Season 56, Week 1
Sasarai
(Suikoden III)
 
Lyon may have just won herself a Middle championship, but if one rule holds true in the world of Suikoden, it’s that nothing can stand up to a True Rune; not even Lyon’s Twilight Rune. If the former assassin held the Sun Rune itself, it might be a different story, but given the reality of the match at hand, Sasarai’s True Earth Rune should be more than enough to take Lyon out. Land of Eternity should make mincemeat of Lyon, especially since the Prince’s bodyguard has both subpar HP and MDef. Sure, Sasarai isn’t a durability god being focused on his magics rather than his physical abilities, but he sports similar HP, good Mdef and Magic Resistance, and thanks to Magic Repel a good half of Lyon’s spells won’t even hit him, ensuring that he’ll have the opportunity to bury her.

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Lyon missed her first shot at a Godlike upgrade, but that just means she has to carve up another Heavy season, doesn't it? In a strange twist of fate, her opponent is a leading Priest of fabled Harmonia, Sasarai. Wielding the True Earth Rune, logically Lyon's lesser Twlight Rune has been utterly trumped. However, the stagnated, unchanging nature of Harmonia has an ill effect on its people, leaving them complacent and poorly trained. As such, Sasarai's command of his Rune is lazy at best, and his body as frail as any other mage of their shared world. Thus, using her superior training, determination, and most importantly wits, Lyon has an excellent chance to catch the priest unprepared and, whether by blade or spell, cut Sasarai down before he has a chance to mount any sort of defense.


Bardiche
Sasarai held the powers of a True Rune, and could pretty much manipulate the earth every way he ruddy well liked it. Meanwhile, Lyon had the power over Twilight. It... wasn't so vaunted, and paled a little. Lyon, admittedly, was unsure whether it'd be able to withstand the True Earth Rune.

Sasarai, recognising her plight, opted for his skills of persuasion and offered a compromise.

No one is really sure why Lyon decided to forfeit the match before they'd even began.
Sasarai has delegated all questions into the matter to Dios. Dios is surprisingly quiet about the matter, although he let slip that his leader may or may not have offered using his True Earth Rune in a way that is beneficial to either Lyon or the Queendom of Falena.

On the other hand, there's this rumour going about how Edge Eblan's pretty much been cast into a very deep, very crushing ravine that just so happened to appear overnight.

Sasarai: 26
Lyon: 14