<h4>Chapter 720</h4>


    <h4>720: Siby Battle Ends</h4>


    （Master. Let''s go）


    『Yeah!』


    Fran readied my de, d in the power of the chaos killer, and rushed towards Siby.


    「Haaaaah!」


    「Come on!」


    She feinted a blow to the legs and then changed mid-trajectory, aiming at Siby''s head like a kendo master shing at the face mask.


    The speed and sharpness of the blows were the same as before. But the sword she was holding waspletely different.


    I was radiating a vicious power drawn from the blessing.


    My de dives straight into Siby''s head and… misses.


    「Tchi!」


    Siby twisted herself around in a desperate attempt to avoid me. This was the same person who never even tried to take any significant evasive action until now.


    As a result, my sword de mmed right into Siby''s left shoulder.


    A little while ago, it would have caused a shallow cut and that would have been the end of it.


    But that was not the case this time.


    「Impossible!」


    「Yes!」


    『Yeah!』


    Siby''s left arm flew through the air and blood spurted from the wound. It is the most damage we''ve dealt the entire match.


    The lost arm slowly began to regenerate from the shoulder. However, unlike before, the speed of regeneration clearly slowed down.


    「What the…… That sword?!」


    『Keep up the pressure!』


    「Nn! Tah!」


    「Damn!」


    For the first time since the match began, Siby was on the run. Her movements were truly animalistic, as she abandoned her offense and concentrated on evasion.


    The attacks that we thought would hit were avoided by a hair''s length. Siby didn''t seem to feel any pain, since her movements did not show any sign of slowing down even as the damage umted.


    Even so, it was impossible to avoid all the attacks from Fran and me, who were going at full power.


    「Shhh!」


    「Wha? Teleportation!」


    I used the teleportation I had been holding back up to this point, and piled up damage by taking advantage of Siby''s surprise. The number of non-regenerating wounds were increasing, even if we could not deal a one-hit-kill.


    『How about this one!』


    「Even the magic is strange……!」


    I unleash a lightning spell, with the image of imbuing the blessing of the Chaos Goddess into it. It doesn''t do much damage, but the spell wasn''tpletely nullified either.


    Siby''s movements were momentarily blocked, and Fran''s sh cut right through her.


    Can we push through like this? Just after that thought passed through my head, Fran took a big leap backwards.


    「Urrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!」


    Siby''s whole body is overflowing with red magic power. No, not just that. Blood was gushing out alongside with that magic power.


    The mixture of red blood and red magic power emitted an intense red glow.


    The sight of the red liquid dancing around Siby was somewhat enchanting. However, despite its beauty, I felt a sense of danger like no other.


    The blood was not the only strange thing, Siby''s own appearance had transformed. All the muscles in her body have grown a sizerger, and her teeth and nails have visibly lengthened into fangs and ws. Her eyes have also changed to resemble those of a reptile.


    It was simr to the half-dragonkin I''d seen before. Could it be that she was not a pure blooded human?


    Whatever the case, it looks bad.


    「Devour her!」


    Siby shouted, and the writhing blood swirled like a creature and attacked Fran. It was moving like an amoeba with a mind of its own.


    We absolutely cannot let that touch us.


    『Fran! Don''t let it hit you!』


    「Nn!」


    After dodging it, Siby''s blood hit the arena causing that area to be melted away as if it had been eaten by a slime.


    Does Siby''s blood really have such a property?


    Fran shed away at the blood, which was now extended like a whip chasing after her. As expected, it wasn''t enough to melt me, since I was d in the divine attribute.


    However, my durability was considerably reduced. We would be in trouble if we continued to take these attacks.


    I thought we had pulled off a victory, but I didn''t know that she had a trick like this up her sleeve! She''s good!


    『Fran, let''s decide it immediately. Our resources are looking bad if we have to deal with these unknown attacks.』


    （Got it.）


    Fran nodded and lifted me up in the air. I used Dimension Shift and Physical Nullification to buy Fran time to prepare.


    Then Siby''s attacks stopped immediately. It wasn''t that she gave up, since she gathered the blood she had been manipting and set it up around herself like a barrier.


    She must have sensed that Fran was about to finish the match, and nned to block it and dish out a counter attack.


    「……」


    「……」


    Both Fran and Siby looked at each other without a word. The audience watched them with bated breath. They must have understood from the tension between the two that the end was approaching.


    In the strange silence, Fran and I moved. She lightly crouched down to make it look like she is going to rush in, but this was bait.


    （Master!）


    『I''m on it!』


    I used illusion magic. The effect was to remotely generate a faint sound and nothing else.


    It''s a poor feint that can hardly be called a technique, and is not even close to Diaz''s abilities.


    But it''s the first time I''ve shown illusion magic in this match, so Siby reacted slightly to it. Seizing the opportunity, we teleported.


    We take Siby''s rear, but she was looking right back at us. She must''ve read us, since she wasn''t panicking at the slight dy caused by the illusion magic.


    I saw the red blood around us, controlled by Siby, rushing toward Fran.


    But this was just another feint.


    「ck Lightning Roll!」


    「!」


    Though we first teleported behind Siby, the actual n was to move above her head with ck Lightning Roll. This time, we seeded inpletely dying Siby''s reaction.


    Still, Siby tried to thicken her defense by concentrating her blood above her head, but we were faster.


    「Taaaaah!」


    『Doryaaaah!』


    This time, Fran''s Heavenly Judgment sliced Siby''s body cleanly in two. The head was just barely avoided, but my de entered the left shoulder, cut through the heart, and passed down through the groin.


    「Gah……」


    Siby lost control of her blood, falling to the arena with a ssh. A split secondter, Siby fell to the ground in a pool of her blood.


    Victory? But neither Fran nor I dropped ourbat stance. The cradle of time did not activate. In other words, Siby was still alive, even in that condition.


    「Ah…… Gah……」


    I could see that Siby was trying to do something. Her left arm, which should have been separated from her head, lifted. It seemed like she was using her blood as a catalyst to control it.


    『Fran!』


    「Nn!」


    Fran and I aimed at her to release a spell.


    In the meantime, Siby''s left palm gathered magic power…


    「Tch!」


    But Siby suddenly stopped moving. Her appearance returned to that of a normal human being, and she muttered in frustration.


    「I''ve… lost……」


    Immediately after, the cradle of time activated and Siby''s body was enveloped in light.