Their heavy nasal breathing sounded painfully harsh to these Flexible Assassins with their exceptional hearing.
Yet no one noticed it. Everyone was absorbed in the battle in the arena. Gradually, the heavy, panting breaths faded away. Silence-an utterly uncanny silence-began to descend over the arena.
Only horror remained in the spectators' eyes. None of them could believe the scene unfolding before them.
The undefeated Fayers was being completely suppressed by this woman!
Yes, completely suppressed!
Amid the vine shadows filling the air, Fayers teetered on the brink! Every collision between vine and shield produced an extremely muffled thud! The terrifying force inevitably brought heavy hammers to mind. Wherever vine met shield, the tremendous clash of forces sent ripples through the surrounding air, making their hearts tremble and their minds reel.
Fayers, as mighty as a god in their eyes, had actually been forced entirely onto the defensive, without the slightest ability to strike back.
All greed vanished without a trace before this suffocating display of might.
"Wh-who is this woman...?"
His only answer was a dead silence following the thunderous, muffled impacts.
Chen Mu watched the two combatants with interest. He had to admit that the Shield-Blade Style had its own distinctive way of wielding shields. The mere fact that Fayers had lasted this long against Zara was enough to make him see the man in a new light. Zara's attacks were elusive, uncanny, and unpredictable, but Fayers's defense was watertight.
Fayers pushed the Waterdrop Shield to its limits, enveloping his entire body in shield shadows. Under the Starvine's ferocious assault, that solid wall of shadows seemed about to crumble with every blow, yet somehow it held.
Fayers's shoulders and elbows were extraordinarily flexible, allowing him to perform many unexpected movements, and his grasp of the shield's center of gravity