NOVEL NEXT Chapter 39
“Huff… Huff…”
Misaka Mikoto bent slightly forward, her hands resting on her knees as she panted heavily.
Releasing so much electricity at once was taxing even for her.
“I lost.”
Ace admitted defeat straightforwardly; her electrical energy was depleted and she needed time to recover.
As for Esdeath, not only was she not panting, but not a single drop of sweat had appeared on her forehead.
The gap between the two was far greater than what could be explained by mere abilities and data on paper.
“Don’t worry about it. Your ability is truly remarkable.”
Esdeath did not humiliate or belittle Misaka Mikoto. Instead, she extended her hand towards the young girl: “It’s just that you lack combat experience, wasting a lot of strength unnecessarily.”
“Is that so?”
Misaka Mikoto firmly grasped Esdeath’s hand, discovering that the queen wasn’t too difficult to get along with.
Yes, Esdeath’s personality was a bit arrogant, but she was always very approachable towards her own people.
“If you wish, you can find me anytime.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
Esdeath: “Anyway, I can’t find any opponents in my own world. Having someone to spar with me, I couldn’t be happier.”
[Group member Misaka Mikoto surrenders, duel ends]
[Winner: Esdeath]
As the prompt sound echoed through the room, the two figures also disappeared from the grassland.
“What is this?”
When Misaka Mikoto came to her senses, she found herself back in reality 677, sitting in the classroom attending a lecture.
Checking the time, it had only passed one second, or even less than that.
Bai Luo: “Is the time in the Arena separate from the outside world?”
The process of the Arena function is that after applying for a duel, both parties have one minute of preparation time.
During this time, other group members can choose to enter the room.
After one minute, the duel begins, and the consciousness of the duelists will submerge into the prepared space within the Arena.
This space’s time flow is completely unrelated to the outside world.
Even if the members fight inside for an entire day, it would only be an instant outside.
Adolf K. Wiesmann: “That means, if we don’t enter the room to watch, once the one-minute countdown ends, we will directly know the result of the duel?”
Bai Luo: “It should be like that, no doubt.”
Moreover, if the audience exits the arena midway, they will immediately receive the result of the duel.
Because for the group members outside the room, the events happening in the arena pass in an instant in reality.
Qian Renxue: “Then, will the injuries sustained in the arena heal after the battle ends?”
Bai Luo: “This needs to be asked to the parties involved.”
“Legs, fine.”
In the Amegakure World, Misaka Mikoto moved her legs under the table. The frostbite from the dueling field seemed like just a dream, not even leaving a phantom pain.
“Though I don’t understand the principle, this arena function is simply amazing.”
In the Amegakure World, Esdeath, riding on her horse, raised her head, unable to suppress the smile on her face.
Back to the Chat Group
Misaka Mikoto: “There’s no feeling of frostbite at all, and the electrical energy in my body has not been consumed.”
Esdeath: “Me too. The ice power stored within me is the same as before the battle, without the slightest reduction.”
Upon seeing both reporting safety, the group members sighed in relief.
Relieved, everyone focused their attention on the battle that just took place.
Master Abe: “Miss Mikoto and Miss Esdeath are truly incredible.”
Tiske…
“Esdeath is indeed very strong, but you, the electric sister, hohoho.”
Misaka Mikoto: “I’ve been wanting to fight you for a while now. If you have any guts, come to the Arena! Kurumi Tokisaki.”
Kurumi Tokisaki just chuckled but without hesitation sent out a challenge request immediately.
[Misaka Mikoto accepts Kurumi Tokisaki’s challenge]
[The battle will begin in 1 minute. Please prepare yourselves.]
[Adolf K. Wiesmann enters the room]
[Qian Renxue enters the room]
[Tanjiro enters the room]
[Esdeath joins the room]
This time, Bai Luo did not enter the room but calmly waited for the countdown to end.
[Misaka Mikoto has been defeated by Kurumi Tokisaki, the duel is over]
[Winner: Kurumi Tokisaki]
Misaka Mikoto: “Aaah!! You, you are so despicable, using a decoy!”
“Ho ho.”
Kurumi Tiske provocatively retorted: “Not being able to distinguish between the decoy and the real one, I’m really worried about a certain electric sister’s IQ~”
Ace lost, and she lost completely, having been toyed with by Kurumi throughout the entire match.
Ace had her Railgun and Iron Sand Sword.
But against Kurumi, an assassin-type fighter, it was like trying to swat a mosquito with a cannon—terribly inefficient.
And at the end, Misaka Mikoto finally managed to kill Kurumi, only to find that she had taken down merely a decoy.
“Nice fight.”
That was the last thing Ace heard because the next moment, she got shot in the back of the head.
One-shot, direct headshot!
The scene fell into an eerie silence.
“Despicable! Too despicable!!”
Misaka Mikoto, dissatisfied, challenged Kurumi once again.
Unexpectedly, Kurumi, who had already won, actually accepted.
But this battle ended even faster than before.
As soon as they entered the room, Kurumi didn’t care about the battlefield environment and unleashed a large-scale Spatial Tremor right away.
Thus, game-over.
“Aaaah!!”
Misaka Mikoto: “What kind of technique is this?”
Starting with a finishing move right off the bat, do you even respect martial virtue? Is that how duels are fought?
Qian Renxue: “What was that just now? It felt like space itself twisted.”
Esdeath: “Ah, that was a terrifying technique.”
Even Esdeath’s expression turned unusually grave this time.
The sight, akin to destroying heaven and earth, was truly horrifying, leaving Esdeath momentarily unable to think of a good countermeasure.
“That’s a Spatial Tremor.”
Bai Luo explained the concept of Spatial Tremor to everyone: “Simply put, it’s the ability of Pokémon to trigger a Spatial Tremor.”
“This triggering can be either active or passive, such as during emotional outbursts or other special conditions.”
“However, actively triggered Spatial Tremors are generally smaller in scale compared to those passively summoned.”
Still, Kurumi isn’t the type among Pokémon who excels at Spatial Tremors.
So in the battle against Ace, the Spatial Tremor summoned by Kurumi destroyed materials within a radius of several kilometers.
Of course, this was already quite terrifying; it could be said that dropping a nuclear bomb on the ground wouldn’t be more destructive.
“Well, it’s not as exaggerated as Bai Luo makes it sound.”
Kurumi said this, but inside, she was quite proud.
Only Ace kept yelling there.
Unfortunately, facts speak louder than words, losing means losing.
At present, Misaka Mikoto indeed cannot surpass Kurumi in terms of Combat Strength.