Alva POV
I left the room leaving my most regretting words with Nikol, I didn't expect something like that to come out of my mouth. I had never regretted doing something in my whole life like this other than this incident.
"I hate you," Those three words kept echoing inside my mind like a wave.
I always considered myself to be someone with high control of my body and mind but, right now I was crying like a little girl.
"Why do I feel like this? Why does my chest hurt?" I thought about it but, I got no answer. I wanted to ask from Nikol what was wrong with me but seeing him like that, something inside my mind hesitated to do so.
I still vividly remembered the scene of Nikol being surrounded by six naked girls, to make things worse, I was the one who recommended Rebecca for it.
"I'm the one who recommended him to do something like this, now I'm acting like this in front of him,"
"Damn it, I'm so selfish but, this feeling it's so unbearable," While I was thinking about all this I ran through the hallway quickly avoiding, most of the people.
I didn't want to talk with anyone right now, I just wanted to take a breather and think about what I did and what was happening to me.
Lucky for me, Chief was busy with her work of managing the tribe otherwise, she would have stopped me.
Without listening to anyone, I left the mansion quickly, I had no idea where I was going but right now, I just wanted to be away from everyone else.
I wiped my tears off so as not to catch any attention from others, so many girls in the tribe knew about me so, they will definitely question me, If they saw my tears.
The only time I cried in the past was when I got to know that my grandmother went missing suddenly after a fight with a curse user.
I was so devastated after knowing about it, that I almost started blaming others for it including my own mother. It wasn't a secret that I was close to my grandmother than my own mother when I was a child.
She was my role model for controlling everyone in the tribe fairly while caring for her own family, unlike my mother who went into berserk mode sometimes and extreme methods.
Thinking about all these things, I kept walking until I heard a familiar voice behind me, I didn't know where I was, and I suddenly looked around to notice that was near the training area of the warriors.
"Shit, why did I even come here?" I muttered looking at all the people from the two tribes training.
"Bitch, don't ignore me, I just greeted you," I heard the familiar voice again, hearing her my mind went back to the past when I used to play with the owner of the voice.
"Emily, what do you want? I'm busy right now," I felt irritated right now, so I tried to ignore her but she just kept pestering me.
"What's with your attitude? I just called you to talk," Emily said with her face disfigured in anger.
"Get lost! I don't have time for you," I said trying to escape from there and go back to a less crowded place.
"Bitch!" Something snapped inside Emily right after she said that. Her face now looked insulted and angry. If I was in my right mind, I probably would have listened to her silently but right now, I wasn't.
She unsheathed her lightweight sword and came running in my direction. I didn't expect her to attack me like that.
"Now that I remember, we didn't get to decide who is the strongest among us, so why don't we decide it now," I saw her attack coming so, I quickly took a step back and defended myself.
In all honesty, I didn't want to fight right now so I tried to convince her to stop fighting,
"Emily, I'm not in the mood to fight with you, we'll do this later, besides I don't have my sword," I said looking at her. She had a good stance while holding her sword.
Without us noticing a lot of people started to surround us thinking, we are going to duel with each other, I saw Emily giving a little nod at someone,
"You, bring her a sword," At her words, someone just ran off to the training building and grabbed another light sword and threw it in my direction.
"Pick it up, Alva," She said looking at me.
I felt my head spinning looking at everyone, I wasn't able to control my anger unlike I usually do,
"I said pick it up, you bitch,"
"Are you a coward, just like your grandmother?" At Emily's words, I felt something snap inside my head.
All the frustration and anger I had started to flow into my body like a stream,
"I will kill you, you damn round-headed bitch," I dashed in her direction with my sword aiming at her shouting.
The crowd couldn't help but get excited seeing our fight, but those who knew about were surprised to see me acting like this,
"Hah~ at last, you're ready to fight," Emily took her stance back seeing me running toward her.
I was holding the sword with one of my hands while trying get a clear attack, Emily quickly blocked my attack with her own sword showing she wasn't all talk. These light swords weren't that dangerous so it wasn't fatal for any of us.
"Is that all you got?" Emily was trying to act tough but, I saw her hand trembling from the pressure I was exerting on her sword.
Unexpectedly for Emily, I used my other hand and landed a blow on her face making others surprised,
"Wasn't this supposed to be a duel of swords?"
"Why is she using her hands?"
"Does it even matter she used her hands, winning is the only thing that matters,"
I heard the crowd murmuring about what I did, normally in a duel use of magic and attacks like that were prohibited but right now, I didn't care about the rules, I just wanted to be alone.
"Bitch! Is that how you want to play? I will kill you," Both Emily and I were starting to lose our patience. Our attacks became more and more vicious and fatal every second.
In the end, we started to use the only thing that is strictly prohibited by the rules in a duel called magic spells.
Unlike me, Emily had a good mana pool with her, and her use of earth magic was absolutely magnificent for her age. It is a well-known fact that defensive magic like earth magic is relatively easy to use than offensive fire magic which I possess.
"Die! Die! Die!" I kept throwing fire spells at her, which she countered using her earth magic spells. Her earthen wall is a terrible spell for any attacker because it completely cut off the spell of the attacker unless it is powerful enough to penetrate the wall.
Normally unless someone is a mage, they won't use magic spells as it is exhausting and less effective so most of the warriors stick to their swords. Another disadvantage of using magic spells is its chanting time.
For a warrior with good sword and body skills using magic spells are not essential as their spells won't be that powerful.
"What's with you? This isn't like you," Emily shouted feeling her attacks. She didn't understand what she did to her.
Emily just wanted to have a duel with me and defeat me in front of everyone showing her superiority, she didn't expect me to almost kill her with my magic spells.
"Shouldn't we stop them? This isn't a duel at this point,"
The crowd started to panic as they were also affected by some of my attacks. I didn't even know why I was fighting with her in the first place, I chose Emily as a target to release all my frustration.
While I was thinking all this, I released another fireball which is more powerful than others using more mana than I was supposed to, it was a very risky and dangerous move as it might cause damage to my mana body but I wasn't in my right mind to think about such things,
*Boom
It caused a large impact after touching Emily's wall causing her body to be thrown back several meters backwards. If she didn't have that protection with her, it probably would have caused a fatal injury.
To my surprise, my mother was the one who helped her,
"Emily, are you okay?" She asked looking at her injured body, both Emily and I had injuries but, because of my crazy spell-throwing, she was the most injured one among us.
"I'm okay, your daughter has gone crazy, this was supposed to be a duel but, she just kept attacking me," Emily said looking at me with an angry look.
I didn't know what to do as I kept standing there with a blank look on my face until I heard his voice,
"Alva, wait, I want to talk with you," I instantly recognised that voice which was rather deep than any other voice, I heard in this city.
I looked at him with a sad look before escaping from there, I didn't dare to face him after doing all these things,
"He must hate me now, Why did I even tell him something like that?" I ran pushing away the crowd with tears in my eyes. I'm pretty sure most of them must have noticed it as they gave me space to go back after a little threatening.
"Wait! Alva, don't run away," Nikol kept shouting while following me, but my speed was greater than his so, he wasn't able to catch me.
"I'm sorry, Nikol," I thought while climbing onto the tallest tower in the city.