Chapter 178 - #177 Ice Blossoms (2/2)

Akashi started using his skill like crazy always appearing behind her or above her, however despite his speed, Esdeath was able to keep up with him by only attaining a few scratches from the entire exchange.

'Even he has to have limited stamina! He can't move around so quickly without wasting a lot of stamina.' Esdeath thought when the onslaught of Akashi's surprise attacks finally ended

”I told you it's useless, in my territory, I have an unlimited source of power. Plus I think it's time for the second part of this technique.” Esdeath said with a relaxed smile.

'The second part of her technique? ...?!' Akashi thought before he widened his eyes when he finally noticed the snowflakes on his body and clothes that should have melted down even before even landing on him however it was too late for him to do anything.

Each snowflake bloomed into ice blossoms, completely overwhelming Akashi and freezing him in a large blossom-like ice prison.

Esdeath looked at the large blossom made of ice with Akashi inside it with a crazy and victorious smile. She decided to slowly walk closer to him.

---On the hill---

”?!” All the girls except for Mera were suddenly caught in the ice prison of the blossom's form.

”Hm?! Oh? So that's the secret move within her already deadly technique...how unique. She is truly one of the kind...Esdeath.” Mera muttered while looking around with a curious expression, she was the only one who wasn't caught because ever since it started to snow, she began using her umbrella.

*crack*

Mera turned at the prison where Kurome was located and noticed yellow lightning running rampant on the surface of the ice prison however despite her effort, the entire prison was cracking very slowly.

'Those snowflakes are probably made to bloom on the contact with the living body. Or once they make contact with anything with its body temperature high enough to survive in this coldness, they will bloom. Anyway, I should help them get out of this predicament.' Mera thought with a curious expression before she walked towards Kurome's prison to help her out first.

Mera wasn't the leader of one of the most infamous ȧssassination group just for show, she was actually able to judge the concept of Esdeath's technique just by observing the surroundings. Just by the fact that snowflakes on top of her cold umbrella never bloomed out, unfortunately, she couldn't have a look at any other living things since everything already died out of the coldness but seeing that no snowflakes bloomed on their corpses only strengthened her hypothesis.

---Back to the battle---

Akashi felt that even Kiyomi was captured which made him narrow his eyes since if she was captured then even the girls were captured.

'Esdeath, you...' Akashi thought as he glared at Esdeath with a hostile intention.

Sensing what was on his mind, Esdeath stopped with a smile across her face.

”I just wanted to show them that they can't compare to me” Esdeath said while shrugging her shoulders.

”Anyway, it seems that it is my win!” Esdeath came close to the prison and put her hand on it and the insides of the prison began glowing in light blue color.

'If I will take this attack head-on, I will probably even lose my arm but I should be able to survive it, however, there is no need to wait any longer...She had her time, she had her time of playing arrogant so I think it's finally time to completely crush her!' Akashi thought before closing his eyes, readying himself since this was the first time he was about to use his new trump card.

Suddenly a crimson aura started glowing on Akashi's skin, quickly spreading to the surroundings and completely devouring that light blue glow.

”Wha-?!” Before Esdeath was able to even exclaim, she had to jump back when she felt an earthquake right below her.

”HA!”

*BANG!*

She heard Akashi's shout before the ground under her ice prison exploded while magma burst out however instead of falling down, it kept rising up, forming a large pillar touching up to the skies.

Her ice prison that was meant to be made out of her toughest ice she could form was completely engulfed by the pillar of magma before it disappeared into nothingness, there was nothing like melting down, it just disappeared.

Esdeath watched this with wide-open eyes and her mouth open in surprise but it was quickly replaced when she narrowed her eyes with an excited and crazy smile.

'That's what I was talking about! Finally, he is using something that makes me feel threatened!' Esdeath thought while watching in anticipation however she wasn't allowed to just carelessly watch.

The ground in the perimeter of numerous kilometers began tearing open, forming something like veins where the magma started to flow from the lower ground. The snow and ice started slowly disappearing as the ground was slowly transforming into scorched black color.

”AGH!” Akashi's pained groan resounded in the air and traveled even numerous kilometers away from them.

'?!' Esdeath who was until now jumping from the place to another place to avoid the magma occasionally bursting out of the ground stopped for a second to look cautiously towards the large pillar made of flowing magma.