Alan POV
I finally fix my eyes on Jaden Silva, the feeling of death and losing control of my thoughts overcome my mind.
"Bleurgh"
I vomited all the acid and food over the ground. My mind repeating the near-death experience over and over and over again.
The smile on this old man face feels like a bad omen, the ice below us melting into water, proving the bad omen to be true.
"You all should work together and help him, now that you understand what you need to work on"
His smile turns into a grin, his hand in the air indicating he isn't doing anything.
"Oh, and don't worry... we have a lot of time, exactly 240 hours for the first time, or 10 days"
I plunge in the infinite water, not knowing where to move... I am slowly drowning in a training session.
"Pfft"
I... survived, but I couldn't rest. Countless Soldiers out of ice swarmed me, blocking any path to escape, as well as overwhelming me with the attacks.
The Blood-red fire burst out of my body. Usurper arrives in my hand, vibrating from the thrill of me using him... well, is what I thought it wanted to transmit.
The Ice soldiers jumped back, unknown to me why. The Ice starts to melt around me, giving me a comfortable feeling that I will survive this practice lesson alone.
^crack^ ^boom^
... Of course not, My fire froze and shattered in innumerable pieces. The Ice soldiers dashing towards me with a goal in their mind... if they have one.
I swung Usurper in a horizontal line to the right, fire shoots out of the sword in a crescent slash.
'This should give me time to think-'
^drip^ ^drip^
A coldness travelled through my body, leaving me numb. The pain emerging in my left side, but the freezing temperature numbs my entire left side, leaving me clueless where exactly the weapon is in my body.
'Holy Moly, that hurts like hell'
Through my Bloodline and even more through the genes, I dislike cold environments... Except my rebirth happens in some Ice chamber. The weapon who pierced my left side spreads the freezing temperature in my body... which is for humans like lava flowing through their veins.
The heat of my blood and the freezing temperature of the weapon are clashing in my body, causing even more pain to travel through my body.
'Who the hell is my teammate?'
I desperately hoped my teammate sees me and has the power to push these soldiers away.
^Boom^
Soldiers... or parts of them, are flying through the sky. The soldiers' attention drifted from me to the person eradicating them. Rushing towards her with all their speed...
^crack^ ^crack^ ^crack^
The breaking of the soldiers got louder and louder. The heat in my body slowly dispersing the freezing weapon out of my one lung part.
"You are... Alan right?"
A beauty with red eyes like rubies, red hair like fire, and her exquisite silver battle suit... out of nano metals. She has a beautiful crown out of fine crystals on her head, some kind of white metals make her a body armour with some kind of liquid flowing through the small spaces, on her shoulders and knee caps and elbows are cyan protectors... or some kind of liquid diamonds.
"Hello?"
The cool mana surrounding her feels refreshing... even for me, a phoenix. Her petite body adds to the charm that the armour tries to hide... her body is literally perfect, similar to Ben.
"Hello... Alan?"
^slap^
... she slapped me, causing my cheek to get a bit red. I forgot that I made the Ice witch someone equal to Ben in looks and strength... except that Ben is stronger because of his cosmic energy and race by default.
"Oh… yeah I am Alan"
Snapping out of my daze, I realized she put all the cold energy out of my body. The Ice soldiers are starting to multiply, furthermore is a creature stronger than all of these soldiers appearing to my left.
"Welcome back princess..."
He stopped talking after he sees me near her, the hatred in his eyes couldn't be hid.
"And I greet you, friend of the princess... who is useless"
The last part did he mutter beneath his breath, but, I heard every word.
"You can't even see me, so how are you worthy to be her friend"
I activated my phoenix eyes and pierce through the ice storm next to me. A man with pale skin, blue lips, black eyes, and white hair emerged in my vision. He has butler clothes on his body, the skin so pale he could be a corpse since his birth.
"Interesting... A phoenix, the beings who control the fire mana as well as fire from various affinities like their own... challenging the authority of the dragons"
He vanished, leaving a small trace of mana behind. My body reacts to the threat, without me realizing, swinging Usurper to the right, moreover, coating Usurper in the blood-red fire like mana blades or body enhancements.
^clang^ ^Boom^
The mist of the broadsword and my blood-red fire on my Usurper clashed, fighting to gain the upper hand. My eyes and his meet each other, his astonishment is clearly visible on his face.
Ice shards, as big as spears, hit him at his side. He simply smiled while pushing his sword more down... Giving me immense trouble to stand.
'He is strong!'
I can barely keep my posture and keep it a stalemate, his smile turns wider to something inhumane.
"Interesting... you all don't work like a team... or else you would have beat me already with all these restrictions on me"
'Restrictions?'
My brain and phoenix eyes searched together for answers, finding them faster than I thought. The man in front of me is D- or D rank and level 2... weaker than me, who is D rank and level 3.
'Then why is he so much stronger than me?'
Just as I had this thought, ice spears stronger than a D- Rank like me could muster... slam in the man again. The man is forced to move his broadsword to block them, his inhumane smile or whatever this is moves to Hela.
"You two have a lot of time with me to train your teamwork... so don't act hastily and try to understand your partner's next move"
Without any noise, he faded out of existence and my body slams in the ground.
"It is more important to help him than to understand my next move and move according to that. You guys are a team, so use this to your advantage"
I rolled to the right, a foot cracked the ice where my head was a second ago. I conjured a spear and stab towards the man in his side.
^clang^
"Such a sloppy attack would never work on someone who has experience on the battlefield"
^Swoosh^ ^Crack^ ^Crack^
Two Huge boulders crashed down onto the man, he simply waited for them and punched both of them to multiple pieces in his first try.
"Princess, cooperate with him more. He has the perfect affinity to kill me, yet he also has the best affinity to hinder your movements."
He wasn't finished but needed to stop, as I summoned some weapons to stall for a bit of time for both of us... But he swung his sword once and everything is frozen and shattered on the ground.
"Interesting, This chick phoenix is the deciding factor to win against me or lose against me without any hope"
I used my ability from my past life and saw an injury from one of my spears... at the side of Hela in her armour.
The shock must be visible on my face, I made sure to know her location before I unleashed this attack... but it hit her, how.
"I used my Mist to hide her presence and create a fake presence that is equal to her if you don't know your partner for a long time"
I am flabbergasted, he planned my moves and used us knowing each other not long as an advantage. He used my careless checking for her presence as an advantage... He used her pride as an advantage. Not only that, but he used my personality as an advantage... it is horrifying how he used me like a puppet.
"I think we have the entire ten days here to make you a duo that works a bit together"
My instincts screamed to work together and beat this monster... my phoenix instinct, that was always prideful, screams to work together with the Ice witch.
"Alan, we need to at least understand each other to defeat him... so please have some kind of plan how we could work together"
'How should I have a plan? Kim Yong or Rica took care of the thinking of strategies!'
She simply waited for my answer, shooting eight boulders at him. The atmosphere grew tense, as I opened my mouth to give her an answer.
"Eh... I have no clue how"
If eyes could kill... I would have already died a million times.