The arena reset.
Class 2 Semifinal 4.
Ordin of Solmara against Vorin of Virex.
The Solmara sections gave Ordin their focused disciplined response—the support base that had watched him outlast Drake's fire lattice, managing turbulent air and recovery debt across a fight that had gone in directions neither ability had been designed for. The Virex sections gave Vorin their aggressive territorial response—the crowd that had watched him absorb worthless copy after worthless copy from Kiad's severed strikes until one real hit arrived and built everything from it.
Ordin walked out of the Solmara tunnel.
His hands were visible immediately—the abnormally large elastic palms that had been the first thing every crowd had focused on since his introduction, the tissue loose and ready, the specific quality of someone whose primary weapon was always visible and always present. He moved with the calm deliberateness of someone whose ability required positioning over speed.
