Chapter 63: Lightning Empress and Crimson Lord

Speaking in Telskyuran, Belnas spoke to Tiona with a frown.

"Traitor, Kali-sama gave you two freedom. Yet you come here and spit on her generosity." Belnas was neck deep in Telskyura's culture.

"Hmph, I wouldn't call that generosity Belnas. Our family back in Orario are the ones who showed us generosity!" Tiona charged and their blades clashed.

Belnas was much taller than Tiona, giving her the advantage in their clash. And she also almost maxed out her stats due to not having a suitable opponent to level up.

"Is that the extent of your strength? Your so-called family made you softer!" Belnas kicked her and Tiona blocked with her sword.

"Don't talk as if you know anything! Lars is our hero! He gave us a place to belong! Where we didn't fear getting killed for power!" Tiona used berserk and she swung her blade at her.

The whole colosseum trembled at her overwhelming might.

Belnas kneeled to the ground due to the force and a crater formed below her.

"Then I'll show you that Telskyura's way is the correct one!" Belnas Parried her other blade to the side, sundering the arena.

She then punched her on the face, accompanied by a DA; fist strike.

Tiona flew backwards and she bounced on the ground like a pebble before she stabbed her sword.

Belnas didn't stop there and she followed Tiona with ferocious savagery.

An onslaught of attacks came her way and Tiona was on the defensive.

"Hidden mist." Belnas uttered a short chant and Tiona suddenly found herself surrounded by a mist.

Similar to the 10th floor of the dungeon. Except the mist was dulling her senses.

"I thought you were a true amazon... So much for fighting face to face." Tiona clenched her hands around her weapons.

Hissing, she suddenly found one of her hamstrings cut before she swung her blade behind her.

"What's wrong? Where's your family now?" Belnas taunted her and Tiona gritted her teeth.

"You're lucky Airmid isn't here." Tiona looked around, but Belnas' voice sounded like it was everywhere at once.

'Concentrate, before she hits me I will be able to feel her.' Tiona furrowed her brows as she closed her eyes. Focusing on the surroundings.

"Many have tried that, many have failed." Belnas mused and Tiona opened her eyes wide.

"Here!" She swung her sword diagonally behind her again, but she didn't hit anything.

"Urgh!" Tiona found herself get stabbed in the abdomen from right behind her.

"Too predictable, your sense of battle got too soft. You would've been able to dodge that if you stayed in Telksyura." Belnas kicked her off of her blade and Tiona put pressure on her wound.

"T-that may be so... But that's just because of your little gimmick here..." Tiona squinted her eyes as blood flowed from her lips.

"Truly disappointing, is it because you only fight monsters now?" Belnas scoffed.

Tiona powered through her wound and she began to use her DA; intense heat.

Steam started to come off of her. And her parameters increased based on how much of a pinch she was in.

"Crimson blood flows through my veins and gives me life." Tiona started chanting and Belnas scoffed.

Letting her continue her magic. "The heart makes it ebb and flow, sustaining me. With this rupture of blood, strength fills me."

Tiona's blood started to flow faster and her pupils constricted until they were pinpoint in size.

"Sanguine!" Tiona roared and she entered a blood rage.

Her magic working in tandem with intense heat and berserk, giving her more and more strength.

Belnas blinked in surprise as Tiona suddenly appeared in front of her.

The little amazoness stomping on the ground with enough force to shake the colosseum.

Her double sided sword crashed onto Belnas' scimitars and they shattered into a thousand pieces.

"Wha-" Belnas didn't see the heel kick aimed at her face and she spun around like a top in the air, her cheek bones shattered.

Tiona then dropped her massive swords on the ground and she charged at Belnas like an animal.

Scratching, kicking, punching. A flurry of savage attacks landed on her, drawing more blood.

And the more that she spilled, the stronger Tiona got.

Receiving an uppercut, Belnas' world got rocked and she could only see her blood get absorbed by Tiona's skin.

It was eerie, a forbidden spell, blood magic. Sustaining her blood rage as long as blood is spilled in the battlefield and healing her.

Belnas couldn't raise her arms up and she recived blow after blow on her face.

Taking a vicious front kick on her solar plexus, Belnas got buried to the wall of the colosseum and Tiona appeared above her.

The amazoness saw her life flash before her eyes. Smiling softly at the sight of Tiona raising her foot in the air.

'Ahh, I will die here... It has been a good run, Kali-sama.' Belnas believed that she will live on through Tiona.

Her falna will be absorbed and in turn, act as the catalyst that Tiona needs to level up.

But when she closed her eyes with a pleasant smile on her face, she waited. Yet nothing came, no pain, no more strikes.

"Hah, hah, you... Why are you smiling like a loon?" Tiona teared up at the sight of it.

Belnas could feel a lot of her ribs were broken and she couldn't even breathe properly.

"Why are you pleased to die?" Tiona gritted her teeth at Belnas' behavior.

"It... Will make you strong." Belnas replied with great difficulty and Tiona clicked her tongue.

"No it won't! It will only bring me grief! A hero does not need to kill their own allies to grow!

I am strong because I have conviction! A goal to achieve! Is your goal just to keel over and strengthen the next generation?" Tiona crouched down besides her as she cried.

Belnas wanted to live. But the heavens has already given their judgement. Their trial by combat has resulted in her loss. And her life is forfeit.

"We'll have to change your mentality... Lars will be able to, I know he can..." Tiona wiped her tears and she helped Belnas stand up. Because Tione's magic is quite temperemental.

