"I didn't expect your attack to contain so much power." said slowly White, looking at the undaunted golden-haired girl.
He knew there was a vast difference in their level of both knowledge and power, which led to him losing miserably on the exchange.
The environment was quiet and the golden-haired girl also remained silent for a moment.
"Yours exceeded my expectations too. I planned that attack with most of my power, but not only did you block it, you even managed to injure me…" Turning to him, the golden-haired girl spoke with slight disbelief contained in her beautiful voice.
She had a higher level of Unity among everyone present and knew White's Unity didn't reach half of her, so she had thought that attacks on her would have incapacitated him.
But the reality was different, at the last moment his magical one activated and it counterattacked; leaving her with an injury.
Stop about her, the most shocked person here was her brother: Frez!
He knew what kind of person his sister was, yet today she used her strength and ended up failing and injured! Not to mention the person who exchanged blows was the same age as hers.
Frez felt his head spin from shock and the repercussions of the shockwaves from the crash.
"He actually used it!"
On the other hand, Aizu had wide eyes and mouths, looking at White's miserable appearance, but what was on her mind was not about him losing but his activated magical sword that forcefully blocked the terrible strike from the golden-haired girl.
He had only learned to use magical ones just a few hours back! And the sword was Fans', meaning he shouldn't be practicing it before their meeting.
But no matter how surprised she was, when she looked at the mysterious girl, Aizu knew she had mistaken her judgment of the golden-haired woman. Her power was even more terrible than she had imagined!
She looks at White's situation, not knowing if he will come out alive after the next clash. Then she looked down at the sword she was holding with a complex expression, her thoughts unknown.
…
After momentary thoughts, White realized that the golden-haired girl used some worldly energies to reinforce her magical sword and achieve the destruction of such scale.
'But if I remember correctly, only people with Major Change could do this right? Could it be she has reached it… 99% Unity?'
The question filled White's mind but after some thought he dismissed it. Aizu had also said that one needs two-fold after reaching the 50% Unity mark to progress further, getting such an amount such an absurd amount of primal seeds at this time of the trial was very difficult, 'There must be something special about her for being able to control the worldly energies.'
White had already found out that he could control the worldly energies just after his Unity increased to 20% before.
So, looking at the golden-haired girl preparing, he thought the simple technique she performed should also be applicable to him!
From their previous interaction only a moment or two had passed, White curiously asked, "You can use the worldly energies in your attack. What is your Unity level?"
"Worldly energies?! You notice it?" She looked properly at his visage and spoke in a surprised manner.
"It's hard not to notice…" nodding he replied normally. Till now White couldn't see any killing intent like the slit-eyes swordmanship displayed in her eyes. That was why he was even talking to her.
"It's called the primal energy and as for how I was able to control it, despite not achieving Major Change is because of certain circumstances in me." Still surprised she answered him normally but there seemed to be some madness inside her when she spoke the last few words.
'Primal energy. So it is called primal energy,'
At that time, White heard Aizu's voice from behind.
"White, you shouldn't confront her! Instead, we should escape this place."
At some point, Aizu had stealthily appeared behind him and urged him.
"What happened?" Confused, he turned to her but also kept check of the golden-haired girl.
Aizu seemed quite desperate, looking at the golden-haired girl. Before, when she heard that she could control the primal energy, her eyes revealed some fear when she thought of something that she immediately abandoned what she was about to do and came to White to warn him.
"White, if she can use the primal energy now means she must've come from some top-tier Blessed Family and the bloodline of a top-tier Blessed ran through her; meaning that the attack she used was not all her power and she would definitely have some sort of trump card too," Aizu said gravely
"Blessed?" Immediately, these new words brought confusion to White's mind. He looks at her, demanding an answer.
Aizu knew that she would have to explain to him fast so, without delay, she said:
"According to what I know; Blessed are the masters that were given a blessing by the world, making them different from normal masters. They wield terrible power that far surpasses any of their peers and each of their descendants also have their bloodline and inherit their power. That certain circumstance she mentions must be the bloodline of a Blessed Family!"
Listening, White was surprised, "Blessed by the world?"
"That is all I know. My father told me not to get into trouble with a Blessed descendent; especially one from the top tier. " she defeatedly said,
White couldn't help but look at the golden-haired girl with her unusual calm and composed demeanor, along with her confidence and arrogance, he now knows where all of that comes from.
'Trumpcard… that's going to be trouble, I should probably escape…'
White knew he was in an unknown territory, laking everything, and was even overconfident before because of his hidden ability to control the primal energy, but it was a different case when trump cards of unknown powers were involved.
White was not one of the narrow-minded people who let pride and arrogance cloud their judgment. He knew when to take a step back if things weren't favorable, so, he considered following the girl's advice.
Although he was still confident, there was now an uncertain element… an element just from the name, one could easily know it was trouble!
From their last conversation with the golden-haired girl, only a few moments had passed.
"Miss– there's no need to fight anymore we will just leave," said Aizu pulling his sleeve and ready to retreat.
But the girl didn't seem to care and only gazed at White with some unreadable expression, but at the next moment her golden eyes closed and when she opened again, it was filled with determination, saying,
"Ready!?"
As soon as she had said that, her body moved toward White displaying the same move but her expression was serious. Her long sword radiated a golden-colored light that brought with it a terrible might.
White's body grew tense at the light. Before the first clash, he might have underestimated her but now he couldn't afford to be careless now.
"Move back!"
Aizu followed without any complaint, while gravely looking at the golden light approaching, "If you can't defend the attack say it to me, I have a trump card of my own."
White heard her but didn't respond; he couldn't be distracted from the coming danger at the front. He held onto the sword tightly, his body was still hurting all over and was currently in the middle of healing, but he didn't care and concentrated on the primal energy in the sword.
The primal energy was an essence of the world that existed behind an invisible layer called the mortal. Only people who have shredded their position as ordinary and achieved great change can control these things.
But there were exceptions, like the golden-haired girl with the bloodline of a top-tier Blessed, who can't be considered ordinary even from her birth. As for White, from his previous life till now, everything about him remained a mystery.
Concentrating on the primal energy, he felt it moving around him and into the sword.
It would be a strange feeling to someone but to him, it isn't.
BUZZ!@!
His sword was undergoing a change!
Specks of light started shining on the body of the sword. But unlike before when he used the sword, the environment wasn't affected, instead, the sword itself glowed faintly with a grey light that seemed to consider all things as impartial.
All of this happening takes time to describe but it happens almost instantly.
By the time the golden-haired girl was upon him. His sword had undergone its changes and met the incoming strike head-on!
The golden-haired girl seemed somewhat abnormal and surprised but it was too late.
BOOM!@!
A massive explosion blew, and the desolate land cracked even more as the force blew the earth into smithereens; creating even wider and bigger carter!
Both sides flew backward, their bodies hitting and rolling on the ground before stopping in the distance.
"Ugh— " The golden-haired girl groaned, as she sluggishly tried to stabilize herself but she was finding it somewhat difficult and her body was stiff. Different from the confrontation before, she was in a mess.
Her attire was still fine but smoke was rising from them. Some parts of her show-white skin were tainted with bright red blood and she felt her whole body hurting. Shock and graveness covered her eyes looking at the outcome and at the distance. But strangely, her slender bright lips were raised slightly! 'That was…'
In the distance, White was even more miserable as he spat a mouthful of blood and his robes soaked with blood from his injuries. His body twitched as he tried to get up with difficulties but to no avail. There was only pain all over his body, but he suppressed it and took one bottle of the healing liquid.
He couldn't help but look at the girl to keep track of her actions but he noticed some things and thought,
'She is smiling…'