So… Let's put some of my rats inside the room there… and then we'll have some of them infiltrate her transportation.

"AND NOW! THE BATTLE YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FORRRRRR! THE TRAITOROUS WENCH! VERSUSSSSSS! THE KING OF SWORDPLAY!" The announcer now shouted at the beginning of the match.

And once our chains had been removed, in an instant, the man appeared in front of me.

"Oh my… You can't make such an obvious move at the beginning of the match,"

BAM

I lifted my foot and used the momentum of the man's dash to increase the power of my kick which made it, so you practically hear the crunching of his bones.

He was sent flying backward, and this time I actually got a good look at him.

He maybe made such a rash move because I wasn't paying attention to him before, but either way, I could tell he was handsome, and that's it.

He used a giant greatsword that rested against his shoulder, and a dim rid fire coated his body, and it looked to be regenerating him at the speed of light.

Well, not really, but the regeneration was pretty fucking quick as he was now standing up after only a few seconds of having his ribs smashed into shards of bone.

He had long white hair, a slender body, and lifeless white eyes, while the scales on his skin were actually not there.

"Oof… That's brutal," I muttered as the man charged toward me.

The scales on his skin had been ripped off by someone, leaving large scar marks streaking across his body.

ROOOOOAAAAAAAAAAR

Suddenly, the man opened his mouth and roared like a beast as he swung down with the giant greatsword, and the fire coating his body burst towards me.

The flames seemed to try and devour me like a beast with massive jaws, but now they were blazing with bloodlust.

TING

"Oh… Damn," I muttered as I blocked the greatsword with my own sword, but the rebound from the collision sent a vibration throughout my entire body.

I wasn't expecting such a hard hit due to his flimsy and frail body, and due to this, I was now stunned for a few seconds.

But, instead of winding up for another swing with his greatsword, he just lets his flowing flames completely create a pair of jaws that wrapped around my head.

"Do you know who you're fighting," I said as a floating crown of green flames with vines and blood flowing down it appeared above my head.

It bobbed up and down like a halo, and my pupils lit up with a fiery essence that reflexively caused the warrior to jump back.

Frightened, he continued to retreat as the flames about chomp off my head were sucked into the crown above me.

Actually, you couldn't even call it a crown since it was probably triple the circumference of my own head.

"Am I the only one talking? Can't you make this a bit interesting for the arrogant empress watching from above?"

"Why should I speak to a traitorous wench like you," He said, and a few of the spectators sighed as he knew this was the end of his puny life.

"WENCH! I'M NOT A FUCKING WENCH!" I shouted as I created claws of flames, and a long string of green fire trailed from my fingernails as I swung both my arms forward.

Blades of green fire tore through the air, and upon colliding with the man's sword, they exploded into rainbow flames.

It created a cloud of smoke that blurred his vision, allowing me to appear from above with my own sword coated in rainbow flames.

The crown above my head filled me with power, and despite me being unable to inspect the skill, I knew it was probably just a buff skill.

There might be more to it, but I'll only be able to figure out more once I get stronger.

SHING

And with that… he still didn't die?

He just barely managed to block my attack by sacrificing one of his arms, and in a fit of rage and pain, he swung his sword upwards, almost slicing me off.

I just barely managed to shave away with just a large laceration to the chest.

My insane healing abilities were doing work, but blood continuously began to pour out, making my head light-headed and my body feel woozy.

I stumbled around a bit, and the man took this chance to charge in towards me.

"Just kidding," I muttered in a cold voice with cold eyes as I suddenly stood up and deflected the sword before stabbing my claws made of fire into his stomach.

He coughed up mouthfuls of blood before cursing into my ear as his life slowly faded away.

"Geez, I really felt threatened there. Maybe I should stop playing around," I muttered, and the attendees took away the corpse, but they hadn't chained me yet, so I gazed around the arena.

What was left with me was a familiar man with black hair, and as he picked up the sword, he kept glancing at the empress.

I guess even people like him can be nervous…

"This is your prize for working so hard. You may use this whenever you want within the colosseum," He said and handed me the sword without much grace.

"Can I… get a smaller sword. I'm not trying to learn how to use a greatsword with my fighting style," I said, and everybody in the arena went silent.

I guess it was unheard of, of a gladiator who is basically a slave requesting something different for a prize when this is basically all they get.

But, I wasn't doing this for the prize, and even though a better longsword in exchange for the greatsword would be nice, I was doing this more to see the reaction of the empress.

What will she do…, and how will the man with black hair react?

"Get her a longsword made out of the same material. But, in exchange, she must fight another gladiator right now. I'm very intrigued by her skills," The empress announced.

"Oh my, you're going to make me blush," I chuckled, but in reality, I was hiding the suspicion that was slowly growing inside of me.

She's testing me for something… Does she know about the icy side of my powers, and is she trying to draw it out?

That is possible, but why would she want to see that… well, in these situations, you just gotta jump into the dragon's den.

"Alright! Bring the mammoth," The man with black hair said, and all of a sudden, the arena erupted with adrenaline.

Is this mammoth that special? I mean, it's not surprising that they have dinosaurs since dinosaur dungeons are a pretty common occurrence.

But, from what I remember, mammoths are just big… right?

"Though I guess the monster version might be more ferocious," I muttered, and it seemed I was eating my words as they came out since a massive twenty-meter mammoth with muscles bulging with veins stomped out from the opposite gate.

It looked as if it was about to scratch the very top of the barrier and even potentially break through.

"THE TRAITOROUS WENCH! VERSUSSSSSS! THE MAMMOTH OF DESTRUCTION!"

These guys are running out of names, aren't they? I feel like everything has destruction or death, or something edgy like that.

WOOOOOOO

But I guess the crowd liked it, so they just rolled with it.

As the mammoth was unchained, the attendees quickly dashed away, but some were met with an unfortunate end as a blast of ice burst from the mammoth's feet.

It created icicles that coated the ground of the arena, so I pushed back with a semi-domain of Quetzalcoatl's fire that burned brightly.

A coat of flames wrapped around me, shielding me from the cold wind that came with mammoth fishy breath.

"Damn boy… you got some got some hot ass breath," I muttered, and I expected the mammoth to charge in, but it just sat there, conjuring large pillars of ice that were flung at me.

As soon as I dodged them, they collided with the barrier, and it shook so much that the spectators on the other side were screaming with fear.

Everybody but the empress moved towards the top of the colosseum stands, where they fearfully cheered from there.

To be honest, I would've ended this already… but I couldn't… since this damn empress was interfering with my flames.

"You're not even trying to hide it," I said, and the empress just continued to glare at me with cold eyes.

I knew it… She clearly wants me to reveal my ice powers.

"But I won't give you what you want,"

FWOOSH

A blast of flames erupted from the ground, and I shaped them all into a myriad of weapons that rained down on the mammoth, just barely penetrating its skin.

Small wounds were left under my fiery weapons, but it would've done much more damage if the empress hadn't wrapped an invisible layer of ice over my entire body.

Geez… Fine then.

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