"How did he unleash so much power?"
Rica observing him, saw huge amount of Mana leaving his body and creating this magma, but what terrified her the most are the two swords.
"Metal Eater and Fire Soul Slasher welcome back"
Lu Gao said that loud enough for Rica to hear it, leaving her cringed by what childish names that are.
Lu Gao now fully unleashed, jumped in the sky and unleashed his swords skill [Metal creation] as an Image of a Drake appeared behind the left sword, creating metal spears in the air and used the Magma on the ground to create a metal maw of a wolf.
[Skill: Blink has been activated]
Rica used Blink towards the sky, dodging the maw out of Magma and hot metals, while using the chance and shooting up a ball of water at Lu Gao.
The ball of water is flying at breakneck speed, arriving infront of Lu Gao in a few seconds, who is waiting for the water ball to crash in him.
^Boom^
The water ball evaporate in an instant a meter radius around him, not even having a chance to hit Lu Gao moreover is Lu Gaos sword in his right hand glowing, the eastern dragon wrapping around it started to glow and radiate even more heat around him like a barrier.
Rica watches all of it in shock, not understanding one bit how strong his affinity is, even the thought that his fire is stronger and hotter than Alans are emerging in her mind.
"Panda what did you do?!"
she shouted in her head while feeling Pandas grin watching all of that, making her even more angry nonetheless she shouted at Panda because Skylif screamed at him, disrupting her concentratrion.
"Rica fuse with me right now!"
Skylif screamed in her head through the spiritual connection, making Rica realise how serious the situation is and initiated their spirit fusion.
Lu Gao dashed towards Rica as the spears of multpile hot metals followed him, on his back are bird wings out of metals looking like a mix of diamonds as feathers and steel for the skeletal structure of the wings, closing the distance between them quickly.
^Whoosh^
Rica is creating a tornado to form around her pushing Lu Gao away from her, a wing out of green energy along with her right arm getting a part of armor up to her shoulder, The claws of the gauntlet is in a forest hue, as the rest of the armor is in a green hue.
Lu Gao his two swords vibrate for excitement to fight again, Lu Gao feels their emotions through their bond also excited to fight with full power.
Rica cast before she even steps out of the Tornado multiple arrows of spinning air reaching tornado like speed, shooting them at Lu Gao who shoot in response his metal spears at the arrows.
^Boom^ ^Boom^
Lu Gao flaps his wings that shoot him like a bullet straight in the tornado dispelling it, arriving in front of Rica seeing her summon a spear out of air and thrusting it in his face.
^Boom^
Lu Gao reacted in time and pushed his left sword against the spear, the black drake on it biting the top of the blade started to glow in a charcoal hue, creating a metal armor around Lu Gaos body.
Rica is pushed back a few metres in the air at the same time is Lu Gao infront of her with a charcoal hue armor that looks like a Drakes body, slashing his literally Melting sword at her.
^Boom^ ^sizzle^
Rica managed to summon her water spirit the kingfisher to create a dense enough water spear to block that melting sword, causing a sizzling sound to echo through the silent arena.
Lu Gao wasn't finished as on the ground the maw of the wolf started to move upwards again to their location, his wings are flapping at an irrgular pace like dragging something up, his Melting sword slashed to the right.
Rica sensing everything he did with her Mana sense, she learned from Kim Yong and Edward indirectly, she blocked his melting sword with the spear of water, her arrows of air struck his wings trying to disturb whatever he is trying to do with that huge maw of the wolf.
Everything she did to no avail as he simply started to attack her faster with his melting sword in his right hand, using an art of the sword saints recovered records.
[Sword series: Vanishing feint swords]
His melting sword vanished from the right side and appeared above her slashing downwards, Rica not expecting something like that and got multiple cuts on her body, not able to distance herself with the barrage of attacks hitting her.
Kingfisher, Rica her water spirit tried to block the slashes with water droplets around Rica detecting where they would come from, that turned also out to be useless, that art was like an unstoppable force.
"Give me your body for a second"
"Wha-"
"Shut up and give me your body for a second"
Panda feeling a bit guilty and wanting to fight this new awakened warrior spirit in him, ordered Rica to let him control her body for a bit while still maintaing her connections to the two spirits.
