After Nausicaa entered, she greeted Shan and then completely blocked out all external information, focusing all of her attention on her opponent.
As time passed, the starting whistle of the match sounded, and both sides made their moves.
The end of this match came even quicker than Angel had expected.
In less than ten minutes, the only person still standing in the arena was Nausicaa.
Lyon was still in a daze because, out of all the matches he had watched, this was the only one he couldn’t understand at all.
From beginning to end, his eyes couldn’t even keep up with the movements of both sides, and he could only see two gray shadows moving rapidly.
How Nausicaa had won and what had happened in the process were things Lyon hadn’t seen.
In the end, it was Angel, using illusions, who restored and slowed down the most important scenes of the match, allowing Lyon to discern the key points.
“Their strengths were evenly matched, but unfortunately for Glowing Slug, he had bad luck,” Lyon reflected after watching.
“Really just bad luck?” Angel laughed and shook his head upon hearing this, “Take a closer look.”
This time, Angel didn’t just slow down the pace of the illusions but also specifically enlarged a few key moments.
After looking carefully, Lyon was stunned.
His initial judgement wasn’t entirely wrong; in terms of strength, Nausicaa and Glowing Slug were not much different.
But the reason he thought Glowing Slug’s defeat was due to bad luck the first time was because of the final close combat encounter.
Glowing Slug, a summoner, was very adept at controlling slugs, and he used various slugs as his means of attack during the match. However, these slugs were all countered by Nausicaa one by one.
During the last encounter, it looked as if Glowing Slug had no more slugs to summon, and having lost most of his techniques, he was approached by Nausicaa in close combat.
It could be said that Glowing Slug was in the most dangerous situation.
However, at the last moment, Glowing Slug used some method, with the blood on his tongue, to spit out a highly poisonous blood slug.
By the time Nausicaa reacted, the blood slug had already bitten onto her arm.
Glowing Slug even felt he would win at that point, but then Nausicaa retracted the covering over her arm, revealing a steel prosthetic.
Even if the blood slug had potent poison, biting on a mechanical arm would be ineffective.
In Glowing Slug’s despairing gaze, a bright light flashed in the palm of Nausicaa’s hand.
As a whirlwind emerged, Glowing Slug was blown out of the arena.
From Lyon’s perspective, this was just bad luck; Glowing Slug had made a misjudgment, and if Nausicaa’s arm had been real, she probably would have been affected by the slug’s poison.
However, when Angel used the illusions for a second demonstration, Lyon noticed something.
When Glowing Slug spat out the blood from the tip of his tongue, Nausicaa’s skin developed a faint pattern because she was wearing thick armor, Lyon hadn’t noticed this detail before.
“This is the special pattern that emerges when the Nidhogg Demon bloodline is activated, possessing extreme defensive capabilities and resistance to poison. Even if the blood slug landed on Nausicaa’s skin, it would still be ineffective,” Angel explained.
Most importantly, Nausicaa activated her bloodline only once during the entire match, and even then, it was a localized activation. If she had activated it fully, even transforming into a Nidhogg Demon, she probably would have finished the fight even earlier.
Another point was that Nausicaa only made use of the mechanical arm Angel had crafted for her at the very last moment, which shows that Nausicaa had actually been holding back a lot during the match.
Her victory was by no means a stroke of luck.