Chapter 137 - Simulated Battle Against Cairosa Mages

During the day, she tried to contact Aarim about teaching her magic but it was unfortunate that she was a little busy right now. and couldn't teach her.

"Hmm… Since she's busy, I guess I'll go to this cities mage's association and fight some people in the simulation." She muttered. She was going to use everything apart from her Nanomancer Skill Tree.

If she was to fight people higher rank than her with only her magic, it should help her increase her mastery over the skills.

Making her way to the city, Shiro arrived at the mages guild. The design of the guild wasn't unlike the one she had seen back in New York. Only this time, the size of the building was a little larger.

[Excuse me, where can I find the simulation pods to fight other mages?] Shiro asked the man at the counter.

"5th floor, second room on the right." He replied after a short pause.

"Er if you want, I can show you the way."

Thinking about it for a moment, Shiro shook her head.

[No thank you.]

Seeing her walk away, the man couldn't help but sigh in disappointment.

Upon arriving at the 5th floor, Shiro was slightly surprised at the amount of level 50's walking around.

'Well I suppose it makes sense since it's a higher level city.'

Looking around, Shiro entered the 2nd room on the right and saw several rows of pods with people inside.

"Ohya? Seems like a lot of people are fighting today." Shiro muttered.

It didn't take her long to find a vacant pod and sat inside it. She needed to scan her ID card to make sure she was a mage.

Flexing her fingers, she sent a strand of nanobots to tamper with the pod so that she could hide her data.

She closed her eyes and soon found herself inside the plaza of the simulated world. There were several rooms around her that had screens that showed the fight inside.

'Where do I find random opponents?' She wondered whilst searching through her command panel.

Finding the tag for matchmaking 1v1, Shiro waited for the system to find her someone to fight.

Whilst waiting, she decided to have a look at one of the screens in hopes of getting some ideas.

The fight she was watching was a fight between two level 35's.

Spells circles were being constructed one after another as they would make defensive spells and offensive spells.

It wasn't anything too remarkable as Shiro could deal with it easily.

{opponent found: Entering area.}

Seeing the notification, Shiro took a deep breath. She wasn't going to use any close quarters combat but instead, focus solely on using her spells.

A light enveloped her body as she was teleported away.

Looking at the display, she saw that her opponent was also a level 45 mage. But unlike her ice element, she was a fire element.

[Jenna LVL 45 – Fire Mage]

"Ohya? I'm against a cutie huh?" The woman smiled confidently.

"Not many are ice mages since it's rather weak. I guess it's your unlucky day." she snickered slightly.

Everyone knew that ice mages were primarily control type mages that focused on applying status effects and using defences spells. While high level ice mages were dangerous, low level mages were a pushover. Especially for a fire mage like her.

Shiro only raised an eyebrow since the woman was doing something no one should do. Underestimate an opponent in a 1 v 1 fight.

Shiro had the urge to attack with ice swords but decided to hold herself back from going into close ranged combat.

*DING!

The bell for the match rang out as Shiro jumped backwards and aimed her palm at Jenna.

*Snap

However, before she could even use her spell, three magic circles appeared around her.

Furrowing her brows, Shiro lowered her palm and swiped around her, erecting a wall of ice to protect her.

*BANG BANG BANG!

Blocking the three fire attacks, Shiro jumped into the rift and appeared besides Jenna.

"Huh?!" Crying out in surprise, Jenna created a magic circle under her and erupted fire around her.

Shiro quickly used Faded Snow Movement to jump back.

"Tsk…" She clicked her tongue. Normally, she would have just used Frozen Slumber to instant kill her but to understand her other skills better, she had to limit herself.

Pinching her fingers together, Shiro created a flute and brought it to her lips.

Jenna was confused about the sudden melody but widened her eyes when she realised her surroundings had changed into a frozen forest with white mist creeping towards her from the edges.

