Thunderstorm (Part 3)

Simultaneously, Nicola's body shot forward as fast as the lightning. Attributed to the tremendous energy absorbed by him and transformed into acceleration, Nicola's image distorted for a moment before reaching its destination. One of his knees was pointed forward like a spear and hit Brianna's abdomen.

Brianna coughed up blood. "Ugh! You bastard." She didn't have time to defend herself. Her ribs cracked and punctured her lungs. The shock of the attack spread, damaging her entire body. It was a destructive force that wasn't instantly lethal!

Nicola tilted his head at a strange sound. So he found the cause of it. Brianna had turned into lightning and was running away from Nicola. She wasn't running in a straight line, but in a zigzag way. Despite being badly injured, Brianna's movements were far beyond Nicola's proficiency. If he chased that kind of lightning move, he would be easily confused and retaliated for speed.

Nicola sighed and shrugged. "...Well, have I not achieved my purpose?" He thought she would withdraw from the fight.

Nicola was looking at the judge and turned his gaze to other areas. No, it was more accurate to say that he tried. He was thinking that his victory was clear when 'it' happened.

From where Brianna was standing, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky. That was the only explanation for the deafening sound. The sky and earth were torn apart and the audience couldn't even scream as dust covered the sky and clouds turned black. "That's it ...?" Gulp. Nicola instinctively felt an ominous feeling and swallowed hard. 'Brianna...'

She had launched her last attack on Nicola, the power accumulated within her hammers drew a natural thunder from the skies, connecting the clouds above with the arena. The conductive metal of the hammers acted like a lightning rod and was stored inside Brianna's singing body that smelled of burnt fur. Her body was completely purplish blue and lightning flashes crossed her skin.

That natural disaster was turned into a weapon and raced towards Nicola at high speed. 'I won't have time to dodge. I have to defend head-on and not get thrown away from the arena.' Nicola thought and reacted almost as fast as lightning.

Its nine tails entered the ground like thick roots from ancient trees and used the Earth Heavenly Essence to lock in its location while Nicola activated all of his defense abilities and used the four arms and four elemental daggers to create a multi-elemental shield in front of him. All sins were activated to resist this moment.

'Sin Fox Song Style, third defense form, Contrafactum'

Contrafactum was the third defense move developed by Nicola, an individual and absolute defense of his abilities that sacrificed even the lifespan of his weapons to ensure survival. This Brianna attack was meant to kill. Seven magical circular shields were created in front of Nicola with the power of the elements and fused with all of his defense skills, made to react to a frontal attack where it was impossible to escape.

The attack destroyed all of Nicola's shields and the beam only stopped when it hit the daggers, dissipating because of the grounding effect caused by the tails that were buried in the arena floor, Nicola was only able to do so because of the lightning's weakened power after passing through the seven shields and the layers of defense placed by Nicola on himself.

After that, the arena was engulfed by an aura of dense murder that frightened even the elders of the clans, the closest spectators fainting at the power of that heavy and powerful aura. Nicola's figure blinked to kill Brianna lying on the ground and unable to move. He would not tolerate an attempted murder himself and would retaliate with equal intensity.

But before getting in front of Brianna, three elders of the Raiju clan stopped him from advancing. "You should hold back young, you are not in a position to do what you want within our city." The old man snorted preventing Nicola from killing the girl while the other two pulled her out of the arena and put a pill in her mouth.

Nicola shifted his murderous eyes from the girl to the old man in front of him. Who for a moment shivered at the sight of Nicola's murderous eyes but then snorted and pushed the feeling away.

Nicola turned his head to the judge and said "What are you waiting for, announce the outcome of the battle"

"Th... The champion of the tournament is Nicola!" The judge announced. Making the old man look at Nicola with contempt.