Atlas: Lightning From The Wild West
63: THE BEST OPTION IS NOT TO CHOOSE

Indra remained silent for a moment, trying to choose. However, he could not choose one of the three people. One of them was his father, his uncle, and his aunt.

After he thought again, his father might indeed have been a jerk. However, he looks like he is trying to change himself and Indra respects him. Then Avalance was the one who helped him a lot, from helping Indra to find more information about his past to training Indra until he was great enough to be a candidate for the Great Witch. Indra also just recognized his aunt Mesfera not long ago. However, her aunt was very good with her.

If he had to choose between them, Indra thought he had to choose between Avalance and Ignis.

"After I think again, it looks like I should choose Father or Uncle Avalance, but I won't choose, you two will decide who I go with." Indra.

"Indra, are you sure you don't want to choose your aunt this? I'm disappointed." Said Mesfera (Weather Painter).

"I'm sorry, but it's even hard to choose between the two of them. That's why I let them decide." Reply Indra.

"He's my son, I have the right to take him." Ignis.

"You didn't even know he was alive for years." Reply Avalance.

Mesfera patted his eel and let out a long sigh.

"Indra, it looks like you're going to make them fight soon." Said Weather Painter.

Sure enough, Ignis and Avalance finished it by fighting. However, this fight was not a life and death fight, it was more like a friendly fight. They chose the border between the Eastern Region and the Western Region as the location of their fight.

Weather Painter opened a portal for them.

Weather Painter and Indra soared through the air as Ignis and Avalance began to prepare for battle. The Avalance Curse made the border area filled with snow.

Avalance made a sculpture with his ice magic, it was shaped like a dragon made of ice with thorns on the dragon's back. Avalance once used that when he trained Indra, he mentioned the Ice Jade Dragon. Seeing the Ice Jade Dragon carrying a bit of trauma to Indra, the dragon statue was extremely hard even though it was only made of ice, its lightning was not even capable of resisting the statue, the lightning struck and the lightning only flowed throughout the statue without giving any other impact.

The Ice Jade Dragon had a size that was quite large, perhaps as big as a mountain. Avalance could control the Ice Jade Dragon as he pleased.

Ignis on the other hand did not want to lose, he used his fire to make something that shaped wings of fire behind his body, a while after that something came out of Ignis body an attack shaped like a Phoenix bird, a phoenix, a bird-like attack, it turned out that the fire wings were the counter for this Phoenix-shaped attack.

Avalance protects himself and the dragon statue with a large ice wall he made before Ignis' attack on it, the attack turns out to be just Ignis' lure to let Avalance off guard, Ignis appeared behind Avalance standing on the head of the Ice Jade Dragon, as Ignis prepared to attack, his legs frozen and fused at the head of the Ice Jade Dragon. Avalance cut off the head of the Ice Jade Dragon then charged towards Ignis with thorns on the back of the Ice Jade Dragon, the thorns sliding and turning towards Ignis. Ignis did not escape and was eventually attacked.

At that time Ignis also issued a heat that melted all the ice thorns that hit it.

Indra who watched their fight began to understand that in the war one year ago none of them fought seriously, their fight this time was very fierce. Indra daydreamed when recalling the war between the Northern Region and the Southern Region a year ago.

Indra only daydreamed for a while, but suddenly Indra saw that the border area was almost destroyed, then Ignis and Avalance were still fighting fiercely and now half of the Ice Jade Dragon was already melted by the heat of Ignis fire.

Ignis then raised his palm up and he made a gigantic fireball that was as large as the Ice Jade Dragon, Avalance immediately recovered the Ice Jade Dragon. When Ignis throws a fireball the size of a mountain, Avalance uses the Ice Jade Dragon to crash into the fireball.

Weather Painter saw the fight of his two brothers was already out of bounds, if they continued to destroy the plains at the border.

Before the Ice Jade Dragon and the Ignis Giant Fireball collided, Weather Painter quickly moved to the middle and used a pair of transparent shields behind his body to resist the attack. The two small shields were enlarged to the point of being able to withstand both attacks. When both of their attacks hit the Weather Painter shield, the instant their attacks caused a huge explosion. However, if there was no Weather Painter shield separating it, the explosion could have been even bigger.

"Come on, we just warmed up." Ignis.

"You almost destroyed this plain and you're still warming up? What about a year ago? You guys weren't serious about this one year ago." Indra.

Of course Indra was confused, the last time he saw Ignis and Avalance fighting was one year ago. However, the fight was not this brutal.

"Valor kept a close eye on us, making a mess like this would attract his attention, he paid no heed to this fight as it was quite far away from the settlement. However, if the two of them were to completely destroy this plain, he would not stay silent." Said Weather Painter.

"So the Great Witches are forbidden to use their full strength?" Ask Indra.

"Not always, there are times when we have to fight with all our might." Answer Avalance.

"Didn't a concept like this really suit you, Indra?" Ask Avalance.

"I don't understand." Answer Indra.

"Don't pretend to be stupid, we all know that you haven't once unleashed your full strength in the past year. You cannot even be compared to you now." Reply Ignis.

"Anyways, now you two have to decide who will take Indra." Said Weather Painter.

"It seems to make you who choose instead make things more difficult, then we determine with a game." Indra also said.

"What kind of game, Indra?" Ask Avalance.

Indra took out a small pouch containing several pieces of gold.

"Look how many gold bags are in this, I'll go with the one whose answer is closest." Answer Indra.

"Eleventh." Avalance said without a second thought.

"Fourteen." Ignis said too.

Indra took out all the gold pieces in the bag, and the sum of them was 13. Ignis's guess was the closest. Indra eventually became Ignis' candidate.

"It looks like I'm gonna try to take Miller or Misha." Avalance said with the result.

"Who are they?" Ask Weather Painter.

"They were Indra's friends. They have potential equal to Indra, I hesitate to bring my men." Answer Avalance.

"There's two? Give me one!" Reply Weather Painter.

"Although one of them must be interested in your offer. However, try not to talk like they are an item." Indra said cutting.