"Oh come on, now he's copying Maple like the devs did with the last event!" said Chrome who had jumped out of his seat at the sight of Payne's new skill.
"And according to the rules, Maple is forbidden to use Machine God and Atrocity so how is she going to fight back against something like that," said Kanade with a puzzled expression.
"Then why is Maple smiling?" asked Iz which everyone turned back to face.
"Why are you smiling when facing my new skill?" asked Payne.
"Because I also have a new skill, one that works around the ban on my two skills," said Maple, her hold on her shield tightening.
"Skill, Unity, target Atrocity and Machine God!" she said while holding her shield up toward the sky. A large dark red light then engulfed her from which a towering shadow appeared from within.
"What?!" asked everyone watching as Maple appeared from the light but she had turned into a cyborg version of her Atrocity form.
"Now that's just cheating," said Dread as Shadow fought with Oboro.
"Not when it's something the Devs created and did not ban; Maple can't use the two skills separately but nothing said anything about fusing them together," said Sally as she appeared behind Dread with her nives in his back.
"You've got this, Maple!" she called as Dread vanished from running out of HP.
"It's always fun when I face you, Maple!" said Payne while charging her.
"Same to you, Payne!" said Maple before several lasers shot out of her body, all heading straight for the warrior.
"That's not even close to defeating me!" said Payne while dodging each laser or using his sword to parry them away all as he continued to charge toward her.
"Then let me Deploy Armaments!" said Maple, causing two large cannons to appear from her back as they charged energy.
"You have to be kidding me!" said Payne who was blown away.
"Roar!" said Dorasou as he appeared from nowhere.
"The winners of this round are Maple and Sally of Maple Tree, they move on to the next round!" he said.
"Yeah!" said everyone back at the guild hall as they celebrated.
"She just keeps getting stronger, even if it's in weird ways," thought Mii who was happy to see her friend's win at the same time she was anticipating fighting her later.
