Absolute Soul
34. Snow and Ice III

Unable to recover from the shock previously caused by Awakening Salvia, the representatives of both large and small Guilds were again startled by Edward, this time Veindal to stand in his room watching this.

"The awakening? The Ghaetas too?" Veindal was obviously surprised to see the changes that had happened to Edward, not expecting the young man to also reach the Awakening stage at the same age as Salvia.

Haikal and Heru reacted more or less like Veindal, but somehow Haikal suddenly felt a sense of unease. He knew that the Blazer that was able to reach Awakening had unusual strength, but this feeling of unease could not be eliminated.

After practicing so long and hard all this time Haikal had understood the quality of soul energy so well, that he could figure out the quality of one's soul energy with just a slight friction on his skin, "The quality of Edward's soul energy was truly terrifying...."

As far as Haikal knew the quality of soul energy could vary from Blazer to Blazer, it depended on their training method, natural talent, or how strong reason and determination were embedded in their Soul Arc.

This difference in soul energy quality was difficult to assess if one did not understand the characteristics of the soul energy of each individual, either, therefore, not all Blazers can judge the energy of each soul and rely more on an object called soul quality detection crystals to assess the quality of soul energy.

According to the Association of Blazers the quality of human soul energy could be categorized into ten levels according to how far one could peak his soul energy, the greater the amount of purified soul energy the higher the quality of his soul energy.

In this case Edward can purify about 10 to 20 percent of his soul energy, which means the quality of Edward's soul energy reaches the Ninth-Tier level.

The quality of Ninth-Tier's soul energy was indeed not something special among Blazers, but for a high school student the quality was hard to find given the difficulty of purifying soul energy.

So far there are three widely known methods of purifying soul energy. First, it took the soul energy of another living being. Second, meditation unites a certain amount of soul energy in order to erode the impure energy. Third, use a Soul Device that can purify soul energy.

When a certain amount of soul energy has been purified the body will still remember it and will continue to produce that amount of soul energy, so the quality of soul energy will not decrease even if one consumes all of his soul energy.

Through his practice Haikal managed to purify his soul energy using the second method, but not as much as Edward.

"Given that Edward was a noble family, perhaps he did so by the second and third methods at once." Haikal stroked his chin thinking about the method that Edward used, but seeing his attitude was not impossible Edward also practiced the first method.

Each method of purification of soul energy has its own advantages and disadvantages, for example, the first method that takes the soul energy of other living things. If someone uses this method too much then usually the person can be more brutal than usual because it is difficult to control the soul energy that is not a self-processed result.

If Haikal had to compare the quality of Edward's and Salvia's soul energy, then Salvia would have been utterly defeated without a fight.

Haikal bit his fingernails worried about the Awakening's match at this young age, especially against Salvia who quality soul energy lost far compared to Edward.

"What's up, Snow Princess? Are you done putting up a fight?" Edward lifted his chin looking at the trembling Salvia in fear, "If it had been then I would have attacked!"

Edward stomped his feet against the floor creating ice, but ice was different from before. If previously Edward created blue and almost transparent ice, then this time the color of the ice is dominated by a thick black color with a little dark blue.

The blackish-blue ice then gathered in one place and formed an ice lion that stood just to the left of Edward, "Awakening : Winter Lion."

Seeing this, Salvia again put his horses ready to face the attack as much as possible. Despite appearing bold and unyielding, Salvia's knees and mentality still trembled feeling the clear difference between her and Edward.

Edward once again stomped his feet, this time in an instant the arena stone floor was enveloped by a layer of ice as thick as a palm as well as freezing Salvia's feet, "Frozen Ice Field!"

Salvia panicked a bit but not to the point of losing her mind, she immediately gathered her remaining snow and crushed the ice sheet that froze her legs. Salvia turned her attention back to Edward, but the young man's figure had disappeared from his place.

Spontaneously Salvia looked in various directions looking for Edward's whereabouts but could not find him. While searching for nothing, Salvia then turned her head upwards and realized that there was a small shadow on the ice floor.

Above, Edward was clutching a large, dark-blue scythe of ice approaching black, ready to be swung against Salvia, "Because of you!"

Braakk!!

By kicking the floor Salvia was able to avoid the attack Edward stepped backwards which in the end the ice scythe was immersed in the ice-covered floor, but it did not make Edward lose momentum.

"Winter Lion: Third Code – Scythe Shape!" Edward pulled his large ice scythe and turned it into a long spear with axe blades, "I'll show you specifically, Winter Lion: Fourth Code – Halberd Shape!"

Edward's agile movements accompanied by his sharp spear play made Salvia again take a defensive position. Although Salvia had trained in physical and martial arts in close combat, Edward's spearmanship was too high to be avoided completely so that Salvia had no choice but to endure the snow.

"It's urgent...." Haikal could see how great Edward's spearmanship was until he could wound Salvia who was a genius and also a hard worker, "If such a fight lasts for a long time then Salvia is finished."

From his spear game Haikal can find out Edward has real fighting experience, even more so Edward looks accustomed to doing long-term fights. While Salvia? He had never felt that experience.

Indeed, this difference in experience looks trivial in the eyes of ordinary people, but for a Blazer these experiences can determine their life and death in the real fight.

This was the underlying difference in strength and fighting style between Edward and Salvia.

"Only like this is the genius who is predicted to be the best genius among the four geniuses in this generation? It's laughable." Edward stopped his attack after confirming Salvia's body had received dozens of incision wounds.

Salvia could only growl in annoyance while adjusting her breath and enduring the pain all over her body hearing Edward's provocation.

Salvia was aware from the beginning of her responsibility as the only child of Veindal Volksky, the only heir to the name of the next generation of Volksky nobility, Salvia is obliged to keep the honor and big name of the Volksky family by becoming the winner of the Welcoming Tournament this year.

Unfortunately, Salvia was unlucky because in his generation there was Edward and three other geniuses who were more or less the same as him, moreover there might still be many 'golden eggs' hidden among them.

Taking responsibility for the big name of the Volksky family, Salvia felt that she could not lose to these 'golden eggs' at any cost.

But at this moment he was completely pressed, his soul energy was already almost completely drained. Let alone winning the fight, standing up and adjusting the breath alone Salvia felt difficulty. Not to mention the pain thanks to the wounds all over her body made Salvia's concentration split apart.

Ignoring Edward's provocation just now, Salvia took a deep breath and exhaled him slowly concentrating on creating a large amount of pink snow using the entire soul energy left in her body.

The pink snow circled around Salvia as its center, then expanded to all corners of the arena and in an instant turned into a pink blizzard, "Magenta Blizzard!"

Salvia soon narrowed the blizzard and was directed at one Edward, so Edward was confined to the pink whirlwind and his body began to be slowly covered in pink ice.

"You think this is gonna work?" Judging from the situation Edward's condition did not allow him to say words full of arrogance, but his sentence did not only contain arrogance and nonsense.

With a triumphant smile Edward swung his spear to destroy the blizzard easily, making the entire arena wide, not least Salvia.

"My turn." Edward smashed his spear to the floor, causing a giant block of ice from below to smash into Salvia's small body and crash into the air. Not enough to get there Edward jumped and swung his spear to throw Salvia out of the arena.

The entire arena was stunned to see Edward's strength so high at his age, that the lawyer fell silent for a while, "The winner... Edward Ghaetas."

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