Runes A Tale Of The Abyss - 79 Chapter 70

“Lightning Magic: Thunderclap.”

As Jewels finished his chant he clapped his hands, sending an electric shockwave towards Sylvie and Liliane. Sylvie quickly grabbed Liliane and dashed backwards, avoiding the shockwave.

“Stay back, this will get a bit rough Lily.”

Liliane slowly nodded her head as she backed away. Sylvie nodded her head as she turned to face Jewels who was still slowly walking towards them.

It was time that she used her magic now, and she would do her best to her current limits.

“Shapeshifting Magic: Semi-Wolf Transformation.”

Her body slowly gained height as her mana strengthened her natural strength, speed, and senses. Her hair grew wilder as two wolf ears appeared on top of her head. This was a semi-transformation to her normal form, but it would do.

She slowly kneeled on all fours, and with the sound of the ground cracking, she bursted forward towards Jewels.

Jewels, on the other hand, didn’t stand idle. Lightning was crackling around him again, but it was faster this time. The purple lightning was becoming more intense by the second.

“Lightning Magic: Thunderdash.”

His eyes started to emit a purple glow as he finished his chant, and with a burst of speed and thunder he disappeared from where he stood. All Kato and Liliane could see was a moving gray and purple blur that occasionally met each other.

The fight wasn’t showing any progress though. Sylvie’s animalistic fighting senses coupled with her physical strength against Jewels with his unique speed and hit-and-run tactics weren’t yielding any results.

Seeing this Kato’s smile slowly widened. It was a good thing they had incapacitated the other fighter, even though he was mostly useless. He could exert a good plan here.

In the meantime, the clash between the two was heating up. Jewels appeared right behind Sylvie, a perfect opening for him to gain the upper hand.

“Lightning Magic: Gungnir.”

A spear started to appear in his hand, and without any hesitation he threw it right at her back. Sylvie turned around right before the spear impacted against her, and tried to grab it. However, her face slowly twisted into shock as the spear simply passed through her hand, and shot her backwards upon impact. It dissipated as soon as it hit her, but the electricity that was coursing through her now had done its job, paralyzing her for a short time.

Jewels slowly straightened himself as he pushed his slightly long, curly hair back.

“So… do you surrender?”

The paralyzation slowly wore off as Sylvie looked around her to find an opening. Jewels seemed extremely relaxed, as if he wasn’t taking her seriously. This seemed to be a gold opportunity…

She slowly went on her knees.

“Oh… alright. Hey, Kato let’s wrap this up!”

As soon as he turned around, Sylvie swiped his legs off the ground, and raised her fist which was imbedded with mana. Just as soon as her fist almost slammed into his face, Jewels showed why he had been confident before.

“Lightning Magic: Thunderstruck.”

As soon as he uttered those words thunder seemed to struck where he stood, and struck once more right behind Sylvie. From the thunder behind her Jewels re-emerged.

He dusted off his clothes that were now mostly charred.

“And this is why I don’t like fighting… you made me ruin my clothes.”

Sylvie was pretty shocked. This guy was probably one of the strongest people she’d met in her generation. Even if she went all out it would probably be unpredictable… that spell was the natural enemy to her instincts.

She grit her teeth as she slowly went on all fours.

“What kind of a monster are you?”

She muttered.

“I’ve been called worse…”

Sylvie shot towards him. This time, however, it seemed that she had gotten the upper hand. Jewels had raised his hand and chanted a spell to make a mana-barrier, but he hadn’t expected Sylvie to crash right through it, and drop-kick him to the ground. She was now standing over him as she raised her fist to finish the job quickly and get to the other guy.

“Whoa whoa there, easy. You wouldn’t want your friend getting injured right?”

A voice echoed behind her… it was him again, Kato. She turned around to see Kato putting his hand on Liliane’s shoulder who was trembling.

“I…I’m sorry for being so useless Sylvie…”

She blurted as she shook.

Kato’s smile widened slowly as he waited for Sylvie’s answer.

“…oh, and I don’t think he’ll stay down any longer.”

Sylvie looked back to see Jewels who was below her was looking up at her with slight annoyance in his eyes, and purple lightning was crackling on his arms.

“…fine… alright you win, let her go.”

“Now… that wasn’t so hard, was it?”

Just then the ground started to shake, and all of them looked up to see clouds gathering… but they were underground?! This was definitely magic.

Liliane muttered.

“That’s… Ellen’s magic…”

A tornado could be seen from right at the center of the labyrinth. It was touching the ceiling of the underground room.

Kato’s eyes widened.

“…she’s more of a monster than I thought. Jewels! We gotta go there!”

Jewels nodded his head as he stood up, and gave Sylvie a curious gaze before turning ahead.

As they started to run back to the crack Kato had made previously in the wall, they collided with Lance, who fell on his rear end.

“Hey! It’s you two! How’s the plan going!”

“We beat the other three members, but now’s not the time, we better head back to help Griff!”

Kato blurted.

“But… she’s so scary!”

Jewels slapped Lance’s head on the back.

“With that build of yours you’re not supposed to be a wuss. Come on.”

Lance held his head with teary eyes. They stood up, but right before they started running the tornado seemed to change. There were black flames circling within it now.

“Huh? Ellen doesn’t use black flames…”

Kato was confused. Sylvie, however, was slightly grinning. It didn’t really matter that she lost since she didn’t care about this exercise they were having, but seeing Griff unlocking more of his potential was a sight to behold.

After a few seconds the tornade instantly dissipated.

“What… was that?”

Everyone, except for Sylvie, was now confused. Jewels was simply looking at where the tornado was once was with a blank face. After a few seconds, Professor Julius’s voice echoed.

“The winner of this match is Griff, Kato, Jewels, and Lance. 2 of the opposing team has surrendered, and the other two are incapacitated.”

This was… truly a moment of shock for the entire Phoenix Class.