Elysia tinued her Inferno Waltz, fmes swirling around her in a mesmerizing dispy of power. With a swift and fluid motion, she directed the fiery vortex toward Risebelle and Roselle. The fmes roared to life, f into a trated fireball that shot towards them like a bzing et.

  Risebelle and Roselle sprang into a. While Roselle dove to the side, Risebelle made a daring move, darting forward, and closing the gap between her and Elysia. She aimed to get in close, but Elysia wasn’t about to let that happen without a fight.

  Elysia’s fiery eyes locked onto Risebelle’s approach, and she smirked fidently. “Don’t touch me!” she decred with arrogance.

  In an instant, Elysia unleashed a powerful wall of fire beh Risebelle’s feet. The fmes erupted, propelling Risebelle into the air with explosive force. She soared upward, her body engulfed in the searing bze.

  Risebelle fought to maintain her posure as the fmes raged around her, but she was caught off guard by the ued maneuver. Risebelle hit the ground, the fmes that had surrounded her began to dissipate, leaving behind singed patches on her robe. She wasted no time, immediately rolling to extinguish any lingering embers ahe fire off of her.

  The grouh her was rough, but she rolled with haste sm the fmes and minimizing the damage to her clothing.

  Roselle fired her shots at Elysia with her on, but the Pyromancer dispyed astonishing reflexes. She moved with incredible speed and agility, gracefully dodging each of the ining projectiles.

  “Is that the best you’ve got?” Elysia called out with fidence. “You’ll have to do better than that to defeat the Pyro Queen!”

  Roselle closed her eyes for a moment in order to ter herself. She remembered the jolt of electricity that had surged through her during their earlier battle with Risebelle and Kintovar’s experiment. She o tap into that power, to trol it.

  As she trated, a faint aura of crag electricity began to envelop her. The air around her seemed charged with energy, and her on hummed with anticipation. Roselle could feel the raw power of lightning c through her veins, and she k was time to unleash it in a trolled manner.

  With her eyes now open, she took aim at Elysia, her fingers poised origger. This time, she wouldn’t let her power run wild. Instead, she eled it with precision, firing a focused bolt of lightning directly at the Pyromahe bolt crackled through the air, aiming to strike Elysia with precision and speed.

  Elysia, caught off guard by Roselle’s sudden dispy of lightning magic, had to react quickly to avoid being struck. She leaped to the side, narrowly evading the bolt of lightning. The scorched ground where she had been standing served as evidence of the power of Roselle’s newfound abilities.

  Elysia nded a short distance away, her eyes fixed on Roselle with surprise.

  “Lightning?” she muttered to herself. “I didn’t expect magi someohat didn’t have magic, but it makes sense how they beat Thalindra now.”

  Risebelle, who had mao extinguish the fmes that had engulfed her, slowly pushed herself up from the ground. She had been watg Roselle’s progress with keen i.

  Ability Acquired: Thundercp Surge

  As the system message annouhe acquisition of her new ability, Roselle wasted no time in utilizing it. She focused her energy, eling her affinity fhtning into her hands. Sparks crackled around her as she unleashed the attack exg,

  “Thundercp, SSSUUUURRRGGGE!”

  A powerful burst of lightning surged forth from her, f a rapidly spinning fan of crag electricity that homed in on Elysia. The tendrils of lightning struck with pinpoint accuracy, delivering jolts of electricity upon impact. Each strike left a trail of burni and scorched marks on the Pyromancer’s body.

  Elysia, caught off guard by the sudden onsught of lightning, cried out in pain as she was engulfed by the electrical storm. Her fiery aura was temporarily extinguished as she struggled to maintain trol. Smoke rose from her charred clothing, and she staggered, her fidenentarily shattered by Roselle’s ued aating attack.

  Risebelle seized the opportunity presented by Roselle’s powerful Thundercp Surge. With a swift movement, she stepped forward, closing the distaween herself and the momentarily weakened Elysia.

  The Pyromancer, still rec from the electrical onsught, was uo rea time. Risebelle raised her on and aimed it directly at Elysia. She fired a precise shot, and the beam of energy struck the Pyromancer with incredible force.

  Elysia was sent flying backward, crashing into the wall with a resounding impact. Smoke and sparks sizzled around her as she slumped to the ground.

  Elysia slowly rose to her feet. She remained unbrokee the pain and fusion that wracked her body. She cursed under her breath, her eyes locked on Roselle and Risebelle.

  “What the hell are you two? How you use magic like that when you don’t even have magical auras?”

  Risebelle responded.

  “You could say we’re a special batch of Kintovar’s creations,” she replied, maintaining a straight face. “We werely informed about our unique capabilities either. It’s all part of the grand experiment, I suppose. I’ve been taking care of matters quietly in the forest, but when Roselle awakened and made ‘a noise,’ well, you see where we are now.”

  Elysia shifted from ao curiosity. “A noise? What does that even mean?”

  Risebelle smirked. “Let’s just say Roselle is a bit... ‘Unventional’ pared to the rest of us, but I won’t bore you with the details.” She Raises her ouring for Roselle to do the same thing.

  Elysia’s frustration grew, but she remained defiant. “You won’t get away with this. The Headmaster will—”

  Roselle and Risebelle fired their shots in unison, Elysia’s defiant words were abruptly cut off. The bined force of their attacks struck the Pyromancer with overwhelming power leaving two holes in her body.

