"You both know the drill, the mont the coin hits the ground. The battle starts" Muku shouted from the stands again.
The atmosphere in the arena was already tense. Emily was laser-focused on the coin that was spinning in the air under Muku's control. She was ready to attack the mont it dropped.
Layla, on the other hand,, was focused on Emily. A chilling air radiated from her body. It was clear to see that she was barely holding herself back.
Without further delay Muku let the coin drop. With their strength, the speed at which it dropped was no different from slow motion. They could all see it clearly as it fell. Until it hit the battered ground with little to no sound.
"Creeping Ice Spikes!"
"Firestorm!"
BOOM!
Both girls instantly made their moves. Layla attacked with ice spikes that stretched from where she stood, spreading to where Emily stood. Emily attacked with raging flas coming out of her outstretched hands.
The attacks collided midway and cancelled each other out with a boom. The obvious result of the clash was steam, and there was a lot of it. White steam covered up the whole arena for a little bit before fading into nothingness.
"Firestorm! Maximum!"
"Raging Blizzard!"
Without missing a beat. The girls cast their next spells that were stronger than the first ones.
Emily's attack was an even bigger firestorm than before. It was so large the whole arena would have been quickly covered up in golden flas if Layla hadn't done sothing.
Layla used the spell she had created to battle such types of Emily's spells. The whole sky was covered in snow that fell to the ground furiously. Just as Layla expected, the spell stopped the advance of Emily's attack.
The deadlock, with no one gaining the upper ground, went on for a while. They both decided to stop their spells at once since it seed pointless.
"Fla boost! Fla punch!" Emily then did the unexpected. Sothing she rarely ever did. Which was to get close to the opponent.
With a boost of her flas, she was almost instantly in front of Layla. Her right hand was enveloped by flas as punched forward. It was sothing she had copied from Chloe. However, unfortunately for her, flas could only burst forward but couldn't sustain that speed. Which was why she rarely used the move.
She only resorted to it because she had realised that her normal fighting style might not work. Layla seed to have studied her a lot. Which was obvious from the way she had an answer for all her mid-rank spells. It was quite weird that Layla did that, but it was the truth. So, Emily had to try different ans of fighting her.
"Ice shield!" Layla didn't panic as she imdiately cast a shield of ice in front of herself.
BOOM!
Emily's punch hit the ice shield hard and destroyed it. However, Layla had already retreated a distance away.
"Hail storm!" Layla took that mont to cast her next spell. If Emily didn't act in ti. She would be taken out by it since Layla's ice would hurt a lot more than real ice. This was because it fell at a much higher speed and was bigger and harder as well.
"Exploding shield!" Fortunately for Emily, she was quick enough for her own sake.
She might not have studied Layla as much as Layla studied her, but she did think of so things. One of those things was what she would do if Layla used ice attacks that were too fast for her flas to burn away before she was reached? The answer was simple. She would use force to repel them.
What that ant was that she would use her exploding flas. The flas would explode upon contact. After that, the generated force would either throw the attack off course or slow it down enough for her to react.
Her idea worked perfectly on the blocks of ice. They were mostly thrown off course giving her enough ti to move away before the next wave ca.
"Smart..." Layla couldn't help but complint her. She actually thought that she would be able to hurt Emily a little before she figured out a way to get herself out of the situation. Yet Emily dealt with it instantly.
The two girls then kept on going back and forth without anyone gaining the upper hand. They seed evenly matched for the most path. Their abilities cancelled each other out so much that the visibility in the ring was almost always low. There was steam everywhere.
"Okay, this isn't working. Why don't we try stronger attacks?" Layla paused and spoke to Emily.
"What do you have in mind?" Emily asked curiously. She also didn't want to continue with the deadlock.
"Well, nothing too serious. So the ultimate attacks are out. But anything just below that is fine... We'll have thirty seconds to gather mana," Layla replied.
"Okay, let's do it" Emily agreed to the idea.
The two girls then started gathering their mana for stronger attacks. They had quite a few attacks that t the qualifications. So they both closed their eyes trying to focus and choose the one they wanted to use.
Emily quickly decided what she wanted to do. Which was obvious from how an attack was already forming above her.
Layla seed to be channelling her mana into the sky yet nothing was happening. However, from the little smile that appeared on her face. It was clear to see that she was up to sothing. The girl rarely smiled after all.
Soon the ti was up. They both opened their eyes at the sa ti. The first thing they did was make eye contact and then look at what the other one created.
Layla's eyes widened when she saw what Emily created. Which Emily noticed and felt happy about. She then looked around Layla but saw nothing. She could sense that sothing was up from Layla's mana that had saturated the whole place. However, nothing was obvious.
"Oh well... World Ending Fla teorite!" Instead of figuring out what would she would find out soon anyway. Emily chose the Jade route. Which was to attack first and ask questions later.
So, she released her attack that was supposed to not be as strong as an ultimate attack. Layla looked at its approach with suspicion in her eyes. How was such a thing not counted as an ultimate attack by Emily??
It was a freaking huge sphere made out of flas for God's sake! The diater was probably radius was around probably around seven tres. Which ant the whole thing was absolutely humongous.
Layla wondered if Emily didn't consider it as an ultimate attack because she had never used it before. Or maybe her ultimate attacks had gotten a lot stronger and it didn't qualify. Well, whatever the reason. Layla was screwed if she didn't have a good ga plan.
"Well... This sses up the initial plan a bit, but I think I can make it work..." Layla spoke to herself calmly. However, her heart was racing.
The spell was slow and still a distance away, yet she could already feel the heat it emitted. She was already sweating a little. Would she be able to get out of it?
The spectators were at the edge of their seats waiting to see what would happen next. Audrey, who was feeling gloomy for letting everyone down despite how no one took it personally, forgot all about that at the mont.
She was so worried that she barely managed to stop herself from jumping into the arena and taking Layla away. The only thing stopping her was knowing about the unique attribute Emily's flas had.
Emily, who was looking on, noticed how her attack was almost upon Layla, who wasn't moving. She smiled thinking that her plan had succeeded. She had decided to create such an attack in hopes that it would ruin whatever plans Layla had from its sheer size and force. From the look of things, she might have succeeded in her goal.
Her expression quickly changed, however. She noticed the little smile that had left Layla's face slowly return. Her mind started racing. It was clear to see that Layla was up to sothing.
She imdiately put her guard up to the max. On top of that, she used a little more mana to speed up the fla sphere. She refused to let Layla ruin her perfect plan when she was close to winning. So expending more mana than expected was reasonable.
Due to Emily's sudden action, the sphere's speed suddenly increased. Which likely caught Layla off guard and ssed up her timing for whatever she wanted to do. At least that's what Emily hoped occurred.
She could no longer see Layla since the sphere had covered up her view. If she was close enough, she might have been able to see through the fla. However, the distance was too much, and she couldn't do that.
That didn't matter too much as the sphere reached the area Layla was in and touched down. Unlike what everyone expected, the sphere didn't explode on impact. Honestly, if it did explode then it would have had to be considered more than a normal attack from the force of that alone.
The sphere burnt away the ground and left a huge hole in it that took up an eighth of the ring's space.
Muku's expression darkened as he looked on. How tf was he supposed to fix that?!
As for why Emily and the others weren't worried that she might have potentially killed Layla? Well, it was obviously really. Emily can choose what she burned and what she didn't. So if Layla was caught in the attack, she would still be fine... Maybe naked, but fine.
That's where the problem ca in. After the fla sphere disappeared. Layla was nowhere to be seen...
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