__Tione__

"I do not know you much, but I know that I can't lose here. He is watching me, my husband." Tione glared daggers at Elnea.

"Kali-sama has ordered me to defeat you, nothing more, nothing less." Elnea looked at her with apathetic eyes.

"Then come on! Let's get this over with!" Tione charged with her dual blades and Elnea kept her at bay.

Her spear's reach is of course longer and Tione struggled to get through.

'Tch, it's light enough that she can maneuver herself at the same speed as me.' Tione clicked her tongue.

"You will lose and we will claim your husband." Elnea taunted her and Tione went batshit crazy at her words.

She gritted her teeth so hard that it almost shattered. Tione's berserk activating immediately.

Elnea was as calm as still water, dodging and keeping her at bay with her spear.

Every step below Tione caused tremors as her rage fueled her like a burning furnace.

Elnea took advantage of it to the maximum and she stabbed and stabbed. Tione who was in range started to receive cuts around her body.

"Tch! Annoying!" Tione raised her blades and they glowed red, a fitting folor for her rage.

Equipping them in a reverse grip, she suddenly gained more speed and her movements became nimbler.

"I'll kill you, you bitch! Lars isn't yours!" Tione parried her spear much better. Her dexterity increasing due to her reverse grip on her swords.

She then arrived at striking range and Tione aimed a kick at her opponent's torso.

Instead of a crunch, a wet shlick resounded as Elnea pulled out a dagger.

Using Tione's momentum to cut her leg with it and she winced at the pain.

"You are too consumed by your emotions, how pitiful." Elnea shook her head in dissappointment.

"Try this for pitiful!" Tione took out her throwing knives and she threw them at Elnea with amazing precision and accuracy.

The amazoness blocked them with her dagger and Tione took the opening.

Slashing with her swords at both sides, Tione thought that Elnea would only be able to go backwards.

'Then, I'll use my magic against her!' Tione had another magic besides her lightning.

List Iorum, binding magic that restrains the opponent by chance. Depending on how large her magic stat is compared to the enemy.

"Wha?" Tione was dumbfounded as her plan failed, with great balance and agility, Elnea tapped her spear on the ground and she launched herself in the air.

Tione then received a vicious kick to the face due to her short sightedness.

"Foolishness, you are too green to challenge me." Elnea twirled her spear around.

She is a technique type. Someone rare in Telskyura.

And Tione might be trained by Lars and Alfia. But she isn't one to stay calm and collected.

Alfia's surgical fighting style just doesn't match well with her. And Lars' dynamic explosiveness can't be replicated.

"Shut up! Shut up! Telskyura will fall today!" Tiona started chanting and Elnea gave her a chance to show her magic.

"Ahhh!" Tione roared as sparks of lightning started forming around her.

"Lightning flows through me! Fulgur Armorum!" A coating of lightning enveloped her and Elnea blinked at the sight.

Tione then disappeared from her place, the amazon's speed increasing massively.

Landing a straight right at Elnea's face, her opponent crashed against the wall of the colosseum as lightning arced around the place of impact.

"How's that for foolishness!? Idiot!" Tione charged through the dust cloud and she punched in the middle.

But something stopped her and she started to get electrocuted by her own magic.

The impact caused a shockwave and Tione was stopped by a wall of water that floated in front of Elnea.

"That surprised me." She wiped her nose as Tione seized due to the water coating her arm, disrupting the layer of insulation she put on her skin with mana.

"But not surprising enough." Elnea slashed with her spear and Tione ducked immediately.

Super pressurized water came out of the tip of her spear and the ground behind Tione was sliced apart.

Elnea then stabbed with her weapon and a spear of water pierced through Tione's lightning armor.

"It seems you are not used to your magic. While I have practiced mine for much longer." Elnea analyzed and Tione coughed as her lung got punctured.

One of her lungs started to collapse due to the negative pressure inside her thorax being disrupted by the atmosphere outside her body.

She couldn't breathe and her body was wracked in pain, coupled with the electrocution she just felt.

Elnea stepped forward at spear's reach and she stabbed Tione again in her abdomen.

"Do not resist, surrender now." Elnea looked at her haughtily.

Tione started mumbling and Elnea frowned. "Did you experience a breakdown?" Elnea thought they all do that when they lose.

She stabbed her leg and Tione didn't react. "Her spirit is broken." Elnea was about to smack her on the temple, but Tione finished her chant.

"Seize!" Tione activated her binding magic and Elnea who didn't have a worse mag stat only gave a split second window.

But that was enough for Tione. "AHHHH! LIGER BOMB!" Her lightning armor reactivated and Tione tackled her.

She grabbed Elnea's torso tightly and Tione jumped a bit in the air. Elnea then got slammed to the ground and lightning flowed through the colosseum.

The ground was shattered and Telskyura shook due to the impact.

"Hah, hah, I hate tactical ones like you..." Tione stood up with difficulty and she sighed.

They then looked at Kali and she was shocked. After all, Belnas and Elnea were at the same generation as Argana and Bache.

They are almost a decade older than Tiona and Tione.

"I'm so proud of you girls." Lars activated Airmid's healing magic and they felt refreshed immediately.

Belnas and Elnea also got healed, but Lars didn't get rid of their fatigue.

"Yeah! We did it!" Tiona and Tione cheered as they beamed at him.

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Thanks for reading everyone, ciao.