"… Fuck you."
Raika cursed as the same realization dawned on her. She was trying to compete with a totally unfair entity.
An entity that now only needed to grind levels to take over the continent of Iskaris.
In the next moment, Raika's aura swelled. Her troubled expression disappeared as if it never existed, and her muscles tensed as if she were winding up the entire world inside her body. Her grin split wide, looking feral, and her voice rang over the battlefield.
"This just means I need to kill even more!"
With a thunderous leap, she hurled herself into the fray with fists clenched and eyes blazing full of wild competitiveness.
Quinlan laughed under his breath, half admiring, half exasperated.
Ignis, wiping ash and blood from his cheek as the last of his firestorm evaporated into heat waves, gave him a sideways glance.