Maddy began to orbit the battlefield with Thumping Locomotion, her movements jerky and unnatural. As she moved, she manipulated the remaining "Green Men" husks like marionettes, sending them on suicide charges to latch onto Maddy’s arms and legs.

"You’ve got to be kidding me! This filthy witch is really reanimating corpses that already died three times!"

She clenched her teeth, ripping one of the bodies off her shoulder before it could fully bind itself to her.

"Show some respect for the dead, you a**hole! Now I have to kill them a fourth time!"

Another corpse lunged at her, roots bursting from its mouth as it screeched. Maddy slashed it apart with visible irritation.

"If Johnn were here, he’d absolutely lose his mind over this... damn it!"

The Wood Witch wasn’t trying to strike a killing blow herself, she was playing the role of the ultimate crowd controller, weaving a web of debris and poison to ensure that when the Wizard’s Golem finally connected, Maddy would have nowhere left to jump.

Maddy found herself caught in a lethal rhythm: parrying the Golem’s granite fists with her round shield only to have a resurrected vine lash at her throat, all while her Acute Predator Awareness warned her that the oxygen in the clearing was rapidly being replaced by the Witch’s lethal, spore filled haze.

"Fine," Maddy growled, her Reflexive Body Control kicking into overdrive. "If I have to stay in character, I’ll just have to be the most terrifyingly ’simple’ adventurer you’ve ever met!"

She ignited her Explosive Glands in her palms, using the back blast to propel herself into a dizzying spin.

"I will call this skill... SKILLET SPIN!"

She became a whirlwind of kinetic shockwaves, her blade clashing against the Golem’s stone fists and her shield parrying the Witch’s toxic leaves in a frantic, high stakes dance of survival. The ground shattered, the air screamed with magic, and Maddy stood at the center of it all, a single warrior fighting against the combined might of the archived past.

[System Notice]

[Congratulations! You acquired a skill: Skillet Spin]

[Skillet Spin: Ignite the Explosive Glands within the palms to propel the user into a powerful rotating assault. By combining explosive back blasts with spinning momentum, the user sweeps through surrounding enemies with wide, continuous strikes capable of hitting multiple targets at once. The rotation increases both cutting force and mobility, allowing rapid movement across the battlefield. Effect scales with explosive output, balance, spin speed, and weapon sharpness.]

The back blast didn’t just propel her—it sent her into a rotation so violent. Every time her blade made contact, it wasn’t just a cut; it was a high velocity impact backed by the centrifugal force of her entire Heavyweight Physique.

The wood witch’s resurrected vines? Shredded. The shower of toxic, bladed leaves? Vaporized. The Golem’s granite-spiked fists? Ground into fine powder.

Maddy carved through the air with such ferocity that a vacuum began to form around her. The grave vines that tried to entangle her were reduced to kindling before they could even get within a meter of her skin.

The jagged rocks thrown by the Wizard were met with the edge of her blade and shattered into harmless pebbles. It was a total, systematic "deforestation" of the battlefield.

"Is that all you’ve got?"

Maddy’s voice echoed from the center of the spinning gale, sounding strangely exhilarated.

"Come on, throw the whole forest to me!"

To the Wood Wizard and the Witch, it must have looked like the very concept of "The Forest" was being deleted. No matter how much mana they poured into the soil, Maddy’s Skillet Spin simply chewed through the output.

She moved across the grey plain like a sentient saw blade, leaving nothing but a trail of sawdust and pulverized stone in her wake.

The Wizard’s eyes widened, his logical, tactical mind struggling to calculate a counter to someone who had turned themselves into a literal engine of destruction. For a brief moment, the overwhelming pressure of the archived past met the unstoppable momentum of the present and the present was winning.

Maddy stopped her rotation. The air around her smelled like burnt wood. She stood in a crater of pulverized stone, her sword glowing from the heat of the friction. The Wood Wizard’s calm face finally cracked. His wooden staff trembled in his grip.

"Impossible," the Wizard whispered. "The Pro... meather... leader... does not... fail."

She didn’t give him time to think. She used Thumping Locomotion to close the distance. The ground didn’t just shake; it split. The Wood Witch shrieked, slamming her staff down to summon a wall of brambles. Maddy didn’t dodge. She used her Physical Hardness to ram through the thorns like a cannonball.

"Rough Chop!"

Maddy brought her blade down with the Enhanced Strength of the Ogre. The blow struck the Witch’s defensive wall and shattered it into toothpicks. The shockwave from the impact sent the Witch tumbling backward.

The Wizard’s eyes flared with a desperate green light. He pointed his staff at the sky.