(Amber vs Aurora)
A block of ice violently rose from the ground, blocking some of the fire for long enough for Aurora to use it as a ramp to jump over the wave of fire before it shattered under the continued assault.
The airborn Dragon opened her wings wide before launching upward, cold trailing behind her before it formed into a cold mist that fell down into long sharp branches that fell upon Amber.
This last one didn't hesitate, releasing a burst of flames to dodge most of the branches, cutting the remaining ones while sending back her own flames in response.
Amber was very thankful she accepted the training of her Innate Skill "Energy Siphon" with Luna as it Ranking Up would increase not only the amount of Energy Absorbed but also the methods she had available to Absorb Energy with.
At E-Rank, in order of Efficiency of the Absorption, three ways are present, from sexual fluids to saliva to blood; At D-Rank, with the same order, the ways are from sexual fluids, saliva, blood and, finally, contact between naked skin or equivalents; At C-Rank, her own hard-earned Rank, the ways would be from sexual fluids, saliva, blood, naked contact to the most important for her way of fighting, Energy could be drained from the direct effect of other Skills.
Normally this would allow a Demon of Lust to drain Energy from everyone under the effects of either "Charming Gaze" or "Charming Presence", but in her case she was able to use the Skill through the flames generated by her "Pyrokinesis" Innate Skill, increasing significantly her combat prowess.
More Energy was accumulated around Amber in the forms of violent flames before they condensed into a dense cloak surrounding her, ready to be unleashed at any moment.
Aurora fell down in a dive, transparent ice forming before her in a mix of armor and spearhead to increase the power of the attack.
Immediately the Demon-blooded one sent forward a wave of fire while jumping away from there, her mantle flaring slightly with the incoming rush of Vital Energy and Mana, starting to slowly mix them together into Vital Mana taking advantage of the immense quantity of Energy she was constantly Absorbing from her enemy to keep herself full while, even if inefficiently, starting to store the fused Energy deep within for the future.
Meanwhile, in the present, she unleashed her "Pyrokinesis" Skill in full to generate flames that she then used her "Blaze Forging" to make into Arrows; Arrows that were strengthened, similarly to the Skill "Mana Forging" Luna previously possessed, depending exclusively on the heat of the flame involved in this process.
The result was an increase of the power of her constructs as demostrated by the fact her Arrows were still able to pierce and shatter the vastly sturdier ice that rose from the point of impact between the diving True Dragon and the ground.
As a conseguence, the explosion released by the Arrows were able to shatter the ice spikes that started to rapidly grow from the ground around Aurora.
This last one opened her mouth, a flash of Cold Mana being released in an instant showing the difference between a True Dragon's "Elemental Roar" and a lesser Draconic Species like the Dragonoids for example, People that worshiped True Dragons until they changed, "Breath Attack", without considering its power alone is the ability to change its characteristics at will.
As such the wave of Cold was almost instantaneous, barely giving Amber enough time to release a wave of fire to mitigate the incoming Damage.
Aurora admired the result of her attack, a frozen iceberg containing a frozen Amber, still in a defensive pose.
However she did not let down her guard and as such was not surprised when the blonde broke out of the ice in a blaze of glory, some small ice spikes shortly imbeded in her body before they q uickly sublimated even with Aurora's Resistance Skills.
"How scary, tell me how did you become so strong without Ranking Up?" This question may have seemed to be honest or impressed but the truth was quite different.
This question was simply and directly made to mock and deride the other, knowing full well that this progress would not be natural to the other, especially without the Awakening of a Unique Skill.
The area around the Ice-Related one rapidly cooled in temperature, rime and ice spreading to cover an ever-increasing zone, her "Soul Sight" carefully monitoring the other's Soul for any threatening movements.
Amber merely smiled, her eyes almost literally shining with desire to kill, before the flames around her condensed into a single point that started to float high in the sky, a version of the "Spell" she Casted in their second-to-last fight improved thanks to both Luna's support and research made from the old Vampire.
"You are wrong, it's all thanks to my own efforts guided by my Luna."
She was refering to the fact Luna forced her to operate on the same timescale as Humans, thing quite different than her own original sense of time, that allowed her to train harder than ever before.
