
Although she prevented her FMC from stealing any more of her luck, she also raised Miriam's danger level to another level.
"As expected of a Returner, she's pretty good..."
The battle skills are very good and those techniques she used that she had never seen before, were surely from the future.
Libe did not doubt this fact for a second.
Now what he had to do was avoid stepping on his death flags and accumulate more points.
Thankfully Arthur didn't see this or so he thought, as on the other side of the Artificial Dungeon, Arthur's smile widened…