Axel and Petra watched the fight from the medical wing, looking through the glass as they sat on their own chairs.
"At least Jesse was able to find out about the poison." Said Axel, trying to lighten the mood. "Maybe now he could have a chance at winning."
Petra just shook her head. "But now that Jeimass lost the element of surprise, she's just going all out now."
"Have a little faith, Petra." Said Axel, giving her a mild glare. "Now's not the time to be negative."
She let out a sigh. "I'm just a bit disappointed."
"It's nothing." Said Axel. "It's okay that you lost-"
"I'm not talking about that!" shouted Petra, causing losing competitors to send a glance their way. "I'm talking about how Olivia totally bailed on us!"
Axel wanted to argue. He wanted to yell, defend his soon-to-be wife, and prove Petra wrong... but she's right. Olivia just ran away, and hid inside a dome while they were fighting.
What could she be doing in there?
"Never mind about her." Said a frustrated Petra, dropping the subject. "Let's just hope Jesse can win this."
"Still," said Axel, looking at his friend's new, secret power. "I can't believe he hid something like that from us."
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She felt a blunt object crash into her face as she was sent flying. She oriented herself and gracefully landed on her feet, her head down, eyes full of pain before she shrugged it off.
Jeimass felt worse before. Much, worse. So it didn't matter that the vision in her right eye became blurry, or that there was blood dripping from her mouth and staining the bandages wrapped around the bottom of her face.
She looked at Jesse to see something different.
[Jesse] Level 250
Class: Elementalist
Other than his Class changing from Wizard to Elementalist, the two large orbs of liquid metal that's hovering near Jesse is the only thing worth noticing.
"Metal manipulation... of course," Observed Jeimass, although the last part was said through a frustrated sigh. "All metals are originally ores in the ground, so in theory, anyone with a high enough earth affinity can control metals."
"Well, I wouldn't say control per say." Said Jesse, acknowledging her statement. "I'm still an amateur at this. It's hard to move the tiniest traits of earth in the metal, not to mention keeping it in a liquid state."
"And yet you managed to this." she gestured to her face, more blood oozing from the impact. She made a small opening on the bandages on her face.
Jesse was curious to see what she would do, only to be disturbed when she spit out a cracked tooth. It bounced in his direction as everyone watched in silence, stopping just in front of him as blood pooled under it.
He then looked back at his opponent, who is unfazed by what just happened as she rewrapped the bloody bandages on her face. But her eyes told a different story, and her mouth narrated it. "I guess I better start taking this seriously." She said in a monotone voice, but it was easy to hear. "I thought you would've gone down by now. Although, I can't really be surprise of this outcome."
"Yeah, well, I'm pretty tough to beat." Jesse replied, standing his ground and trying not to make the pain even worse.
Jeimass raised an eyebrow. "Who said I was talking about you?" she said, much to his surprise. "I was talking about the coward inside the dome."
"Olivia?" asked Jesse before he got upset. "Hey, she is my friend! She's not a coward, and she's strong."
"Oh please." Jeimass scoffed. "Without her redstone contraptions, she's just a regular person. If I was you, I would have told the blunt truth of her limits."
"What kind of friend does that?!" screamed Jesse, wincing at the pain that coursed through his body.
"A good one." His opponent lectured. "Because if you don't, then you're simply inflating her ego. What will happen when she relies on her redstone, and losses it all when none of her contraptions work?"
"We'll be there to support her," Jesse said firmly. "That's what friends do."
"Then she'll die delusional." Jeimass replied coldly before throwing two more chests onto the ground as its contents spilling onto the sand.
Jesse watched with wide eyes as more golem parts sprawled onto the ground. He looked at Jeimass to see her cold, green eyes. "I craft my own puppets. Did you really think I wouldn't bring spare parts?"
"You're going to make more puppets?" asked a nervous Jesse, preparing himself for another fight.
"Technically, I'm only making one." Said Jeimass, but she wasn't talking about another golem.
Jesse compress one of his metal orbs, and launched it at Jeimass, trying to stop her, only for the earth guardian to intercept the attack by blocking it with its shield made out of compressed sand.
But what Jeimass didn't expect, was the spikes that protruded out from the ball of liquid metal, piercing through the shield and the earth guardian.
Before Jesse could do anything, a massive gust of wind lifted him up from the ground and a an even greater gale slammed him back down.
Losing focus, Jesse lost his control on the liquid metal. The earth guardian ripped the metal chunk out of itself before throwing it at Jesse.
It didn't help that the air guardian blasted a wave of air, increasing the projectile's speed. Jesse lifted his right arm at the incoming metal, and made it spit down the middle as both halves harmlessly passed him.
'That was too close.' He thought. He quickly got up and sent his other orb of metal at Jeimass, only for it to be blocked a spiraling mass of air that protected Jeimass.
"Trying to prevent me from assembling another puppet," she said. "smart... and yet so stupid."
CRUNCH!
The earth guardian's fist spring out of the ground, punching him square in the face as he was sent flying back as it willed it's separated limb to reattach itself.
