<h4>Chapter 138: Intense Battle!</h4>
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"If she''s Rank 2, I should be capable of using Inspect on her…" thought Frank, as he tried to do as he thought.
[Inspect] level insufficient, Inspection failed…]
[Inspect] level insufficient, Inspection failed…]
[Inspect] level insufficient, Inspection failed…]
…
However, in front of Frank''s sight, he received the message he least expected…
"This… Does it meant that she is even stronger than her Rank implies… But orb used her special Divine Sense to determine her Magus Rank… unless…!" thought Frank, as he realized what she was…
As the woman in ck began to unleash her magic aura… more than one aura leaked.
Someone couldn''t have more than one Magic Aura, as everyone only had a single Mana Core.
…Of course, that was assuming that the person in specific did not have some kind of intervention with their own body.
Gwendolyn quickly realized this, as the woman in ck leaked a third Mana Aura!
Three!
"She has… three Mana Cores!" said Gwendolyn in surprise.
"I had already assumed… So she is one of those people that had undergone Mana Core imnt… So this was the bad feeling about her… She isn''t simply Rank 2…" said Frank.
Although the power that one could draw from imnted Mana Cores wasn''t theplete power, it was still a considerable boost in strength, and it could even give a new set of Spells of different attributes.
Even if the woman in ck had two more Mana Cores within her body, they seemed to only be Rank 1, and stuck in middle stage to upper stage… However, the power she could draw from them was limited and notplete.
Nheless, even with that taken into consideration, she had two more arsenals of Spells from different attributes other than her original one, which seemed to be Dark.
"Oh? So you can tell? You''re indeed a Rank 2 Magus…" said the woman, without saying another word, she shrouded herself in shadows and flew towards Frank and Gwendolyn at fast speed.
As she moved towards them, Frank and Gwendolyn noticed how she was practically hovering in the air, her feet were not touching the floor at all…
Frank immediately realized that another spell separated from these shadows was being used.
sh!
The woman emerged behind Frank at an incredible speed, raising her des towards him as she realized how slow Frank waspared to her.
"Die. Crescent Moon sh!" she said, conjuring a Dark Attribute Spell that enhanced her knives, as they seemed to grow like des made of shadows, nearing Frank!
"Light Ray," said Frank.
sh!
Suddenly unexpectedly, an enormous ray of light emerged from Frank''s palm, shing towards the woman, and impacting her directly!
"W-What? Light Attribute spell?! But he did not even conjure it nor there was any magic circle!" thought the woman, flying a few meters away as she seemed mostly unfazed due to the coat of shadows she used defensively.
"Gust, Fire!" said Gwendolyn, conjuring Gust immediately as she fused it with Fire Attribute Mana and not a spell, as arge spear of wind and fire appeared in front of her, flying towards the woman!
sh!
"Another magic circle-less spell?!" wondered the woman in ck, darting away from the winds and fire as she felt her shadows slightly burn down, disappearing.
"Tch! Wind Spear! Crescent Moon sh!"
She gave an incredibly athletic backflip as she conjured several spears made of emerald winds, firing them at Gwendolyn and Frank, and at the same time, she rushed near Frank once more, raising her knives and going for a second round against him!
"Not as impressive as I imagined, but I shouldn''t lower my guard…" thought Frank.
Frank nced at her emerald eyes with a strong bloodlust, generating purple mes above his body and firing an enormous wave of Purgatory mes towards her wind spears and the woman!
sh!
"Shadow Cloak!" she said, creating a defensive shadow around her body that took the damage for herself, as Frank had disappeared from her sight, appearing right behind her while raising his nails, which had turned into sharp ck ws!
"Surprise," said Frank.
"Shapeshifting Magic?!" she thought, as Frank''s ws shed against her knives, being almost as strong as them!
sh! sh! sh!
As she defended against Frank''s onught, she realized that Frank''s attacks were being infused with magic incredibly well and that his entire body was exuding abined aura of Fire, Light, and a strange attribute that she had never sensed, which seemed a bit simr to Dark.
"Could he be also someone with imnted Mana Cores?!" she thought, as she decided to get more serious, conjuring several magic circles around her as enormous ws made of spectral shadows attacked Frank, shing against him, and throwing him away!
sh!
"Strong… I have to use something else… Death Shadow Bullets!" said Frank, releasing a barrage of dark bullets towards the woman in ck, as she tried to evade several of them, but many hit her shadow cloak until it dissipated and impacted her directly!
Boom!
"Unngh…! This… Spell strength is way stronger than someone at Rank 1 Peak Stage…!" she thought.
However, as she moved a few steps away, she realized that she had been ignoring the woman at Frank''s side, Gwendolyn!
The woman in ck quickly nced back at Gwendolyn''s position, finding that she had just finished conjuring a powerful spell!
"Infernal mes, hear my call, burn everything, and only leave ashes behind! zing Tempest!" said Gwendolyn, conjuring one of her strongest Fire Attribute Spells as an enormous storm of mes emerged from a magic circle in front of her palm!
