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[center][h2][b][color=f49ac2]Marlene Evangeline[/color][/b][/h2][/center]

Marlene's sword swiped swiftly towards Argus, but before it could decapitate, an arm intercepted the swipe. The sword would pierce the arm with a sickening squelch, but remarkably didn't cut all the way through. The woman couldn't believe her eyes! She tried to force more weight onto the blade to cut more, yet it was no use. Perhaps this darkness magic was able to even repel just enough of the opal's strike.

[color=f49ac2]"D-Damn you!"[/color] she curses.

Suddenly, Argus instantly struck out with his free hand, grabbing Marlene by her wrist in an iron grip, as he activated his spell with a menacing whisper, blood red crimson eyes staring into intense emerald green with all the ferocity of a wild fire.

[i][b][color=9e0b0f]"Crimson God's Advanced Art: Hell's Retribution."[/color][/b][/i]

And before Marlene knew it, the world would explode into black and crimson flames as a veritable geyser of intense fire shot up around them, spreading out rapidly to match the spread of the flames underground. Just before it struck her, she quickly formed up a shield below her, trying to block the attack from below. Yet the initial blast was too much for the shield to take as it suddenly shatters, leaving her utterly vulnerable to the blast that engulfs her. A sickening scream pounds from her throat as she can feel like her skin was bubbling and skinning away from her body. Thankfully she was a mage and it wasn't literally doing that, but the agonizing pain was just like the real thing. But just before she couldn't take it anymore, it finally stopped. Only to implode on itself, compressing all of the energy into 5 meter dome of swirling inferno that caused the earth to shake and shatter again with the force of impact, before blasting outwards with another, much stronger shockwave that would definitely be felt by everyone nearby, sending up a great big gust of hot wind to smash into the nearby tree line.

Marlene was above the initial shockwave blast as she falls straight down into the middle of the crater. Her skin felt hot, but thankfully nothing seemed to be peeling off. Cuts and bruises were all over her body, with some blood coming from her mouth. Even her glasses happened to be slightly broken and crooked. She was injured... but alive. Her blade however... was gone.

Who was she facing? It seems as this mage was inquiring some form of demon magic. And for being one of her first opponents she would actually face off against (excluding the event yesterday), this was just over the top. Perhaps she DID underestimate this mage. Yet she wasn't just going to go down like this. Certainly not like this, laying on the ground, giving up.

She slowly gets onto her feet, the eyes already returning back to normal. Her legs were quite shaky, almost having her fall back down a few times. Her eyes still glow with green, as a symbol of hope. Marlene then takes a gander at Argus and sees that even he was quite battered up in the attack. Bloodied... bruised... cut...

And [b]naked[/b]. 

[b]NAKED.[/b]

And what did Marlene do when she figured that out? She laughed. It started out nothing more then a mere chuckle, which escalated into a more prominent giggle, a silly laugh, and then finally escalates into a roaring laughter... right in Argus' face. She didn't know why exactly she did that, yet she didn't care. She just kept on laughing for at least a minute or two before finally calming down, wiping off the tears that came from her eyes.

[color=f49ac2]"Now you know how it's like to be the victim of public nudity!"[/color] she then says to Argus as she almost stumbles back to the ground.

Yet little did they know... this incident will catch the attention of someone far more powerful then the both of them combined... and it was already on its way...