As such, her new Spell was vastly greater in both Efficiency and Potency, adding in influence from her demonic side to further magnify the destructive Potency of all Fire-Related Events.
"[Hellish Sun]!"
Light, warm and golden and purple, glowed upon the zone, the ice's spread slowing significantly.
Before the two could continue their final battle, they were interrupted.
The two immediately looked to the True Dragon's former mountain to see a terrifying spectacle.
Luna's Aura that formed a cage to entrap all of the blue-haired one's Hoard expanded to cover the entirety of the upper half before becoming a black so deep that it looked like an hole in the World.
This lasted less than ten milliseconds as Luna failed to properly Control this Spell?
It raged, passing from none to all colors and light, becoming a storm of destruction that annihilated the entire mountain in a single instant, producing a strong enough shockwave that it reached even the two of them, various trees and the ground in the way shattering into dust because of the force.
In response the ice suddently concentrated, forming a wall vaguely in the shape of a dome before her while lowering down to the ground, her Armor thickening around her as she flared her Mana to protect herself.
Meanwhile Amber jumped away from the… explosion, her wings opening wide as instead of fighting it, she flowed with the wind, being able to outlast it with no particular use of Vital Energy or Mana while Aurora was forced to spend a considerable amount of Energy to stand the wave of force unharmed.
As the red-eyed one rose from the ground, the orange-eyed one interposed herself between her enemy and her lover, having no problem in believing the other would win.
Even then, the True Dragon's eyes were concentrated beyond her, admiring and desiring the Soul shining brightly in the distance ever more as it changed, shattering her chains and becoming ever closer to shattering the Wall before her.
Even so both of them were surprised that the mountain was indeed destroyed.
Some may wonder about this surprise but the truth was that this World, Gaea, was overlapping with the five Elemental Planes in various places, one of which was everywhere enough of an element appeared like for example a mountain overlapped enough with the Elemental Plane of Earth to passively increase its sturdiness and defensive ability in general the bigger the source of the connection with it being further enhanced by Aurora's Mana naturally bleeding into the cave.
The two concentrated fully on the battle between them, exchanging blow after blow until three whole minutes later, the area around them left barren and destroyed completely by their clashes, the Aura around Aurora changed, solidifying into a more active one without a need for Mana, causing Amber to click her tongue while fully manifesting her own Aura.
The True Dragon had gained the Innate Skill "Unleash Aura" by observing both the way the Phoenix fought and the massive attack Luna previously used from a distance.
(Luna vs Aurora's Hoard)
A little before, the being that will soon become a full-fletched Lunarian was in quite a bit of a spot.
While Frozen Corpses did possess the "Coordination" Skill naturally, they were naturally even less intelligent than normal Ghouls but the Dragonoids were all People and now they decided to put aside their constant conflict to be their idol's favorite in exchange to subdue their idol's target.
As such Luna found herself in quite a bit of trouble as they were starting to roughly copy the way she used her Aura with their own Mana.
She nodded to herself before trying something for the first time, activating for the second time of this life [Annihilating Conversion], manually and forcibly spreading it's effect not in a small sphere around her but instead to the entirety of her Aura.
However she wasn't able to control it, everything without a Soul in the range was simply turned into Energy that ran rampant, destroying the entire mountain.
*Luna Gains 7 Magicules times 7.
*Luna Gains 100 + 7 Magicules times 3.
*Luna's Innate Skill "Authority: Vital Mana" D Expands because of the Growth Skill "Devouring Evolution".
*Luna's Ability Skill "Artifact Proficiency" E Rank-Up.
*Vision Gains the Skill "Soul Sight" E.
*Core Gains the Skills "Draconic Affinity" E and "Elemental Manifestation" E.
Luna stretched, her eyes focusing on the four survivors of her latest mistake, the four C-Ranked Dragonoids, while calculating where precisely she went wrong as she breathed deeply, the time until Gaea would be able to Dispell her first lowered and then elongated to around three and a half months.
Various different Spells were immediately Casted at her from two of them while the other's immediately jumped at her, clad in an approximation of her own Aura.