Now she has some time. She willed her elemental guardians to turn back into their orb forms as she now has a green sphere in one hand, and a yellow in the other.
She pressed both of them together, infusing them with Mana as she willed for them to manifest. When Jesse recovered from Jeimass' attack, he looked to see that there was only one elemental guardian.
It was... loose. It's pale, crumbling skin was falling off itself, but the crumbs automatically added themselves back to the original.
He stared at its brown eyes as it gently moved its fragile limbs, looking at the carvings around the green and yellow orb in its chest.
But before he could Scribe it, the creature sank into the ground as if the sand was water. He then saw Jeimass attach her Mana threads to the sand.
...
...
Nothing?
Jesse looked around at the lack of... anything! Nothing happened! Jesse wasted no time, he's ending this.
He gathered all of his liquid metal into one giant ball before splitting them into dozens of spears. With a push of his hands, the weapons arched and flew at different angles, but ultimately will hit Jeimass.
Jeimass simply squeezed her left hand...
FOOSH!
A wall of sand erected, ten blocks thick, wide as the battlefield, as it easily blocked the sand projectiles while it casted a shadow over a stunned Jesse.
Jeimass pushed her left hand forward...
The wall of sand slid across the ground as if it was a slick ice, rushing at Jesse at alarming speeds as he felt the ground vibrate. He quickly pulled his metal out of the incoming wall of sand, and made it wrap around himself to lift him high above the towering wall.
Jeimass lifted her right arm up...
But then he noticed something. All of the golem parts that were scattered are gone. He didn't have to search long, they were emerging out of the wall of sand!
Jeimass flexed all of her fingers...
Heads, arms, legs, torsos, and everything else opened as a green gas poured out and catching Jesse by surprise. 'I got to hold my breath,' thought Jesse, covering his mouth as the gas surrounded him. 'It's too late to shield myself with my metal, and if this stuff is poisonous, she'll instantly have the advantage!'
Jeimass spread her arms open...
Jesse saw all of the golem parts start to clamp shut, in groups at a time and stopping the spread of gas as it continued to linger.
... and then clapped her hands together.
But he realized too late as one the golem's heads closed itself as it made a tiny spark...
FWOOSH!
The gas ignited.
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Gill was panicking, big time!
After everything they did, after so much fighting, after being discrete as possible, that girl Jeimass is going to ruin it all!
Not only will they won't be able to get Jennifer back, Aiden will still be in prison!
Gill will actually have to fight this girl if Jesse loses...
"How is she this strong?" asked a panicked Gill, asking no one in particular as he looked through the monocle. Trying to get any information out of Jeimass or her puppet.
[Jeimass] Level 100
Class: Puppet Master
Seriously?! He still can't get any more than her name! Then there is her puppet: the sand guardian.
[Sand Guardian] Level 300
A sub-element that has been manifested into physical form as a combination of earth and wind affinities. Like any elemental guardian, it can control the element it represents.
Helpful, but if Gill was being honest, it just made him more afraid.
Since the sand guardian merged itself with the ground, Jeimass can control the entire battlefield! Who's idea was it to make the entire thing made out of sand?!
Not to mention the golem parts... how is she activating them if she's not connecting her Mana threads to them?
Simply put, Jeimass is using her sand guardian to control the scattered golem parts that were swept up with the sand. The guardian is activating the hidden mechanisms by spreading the tiniest bits of sand inside to trigger it.
Of course, controlling that many parts, and an elemental guardian, should be impossible.
But that's not the case here. Jeimass is simply skilled; passionate even.
And that was the very reason Jesse was going to lose.
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Jesse heard his ears ringing, his vision blurry, as the audience gasped and panicked from feeling the large explosion. He only felt his body became filled with even more pain as he passed out, not even caring about his flaming body about to crash into the ground.
As he was falling, right before impact, a large hand made out of sand gently caught him and carefully wrapped around him; snuffing out his flaming body.
The hand unfolded and carefully brought Jesse to Jeimass, who pulled out a Potion of Healing and poured it all over his injured body, and the rest in his mouth before she had her sand guardian lowered his unconscious body to the ground.
"Hey announcer guy," she shouted. "I think he's done! Get him to the medical wing!"
At that moment, the man in question teleported in along with some other medical staff. They carefully levitated Jesse's body and rushed him to the medical wing.
But everyone watching, from the audience, to Petra and Axel, to Gill, and to even the Templars, was confused at the mercy she gave her opponent.
It was just... unexpected, considering Jesse gave her a black eye on her right eye from the metal fist, and how Jeimass killed his teammates earlier.
Jeimass turned her attention to the dome Olivia built around herself as its red lights flashed as it started to unfold.
WHOOSH!
Hot steam was rushing out as Olivia was finally done. Jeimass shielded her eyes from the rushing steam as three giant silhouettes could be seen as their red eyes glowed. And Olivia herself walked out of the dome.
But something was different about her as Gill used the monocle once again.
[Olivia] Level 200
Class: Golem Tinkerer
A/N: To be continued!
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