“Extreme Magic: Eternal Nightfall.”

  The very utterance of the intatio a shiver down the spines of those who heard it, a sensation that they were now at the mercy of the darkness.

  Roselle could feel her heart rag while trying to orient herself in the bck void. This battle just went to dark depths in which she was not expeg it to go to.

  Sylra let out a ughter that echoed in the darkness. She spoke with a hint of amusement, “Well, if Arlysa’s pulling out all the stops with her Extreme Magic, then I guess it’s time for me to get serious too.”

  Roselle with fusion excimed, “What?!”

  Sylra did not look phased by the uning darkness. Instead, she grinned while beginning to point towards Roselle. With a hint of pride, she boasted, “You’re about to get smashed into week Roselle. Under Arlysa’s tutege, I was able to develop a unique ability called Terra Illumina. It lets me sense and see within this darkness.”

  While Arlysa’s Extreme Magic shrouded the battlefield in imperable darkness, Sylra’s e to the earth beh her deepened. She could feel the subtle vibrations and energy currents of the earth, visualizing them as intricate patterns of glowing lines and symbols. It was as though the earth itself was guiding her.

  “Initially,” Sylra tinued.“I could only sense vibrations and movements, but with practice, I’ve hoerra Illumina to a remarkable level.”

  While speaking, Sylra’s body underwent a transformation. She expanded in size, her frowing rger and more imposing. Rock shards swirled around her naturally, as if the earth itself had bee aension of her being.

  Sylra focused her newfound ability, extending her perception deep into the earth. Within moments, her surroundings became clear to her as if the very earth beh her feet emitted its own radiant light.

  “Now, even in this darkness,” Sylra decred, “I see shapes, movements, and the presence of living beings. Arlysa’s magi’t hide a thing from me. This is my Extreme Earth Magic: Terra Illumina!”

  Roselle’s mind raced with thoughts of how to navigate the darkness surrounding her. She knew she o find a way to see what was happening.

  “Well that’s not fair… Maybe Risebelle has something we use, but I ’t see her. What do I do now?”

  Before she could formute a pn, Sylra took advantage of the moment. With a swift and calcuted move, Sylra maniputed one of the rock shards swirling arouo form a massive boulder. With tremendous force, she uhe boulder directly at Roselle, who had little time to react. The impact struck Roselle, sending her sprawling and inflig damage.

  Roselle groaned in pain. She made an attempt tain her footing but the darkness was still enveloping her.

  Roselle struggled tain her footing. She could hear Sylra in the background but was uo see her clearly.

  “What’s the matter, Roselle? ’t hahe darkness? It’s a whole new level of power you’re dealing with now.”

  Roselle’s fists ignited with fire as she realized the unique advantage her fire infusion provided in the midst of the darkness. The fiery aura around her hands cast a warm and light glow that allowed her to dis the outlines of her surroundings in close proximity.

  With the advantage of the fmes in mind, Roselle unched a fire bst toward a faint silhouette of Sylra; however, Sylra anticipated the attad at the same time had already prepared a termove within the enpassing darkness.

  A massive block of earth suddeended from the ground, propelled by Sylra’s manipution of the terrain. It struck Roselle with tremendous force, sending her flying backward through the darkness. Roselle grunted in pain upon colliding with the unseen ground.

  Sylra’s could be heard through the darkness. “You might be able to see a bit better but that won’t save you from the might of my Extreme Earth Magic. This is Terra Illumina, my Greastest Ability!”

  Roselle pushed herself up despite the pain. She knew she had to adapt quickly to this new challenge and find a way to overe Sylra’s mastery of the earth.

  Roselle focused her fiery energy once more, trying to ect with the fmes that surrounded her fists. She sent forth a fire bst towards Sylra’s silhouette, but this time, Sylra swiftly k away with a skillful manipution of the earth, her movement dispying an uny speed and precision.

  Roselle could see Sylra’s outli struggled to predict her rapid and uable movements. With calcuted precision, Sylra unched a series of powerful physical strikes. Her fists and limbs became extensions of her rofused body, makitacks devastatingly effective.

  Sylra’s punches and kicks rained down on Roselle, each blow striking with tremendous force. Roselle did her best to defend, but the darkness made it difficult to anticipate Sylra’s attacks. The relentless barrage left Roselle battered and bruised, struggling to maintain her posure.

  “You thought you could hahis level of darkness? You’re nothing pared to the power of the earth... That’s why I’ll never five you!”

  Sylra’s words carried an air of rese and anger around them. While tinuing her relentless assault on Roselle, she came across a remnant of a memory from her past—a memory of Thalindra, the Forest Guardian, in a forest-like outfit with long silver hair.

  In that memory, Thalindra had been f a young and g Sylra. She gently patted her on the head. The image fshed in Sylra’s mind whientarily disrupted her focus otle.

  Sylra quickly pushed aside the memory and redoubled her attacks on Roselle. The darkness shrouding them seemed to whisper around with her ihoughts.

  Meanwhile, the intetle against Arlysa, both Runebelle and Risebelle found themselves bombarded by rapid and unseen dark bsts. The relentless onsught forced Risebelle to drop to one kruggling to maintain her bance.

  Frustration and fusion welled up within Risebelle. “Ah damn it! I feel those dark bsts, but I ’t see them at all! I ’t even see where Arlysa is! How the hell am I supposed to e up with a pn like this?! Tch… I don’t even have any tech from Kintovar’s that would work in this situation…”

  Runebelle, still in her Project Rune form wore that unusual smile while trying to make sense of their predit. She focused on the vibrations and energy currents of the earth beh them, relying on her elemental fusion to guide her as.

