Leia braced for the wind pressure, but it never came. It was as though the wind made way for Nosphaleen.
A trident wrapped in distorted gravity lines descended, and Leia immediately countered with a fist.
[Sinuous Grace].
BOOM.
Leia's fist missed, the trident slamming against her chest. She cratered to the ground like a falling meteor, but she didn't even have the chance to brace herself or make an attempt to stand.
[Petalfall Mirage].
Blossoms fell from the skies in a continuous cascade, splitting and multiplying as they danced on air currents.
[Gilded Fog].
Dozens of Nosphaleens appeared in the air, their wings flapping in unison. In a flashing instant, they surrounded Leia, one swinging a trident to send the latter flying toward yet another clone.
Leia suffered a continuous round of savage beatings before she even recovered from her disorientation.
Yet even that didn't last long.
[Fleeting Caress].
The pain multiplied and pleasure weaved into it. Leia had only just been about to slip out of the bombardment of continuous attacks, only for her to hesitate.
Did she want to continue to experience this feeling? Did she want to stay here?
Somehow, the feeling to chase after this grueling pain was even more oppressive than before, latching onto her soul and nearly shredding the Will of her Emperor Lion Armor to pieces.
Leia roared to snap out of it, but not before a pair of Nosphaleens appeared right atop her, swinging their tridents with enough force to bend their bodies into whips.
In her lifetime, Leia couldn't remember ever suffering such a blow.
Blood flew from her mouth, the earth beneath her shattering even before her back slammed into it. Her organs felt like they rearranged themselves, her heart stopping for the briefest of instances before her collapse into the hard ground started it back up again.
She gasped out a mist of blood, her eyes opening wide. However, that instant seemed to wake her up entirely.
Nosphaleen followed up with her attack, but this time the clank of armor resounded.
An armor clad her body and boosted her Emperor Lion Armor much like Xinee's had.
Leia vanished out of the line of Nosphaleen's next strike, the tsunami of earth that formed from it leaving the skies darkened for miles.
Huffing out a breath, Leia looked through the fog of soil with darting pupils. Everything felt disorienting, like up was down and down was up. She had a lot of experience despite so many of her memories being sealed, but she was sure that she had never fought something with so much control over reality itself.
If Nosphaleen wasn't contracted, just how powerful would she be?
BANG! BANG!
Leia's pupils constricted and her eyes flashed. Her irises rotated in place and she began to see the world not in a normal span of colors, but instead in Laws and Runes.
She didn't think that this gathering of all things would push her to use her Race's Unique Gene, but now there wasn't exactly much of a choice, was there?
It was either she did this... or she would be played to death.
A trident suddenly appeared by the side of her head and Leia ducked forward, slamming out a palm toward the ground and flipping away.
The instant she landed on her feet, she pivoted to meet Nosphaleen's attack head-on.
The sound of fist and metal clanged across the air, ripples in the wind devastating the surroundings.
Leia reached her free hand to her back, pulling out a staff she spun against her palm. One end of it held a perfect circle parallel with the shaft, rings of gold latched into it and jingling about with every movement.
"I don't know what monstrosity you're supposed to be, but I know you can't keep this on for long. You don't have the size of a beast, so how could you possibly have the reserves of one?"

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