"Drazzan!"
The death of the brother shocked Braxton. He never expected that his twin would die in the battle.
He immediately used energy eruption to push away Leah and Izaru before rushing madly towards the dead body of the other twin.
Leah planned to obstruct him but Azzy surprisingly took a leap to the back and moved away from the body and gestured for her to stop. Azzy began to refine the absorbed energy and recovered his soul power by about 2.5 million.
As the both of them including Izaru gathered at a spot, Braxton wailed as he grabbed his brother's corpse. For a moment, Azzy and Leah became the bad guys as the audience felt pity for the Exalt realm expert.
Normal human beings were usually good in nature. Even after knowing the rules very well, the spectators couldn't help but blame Azzy in their hearts for being ruthless with his opponent.
On the other hand, Proctor was truly indifferent to the deaths of contestants and was rather happy that he had found a gem. In his opinion, if Azzy can kill a rank-7 expert with such ease and that too, at such a young age, it indicates his potential to become a pillar of the humans. Such people can never lose their lives.
He decided to inform the President of WAMO before taking on the decision on whether he should closely watch both of them keep them alive.
Back to the battle, an enraged Braxton stored the body in his storage card and got up on his feet. A thick layer of demonic energy covered him while his body went under transformation.
His eyes turned into red slits just like his brother except that they were horizontal. However, he wasn't done there. He grew bat-like wings and goat-like horns protruded from his forehead. Meanwhile, his soul power grew to peak-rank-7.
Braxton put away the saber and stretched his arms. Spheres of demonic energy were conjured at both of his palms in just a couple of seconds. Nevertheless, Azzy and Leah were long prepared for it.
"Izaru, contain the damage." Leah passed the order to the aqua princess whose current form is a compressed water volume of 25000 km3 or 25 quadrillion liters.
In an instant, her body transformed into a formless water body and expanded by ten times, swallowing up the two demonic energy spheres.
However, Braxton was calm. He raised his arm and made a tight fist, "kaboom."
Originally, the sphere should have exploded, destroying the core of Izaru, thereby killing it. But, to everyone's surprise, including Leah, the explosion never occurred as the spheres never detonated.
Why?
The Protos energy inside Izaru clashed with the corrupted demonic energy and eliminated it. If it had been soul energy mixed in, maybe, the outcome would have been a bit different but the Protos Energy will never allow the positive cosmic forces like divine and demonic energies, which were born at the dawn of the universe to exist. They are considered hostile entities.
As a result, the attack was nullified completely, giving a huge surprise to Leah who glanced at Azzy and then asked the Excalibur, "Old man, what is that black lotus? How did it boost Izarok's ability to this state that even an attack from a peak-rank-7 is nothing? Is this the so-called death energy's ability?"
Excalibur refused to divulge the details for some reason, "lass, sometimes, it's better to ignore the things rather than dwell on the matter. At present, Azrael is your ally and it is better if you put aside your curiosity about his powers and just enjoy the benefits."
"Hmpf, so, secretive," Leah puffed her cheeks as she complained in a mumble.
Meanwhile, the failure only enraged Braxton further.
"Let's see how long will you hold for." He sent another two spheres of demonic energy.
"Izaru, contain."
Once again, the spheres entered the water body of Izaru but neither could they get out nor could they explode. They were eaten up by Protos Energy. However, it didn't escape unscathed either. Leah could see the shade of the thickest black-colored Izaru started to get lighter. She doesn't know what it means but Azzy knows.
He realized that the Protos energy is also getting consumed. Since Ruby is only a platinum grade Arcana, it will take a long time for it to recover its Protos energy.
Azzy turned his head and quickly said to her, "Izaru might not handle too many attacks. Let's go with big attacks."
"Alright," She came to her senses and nodded.
Leah then ordered, "<strong>Izaru, unleash the soul skill: Water dragon Prison."</strong>
As soon as her words ended, the huge water body of Izaru transformed into a whiskered water dragon without any wings and flew towards its target at a high speed.
