As the three-head hydra unleashed the soul skill, the green head's eyes changed from white to glowing red before the surrounding air started to revolve around it.
Almost instantly, Claire got trapped in it and moved in a spiral path towards the sky while a powerful tornado was generated before everyone's eyes.
She was trying to move but to no avail. Despite not doing any damage, the wind was completely controlling her movements. With her eyes spinning, Claire closed her eyes and concentrated on the sword she tightly gripped.
She poured soul energy towards her hand and then, the sword. Slowly, the sword started to glow in a divine aura.
Meanwhile, powerful winds obstructed everyone's vision. Neither from the team Twilight nor the team Unicorn was able to see their opponents.
Even Zona, who unleashed the skill, was in the same condition. Just then, the glowing sword grabbed her attention. She decided to make the next move and gave the finishing blow.
Looking at the tornado, Azzy remembered the memory of being trapped inside the tornado. He remembered how his skin was roasted by the fire tornado combo.
Even though he experienced it in the illusion world, the pain was still fresh in his mind. It was so fresh that a month ago, when the Elite division made the trip to the level-2 region of Artemis mountain range, Azzy went on a massacre upon spotting the multi-headed beasts.
"Claire was trapped," Barbara spoke in a worried tone.
"Before Senior Zona unleashes the lethal combo attack, Claire needs to use the soul energy eruption to get out of there. Or else, her life will be in danger." Although Azzy replied without any emotion, he was still serious inside.
"Lethal combo attack?" Iphi, who was kinda paying attention to him, once in a while, wondered about the trump card that Zona holds, which is so powerful that it can threaten an opponent's life who is of a light attribute.
While she kept the doubt to herself, Barbara, on the other hand, asked him about it.
Azzy pointed his finger at the three-headed serpent that was sitting at the eye of the tornado, "See the heads of the Hydra. They are red, green, and yellow. That means it possesses fire, wind, and lightning attributes.
If the redhead uses the next soul skill, Fire Breath, and adds it to the tornado, it will become the fire tornado. The attack will reach low-rank-5.
And then, if the yellow head adds the third soul skill to the combo, Lightning-fire-tornado or whatever it will be called, not only the attack power will reach high-rank-5 but Claire will feel the effects of the elements.
Tornado will keep her helpless; the fire will roast her skin while the lightning element will paralyze her body so that she won't even get the chance to resist.
This is why the authorities put a restriction to enter certain areas like Swann Lake and snake valley in the Artemis Mountain Range. Unless one is peak-rank-4, one cannot enter those places."
"Look at the guy behind us. How he's posing to be a knowledgeable person even though he's only a mere rank-3. Must be trying to woo the girl. What a fool…" A student of Phoenix Academy whispered to Iphi who sat next to her.
"He's the guy that my sister recommended for the Royal knight. He's rank-5 and owns a platinum grade beast, by the way..." Iphi replied to her while concentrating on the match.
"Eh?" The girl was taken aback and she immediately turned her head to look at Azzy and Barbara who weren't paying attention to them. Because of the loud cheers around, her whisper didn't reach Azzy's ears either.
"I remember him. He's the blank-faced guy that ignored you and disrespected us, right?" She recalled the memory when they just reached this Academy.
Back then, Iphi greeted him but didn't get any response which displeased the other teammates too. At that time, this same girl from the Moon Academy also accompanied him.
As she tried to confirm with Iphi about the same matter, the latter didn't reply and looked straight. It was another bad memory of her. She wasn't willing to recall it.
Back to the stage, as the rest of the team members of Twilight hurried forward to save Claire, Zona quickly ordered the team to move out to stop the other four from interrupting.
Following her order, Bay Passel's Armored Gorilla and Katherine's Steel Armadillo rushed to the front to defend the vulnerable Hydra that still has one trump card left.
At the same time, she made her second move. "Vivi, Activate Soul Skill: Lightning strike."
*Hisssss*
The yellow head's eyes turned red as it was trying to unleash a lightning strike from the clouds, aiming at Claire.
Unlike the tornado, it didn't happen instantly. The clouds are gathering above the stadium, covering the sun.
Everyone saw the sparks being generated in the clouds.
Looking at how the sword's aura thickened, Zona didn't waste the time and ordered it to strike her down in a hurry.
A flash of lightning strikes down from the clouds onto Claire.
"I didn't expect that this girl Zona would act foolish at this point…" A Phoenix Academy student shook her head as she let out a sigh. She's a peak-rank-5 Expert.
"Captain Luci?" The rest of the girls turned their heads towards her. "It's obvious if you look at it." She didn't explain and fold her hands to the chest.
"What does she mean?" Barbara asked Azzy upon hearing her statement. The girl was sitting right in front of her and spoke in a normal tone. It's not hard for Barbara to hear it even with surrounding cheers.
"The problem lies with the aim." Azzy pointed at the tornado.
The lightning strike ripped through the tornado and hit a couple of meters away from the hydra, making a hole through the battle platform.
Meanwhile, Gideon used the Thunder steps skill card to enhance his speed and dashed towards his enemy while raising his sword to cut it down.
Just as the lightning strike missed its mark, Gideon was able to reach Hydra. <strong>"Soul skill: Fall of Lightning."</strong>
Infused with soul energy, sparks on the lightning sword formed an extra layer around the sword.
Just as he was aiming at the beast, suddenly, a glowing object dropped from the sky and pierced its body.
Gideon was startled at first and jumped back but then, as he saw the familiar-looking heavy sword that pinned it down, followed by the disappearance of the wind, a smile appeared on Gideon and he dashed towards the Armored Gorilla that almost reached the Hydra.
Like an Angel descending onto the earth, Claire, with the holy aura around her body and white wings on her back, slowly landed before the Hydra that returned to being a slime on its own for some reason.
"Vivi…" Zona screamed as she ran towards the beast. Meanwhile, the rest of her teammates were stunned by the sudden turn of events.
Lark who was just standing around with their Arcana Beast, made his move to help his girlfriend.
Dale also dashed towards the Hydra while carrying his turtle beast. He had no choice because of its slow speed.
"Everyone, attack." Claire gave an order while grabbing the handle of her sword. As she poured the soul energy into the sword, the aura thickened further. The slime was blown up, right away.
Zona halted her steps as she saw her Arcana spirit returned to her soul card. "It's not over, yet." Looking at Claire seriously, she took out a card with four gold stars.
<strong>"Activate, Revival…"</strong>
All of a sudden, the soul card that was hovering around her glowed for a second before the familiar-looking slime returned.
<strong>"Vivi, copy…"</strong> Zona didn't waste any time and immediately turned it into a sword this time. It looks identical to that of Claire's. She then took out a recovery card and filled her soul power to the max.
"I only have two soul skills left to spare. I should use them carefully," Zona muttered under her breath before dashing towards Zona for close combat.
Meanwhile, Gideon attacked the Armored Gorilla with the soul skill that's already activated.
Due to its high defense, only a massive cut appeared on its chest and it started to bleed.
"Dale…" Bay shouted.
"I got it." With the turtle in his arms, as he reached halfway, he then ordered the turtle to help the Gorilla.
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