after sky let go of cleo and lucas teasing them; lucas and faes began their duel at belle's signal.
but unlike cleo lucas decided not to attack first watching faes from a distance holding his two daggers.
faes also observed lucas for openings but was astonished to find none despite observing for a while. 'looks like i have to attack first and create an opening mself' faes decided as she used void steps vanishing from her place shocking everyone other than sky
lucas who was watching faes for finding her weak spots was shocked pausing but he quickly focused again and jumped backwards dodging the attack faes sent towards him using her fists.
"tsk!" faes who failed to land a hit clicked her tongue before vanishing again.
she knew she had higher strength and attributes than lucas because of her cultivation but she couldn't let her guard down because lucas had experience in his side. his dodging her attack was proof that she have to go all out to take him down.
hence she called her sword too before attacking lucas again from aside.
lucas noticed faes attack just as she appeared again. he raised his dagger to meet her sword and deflected it to a side while thrusting his other dagger towards faes which she countered using her sword.
once the two began to fight they entered a stalemate; both lucas and faes had speed and strength along with frightening senses which gave neither an advantage. for a time both were fighting using their blades and when they separated both contained minor injuries.
although faes and lucas had exchanged hundreds of blows only few minutes have passed. meanwhile aside from sky who had watched faes spar with adrian and blake; cleo and belle were shocked silly.
'she was really holding back while fighting me' cleo smiled wryly as she watched faes and lucas observe each other once again from a distance. she wasn't even able to keep up with their speed much less watch them spar.
similarly belle was also shocked she wasn't even sure what has happened to make the two injured much less follow them.
both the girls had similar thoughts 'i need to get stronger fast!'
while faes and lucas continued to observe each other not bothering the injuries that had began to heal. though faes was stronger and faster than lucas he had years of experience and high intuision which made up for his weakness. hence both were able to injure each other though not enough to defeat them.
"let's get serious" lucas smiled as the arena suddenly dimmed in light, shadows expanding all over and engulfing lucas figure in it. while faes who had better vision didn't bother about the shadows as she was engulfed in darkness. after all she too had darkness attribute along with light hence it didn't bother her in the least but she still went on high alert using her senses to limits and focus on lucas.
'on the right!' she noticed lucas just as he appeared to attack from the darkness and returned the attack without hesitation but after exchanging one blow lucas vanished again in the darkness
'not good!' faes can not detect lucas until he shows himself hence she wasn't able to attack first and only when he showed up. but now after exchanging few blows he haven't appeared for a while.
suddenly faes felt a chill and dodged forward glancing back to find multiple shadow daggers in her previous place; 'that was close, but this wont do' faes was already on high alert but now she have to deal with both lucas and his distant attack it will put her in a disadvantage.
either she have to take care of the shadows or use them to deal with lucas. suddenly faes smiled before leaping back dodging the shadow blades again as she used the darkness attribute along with zin to locate lucas.
'there on the right!' once she had located lucas who was moving towards her back from right side she called her fire petals. her fire was dark purple in colour hence it was easily hidden away in the shadows and lucas failed to notice them until it was too late.
"what?" lucas tried to block the petals using his daggers and shadows but they were too many and small. in the end the petals burnt him while faes followed up attacking with her sword.
lucas noticed faes attack he barely managed to raise his dagger to block the sword but the force from the clash sent him flying out of the arena slamming into the wall of the room and even cracking it.
others who were watching the fight were not able to see anything due to the shadows and darkness. they only saw lucas fly out of the arena into the wall cracking it as a result while his body had both cuts and burns.
with lucas out of arena the duel ended and the shadows vanished allowing the room to illuminate once again. on the arena faes stood panting holding her sword surrounded by fire petals that were vanishing one by one.
cleo and belle were dazed after glancing at faes. her black hair flowed while her pale skin glowed under the light. the blood and dirt on her clothes and sword was illuminated while the purple fire petals surrounded her as if raining from sky at god's will. the whole scene was sacred as if a heaven blessed person was being protected by the beautiful petals gods were raining on them.
while the two girls were dazed sky got free from cleo's grip and went to lucas while faes followed the petals vanishing behind her.
"brother lucas are you alright? here drink this" sky made lucas who had slid on the ground drink a healing potion.
"i am fine; i accept my defeat" lucas was panting while holding his pain. he couldn't get to know more about faes powers but he knew one thing 'she's stronger! much stronger than him'