Flicking her wrist so that two magic circles appeared in her hands, Jenna frowned and looked around her for any signs of Shiro.

"HERE!" She shouted out and blasted one of Shiro's clone illusions.

The destruction of the illusion caused cold mist to cover Jenna's arm and freeze it.

"Che! Burn!" She commanded as fire erupted around her body, making her seem like a fire spirit.

"You know, I didn't think you'll give me such trouble considering the fact that my element counters yours. But in the end. I'll still win." She said with a serious face.

Raising her hand into the sky, she created a two layered magic circle that shot out fire arrows around her, disrupting Shiro's illusion.

However, Shiro was able to avoid it with ease and was about to charge at her for close quarters combat.

Restraining herself, Shiro flicked the flute upwards and clutched her fist. A two fold magic circle appeared around the flute, transforming it into a giant spear that shot towards Jenna.

Narrowing her eyes, Jenna raised two fingers towards the spear and sliced upwards.

*BOOM!

Fire erupted upwards and encased the spear. Unfortunately for Jenna, the fire wasn't powerful enough to melt her ice.

Widening her eyes in shock, Jenna decided to go all out.

Jumping upwards, five nodes of fire appeared around her and wrapped her entire body.

'So she's using her elemental armour.' Shiro thought whilst aiming her palm at Jenna and clutched it.

4 magic circles encased Jenna and attempted to freeze her fire. But before the spell could even activate, the fire exploded around Jenna and shattered the spell circles.

Backing off from the force, Shiro cursed inwardly about her slow cast time. It takes too long for her spells to actually activate which then gives her opponent an opening.

Watching the fire shrink, she saw Jenna in a red dress that had the edges transition into fire which flickered with every movement. In her hands was an orb that flickered with a yellow flame.

'She her elemental weapon is a casting orb huh?' Shiro thought with a frown. A casting orb would increase a mage's cast time and spell power by a pretty significant margin which only spelled trouble for her.

Shimmering with a bright yellow light, the orb in Jenna's hand floated upwards as several magic circles fused together to form a three fold circle. The symbol of a tier 3 spell.

Smiling slightly, Shiro had been preparing her own threefold spell since the beginning of the battle.

Using her left hand to grab the wrist of her right hand, Shiro gritted her teeth and sped up the construction of her own Tier 3 spell.

*KSH KSH KSH!

Sparks flew around as her magic circle appeared in the sky, covering the entire arena in its shadow.

When she had used cold illusions, she had masked the presence of her Tier 3 spell so that Jenna wouldn't have realised.

Looking up in shock, Jenna didn't know what to say.

Each of the layers of the spell represented a different element. The outermost ring was dark purple in colour, representing the shadow element. This would allow the spell to absorb the mana from attacks to a certain degree and construct itself faster using that mana.

The second ring was lightning that would increase the destructive of the spell.

The last and final part of the magic circle, the core, was neon blue in colour which represented her main element, ice.

Twisting her right hand clockwise, the circle followed her motion as each layer started to rotate against one another. Shadow and Ice turned clockwise while lightning turned anti clockwise.

"Die!" Jenna panicked and quickly redirected her own tier 3 spell towards Shiro.

"Heh." Grinning slightly, Shiro stomped down and created a metal dome around her which tried its best to resist the fire.

"Four elements?!?!"

The sight of Shiro being able to use four elements shocked Jenna since not many could achieve this feat.

However, her shock didn't last long since if she didn't kill Shiro now, the Tier 3 spell that was activating above her right now would kill her.

*BOOM!!

"Yes!" Crying out in joy, Jenna cheered seeing Shiro's metal defences blow up.

"Boo~" Shiro whispered behind Jenna, not knowing if she could hear her or not.

Placing a palm on her back, Shiro activated Icy Touch with a burst of Killing Intent.

*KRRRR!!!!

Jenna couldn't even react when she was turned to ice.

To make sure that she died, Shiro pulled back her fist and punched the ice to shatter it along with Jenna.

