360 Painless Death

Date- 27 Mar 2321

Time- 17:58

Location- Sky Blossom City, Damned Raining Arena. 

[ 24 hostile against 1 Ally detected...] 

[ Fairness Clause Activated… ]

[ As the party in disadvantage, the ally is allowed to gain a buff or give all the hostile a debuff, please choose... ] 

"What! This is unfair. Why does she get buff while we get a debuff?" Hearing the announcement, one of the hostile card emperors yelled in protest. 

[ Would the hostile like to lodge an official protest...]

"Is that speaking to me… Yes, I would like to lodge an official protest." The Card emperor was surprised as he did not expect the voice to respond to him but soon responded. 

[Protest under consideration… ] 

[Hostiles, please vote to choose one method of the following …

Group Challenge (Ally can choose between gaining buff and giving all the hostile a debuff.)

Single Challenge ( Hostiles cannot gang up on Ally, and while each hostile will fight the ally in a personal challenge. ]

"What is going on? Hey you, yes you. You seem to know about this arena. Do you know what this is?" One of the hostile card emperors asked the card emperor, who explained to others about the Damned arena. 

"I don't know. There was not a single mention of this in the southern emperor's card files." The Card emperor was confused as he did not read in his files that the Damned arena had an overseer. 

"Don't beat yourself up over this. This is news to me too. I did not know my field card could do this. Maybe this is one of the effects of the skill combo. Anyway, I do not need to debuff you guys or buff myself to kill you people. And single fights are no fun. So forget about it and enjoy ourselves." Anna also did not know where the voice originated from and believed it was a part of the skill combo. For her, the buff or the debuff or the fairness provided by the damned arena only seemed to be getting into the way of her having fun. 

[Please Vote before 9.. 8.. ] 

"Listen up everyone, option two is the best shot we have of beating her. Even if we can not beat her in a personal fight, we can wear her down." 

[ Voting Closed, Option.1 - 6 Votes Option.2 - 18 ] 

[Hostiles have chosen to challenge the ally with a personal fight… ] 

[Setting up arena…] soon, a raised platform appeared between the hostile card emperors and Anna. 

[Challengers, please choose your weapon and enter the ring…]

"Bumper! I was looking forward to a group fight. Old man Lorenzo always finds a way to rain on my fun." Anna tried to ignore the voice and force the hostile into a group fight, but she was warned by the Voice and forced to stay put. With no choice, Anna entered the ring. 

Cards that are impartial are not a rear sight, but with their limitation comes excellent power; therefore, some card apprentices use them, knowing it can be a double-edged sword. 

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"Okay crooked nose, I am going to ask you some questions. If you answer them truthfully, I will kill you less painfully. If not, I will make an example out of you for others to come. First, let's start with a simple one, Who are you?" Knowing that she was not getting a group fight, Anna decided to use the personal fights as one-on-one interrogation.

"So you are the famous Southern emperor, huh? Apparently, one cannot trust rumors. 

You are not beautiful as the rumors about you. Sluty yes but beautiful is a big no." The Card emperor first to challenge did not seem to be worried about pissing off Anna. And appeared to be relatively confident about his physical powers as he waved his Double handed sword. 

"You think you're being funny? You just made your death more painful, mister." Anna dashed towards the Card emperor and slashed her heavy sword aiming at him. 

*clunk*the card emperor tried to block Anna's incoming heavy sword with his Double handed sword, but unfortunately for him, both his forearm bones broke, unable to bear the force from Anna's downward heavy sword slash. 

The double-handed sword fell to the ground as the hostile card emperor's grip loosened due to the pain from the bones of his forearm breaking. 

"Ahhh… you b!tch" looking at his unhealthy bent arms, the card emperor screamed in pain. Due to the rush of adrenaline, the emperor felt delayed pain. 

"Hahaha, now that's funny." Anna laughed at the card emperors' pain without remorse. Turning her hold on the heavy sword Anna used it as a bat to break the Card emperor's knees.

"Ahhh…." The card emperor who had not recovered from the pain of breaking Bone's in his forearms howled, feeling the pain from having his knees crushed. For a second, the card emperor thought that the pain from having his knees crushed masked the pain from his broken forearms. 

"Hahaha, you're so funny. Come on, stop it. You are killing me." The Card emperor's comment on her beauty had pissed Anna off so much that she forgot about her original purpose and the question she had asked. 

"Ah… I am sorry. I will tell you everything you want to know. Please give me a painless death." The card emperors have faced much worse, I guess, in his lifetime, but he always had his soul energy and the power of the rule healing and nurturing his body. Therefore he always had a tolerance to pain. But now, with the Soul energy that enhances his endurance and patience gone, the Card emperor could not handle the pain from having his bones broken and crushed. 

"Shhh… no, you lost your shot at painless death. I have 23 more who can give me what I want to know. But you, you will pay for your insolence." Anna was true to her words. She made the example out of the card emperor for the next in line to climb the ring by taking her time to crush every single bone in the hostile's body.