Magic noises!

  As if he saw it coming-who am I kidding? Of course, he did as otherwise he wouldn’t be preparing a spell while in mid-air to counter Alice Fireball. Argh, it really was a good attempt but, moving on. The spell of his, it has a dark black ominous colour to it however, there is no magic circle at all or in other words, this spell is being formed and prepared from within him, from inside of his very own mouth. Just like a Dragon can breathe fire, this Elder can “breathe” what seems to be a Shadow Ball, a Darkness spell. A powerful Darkness type spell that is capable of doing quite the damage to be honest, the bigger and the more magic the Shadow Ball has, the more powerful it will be, while the opposite is also true.

  BLAST!

  The elder shoots the Shadow Ball towards the Fireball, reaching it mere moments later but a bit shy past the Flame Wall. The impact is violent however, an explosion quickly follows it, one that is for the decent size with a blast radius of around 20 meters, more than enough for both Alice and him to fell the explosion and the shockwave that follows it.

  This of course, made Alice well thought out plan and perfect execution of such, completely useless.

  “Ki-Kiana!”

  Ah, another familiar voice is heard shouting by Kiana's name although in this case, she sure seems out of breath as she struggles to shout. In the meanwhile, Anya arrives at the scene after what? Ten or so minutes later? She’s sweating by quite a bit even, air is lacking on her lungs not because the air is scarce but thanks to the increased rate of her heart beating, making her breath quite heavily in an attempt of giving enough oxygen to it. Yep, she’s more than tired from running this long although, she did take a little bit to get here, just how far is this place?

  Kiana- Anya? What are you doing here?

  And of course, Kiana is a little surprised to see her as she has her golden eyes somewhat wide open.

  Anya- I-I... Gasp! You ran so... Gasp! I was worried!

  We did leave Anya all by herself, didn’t we? From Kiana's odd reaction and behaviour, it is more than compressible that anyone near her would get at the very least worried at her and then, by having Kiana run with great speed towards god knows where, said worry would only get more intense. It’s understandable that, not knowing what’s wrong and with said worry on her mind, she went ahead and did her best to follow and keep up with Kiana.

  Kiana- Ah, I’m sorry that I ran from you like that… It was that, I sensed a few monsters over here and they appeared out of nowhere, I think? Not only that, they were and are much stronger than the students here so, I really had to do what I did.

  “I did hear you mention monsters but- Wait, is that Miss Florence!?”

  Any type of tiredness that she might have been feeling, the moment her eyes are laid on Alice and the monster she’s currently fighting, the sheer shock takes over her mind, forcing her to change her train of thought. To make it even worse, the state that Alice is in, it’s also something that makes her shocked after all, someone as strong as Alice not only is damaged and injured, she also seems to be losing.

  Kiana- Yes, she’s currently fighting against an Elder Black Wolf and as you can see, things are not going that well for her. Don’t get me wrong, she’s doing an amazing job but she's losing.

  “(How can she be this calm while saying this!?)”

  Once again, an understandable reaction and thought from our Anya and in fact, anyone sensible enough would think the same. Kiana has a serious look on her face however, her tone of voice is nonchalant, cold, somewhat slow and of course, calm.

  “That monster seems a little like the ones from the other day, just bigger… Just how strong is that wolf?”

  Kiana- I wasn’t expecting you to notice that but, they are that similar but not the same. As I said, this is an Elder Black Wolf and he’s a B rank monster, however, because of a skill that he activated a few minutes ago, he should be in the upper B rank, close to B+ but not there yet. Alice on the other hand, she’s at B- rank and that’s why she’s losing. Ah, but don’t worry about it, I’m more than ready to take action at any moment and from what I’m predicting, it should be in a few moments.

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  “Is that so? I see…”

  “(Ah! She’s so cool! I couldn’t be this confident about my strength let alone to be as calm as she is! Seriously, she’s amazing but, I probably should get some potions ready for Alice.)”

