Chapter 56 - Gina’s fight and Rofta’s plight

"You have ten minutes left," Announced Asi to the panting Gina, who had been fighting him for the last 50 minutes.

He was only using normal Sand Magic, but it would be a mistake to think it's weak. Sand rose beside him like a snake again before flying toward Gina, who had reached her limit. The attack would easily flatten a house.

"Do I really have to eat it?" Marc's cooking has left an emotional scar, so she had reservations about eating the sand.

But she was forced to do it. She wondered why Asi told her the method to eat it. "Why would he do that?"

When the sand neared her, she opened her mouth and begun sucking the sand and ate it.

*Burb*

To her surprise the sand she just ate tasted fantastic.

"Seems like you finally decided to replenish your energy. But we aren't done yet. Let me show you one of my biggest spells." Asi said before he touched the ground with both his hands and made everything the eye could see into sand.

*Sand Wave*

To Gina's horror, a colossal tsunami out of sand raised and moved toward her.

Flustered and terrified, she made an iron sand dome around her to protect herself.

*Sand Devil's Dome*

*Kaboom*

It buried everything, the camp, and even Gina.

The common soldiers would have been buried too if it wasn't for Rofta's quick thinking of ordering them to jump into the sole tree in the camp. The sight was hilarious as 25 soldiers were in a tree, but the situation didn't really seem like a laughing matter as the tree was nearly uprooted.

Gina got buried alive inside her *Sand Devil's Dome* spell. Still, she was thankful that it could take the gigantic pressure the sand wave collided with her dome.

"Only eight minutes left," she mumbled and took a breather.

Asi wouldn't let her though, as the sand that is covering the dome began moving around like a whirlpool and slowly dismantled her dome by removing sand grains. The worst thing was that she couldn't add more iron sand to the dome as the surrounding sand was under Asi's control, and creating more herself would take the concentration she was using to maintain the dome.

She had to escape and could only make an opening on top of her dome and lift herself out. But it seemed like her thought process was expected, as Asi stood over the dome on a little flying platform made of sand.

"He can freaking fly? Sand Magic can be used like that?" Surprised, Gina thought before she was hit by a hammer made of sand. It sent her flying down in the dome again that was about to be completely ripped apart by the sand whirlpool.

*Boom*

She hit the ground, nearly losing her consciousness by the blow. If it wasn't because she managed to make very little Iron Sand protect her, she would have been knocked out cold. She was looking at the sky where Asi was floating with an unfocused look.

"Only five minutes left." He announced before continuing his lecture "You are limiting your imagination too much. Unlike Fire Magic that's very violent and light, Sand Magic is calm and heavy, making it more versatile but also slower."

When he was done saying that, Gina's *Sand Devil's Dome* was on its last life, and she knew she would die if she didn't get back up and do something.

Blood was flowing down her head and pumped with pain, making it harder to come up with a solution.

*Crack* *Swoosh*

The dome finally broke down and the whirlpool flowed in. Gina hurriedly gathered her iron sand before it was swooped away.

"I don't know if I'm strong enough to pull this off against this much sand, but it's all I can do." She speculated before making her iron sand on the ground raise and form six blades in a form of shark fins around her that was sharp at the outer edge.

Using the last bit of Magic Power she has left, she raised her hands and pointed them to the sides and yelled with everything she had to add just a bit more power "GOOO!!"

The shark fins moved like a shark does when a fisher sees one from his boat, cutting through the water. In Gina's case, they cut through the surrounding whirlpool of sand like butter, disrupting its flow, and saving her.

*Thud*

Though, she didn't know that, as she had already fainted because of magic overuse.

Asi looked at her and announced "One minute left" before looking around to see if somebody was watching. "I think I might have counted wrong. Zero minutes left. You won young Devil Slayer in the making."

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Distantly Rofta was overseeing the end of the fight between Gina and Asi while using another life-saving spell he has developed called *Reversal Light*.

What it does is reversing the surrounding light to make him invisible. It's a life-saving spell if he needs to flee or take a stronger opponent by surprise.

"This was truly a good fight. I wonder how he would fare against my elder sister. Stupid question, she would probably force him under her boot." Analyzed Rofta. He didn't want to interfere and help Gina if the fight would in the end help her overcome her fear of using her magic. But if the opponent would finish Gina off, then he would try to sneak behind him and cut his head off while having *Reversal Light* activated.

"Hey, shouldn't we, I don't know do something?" Asked somebody beside Rofta who was watching the fight too.