*CRACK! BANG!!!!

{Winner}

She only relaxed herself when she got the notification.

During the moment when she had used her metal to defend her body, Shiro activated Rift Walker to appear behind Jenna.

While it did work, she knew it would fail against her shadow since a single use of Faded Snow Movement would cause her palm to miss.

This brought up her next point of concern. How she would use her Mana Link Breaking spell if she couldn't touch her Shadow.

'I'll need a way to disrupt her Faded Snow Movement otherwise it'll be a pain.' Shiro frowned.

Research about Snow Girls was a must since there were bound to be people who had figured a way to counter the Snow Girl's Faded Snow Movement.

It was unfortunate that she hadn't countered many Snow Girls in her past life and even if she did, a single bullet to the head was the result of the fights. She didn't need to worry about the skill.

Shaking her head, she decided to opt for combat against higher level adventurers. She could deal with level 45's easily but that wouldn't push her to her limits.

Changing the matchmaking settings, Shiro waited to fight against level 50's.

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In the end, Shiro fought against level 50's for several hours. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to win every fight due to the fact that she restrained herself in order to increase her proficiency with spells.

However, she did gain a small fan club which were entranced by her beauty. But once they researched about her online, they found old records of her fights back in New York and couldn't help but pale slightly.

Naturally, Shiro had no knowledge of this.

Exciting the pod, she gave her body a stretch and left the mage's association.

*Grrrr

Flinching slightly at her hunger, Shiro grabbed a bunch of mana stone lollipops and ate them. Of course, she didn't forget about Yin and fed her also.

"Che, seems like this miss's pantry is running dry." Shiro pouted slightly when she saw only 3 mana stone lollipops left inside her inventory.

"Yin, we'll go to a dungeon tomorrow to refill on mana stones ok?" She asked as Yin nodded in excitement.

Entering the dungeon meant chances of levelling up. Which then meant she could enter C rank quicker.

Making her way back to the slums, Shiro looked at the time and saw that she still had several hours before the 24 hour mark.

"What shall I do for the last few hours?" She muttered but nothing came up. Shrugging shoulders, she decided to make her way to the lab first.

Arriving at the room, Shiro disabled the defences and walked inside.

"Holy sweet mother of hell what the f*ck?!" She couldn't help but curse in surprise when she saw the state of the man.

He had several cases of extreme muscles swelling to the point that it started to split apart. Boils could be seen especially around his eyes as his hollowed eyes only made it worse since she had gouged them out the night before.

Some of his body had started to break down with flesh rotting with a green and purple colour.

The only way she knew he was alive was due to the fact that she could see his lungs move. That right, there was a hole exposing a portion of his lungs for the n.a.k.e.d eye.

"Hmm…" Looking at the fact that he was still alive, Shiro grinned sadistically since she was somewhat curious about how he would react to certain action under the effects of the drug.

Pausing the recording Shiro crouched in front of him and created a rob with ice.

Narrowing her eyes in curiosity, Shiro poked his lungs which caused his legs to twitch.

"Hehe~" Grinning like a kid who had found a toy, Shiro decided to spend the last few hours to prod any holes she could find on his body without killing him.

If anyone could hear Shiro, all would think the place was haunted since the mixture of a happy giggle and muffled screams could be heard.

After a few hours of 'fun', Shiro stopped since she needed to record the time up to the 24th hour where he would die from the effects.

Pressing resume on the camera, Shiro sat back and waited.

The closer they got to the 24th hour, the more the man's body would convulse.

Once it hit the 24th hour, the man's body suddenly swelled up like a balloon. Shiro quickly made an ice wall to protect herself.

*BOOM!!!

Exploding into a fountain of puss and flesh, Shiro made sure that the recording was fine before sighing in relief.

'After a few edits, it will be perfect to distribute to the government and the higher echelon on the 3 big families.' Shiro thought with a smile.