  Well, I can’t say that I was expecting this from Anya after all, her green eyes are sparkling with admiration towards Kiana as she thinks this to herself but, anyway, by using her Pocket Dimension skill, she takes out a few healing potions from a pocket of her coat, since they were at the lab, she put one on a forgot to take it out when going to the library. From it, not only she takes healing potions but also a few others potions and they do have that type of “colour” to them. I wonder what they are?

  “Aaaa! Take this! Inferno Strike!”

  Woosh! Clash!

  On the other hand, the battle is still going strong. Going all out and even beyond that, Alice strikes the Elder with a set of powerful attacks, but even with those, he still is able to block each one of them however, thanks to the sheer temperature of the flames that are ignited on the blade of her claymore, it’s easy to see that, they are slowly doing damage to his claws as they are starting to get chipped away. But not enough to render them useless.

  Slash! Clash! Swoosh! Clash!

  The battle is getting more intense by each passing moment, by each clash they have. From afar, this intense battle seems like a magic show rather than a battle itself, all thanks to the vibrant red and orange colours of Alice claymore and her flaming attacks. Flames and sparks go everywhere with each clash, disappearing mere moments later but before that, they leave a beautiful trace of several hues of red and orange. Unfortunately, the longer she keeps at it, the more tired she gets and it’s starting to notice as she’s slowing down and losing strength. With a final clash they gain some distance between them, both of them know that this next sequence will be the last one. Alice fatigue is already noticeable, her injuries are the same way, thankfully nothing too serious, but still enough to slow her down. The Elder however, he is fine for the most part, he has no injury on him whatsoever, the only parts of him that have some type damage, are his claws as I said before.

  ……..

  ……

  …

  The tension grows in the air as both of them have a stare down, one that is done in complete silence. This silence is not speaking, but it’s loud so much so that it creates anxiety to those that are watching the two of them. The group of students are anxious after all, Alice is not looking good especially compared to the Elder but even then, even with the facts laid out in front of them, they still have hopes that, this time she can do it, this time she can win. Anya is just like them in a sense of their current emotions, she’s anxious and with worry, but on her case, she’s ready for “action”, while I can’t say that, she will jump between them or anything like that, she has a plethora of potions ready for anything that might happen. Kiana is the only one who is calm, she knows well what will happen and what will be the outcome of this.

  We all know.

  “Time to end this! Inferno Flames!”

  Swoosh! Magic noises! Fire noises!

  Just like in the beginning, she uses the same spell, making the already weak flames on the blade of her claymore burst into ones that are somehow stronger than it was at that time. They have that dark shade of red to them, those temperatures are now over 800 degrees, not by much but, above it. Before the blade is burst into those flames, a deep sound of the air getting hotter and hotter is heard, then the sound of an explosion of fire follows that mere moments later. This is all of her might-no, this is beyond it, this truly is the last attempt of her.

  This is it, either she can defeat him with this or she has lost the battle.

  Grrr!

  The Elder responds back at her by growling at her, with all of his teeth showing towards her, with his eyes dead set on his future prey and of course, by also activating his skill, another Martial Arts skill, Iron Claws. His claws grow in size by around 20% and they also shine bright with a white colour to them and just like the skill Iron Tail, they also gain quite the weight behind them. Moments later they dash towards each other, meeting just shy past the middle of them, or in this case, the Elder is faster than her. However, this small fact matters not to them at all after all, the end result will be the same. They will still take a swing at each other.

  Clash! Woosh!

  The clash was violent, epic and fiercely so much so that, even a shock wave followed said clash and one that was felt all around them in a good area. With all of her strength behind it, Alice tries to cut down the Elder head in half with a quick, precise and powerful down and slightly diagonal swing however, thanks to the skill of his, the Elder was able to easily block her attack. But, without giving him any rest at all, she follows up with another swing but this one, it’s an upper swing but one that is also somewhat diagonal. This time around the Elder simply dodges it by moving sideways however, it seems she was expecting it as once the upper swing was fully done, with a step forward towards him, she transitions her failed swing into a down swing, one that seems to have as much force as the first clash.