The battle between Fil and Fionna continues. The eyes of the crowd are directly focus on the ring, even though the majority of them can’t catch up to the movements of the two warriors.
Up in the VIP seat, queen Victoria and sire Gilbert are sharing their thoughts on the outcome of the battle.
“Judging from the way they move; I can say that the winner is still not decided your majesty”
“Is it really?? the way I see it… although I can’t see them myself clearly. I feel that the young man has the upper hand now towards Fionna”
“Hmmm… well, given that he survives the princess’s ⸢Ice Field⸥ without suffering any injury is really an eye opener to me. and I’m sure that that spell took a lot of the princess’s mana”
“But it seems that my daughter is not bothered by it in the slightest! Instead, to me, it looks like she’s having the time of her life!”
“Fuhahahaha! I bet she is your majesty!! Having an opponent where you can go all out is very rare for the princess. So, I’m sure she’s very happy right now…”
Their conversation continues as they watch the exchanges of blows of the two.
*Babababambaambaaabamm!!*
*Swoooshsoooshswoosh!!*
After a minute of exchanging attacks, the two suddenly stops for a moment.
“What’s wrong Fil?? Aren’t you going to show me your other tricks except from your punches and kicks??”
“HAHAHA! Well, I quite fond of hitting that armor of yours, it still didn’t budge after that many attacks I did”
“Of course, except for being sturdy, this armor is also quite elastic and can absorb an enormous number of shocks. So, you breaking it in just a short moment of time is impossible!!”
But Fil just grins after hearing that and he started to think of something.
-Indeed, now that I’ve confirmed that the material uses to create that armor is an otherworldly metal otherwise known as asteroids or space rocks.
And space rock’s structure is quite unique! Apart from having many different metals as its base, these rocks have also been exposed and absorb a few amounts of dark matter! And dark matter’s elasticity and tensile strength is the highest in the universe.
In order for me to break that armor, I will have to use ⸢MASS⸥ as a last resort but using that will surely kill the princess and I don’t want. Ah! That’s right, I remember now!!
Thankfully, the dark matter within an asteroid regardless of its size is only approximately .01% but even that amount is enough to make it very formidable.
Sigh! I have no choice… I will use ⸢MASS⸥ but I need to touch the center of the armor in order to gauge its tensile strength, so I will know how much force I will need to release without hurting the princess… okay let’s do that!!-
“Did you know princess??”
“What??”
“The word “Impossible” does not exist in my dictionary *smirk*”
“Oho… you’re quite confident I see. Then prove it to me!!”
The princess engages first by performing a thrust of wind towards Fil. The spell is called ⸢Wind Spear⸥ and its effect can be determined by its name.
However, after receiving and evading all the attacks of Fionna. Fil notice something, so he postpones his plan and tried to have a conversation with the princess first while dodging her attacks.
“Say, princess! I seem to notice that your wind attacks are somewhat… lacking?? How is that??”
“Heh! Trying to talk to me while I attack huh?? Are you mocking me now??”
“Non, non, I just want to know the reason why your wind magic is far inferior to your ice magic. That is quite abnormal for a dual attribute for as far as I know, dual attributes wielders have an equal mastery over their attributes. So, how come you aren’t??”
Sire Gilbert heard what Fil’s said and he also notice the difference for when the princess uses her ice magic is entirely different compared to when she uses her wind magic.
“He is right… even if the princess is using superior ice magic now, the difference between her wind magic and ice magic should be not this far… and yet, the difference is entirely world apart… how come??”
“Fionna inherited her wind magic from her father and maybe the thought of using it made her remembers him and it is making her sad. So, she is hesitating… maybe?”
Said the queen.
Meanwhile, the princess refuses to answer Fil and continues her attacks.
“I will give you my answer if you manage to land a fatal blow on me… so start showing me all you got!!!”
*Hiyyyaaah!*
*Slashslashslash!!*
*Babababaammbamabam!!*
The attacks continues and Fil let out a sigh and then spoke.
“Very well then…”
At a distance of two meters from Fil, the princess shouted.
“Good! Show me what you got!!
⸢Royal Stance: Ice Dragon Thrust⸥!!”
