Certainly, Elena did not have her magical perception to give her a 360-degree view; but she had one thing that could help her guess Cindy's towers, the experiences she gained on the countless battlefields!
Feeling the danger coming from behind, she vertically interposed her sword between her neck and Cindy's dagger.
-Clang!!
The rattling between the two supreme weapons created a magnetic field that sweeps all the clouds above them even creating deep notches in the ground below their feet because of the blades of the winds that emanated from their clashings.
"Kheh!" Elena, satisfied with the new thrust she received from Cindy's dagger, flies towards her in her frantic momentum.
Cindy was no different from her either.
Anyway, she had a smile that also showed her satisfaction when she saw Elena coming towards her like a butterfly obsessed with the light of an electric lamp.
At that moment, Elena felt a bad omen.
But she silenced all her senses which shouted at her to withdraw.
Cindy, for her part, soon showed a more nightmarish scene never expected for Alvine or Elena as soon as she arrived five meters from her.
With an ultra-fast and agile movement like a phoenix in the sky, she sneakily zoomed in towards Elena.
The latter, unable to move properly in the air, had no choice but to swing her sword towards her like a primitive knight.
But once again, Cindy flashes and then reappears behind her.
"It's over!"
While mumbling this short sentence, she puts her palm on Elena's left shoulder blade and pushes her slightly forward.
Even if her action was unparalleled nonchalance, the consequences were huge.
Elena's body flew in the air like a rocket that had just taken off.
But Cindy was not satisfied with this attack, she reappeared once again in front of Elena and punched her in the stomach, suddenly reversing her trajectory from the fly to the ground!
-BOOOOMM!!!!
Against all odds, Elena was still standing on both feet with only a few creases on her dress and boots that represented a few cracks.
Confused by her 'weak' attack, Elena peeked at her body but found nothing strange with it.
Having no other choice, Elena finally shows her wings, which she had hidden until now and which were part of her true constitution after her transformation by Alvine which dates back to the time of her resurrection and that of her brother.
Just by seeing her wings, Cindy understood that she was only playing with her from the beginning, but her nonchalance showed she did not care about this detail.
Before Elena reaches her, she points her palm towards the same person which floats towards her with a fiendish smile. "Didn't you hear me or do you pretend to be deaf? I told you it's the end!"
As soon as she mumbled these words in a deep voice, Elena felt her weight quintupled by several tons!
-!? - Noticing this fact, she suddenly stops with suspicious eyes for the first time.
'What did she just do?' That was the question she and Alvine were asking each other.
"Your ignorance about our race will lead you to your grave, you fucking bitch!" Cindy then roars before closing her hand with a small air explosion.
Simultaneously, Elena lands heavily in the previous crater she made after receiving Cindy’s punch!
Seeing that her ability worked perfectly on her enemy who became her prey, Cindy lands near the three-meter-deep crater and looks at Elena with wild eyes.
"It's time for you to pay for the 9785 lives you took." She said with a serious air.
Elena leaned on her sword to help her body support the gravitational power on her in constant loops!
Despite sweating profusely to the point of completely wetting her red dress, Elena always has her confident smile. "How long times can you maintain this skill? To be able to put me down, you have to spend a colossal amount of energy to...-
"Arcane of control, first step, control of the opposing energy." Cindy interrupts her by mumbling these words.
"This energy doesn't come from me, but from your magical energy that you can't serve yourself."
"Huh!?" Elena's smile threatened to collapse on her lips when she heard these words.
"Hehe~, Do you think you're making me swallow such bullshit?"
Hearing her words, instead of answering her, Cindy snapped her fingers and followed black lightning that manifested not around her, but Elena!
-!?
Elena's face wrinkled when she saw this anomaly that confirmed Cindy's words.
In the same second, her black lightning crawls around her like snakes imprisoning their prey before devouring them.
In addition to enduring the pain of being struck by her own magic, Elena also had to fight to free herself from the hind obstruction of her wrath that was beginning to cause her physical and spiritual damage.
'Uh! I didn't know that my own lightning could be so powerful! This bitch is starting to get boring!'
As if it were not enough, her other affinities begin to engage one after the other before she frees herself from the lightning.
“Give up, no matter how much you struggle, you will not be able to escape from my hands. With your blood, I would wash the souls of your victims of all their suffering; your pulpit will serve as feasts to satisfy them from their corrupted revenge."
Looking in the distance, and attending the unexpected scene, Alvine could not help clenching his fists; not out of concern for Elena, but struggling with all his strength to keep his emotions under control. His eyes shone with malice as he saw Cindy keep Elena on the ground.
At this moment, Rendy lands behind him. "Don't worry, Sir Alvine, I wouldn't let my sister kill your monarch."
Hearing Rendy's voice, Alvine turns to her with contracted eyebrows.
