"You... Don't underestimate me!!"
At this point forward, Eileen's anger, hatred, grief have taken over her senses and has given form to a strong gale of chilling misty wind that storms Christa and even the neighborhood where Itsuo and Selene are currently hiding.
"Looks like she lost it."
Christa spoke in a concern tone over Eileen as she keeps herself from being pushed away from the storm of strong wind coming from the ice magic caster.
It didn't take long until the surge going outward from Eileen deviated and decided to return to where it came from.
The strong surge of wind returned to Eileen. And as if she absorbed it, Christa felt the ice magic caster's magic power rose up and become stronger than before.
"She's getting stronger...?"
At that moment, as she was fixatedly looking at Eileen who is standing idle in front of her, a magic circle appeared right below Christa's feet.
Eileen clutches her crystal-blue claws. "Glacial Impale."
A thick and tall spike bursts out of the magic circle as if to impale Christa from below. Lucky, Christa reacted just in time and get out of the spike without a scratch. But, as she leaped away from Eileen's attack she did not notice the ground were already covered in slippery ice. As a result, Christa loses her footing and tripped as she landed on the land of ice with her butt.
"What?!"
Eileen's assault continues as her palm touches the ice field to cast another spell.
"Ice Shards!"
Countless deadly ice shards were spawning and rosing up from the ice field and is terrifyingly approaching Christa.
"Christa!"
"Crap! She won't be able to get up in time!"
Itsuo remarked the situation Christa is in. The young lady with crimson eyes realized it too.
"Tch...!"
Now that getting up in time is no longer her option, Christa tries to stop the ice shards by slamming her wooden sword on the land of ice. Her powerful smash caused the dust and dirt to shroud everything around Christa, including herself.
Itsuo and Selene couldn't see what happened as the lifted up dust obscures their vision.
"Christa...!"
"Where is she...?"
"Oh, right! We can find her through her energy!"
"You're right!"
The two proceeded to close their eyes as they concentrate of feeling Christa's energy. It's as if they're flying through inside the obscuring dust, the two can see a human shaped figure of blue light that represents the energy surrounding Christa as she was standing and is about to jump.
"There she is!"
"She's safe...!"
The two gaze above the obscuring dust and sees Christa jumped out of it. Seconds later, the smoke made of dust would clear out. And when Christa is about to take a glance at the ice magic caster, she sees Eileen pointing her palm on her.
"...!"
That's when she noticed the ice shards down on the ground sparkled like stars in the distance as thousand of them come flying straight to her.
"Thousand Shards!"
"What a pain..."
Christa irritatingly dodges some of the ice shards, while the ones she cannot avoid ended up being sliced with her wooden sword. It goes on for a few seconds, but it was too many to simply cut and avoid them one by one. She had to use her flames.
"I'll burn these icicle sticks away."
Christa flies further up in the sky to gain more distance against the matching ice shards. There, above the moonlit sky, Christa embeds her wooden sword with fire, burning vigorously as she prepares to do a single powerful swing.
At that right moment, where the ice shards were about just a split second away from Christa...
"Haaa!"
With her two hands gripped tight on her burning wooden sword, she swinged a giant wave of fire that burned and melted every single deadly ice shards on the way.
"Ooh!!"
"Amazing, Christa!"
Itsuo and Selene's eyes bugged out in astonishment as they watched the spectacle of Christa deflecting Eileen's storm of ice shards like fireworks. But that quickly changed when they looked further up.
"I-It can't be...!"
"What is that...?!"
Meanwhile Christa showed a mischievous smirk as she obliterated every single shards with one swing.
"Heh! How's that?"
Little did she know, that's not the real attack Eileen was going for. When she looked at Eileen, the ice magic caster throws down her hand.
"Die, you demon! Crystal Fall!!"
"Huh?"
Christa was too late to noticed that a giant shadow is blocking her from the light of the full moon. When she turned around, a super giant form of crystalline ice covered with sharped edges all over it was fall straight down to her.
She got no time to dodge, and even if she manages to flee, the force of that huge crystal falling down at such a height would cause great damage and the neighborhood which isn't that far from their battlefield will surely get affected. Every single houses will be leveled into pieces, including Selene and Itsuo who are hiding and watching them over.
"Damn!"
Her only option is to try to stop it from falling. But, with the weight, and the speed of it falling, it simply dragged Christa like she was nothing.
A few seconds before impact...
"Christa!"
Itsuo screamed as he was about to jump into Christa's help, but Selene grabbed his arm before he could get out of the house.
"Stay here!"
Selene forcefully pulled him down as she casts her shielding ability.
"Light Magic! Light Shield!"
Selene created a giant shield, big enough to fit all the houses inside, she was concentrating her magic until the inevitable happened.
The impact sent a powerful shockwave that devastates everything in a wide radius. The mountains on the side felt the impact and its aftershock. The neighborhood have no means to escape as the shockwave is about to hit them. And it did.
The shockwave was insanely strong and big enough that it lasted for quite a few seconds until the tail eventually went passed the neighborhood.
Surprisingly, Selene stood still on top of the house as she kept the shield from breaking apart. The houses did not suffer any damage but the huge shield Selene created have undoubtedly depleted more than half of her mana.
"I..I did it..."
Selene falls on her butt on the roof out of fatigue, with an expression of relief printed on her face.
"S-Selene!"
Itsuo quickly acted and flew right back on top of the concrete house to check up on Selene. The girl told him that she was fine except that she was evidently exhausted from using her magic.
"I managed to protect the houses... But, Christa..."
Itsuo took a glance at the same direction Selene was worriedly looking - the area of impact. It was yet again clouded with dust lifted up from the impact. They can't see anything. Not the giant crystal, or even Christa.