  “Stay close, Risebelle,” Runebelle advised. “I’ll find a way to ter her darkness. We just o hold on a little longer.”

  Arlysa’s seemed to speak from all dires.

  “There’s nothing you do. I will tihis onsught until you’re both destroyed. “

  Before they could respond, another dark bst struck Risebelle, causio cry out in pain. Arlysa’s merciless assault tinued without end.

  “If you have any st words, you’d better say them quickly.”

  The relentless dark bsts tio pummel them. Runebelle’s mind raced for a solution. She remembered Risebelle’s ability to trol acid rain and believed it might offer a ce to break free from Arlysa’s onsught.

  “Risebelle, try your acid rain!” Runebelle shouted amidst the chaos.

  Risebelle attempted to activate her acid rain ability; however, to her dismay nothing happened. Her power remained unresponsive which left her frustrated and wide open to Arlysa’s relentless attacks.

  “It’s not w, Runebelle! My acid rain won’t activate!”

  “Oh no,” Risebelle muttered to herself. “It’s like when An trapped us in that fire cage. The opposing magic suppresses mine. I ’t use my water magic here!’

  Her thoughts were filled with a sense of helplessness. She grappled with the fact that her abilities were rendered useless in the face of such overwhelming darkness and power.

  Risebelle, desperate tain her abilities in the face of the suppressing darkness, turo her sister Runebelle with a plea in her eyes. She remembered their past battle against An and how Runebelle’s elemental fusion had saved them.

  “Runebelle,” Risebelle implored, “remember when we faced An, and you fused yic with mio ter his fire cage? you do the same thing now? Fuse yic with mine again. It’s the only way I think we break free from this darkness.”

  Runebelle nodded in uanding. She focused her energy on infusing Risebelle’s water magic with the element of ice to create a potent bination that could potentially ter the suppression caused by Arlysa’s darkness.

  As Risebelle and Runebelle eled their bined elemental power, a remarkable transformatioook Risebelle. Her hair shifted from its usual blue to a brilliant aqua color, and it became icy to the touch. Her entire body exuded araordinary ess, and her water-based powers were further enhanced by the infusion of ice. It was a stunning transformation, with a shimmering aura of iergy surrounding her.

  [[System Message]]:

  LifeForce: 56%

  Magic: 225% (Note: Elemental Fusinized with Project Rune’s Magic)

  Risebelle’s infused power filled her with fidence. She smirked and said , “This is just what I needed. It works eveer than I thought.”

  As Runebelle was about to speak, Risebelle interrupted her, saying, “Hold on, Runebelle. I’m going to build up my magic.”

  Risebelle began to trate, eling her enhanced magic through the newly acquired ice element. The power flowed through her with newfound strength and trol.

  Risebelle focused her ifused magic attempting to break free from the darkness. She raised her hands toward the shrouded sky summoning a swirling vortex of iergy above. The frigid winds swirled and densed into a malevolent storm cloud, much like her Acid Rain teique but now imbued with the power of ice.

  Risebelle, now infused with the power of ice, raised her hands toward the sky and shouted to the heavens,

  “Crystal Froststorm!”

  The moment she uttered the and a gigantic ice cloud formed high above taking shape rapidly. Dark, ominous clouds swirled together and within seds, they unleashed a chilling rain that fell upotlefield. But this was no ordinary rain; it was a rain of crystalline ice. It was beautiful yet deadly.

  The ice crystals desded rapidly, eae shimmering with a malevolent aura. Upon tact with the ground, they burst into icy shrapnel, c a wide area with their freezing touch. The battlefield was transformed into a frozen wastend, and the ice crystals burned with the frigid cold of a blizzard.

  Risebelle had merged her Acid Rain ability with the power of ice, creating a deadly bination. The icy raindrops sizzled and crackled burning anything they touched. The darkness surrounding them seemed to quiver in respoo this ued assault.

  The Crystal Froststorm enveloped the battlefield but upon this happening, Runebelle felt the attack of a dark bst hit her on her back. She reacted swiftly and fired her small guns into the darkness, hoping to hit her elusive target. However, the bullets found no mark, and the darkness remained undisturbed.

  It wasn’t long before screams pierced the air and Runebelle’s senses picked up on the agonized Arlysa and Sylra. The pair had uimated the power of the Crystal Froststorm and their clothes began to disie uhe relentless assault of the icy hail.

  Runebelle watched as her enemies suffered with her unusual smile never wavering.

  Arlysa’s cries of agony echoed through the frozen battlefield as the Crystal Froststorm tio wreak havo her and Sylra. The relentless assault of icy shrapore through their clothing and seared their flesh. They writhed in pain with their magical defenses crumbling uhe bined power of the elemental attack.

  Amidst her suffering, Arlysa’s mind raced, trying to make sense of the situation. The names “Acid Rain” and “Crystal Froststorm” fshed through her thoughts and realization struck her like a bolt of lightning. She remembered the descriptions of Risebelle’s abilities, and it became clear that they had uimated the true extent of her power.

  Grittieeth through the pain, Arlysa mao growl out her frustration while intensifying the dark aura which surrounded her. “Acid Rain... Crystal Froststorm... you little braaaats!”