Rica now in a critical situation where she can't run away furthermore is accumulating injuries decided to give him control for a bit.
Her eyes changed from her emerald to jet black as a grin plastered her face, at the same moment Lu Gao realised that something is wrong with her and wanted to step back but a water spear hit his chest in a breakneck speed.
^Boom^ ^Crack^
The barrier simply cracked from his mana alone colliding with it, Lu Gao didn't had any time to reorganise his thoughts, as multiple water spears that look a bit darker than usual rain down on him.
'What the hell happened to her?'
He didn't feel her in control anymore but something radiating light and also consuming darkness, it is weird for him as even his sword souls of old masters bowed down to him.
Lu Gao his armor showed a large dent and cracks spreading across the entire armor, thinking how horrifying that blow would be if he didn't have that armor.
an orange hue snake followed Lu Gao his tracks, blocking some of the water spears while tanking some of them, his two swords are glowing in charcoal and scarlet hue fusing with his orange hue.
The wolf maw shoot up detached of the ground now, 'Rica' sensed that and is throwing a spear of Ice at it, Lu Gao used that chance and flapped his wings, shooting himself like a bullet up to 'Rica'.
A huge sword out of pure Mana with an orange hue appeared infront of him, he is grabbing the sword on its hilt furthermore channeling mana into it, arriving in front of 'Rica'.
A spear of Ice simply appeared in her hands freezing the air around her, she thrust that spear at Lu Gao who swing the sword of mana at her.
^BOOM^
The second explosion tearing the normal barrier in pieces, causing the second barrier to be created as well as the crowds of people watching it from the arena to protect their eardrums from exploding.
Lu Gao lost that clash and is kneeling on the ground struggling to stand up, in the sky has Rica trouble breathing as Panda again overdone it, consuming most of her mana in the process of it.
Rica right now can mainly keep her spirit fusion up because her water spirit gave her his mana before she unsummoned him.
"Sorry I got a bit carried away by this warrior and I also showed you how to use that gauntlet more effectively."
Panda said disappearing in his domain again, Rica couldn't comprehend why she got such a hot headed spirit as her strongest one.
Lu Gao has enough Mana to continue but not at a rate like before as his swords gave him all their mana to continue fight her, therefore he can't conjure so much Magma or conjure an armor around him.
They both knew that one clash is all they could still muster to finish this fight fast and don't delay the decision any longer, both took their stance.
Lu Gao used a new movement he learn from the Sword Saints records, sheathing his sword and channeling all his Mana in his swords and legs, the mana around his swords flowing like water filling up a glass of water.
Rica summoned an huge arrow out of air as well as a bow out of mana, circles with different symbols in them that look like runes appeared in front moreover on the bow, creating a storm of mana around that bow.
[Sword series: Quick attack]
[Archmage 1st circle: Runes of enhancement increased Stigma: Bow Creation performance by 50%]
The arrow gained more power as the mana storm around it grew, creating lightning and thunder around it furthermore gusts of wind got even stronger and swept through the entire arena.
Lu Gao stood still not minding her as his Mana reached the perfect state around his swords, wrapping around them like steel as well as the mana becoming denser not moving an inch away from his swords.
The arrow and Lu Gao collided leaving afterimages behind.
^BOOM^
Green hue and Orange hue mana collided leaving nothing but a blinding light and an explosion echoing through the arena.
Elena Isa her Ice bubble are wrapped around Rica who is knocked out and Lu Gao who is knocked out furthermore around their colliding attacks.
Both particpants are knocked out before the viewers could see who had won.
Elena Isa looking around the arena, coughed a bit louder to get everyones attention and then pushed the Ice bubble where Rica is laying in up for everyone to see.
"The winner of this duel is Rica Blossamfield due to being knocked out 0.3 seconds later then Lu Gao!"
"WHOOOOAAAAA!!!"
everyone cheered and the question which profession is better was thrown out of the window, as the congratulated Rica for advancing in the quarterfinals.
"So everyone already showed all of their hidden powers or sealed powers"
Kim Yong mumbled after seeing all the fights with a smile on his face, knowing their chances drastical increase to beat the demon Gods and Monster Gods army.