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<span class="mu-r">“Oh, shut up. They were made to be weak.”</span> Ember shot back, her eyes and hands glowing as she worked to repair the arena and create your next opponent. <span class="mu-r">“What do you say we turn up the heat?”</span>
You barked out a laugh.
<span class="mu-r">“Talking back AND making puns? You're really growing into your role as a Desperado.”</span>
She chuckled at that.
<span class="mu-r">“What can I say? Shit's contagious.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“You sure you're not just emulating your favorite spider-themed hero?”</span>
The exposed part of Ember's face turned bright red.
You winked at her.
Ember rolled those golden, glowing eyes of hers and started to reshape her available pixels into something far larger than any individual ninja.
<span class="mu-r">“Are you making a super ninja this time?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“What's the difference?”</span> she asked.
<span class="mu-r">“Well, you added way too many last time. That's why they were so weak. Haven't you heard about the Ninja Theory?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“The guys who made that weird Devil May Cry reboot?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“No, not that one.”</span> you said, shaking your head. <span class="mu-r">“It's where a small number of ninjas is inherently more dangerous than a larger group.”</span>
Ember paused in her creation of your new opponent's frame. It looked like it would be a hulking beast of some sort.
<span class="mu-r">“The hell are you on about, Huntsman?”</span>
You nodded and gave her a thumbs up for remembering to use your codename, even while it was only the two of you in here.
<span class="mu-r">“It's not rocket science, Sis. A larger group of ninjas has to overcompensate for their relatively low fighting power by jumping the hero all at once, only to get packed up and folded without the hero ever breaking a sweat.”</span>
She gave you a blank stare. You went on with your explanation.
<span class="mu-r">“But when it's just one ninja, you've gotta wonder why they only sent that guy. Were they that confident? How strong is he?”</span> you said, running her through your thought process. <span class="mu-r">“More often than not, that one ninja is stronger than like thirty low-tier ninjas put together.”</span>
Ember looked genuinely thoughtful for a second, before she returned to her work.
<span class="mu-r">“That…actually makes a weird amount of sense.”</span> she admitted.
<span class="mu-r">“Right!?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Don't get too excited. Not until you've seen your next challenger!”</span> Ember said with a wicked grin.
Despite her words, however, she took more time and care in crafting this solid light construct. You waited patiently for her to put on the finishing touches, but you still had no idea what game this was from. Because of course this had to be from a game.
Once she was done, you found yourself staring down a large, gorilla bull thing. It had a dropping face with small tusks inside of its mouth and under its chin, a long pair of erect horns that curved downwards slightly at the end, a tail not unlike that of a bull, two angry red eyes, and a body covered in slightly shaggy brown fur.
