Kuina, who had watched the match from the spectator seat, couldn't help but clap her hand in approval.
Clap! Clap!
In this fight, instead of going with high-level skills, Maria chose the most basic fighting method to deal with her enemy; although simple, it was an effective method where you don't need to waste too much of energy.
Even Shadow hiding somewhere couldn't help but praise Maria's wits. Although a little bit disappointed not to see some intense combat filled with the display of high-level skills, what Maria did was praiseworthy. Sometimes using your head was good than flashily using skills that yield no result. For Maria to win the fight in this way showed that she must not be underestimated; although she had several means to win this fight, she carefully chose the effective one, which let her not waste too much energy.
'This girl would make a good leader.' The shadow, though, Maria's quick analytics ability and her judgment on what to do in this situation are qualities needed to be a leader.
Kuina walked past the dejected Eri and went and stood before Maria; since the beginning, a smile never left her face; Maria's quick victory seemed not to affect the fox girl whose confidence seemed not to have received the slightest dent, she seemed proud like never.
Maria showed no reaction as she was well aware that the same technique would not work against this girl; she wouldn't want the fight to end so quickly, nor that she would accept some boring fight. It could be said that if the first fight, the one with Eri, were a simple one, an introduction, this fight would be a climax, an intense fight. The two had never fought before; even back on Mysthia, they had gotten the opportunity to fight against each other, this would be their first time, so naturally, it was bound to be an intense fight.
''Hmph!'' Eri snorted as she walked past Kuina; the fact that she lost so easily didn't sit well with her coupled with her natural dislike of this fox girl, seeing her act so haughtily left a bad aftertaste inside the proud redhead.
'What is the big deal? Except for being a little bit beautiful and big breasted, you're nothing.' She tried to console herself but failed miserably. To show her superiority, Eri decided to appraise the fox girl to show that she had surpassed her. However, the result of her appraisal left her dumbfounded.
[Maria Alexia Rosares ?????]
Class: Ice Empress
Age: 17
Female
Race: High Human
[Rank 11]
Level 104
Experience Value: ?????
Magic Power: 3090/3090
Magic: Ice Magic
Attack: 1470
Defense: 1210
Agility: 1230
Intelligence: 1220
Luck: 1160
Gift: Frozen Fairies
BP: 0
SP: 18
Skills: [Advanced Appraisal Level 10 Max] [Language Comprehension] [Item box Level 10] [Ice Slash Level 5] [ Glaciate Level 10 Max] [Ice Blast Level 5] [Close Quarters Combat Level 10 Max] [Ice Arrows Level 7] [Sword Art Level 5] [Thousand Ice Steps Level 5]
Special Abilities: [Frost ???] [Ice Soul] [Ice Domain Level 5] [Absolute Zero ?????] (Sealed due to how dangerous and unstable it is.)
Titles: [Otherworlder] [The Ice Empress] [The Queen ] [Huntress] [Slayer] [Bitch] [Loser] [Kuina's Follower]
''What the hell?" Eri exclaimed aloud, forgetting that she was secretly appraising Kuina; this couldn't be blamed on her either as what happened was incomprehensible; somehow, when Eri appraised the fox girl, all she saw what Maria's status, except for the ridiculous titles which were added to Maria's original tittles everything else was the same.
While it was an undeniable truth that Eri was the impulsive type, she was no fool; it didn't take her a lot of time to figure out that Kuina had a unique type of magic, as they liked to call it where she came from. If magic isn't part of the original system (Wind, Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, Lightning), it is immediately called a unique type of magic; for example, someone specialized in Space magic should be called someone with unique magic, while Alex status often shows that he didn't have any element this was clearly a misinterpretation as he clearly uses an element with his ability, his time-related skills are part of the Time element; therefore, Alex could be considered as a unique magic-user. However, the person himself wasn't aware of this fact; Mysthia's system was flawed. It's why he didn't know; if he were in Eri's world, this misunderstanding would have been corrected. The Ice element is also unique magic.
Back to Kuina's topic, because she possessed the illusion magic, unique magic to the fox, she was a unique magic-user; she must have probably used an illusion to make Eri see the previous status she had seen while not forgetting to add a few tricks to spice things up a bit.
''You, you!" Eri, stuttering pointed her trembling finger at Kuina; it was her first getting played like this, so she didn't know how to react; a girl she had previously underestimated was proven to be strong and dangerous; she was so strong that she could easily play with her who was called a genius and was proud of herself. This was a huge blow to Eri; at the same time, it served as a lesson, a reminder she would forever remember, which was never to underestimate someone, even the pebble on the roadside could end up being a dragon capable of killing you because you have underestimated it.
Looking at the smiling Kuina who had succeeded in playing a prank on Eri, Maria frowned. However, she didn't use her appraisal skill on Kuina to know what Eri had seen; Maria was sure that whatever the redhead had seen if she were to see as well, there was a risk of her getting angry, also because the two didn't possess the same intelligence meaning Maria's intelligence stat was superior to Eri, they wouldn't be able to see the same thing.
It was unknown why Maria's cold blood began boiling, but there was a rage hidden in her as she announced.
''Let's begin, Fox girl.'' She seemed impatient, which was unlike the cool headed Maria.
Toward Maria's obvious provocation, Kuina chuckled and immediately responded by shooting forward; the two clashed mid-air.. This marked the first two strong girls clashing.