Runebelle watched the healing shot soar through the air. Her heart pounded in her chest as she desperately tries to will the shot to reach Risebelle in time.

  “Please, please let it reach her in time,” Runebelle pleaded silently, her heart pounding with ay. “I ’t lose her. I ’t let Aliana end her like this...”

  The shot sped through the air, closing the gap between them, but Aliana’s bde desded with arming speed. Time seemed to slow as Runebelle watched in agonizing suspense, her eyes locked on the impending csh between the healing shot and Aliana’s attack. It looked like her shot was not going to make it in time. Risebelle was going to be destroyed.

  “Please, please, please,” Runebelle whispered.

  “PLEAAASE!!!!!!!”

  In the critical moment when all seemed lost, a powerful bolt of lightning arced through the air, colliding with Aliana’s desding bde. The impact sent sparks flying in every dire, and the force of the collision caused Aliana to stagger back, her attack disrupted.

  Runebelle’s heart soared with hope as she realized that someone had interveo save her sister. She turned her gaze toward the source of the lightning, and there, standing before them, was Roselle.

  Roselle stood tall, her golden hair flowing like a radiant halo, and a smile grag her lips. “I am here,” she nods, but her gaze shifted upwards as she felt the top of her head “But I think I’ve lost my hat along the way. I hope Dr. Kintovar won’t be too upset about that...”

  Runebelle’s healing shot reached Risebelle, a surge of revitalizing energy coursed through her body. The sensation was like a lifeline, pulling her back from the brink of destru. Risebelle gasped, her eyes widening in astonishment as her systems surged back to 28%.

  “I’m... alive,” Risebelle mao utter. The sensation of renewed life surged through her.

  Runebelle, her normally sad look broke into one of relief and joy. She couldn’t help but smile, even if it was only a faint one.

  “You’re alive!” Runebelle excimed. “I thought I had lost you, but your vitals showed you still had atleast 3% left. I had to take the ce.”

  Risebelle’s astonishment filled her eyes as she gazed at Runebelle. “You... took the ce,” she repeated, “You saved me, Runebelle. I thought it was over...”

  Runebelle nodded “I couldn’t let you go like that. We’re sisters now, aren’t we? That means we have to take care of each other.”

  Risebelle’s rare smile lit up her features as she looked at Runebelle. “You and Roselle truly are different,” she admitted with newfound warmth. “I ’t believe how much you’re both ging me...”

  Meanwhile, Aliana approached, her icy demeanor on full dispy as she couldn’t hide her frustration.

  “Who is this?” she questioned with disdain.

  Roselle, standing resolute, introduced herself, “I am Roselle, and I’ve e to put ao you. What you’ve done here is unfivable.”

  Aliana’s icy gaze bore into Roselle as she retorted, “Unfivable, you say? ing from creations like you, those words hold . You know nothing of the world, of power, of ambition. You exist solely because of the whims of a mad stist.”

  Aliana’s icy gaze remained fixed on Roselle as she begins a relentless assault. She unleashes a barrage of sword swings from her bde.

  “You think you stand against me?” Aliana taunted, “You, a creation born of a mad stist’s whims, dare to challenge my power?”

  Roselle raised her massive on to block Aliana’s swings. She didn’t falter in the face of her.

  Aliana’s smile grew wider, her tone increasingly unhinged. “You’re nothing but experiments, pythings of a deranged mind! You think you defeat me? You’re even more foolish than that idiotic doctor!”

  Roselle’s grip on her on remained firm, and she responded , “We may have beeed, but we are more than just experiments. Maybe that’s something you people at the magic academy just ’t uand.”

  Roselle cshes with Aliana,her Massive on against Aliana’s bde and it sent sparks flying in every dire, the sheer force of their collision echoed through the battlefield. Despite Aliana’s relentless assault, Roselle remaieadfast.

  With a powerful heave, Roselle mao break the lock between their ons, and she immediately followed it with a cle on-shot aimed directly at Aliana. The ancer, her agility and reflexes tested, barely mao evade the devastating bst. The ground shook as the bst struck the earth, leaving a smoking crater in its wake.

  Aliana’s face torted with anger and frustration “You’re more of a threat than I expected,” she hissed, “But it won’t be enough to save you!”

  Aliana leaped backward and began to form a deadly arc of ice spikes with her sword. The air around her bursts with the raw power of her magic as the spikes multiplied, surrounding her in a deadly formation.

  With focus, Aliana uhe barrage of ice spikes at Roselle. Roselle, in turn, tried to maneuver her massive on to intercept the ining projectiles. However, the close tact with Aliana’s sword, Tengoku, was taking its toll. The freezing aura emanating from the bde was beginning to encase Roselle’s on in ice, rendering it less effective by the moment. Roselle gritted her teeth as she struggled to maintain trol over her on. The ice spikes were closing in fast, and her on’s movements were growing sluggish.

  As the ice spikes closed in on her, Roselle made a split-sed decision. She dropped her massive on, which was now encased in ice, and focused all her energy oing a sphere of lightning energy around her body. The crag lightning arced and danced around her, f a protective barrier.

  ‘I’ve tempted anything like this before,’ she thought, ‘But...’

  Roselle extended her lightning sphere into four distinct parts, eae aimed at trolling some of the ice spikes.The lightniensions shot out toward the ining ice spikes, colliding with them in a brilliant dispy of elemental power. Roselle gritted her teeth as she focused on redireg the spikes away from her, using her trol htning to ter the freezing magic of Aliana.

