Chapter 306: Fire and Ice II

[Island]

With both Shun and Goran occupied in dealing with the enemies they faced below the cliff after falling, Rosalyn on the otherhand had to face the top students of the Ascalon academy all on her own. With that she quickly imbued her sword with flames as she first charge forward.

In response to her charge, Ellen imbued her sword with ice energy, as she quickly swung up and conjured a huge ice spike that bursted out from the ground and attacked Rosalyn. However with Rosalyn's quick reflexes she easily dodge the attack, as she sliced the spike in half, before jumping towards Ellen with her sword.

Swinging her sword once more to block Rosalyn's attack, both swords that are imbued with fire and ice, clashed once more as shockwave occur due to two nature going agaisnt each other.

With that Ellen pushed Rosalyn away with the force of her swing, before she quickly bent down and charge towards her in quick pace which broke the sound barrier.

Instinctively sensing the danger, Rosalyn quickly spun her sword to her side, as she blocked Ellen's quick strike on her right, which nearly eliminated her due to how fast that attack came at her.

After blocking that attack, Rosalyn immediately stood up, before swinging her sword upward, just in time to block the attack when Ellen made her quick strike once more.

Now that Ellen landed behind her, Rosalyn then quickly moved, as spin around while swinging up her sword just in time to parry Ellen's sword thrust that suddenly came like a flash. Thanks to her instincts she manage to cope with Ellen's quick attacks that even made the person herself be surprised due to how Rosalyn was able to react to each of her quick strikes that no one was able to catch on all this time.

"Your quick on your feet!"

"....."

Without letting put a single word of reply, Rosalyn then sent out a fiery sword wave towards Ellen, only for the latter to slice through it. However the moment Ellen did such a thing, Rosalyn quickly thrusted her sword forward, causing Ellen to quickly pull her head to the side in order to avoid her head getting impaled by Rosalyn's sword.

But the moment she dodge that attack, Rosalyn then quickly followed up her attack with a fist strike which squarely hit Ellen on her guts and sent her flying away through the trees.

After Ellen crashed on the 3rd tree she landed on, she then saw Rosalyn going after her, while seemingly conjuring a huge ball of flames from her free hand.

"Giga Blaze!!!"

Throwing such flame magic towards her, Ellen quickly conjured a huge pillar of ice from the swing of her sword, with the intent of colliding with Rosalyn's attack and causing a huge explosion.

Just like what Ellen expected a huge explosion did occur when both of their attacks collided, which shook the ground and cause a thick fog to occur from the elemental reaction of their attacks.

However this fog is little to no obstruction for Rosalyn as her next attack is another type of AOE spell.

"Feiry Sword Wave!!!"

Like that another explosion occurred right after as everything was blown away and burned as flames encroached the land.

But just as Rosalyn landed on the ground, Ellen with her disheveled clothes suddenly came out of nowhere as she swung her sword, which barely graze Rosalyn's cheek, but was enough for Ellen to activate her next offensive spell.

"Ice bomb!"

The moment Ellen casted such spell, the cut on Rosalyn's cheek, suddenly formed into a blooming ice flower, which immediately exploded and catching Rosalyn off guard.

With that Rosalyn fell on the ground, giving Ellen some room to breath as she walked towards her in order to see the state in which Rosalyn is at. But the moment she somehow got closer, a pillar of flame suddenly rose from the ground, forcing Ellen to quickly jump back to safety.

But the moment she did this, a huge wave of flames suddenly appeared before her, forcing her to encase herself with a barrier made out of ice to protect herself from the flames.

Once the flames subsided, her ice then soon melted as she surprisingly saw Rosalyn standing before her completely unscathed.

"How?" Asked by Ellen in a confused voice

"How? Simple, I've been prepared..."

After Rosalyn said that, she then took out a broken artifact from her pocket. The moment Ellen saw that artifact, her eyes contracted in surprise as she didn't expect that artifact to appear in Rosalyn's pocket.

The item itself is 'Sacrificial Locket' a type of life saving artifact that was made by a very well known architect/alchemist. Because the creator is a well known person, his creations naturally are quite expensive to the point that one of them cost about 500,000 to 1,000,000 gold coins. Sometimes it also reaches 1 to 10 platinum coins, but kisf of his works landed on the bracket of gold coins.

Since it's quite pricey, only people who are truly rich and spendthrift could afford its items.

"That... that's the sacrificial locket, how did you acquire that?"

"This? Well it's quite easy though, I just requested this"

"Requested? Personally? That's impossible! That thing cost a lot of gold that it could bankrupt a noble household, just how much did you spend just to get that?"

"So this was expensive? As I told you I just requested this, I didn't spend a thing at all... apparently my family is the sponsor for the person who make this type of artifact, so basically some of his creations also belong to us as long as he offered it and for some reason that person just gave this to me before the exam"

"What!?!?!"

Hearing that answer, Ellen couldn't help but get slightly annoyed at this circumstances. Having such an artifact is tantamount to a cheat item. After all such an artifact is like a second life item. Because of that she has no choice but to try and eliminate Rosalyn's once more. And this time she knew that her previous attempt wouldn't work twice.