The crowd roared as hundreds of players cheered, placed bets and trash-talked. Both participants stood at opposite ends of the colossal battleground on their summoned mounts as the final countdown began.
Lilo inhaled deeply on her Her Void Panther which crouched low. Its body was a swirling shadow with faint purple nebulae pulsing beneath the fur.
Across from her, Revna grinned sharply with glowing red eyes.
Her warg drippinp with pitch-black smoke, snarled ferally with claws sparking across the ground as it prowled.
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
"BEGIN!"
The world snapped into motion.
Revna didn't wait. She exploded forward, her warg phasing in and out of existence in rapid, glitch-like bursts that made her movement unpredictable. It zigzagged across the battlefield like a possessed animal, leaving dark afterimages.
"Too slow," Revna hissed.
Shadow blades erupted from her hands.
She hurled them mid-charge causing six daggers swirling with death energy to sweep forward.