  Elysia crumpled to the ground, her body scorched and unrespohe fiery aura that had once surrounded her now dissipated, leaving her powerless aed.

  With Elysia’s magie from the world, the door to the room unlocked, allowing them a way out; however, the otion they had caused didn’t go unnoticed. Murmurs and gasps emanated from outside the room as someone spotted the lifeless bodies of Risa and Arnda, It wasn’t long before a loud shout came through the corridor, calling for the Headmaster.

  “The Headmaster! Someone’s been killed! Arnda and Risa are dead!”

  The cry for the Headmaster’s presence reverberated through the academy, sending shockwaves of ay and fusion among the students. Doors opened, and curious faces peeked out. They went from pure curiosity to great horror upon seeing the lifeless bodies.

  Risebelle and Roselle exged a quick, worried ghey khey had to act fast if they were to escape without getting caught. The unlocked door was a small blessing, but it wouldn’t be long before the academy’s staff arrived to iigate.

  Risebelle whispered urgently to Roselle, “We o get out of here now. Follow me, and---”

  Before Risebelle could finish, a sudden and overwhelming surge of magical aura radiated from the Headmaster. It resehat couldn’t be ignored, a raotent energy that enveloped them both, rendering them immobile.

  Risebelle’s eyes widened in shock as she felt her limbs gid, her body refusing to obey her ands. She g Roselle, who stood frozen beside her, uo move or react.

  Despite unleashing this power, she was still a ways away from them, examining the bodies of Risa and Arnda. The Headmaster’s pierg gaze fell upoudent who had discovered the lifeless bodies of Risa and Arnda, and she questiohem.

  “What happened here?” she demanded, her silver hair seemingly abze with an otherworldly radiance. Her eyes bore into the student, and the magical aura that surrounded her intensified, making it clear that she expected a quid truthful response.

  The student, trembling uhe Headmaster’s overwhelming preseammered out words.

  “Headmaster, I... I found them like this! Risa and Arnda are dead, and Risa’s clothes are missing! It’s... it’s like… like someone else was here!”

  The Headmaster’s face darkened further, “Missing clothes, you say? This is a grave matter. The intruders must be close by. I will not tolerate any threats to the Academy or our mission. You, gather the others. We must find these intruders and bring them to justice right now.”

  The Headmaster began to approach the room where Roselle and Risebelle were held immobile by her overwhelming magical aura.

  Risebelle spoke barely a whisper, “Not now. We ’t let her e this way. We need a pn, and we fast.”

  Despite the urgen her words, Risebelle and Roselle remained immobilized. They were held in check by the Headmaster’s overwhelming magical presehe situation had escated rapidly, and the Academy’s Headmaster was closing in on their location. She was determio apprehend the intruders who had infiltrated her domain.

  ’What we do in this situation? ’Risebelle pondered inwardly. The Headmaster’s power was overwhelming, and their own escape had been nullified by her aura. It was a dire predit, and they were running out of time.

  Roselle tried to think of something, but without gaining any answers in her head, she hanged her head down.

  Risebelle’s eyes darted to Roselle, who was simirly held in pce. She couldn’t help but feel responsible for her, fing her into this dangerous situation.

  ‘We ’t let the Headmaster find out the truth about us’, she thought with a sense ency.

  As Risebelle pted their options, a risky idea began to form in her mind. It was a desperate gamble, but it might be their only ce to escape the Headmaster’s clutches. She turo Roselle, her eyes veying urgency.

  “Roselle,” Risebelle whispered, “I have an idea, but it’s risky. I need you to build up your power, just like you did when we fought me. We’re going to create a distra, and it’s going to be big. you do it?”

  Roselle looked with uainty in her eyes.

  As the Headmaster’s presence drew closer, Risebelle’s mind raced for a solution. She had the idea, but it was time to try and execute it. Turning to Roselle, she whispered urgently, “Roselle, we have to try. Build up your power and unleash it in an explosion, just like you did wherained.”

  Roselle, still immobilized by the Headmaster’s aura, looked at Risebelle with both fusion and . “But I wasn’t trying to do that when I fought you...” she replied in a hushed manner.”I don’t know if I trol it, and we might end up hurting ourselves.”

  Risebelle nodded, aowledging the risks involved. “I know it’s a long shot, but it’s our only ce to break free from this aura and escape. Trust in your abilities, Roselle. We have to do this now, or we’ll be captured for sure.”

  Roselle began to focus her energy, drawing upon her affinity fhtning. The magical power within her surged, crag with iy. She trated on harnessing it, preparing to release it in a trolled explosion to disrupt the Headmaster’s magical hold.

  The Headmaster’s footsteps drew nearer, her silver hair shimmering with an otherworldly radiance as she approached the room. Risebelle and Roselle had little time left to execute their risky pn, and the oute remained uain.

  The Headmaster ehe room, and her gaze fell upon Risebelle and Roselle. She observed their tense faces and the faint, ominous glow of red electricity surrounding Roselle. The Headmaster’s pierg silver eyes narrowed, and she instantly reized that something unusual was happening.

  “You two,” she spoke with a anding tone, “what are you doing ? Expin yourselves!”

  Roselle’s attempt to gather and trol the electricity had not gone unnoticed, and it seemed their pn to escape the Headmaster’s magical hold had beeed. Risebelle and Roselle found themselves caught between the Headmaster’s overp presend at the risk of their true natures being revealed.