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"Hyaahh! Hah-hah! Haaaaah!" with lightning-speed, relentless barrage of punches and kicks, the heavily wounded Skarlet kills the orc. The blood splatters are enough to heal her minor wounds before she turns her head at the other orcs. She has seen their tactic: orc warriors will overwhelm her while archers and shamans attack from a distance. If the warriors are depleting in numbers, some of the archers will replace their bows with axes. And it looks like they're sticking to the same tactic. It was a good tactic and they proved difficult, at least, their numbers are now fifteen rather more than five hundred.
Arrows and magic rain to where Skarlet is, making her to dodge. After the arrows and magic, orc warriors move in, and Skarlet is ready for them. Skarlet uses some of her blood that pools at her feet, then uses it to slide towards the nearest orc and quickly closes the distance between them. The orc warrior brings down his ax in one swoop, which Skarlet sidesteps. She grabs the orc's muscular arm and hauls herself onto his back, unsheathes her kodachi sword and stabs the shoulder. Then she wrenches her sword, on which the force of it causes the orc to fall facedown on the ground.
As she sheathes her sword and pivots to face the other oncoming orcs, she pulls out her kunais that were strapped on her left thigh. She throws two kunais and directly hit the eyes of an orc warrior, forcing him to stop and start screaming. The third hits an orc's shoulder and gets lodged, the fourth is swapped away with a hand.
Skarlet then dashes with the aid of blood and nears the blind orc. She pushes her kunais deeper before extracting them from the orc's eye sockets. Again, she throws a kunai at an oncoming orc, the second at the other following behind. Both kunais successfully pierce an eye.
But in exchange of piercing some eyes, Skarlet gets hit with three fireballs that throws her off her feet. After she flips to stand, she's forced to use her arm as a shield to block an arrow coming straight to her head. Her action made her easy to hit as two arrows hit her arm and thigh, two more grazed her skin. The distraction also gives the ax-wielding orcs to slaughter her while she wrenches the arrows sticking out of her body.
When one orc almost cleaves her in half but manages to put a gash on her flesh, Skarlet punishes him by breaking the orc's nose with the heel of her hand, on which the break extends to the skull. With a reverse kick, she pierces the eye cavity with the pointy heel of her boot.
After retracting her heel, she uses the corpse as a shield as another orc brings his ax downward. The blood spurting from the hacked shoulder of the corpse is enough to replete a small amount of Skarlet's health as she absorbs it. As the orc retracts his ax, Skarlet discards the orc shield and moves in lightning-speed to slice her opponent's face in an upward slash. She follows it with a stab between the eyes.
Skarlet sees the orc with her embedded kunai as she removes her sword and dodges another hail of projectiles. Following behind are the two orcs with pierced eyes, the kunais are gone. And they were so close, with their axes ready to execute. Before their axes fall, Skarlet disappears in front of their eyes.
From above and behind the orc with the embedded kunai, Skarlet appears in the form of a big blood droplet. As she drops, her sword slashes the spine. As the two orcs look behind them, Skarlet immediately stabs their pierced eyes.
The sound of swooshes coming behind Skarlet alerts her that another hail of arrows and magic are coming her way. She dives forward, and pivots her body to see the arrows and magic land on her previous spot and their fallen brethren. She sees that only eight are left and continues to attack from a hill. Skarlet sheathes her swords and turns the singed orc's corpse, so she could retrieve her kunai before arrows and magic rain down on her. Using her kunai, she slits the orc's throat and absorbs much blood as possible before magic completely destroys the corpses. After the bodies are burned and her wounds slightly healed, she straps her kunai at her thigh before charging.
Arrows and magic fly towards her as she runs. She easily dodges them despite the wounds that should have made her reaction time and movements slower. Yet, Skarlet takes her time as she searches the ground for her three kunais. She found them not far from each other, and she rushes to retrieve them while dodging the volley of projectiles. Kunais complete and strapped at her thigh, Skarlet proceeds to where the range attackers are.
Skarlet runs in zigzag ways to confuse and avoid the projectiles. She nears the foot of the hill as three orc archers switched to axes and comes to meet her. The upward slope is difficult for Skarlet to slide, so she runs towards the nearest orc. She avoids the vertical swing of the ax and two arrows by ducking. As she did so, she unsheathes her swords and slices the orc's stomach. A quick bath in blood to heal her wounds, Skarlet rolls away to avoid getting hacked by another ax-wielding orc.
As Skarlet stands, an arrow coming from behind almost hits her neck, but another finds its way on her shoulder, its head passes through the front and gets lodged. She has to jump back as fireballs are cast to where she stood. She didn't see the other ax-wielding orc coming around the corner. The orc hits her face using the ax's handle, throwing her off her feet and lie on her back. Without losing hold of her swords, Skarlet quickly barrel-rolls away from getting decapitated, burned, and turning into a pin-cushion.
Skarlet lies on her back and flips forward, kicking the ax-wielding orc and digging her heels in his chest. The orc lies on his back, giving Skarlet the opportunity to slice his throat and heal some of her wounds before arrows and magic attempt to hit her.
Standing and looking at her opponents, Skarlet sees that they prefer to attack from a range rather engage her in hand-to-hand combat. She sheathes her swords, pulls out the broken arrow from her shoulder as she avoids another volley of arrows and magic. Body tense with combat-readiness, Skarlet then springs towards her five victims.
Taking her kunais, Skarlet throws all four at the orc archer. The orc is too surprised to dodge the flying knives, and he ends up dead when all four hits his throat. Two of the shamans back away to put more distance and conjure a powerful spell, while an orc archer and shaman continue flinging projectiles.
Skarlet's hands grab two kunais and throws them at the nearby orc archer and shaman. The archer dodges the kunais but the shaman gets a kunai in the shoulder. Those seconds of dodging the kunai gives Skarlet time to jump and perform a downward slash, from head to groin, on the archer, his blood sputtering on her. Standing on an even ground, Skarlet slides on a pool of blood to quickly cut off the shaman's head.
The two shamans see Skarlet stoops to pick up her kunais then continues running towards them. She is getting closer, and the shamans timely cast the powerful magic towards the oncoming Skarlet. The spell hits where Skarlet stands, with smoke and burned earth wafting on the spot.
"Yes!" cheered the shaman. "We go-EEAAAAAHHH!"
The other shaman turns and is surprised to see Skarlet slashes the back of his colleague. And his reaction turns into terror when Skarlet quickly closes the distance between them, and uses her sword to stab his ear canal. After that, she uses her other sword to slash his throat. She pulls back her sword that's anchored to the head so the spurting blood showers her face.
Absorbing the blood, Skarlet feels a partly of her strength returning and wounds healing. She'll take her time to enjoy her victory, after all, there's still blood left inside the corpses when she's done here in the hill.
But the sound of blades piercing through flesh takes Skarlet's attention. While blood continues to spurt, she looks down the hill to see a humanoid in red standing over one of her kills. She could clearly see the tonfa-blades absorbing the blood from the corpse. She shifts her attention to the other corpses and sees the same stab marks and drained of blood.
As she returns her attention back to the humanoid in red, she sees him removes his blades from the corpse, and turns his head towards her. The humanoid then gives her a mocking, toothy grin.
Skarlet narrows her steely eyes at the intruding thief as she uses her sword to push off the head from her other sword. The blood covering her face is gone as she stands erect, hands tightening around the swords resting beside her.
The grinning humanoid slightly stoops, elbows bend upwards as the long-arms of his tonfa-blades rest along his arms, and puts one foot forward as he's like ready to sprint.
The two contenders are prepared for battle.