The Witch (Volume 2 chapter 8)

The girl standing in front of me had a fair white skin and purplish eyes that was not in my front. Though her hanging like eyes make her look like a docile woman she herself was a wicked woman is what it felt like. Her loosely web-like hair was of the same colour as her eyes and though it was a vivid colour of the different world I could not sense the feeling of incompatibility.

She was showing a faint smile and then raised her hand and shouted

("O great Father in heavens who govern over the spirits of lightning, let the thunder roar upon this heaven and earth. It's now time to pass your divine judgment hammer...! [Roaring Thunder Strike]!")

Clouds began to cover the sky and the sky above me turned grey and I felt pain.....smoke was coming out from my body my HP was halved but

I didn't know that I was struck by lightning until I regained my senses, The attack was too fast to dodge my great speed which was further enhanced by Sprint was useless but I had no time to relax as the mage was chanting again.

I had understood the only way to win was to stop her from attacking and for that I had to close distance and I had to that without getting any damage as my HP had already been halved and there was no guarantee that the previous attack was her strongest.

She fired a volley of fireballs each one of them was at the size of a football but she was firing them repeatedly like a machine gun.

I was forced to take cover behind a nearby rock or I may have holes inside my body. Her fireballs showed no sign of stopping even after a minute the stone which was my cover was also starting to melt with the intensity of the flames.

I was thinking of trying to deflect the incoming fireballs with my sword but a fair number of it would still hit me.

A man from the town came after opening the gates of the fortified town charged at the girl with a sword which halted her continuous attacks but the frail-looking girl blasted away that man. I shouted

Valor-("Medic, Medic!")

Well even though this is the standard thing to say something felt off, Oh right

Valor-("Combat Medic, Combat Medic")

A priest looking person took the injured man back inside the fence and closed the gate after bowing to me.

The mage girl was not attacking anymore and was just simply observing me, seeing her not being hostile to us I asked

Valor-("Why are you still fighting your leader is dead and your companion are also dead or have abandoned you.")

Mage girl-("They were no companions of mine they just hired me, and I always complete what I do")

Valor-("So do I ")

I raised my hands and signalled Christina and Rachel to fire spells at her

Ice spikes emerged from the ground but that girl dodged all of them elegantly without by floating from the ground, she also deflected Rachel 's tornado with a tornado of her own.

Was her mana limitless she was using one flashy spell after another and it didn't look she was tired or low on mana contrary to her Christina was low on mana from her previous barrage of AOE spells and Rachel didn't have any fast attacks, to begin with.

A battle of attrition was disadvantages to us and our enemy also knew that she could have kept dodging our attacks and we would have been the first one to withdraw but she had different plans as she started chanting a long and powerful looking spell

(" Oh spirits of water show my foolish enemies your strength...

bring them a slumber colder than death

[Ice World ] ")

The ground froze as she spoke those words a snowstorm covered the whole are my hands became cold and I was losing the strength to even hold my sword

Valor-(" O who is eternal, To incinerate my foolish enemies.Grant me your flames

[Pheonix Drive] ")

Heat returned to my body but the flames that always burnt violently were now staggering to keep themselves alive and the wings of fire were not even stable enough to materialize everyone else besides me has started to freeze.

I can't waste a second now the only way to win was to get close.

I also activated my [Blade Aura] It's now or never

I charged at her while my using my flames as a boost but my speed was too slow The strong cold winds were making it difficult to move and the intensity was increasing the closer I reached she started throwing long icicle to Peirce me but I used my sonic blades to cut it. Two of the icicle were split half in their path but the third icicle managed to graze my stomach the blood froze as soon as it came out. I felt a stinging pain in my guts but I couldn't stop there, the flames that were barely burning now was gone a white sheet had covered me I was just a few steps away from her and also my possible death. even my breath started to freeze and my tongue became numb, I could barely stay awake and when I was just going to touch her my leg froze and I felled

The girl got on her knees and said with a smile

Mage girl-(" I never lose")

Valor -("So do I ")

I gathered all my remaining strength and touched her shoulder

Valor-("CHOKE ON THE FLAMES OF HELL")

("[CORNA](Sign of devil) ")

Those were the last words I could speak I didn't know what happened after that as I had closed my eyes.

The cold winds were still blowing I heard a loud sound and felt warmth after it but my whole body didn't move and just froze on the ground I wanted to see whether I defeated the wtich or not but my body didn't had any strength left I felt sleepy and soon lost my consciousness.