Chapter 96 - 96 : Friendly Spar (2/2)

A cross-shaped beam which had the ancient flames and the dark magic of Arthur was launched at the incoming Ice lotus. The clash between them created a blinding light that lasted for a second, although the fight was in mid-air, that clash alone caused another mountain to fall apart.

Arthur and Lucy retreated repeatedly while gazing at the clash's location to see what attack managed to survive, but it was like usual, the Ice lotus was still floating unscathed and the cross-shaped beam disappeared.

”Tsk! I got no choice then..”

As he said that, his two swords disappeared and what replaced them were orange swords with black flames burning on their edges. They were made from Eclipse Magic.

Seeing the two orange swords, Lucy frowned and circulated her Nether Energy to recover and defend.

2 Ice lotuses were floating around her systematically, it was the core technique of the Nine Star Yin Technique, it focused on using Ice Lotus to defend and attack. It is said that if the user creates 9 Ice lotuses then their power would be godly!

She already managed to conjure two, which is considered pretty good for a beginner like her, normal people would take years to do so yet she did it in a few months.

Arthur rushed at Lucy and at the same time, two figures identical to him rushed at her from the her left and right side. Each held two orange swords and came at fast speed. But you could notice that one was slower than the original Arthur and the second had an average speed, probably half of Arthur's max speed.

Lucy was already prepared for this, so she focused on the original Arthur and disregarded the other two clones as they are long since dead after what she prepared.

The first clone was made from the Shadow Magic and the second was the transformed Dark Cloud which was named Dark Clone by Arthur.

A 3m flaming meteorite with a speed even faster than the Dark Clone came crushing at it, totally annihilating it and making it regain its normal nebula form but you could sense its weakening and turning hazy. As for the Shadow Clone, it couldn't react in time before a mysterious and almost illusory wave of sky-blue Energy rushed at it, freezing it at the spot and then shattering into beautiful little fragments that looked a bit shiny in the air.

The main clash has yet to happen, the two Ice lotuses appeared in front of Lucy, with an Ice saber in her hand, she tip-toed on the air as she charged at Arthur.

The two orange swords slashed at the two Ice lotuses, dark flames erupted and space distorted for a split second due to the powerful clash of two strong attacks.

The Ice lotuses were slowly spinning as they struck the two orange swords, but you could see that there were some cracks appearing on them, if this continued on, they'll shatter in no time.

”Mooo, using Void Magic is no fair... it easily devours my Yin Lotuses....”

Lucy complained, as every time, her lotuses would get countered by the Eclipse magic which had Void Magic.

Void magic was like a devourer and it apparently is like an opposite attribute of the Yin magic, it would devour it whenever it's too close and that's why the lotuses are shattering, they were being devoured by the Void magic in the orange swords.

As she said that, Lucy concentrated on the Ice Lotuses and they both started spinning faster than usual, the cracks stopped appearing and the orange swords were pushed back by them. Snowflakes were falling from the Ice lotuses and slowly enveloping the small area around Arthur, before he could retreat, a sphere of snowflakes had enveloped him, he started feeling a chilling coldness, even his bones were freezing and not even the protective layer managed to withstand it.

”You lost, hehehe.”

As she said that, the snowflakes disappeared, so did the Ice lotuses, everything returned to normal, only Lucy was showing a victorious smile as she walked near Arthur and gave him a deep hug.

”I can't counter that attack yet... hahaha. but the score is 15-15, it's a tie.”

Arthur didn't care much about winning, he only sparred with Lucy to train and hone their skills with combat experience. He won many times just like her, there were no bets whatsoever, he just started calling a score when Lucy teased him and won in the first spar so wasn't willing to give up.

”Sure, but what's so point of the score? It's not like the winner gets anything special.”

Lucy was confused about this, she would always ask him this but he would not answer her, however, surprisingly, today, he finally replied.

”The loser has to do whatever the winner says...”

Lucy didn't seem surprised by what he said, in fact, she chuckled when she heard that.

”But you'll do anything I say just like I'll do anything you say even without winning, that's not a prize now, is it? hehehe~~”

Arthur couldn't help but scratch the back of his head as he couldn't think of some good prize. In the end, he just shrugged it off and changed the subject to avoid being teased any further.

”Anyways, the banquet is in two days, we should head out right now...”

”Ehhh.. but you still didn't tell me about the prize.. I want to know.”

Arthur didn't reply as he summoned the Spirit Boat and entered it in advance as he wanted to avoid that question...

”Come on dear, why are you not telling me...”