The Way of the Future: Age of Machines(Completed)

The Showdown 3/3

The artificial storm generated by Liz' spell completely covered the entire arena, Artemis and Caitlyn had to resort to other means of vision through specially designed cameras and their built-in improved eye enhancers.

The storm was furious and defied all their understandings of weather; the storm was raging as strong as a hurricane with winds measured to be 100kph per hour. Shialynn has completely vanished from all sensors except for infrared; her heat signature could be seen running behind Valentine who has thus far has not been alerted. Grey was nowhere to be seen.

The abominable transformation of Rudilf into a hideous dark creature was also an unforeseen outcome in the calculations of the Machines; his transformation was also not noted by any of the minds extracted and thus proved the long-standing theory that magic can be used to alter one's appearance and bioform.

"Amazing" Caitlyn watched intently using the aforementioned cameras and her infrared capabilities. Artemis was also watching but was more concerned with losing Valentine.

Ever since her successful brainwashing, Valentine has proven to be a valuable asset in terms of human interactions, magical research, and experimentation. If they were to lose her now, regardless of who they'll probably meet in the future that can replace her, the time wasted by then would be damaging for their plans.

Artemis made a decision; if Valentine were near the point of death, he'd intervene. Initially, the two only wanted to test the capabilities of the last remaining adventurer group after acting rather rash on the earlier ones.

But thanks to their memory extraction, the Machine Empire gained more vital information than what was initially presumed to be collected from them.

Now, Artemis and Caitlyn looked down below as the scene unfolded before them.

Valentine was at her peak strength; she's pushed her reserved mana and magic from the surroundings to their limit; if she exerts beyond that limit, she will die.

The dark form Rudolf suddenly came gliding down with his wings spread and purple eyes exposed as he opened his now inhuman eyes. Valentine raised her fists and punched the air in front of her, creating a shockwave that blew him off course. Rudolf slammed a few meters to the right of Valentine as another magic arrow is fired by Liz.

Valentine's vision has become poor; her eyes were now clouded as the storm raged on. A thick along with other gas elements began to inhibit her enhanced senses that not even her magic can see through.

Another attack from Liz came, this time it was a barrage of magic arrows carried by a whirlwind. The whirlwind of arrows slammed her before she could react, her ability to detect incoming attacks has been completely side-tracked a plethora of environmental factors.

Nevertheless, she was still going strong. With a powerful side punch using her right fist, she disintegrated the whirlwind in a spectacle of flying magic arrows and debris from the arena itself. The punch produced another shockwave which caused the raindrops to levitate before resuming their course.

In the confusion, Shialynn lunged at Valentine from behind, stabbing her right shoulder with one of her daggers before disappearing yet again. Valentine looked aimlessly in the darkness of the storm as the looming threat of Shialynn posed her a significant disadvantage.

As she was distracted, Rudolf came from the sides and engaged her in melee, Rudolf used his somehow enhanced fists which were almost in equivalence with Valentine's magic, the two traded jabs, and blows before finally.