Absolute Soul
66. Snow Princess vs Witch Queen III

The eyes of the audience were wide open to see the changes that had occurred to Verna's appearance, even the Guild representatives in their respective rooms were successfully made to stand so shocked and amazed by them.

Veindal and the teacher reacted more or less the same, they were also astonished at the change of Verna. Not only was his appearance different, but the pressure of soul energy emitted was also far beyond that of a first-rate Blazer candidate in general.

"Awakening?" Salvia's forehead shriveled violently feeling Verna's unnatural increase in strength as her appearance changed, "No, this is not Awakening."

Salvia could see Verna's drastic change in appearance, even her hair and iris also changed color to a bright red really like Blazer who managed to reach the Awakening stage, but he did not feel the sensation of Awakening-like changes similar to himself and Edward of Verna.

Verna this time did not smile as usual, she then raised her right hand forward and created dozens of fire arrows, "Heat Arrow!" Without wasting any time Verna throws dozens of arrows at the giant snowman where Salvia takes shelter.

Dozens of arrows shot out at high speed, but Salvia was able to see the trajectory of some of the fire projectiles and managed to withstand all of Verna's attacks using her snow which was now scattered in several directions like a solid, yet pliable, crop tendril.

"Snow Tendril," muttered Salvia stopping Verna's attack. He then intended to sink all the arrows of the fire into the snow, but the temperature of the fire was so hot that the snow that Salvia had solidified to such an extent began to melt at an unbelievable speed.

As Salvia chuckled in amazement at Verna's fire projectile, which had melted the snow, the girl now covered in a smoldering red dress had closed the distance between them until it was just below the Giant Snowman without Salvia noticing.

It is not as fast as Haikal or Heru, but the speed of Verna can be said to be good for a Wizard-type Blazer.

Verna nailed a palm strike on Salvia's snowman's leg. In an instant, the place that Verna attacked like crashing and melted instantly, making Salvia's eyes widen, "Heat Claw."

Aware of being in a threatened position, Salvia immediately jumped out of the Giant Snowman and broke it into a large amount of snow before losing a lot of soul energy in vain. He then gathered the snow right in front of him and put his hands together in front of his chest.

"Snow Tidal!" Along with the exclamation, Salvia's snow formed several giant tsunami-like snow waves directed directly at Verna, "Receive this!"

Verna raised her eyebrows watching the roll of the giant snow waves that were ready to throw her, then closed her eyes for a moment and concentrated, "Elemental Dress – Brown Gorilla."

A large amount of soul energy burst out from Verna's body, the red dress blazing like fire that wrapped her slim body now turned yellowish brown, accompanied by a kind of glove that was also the same color wrapped in both arms. Her irises and hair also turned golden yellow.

"Hard Spikes!" Shortly after her change was complete, Verna hit the arena floor which was then followed by dozens to dozens of sharp stone pillars soaring into the sky stopping the roll of snow waves belonging to Salvia.

Salvia clucked softly not expecting the massive attack could be driven away easily by Verna, whereas a moment before Verna was still using fire magic, "Don't you think...."

Salvia's forehead shriveled when she saw the appearance of Verna that she had never seen, Salvia could feel a sensation and different appearance from the red dress that wrapped Verna's body before.

"This is not Awakening, but is as level as Awakening...." Salvia's narrowed eyes got a guess as to what exactly happened to Verna, "The concentration of soul energy?"

"Oh, do you know about soul energy concentration?" Verna raised next to her eyebrows feeling quite surprised Salvia could uncover the secret behind the increase in strength as well as the pressure of her soul energy. He smiled slightly as if to insinuate Salvia before running close the distance, "Indeed if he knew what you could do now?"

Concentrating soul energy itself is a rare technique that can increase the strength of a Blazer in a short time. It is basically just the control of soul energy that concentrates a certain amount of soul energy at one point and releases it all at once so that the user gains a devastating power for a moment.

Unfortunately this technique had one fatal flaw, which was that the consumption of soul energy would increase drastically as all soul energy was depleted by the user for the sake of more strength. After the duration and effects of this technique reached its limit, the user would not be able to move freely when it ran out of soul energy.

Haikal frowned in disbelief at the strength Verna showed, "This is no longer a Wizard type." Haikal laughed wryly in response to Verna's strength, which still continued to lash out physical attacks at Salvia.

Salvia sent some snow against Verna, but the now golden-yellow-haired girl was able to throw all of Salvia's snow just by swinging one hand.

"Damn," Salvia clucked softly before gathering some amount of snow under her feet and lifting her body up, hovering several meters from the ground level, "I must be out of her reach."

"You running?" Verna flashed a small smile before stomping one foot onto the arena floor, creating dozens of pointy slender stone pillars chasing after Salvia, "Hard Spikes!"

Salvia was eager to curse Verna but was swallowed back. Now was not the time to do so, he had to immediately move away from the range of Verna's still-mysterious attack.

"You forced me!" Together with these exclamations the pressure of the soul energy emanated from Salvia's body increased drastically, accompanied by changes in her hair and iris which now turned pink.

He pulled his snow up into the sky until it reached a height of about 10 meters above ground level, then closed his eyes and poured all his concentration on the pink snow that made it float.

"Oh, that's her change of appearance belonging to Salvia!"

"If Salvia uses it then it's done already!"

The audience was more excited to see Salvia's hair and irises turned pink. Although most of them are not aware of the existence of Awakening, just a glance at anyone can find out with the change in appearance Salvia can increase its strength so drastically.

"The awakening? That's your main weapon?" Verna raised her eyebrows in response to Salvia's call, but she did not remain silent. Verna could see that Salvia was concentrating on her manager so she took advantage of the situation.

"Elemental Dress – Green Falcon." With the mutterings again Verna's appearance changed. Both the dress, hair, and iris of her eyes changed at the same time, at this time the color that wrapped her body was green.

Different from the previous two changes—Red Lion and Brown Gorilla—this time in addition to the dress there is a pair of green wings attached to the shoulder blades, making the audience amazed by Verna to forget to breathe.

As soon as the change was over, Verna immediately flapped her wings in the air to the sky following Salvia in high speed, "You can't run away from me, Salvia!"

Verna raised her hand over—precisely leading to a collection of snow where Salvia was on foot—lalu created a small but fierce whirlwind circling her arm, "Typhoon Blow!"

The whirlwind on her arm immediately shot towards Salvia, but not yet had the whirlwind completely detached, Verna's ears caught the loud cry of Salvia echoing from end to end of the arena.

"Snow Eruption!" Salvia channeled a large amount of her soul energy into the snowflake at her feet which caused the quantity of snow to increase so much in an instant, then it exploded like a volcanic eruption from the sky.

Verna was shocked to learn that the amount of snow Salvia had created was far greater than when Salvia fought Edward, but there was nothing she could do but force her manager to break through, "Destroy it!"

"Fall down!" As if to be his last attack, Salvia shouted with all her might in this one strike, hoping that Verna could be defeated with this Snow Eruption.

In the end when the snow of 'Snow Eruption' Salvia met the whirlwind of 'Typhoon Blow' Verna at the halfway point, the two clashed for a moment before exploding and turning the entire arena into a snowfield.