"There are about 6 invisible liches around you with swords. Let me take over." The Excalibur advised her. However, Leah refused to take the assistance, "No, I had to win this one by myself."
She closed her eyes and increased her senses to the maximum. Through Aura Sensing, she could see the auras of the invisible things that surrounded her.
As they tried to stab her at the same time, Leah perfectly avoided it by leaping forward and rushing toward her opponent. They followed from behind but her speed outpaced them. So, they couldn't catch up to her. Or, she thought.
But, Velez's next move checkmated her.
Looking at his opponent that crossed the halfway, Velez unleashed his soul skill that even his teammates weren't aware of. And it is something that Azzy is too familiar with.
<strong>"Soul skill: Rise of the undead"</strong>
Before she reached him, Velez's army blocked her route. From silver to platinum grade, Leah saw more than fifty rank-6 undead beasts standing before her. Along with them, numerous human skeletons are also standing in her way. Just the sheer number of humans that Velez killed disgusted the audience. After all, people despise the necromancers.
Leah expected that this guy might be a necromancer like Azzy but she didn't expect that he had killed so many people.
"You have no chance against me, Princess of Camelot," said Velez as he stood behind his army. This is the first time he opened his mouth after the start of the battle
Letting out a smile, Leah responded, "You should have done more research about my abilities. What a waste of soul skill…"
She raised her sword.
<strong>"Soul skill: Amalgamation of Ice and Fire"</strong>
She unleashed the soul skill, seeing the opportunity. "Freeze"
In an instant, all the undead were frozen in ice and became ice sculptures. Even the liches weren't spared. Strangely, Velez was completely fine. The ice did nothing to him.
The experts in the audience section finally discovered why Leah had earlier spits out blood. They couldn't help but praise Velez for having such a wonderful ability
Meanwhile, Leah frowned in realization and then pointed her sword at him, "Fire"
A burst of flames erupted from the floor beneath the feet of Velez. However, he didn't move from the spot.
Once the flames disappeared and Velez remained unaffected, he said, "this armor is indestructible, Princess of Camelot. No kind of energy can harm me. Anyway, get ready to face my next trump card."
Velez made his final move as Leah proceeded to dash forward.
He raised his hand to release the threads of death energy and struck the ice sculptures. "Fusion"
Leah was only twenty-odd meters away from her target but something strange happened. The ice sculptures behind her exploded one after another and all the undead creatures flew toward him at a high speed.
The princess of Camelot couldn't help but take a giant leap backward and stood on the ice floor. She saw all the skeletons merge together to form a giant undead skeleton with a crown on its head and a large-sized black core in its chest visible to everyone like how it was with the other undead creatures earlier.
Azzy's eyes widened as he watched the 65-inch screen like his teammates.
Mia looked at him and asked, "Can you do that?"
"No." Azzy shook his head in response and asked the Reaper, to which, the latter answered, "You are still in the phase of learning how to control the soul skill, until now. You can do it when you master it. I should say that this kid is really good. He wasn't blessed with powerful Arcana like you but he has higher mastery."
"Who will win if we fight?" asked Azzy right away.
The Reaper answered with a simple question, "Do you even have to ask?"
Back to the battle, Leah fell to a complete disadvantage against a two-front assault from Velez with high-rank-7 strength and the undead king with low-rank-8 strength. Adding on top of them, the new invisible liches are created by Velez and they were attacking her whenever there is an opportunity.
Within no time, all of her soul skills were displayed to the audience and met without any success. The energy attacks weren't doing any damage to Velez and she couldn't get closer to him because of the skeleton king who could change his size with just a thought. So, her skill cards also became useless. Her sealing skills might have helped her but this fast-paced battle didn't even give her an opportunity to showcase her sealing abilities.
"Final Strike…" Velez made a tight fist and the liches exploded altogether.
"Reflect" In the final struggle, she reflected the explosions away from her but it appeared that her opponent had already expected it beforehand. As soon as she used her passive ability, the skeleton king detached its arm and shot it at her.
The heavily injured Leah received a powerful blow to her abdomen and she flew away, crashing to the ground and losing her consciousness. Excalibur could possess her body and resume the fight but he didn't as she doesn't want to take his help.
Landing beside her, Neal announced Velez as the winner of the match. She was taken on the strength to the infirmary by the authorities. Her father, the King of Camelot left his seat and made his way to the infirmary.
Meanwhile, inside one of the waiting rooms, everyone from Team Twilight became silent. Except for Azzy, everyone including Claire had the same thoughts but no one wanted to admit it aloud that they don't want to face Velez because it is a sign of cowardice. After watching the match, even Estella, the host of two mighty platinum-grade beasts didn't have the confidence of taking him head-on.
In the end, Azzy saved them from embarrassment with a simple statement, "I will take care of him."
Everyone, almost at the same time, sighed in relief and Claire then addressed everyone, changing the topic, "Guys, we still have three days to prepare for the finals. If we train in a higher gravity environment, even 1 hour of our training will amount to 12 hours on the outside. Instead of focusing on improving soul power in hurry, it's best to train our fists and reflexes. Even the strongest attack is useless if it cannot hit."
"But, didn't the Vice Principal Sahara tell that the gravity chamber isn't working due to some technical issues? It hasn't been repaired yet." Louis voiced his opinion.
Claire shook her head, "No, I wasn't talking about that."
"Is there another place you know?" asked Estella in wonder.
Claire glanced at her while feeling extremely weird to hear Estella in a normal tone. When she doesn't display arrogance, the Moon Clan's heiress sounds very cute though.
As she was about to reply, Mia opened her mouth, "you were talking about that place, Claire?"
"Yup." Claire nodded with a smile.
Mia then shook her head, "The circumstances might not be that different last time but uncle was currently at Arcana world, training somewhere in the wild zone to breakthrough. We cannot contact him."
Calder, Estella, and Louis watched them curiously, wondering what they were talking about.
"But, there was someone else who can give us entry," replied Claire as she turned her head in the direction where her boyfriend is standing.
Mia's eyes lit up in realization, "Yes, that's right. After all, he has the access code."
Azzy stared at both of them for a brief amount of period and then finally nodded, "Alright, I will make the request."
"Okay, stop keeping us in suspense. What is this amazing training ground that you are talking about?" Estella asked again in patience. This time, even Azzy confidently felt like he was looking at a different Estella. While the others might not know the exact reason, he had a strong suspicion that it has something to do with Gideon. When he thought of his best friend, he couldn't help but miss him. After all, it has been more than two weeks since he last had contact with him.
In response to her question, Claire and Mia answered together, "Mt. Animus."
That day, five of them collectively disappeared from the public's eye. The press reporters, news journalists, scouts, VIPs; everyone wanted to meet the finalists of the world league but Team Twilight was nowhere to be found.
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