Heaven's Fall

But that was not why Styx and Zuri were a worse possible match-up.

It was because Zuri knew Styx had a monstrous strength that compensated for his lack of powerful magic attacks.

If she were not careful, she would get caught up in his momentum and be defeated without the latter exerting an effort.

'Now then....' Zuri thought, the wry smile on her face turning impish. 'Do I proceed as planned? Or...?'

They already made contact with 'Disciple Tyr,' and further entanglement with the Mercenary Hall's people was unnecessary.

As a matter of fact, they wanted to avoid facing members of the Conclave as a whole in a match, which was why Lev told Ignis to attack the floor and force Rake— Zuri recalled his name was Rake from the information they had on them—out of the arena.