Clone 1's right hand came forward in a slash and the Severance Sword Intent erupted from it, creating five formless swords that fanned outward in a spread that forced Rikilda to move or take all of them simultaneously. The cuts split the ring floor in five clean lines radiating toward her, the dense material opening like paper.
She went airborne, launching off her back leg with enough force to carry her three meters straight up, clearing the spread entirely, and from that height she opened her mouth and breathed.
Fire came down in a column at the ring floor directly beneath clone 1, in a sustained pour that turned the surface from solid to molten in seconds.
Clone 1 left the ground before it reached him, the formless swords pulling tight around his body as he rose, and threw three of them downward into the column.
The intent hit the fire and did nothing, but he had already expected the result.