The power of that attack is overwhelming. It made the tenfold barrier to have some cracks in it. But instead of getting scared, the audience become more excited… for them, witnessing the princess spells is very rare, especially the ⸢Ice Dragon Thrust⸥.
The attack chip away a part of the ring. But as the smoke disappears, Fil is nowhere to be found.
-What?? In that distance, he manages to evade it?? Unbelievable!!-
And then suddenly, she heard a voice behind her.
“Brace yourself princess…
⸢MASS: HILL⸥”
*Iiiiirrrrghhh!!!*
*Arrrrrggh!!!!*
*Baaaaaaam!!!*
At the moment Fionna turns around, Fil kicked her in the side but thanks to her ultrafast reflexes, she deems that kick to be too powerful to bare, and blocks it with her sword. However, the impact made her fly all the way to the edge of the ring and made her sword to suffer a c***k.
-That kick was entirely different than the previous ones, is his attribute a sub-attribute of earth attribute that focuses on enhancing physical strength and speed?? No… I think it is more complicated than that-
She looks at her sword and notice the cracks in it.
-He manages to damage my “Black Meteor” with a kick?? I bet even the king of Baakal can’t do that… who the hell really is he??-
After gathering her thoughts, Fil asks her.
“There still five minutes left in our duel, so you we have plenty of time to talk *smile*”
Hearing that, Fionna close her eyes and sigh.
“Very well, I shall tell you as a reward for that splendid attack earlier…
A year ago, I went on a journey on the forest of doom in hoping to find the nest of the white lion… but after a day of exploring the forest, the best thing I could encounter are SS-tier beasts and among them, I come across one that has recently attack someone… It was a little girl; she was still conscious when I found her and she ask for my help.
Naturally, I help her. But it seems that I am a little bit late, she has been already attacked and have numerous numbers of wounds all over her body. I didn’t notice it at first because the beasts blood splash over her when I killed it.
After a moment of conversation, she suddenly fainted, and when I touch her, I can feel her life fading away.
At that time, I have no choice but to do something very dangerous in order to save her life.
With that, I purposely transfer half of my wind attribute into her body, making her natural healing ability to skyrocketed and stabilize her condition. I know that even though she survives, my foreign mana in her will surely cause some internal damage and threaten her life.
So, I plan to visit her after I finish my businesses. But that takes me a whole year… and now, the threat of the white lion comes so my visit will be postpone again… sigh! I hope she’s still fine…”
“Hmmm I see… by any chance… is the name of that girl… Rian??”
The surprise expression of Fionna is enough to answer Fil’s question.
“H-how…? Do you know her??”
“Well… pretty much, she’s the first girl I meet upon coming here and she is a very cheerful child so I’m quite fond of her.
His father said that someone in black armor save her a year ago, I didn’t think that that was you princess… what a coincidence HAHA!”
“*Smile* I see… is she fine??”
“She will… I can cure her; I just need something here first before I do that”
“Fu…… to be honest, I don’t know myself how to undo what I’ve done to her, but if you are saying that you can save her, I will take that as owing you a favor… I-I-I can ac-accept your in-invitation to come with you… but! only fo-for a while, o-o-okay…???“
“HAHA! I didn’t expect you to show your girlish side to me there, how cute…”
“!!! Ey..!! enough of that, let us resume the match!!”
Back at the VIP seats, the queen is very curious on what they are talking about but she can’t hear them so she asks the general.
“So, something like that happen huh…? Oh princess…”
“General??”
“Oh, apologies for that your majesty *bow* …the young man is just showering the princess with his sweet words hahahaha! It seems that the princess is slowly getting swayed if I would guess!”
-If her majesty heard that, she will surely be very angry at the princess and it might have a bad effect on her heart and her health is not a good just like in the past. So, I will keep it for now-
“I see… well, isn’t that good news??! Imagine, my daughter finally melting her stone-cold heart for that young man!!! I must mark this day as the day which my daughter finally experience spring!!”
The queen is very please and happy. Well, what the general is not false but he just concealed something important from the queen.
After telling the reason, Fionna stops using her wind magic on Fil. Instead, her superior ice magic becomes more intense. She simultaneously casted ⸢Ice Field⸥ and ⸢Ice Dragon Thrust⸥ which crushes half of the ring.
“Why don’t we end this now princess??”
“Tch! Even that didn’t get you huh??
