Alex and Gracier were facing each other in silence, the distance separating them was about twenty meters.
Outside the audience was waiting for the fight to begin, a fight which should be without a doubt exciting.
Suddenly, Alex moved, he jumped back. At first, the people outside were surprised, however, they understood why Alex did such a thing after the ground around Gracier radius of thirty meters was turned into a sea of flame.
Just as Alex landed he aimed his gun at his left and fired.
Bang! Boom!
A big explosion occurred when Silveria's bullet clashed against a fireball, this created a shockwave that Alex made use of to dodge the other fireballs coming towards him.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Still, in the air, Alex aimed his gun in Gracier's direction and fired. Gracier's figure turned into a flame before disappearing. The bullets passed through empty air. Hastily twisting his body midair Alex dodged a fire arrow aimed at him.
Alex grinned and thought about something, not being strong as close-range combat, Gracier wouldn't let him near her as by doing such a thing, she would be giving the other party a reason to beat her.
Swooosh!
A knife was thrown at Gracier, the latter sidestepped to avoid and when she was about to shoot another fire arrow at Alex, the latter figure vanished. Gracier panicked, at least from the audience outside and Alex's point of view.
〖Master you fell for it.〗Silveria suddenly said.
Alex who appeared not too far behind Gracier knew something wasn't right, Silveria's words confirmed that feeling.
Gracier spun to face Alex, the golden bow in her hand changed into two meters long golden flaming scythe which she swung down.
Alex's eyes widened so much that they almost fell out of their sockets, he jumped back to avoid Gracier's scythe.
'Since when?' he asked while making use of his senses to pinpoint Gracier who had disappeared.
〖Just recently, this second form is the result of her training with Ignia. Due to her higher affinity with Ignia, she was able to transform Ignia into different forms, the current form is Ignia's original weapon form. There won't be any other forms.〗Silveria explained.
'I see.' Alex inwardly said while moving his knife to blocked Gracier's scythe, he sensed the sickle shooting towards him, aiming for his wristband.
He swiftly blocked the sickle with his Razor and deflected it, sending it back in a certain direction. He then fired two bullets at Gracier, the latter figure vanished to reappear few meters away.
Just as she appeared she hastily used her scythe to block Alex's leg strike. Even though she had blocked the strike, she couldn't completely kill the power behind that strike, so she was sent spiraling into the air.
She felt dizzy, even so, she quickly formed a flame shield around her body to block Silveria's bullets.
Outside the audience was surprised by the ongoing fight, they couldn't understand why Gracier Gift could switch forms, they have never heard of something like that. Freya aside, even Elseria was surprised seeing Gracier's Gift switch forms, it was her first time seeing a Gift that could have two forms.
In the audience lot of young masters have decided to make Gracier their woman as a talented woman possessing such a Gift must not be left alone. If she were to give birth to an heir, the latter talent would unrivaled.
Unaware of what happens outside, Alex and Gracier were fighting.
*Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!*
Metal clanging sounds continuously resounded. The shockwaves spread in the air as Gracier's scythe fiercely clashed with Alex's knife.
Using the heat in the air due to her previous action (transforming thirty meters into a sea of flame) Gracier was able to use her movement skill to the fullest, she could move at an extremely fast speed using the ambient heat. By doing that, it appears as she disappears. This makes things difficult for Alex to localize her as here his divine sense was unusable, he couldn't only rely on his senses.
Clang! Clang!!
They exchanged few moves before jumped back as two fireballs were sneakily moving toward him from the back.
As if expecting her brother to dodge, Gracier already prepared her next attack.
Ten fire beams stormed toward Alex at extremely fast speed.
*Suu!
Taking a deep breath, Alex observed the incoming fire beams, his eyes were calm, same as his heart. To him, the incoming fire beams were slow, so slow that he moved his left hand and pulled the trigger ten times.
Bang! Bang! Bang!!!!!!
All the ten fire beams were eliminated.
'No way, So fast!' Gracier was surprised how fast Alex's movements were as she knew best the speed at which her fire beams shot towards him.
