Absolute Soul
68. Snow Princess vs Witch Queen V

Usually Verna showed a cheerful and joking expression to everyone, but now none of the two face shapes were seen on her beautiful face. There is only seriousness and desire to win this match.

Salvia and Verna looked at each other for a moment after Verna's harsh statement earlier, they watched each other's movements closely and at the same time took action.

"Nilfheim Breeze!" Salvia mustered her snow breeze after Verna from afar, but with Verna's changes now combining elements of fire and earth, Salvia's attack was nothing but an ordinary cool breeze for the blazing red-haired girl.

"Quite playing!" Verna knocked one of her feet against the floor and instantly raised a wall of fiery earth that drove the Salvia snow wind, he then stomped the floor firmly once more and this time Verna created dozens of spiky fiery thorns towards Salvia.

Salvia herself clenched her teeth realizing one of her strongest attacks could be broken that easily by Verna, but she then did not give up just like that, "Snow Cloud!"

Salvia collected the remnants of snow that were around towards the soles of her feet, forming a snow cloud that then lifted her flying upwards avoiding the fiery fangs that Verna had deployed.

"You can't run, Salvia!" Exclaiming so, Verna stomped her feet once more but this time she smashed the fiery wall before her, reshaping the rocks into dozens of small balls of flint then which are then hit with all their might using its giant beater, "Magma Cartridge Volley!"

Dozens of balls of flaming rocks shot towards Salvia, successfully making the silver-haired girl swerved, but Salvia soon regained consciousness and formed a snow shield before her in response to Verna's flocking attack.

Unfortunately due to the soul energy that had been drained so much, Salvia was unable to withstand it all and was hit by several attacks. He crashed down from Snow Cloud and fell onto the arena floor.

"Aragh!" Salvia groans loudly feeling the pain all over her body, not knowing it came from Verna's attack or the scars of the injury against Edward who was rudimentary.

Salvia's hair and eye color slowly returned to normal after being hit by a severe Verna attack, while Verna's own appearance also returned to normal before falling to her knees exhausted and breathing with the black stick in her hand.

"Oh, is Verna running out of soul energy?" The show host's eyebrows were slightly raised looking at this rare sight, whereas since the start of the Welcoming Tournament never once had Verna shed a sweat.

The announcement of the show did not miss. Concentrating soul energy was a technique that could amplify the strength of a Blazer significantly, but at the same time the level of soul energy consumption was also comparable to the magnitude of the power obtained.

"Well, since Verna had indeed put out many high-level techniques, it was nothing to be surprised about," Haikal commented dripping sweat on his forehead, never crossed his mind even once the battle of Salvia and Verna to this great extent.

Even though his fight against Edward in the semi-finals was also arguably terrible, but for him the chaos of the arena field is now more terrible than his match with Edward.

On the other hand Salvia tried to rise up against the pain all over her body. Salvia's condition was not much different from Verna's, considering that she was using Awakening and soul energy at the same time, her soul energy consumption rate had clearly skyrocketed far from normal despite being used only briefly.

"You're really good at hiding your powers, Salvia." Verna commented on Salvia's strength which she felt was more powerful than her previous fights while breathing out, "Why don't you use this power against Edward? Are you deliberately holding yourself back?"

Verna's question managed to uncover the curiosity of the audience and invite discussion. Whereas when fighting Edward, Salvia only used Awakening and her strength could be said to be no greater than what she now shows.

Salvia smiled wryly in response to Verna's remark, she shrugged her shoulders as she said, "Unlike you who use opposite fire magic properties to fight against my snow, my magic properties and Edward's magic are both cold. I'll just waste soul energy in vain if so."

"Ah, right too," said Verna spontaneously just realized it. At the same time also ended the discussion session of the audience who debated whether Salvia deliberately restrained herself or not in her fight against Edward last.

Although it can be known that the strength of Salvia increased dramatically after using the concentration of soul energy accompanied Awakening, still if fighting against fellow Blazers the owner of the Soul Arc is cold considering Salvia's concentration of soul energy is focused on improving her cold nature and freezing her magic.

After the silence between them lasted for quite a while, Verna straightened her back and wiped the sweat on her forehead before saying, "We're both gone, aren't we? I can only deploy one more attack."

"really? Incidentally I did too," Salvia replied in response to Verna's words as well as stopping breathing. After all even if he was able to recover some soul energy, it was only enough for one or at most two more attacks. He could be certain to lose if the fight lasted longer than this.

Verna gave a small smile looking at Salvia, "What if we end this by mutually exerting the final attack as cover?"

Next to Salvia's eyebrows raised slightly, attracted to Verna's idea, "Oh, are you sure? We probably won't know who won."

"No problem, it's a good ending to our game." Verna glanced for a moment at Jack who was on the edge of the arena looking worried about her before turning up a small smile and looking back at Salvia, "Then, the opening act for the last fight as well as the main one in this round."

"You think the same, don't you?" Verna's question managed to make Salvia flinch, so he looked at Haikal who was on the edge of the arena, watching himself from afar with a worried expression.

He smiled before turning his eyes back to Verna, "Maybe I follow your wishes."

The two girls threw smiles and slow nods at each other, then exerted all their remaining soul energy to exert their final attack on this match.

"Huh!" The pressure of Verna's soul energy increased drastically, her black magic wand—Elemental Staff— decomposed into purple energy droplets that were absorbed into Verna's body and changed her appearance once again.

This time Verna's appearance was slightly different, her dress remained red and fluttering like fire, but it was slightly more yellow with a pair of yellowish-red wings created on her back without a pair of gloves on both her arms, "Elemental Dress – Red Falcon!"

As if not wanting to lose, Salvia exerted all the remaining energy within her body to activate Awakening once again followed by the concentration of soul energy, "Awakening : Snow Valkyrie!"

Salvia and Verna completed their changes almost at the same time, both of them then took the horses and prepared their respective moves.

Salvia created and collected all the remaining snow into one place, starting to form a giant snow spear up to ten meters in length, hovering at a few centimeters above his head.

Meanwhile on the other hand, Verna concentrated on concentrating all her soul energy on the fire and wind magic that was now gathering together to form a large ball of reddish green between her palms.

Verna glanced at Salvia who was ready to catapult her manager at any time, she nodded softly to Salvia signaling she was also ready.

"Receive this!" Salvia exclaimed loudly while throwing her giant snow spear, "Spear of Niflheim!"

Not wanting to lose, Verna also released her hand toward Salvia, a whirlpool of flames that swirled fiercely, "Blaze Tornado!"

The two moves shot at high speed until they finally collided in the middle of the arena field, resulting in a massive explosion that shook the entire arena.

Blaar!!