Fine then!! I will now use my ultimate attack”
“Ohoh… I am looking forward to it *smile*”
-Her mana is becoming denser and denser… she really is going all out now-
*Grin*
“Then I shall respond in the same way!! HAHA!”
“Let’s see if you can still evade this!! ⸢Royal Stance: Ice Fencing; Thousand Dragon Thrust⸥!!!!”
The moment she unleashes that attack, the whole inside of the barrier was covered by mist from the intense ice surge. The barrier also gains many long cracks visible to the naked eyes.
The audience cannot see what is happening inside, even sire Gilbert can’t tell what is happening now, because of the thick fog.
But, at the ring.
After Fionna unleashes her attack, only the part of the ring behind her is left. This made her concludes that even Fil can’t dodge that.
Indeed, Fil suffer an ample amount of damage because that attack covered almost covered all the space within the barrier. It made some part of his suit tore off.
The moment she sees him falling, she finally relaxes because she thought that she finally got him and besides, she is already exhausted.
But, after blinking, Fil appears in front of her.
“That was truly a remarkable and splendid ultimate attack princess”
While smiling, Fil poke three parts of the princess armor. The belly button part, the chest part, and her helmet.
“⸢MASS: ISLAND⸥…”
*Kirkirrrrkirkirk~*
*Booogshhhh!!!!!*
Just like his plan, the first touch gouges the limit of the armor while the second touch is the real attack that will break the armor without hurting the princess. The third part is just for satisfying Fil’s curiosity… he wants to see what the princess really looks like.
“Wha….”
The princess was completely stunned as she watches her armor which is considered a national treasure of Glacier shattered into small pieces. Her inner clothes also suffer, some parts of it reaps, revealing her smooth pale-white skin, especially the chest part which seems to be finally been freed from the shackle of the armor. Her pretty long silver hair, jewel-blue eyes, and perfectly shape face was all revealed in front of Fil.
In that moment, Fil felt something strange within him.
-Wha… what is this?? M-my heart is beating a lot faster than usual… is this a charm spell???
Did the princess do this?? No, that’s impossible, she doesn’t have the time to do it… and besides, Charms do not work on me……so why??! Why is my heart racing right now after seeing her face???-
But little did he know, the same words are also running to the princess’s mind.
-So, this is defeat huh…? He completely overwhelms me *smile*… but what’s this??? I don’t feel even an ounce of sadness… in fact, my heart is racing so fast whenever I look at him…
Deep violet eyes, jet-black hair, and a physique that is neither thin nor full of muscles…And those gaze that can make anyone’s heart to beat faster…...
W-why did I say that??? Is this an effect of having to taste defeat for the first time???
I see… so this is how defeat feels like *giggle*-
They both don’t know what is happening within them.
Experiencing this for the first time, Fil has no idea on what to do… until he decided to cast that aside first and talk to the princess.
“Princess…”
The princess was startled and immediately replied,
“Y-yes!!!?”
“HAHA! Now that I’ve seen you completely, it’s hard to imagine that you were the same person that I’ve fought earlier”
The princess didn’t understand what Fil meant at first. Until she looks at her clothes and notice that some part of her chest and thighs is completely expose.
Upon realizing it, her face turns beet red and immediately cover herself with her hands.
“P…p-p-p*****t!!! don’t look!!”
Those words and reactions come out of the princess for the first time in her life.
-Wh-what is this?? Why am I getting so embarrass when this man sees me like this?? I’ve never pay attention to these kinds of things before, let alone be embarrassed about it…??? It this also an effect of being defeated for the first time???-
She looks at Fil again while covering herself and gave him a force angry look.
But Fil just smiles at her back.
-Wh-what’s this?? She’s so gorgeous now… it making my heart beat a lot faster than usual again??? What the hell is this???
Well, she really is very gorgeous, I admit that but this is not the first time I’ve encounter beautiful girls like her??? I’ve been to many worlds already and yet I have never been like this whenever I’m with a girl!!-
“Sigh!... it’s no use, I can’t determine what is happening to me”
For the time being, Fil pulled out a comfy blanket in his ⸢STORAGE⸥ and wrap it around the princess. The princess was scared at first when Fil, suddenly approach her but it turns out that he just wants to cover her up.
[CHAPTER END.]