"If you don't want to waste more time, fight with all your strength! I want to see what makes you so confident in front of me!" Serena whispered these words, appearing instantly in front of Sofia, who had just stopped in her flying.
Despite being hit and flying more than a hundred meters away, she did not have the slightest scratch or bleeding on her body.
"What about your promise not to get involved in our business?" She asked Serena while moving away from her instead of counterattacking.
'Tsk, tsk, tsk! The more time I spend with this bitch, my master will be in danger of death. But I can't end this battle against her quickly. What should I do?!' While she was looking for a magical solution to solve her concerns,
Serena did not listen to her protests; she took a step forward, instantly erasing the distance between them, and directly jabbed at her throat with a long red sword that she had just made appear out of nowhere!
-CLANG!!
As for Ashia, seeing Serena's ruthless decision, she barred her attack with her spear, followed by a deafening friction that swept the forest around them!
"If you don't fight, don't blame me if you die of a pitiful death!" Serena then replied with a mischievous smile on her lips.
"Tsk! Very good! If you are so eager to get your ass kicked, then either!" She furiously shot out these words while grinding her teeth with annoyance and endless anger when she saw the situation becoming more threatening.
Simultaneously, her body became blazed with her inferno flames as her pupils became bloody red with dragon's eye features.
'!!'
Noticing this sudden change in Ashia's eyes, Serena jumped back and moved away from her; after feeling a sudden threat rush toward her.
-Bang!
Almost momentarily, a giant spear of black flames pierces Serena's previous spot!
But immediately noticing that her attack had missed her target, Ashia created hundreds of other spears of black flames around her and targeted Serena with them.
-Whooosh!!
"Hah! Definitely, you are stronger than I expected! But it's still not enough!" Serena replied, watching Ashia's spears whistle at her as if they were remanent images.
[Divine Law: scarlet flames!]
But just as Ashia's attacks were about to reach Serena, she murmured these words, also creating scarlet red flames around her.
-BOOM!!
Following the intense impact that made the whole forest tremble, Ashia's dark flames gradually consumed Serena's scarlet flames, almost instantly reducing them to nothingness before attacking the body of their target, which was none other than Serena!
But contrary to a positive reaction, Ashia darkly frowned when she saw Serena easily touched by her attack. But the real reason for her frown was to see Serena, thanks to her magical perception, standing straight in her flames without pain!
'Tsk, Tsk, tsk! This bitch has not stolen her reputation as one of the most powerful among the primordial ones.' She commented bitterly in her thoughts, noticing Serena's mischievous smile.
On the conclusion that Serena had a strange resistance against her lower celestial flames that could even hurt a primordial, she then canceled her skill not to waste her magical energy for nothing.
If her attack was more potent than Serena's divine law, the latter's power was another thing.
And taking into account this bitter reality, Ashia knew that fighting her in a duel of usury was the only solution. But this decision can never be advantageous to her since she had to join Alvine before it was too late.
"Fufu~, so, even the lower celestial flames can exterminate the flames of divine laws? It's interesting; maybe I should find a low-row celestial flame too to merge it with my essence!" Serena's sarcastic words then resounded following the cancellation of Ashia's spells.
While retorting these words, her mysterious coin floated above her head and began by turning on top of her.
"?!! Don't even dream!" Almost guessing Serena's actions, she moved quickly toward her and stabbed her belly before she finished what she intended to do.
-Keukh!
Feeling her spear pierce Serena and seeing her expression finally twist in pain, a sadistic smile emerged on Ashia's lips as she pushed her spear deep into Serena's stomach while twisting it into her!
"I'm finally holding you!" She madly leered at her as she continued to sink her spear into her.
But the next moment, her expression darkened, feeling a sudden unease.
And her suspicions were confirmed when she noticed Serena's strange smile, who had lips stained with the red blood she had just spit!
'?! Red blood?! It's bad!' She then rushes away from Serena at lightning speed.
'W-why she bleeds red blood instead of golden blood?! Don't tell me she has yet finished casting her concept's skill before I'm spearing her?!' She stuttered these words breathlessly.
"Ah, the pain. Even if your attack is downhill, it still remains an appreciable attack." Serena's clear and mocking voice resounded again after noticing Ashia's mistrust.
"More, attack me with everything you have! I want to know more about your skills and see if you can damage me." She said, calmly stepping toward Ashia with her bloody belly.
'?! Oh lord! I'm really starting to scary of her masochism! But why the hell has she bled red blood?!'
Seeing her pitiful state and hearing her contradictory words, Ashia had cold sweats, having an idea about the current situation.
Simultaneously, Serena's coin stopped turning, but it stopped up on the black tail instead of the white!
'She... she's crazier than I imagined! She doesn't have an ounce of pride as an essential being!' While stammering these words, Ashia continued to keep a safe distance between them.
"Ho? You now seem to understand that you are condemned, don't you? Fufu~, well, it's time to do the same!" As soon as she pronounced these words, the coin on top of her head continuously turned between the two tails.
Seeing this, Ashia gulped nervously with pearls of sweat on her forehead.
|Concept of destiny: Inversion of destiny! |
Serena then murmured in the primordial language.
