“Sky Petal?”
He snorts, that's not the answer he's looking for. “Who is behind you? Why have--?”
Silver Forge stops mid-sentence, unable to believe what he's seeing. Behind him, his subordinates are just as surprised as he is because, behind Sky Petal, the illusion of a waterfall manifests.
Not only that, the illusion quickly becomes material, behaving like actual liquid.
Sky Petal controls her Death Torrent Way, while simultaneously creating various types of plants, which, upon contacting the waters of her Way, grow at an alarming rate.
“Only the strong have the right to obtain answers, that is the sole truth.”
Despite her arrogance, Silver Forge does not interrupt her and allows her to continue shaping the environment to her advantage because he knows that he and his men have the upper hand. It's just that he can't believe that this huntress, without meeting the requirements, can manifest her Way to this extent. If it’s about her, he's sure, she might provide more than just answers.
But his patience is not something his subordinates share.
“Ha! So what? Your plant control won’t be enough, you are far from being a threat.”
A man with curly hair stands out from the rest and steps forward, “The more you increase the number under your control, the worse the consequences will be. I have seen many like you! What you excel at is your greatest weakness!”
She is not bothered by his words, in fact, she nods in agreement.
“Normally that would be the case, but not since I managed to refine this pill.”
I- Is she a pill refiner? Everyone has different reactions, they never thought they would face none other than a pill refiner, and that it would be her taking the initiative!
Sky Petal retrieves a medicinal pill from her storage ring and brings it to her lips, after consuming it, the number of plants emerging from the ground increases dramatically, the plants she can control have multiplied!
“My headache is minimized to the bare minimum, this is a different kind of freedom.”
“You’ve condemned yourself.” the curly-haired man doesn't want to lose and mocks, “The side effects won’t be long in manifesting and then--”
“They will in two days.”
Her words leave everyone in silence. “It’s specially designed for me. The only problem is that I still don’t know how to modify the recipe so that it remains effective once I reach level 700…”
Her pill is no different than having no side effects because, by then, all fight would have ended.
“Thanks for waiting, I won’t disappoint you.”
The water from her Way floods the surroundings, hundreds of plants emerge from the ground and that’s not all, a tree with a white trunk begins to grow over the water. As its branches stop growing, Sky Petal visibly weakens, her healthy white skin turning pale by comparison.
‘Manifesting my Way along with the tree… It’s a greater burden than I can bear.’
She directs her attention towards the curly-haired man and weakly moves her finger. In a fraction of a second, a branch of the tree extends towards the man's foot and imprisons him. He reacts quickly and cuts the branch, but then he feels intense pain.
“Eh--? AAAH!”
His foot turns to dust, having been severed from his leg in mere seconds.
“Much better.”
Sky Petal exhales, the color of her skin regaining health, but she is not yet fully recovered. She needs to consume more vitality to return to her previous state.
Silver Forge sees this and clenches his teeth, behind him the illusion of a mountain emerges, which soon manifests into reality.
“Do not let that tree touch you! Attack with the intent to kill her!”
His subordinates could not grasp the seriousness of the situation until Silver Forge’s fists strike Sky Petal's delicate hand. Although she is sent flying by his attack, she has not died, nor is she severely injured.
“Think of her as a ranker above level 700!”
It was a mistake to allow that woman to adapt the environment to her advantage!
+++
Elsewhere in the magic formation, Serene Will is being attacked by a crowd of hunters, all between levels 690 and 699.
“What do you think?”
The two rankers of level 700 watch her performance from a distance, and their initial disdain turns into expressions of astonishment and disbelief.
“If I were hiding my level, I couldn’t display the same strength as that woman.”
“I thought the same.”
Their conversation concludes after these brief exchanges, both tacitly agreeing. This woman is talented, but she is not on their side. Instead of allowing others to die needlessly, they must end her themselves.
“Hmph, I've never liked beautiful women.”