"But on the other hand, if you are still not satisfied with this demonstration, it could be that my sister, already lost in her thirst for revenge, kills your subordinate by your fault." She continued seeing Alvine's confused eyes.
"You mean that you are not affected by these flames for revenge?" Alvine couldn't help asking for confirmation.
"Flames of revenge? May we talk about revenge only towards the culprit."
"What do you mean by that?" Alvine's frown increased as he listened to Rendy's words, which were strange and always posed than usual.
"Unlike my sister, I can differentiate the blood of our fellow Crystalus beings on those who massacred them. This woman doesn't have the smell of my fellow Crystalus beings, which means that she stole these cores from one of her victims. So I would feel bad for someone who indirectly contributed to avenging my species. Her death will not bring me anything good."
"... I see." Alvine nods his head nonchalantly.
'So she was innocent from the beginning, huh? I was afraid that this story would turn into a fiasco; but I still have a chance to...-
"I ask you a second time, will you let your monarch die?" She mutters heavily with persistence.
Alvine's eyes turned abyssal black, slightly surprising Rendy who thought he was unable to manifest the slightest ounce of his energy.
"Kuku..., if my monarchs were so easy to kill, they would not be worthy to stand next to me."
"What do you mean by that? The skill my sister uses on her is to manipulate the energy of her prey and attack it with it. In other words, she doesn't need to use her energy to kill her."
"I have already understood how this arcane worked on it; I had an arcane that was similar to this one; except that mine only takes possession of the spiritual skills of my target instead of all its other attributes. Seen from this angle, you will be a powerful ally." Alvine mutters while focusing on Elena who seems to have her back to the wall.
The latter's body was bleeding profusely, making her red dress almost white dirty.
Not understanding the reasons related to Alvine's indecision, Rendy frowns and asks him: "So what are you waiting for to decide?"
As if Alvine was only waiting for this question from her, he immediately became uninterested in the palpitating battle that was going on and faced Rendy with a mischievous smile that showed off his white teeth but was unpleasant to look at.
"What if we make a bet?"
Rendy’s eyes darkened as her fringes shadowed them. "...Do you think this woman can defeat my sister even though she already has a foot in her grave?"
"Kukukh, well, don't sell the bear's skin before killing it."
"Sell what?" Since Rendy was not an inhabitant of the earth, the animals of this blue planet were unknown to her; not even sure that she knew a bear.
"Forget this adage. What I try to say in sum is if you are ready to bet on your sister's victory."
"..."
Seeing her silence that showed her hesitation, Alvine soon baited her like a demon, who came to her in her dream, to sell her dreams clouds.
"If she wins, I would not be your ally, but even better, I would become your mistress's minion. I would obey her with my finger and eye. No matter what she tells me, I will follow her order. But it will be the opposite if she loses the fight against Elena; and of course, I would not intervene in the duel, but just encourage her verbally."
Rendy felt like she was struck by thunders when she heard Alvine's proposal. n-/0vεlbIn
But knowing who and what kind of person she had to do with, she shakes her head. "I'm not interested in...-
"Of course, if she manages to stay up within a minute, she will have won regardless of whether the match ends on an equal footing," Alvine adds, thus breaking the Rendy barrier.
"Tsk, such a level of arrogance is really exasperating. Regardless of the rank of your monarch, she will never be able to regain control over her magic in such a short time. Moreover, her bloodline may give her a powerful strength, but she will never be able to compete with my sister even if she...-
"Stop wasting my time and tell me whether or not you are in the race, if not, clear out of my territory before I lose patience!"
At that moment, Alvine's eyes seemed to be guided by such intense anger that Rendy had the impression that he was using his magical energy to oppress him.
But a second later, a short delay that allowed her to take charge, she slammed her tongue once again.
"Very well, I just hope you won't be a bad loser."
No longer wanting to waste time, Alvine taps his chest twice in a row with his left fist. "I swear on my vital essence that I will enter under the orders of your mistress, with all my possessions and soldiers at her disposal if I come out defeated in this bet."
Rendy sighed with an annoying air. "I also swear on my vital essence." She accepted the deal by placing her thin fingers on the emerald green crystal on her chest.
Seeing this, Alvine nods his head before focusing on Elena.
'To prevent this girl from perpetuating this battle, there is only one way. I can't believe I'm going to use these words to push her to her ends, but it's better not to take a risk with everything I've just bet.' After making his decision, Alvine takes action!
"Elena, if you manage to defeat her within thirty seconds, I will let you fish whatever you want from my own collection." His voice, pronounced in the form of murmurs, did not pass inaudible in Elena's eardrums.
The latter instantly forgot all the pain and her enemy who tortured her in a loop.
"You're not serious...are you!?" She stuttered as if she had just lost her soul.
Alvine nods before a sneaky smile distorts his face. "But on the other hand, if you fail, I would seize all your possessions for eternity!"
"Wh.. What's the fucks you just said!?"