However, she didn't get discouraged and created another fire beam, this time she created twenty-five of them instead of ten.
Alex sweated when he saw the incoming beams, even though he was fast he knew he couldn't shoot all twenty-five down.
He shot down thirteen of the twenty-five beams. As for the remaining, he tried to avoid them by going in another direction, however, he was surprised to find them coming after him. As though, they had consciousness on their own, the twelve remaining fire beams got divided into two, one group was chasing after him while the other half already curved through the air, surrounding him, making him unable to dodge them.
Tapping his foot on the ground as hard as he could, it created a cloud of dust that momentarily blocked his figure, making use of this, Alex's presence vanished. Having lost their target, the twelve remaining fire beams disappeared.
On the other side Gracier felt a sudden chill, she jumped back to avoid the bullet shot toward her, unfortunately, no matter where she went, what she did, that bullet still follow her, one bullet became two. Gracier was forced to create flame shields around her body as she failed to avoid the bullets.
Boom!
An explosion occurred when Alex's homing bullets clashed against her flame shields, Gracier's figure was shot back.
''Gah!" She spurted a mouthful of blood due to an internal injury, her body fell onto the ground creating a thud sound, she rolled a few times on the ground.
Alex appeared not too far from her, however, his expression changed after taking his second step.
''Shit,' He cursed as the ground exploded on his second step as if there was mine hidden under the ground. The explosion sent him flying a few dozen meters back, he almost coughed blood.
Stabilizing himself, he looks up to see Gracier who should be lying down stand up. Her head was bleeding, there was blood on the corner of her mouth. Even though she looked beaten up, she still wore a smile, since the start she knew it impossible for her to win, from their fight she could say that her brother hadn't gotten serious, this was not because he was looking down on her but because doing getting serious, he would be showing a lot of his trump cards which will be unwise as the main event had not started.
She didn't resent her brother for taking such a decision as she was doing the same thing.
Taking a deep breath while checking her remaining MP, she decided to use her newly acquired Special ability: The Dragon breath.
Opening her mouth she roared, it was a dragon roar, her roar shook the whole field.
Outside, sitting in a beautiful pavilion, Freya and Elseria stood up, their eyes fixed on Gracier's figure, their mouths were wide open, they could not believe what just happened. A human emitting a dragon roar, a true dragon roar.
There were not the only one surprised, hiding among the common spectators were a group of gray-robed individuals, they were hiding their faces behind a cloak, their leader's eyes widened, those golden eyes shined when this person heard Gracier's roar, it was as if they have found a treasure.
Back to the field.
Alex covered his ears while Roman fainted, this roar was too much for an already injured man.
Suddenly, from Gracier's opened mouth flame came out, this flame was golden in color unlike the orange one, the length of this golden flame was around two meters, even so, the moment it appeared, the temperature became extremely hot, the ground melted.
Seeing the incoming flame, Alex's expression turned serious, aiming Silveria at the incoming golden flame he fires two Phantom Bullets.
Bang! Bang!
The golden flame momentarily stopped as it clashed against the two Phantom Bullets which had combined to stop their enemy. The stalemate did not last long before the golden flame continued moving toward Alex.
Alex couldn't move, it was as if he had been locked in place. Aiming his gun once more at the incoming flame he fired, this time instead of Phantom Bullet, he used Dispel Bullet.
(Dispel Bullet: Can temporarily reduce the target's attack power. The duration will depend on the target's level. Can be used on already fired spells)
Blue bullet clashed against golden flame, the golden flame seemed to have diminished, to have lost most of its power. Alex swung down his knife and cleaved the weakened flame into two.
Gracier had already fallen face-first on the ground, she was exhausted as she used almost all of her remaining MP.
''I have lost.'' She said when she sensed Alex approaching her.
''Indeed you have but I'm proud of you. It was a beautiful fight. I'll wait for a rematch later.''
Alex said while lowering his body to caress Gracier's head.
''Hehehe! Please Look forward to it, one day I'll beat you.'' Gracier said before her figure vanished, Alex had removed her wristband.