Even though she herself is a beautiful woman with long scarlet hair, she snorts after seeing Serene Will maintaining her femininity. Behind her, the illusion of a fire serpent manifests into reality and begins to hiss.
The man beside her just shakes his head and manifests his Way. Unexpectedly, what reveals in his illusion is an electric demonic beast, but instead of manifesting in reality, the man's body transforms into its living image.
At levels 704 and 706 respectively, both gaze at their target and then vanish.
The next second a giant fire serpent tries to engulf Serene Will, while a strange man with the appearance of a beast attacks her with an electric breath capable of destroying everything in its path. For another hunter, this would have been the end, but not for someone who can observe herself in third person.
Suddenly a sword appears near the eyes of the beast man.
“What?!”
He hastily stops his electric breath and retreats, but belatedly understands that the sword was not aimed at him.
“Cough--!”
The sword smoothly pierces through the head of a hunter of level 697, killing him instantly.
At the same time, behind Serene Will appears the illusion of a sky split by a sword cut, in which crack it is possible to see that there is something beyond the sky. The scene is still blurry, but its power should not be underestimated.
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“Heaven’s Division.”
The clash between the fire serpent and the sword cut generates a deafening noise, sending more than one hunter flying.
The red-haired ranker frowns after seeing her fire serpent injured. The worst part is that, the combined attack of two rankers of level 700 was not enough to kill a huntress of level 671, her subordinates have completely lost their fighting spirit after seeing this!
“Why would someone--?”
“Void Sword”
She was about to ask about her origin, but Serene Will does not give her the chance to do so. The same instant that her sword disappears, a hunter of level 698 falls from the sky with his head severed from his body.
Both rankers scream in hatred and attack her again, but instead, Serene Will only looks at her own sword and sighs.
‘This technique currently only serves to kill the weak, I should be able to manifest dozens of them, but right now I can only manifest my own sword.’
Her indifference is misinterpreted by both rankers as humiliation.
“Where do you think you’re looking?”
“You’re too arrogant.”
But Serene Will is able to dodge their attacks without needing to observe them directly, while her sword once again disappears and, in the distance, a hunter dies from her attack. This doesn’t mean it's easy for her, quite the contrary.
A field of swords emerges around her, and the sword in her hand is surrounded by sand.
This is the seriousness with which she has assessed her situation.
+++
A whirlwind of fire destroys the beautiful garden of the mansion, but it does not just incinerate inanimate objects, but also living beings. It does so with such cruelty that those burned by it would have preferred a thousand times that their hearts were stabbed and their lives ended in an instant.
“AAAH!”
“That bitch! Do you enjoy watching others suffer?”
The two rankers of level 700 also planned to measure the strength of Coldness Divine by sending their subordinates, but unpleasant was their surprise to see how this dragon girl incinerated everyone alive, more than 6 died instantly and the rest have wounds of varying severity.
Coldness Divine hides her smile behind her fan, but in her eyes, it’s possible to glimpse her disdain. She doesn’t even see them as humans.
The ranker of level 707 clicks his tongue and behind him appears the illusion of a forest with its trees split by a single cut, surprisingly all the trees in the surroundings fall to the ground as soon as he manifests his Way.
He swings his hand axe and the whirlwind of fire disappears without a trace.
“For being a dragon, I honestly expected more than thi--”
He forgets to finish his sentence and instead furrows his brows, because behind Coldness Divine appears the illusion of an open book, its pages moving backward. Although it is a diffuse illusion, at that very moment something unusual happens.
“The whirlwind of fire… What the hell?!”
The same whirlwind of fire that his axe had destroyed reappears. He evaluates it carefully, but still can’t believe it's true. Because it’s not a new magic, it’s exactly the same whirlwind of fire that he destroyed!
“Get lost!”
He once again swings his axe and the whirlwind disappears, but then the book behind Coldness Divine, specifically its pages, again move backward and as a result, the whirlwind of fire originates again.
“Time…”
The other ranker, who hadn’t spoken until this moment, clenches his fists. “It should be impossible for someone to use