Braxton launched an energy beam at the incoming dragon. The beam pierced through the dragon and made a hole in its head. But then, within a second, the hole was refilled by the water and the dragon looked like it wasn't harmed at all.
"Fool, water cannot be destroyed. It can only be vaporized." Leah mumbled as she proceeded to raise the Excalibur, <strong>"Soul skill: The raging torrent of Lightning."</strong>
Almost all of her soul energy is consumed by the attack.
As the sword in the stone started glowing, the clouds gathered up in the sky, blocking the sunlight. The clouds started to rumble very loudly. It was as if Zeus got angered. For a moment, the spectators looked up at the sky. People thought it is going to rain.
Braxton, on the other hand, didn't care. His attention was on the incoming dragon that is getting closer. Maybe, the anger clouded his judgment. He didn't even bother to think for a second and launched a series of demonic energy beams from his palms, piercing the black water dragon.
Azzy also took a glance at the dragon and then, at the clouds, "I wonder if the combo will be strong enough to take down the demon. Anyway, I need to prepare for my task."
He resumed his absorption of the natural energy from the surroundings.
Meanwhile, the water dragon reached Braxton. As it opened its mouth to swallow him up, he felt danger. He evaded the attack by flapping his wings. His eyes fell on Leah and Azzy as he continued to fly upwards. After he flew like 50 meters, it stopped following.
Braxton fell at ease when he saw that. "I guess it can no longer go on…"
Instead of attacking the dragon, he launched a demonic energy sphere at Leah and Azzy because they were the controllers and his enemies who killed his brother.
"Azrael," She shouted, not being able to move from the current spot due to not wanting to interrupt the process of the soul skill.
"I'm on it." He dashed forward and stood before Leah and launched energy palms at incoming attacks. These energy palms contained only the attribute energy of death and Protos energy, but even the natural energy was also added to match the power.
He was so precise that his energy fists and the demonic energy spheres collided perfectly, creating a small set of explosions as a result.
"You…" Braxton's rage was at its peak as he was getting failed again and again. "I'll destroy you…"
In between the horns, all of his energy started to gather.
"Once again, you proved that demons are too full of themselves, after all." Leah shook her head with a smile. She then glanced at the black water dragon.
All of a sudden, the black water dragon stretched his neck at a rapid pace and coiled around Braxton when he had lowered his guard against it.
"What the…" He didn't expect the sudden ambush and dismissed his attack to get out of its grip. However, the black water dragon was faster. In just a fraction of a second, it enveloped him completely and imprisoned him. A huge water sphere was seen floating in the air. Because the color is black, the spectators couldn't see the guy.
Naturally, Braxton wouldn't allow himself to be confined but the Protos energy inside will not let him leave. It invaded his body and tried its best to eliminate all the demonic energy. The black water sphere started to get lighter. It was now light gray in color.
But, none of it matters to Leah who successfully achieved what she needed.
"Now," She swung the sword.
In an instant, a torrent of purple lightning descended from the sky without any warning and struck the water sphere, one after another. There were atleast six continuous strikes. Each strike is as powerful as a strike from a high-rank-7 expert. Even Azzy was shocked for a moment as he expected only one.
Flashes of light were seen inside the sphere and screaming was heard for a while before the clouds dispersed from the sky and the sunlight fell on the place. The water sphere was filled with a pool of blood but Azzy and Leah clearly sensed the life inside it. So, the demon was still alive.
It was indeed a surprise because even the legendary realm Proctor expected that Braxton would die. Leah forced herself to be calm and looked at Azzy, "are you ready?"
Azzy nodded and dashed forward.
Just as he covered half of the distance, Leah dismissed the prison. Izaru retained its form and landed on the ground while Braxton was slowly falling to the ground. However, this time, his disfigured body was no longer human. His body and face had turned into a fleshy figure, not because of the lightning strikes as others thought but it's the demonic full transformation. Alas, it could only help him stay alive, although not for long.
To ensure his death, Azzy launched the Divine Palm using all of his absorbed natural energy.
Before Proctor even got the opportunity to intervene in the match, the divine palm landed on the unconscious Braxton, blasting him away.
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