faes saw the fire bird as big as her charging and got ready to defense and attack. as she had already decided to use fire she prepared her fire magic along with water just in case.
the fire bird was right few meters from faes now when john began chanting again
"fire style firewave go!" john shouted as the bird opened its mouth and shrieked. yellow fire came out of its mouth and came towards faes. faes was curious about others' powers and was planning to see the strength first but didn't want to get hurt at the same time. she knew the opponents are stronger than her and her chance at experimenting was low. even then she just used the basic rotating fire cylinder to defend the attack.
"rotating fire cylinder!" faes murmured just as a purple cylinder made of purple fire rotating at a fast speed appeared around her. the flame faes used was colored bluish purple normally when concentrated it turned blue and then on further concentration it turned black. faes took those flame and created a cylinder with their help then rotated it in high speed thus making the rotating fire cylinder. as it wasn't concentrated at the moment it was purple in color. the yellow flame wave and the purple fire cylinder collided and a blast took place. aiden who saw that purple flame barrier knew that faes was practicing hard and even when the blast happened he stayed seated knowing faes was fine.
the dust settled around and faes came in view again completely fine. john who saw faes frowned. he had used 70% of his power in that attack due to his anger and if it were even someone similar in cultivation will at least get hurt a little but the girl in front of them was completely fine not even a scratch on her body can be found.
the barrier faes made was strong enough to block an attack from knight establishment stage but that was it. the blast was due to the wave and fire cylinder canceling each other. this wasn't because faes was strong but because her cultivation was weak. if she were currently knight establishment stage the wave would not even have scratched the fire cylinder. faes was also satisfied 'when my non-concentrated cylinder can block such a strong attack then the concentrated one should be stronger' she was also happy that she can block the attack and not get burned just in testing and experimenting.
'i need to get strong fast' faes thought nodding to herself. now that she had tested her barrier she was confident to fight and win.
"looks like you are not as strong as i thought before" john mocked not that it affected faes she just shrugged agreeing with him
"i am still weak after all a barely started cultivation a few months ago" faes replied
john and shawn who heard her gritted their teeth in anger. the sentence faes said was simply the truth but it can be taken as she was making fun of the brothers who have been cultivating for years and still cant hurt her.
"you dare mock us?" john was burning with rage at this time. first he found that aiden was alive and still powerful enough to kill him easily then he lost his arm to a sneak attack of a little girl then he failed to hurt her and even got mocked!
"fire style fire bird rain!" he shouted. the single big fire bird shrieked and flew high in the sky before exploding and dividing into numerous small firebirds. they all began to fall from the sky at a fast speed towards faes.
faes saw the number of birds and their speed. in hurry to save herself she created the concentrated water bubbles above her layer by layer.
"concentrated water bubbles!" faes murmered as numerous water bubbles appeared above her. faes used water to create bubbles and then strengthen them by concentrating water magic particles around them. she had mastered to use the techniques as fast as possible with as much power as she can while practicing so she was able to create lots of water bubbles. she wanted to fight using fire but not when she might die and clearly not when she didn't practice any area of effect defence skill against attacks from above.
the birds when came in contact with the water bubbles got extinguished along with a small pop of bubble. this continued until all bubbles and firebirds were gone. some birds escaped the bubble barrier and managed to hit faes but she endured it as it wasn't anything serious just small little burn that will heal soon due to her fast healing.
john when saw the bubbles blocking his birds was shocked. people who can use two elements were rare much less with this much precision.
if only they manged to capture her and hand her to the higher ups they were sure to get lots of cultivation resources but it seemed like he cant do that as he heard faes speak
"now its my turn to attack!" faes smiled relieved that she got off with that attack and extended her hand towards john. a purple fireball formed in her hand rotating at high speed.
it was rotating fire bomb that faes practiced. faes realized that her opponents were strong so she didn't fired the bomb right away but began concentrating it. the fast rotating purple ball began to turn blue and was soon a blue ball of fire rotating t high speed.
"concentrated rotating firebomb go!" faes shouted as she released the ball towards john.
"fire wall!" john created his shield when he saw the blue fireball charging towards him, but little did he know that the fireball had managed to destroy a noble establishment stage dummy how can a weak wall created in hurry by knight establishment stop it?
just as the ball was colliding with fire wall faes smiled and said
"concentrated fire bomb explode!"
the blue fireball exploded with a loud boom! and the area around john got covered in dust. shawn and aiden who were watching from the side wanted to know whether john managed to block it or not.
when the dust settled john's body came in view laying on ground completely burned and turned black. he was barely breathing and his eyes were fixed on faes full of fear. the one fireball was strong enough to kill him after destroying the fire wall he created just this fact made it clear that faes was strong enough to kill them without them knowing if she wanted to.
faes after she saw the state john was in was both satisfied and disgusted. satisfied that her attack worked and disgusted because of the sight in front of her. it was her first time fighting a human and seeing them burnt to this extent.
"well done i didn't knew those moves you better show all of those to me later i want to know what else you created!" aiden clapped proud that his child was this powerful when she was many stages before in cultivation from her opponents.
shawn stared at his brother's body which was barely alive and felt enraged. a little kid was strong enough to kill his brother this easily! he was going to kill her!
faes who didn't heard the notification of john being killed yet sighed. she didn't wanted to kill him but it will be better if he died than to suffer through the pain of that burn. she called her bow and shot john in between his head using a simple fire arrow ending his life and relieving him from his pain.
just as she heard the notification of john being killed and exp gained she heard shawn shout.
"you dare kill my brother when he was in such a weak state! i am going to kill you!" shawn was enraged and wasn't thinking normally. faes who received lots of exp leveled up out of blue and a storm made of energy surrounded her faes who have been studying for months now knew that when a person broke though they get stronger but at the time they are breaking through they are the weakest as they cant defend against the attacks while using their cultivation menthod.
the storm made out of qi and magic particles began surrounding her which was normal ever since faes broke though core strengthening stage. the storm grew just as faes used her cultivation method sitting on the ground and shawn attacked with his beast the fire lion intending to kill faes.