Chapter 339: Black and Pink Vs Red and Green - 2
While Leo and Naelith fought, Lily and Sylrael were locked in their own battle.
Lilyâs eyes glittered as she watched Leo using her elements and skillsâwhich meant she could use his too.
She focused for a moment, and the sword in her hand burst into purple flames.
"Yes!" she exclaimed, overjoyed.
But Sylraelâs voice cut through her excitement.
"You, being a woman, really want other women to go through such experiences?" Sylrael said, her expression almost sorrowful. She knew that even with her best, saving all the captured girls was impossible. One combatant had yet to join the fight, not to mention the many beasts waiting eagerly in the background.
"What experiences?" Lily replied calmly, slicing through the vines creeping toward her. "Donât worry about being touched by any man in my or Leoâs presence. You will only be asked to work and fight under us."
"Do you think I will believe you?" Sylrael shot back, releasing 3 arrows in rapid succession. Lily dodged, but the moment the arrows struck the ground, wooden spikes erupted outward in all directions as Lily was yet again forced to dodge.
Sylrael continued as they exchanged blows, her voice tightening.
"I have seen the women who came before you to capture usâalong with their men. Yes, men. Not one, but many. They may pretend loyalty to one, but sleep with anyone to maintain their âstatus.â And it doesnât even bother them... because they enjoy it."
As she spoke, countless wooden lances formed in a circle around her, the air humming with tension.
"They blind themselves, thinking they are doing us a favour by taking us out of this small place in exchange for âpleasure.â Do you think we are like them? Transferable from one to another? We would rather kill ourselves than live such an undesirable life."
Lily nodded as if understanding, her body blurring as she used wind powers to slip past the lances mid-air.
"You are right to question the uncertainty of being in our hands," Lily said evenly. "As for the âwomenâ you just talked aboutâwe call them sluts. And tell me... do I look like them?"
Sylrael smiled faintly.
"No... but you are crazy. My dream shows me that. And I will never trust a crazy person."
Lilyâs smile widened.
"You are the first person to say that to my face," she said, almost amused.
"Let me prove to you why you are correct!"
She thrust her sword forward as poison breath surged out once more, corroding everything in its path at terrifying speed.
Sylraelâs eyes widened at the sudden burst of power. She failed to fully evade itâone arm caught in the flames. She winced, immediately activating a healing skill to mend it, though the corrosive poison stubbornly lingered.
She understood instantly.
"The dragonâs power!"
But Lily suddenly appeared before her. Her hand had transformedâLunariaâs spirit-integrated form shaping her arm into bladed edges. She slashed across Sylraelâs abdomen; blood spurted out. In the same motion, she drove a kick into the wound, sending Sylrael flying. Her bow slipped from her grasp and landed at Lilyâs feet.
While Sylrael was still airborne, white energy tinged with gold gathered in Lilyâs palm.
She was charging [Solar Beam].
Realising the charge would take time, Lily released it halfway complete, firing it straight at Sylrael.
Sylrael had just crashed and was trying to heal. The moment she saw the beam, her pupils shrank. She threw herself sideways as it tore past her, searing through the trees behind her, which cracked and fell with a heavy thud.
Lily blinked, taken aback.
"So strong?" she muttered under her breath. Even a half-charged beam was this powerfulâshe could only imagine the full output. And that was the case when beamâs power output was locked in Peak 3-star because Niri was in 3-star Realm.
"No wonder Zoltonâs dogs were cut in half with Leo charging them for only a few seconds."
"I wonder how much mastery he has to control it to this degree..."
She had seen Leo use [Solar Beam] many times, but never this strong. Which meant he had been holding backâjust like now, while fighting Naelith.
Their battle drew attention.
Kaelion watched with a stunned, almost stupidified expression, while even Katherine, hidden in the shadows, looked equally confused.
"When did Leo acquire the water element?" Kaelion said, frowning.
"When did Lily acquire the solar element?" Katherine murmured.
Both spoke at the same timeâ
""How the hell are they able to use each otherâs elements?""
The fight dragged on, and midway through, the outcome became clear. Leo and Lily. They werenât just fightingâthey were using Naelith and Sylrael to test each otherâs powers. Everyone could see the sheer amount of mana being wasted in experimentation.
It was as if neither Leo nor Lily had a mana poolâbut an entire lake. They kept spamming high-output skills, each one dealing little damage due to their meagre control.
Yet, the damage accumulated.
Even with healing, Naelith and Sylrael began to run dry.
"HOW MUCH MANA DO YOU HAVE??!!!" Naelith screamed in frustrationâbefore collapsing unconscious the next moment
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"Just... just how much mana do you have...?" Sylraelâs voice was steadier, but exhaustion weighed heavily on her. She dropped to her knees, breath ragged, her body drenched in sweat, face pale from mana depletion.
Even their synergy boost couldnât hold its ground against the coupleâs monstrous mana reserves.
Just before losing consciousness, she forced out her final words.
"I know my words might fall on deaf ears... but... you can do anything with me... anything. Just... spare my little sisters..."
Her body gave out, collapsing onto the ground headfirst.
The few conscious elves bound within the treantâs grasp sobbed silently, as if the final nails had just been hammered into their fate.
And just like that, the fight was over even before Lily took out her new spirit, Pryde [Hydra]. Though Kaelion had guessed beforehand that Hydra wouldnât have been able to attack because the world would have restricted it due to its higher strength.