A few minutes later of being repeatedly stabbed in the arms, Lord Caliber gave up as he threw down his weapons and caught Alpha Crucis’ Sabre Rapière with his bare hands. Alpha Crucis was stunned as Lord Caliber head-butted her in the face and knocked her down.

  Then, Lord Caliber's hands started to gush out blood profusely as Alpha Crucis did a kip up and charged at him with her Sabre Rapière. Desperately, Lord Caliber picked up the gun and shot at Alpha Crucis several times.

  Even though Lord Caliber miraculously struck her in the shoulder, it didn't stop her from aiming for his head. As they locked up for the first time, Lord Caliber tried his best to shoot her in point-blank range. Alas, he missed.

  Alpha Crucis shoved the exhausted Gun Mage down to the ground. But Lord Caliber, at one trick up his sleeve, wasted no doing another cast as he surrounded himself with flames.

  Alpha Crucis halted the furious attack and looked on as Lord Caliber let out a cocky smirk, knowing that her wind techniques would not put out the flames so easily. With this strategy, he would try to recover.

  Alpha Crucis mocked Lord Caliber with a cocky smirk since she telegraphed this strategy by slicing open a nearby fire hydrant, extinguishing the flames. Exhausted, Lord Caliber's face turned pale.

  Maria sighed deeply, “Idiot... Who do you think trained her?” She said to herself.

  Alpha Crucis used her spiritual awareness to monitor her opponent as he rested her blade on her shoulder, “My, my, Lord Caliber; a brawler to the end. Knowing how you throw down, you were a piece of work back then.”

  Lord Caliber, who is now out of breath, is laughing, only hiding his frustration, "You got me! How'd you guess?"

  Alpha Crucis points his Sabre Rapière at Lord Caliber, "Stop wasting my time, Lord Caliber. Drop the act! Fight and hate me with everything you despise in this world."

  Lord Caliber began to cough up blood and mucus to clear out his lungs while they were filling up with fluid. Whatever Maria gave to him was wearing off, and he was running out of time and energy.

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  Steadfastly, he carried on, "Oh, save it. God has chosen me, Lord Caliber, to be his radiant son in this time--" Before getting another word in, he sees Alpha Crucis in the corner of his eye charging at him. Alpha Crucis swung her Sabre Rapière and missed his throat by two centimeters. Lord Caliber scurried away from Alpha Crucis. Still, the attempt made his throat bleed.

  Alpha Crucis smiles at this revelation, "I would focus on me... and me alone if I were you. But if you're ready to die, keep doing what you are now: recounting all your failures in life!"

  After hearing that, Lord Caliber held out his hand, and he materialized his modified S&T Motiv K12, "Sentinel, I have a gut feeling." Alpha Crucis became intrigued by this gut feeling as she listened, "If I tried to run away right now, you would hunt me down for the rest of your life. So let's end this! I was holding back, and so were you. I have taken one of you out before, and I will do it again!"

  Of course, he was lying, but he had to go for broke.

  “The only time you’ve ever taken one of us out is to lunch and didn’t even pay the bill afterward, you miserable fuckboy!” Alpha Crucis fired back.

  Lord Caliber and Alpha Crucis charged at each other for the first time in this fight. Alpha Crucis and Lord Caliber were at a stalemate, swinging their weapons at each other, parrying every blow, and dodging every bullet. His defense has increased with Lord Caliber's S&T Motiv K12, but his mobility has dwindled.

  Alpha Crucis gets the upper hand until Lord Caliber throws a fireball at her. Alpha Crucis blocked the attack, of course, with her Sabre Rapière. Then, Lord Caliber continued with his fire-breathing flame-thrower attack. Alpha Crucis would counter by creating a whirlwind of fire.

  He would relentlessly continue this attack for thirty seconds until he gave in and collapsed to the floor. Lord Caliber looked at Alpha Crucis as he still maintained the fiery tornado. She dissipated the tornado with incredible ease and approached Lord Caliber, who was physically exhausted. A blunder since you need a strong respiratory system to do fire breathing.

  "Lord Caliber. Your failure was simple; you should have just left well enough alone." Alpha Crucis scoffs. "You should have just run and hid as mommy told you to do..."

  "I am no coward!" Lord Caliber fortifies while trying to raise himself. "Because God has chosen me, Lord Caliber, to be his radiant son in this time--"

  "YOU ARE NOT CHOSEN BY GOD! YOU ARE A BITCH!" as they pay attention to the heckler who blurted out that statement.

  It was a slender young woman with fair soft skin, elegant ice-gray eyes, and long elegant ice-gray hair. She was wearing a black trench coat, holding an umbrella in one hand and drinking a can of fizzy water in the other.

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