109: Group Battle (Part 7)

Group Battle (Part 7)

After killing Nicholas, Ayaka wanted to rush to assist Kai, but Tasha stopped her. Even if she flew toward them, Tasha would teleport her back, so she could only stay here.

"Just look at your pale face… Haiz, you're too reckless." Tasha sighed. "I'm sure only moving a bit hurts a lot."

"This isn't the real world, so I can be reckless again and again, considering I'm not as strong as you are. In fact, even the people outside won't have high expectations of me." She looked down, a bit disappointed.

"This lass…" She shook her head helplessly, snapping her finger to create a magic circle. "Teleportation."

They arrived back in the woods, finding Evan to tend to her injuries.

"Heal this reckless girl first." Tasha pushed Ayaka to Evan.

Evan simply nodded, wrapping Ayaka's body in his healing bubble.

"Listen here. No matter what you do today, never do something like that again, okay? I'm sure that even Kai will talk about this after the match," Tasha said.

"Umm…" She could only look down.

"Anyway, just rest here. Kai will end the fight for us."

Little did they know, Isabelle was in the sky, trying to find Tasha and Ayaka.

Michelle was far from this place, while Tasha and Ayaka had their own respective opponents. This might be the simplest option, but it was the most brutal plan for Kai Carter.

As long as she had enough time, she could shoot them down one by one from the sky before defeating him from the air. This was probably their ultimate plan, riling Kai.

On the ground, Kai was staring at her, looking very pitiful. Even if he was an unorthodox sound magician, it was still impossible for him to reach her.

The fact that they had fallen for the enemy's plot and that defeat was but mere moments away made the others lose hope. For Kai, who was well versed in reading into the future with his mind, it was all more clear.

It was at this time that Kai showed a change of expression. Instead of a dispirited look, it was a smile.

"Outplayed me?" Kai shook his head.

"This…" Isabelle dropped her jaw, noticing that her teammates were already gone, leaving only her in this place alone.

Even without Sanae telling him, he already knew that they had finished their battles, though he still needed to have a talk with Ayaka after this.

"You…"

"You're the last," Kai smirked, dropping one of his swords to the ground before raising his hand toward her. "With ten percent of my magic power, I can finally do this."

A green magic circle appeared on his hand, creating a cannon-like cylinder.

Isabelle noticed the change in the atmosphere and looked at Kai with confusion.

"What are you doing?" She pointed her weapon at him."

"You'll experience it right now." He smiled, activating the magic circle. "Resonant Beam."

Even after activating the magic circle, it didn't shoot anything, nor did it produce any sound, confusing her even more. She thought that it was just a bluff to make her come down, so she aimed her weapon at Ayaka, trying to kill as many as possible. Even if she died, it would only after she killed at least three people.

She looked through the scope, carefully aiming it for her head to make sure that she would die with this shot. Unfortunately, Kai's attack finally arrived.

'Shaking?' She blinked a few times, feeling that her eyes were shaking. She put down her weapon, looking around to adjust her eyes. The shaking didn't show any signs of stopping. Instead, it intensified. It felt like her eyeballs were shaking and would soon jump out of their sockets. She started seeing colored lights at the periphery of her vision and ghostly gray regions in the center.

"Kh…" She bit her lips, looking down because of the pain, and saw Kai. She soon realized what happened to her. "You…"

Kai smirked. This was the magic that everyone had forgotten to talk about after she challenged his group for a battle.

He took the concept of breaking glass with sound with a sound that was at the same frequency as the glass.

The low frequency of the sound and its corresponding long wavelength made it much more capable of penetrating her body, creating an oscillating pressure system. He could make different parts of her body resonate depending on the frequency.

Because sniping relied on eyes the most, as long as he stopped her eyes, it would solve the problem. This was why he targeted her eyeballs. Because he couldn't really test this magic on Michelle and the others, Isabelle became the perfect experiment subject.

At first, he used relatively safe sound levels, below 100 dB, that occurred at 19Hz, causing her eyes to start twitching. He slowly raised the intensity to 110 dB, thus giving the current effect. Luckily, she decided to go down after this. It would be much worse if he had to use more.

