"Unfortunately, you won't get to summon that hybrid." As soon as the chains were broken by Estella's energy eruption, Agatha swiftly activated a sealing technique.
All of a sudden, the second soul card that was just summoned on Estella's side disappeared immediately along with the giant serpent that was suppressed because of divine energy that invaded its system.
Meanwhile, Estella felt a huge suppression on her soul, more like on her soul orb, sealing her soul power completely. Her expression completely changed to fright because of the sudden change of events and she started to scream while falling towards the ground. She seriously felt like she was going to die.
Obviously, Agatha won't let her fall to death. Before Azzy even put forward his step, she quickly summoned one of the sacred pillars from the silver city and pierced her body.
Strangely, it didn't harm her but instead, it passed through her and pierced the ground, leaving her suspended in mid-air. Everything except for her head was inside the pillar and as a result, she couldn't move an inch no matter what she tries. Perhaps, the only good thing that came out of this is how her panic was reduced a lot and now, she was trying to communicate with her Arcana spirits to break the chains on her soul orb and get free.
Looking at her, Agatha dived down to her eye level and spoke, "no use of struggling, little girl. The moment you forced me to possess my host is when the match is already decided. Now, you are left with only one choice. Accept the defeat and then, apologize on your knees later."
"No, I won't… Argh…" Estella didn't give up on getting free from this trap. She continued to struggle but to no avail.
It was at that moment everyone saw Azzy quickly dash forward without giving any warning.
"Hmm, what is he doing?" A frown appeared on Agatha's face as she looked at him.
<strong>"Soul skill: Spear of Death."</strong>
A dark appeared in Azzy's hand and he pierced it with all his strength upon receiving the suggestion from the Reaper.
The sacred pillar, which was the pride of the Silver City cracked like glass upon the contact of the death spear and disappeared a few seconds later, freeing Estella.
"Kyaaa" Estella once again started to scream as she resumed to free fall. Azzy pushed his leg against the ground and jumped high, catching her in mid-air. Estella's eyes fell on Azzy as she put his arms around his neck in reflex.
As they were slowly landing on the ground, she just stared at his face as if she was lost in something.
Upon landing on the ground, Azzy raises his head to stare at Agatha for a while in silence. While he looked indifferent as before, for some reason, she felt he was serious or maybe angry?
Azzy then announced, "Student Estella is no condition to battle. However, student Claire broke the rules. Hence, the match is declared as void."
The frown on Agatha deepened as she flapped her wings and dived down. Estella was even more stunned than others. Was he siding with her instead of his girlfriend?
Landing on the ground, Agatha opened her mouth, "Inheritor of Death, you shouldn't have interfered with the match."
Naturally, she wasn't pleased that the sacred pillar was destroyed, although she knew that the death energy has the power to destroy the sacred pillars of heaven. Moreover, the spear of death was made purely of 99% death energy and 1% Protos energy.
Of course, there was a weakness to the Death spear too. It is only one time attack. If there are several sacred pillars like how Agatha used to contain the Draco Galarian, Azzy would have to depend on other attacks.
"Inheritor of Death?" Estella immediately come to her senses as soon as she heard it. She looked at Azzy curiously. But, her attention wasn't much longer on it.
Azzy, on the other hand, calmly replied to Agatha, "As a referee, I need to interfere when rules are broken. You have used a forbidden sealing technique on student Estella. Decarune seal can only be used against heinous criminals, not in a friendly sparring match. Release her, right now."
For a moment, she forgot her situation but Azzy's words remembered her that she was forcefully turned into a mortal, hopefully temporary. At the same time, her rage rose abruptly. It is a forbidden seal used against criminals? How dare she treat her that way? Does Agatha/Claire think she doesn't have any powerful trump cards in her arsenal? There are even rank-8 and rank-9 skill cards in her storage card that are pre-activated.
Agatha then said, "I will not unless she kneels and begs for it."
"It wasn't in the terms," Azzy argued back. Even though it was Claire's Arcana spirit, he can't agree with her demand. Moreover, there are dozens of spectators around.
"Beg?" Estella who was silent opened her mouth and made the situation even worse. "Who do you think I am?"
The Decarune seal only sealed her soul orb up to rank-1 but not her soul energy. She could still summon her storage card and take out the skill cards. And she did exactly the same.
Estella didn't even hesitate to take out an eight-star skill card from her storage card. The stars are even silver in color, meaning, their power will be around mid-rank-8 to high-rank-8 level. Even Azzy was taken aback by her sudden move.
"Remove these seals on my soul orb or else, I will be forced to use this." Estella threatened her with a powerful skill card that was given by her clan for safety.
Agatha snorted in response, "even a heavenly genius would need at least three seconds to unleash that skill. In that time…"
She stopped talking in the middle and instantly created a golden energy spear. "My spear will pierce your heart more than ten times."
"Oh, yeah? Then, try it and see if you manage to stay alive…" Estella went on to pour the soul energy into the pre-activated skill card. Agatha didn't back down either. She gripped her spear tightly, waiting for the last moment to see her opponent's resolve.
If Estella really planned to kill her, then, she wouldn't wait for it and destroy her enemy.
Azzy and the others felt the situation is turning worse as both of them seem to be very serious.
Just as Azzy was about to make his move to stop both of the girls, a shout was heard all over the Arena. "What's going on here?"
Sahara could no longer sit around in the stands and flew towards them. Like others, she was interested to see Estella's prowess but who could have expected Claire would stun her with her performance.
Everyone stared at the sky. With a serious expression on her face, the Vice Principal flew towards them and landed beside Azzy.
The three of them greeted her with a slight bow, to which the latter looked at the both of them, and ordered them in a stern tone, "This is an academy, not a battleground. Drop your weapons."
Estella argued back, "then, you tell her to remove the seal on my soul orb."
"You sent Claire's soul to an illusion world where even I can't easily bring her back." Agatha was ready to summon all of the sacred pillars to make sure even Azzy can't break them. She further said, "Unless you apologize, I will not let this slide."
"It was my power." Estella didn't admit defeat. Now, her skill card was ready to be unleashed. Of course, she wasn't a fool to commit a murder in daylight and that too, a royal. She was just using it as a threat. If Claire/Agatha will be adamant about not releasing her soul orb, then, Estella would take the help of her clan.
When Estella said that she was in her right to use her power against Claire in however he wants, Agatha replied to her that it was her power to seal her soul orb too. She was the spirit of the sword of St. Michael, the strongest Angel. Her pride is several levels greater than even Estella's. Why would she listen to her nonsense?
"Calm down…" Seeing that the girls are not backing down, Sahara roared at them in anger and released her high-rank-7 aura to pressure them. Were they even giving her respect?
A tremendous amount of aura pressed down the three of them. The Reaper quickly nullified the effect of aura on Azzy. While Agatha was almost on her knees and trying to resist it, Estella, whose soul power was restricted to below 10, let out a scream before fainting right away.
Due to the non-usage of the card for several seconds, the activated skill card dispersed into tiny fragments of energy, then, disappeared into thin air.
"Stop it, Ms. Fauns." Azzy immediately intervened, surprising everyone including Sahara herself, and then calmly said, "I'm the referee. Let me handle the situation. Please take back the aura."
Without talking to Agatha, he just walked towards the unconscious Estella and placed his hands almost an inch away from her back, and closed his eyes.
Soul energy escaped his hands and slowly formed a decagon-shaped seal with the images of Aries, Taurus, and so on up to Capricorn at each vertex. <strong>"Decarune Seal, unseal."</strong>
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