Elemental Reactions

His gaze first fell on Red Dragon’s battlefield—where she was locked in a fierce three-way duel with Cyril and Seth.

Seth, relying on raw brute strength tanked Red Dragon’s strikes head-on.

Cyril, meanwhile, unleashed a barrage of alchemical gadgets,darting around her with agile footwork,launching sudden ambushes from blind spots.

Though Red Dragon was powerful,she couldn’t break through their coordinated assault—the fight remained deadlocked.

“Not promising here either…”Black Dragon’s brow furrowed slightly—he’d never felt so frustrated.

But then his eyes turned to White Dragon’s battlefield—and his entire body froze.

For the first time, the ever-cold assassin’s face twisted into utter disbelief.

His pupils contracted sharply—he could barely believe what he saw.

White Dragon was crushed to one knee by a high-tier gravity spell,his kneecap shattered into the deck,veins bulging on his forehead from the unbearable pressure.

His left index finger was gone,blood gushing like a fountain,pooling crimson beneath him.

And standing before him—was a girl who looked no older than seventeen or eighteen.

She wore a simple light-blue uniform her long hair soaked by rain—yet her aura radiated unshakable authority.

She was twenty levels lower than White Dragon.

Yet she was the one dominating—while White Dragon couldn’t even stand.

She, by contrast,was only slightly winded,her clothes barely stained.

“This… how is this possible?!”

Shock ripped through Black Dragon’s mind.

He’d never seen this girl before.

How had the Empire produced such a monstrous mid-tier sorceress?

Was she from the royal bloodline?

A Round Table heir?

Or some hidden noble house?

White Dragon, though weaker than him,

was still a Top-Tier Assassin!

How could he be annihilated like this?

Then—Black Dragon saw how.

“Shatter!”

White Dragon, still a top expert,suddenly exploded with spiritual energy,shattering the gravity field.

“Shadow Shrink!”

He vanished into his shadow—his aura dissolving into the chaos of the battlefield.

This Shadow Shrink was far stronger than before—and with the clashing energies of dragons, guards, and nobles swirling around,pinpointing his location was nearly impossible.

Yet Jianye remained calm, composed.

Since arriving in this world,she’d spent most of her time studying.

Maps. Histories. Bestiaries.

But battle manuals above all.

She’d memorized the skills and traits of all twelve classes,

even simulated and analyzed countless hypothetical duels.

So she already had a counter.

“Quintuple Ice Prison!”

Her staff tapped the deck—five layers of freezing energy surged outward.

And with the torrential rain pouring down—5 centimeters of standing water coated the deck.

The moment the water met the cold aura—it instantly froze.

A thick ice sheet spread thirty meters in all directions—a perfect elemental reaction.

This move completely nullified Shadow Shrink.

Any attempt to tunnel beneath her would shatter the ice,giving her instant warning.

And sure enough—

Crack!

A near-silent ice fracture—then a lethal black dagger-strike ripped toward Jianye’s back!

But at the last millisecond—her body vanished.

The next instant—she reappeared behind White Dragon,graceful as a butterfly weaving through flowers.

“Teleportation magic?!”

Black Dragon’s eyes widened in horror.

Spatial teleportation was an extremely high-tier arcane art—with crippling mana costs and steep learning thresholds.

For a mid-tier sorceress to wield it so casually?

Her mana reserves must be monstrous—and her spell mastery, inhuman.

But then he realized—it wasn’t just talent.

It was battle IQ.

In mere moments,she’d decoded White Dragon’s attack patterns.

And the enraged assassin hadn’t even noticed.

No matter how fast or vicious his strikes, she always pre-empted them,teleporting to safety with inhuman timing.

Worse—she counterattacked mid-combo,unleashing multiple high-tier elemental spells in perfect sync.

Ice. Water. Wind.

They obeyed her like extensions of her will,spells chaining without the slightest hitch, as if the elements themselves belonged to her.

Her elemental affinity was legendary.

Rainwater coalesced into a water dragon,which froze into an ice dragon under her frost magic,then accelerated to terrifying speed with wind enchantment!

Sensing the overwhelming magical pressure,

White Dragon flinched—for a split second, he thought he faced a Top-Tier Sorceress,not a girl.

“Shadowfang Devourer!”

Desperate, White Dragon unleashed his strongest divine skill.

His dagger erupted with black venom-light,coiling into a hissing serpent of annihilation.

The strike blazed forward,corroding rain into toxic black mist—and slammed into the ice dragon!

Purple and blue energies raged against each other,purple slowly devouring the ice beast.

Then—Jianye smiled faintly.

“Ice Dragon… shatter.”

She flicked her finger.

The ice dragon detonated—its body exploding into a storm of razor-sharp ice shards,each accelerated by hurricane-force winds,hailstorming toward White Dragon.

His eyes widened in terror.

He’d won the clash—but she’d never intended to win it.

She’d planned for the dragon to shatter—to turn its corpse into a wider, deadlier attack!

Shink! Shink! Shink!

Ice shards sliced through his body—he barely blocked a few,but dozens pierced his flesh,blood spraying.

He coughed violently,staggering, his aura plummeting.

He finally admitted it:this girl’s battle awareness surpassed his own.

Black Dragon stood stunned.

Her spell control was unfathomable,her reflexes inhuman,her tactical mind ruthless.

She was the most exceptional youth he’d ever seen.

Compared to her,other prodigies were dim stars beside a sun.

A terrible premonition seized him:

This time… we might fail again.