Apart from that, he used the concept of a Long Range Acoustic Device to send the soundwave as the sound coming from the LRAD was also relatively directional. It didn't disperse as many as sounds from typical speakers. People next to or behind the device like him could still hear the sound, but it wasn't as loud. Kai even used his Sound Insulation around her ears as protection.

He had gone through trials and errors to check the soundwaves' phase, the size of the magic circle, and the properties of the air to make the sound more directional. Unfortunately, he had yet to see whether this technique could kill magical beasts or not.

He knew about the frequency of human eyeballs, which was 19Hz, but for the eyeballs of magical beasts, he needed to go through another round of trials and errors.

This was a good technique to fight people in an open area since not only was it in a lower range than the human ear could hear, it was deadly.

Unfortunately, if he showed more, he felt that his life would be targeted as the danger level of this technique was similar to Michelle's Shadow Walk. After all, he could assassinate someone without anyone noticing using this technique.

The magic circle disappeared as he looked at Isabelle. She said, "Since it's like that, I'll defeat you first. I haven't revealed this technique to anyone, so be grateful and die."

"..." Kai was dumbfounded, saying inwardly, 'Girl, I 've shown you this technique that I haven't revealed to anyone, why don't you be grateful to me, fall from the sky, and die instead?'

She threw her weapon into the air and clapped her hands. Unlike Kai's light green magic circle, her magic circle was dark green. Four balls wrapped in wind rose from the magic circle, giving an ominous pressure. The four orbs hovered around her, creating a rectangle.

"God of Wind, Aeolus."

He furrowed his eyebrows, sensing dense wind power in those orbs.

Fwoosh!

A change of sound was enough for him to recognize a movement from the orb on the top left.

"It's coming!" He leaped backward, planning to observe what those orbs could do first. At first, he wanted to use his Lullaby to disrupt her brainwaves, allowing him to break those orbs with the loss of control. Unfortunately, he was too far and the sound wouldn't hurt her enough to make her lose focus.

Bam! The orb shot a condensed wind bullet, creating a hole right where Kai previously was. Seeing the effect, he deactivated the sword in his left hand and made his Oscillation Shield.

He charged at her with his shield in front, thinking it would be enough to stop those orbs.

Isabelle only smiled and released the second orb. "This is an ability that I've suppressed for a long time."

After the second orb shot its bullet, the third and fourth orb released their bullets in succession. Kai was not afraid of them after witnessing the effect on the ground. Compared to her sniper rifle, these green balls were like pistols.

Kai raised his shield, blocking the bullets without any hesitation.

"!!!" Another attack came from the front. He adjusted his form and pushed his shield forward, giving more force to fight this new attack.

Boom! The attack came from Isabelle's sniper rifle. Unlike when they were in their first position, Kai wasn't pushed back as they were on equal ground.

He looked around, noticing the movements from the orbs, and leaped toward her.

The orbs aimed at him, trying to shoot him down, but Kai simply raised his shield to block two of them while using his sword to destroy the other two.

As soon as he arrived in front of Isabelle, he slashed his sword downwards.

She might be a sniper, but her close combat ability was also top-notch, allowing her to fight even Nicholas to a standstill. She simply raised her weapon, blocking Kai's sword before using the orbs to shoot him.

"!!!" Kai took a step back, avoiding those bullets before changing his stance again as Isabelle had activated her magic and shot him.

He had noticed that she needed a few seconds before she could shoot either her sniper rifle or the orbs. In an instant, he blocked the attack, released his magic shield, and took out his sword again, making a full round attack.

Her close combat might be good, but for Kai, who could predict his opponents' movements through their simple movements, it was still far too low.0

The moment Kai's swords reached her sniper rifle, he faked it by pulling the swords back and kicked her sniper rifle to the air.

"Kh." She gritted her teeth, shooting him with the orbs.

Kai merely jumped to avoid them and didn't forget to claim her life. A second after he landed on the ground, her head fell, concluding the match.

"You're a strong opponent." Kai closed his eyes.

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