"Now it's Kiana time."
After dodging Gungnir, the entire arena entered a state of temporal slowdown. Kiana, in her Herrscher of Flamescion form, transformed the greatsword in her hand into a spear and charged toward Odin like a shooting star.
Under the effects of the temporal slowdown, even though Odin noticed Kiana coming for him and wanted to evade, his body moved at an incredibly sluggish pace—slower than a turtle!
"This ends here! Die!!"
Kiana rushed before Odin and decisively thrust the spear in her hand toward his body...
But then, something unexpected happened.
"What?"
The sound of hooves rang out. Odin's mount... a magnificent white steed with eight legs, Sleipnir, was somehow unaffected by the temporal slowdown and charged straight at Kiana.
Because of Sleipnir, Kiana had no choice but to divert part of her attention toward it. Light flashed in her sapphire eyes. As she instantly constructed a barrier around herself, several Lances of Subspace appeared out of thin air and shot toward the divine horse.
However, when the Lances of Subspace struck Sleipnir, they did not pierce and kill it. Instead, they passed straight through its figure without encountering any resistance.
No, to be precise... they had only hit its afterimage. The real Sleipnir had already reached Odin!
Realizing that the divine horse was not trying to ram her, but to save its master, Odin, Kiana decisively released the spear in her hand and hurled it at Odin.
Yet she was still a step too late. By the time the flaming spear formed from her greatsword neared Odin, the eight-legged steed had already carried Odin away, causing Kiana's flaming spear to miss.
At that moment, the temporal slowdown field vanished. The spear Kiana had thrown turned into motes of light and returned behind her.
"What exactly... is