Vadton didn't co to join the rest of us who were sitting on the bean bags, instead, he stood stoically away from the group to observe the next fights. Suffice it to say, Vadton was a bit of an edge lord.
"I must admit, it seems that I underestimated Vadton's abilities," Akash replied to my jibe. "I had thought that the mont he beca trapped in Xylla's manna cage he would be done for. However, the strategy and strength he displayed to pierce through the barrier was quite ingenious."
"If there's one thing I've learned, you should never count your chickens before they've hatched," I said cheerily, forgetting I was in a room filled with aliens who had probably never even heard of a chicken before.
"What is a chick-ken?" Yr'Arl asked, struggling with the new human word. Clearly that wasn't translated very well by whatever had been translating everything into English for .
"Oh, uh, just a small Earth bird that we'd eat that ca from an egg, but not all eggs would actually hatch, so the saying goes that you should never count your chickens based on how many eggs you have because you don't really know until they've all hatched," I explained.
The blank looks I was getting from both Akash and Yr'Arl told that they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.
Luckily, our conversation was interrupted by the announcent for the next battle.
"Our next two contenders didn't get the chance to be announced in the main lineup, so for the first ti, allow to introduce Ke'Zuc and Klatissi!" Belana called out. "Ke'Zuc is a mber of the Sanket, an incredibly dangerous species that are biologically inclined to be incredible fighters, while Klatissi is a mber of the Delpha, a race who transferred their bodies to technological constructs many centuries ago!"
The first of the two aliens, Ke'Zuc, looked like sothing out of a Lovecraftian novel. Its main body was a writhing mass of tentacles, which were constantly winding and shifting over a central point that had an ominous purple glow to it. I couldn't see a mouth, or eyes, or anything else other than the tentacles and the glow. Looking at the thing made feel inherently uneasy, and the fact I'd been sharing a room with it until monts ago only made that feeling of unease worse.
The Delphan Klatissi wasn't much better. Protruding from its back were six tentacle-like limbs. Four of them were being used to hold its spherical body aloft in the air, while the other two hung at its side like arms. It was very clear that Klatissi was a chanical being of so sort, its arms and central sphere glinted silver in the light of the day.
I shuddered. I didn't really like squids or octopuses on the best of days, and these two both looked like horrifying versions of those creatures.
"Now, let the battle comnce!" Belana shouted to roars of approval.
At first, neither of the two aliens made a move toward the other, the tentacle creatures just stood there, swaying on their strange appendages. That was until the chanoid made its move first.
The two tentacles that hadn't been acting as supports wound together, interlocking and rging to beco one, raised up above Klatissi's spherical body. If I wasn't mistaken, the structure that it ended up making looked a lot like a futuristic high tech cannon of so kind,
It made feel uncomfortable either way. If I ended up fighting against Ke'Zuc, I'd need to be careful.
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