  Roselle brought the crag lightning sphere closer to Aliana. The ancer’s eyes widened with surprise. She khat she had to react quickly, and with a swift motion, she jured a barrier of ice around herself. The lightning sphere collided with the icy shield, creating a dazzling dispy of sparks and frozen energy.

  Aliana could feel immense pressure from the lightning sphere pushing against her defenses. She gritted her teeth, struggling to maintain the barrier as the energy crackled and surged, threatening to breach her defenses.

  Roselle, determio break through Aliana’s defenses, poured more energy into the lightning sphere, intensifying the assault. The crag lightning and the freezing ice cshed in a bright dispy of power.

  The overwhelming force of Roselle’s lightning sphere proved too much for Aliana’s defenses. With a deafening crack, the sphere pierced through the ancer’s icy barrier, and a surge of electriergy engulfed her. Aliana’s scream of agony echoed through the battlefield as she was sent hurtling backward, her body wracked with pain.

  She crashed into the ground some distance away, the impact sending a spray of dirt and debris into the air. Aliana y on the ground, panting heavily, her body twitg from the residual effects of the lightning strike.

  Roselle, her golden hair shimmering like a radiant , gazed down at Aliana with an intense gre. Her usual demeanor had been repced by ferosity and her eyes bzed with anger.

  Roselle gred at Aliana and decred “It’s over.” while pg her on her bad thrusting her hands downwards.

  Aliana, her body battered and bruised from the lightning strike, slowly pushed herself up from the ground. Her breaths came in ragged gasps, and her icy aura flickered erratically. She gazed at Roselle with a defiant gre.

  “It’s not over,” Aliana hissed . “You think that was the extent of my power? Up until now, you’ve only seen up to Sword Magic Level 3. I didn’t think you foolish creations would give me so much trouble...”

  Roselle’s serious look suddenly shifted into one of genuine fusion. She bli Aliana, then titled her head slighty, and asked,

  “Sword Magic? What’s that? Is it like a fancy trick with a sword?”

  Aliana’s jaw dropped at their ck of knowledge , but it quickly gave way to a sly smile. She nodded in agreement. “Sure, you call it a fancy trick with a sword if you want.”

  With a flick of her hand, Aliana’s bde, Kori Tengoku, began to emit an even more intense icy aura. Her smile widened, and her eyes gleamed with a hint of madness as she decred, “But let me show you the true power of Sword Magic. This is the final form: Swod Form.”

  Aliana’s presence seemed to shift, being even more imposing and overwhelming. She raised her sword high, and an aura of unparalleled power enveloped her. The very air around her seemed to freeze, and her bde crackled with iergy.

  Aliana prepared to unleash the Swod Form. She raised her bde high and uttered the intation, “Swod Form: Tengoku, the Ice Heaven!”

  In that moment, a dramatic transformation unfolded. An otherworldly light enveloped her, and her figure was bathed in ahereal, icy radiance. Her once-blue hair turned a brilliant shade of shimmering silver, and her eyes gleamed with an otherworldly iy, now a striking ice-blue.

  Her armor, which had previously been a deep shade of azure, underwent a breathtakiamorphosis. It became a pristine, crystalline white, adorned with frost patterns that seemed to dance across its surface. Her sword, Tengoku, was no longer just a bde; it became the embodiment of the frozen heavens, now dripping with ice at a lowered temperature.

  Aliana’s very presence was transformed, radiating an aura of unparalleled power and majesty. She stood as if she were the embodiment of a celestial force, a living maion of id frost.

  Risebelle’s held a note of as she observed Aliana’s Swod Form. “It looks like a transformation,” she said with worry. “Roselle, be careful. This is the highest level of Sword Magid it seems like a formidable power. Don’t blink, at all.”

  Roselle focused on the warning from Risebelle, she khat fag Aliana in her Swod Form would be a daunting challenge. She remained vigint, but the speed of Aliana’s transformation took her by surprise. In an instant, the ancer appeared behind Roselle, and her bde cut across Roselle’s shoulders with lightning speed.

  Pain surged through Roselle’s body as she dropped to her knees. She gritted her teeth, refusing to cry out as her shoulders began to freeze from the impact.

  Her shoulders began to freeze rapidly, the icy aura of Aliana’s attack taking hold. Roselle’s golden hair dimmed, and her breaths came out in ragged gasps as she struggled to cope with the debilitating cold.

  Risebelle ched her fists, her for her sister evident in her eyes. She called out to Roselle, “Hold on, Roselle! You ’t give in to the cold!”

  Risebelle’s for her sister weighed heavily on her, but she khat her current ditioed her from directly intervening itle. Her ive magic reserves left her feeling helpless, and she was well aware of the dangers of pushing herself further.

  Runebelle, sensing her sister’s distress, stepped in to help. Her healing shots, although uo restore Risebelle’s magic, boosted her life force to 60%.

  Risebelle turo Runebelle.

  “Runebelle, I know you’re trying to protect me, but I ’t just stand by and watch Roselle get destroyed. you help her somehow?”

  Runebelle hesitated for a moment, but she ultimately nodded. “I... I’ll do my best, but I ’t leave you pletely unprotected in your dition, Risebelle. Yic reserves are still in the ives.”

  Risebelle shakes her head “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be fine. Just help Roselle. I’ll work on figuring out how to beat her.”

  With a silent nod, Runebelle turned her attention back to the battle, her primary foow on aiding Roselle.