Taking a deep breath, Alicia pupils grew thinner and more reptile like.
"So that what's that bastard did to you!"
Rin mused as an explosive burst of silver mana erupting from her body, and cracking the ground she stood on.
Opting for a much more casual fighting stance, she stomped her feets deep into the ground and spread her arms wide open.
"Think of this as you final battle, don't disappoint!"
Rights as she declared, an explosive shockwave erupted underneath Alicia as she kicked of the ground and propelled her body towards Rin.
As she neared Rin,she didn't attack but circled around the saint aiming for her blind spot.
Anticipation her intention Rin grinned and tensed her calf as a thick ice spike erupted from behind her and shot towards Alicia.
Choosing to retreat, the ice spike shot pass her head leaving a light cut that began to smear with blood but the grey haired girl completely immune to pain,shurrugged its off and circled all around Rin again, this time aiming for her streched burnt arm with an elbow strike.
Before her attack connected Rin, changed her stance pulling her arm back, the sudden shift in movement caused her to lose balance and almost fall but with the swiftness of a snake she maintained her balance and shot towards Alicia who was at her right.
With her left arm encased in ice and further reinforced by mana, she delivered a dazzling upcut towards Alicia chin sending the girl flying vertical upward.
"Is that all!" Rin furrowed watching as Alicia fell and bounced in and off the ground.
The impact of both her punch and fell ended up badly wounded her insides causing blood to spill out of her mouth and dyed her clothing and the ground red.
Compared to her condition Alicia expressions seemed unchanged as she calmly rose of the ground and retook her stance again.
Sensing a hint of confidence in the girl's now crisomon eyes Rin sighed," if you stalling for you team to wake up, then I will have to disappoint you."
Snapping her fingers, the unconscious Luacs and Ren where encased in a thick fragment of ice that covered their body like a shell.
Satisfied with her works she smirked and clenched her right fist against her palm.
" You team ult fucked me up a bit, so I wouldn't risk it!"
There was so much this constraints body of her's could survive.
Alicia finding her assessment convincing, decided to take a page out of Rin book and coat her fist in flames.
Unlike luacs she couldn't changed her fighting style at will but...
There was a way to keep her attacks completely unpredictable.
Activating her beast affinity and feeling bit and pieces of her consciousness and reasoning slip away, she dashed towards Rin, and delivered multiple claw strikes at her.
Martial arts except for sword fighting wasn't her forte and since she had currently abandoned her sword, she decided to switch for a more ferocious fighting styles.
Using her relatively sharp nails enfused with flames she slight bent her fingers and like a wild beast delivered multiple claw strikes at Rin.
With her agility, speed and strength now increased by her affinity, she clashed with the constraint saint on almost equal grounds.
At first she overpowered Rin, braking through her defense, tearing through her ice coating and even landing a few strike of her own.
Like a ferocious whirlwind, she moved with unpredictable steps but she neither dodged nor blocked, just ripping and tearing.
For a straightforward fighter like Rin, Alicia with her[Beast] affinity activated was her worst match.
Counterstrikes, feint and so much more she did just to prevent being overwhelmed by the beast know as Alicia.
"This should be impossible!" Rin mused, narrowimg avoiding a claw strike from the left.
Not matter how talented Alicia was she just couldn't fight her on equal foots.
She was constraint but her thousands of years of experience should have keep the girl from quickily bridging the gap.
"Is something more at play!"
As her mind raced to understand what was happening Alicia delivered another assault on her.
This time her reflex had acted much slower cauisng her to narrowly avoid her strike which tore through the side of her pants and ripped parts of its fabrics apart.
As the fabric came undone, an object she had starched in her pocket fell through the gaps on her fabric and fell to the ground.
"Of course!"
Observing the arrowhead dyed with her blood she excalmied.
During her confrontation with Lucas,Ren has launched an arrow that had pierced her back.
Back then she had shrugged the attack of and removed it but now looking back she should have realized the true intent of the strike then.
It hadn't been to harm her but weakned her.
"You shaved of parts of you life span to weaken me." She muttered throwing a short but meaningful glance at Ren encased in eyes.
That elf has a nasty relic, a relic so dangers even she wouldn't want to get on its bad side but if seems today wasn't her lucky day because she did just that.
His relic had many abilities but the most prominent was its ability to suck the blood,life force and mana of its users and anything it hit to increase its overall strength.
Originally a few blood lost or mana lost wouldn't have weakned her but coupled with the attack they had landed on her and the city, it was showing its effects.
"So that was you confidence." she excalmied as Alicia clawed through her chest ripping through her clothing and skin whiles burning her at that.
As the girl now more than a beast retracted it's claws a sense of dizzines washed over Rin.
"It feels strange....."
she unconsciously clenched her fist over her bloody chest and gives a soldem smile.
Alicia now completely lost any reasons, stored all the flames she could accumulate in her right fist and pulled it back.
Even as a beast without reasons her expression was unchanged as her right fist grew crimson and she thrusted it toward Rin who saddenly whispered,".....to be weak again!"
As those words left her mouth a crushing punch was implanted into her face, causing an earthshaking shockwave that flung Rin body away.
And just like that the fight had come to an end.
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"So she was defeated!"
On a beach in desloted island, an ancient beauty in celestial black garment with golden lining sat mediating on a giant piece of boulder as she whispered with a profound gaze.
Staring at the ripple of distance wave of the sea, she smile, then taking a hold of the canned beer beside her, she gulped it down with a satisfied expression.
"Ah..... nothing better than a can of beer to wash away the shame of defeat!"
With a delightful moan,she crashed the can in her hand and burnt it with a light crimson flames that ignited from within her palm.
Waving her hand light to disperse the ash her little combustion had caused, the ancient beauty, ranned her delicate snow white fingers through her long blueish-silver hair and gently tied it in a high ponytail behind her. Before carefully folding the pontail tail in a bun behind her head.
Holding the bun in place with her left hand, she crafted a ice long thin hairpine and carefully inserted it within her bun to hold it in place.
"The seed of identity has been planted.." she whispered as a rose with jet black petals manifest between her index and middle figure.
Examining the abnormal color of the rose, her golden eyes gleamed with curiosity.
".....but it seems I sprouted first!"