Explosions rang continuously.

Karen sprinted and roller. Her boots dug on the sposh as she leaped over the trees to reached higher before she turned around. Her hands conjured a chantless fire spell. ​​

The wavy blue figure that’s as if it has a life of its own.

Her efforts are utterly useless. The wave of ice swallowed her spell for breakfast.

“She repelled my spell?!”

Karen had found herself on the edge. Her expectations are completely destroyed.

The wave continued to followed her. She dodged the continuous assault. Every time the value landed and hit things such as trees and rocks even the grounds and the animal are frozen.

Karen rolled over and covered trees by trees.

Linda’s skift of snow began dance and began to rose as petals on the ground.

Karen’s boots dug on the ground as she tried to match Linda’s blue wave. Three fireballs emerged but once more it’s utterly swallowed by Linda’s wave.

Linda’s only spectated what had transpired as she stands watching how her magic continues to race Karen.

“What kind of magic is this?! I thought – you’re just some third-grade warrior. Your mana, how did you raise it so quickly?!”

When Karen set a distance between her and the blue wave, her foots slid, setting her left foot forward while the right stopped her momentum to stopped. Her muscles constrained as she raised her hands towards the blue wave.

“Fire magic, turbulent wave of fire!”

A solar wave of red crash against the ice magic of Linda.

By the force of the two magic, a steam was produced. It groaned and released white smoke. Karen coughed and drove her way out of the steam.

As her sight returned, another waves of ice magic came at her. She quickly dodged it. Behind the steamy curtain, she can tell there’s more than two, maybe around 5 or more.

“There’s more?!”

Another 3 waves of ice magic coming at her. She was able to dodge some of the attacks, but her movements after all are limited. Just as she thought the attacks was gone after they landed on the ground, another lurched forward, she side-stepped and turned. Though was able to foresee it, it was too late. The ice magic caught her left hand.

“It looks like the predator became the hunted.”

Linda landed in front of her.

Karen smirked seeing that nothing happened to her… yet. “What’s with that magic? Some kind of bluff?”

“Not quite.”

There’s a crackling sound like a glass.

Karen’s eyes widened in surprise as she casted her eyes on her arm turning into a pale blue while it slowly snapped.

“What-?! What did you do to me?!”

Linda watched the frostbite taken over Karen’s arm and creeped to her shoulder.

“If you have brought more troops to take me, you might wouldn’t end up like this, but no, you’re too confident to take on by yourself. A penny for a thought, you actually assumed that we’re just some third-grade warriors, didn’t you?”

Karen didn’t reply.

“My magic does not depend on the mana that I spend or from any kind of magic items. It is made purely natural.”

“A nature magic so to speak.” Karen added.

Karen leaped away and gain some distance. Her right hand conjured a flame. She tried to defrost the magic with it but it appeared there’s no effect.

“It’s useless. The frostbite already planted its core somewhere part of your body and even if you find the core you won’t be able to pull it out carelessly. Dissecting it will cause your arm to crack. It won’t be the same like before.”

“You must be gifted or something, huh.” Karen gritted her teeth. “To pull this kind of magic you need to have a lot mana. Nature energy on the other hand is more surprising.”

It sounded unacceptable but it’s happening now to her.

“If that’s the case, then I should suffer on my own terms.”

“So masochistic.” Linda responded.

“On the tethering life of earth and everything, lend me the power, earthshaker!”

The ground rumbled and the ground became muddy. The mud molded into a rock and spiked and spurred towards Linda.

Linda did not flinch. She remained unshaken despite Karen’s magic. If she remembered it right, Earthshaker is an advance magic that can produced earthquake and allow the user to use chantless magic as effect of it.

“You do know some advance magic. If you use this earlier you could have kept up on me.”

Linda pointed the tip of her ice sword to the tsunami of rocky spikes. As the earth shakes and the spikes came and touch her sword, everything froze.

“What just happened?!” Karen said in disbelief.

It’s clear that she refused the outcome. It’s impossible that she too can freeze her magic. Karen’s only option now to survive is to run away. Karen turned her back and sprinted away from Linda.

“I’ll get back to you next time!” Karen declared.

Linda was silent.

How many minutes has she been running from then, 4, 10 minutes? If there’s any akin to the sun pattern, she would’ve predicted what time it is now.

Unknowingly, Linda’s following her. Alas, the time she’s waiting for. Karen is familiar with the road and turned to right. The path she’s following will lead to bridge across the river.

When she came passed to the forest, she stopped, bewildered. A white wall blocked her way. She glanced right to left. All was white.

“The dome is part of my Inquiara Magic too.”

Linda said as she revealed herself out of the forest.

“The color white maybe not what you expecting but it is made of ice as well.”

Karen’s frustration is at its peak. She screamed and used fire magic on it. The wall didn’t budge. Karen turned her attention back to Linda.

“It’s useless, because of the winter outside the dome it made my magic stronger.”

Karen knew very well what this meant. She only has one choice, but the survival rate is slimmed to none.

Without thinking twice, Karen launched an attack.

Karen pushed forward. Her hands were engulfed by fire magic.

She was half to Linda until something stopped her on her track. She looked below and saw ice shards large enough to struck her stomach.

“That’s too bad.” Linda calmly said. “You could’ve prepared better.”

Karen coughed blood and her throats croaked. She wanted to curse her but her strength slipped and her vision blurred. Finally, there is darkness.

Linda let off her Inquiara Magic. Her majestic dress melted and her sword returned to normal. She felt the aftereffects of her Inquiara Magic.

Her mana dropped dramatically, but she has still stamina to walk.

“It’s been a while since I use my Inquiara Magic. I still haven’t got use of it. Even if I absorbed the nature energy, I can’t still control my mana from being mixed to it. I need more practice so that my mana won’t drop as it is now.”

Linda’s breath ragged. She found a tree nearby and hold to it before she walks back on the track to aid them.