The bell chimed a third time, but now it was a funeral toll.
“You’re late,” Elite Pain snarled. “I was told you’d beg.”
Without a word, 3l bent down, picked up Lament , and snapped it over one knee. The pieces dissolved into ash.
Elite Pain, known in the underworld as the "Sorrow-Maker," cracked his neck. His armor was a lattice of jagged obsidian, each shard etched with a name—the name of every opponent who had screamed before him. His weapon, a barbed whip named Lament , hummed with a low, hungry frequency.
Next.
“What… are you?” Elite Pain whispered, for the first time feeling a cold trickle of something unfamiliar: doubt.
He moved first—a blur of black and crimson. Lament arced through the air, screaming like a damned soul. It wrapped around 3l’s extended forearm.
The air in the dueling hall of the Obsidian Citadel was thick with the scent of ozone and old blood. Two figures stood frozen at the center of the pentagram-carved floor, their shadows stretching like wounded beasts under the flickering azure torches.
The bell chimed a third time, but now it was a funeral toll.
“You’re late,” Elite Pain snarled. “I was told you’d beg.”
Without a word, 3l bent down, picked up Lament , and snapped it over one knee. The pieces dissolved into ash.
Elite Pain, known in the underworld as the "Sorrow-Maker," cracked his neck. His armor was a lattice of jagged obsidian, each shard etched with a name—the name of every opponent who had screamed before him. His weapon, a barbed whip named Lament , hummed with a low, hungry frequency.
Next.
“What… are you?” Elite Pain whispered, for the first time feeling a cold trickle of something unfamiliar: doubt.
He moved first—a blur of black and crimson. Lament arced through the air, screaming like a damned soul. It wrapped around 3l’s extended forearm.
The air in the dueling hall of the Obsidian Citadel was thick with the scent of ozone and old blood. Two figures stood frozen at the center of the pentagram-carved floor, their shadows stretching like wounded beasts under the flickering azure torches.
