Lia, unlike the others, was not lucky enough to meet any abomination. Instead, she met Drake, casually seated on a tree eating steak.
The moment she saw him, she attacked him with a large ice spike. Drake flicked his finger, shooting out a drop of blood that smashed into the ice spike and destroyed it.
“Lady Lia, Master Silva wants to ensure that you have the toughest time here. He said that for some reason, your growth has stagnated for a while, and he would like to fix that.
So do your best to survive, or you might end up dead,” Drake said. Before Lia could answer, he made a blood sword and charged at her.
Lia tried her best to react in a split second. She raised an ice wall, but Drake cut through it with ease.
“Ice storm!” she yelled as she cast a wave of ice and snow, pushing against Drake with full force. But Drake walked through it without issues.
“You’ll have to do better to make me take actual damage. Don’t tell me this is the best that the ice princess can carry out,” Drake said.
Lia frowned when she heard this. She spun her staff around and pointed it at Drake. A magical circle formed around the tip of her staff and started spinning.
This was the issue with magic users: they were not the best in close range. Drake could exploit that if he wanted to, but he wanted her to have a fighting chance.
She fired a powerful blast of ice at him. It packed more power than her last attack, but Drake was too fast. He dodged the attack and walked toward Lia.
“You possess an immense amount of Mana, but you lack the capability to actually use it in combat. Sadly, I am not here to help you out. All I have to do is beat you up,” Drake said and vanished.
Lia looked around, trying to find Drake. Then she felt danger from behind her. She turned around and saw a blood sword coming for her head.
She reacted as fast as she could, creating a small piece of ice to block the attack. It managed to slow it down for a split second, and that was all she needed to move her head out of the way.
She fell to the ground but immediately stood up. She tried to put some distance between them, but Drake was already in front of her.
She stopped running immediately. She didn’t know what to do. Drake was powerful in both long-range and close combat. He was her worst enemy, and now she had to fight him.
This wasn’t a fight. He was toying with her, playing games with her to break her.
“Young miss, the Master is a ruler of a kingdom, a very powerful being. What do you have to offer him?” Drake asked.
“I might not be strong enough, but I will offer everything, everything that I have, and I’ll not stop!” Lia yelled. She pointed her staff at Drake, and ice fog exploded out of it, covering everywhere.
It created a fog-like covering that allowed her to run while staying hidden. But she had forgotten that Drake was a vampire, and he could sense the heat of blood easily.
Though, with his current level, he didn’t need to drink blood for years, it was still something that attracted him. So he could easily tell where she was at any instant.
Lia ran deep into the forest, but she wasn’t moving fast enough. She had to try something. She pointed her staff at the ground, creating a path of ice and sliding on it to go faster.
It took a lot of focus to do it well, but with her stats and level, it was doable. With this, her speed doubled.
But when she thought she had gotten away from Drake, she saw him seated on a tree up ahead. She tried to stop but slid off the ice and fell to the ground.
She got back up as fast as she could, but Drake was already in front of her. She tried to move, but he grabbed her hand and tossed her into a tree.
She smashed through the tree and landed on the other side. She pushed herself up, sensing Drake attacking again, so she used a risky move in a split second.
A circle formed under both of them, and a huge geyser of ice shot from the ground, pushing both of them into the air in different directions.
She made this move because she had a higher resistance to ice and cold than normal people. She expected that such an attack would have an effect on Drake.
She looked for Drake and found him unharmed, walking toward her.
“You must have thought that the move you made would give you the win, right? You have a higher resistance to cold, and it would work to your advantage.
But you forgot that even if I don’t have a resistance to cold, I have a higher resistance to everything compared to you.
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Even my resistance to cold is higher when compared to yours because my whole resistance is higher,” Drake said.
Lia was out of ideas. She didn’t know what to do at this point, so she decided that the best route now would be to use her legacy.
But before she could make the move to use it, Drake was in front of her. He punched her so hard in the gut that she coughed blood and fell to the ground.
Drake stepped back. She tried to get up again, but as soon as she was on her feet, Drake sent a kick to her head, completely knocking her out.
He looked at her body, wondering if he should shift her somewhere safe.
“Don’t do anything. Leave her be and head to your next person. We don’t have time,” Silva said, appearing behind Drake.
Drake nodded and left, and so did Silva.