Satisfied with the hit that she had made, she let her opponent make his escape for now, not pressing the attack so that she could finish the process of solidifying her fire sword. However, before she could get very far into that he made a quick retaliatory slash towards her own abdomen. Due to him retreating it didn't have much power or got very deep but she wasn't able to completely avoid it, causing a small horizontal cut to scratch through her armor and nip into her flesh inside, splattering some blood out of the opening as the sword finished it's arc but she wasn't wounded enough to cause any further blood to leak out. She gritted her teeth, realizing that she was careless to assume he would only be able to retreat after taking such damage. Not that she could have done much to get away unscathed anyways once she had committed to that attack.

A trick he said? Well, not really but she definitely wasn't going to contradict that statement. Might as well pretend she had intended to do whatever trick he might have been referring to. Her fire solidified as she put her focus back into it. Now he wouldn't be able to wound her so easily a second time. Just as she started to move in, her companions began to do something else, one trying to catch him in some sort of magical trap while the other unleashing a massive fireball. She jerked to a stop and watched what was to occur, not wanting to get in the way of something that she didn't know what was going on. However, if her opponent broke free of the chaos then she would jump in to attack him.

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To a 23 foot tall woman like Vallayuel Naradeohs, a mountain such as this was but a hill, an easy morning trek before she'd have breakfast, which in this case would consist of crushing some hapless victim into submission; perfect sustenance to put her in a good mood. She didn't fight her way to become her people's representative in this tournament just to slack off and let others do all the fighting.

She originally made her way over here in response to a bizarre light at the top of the mountain, but that would come eventually. For now it appeared like an entirely different battle was about to erupt as she made her way up the mountain. Something of interest caught her eye.