"I am?"
Ottar's response came back with a rather odd feeling in the air, it was like he was straining… Finn, and Hedin both understood what that meant. And now that they were seeing her up close and personal, they knew for a fact that she wasn't level 7, not yet. Even so, Alise was able to push Ottar into an all out one on one fight. One so intense, Finn and the others would not be able to interfere with.
"Let's end this war game quickly. I want uncle's headpats!" Meda declared, with an eager smile.
The announcement of such determination… Quickly began turning the area into a disorganized mess of combat. One person in particular, Legi, had her target.
"You'd best prepare yourself, Hogni. I won't forgive you for your crimes."
Hogni had barely managed to raise his sword to block the sudden attack. "Huh? What crime does thowest believe I have committed!?"
"You know what you did, murderer!"
Legi versus Hogni became a hell of a fight on its own, Legi was furious, Hogni was oblivious. Despite their current predicaments they both continued fighting.
Donathan, had an interesting choice of targets, he and Iska Bra, stood together against the three veterans of the Loki familia; Bara, Dain, and Noir.
"So, a young man like yourself, what is it you fight for, right now, in this moment?" Noir asked, speaking directly to Donathan, human to human.
"That should be obvious…" Donathan sighed, half annoyed, and half angry.
"What do you fight for Iska?" Bara asked, wondering if she'd get a similar response.
"If you don't know, Bara, then you are incredibly stupid. Undeserving of the veteran title." Iska replied with a cold, deadly stare… one so cold it looked as if she felt she'd been talking to a corpse.
"Well this isn't going to get us anywhere, it's a shame we have to fight like this after dealing with the Evilus problem together." Dain chuckled. "But at least it won't be so bad."
"No, you seem to misunderstand some things…" Donathan shook his head and closed his eyes, completely relaxing in the process. "Iska and I are fighting for one reason. But it should be known that I do not believe the lies that you helped all that much with Evilus. In fact it's quite the opposite."
"However, explaining that would take far too long. You can learn about it another time, after your familia collapses." Iska added, cracking her knuckles, the blood of her Amazoness heritage began rushing to the surface. The 2 versus 3 melee began.
Riveria's chant was interrupted by a rather quick Ryuu, it was a single pommel hit to the gut, causing a destabilization of Riveria's magic, and then a small explosion, one that Ryuu rode as if walking amid the explosive wind. Riveria fell to the ground, completely defeated.
Finn had tried to interfere however, there was a rather insistent pallum blocking his path forward. Her name, Lyra, and the failure she caused Finn to experience, was enough to send him into a completely defeated mindset.
"I failed… I lied, and I deceived."
"Yes, you did."
"I've killed."
"Yes, you have."
"I don't deserve to be a hero for our people."
"No, you don't."
"In fact I'm one of the worst villains born from our people. I've dishonored Fianna."
"You're right."
Now Finn was far too terrified, the fighting had yet to stop, and his trump cards were all used up before he even knew what was happening. It was truly over for Finn, and he knew it.
"Even so, I will not give up like this, defeat me, and become the hero our people need."
"I don't take orders from you, but if you're going to try some stupid last stand, you might as well go all out."
A renewed battle began between Finn, and Lyra. There was no clear advantage on either side, both were level 6, and both also primarily supported others from the rear. This was the closest fight of the war game, and it wouldn't be ending any time soon. Finn would thrust his spear, Lyra would counter with a flanking maneuver and a slice from her curved blades that would follow her body's natural rhythm. In return, Finn would create distance while holding his spears with a variable length, countering the fluid movement of his opponent. Neither held back in the slightest. Finn banking on his many more years of experience, Lyra trusting in her training and abilities she'd learned from the childhood friend who became a hero.
With Riveria down for the count in a major way, as well as the rest of the Freya familia healers, there was no longer any way for them to heal their injuries in any way… outside of items anyway, of which they had little to none.
Furthermore, every single one of the non-senior members of both familias had long since been defeated. With many still locked in combat, there were only 6 people free to interfere in other fights, Allen, Hedin, and the four Gulliver brothers.
"Damn it! How the hell is this happening?" Allen cursed.
He now stood before a rather upset woman, with black hair, and light green eyes, her name, Maryuu.
"Are you actually asking me? Or are you just upset that you're losing so terribly badly?"
"And what do you want?"
"I'm going to fight you 1 on 1. Your ineptitude during the years prior to Evilus' attack on Orario, directly contributed to their ability to do as much damage as they did. In other words, you've caused others to suffer, I will punish you properly for this."
"A woman wants to fight me in single combat?"
"It wouldn't be the first time you lose to a woman, now would it?"
Allen charged, but his spear was deflected off course by a powerful strike of Maryuu's mace.
"Now, you're eager aren't you? Don't worry, punishment is just beginning. Plenty more bonks like that are coming."
Allen had just been humiliated again. And now, he decided to attempt a calmer attitude towards the fight at hand. It was a bit closer of a match now that he did this, but it was still not going to be an easy fight.