"A second Arcana spirit?" Azzy was stunned as he was watching the match from the waiting room.
He couldn't believe his eyes for a moment. After all, he was even invited to her mindscape but there was only one thing, the sword in the stone.
Then from where this second Arcana came from? Did she purposely hide it?
Just then, a familiar chuckle was heard inside his head. "In the search for extraordinary things that are far away, humans often ignore the things that are right in front of them just because they appeared to be normal."
"What do you mean, Chronos?" Azzy didn't understand what the Reaper's statement has to do anything with him not being able to sense the presence of second Arcana in her mindscape.
Instead of explaining further, the Reaper then simply said, "then, watch carefully. What do you see?"
Azzy narrowed his eyes and watched carefully where the beam of compressed water that generated from the soul card suddenly changed its direction as soon as it missed its target.
"Nothing, Just water…" As Azzy replied to him, something clicked in his mind and he tried to remember the exact scenery of Leah's mindscape. "It's that river, isn't it?"
"Now, you realized." The Reaper confirmed it and then explained to him that he didn't pay attention to the endless water that was flowing through the grassland.
While Azzy understood that he needs to be careful in the future, at the same time, he got a little bit confused about its form.
After all, according to what he learned from Avia, Arcana spirits will always stay in their true form in the mindscape. They could only change their shape or size when they were materialized outside.
On top of that, only the spirits that escaped the spirit world and merged with things like mountains, forests, rivers, or lakes will be in such form.
"Did she have an entire river as Arcana?" Azzy could only ask the Reaper for further clarification.
As the Reaper confirmed him, Azzy remembered about that unique five-star skill card that was in the possession of Leah which was supposed to be very useful in this battle. "I can see how she will use that card against this Draco-Galarian. Let's hope it will be a success."
Back to the Arena, the appearance of platinum grade beast greatly surprised thousands of spectators even including the people from Heavenly Academy. They didn't know that Leah was a twin card user at all.
Of course, their representative instructor looked calm as if she knew about it. With her fixed on Vann, he mumbled, "Vann Hildegard, huh. He forced the princess to reveal her trump card that she was hiding so many years."
Meanwhile, the gold dragon was hit by the water beam in the chest and was pushed back.
It was the dragon's turn to face the pressure where it was not even able to block or dodge from the attack.
With the never-ending volume of water continuously blasted outside from the soul card at high pressure, the water beam hit the barrier and held it at the wall of the barrier like a prisoner.
When Vann realized that he couldn't get his gold dragon free out of that water spirit's grasp, he dismissed it without wasting any time on it.
He could actually resummon it right away but in order to not to raise anyone's suspicions, he decided to bring back the Gold dragon a few minutes later.
Of course, Vann wasn't worried about it. His greatest strength lies in his fists, not in some fake Gold dragon.
"Good, I got a couple of minutes. Need to use it wisely."
Once the Gold dragon disappeared from the view, Leah nodded in satisfaction and then, gave another order to her Arcana. "Izarok, dive and merge…"
The Compressed water beam then changed its direction once again and dove into the water lake, strangely without causing any waves despite the heavy force.
While Vann could see its tail was fixed to the soul card, due to its large length and submergence underwater, he sensed its presence all over the lake as Izarok took control of the lake and merged into it, raising the water level by one whole foot.
However, Vann stopped caring about it after sensing that it was only a platinum-grade spirit. His eyes were fixed on the celestial grade Arcana in the hands of his opponent.
As a fellow Celestial grade beast, he wouldn't underestimate the power of the sword whose wielder once ruled the entire world.
Meanwhile, Leah charged forward. After covering half of the distance, she gave a command, "Rise up, Izarok."
Upon her order, below Vann's feet, a small volume of water rose, transforming into the shape of slender human hands. If one closely observes it, they could see that it's almost identical to that of Leah's.
The water hands caught his legs successfully. Vann felt like he was paralyzed for a second. When he couldn't move a single inch, he closed his eyes for a moment. Soul energy gushed out from his legs and destroyed them.
However, Izarok hasn't given up yet. As its first attempt failed, this time, a huge volume of water rose from all sides like pillars.
Vann looked at them calmly, "futile effort."
As the beams of compressed water attack him from all the sides, a part of soul energy gathered around his hand.
With his right leg as the pivot, he spun around and motioned his arm like he was slashing the empty air before him.
The spectators saw a ring of dense energy around Vann, which slowly expanded its size while becoming thinner and sharper.
Soon, the water beams collided with it but were sliced cleanly into two. They collapsed and rejoined the water lake.
"What the…" Leah's eyes widened in surprise and stopped her movements as her strategy failed. She didn't expect Vann would not only attain the stability but increase his mastery over the soul energy this fast.
After all, he was originally a wild beast that doesn't even have the ability to master the soul energy.
She glanced at the spectators in the surroundings and then, at her opponent. "Do I really have no choice?"
Leah immediately shook her head, "No, unless I'm sure to kill him, it's better to keep it a secret or else, he will be careful against me. Moreover, I will be subjected to more assassinations, later. Better keep it hidden."
Taking a deep breath, she gave another order to the water body. "Izarok, materialize."
Once again, a small volume of water rose gently before Vann's eyes and this time, transformed into the shape of a girl, largely resembled Leah.
"Restrict him, Izarok." Leah gave an order and proceeds to dash towards her opponent, once again.
As the aqua girl raised her hands, Vann felt a tremendous force beneath his feet. Before he moved away, the water rose abruptly, making him fly upwards against his will.
Vann experienced such force through the Dragon just a while ago.
It greatly surprised me that even with physical strength that's comparable to that of high-rank-7 soul energy empowered Arcana master, he still wasn't able to resist the tremendous amount of force and continued to be pushed towards the ceiling of the barrier.
"Argh…" His back hit the ceiling of the barrier hardly and spat out a mouthful of blood.
In the next second, the water that was springing up suddenly retreated to the lake at a rapid pace.
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