“Nice escape,” said Samuel. “You can dodge all you want, but you’ll eventually get tired. Or even if you don’t run out of stamina, you’ll run out of time and the city you love so much will be destroyed. Your choice.”

Damn. So they both had similar strategies to run down the clock, they just expected different outcomes at the end. Samuel was confident that the city would get destroyed. Could she say she felt the same about the other climbers defending the city? She thought of all the climbers out there on the field, fighting for their lives. They needed her there.

She needed to stop wasting time.

Sakura rushed the rock golems and triggered her slice ability.

“If only the common slice ability had more versatility,” Samuel declared sarcastically.

Sakura ignored him. He was an idiot if he believed what he was saying. Sure, an E-rank level slice attack wasn’t very powerful, but at the level of B-rank. She could do a lot with that blade of energy.

The golden energy blade formed in front of her and she mentally commanded the blade to separate into multiple blades.

She then shot the blades forward at the rock golems from a multi-pronged attack.

“You call this low versatility,” shouted Sakura.

The energy blades ripped through the rock golems, tearing them to pieces. They fell to the ground in a rubble, before glowing out and disintegrating down to golden monster cores.

Ah, so they were C-rank.

Sakura smirked at Samuel.

“What else have you prepared? Or are you all out of tricks?”

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Samuel’s eye twitched as he looked out at the stray monster cores where the rock golems had just been standing.

He reached down to his pouch and materialized two shield slimes.

“Very well, Sakura. You’re making me pull out my big guns,” said Samuel.

The man carried literal monsters in his pouch!?

Sakura couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Also, his big trump card were two of the low level monsters they used to train students?

Samuel looked down menacingly at the two shield slimes in either hand and slowly manipulated them from the inside out with the use of his cellular manipulation ability.

The shield slimes melted before his very eyes, liquefying and coating themselves around his fingers and palms.

“What the—?” said Sakura both in shock and repulsion.

He had manipulated the two monsters into gloves. It was demented and evil all rolled into one.

“Shield slimes are quite interesting, you know,” said Samuel, clenching his new oddly colored fists. “Their shield is super powerful and while they never use it offensively, if one could, it could deal a lot of damage.”

“Stop trying to scare me, Samuel,” shouted Sakura. “C’mon, show me how powerful your deranged slime gloves are.”

Samuel rushed towards her.

He leapt forward and held back a fist before slamming it in the ground.

Sakura jumped away to avoid the impact of the blow.