Chapter 287: 54.2 Marathon Fight?

"Once more unto the fray..."

With a sigh of resignation, I went ahead and started the pull with the usual opener. It was all second nature to me by now as Guidance and I went with our usual song and dance. With Vesper doing her usual stuff, we also did what was asked of us by the fight. It was kind of more boring now as opposed to stressful, and the whole novelty of a hard fight wore away as soon as we were asked to keep a level head for hours on end. Of course, we already had the early parts of it on lock, so the boredom part of it all reared its head very quickly the more practice we got in.

So inevitably, Guidance and I just started talking while doing the fight.

"Think this'll be the pull?" I casually asked as I fired off my shots.

"Probably not," she sighed, her [Manifest] glowing as she did her usual upkeep. "It'll hopefully get us closer to the final pull, but for now, I'm not asking for a miracle."

I chuckled at her pragmatism. "What happened to all that anger earlier?"