FLASH!
"I have to evade!" thought the woman, as cold sweat dripped from her neck, leaping away with incredible swiftness, and releasing her Phantasmal Shadow ws once more, resisting the fire with them and managing to escape in time, only to meet Frank right before her.
"Nether Ice!" said Frank,bining his Ice Spear Skill alongside his Dark Death Devil Magic to generate purple ice from his arms, which he directlyunched towards the woman''s entire body!
BOOM!
However, Frank was the one to be left startled as the woman suddenly exploded into shadows, appearing once more with the same shadow explosion behind him!
"That''s… a teleportation spell?" thought Frank as he conjured a powerful Mana Barrier to protect himself, however, her attack cracked such barrier easily!
"Decapitation Dark sh!" she said, conjuring an offensive closebat spell through her knives, and unleashing it right in front of Frank''s barriers, cracking them like ss, as the impact of the shes hit Frank directly!
sh! sh!
"Unnghh…! Gift of Death!"
Frank gnashed his teeth as he quickly started to heal his wounds, while Gwendolyn came right after the woman, creating a whip of mes and grabbing her leg, dragging her away from Frank!
sh!
"Good, I will kill you first then!" roared the woman in ck, as her eyes leaked an eerie and icy feeling, as a wave of cold air emerged from her, running towards Gwendolyn!
"Ice Attribute Magic…! That''s a terrible match for my Fire Attribute Magic, you know?" asked Gwendolyn, as she created a wave of mes, firing it towards the woman in ck as her icy wind seemed to be even stronger than her mes, breaking through her spells and reaching her, as it began to freeze her skin!
"Aghh…! That spell…!" muttered Gwendolyn, as she quickly enhanced the temperature of her body to resist the cold, leaping away with an explosion of mes as the woman in ck followed her right after!
"Spectral Shadow ws! Shadow Whip!"
She quickly created a whip of shadows of her won, throwing it towards Gwendolyn and entangling her tightly, right after, enormous ws of spectral shadows were about to slice her into pieces!
sh!
However, before that urred, an enormous tornado of purple and blue mes emerged from below, destroying the shadow ws and making the woman in ck forcefully retreat.
The woman in ck quickly realized that Frank was the one who threw those mes, quickly recovering from the big wounds she inflicted on him like nothing.
"You''re harder to kill than I imagined…! But this only makes it more exciting!" said the woman, rushing towards Frank like a meteor of shadows.
"Shadow Storage! Everyone get out!" said Frank.
"Eh?!"
Suddenly, Frank''s shadow expanded, releasing three figures from within, one of which jumped and caught Gwendolyn like a princess.
"Ah, Nezhit!" said Gwendolyn.
"Gwendolyn-sama, please remain at my back," said Nezhit.
The other two figures were dragons, one whose appearance resembled a beautiful seahorse covered in red and orange scales and possessing wings which are immediately used to fly, while the other was a serpentine and golden dragon with a furious and dignified expression!
"Ruby, use zing Breath! Zhulong, use Zap Cannon!" said Frank as the woman in ck was surprised by two enormous waves of mes and thundering from both left and right!
"He''s… a Beast Tamer too?!" wondered the woman, as she released multipleyers of shadow cloak, without being able to evade, the fire and thunder hit her directly!
BOOM!
sh!
However, from within the smoke of the explosion, the woman emerged shrouded in shadows, approaching Frank!
"You have to die…! I have to fulfill my duty!!!" she roared, her eyes growing with bloodlust as she conjured a wave of icy winds and generated several spectral ws around her, sending them towards Frank from all directions!
sh! sh! sh!
"Devil Blight!" said Frank,bining Light Ray with his Dark Death Devil Magic, as an explosion of rays of ck light emerged from his body, shing against the spectral shadow ws!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
sh!
However, in an explosion of shadows, the woman once more used her short-range teleportation spell, appearing behind Frank and unleashing a barrage of shing shadow attacks on his back!
sh! sh! sh!
But instead of evading or escaping, Frank took the hit as he smiled, generating an enormous mass of water through the Water Palm Martial Technique, which he quickly turned into poison through Poison Synthesis!
"Here, drown in poison!" said Frank as he smiled wickedly, his entire body was shrouded n wounds and blood, yet he quickly threw the downpour of purple water over the woman''s entire body!
Ssh!
"Unnggoooh…?!"
The woman in ck could help but swallow a bit as she was thrown away by the enormous quantity of poison, coughing as she began to feel as if her entire body started to ache and burn!
"Aaaggh…! Nnnggaaaaahh…!"
However, against expectations, she quickly stood up, taking out arge Potion bottle from her shadows and jugging it up!
"I won''t let you!" said Gwendolyn, emerging with Nezhit as the Duhan unleashed several shes with his bone de, while Gwendolyn threw a st of mes towards the woman in ck!
The woman''s emerald eyes lost their light as she was shrouded in slicing attacks and mes!
"Nnnggyaaaaaahh…!"
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