She had been curious about one of the only two surviving members of the Yamata family and she wanted to find out what she was truly capable of. Unfortunately, Shiranui''s previous opponents had all been too weakpared to her and as a result the matches ended before they even began. This was the match that would bring her true strength to the front for all to carefully measure what Shiranui was truly worth.


    When the two participants had taken their respective positions in the match arena, the referee made the announcement for the beginning of the next round. The match officially started but the participants were still busy measuring each other up with their eyes.


    The suspense was killing the audience. They kept betting amongst themselves as to who would be the first to take action.


    Shiranui put her hands inside her clothes and took out her weapon. It was a dark red fan that appeared as if it had been ming for real before she had even called out her me to imbue the weapon with it.


    Reba too transformed both of her arms with her diamond transformation skill. She had to be ready for anything since she had yet to test the limit of the new opponent.


    Shiranui called forth her ck me and a me tide appeared behind her and entered the fan that she had been holding in her left hand. It acted as some kind of conduit for her mes. As soon as she swung her fan with a flick of her wrist a ming flower rushed like a bullet towards Reba who was waiting for an attack like that ever since Shiranui had taken out the red fan.


    Reba could tell that the attack was quite powerful so she didn''t try to use her defensive ability. Instead she fired off aser of her own to intercept the iing fire lotus.


    The ckser beam which was already destructive enough collided with the ming lotus in the middle of the field and cause a huge explosion that cause the centre to be shrouded inyers of smoke.


    The visibility of the audience was reduced and some of them even began to curse for it to clear. On the other hand, those who had been too close to the explosion felt as if their ears were about to bleed. The explosion had been so loud that the audience had been shaken enough to bleed from their orifices. If it hadn''t been for the medics on duty, some of them might have even lost their hearing ability permanently.


    Shiranui was surprised to see that the ck me that specialized in devouring every other kind of magic skill had been unable to devour the ckser shot by her opponent. This was the second time that this had happened to her. The first was obviously Zavier''s cold me which was anti-thesis of her own dark me. But theser was obviously inclined towards the destruction attribute so it shouldn''t have been able to avoid the devouring power of the ck me.


    The only possible reason was that the two skills were equal in terms of strength and the ck me had been unable to exercise its attribute suppression because of that.


    Under normal circumstances, the ck me had the ability to suppress the basic attribute of the skills cast by her opponents. This basically rendered the skill of the opponents useless and allowed her ck me to devour the magic power in those attacks in order to get stronger just like normal fire used wood as kindling to get stronger.


    The attribute suppression effect hadn''t triggered which implied that either the opponent''sser was a simr skill with the same attribute suppression effect or it was simply equal or stronger than her ck me in terms of strength.


    Shiranui also noticed that theser was more agile, more flexible and easier to manipte whenpared to her ck me. There was no way that she couldst a long time against such an advantage. She had to take her opponent out as soon as possible otherwise, her own weaknesses would be revealed.


    Since attribute suppression had no effect whatsoever, Shiranui knew that she could not get an upper hand against Reba that way. Therefore, she had to fight in a way that would prove to be advantageous towards herself.


    She didn''t hesitate once she had decided on the next course of action. She brought her fan in front of her chest and slid her other hand over the fan slowly. When her hand slid past the fan, it changed into a katana of the same fiery red color. The audience was mesmerized as if she had performed some kind of magic skills. Of course in reality it wasn''t anything like that. This was just a magic weapon that had the ability to transform into different forms as per the need of the user. She had been using this weapon for a long time and it had never failed her.


    Shiranui imbued the red katana with her ck mes and continued to swing the de back and forth in order to break through Reba''s defense that was practically made up of diamond.


    She might have had the ability to break through her defenses when Reba hadn''t yet advanced. Her normal diamond transformation might have even suffered under her ck me but the ck diamond had no such weaknesses. The defense had improved beyond anything Reba could have ever imagined. Even when Shiranui tried her best, she was unable to get past her hard defenses.


    Reba had improved in all aspects as she had advanced. There was no apparent weakness that her opponents could exploit. She had an inexplicable amount of mana, a diamond defense, and a precision guided offensive that would track down her enemies no matter how much they dodge. Her abilities hade closer to perfection. She even began to feel that there was no one in the whole group who would be able to beat her not even the trio now that she had be a C rank mage.


    Neither the attacks from the katana nor the ck me that it had been imbued with was able to hurt Reba in the slightest. As Reba got used to the attacks she started to defend against the katana by transforming parts of her body into diamond. It seemed as if she had thrown caution to the wind but in reality, Shiranui could already tell that Reba had found the limits of her strength and had decided that she wasn''t a threat to her dominance.


    Shiranui felt a kind of shame that she had never felt before. It felt as if Reba was humiliating her since she was weaker but of course that was only her own imagination. Reba was too busy having fun enjoying her newfound strength to be dissing her.


    Shiranui gradually lost all advantages as all her attacks had been in in front of Reba''s defenses.


    Reba too began to fight back and exploited every opportunity to deal damage to Shiranui so as to win. She started to manipte herser attack and continuously bombarded Shiranui but the ck me was still powerful enough for Shiranui to defend herself at the very least.


    The only ones who were being inconvenienced were the audience who were close to the field as the constant explosions were messing with their ears. Still no one was willing to leave without knowing the result of this fight. Therefore, the audience close to the field cleared towards the back and witnessed the thrilling fight from afar in order to protect their ears from the frequent explosive sounds that ensued whenever the ck me collided with the guidedsers.


    Reba was slowly getting the hang of manipting hersers. It wasn''t long before she managed to control multiplesers at once that kept following after Shiranui as she used ck me to defend against the continuous offensive.


    Reba wanted to end the match as soon as possible as she had clearly found that she was stronger than her opponent. Intoxicated by her new strength, she madly chased after the dodging and parrying Shiranui and madly threw herser attacks without a care for her consumption. This was thest opponent as far as she knew because thest participant might as well have not been there. He was the same idiot that had been put together with her in initial match up and the only thing he had been good at was his perception ability. Considering theyout of the matchup, he appeared to be the weakest of the Merion High bunch. So as far as Reba was concerned, this match was thest match.


    Beating Shiranui could get her into the finals and that was all she was thinking while constantly increasing her mana output to the point that everyone in the audience could tell that she was being reckless. She looked like a psychotic woman chasing after the man that had scorned her. But Reba didn''t care at all and put everything into bringing down Shiranui.