It was a small girl in stature, covered completely in thick grey and red armor that entirely wraps her small frame, blonde hair in a ponytail with a red ribbon holding it. In her hands is a big 2-handed sword that can reach her chin if it's put on the ground. Her name is Mordrei, over 20 years old, and she is the last follower of Leona.

(A/N: Reference is Mordred from Fate series)

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Before Gina began fighting with Asi.

When Rofta was sent flying into the camp, he evaded the bras and landed outside it, but this little knight, Mordei attacked him. Fighting her, he realized how bothersome her armor was and how guarded she was at its weak points. So to get through her guard, he controlled the fight and moved it into the forest where he could use the attack of surprise more efficiently.

He ran between and around trees and used *Reversal Slash* to send wind slashes at her elbows, knees, and neck.

Every so often their swords clashed, but Rofta's Nodachi sword was having difficulties going head-on with Mordrei's big 2-handed greatsword, so he used sneak attacks and tried to stab her with his hidden cane sword.

But the two happened to run into something unexpected and heard something ominous.

While Rofta was running around a tree he abruptly stopped, making Mordrei run into his back with her nose-first.

"Ouch!… the hell? Fighting with so many tricks. Be a man and fight me as one" Mordrei complained like a child, but suddenly stopped when she saw Rofta sweating and having a finger over his lips while saying "Shh…"

It piqued Mordrei's interest when she was looking at the frighted Rofta. So, she turned to the side of him and looked forward.

"??!!!!!!!!!!"

Three dragons. Three fucking dragons were talking with each other.

"You said there would be lots of humans coming. So, where are they, Rizontie?" Roared a white scaled dragon with two arms and thin wings on its shoulders. Six horns and a white mane on its back reaching down its slender and long white tail.

(A/N: Reference here:)

"Shut your trap, Snowfall, or the only thing you get to eat is my Ice!" Retorted another dragon. Its body was almost entirely covered with blue ice except for its white neck. It had big blue ice wings on its back and a thin long spiky tail with icicles on top.

(A/N: Reference here:)

"Calm down you two. We just have to be patient. If we reveal ourselves too early, then those puny humans will run away and hide in their big cities." The last dragon said with a calming voice, but its words didn't really suit it. It had the appearance a water dragon would have with dark blue scales like the ocean, and long fins on its back down its thick tail, The wings were also like fins. It was a little bigger than the other two. Its name is Etoirir.

(A/N: Reference here:)

"More importantly, I smell two little rats nearby," Etoirir said and sniffed the air before looking in the direction of where Rofta and Mordrei were hiding.

As the three dragons didn't speak the human language, the two didn't know what they were saying, but when one dragon looked in their direction they knew they were located.

"Not good!!" Panicked Rofta internally before first using *Reversed Smell* and quickly after *Reversal Light*.

Mordrei panicked and took hold of Rofta to put him in front of her.

*Water Dragon's Whip*

Etoirir used his tail like a whip swiped it horizontally in the two's direction, releasing a long water blade that cut hundreds of trees over.

It would have cut Rofta and Mordei mid-over if they didn't throw themselves on the ground. She was still holding tightly onto Rofta as he would be the best shield. Unknowingly it saved her life as Rofta's active spells erased her presence too.

"Am I too hungry and imagined it?" Thought Etoirir when the scent of nearby humans disappeared. Etoirir looked around at the destruction she had caused and found no humans where she thought she smelled them.

*Snort* "Are you getting senile being on land for too long? Maybe you should go back and swim with the small fishes again." Rizontie said with ridicule and Snowfall was just about to say something too but stopped when Etorir's fins began standing straight and the atmosphere got dangerous.

Seeing that they didn't dare say anything more, Etorir said with disdain before flying away "And you don't even dare to swim with those 'fishes'. You are just hiding the fact that you are afraid of that Turtle God. Nothing more."

The two dragons that were left behind looked at each other before scoffing and following Etoirir.

When the tree dragons were gone, Rofta and Modrei looked at each other with fear in their eyes. They agreed on one thing now. They didn't want to fight each other anymore.

They left the area while Rofta used his concealment spell on her too, so she didn't have to hold on to him. If he didn't help her, there would be a chance that the dragons would come back and he didn't want to risk that.

Getting out of the forest, they found Gina and Asai fighting and decided to watch it.

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Back to the present, Rofta saw that Asai didn't intend to finish Gina off and was inwardly relieved. It would have been difficult to sneak attack him when Mordrei was right beside Rofta.

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(A/N: And there you have it. Three dragons are waiting for their meal to arrive. And a God has been mentioned.)

(Words: 1892)