Chapter 319
"I don't think these beasts are planning to let us leave in peace," Dante panted, sweat glistening on his forehead as the tremors of battle rumbled beneath their feet.
"You think?" Charlotte shot back, sarcasm laced in her voice just as a hulking ogre stepped into her path, its massive sword dragging along the stone with a menacing screech. Water coiled around her fingertips like serpents, swirling and shimmering as if alive.
With a sharp flick of her wrist, the coiling water snapped forward, lashing the ogre with violent force and sending it staggering back before it could raise its weapon.
The ogre snarled, digging its heel into the cracked floor. Then—BOOM!—it launched itself forward, stomping the ground with such force that the arena trembled. The beast's charge was so fast it seemed to blur, yet Charlotte didn't falter.
Above her, several swirling spheres of pressurized water rotated with deadly precision.