Following her words, the coin stopped on the other whitetail!
The next moment, the injuries inflicted by Ashia turned against her! More precisely, the fatal wound on Serena's abdomen mysteriously disappeared without leaving a trace on her!
-Ueukhhh!!
But conversely, Ashia felt an unbearable pain pierce her belly!
While knowing it wasn't an illusion just because Serena didn't move from her place. And looking at the red blood trough under her primordial armor, she finally concludes that Serena had used one of the skills of her concept on her!
But thanks to her regeneration, her wound healed at a speed that was not lower than that of Alvine.
'Urk! If I hadn't been careful with her, I would certainly have died at the current time if I had targeted her central core!' She said to herself, wiping the blood on her lips.
'Inversion of destiny is one of the skills of her destiny concept. This skill consists of returning all the damage she receives to her aggressor! If Lady Rina hadn't given me information about her, I could really have stupidly caused my death!' She continued in her thoughts, jumping towards her.
'But if my physical attacks won't work on her, then I just have to attack her with my magic attacks!' She shouts out in her thought.
But this time, instead of attacking her with her spear, she created a blood spear and shot it at her!
-Puff!
The red spear stabbed directly into Serena's right shoulder, who did not bother to avoid her attack.
But as before, Ashia received the damage in place of Serena after the piece reversed again.
'Keuh! When did this madwoman find a solution to this weakness?! According to Lady Rina's information, this skill she possesses could only return the physical damage to her aggressor, not the magic attacks!' She whispered these words to herself with incredulous eyes while enduring the harsh pain of her own attacks.
Early seeing Ashia's expression, Serena's smile gradually grows.
"Oh? Did you think I couldn't send you back your magic attacks? Contrary to what you believe, even if you can use the primordial energy, you will remain a weak and low-ranking creature. The only attacks that my concept cannot flex are the skills of the same level as it; in other words, the skills of the concepts.
-Use your inferno flames, your most powerful skills, and even your divine laws to attack me as much as you want; in the end, the outcome will always be the same; your attacks can never reach me." She then replied, displaying a sinister smile to Ashia.
"Concepts, do you say? Ah, if only that, then thank you for the information!" Ashia, always with vigorous eyes filled with unwavering confidence, firmly grabbed the spear and closed her eyes.
'Tsk! What a fucking boring battle. In addition to preventing me from rescuing my master, this slut tried, by all means, to push me to show all my strength. I could have put her in trouble if she was another low-ranking primordial. But being one of the strongest even among the primordials and being able to force Lady Rina to fight hard against her, I have no chance against her!'
She inhaled and exhaled several times to calm down and organize her thoughts to find a reliable solution to her current situation.
'As it is impossible for me to defeat her or even put her in difficulty, I have no other option than to ask for help. But since she doesn't seem to intend to kill me, I always have a chance to surprise her at the right time and inflict an injury that, I hope, will be serious enough to put her in trouble.'
*Nicco, I need your help and Helene's; send the others back to the kingdom of the elves and join me as soon as possible.*
Following this brief message from her, she opened her eyes, accompanied by her strange smile.
Seeing her expression, Serena frowned in her turn, but she did not move, curious to see what she intended to do.
But the next moment,
-Stab!!
-?!!
Her expression turned into disbelief when she saw Ashia stabbing herself in the shoulder with her spear!
But following the latter's action, the situation reversed instantly. Instead of Ashia, it was Serena who was injured, even though she had not been attacked directly by Ashia!
Seeing the golden blood flowing from Serena's shoulder,
'As I imagined, this skill does not really reflect the damage her opponent inflicts her, but it reverses the fate of two people. In other words, if I continue to inflict damage on myself, instead of being hurt by my attacks, she will receive the damage I am supposed to take. Urgh! No wonder she became so carefree in the face of pain!' With this conclusion, she instantly continued her self-mutilation without the slightest hesitation.
But just as she thought she had found a parade to Serena's skill, she stopped receiving damage instead of Serena!
"Haha~ you're funny. But do you think that other people have not tried to act like you? Unlike Sabrina, your intelligence is limited." She calmly revealed while showing a small amount of her primordial aura as if she did not want to intimidate her prey to cure her first wounds.
Thanks to the regeneration of both, they were able to heal completely after only a few seconds.
'So she canceled her skill, Huh? That's a good thing!' On Ashia's side, she no longer held back after noticing this.
But as a precaution, she reached out to Serena and murmured in the draconian language:
(Be flattened!)
By pronouncing these two simple words, gravitational pressure falls on Serena to the point of bringing her to her knees!
But the next moment, the same pressure fell on Ashia, too, causing her to collapse to the ground!
"Shit! What's that again?!" She shouted with rage and disbelief, suffering the same effects of the attack she had just used against Serena!
"Until now, I have only used the basic skills of my concept. Don't be so surprised when our battle hasn't even started yet! Keep showing me everything you are capable of. And if you manage to satisfy my curiosity, I will let you join your master; and I will even be ready to help you as a reward for damaging me!" She said with a mocking smile, proudly looking at Ashia, unable to move her little finger.