Mio was pushed to the very edge of the arena with her boots skidding across stone as an invisible slash crossed the air around her.
It took the full force of her mana to bear the brunt of that strike with her blade vibrating in her grip and her arms screaming from the impact.
The wide ground of the stadium trembled beneath them and a massive slash carved straight through the center of the arena floor, carving a trench deep enough to swallow a person.
The stone didn't split apart completely, but the structural damage was terrifying with cracks spiderwebbed outward from the cut like lightning frozen in rock.
The Mana suppressing band Itsuki had given Kaguya sparked violently on her arm making blue arcs of electricity danced across the metal before the clasps gave out with a metallic snap.
The bands detached and clattered to the ground smoking up completely and Kaguya laughed nervously, looking toward Itsuki.
