"So your guardian has exceeded the attacks of another. That should make you feel proud." Mordant didn''t hesitate to mention this to Walker. He thought that it was a little rough since he knew that Mordant had wanted the darkness affinity spell de to win. It was the same affinity he prided. However, Su was using interesting tactics.


    "I haven''t seen Su use a tactic that forces her opponent to use all of their mana. She is literally taunting them in to losing without attacking." Walker wanted to see Su use this against him. He felt that it would be the perfect mental training for anyone to get to the right level to face a tough opponent. Especially an opponent with illusion or other mind rted skills.


    "Remind me not to make Su angry. I think she can block some of my elemental arrows without a scratch now." The thought had urred to Gil after he saw her block four darkness thrown de attacks in a row.


    "I would not get too excited just yet. That spell de, she is not using both of her swords. She is a dual elemental spell de you know." Alma realized that she had a few more pieces of knowledge than the others. It helped that she had met all of the spell des participating before they had evene to Genesis. Yet, in the busyness of the weeks she had been unable to introduce them to even Gil.


    "Oh, a second affinity. I was wondering why a singr affinity warrior seemed to have such a weakness to their main affinity. Ipletely missed the other elemental mana around their body." Mordant had be very distracted it was unlike him to be that way.


    Meanwhile in the arena…


    "I''m done ying with this! I was going to hold back and beat you so I can defeat the real opponents. But I was given an annoying brat!" The spell sword had lost her patience. This was it for her mental strength. The second sword was pulled out from her waist and she became a lot more serious about the battle.


    When the second sword was pulled out, Su knew exactly what elemental affinity the spell de was going to use. She changed the shields dropping the twin shields and pulling her earth dwelling shield from her back. "I doubt that you will make any difference with that saber in your hand. Not that you were doing damage in the first ce."


    The taunt added to the spell de''s anger. She rushed forward in a flurry of shes that Su just blocked and redirected with ease. "Come on, use your earth affinity too. Or is it too slow?" Su felt the earth de form ande at her from the spell de''s swords.


    "My partner and I can use that earth elemental mana too." Su felt the earth spirit within the earth dwelling shield react. The earth thrown de that hit the shield became nothing to her even before it touched it. The only thing that made any impact was the residual mana from the spell de herself. That was because there was her personal mana within the earth elemental mana gathered. Otherwise, Su had allowed the earth spirit to take the mana for itself.


    "How!"That''s not how it should be!" The spell de reacted with a nice dramatic surprise allowing Su to use her first shield bash. The impact was held back because Su wasn''t sure what she would be able to do. She had already found that she was better defensively than she expected. The call was the right move though.


    The shield bash made contact with the stunned spell de knocking her back and way out of the arena on to the floor. Su just stood watching the spell de push herself up and look at her. "Sorry about the taunting. It was just a way to throw you off your game." Su tried to apologize but the crowd was already being too loud and drawing out her voice.


    "I don''t think I will be training against Su anytime soon." Alma thought that Su would easily stand and be able to walk through any attacks she could muster with her blue ivy.


    "You''re telling me. I know that I would have to use some serious magical skills to deal with her defenses now. I didn''t realize that she had gotten so much strongertely." There was a small spark in Walker''s eyes. He was getting more and more excited to see what Su hading. He knew she had held back her skills. It was too easy too easy to see that she had stopped herself from using a skill that she hadn''t shown yet.


    "She is limating to the blood of dragons as a draconic guardian. The effects are much more dramatic because she is a human and not a dragonkin. I thought she would take on more traits of a dragonkin after the bond increased…Yet here she is without scales and tougher skin instead. Her eyes are different though." Mordant thought that this was an amazing urrence.


    "She has some ideas of what skills she can use. I find myself wondering if she might sprout wings or make them out of elemental mana like me." Walker dropped this on Mordant. He had not really shown these skills in depth yet. Just small doses.


    "I think we should refocus ourselves. Remey is about to start her fight against a demi-human with gori traits. I would be willing to ce a bet that it is a child of the demi-human guards." Ibis felt that he was the only one staying focused on the battles taking ce still. Everyone was getting in to debates about skills and how the future may take shape.


    "Gil, on three?" Walker nodded three times


    "Let''s go Remey!" The cheer was loud enough for many to hear. Su had even joined in seeing that Gil and Walker were preparing to shout.


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