Roselle gritted her teeth as she fought against the numbing cold that threateo paralyze her. Her shoulders burned with pain, but she couldn’t afford to give in. She had to keep moving, keep fighting.

  ‘e on, Roselle, you ’t let this cold e you!’ she thought

  the chilliiohrough her veins, but she summoned all her mental strength to resist it. Roselle’s willpower surged as she eled her irength, her body trembling with the effort to resist the freezing onsught. With each passing moment, the icy grip on her shoulders began to weaken. This gave Roselle hope.

  Roselle turned her gaze toward her massive on. She felt a surge of frustration. The eng ice had rendered her primary on useless, and in this dire battle, every advantage ted.

  Just as she was about to attempt to melt the ice herself, Runebelle’s geou her shoulders caught her by surprise. A soothing warmth spread through her, and she could feel the ice slowly melting away under Runebelle’s healing energy.

  Roselle turo Runebelle with a look of astonishment and gratitude. “Is this a new ability of yours?” she asked with wohen she wore a big smile. “You’re incredible, Runebelle! You’ve always been so amazing!”

  Runebelle’s face remained perpetually sad, but a faint blush graced her cheeks at Roselle’s words. She spoke in her soft, geone, “I’m just doing what I to help. Roselle, your on and lightning abilities might be our only ce to stand against her.”

  Roselle nodded her head in agreement

  Runebelle gently released Roselle’s on from its icy prison, allowio recim her powerful on. As they prepared to face Aliana once more, Runebelle began to expin her newfound ability.

  “Roselle, i’ve discovered something new. By tapping into the same energy I use for my three pilrs, I harness a small amount of fire energy. It’s not much, but it might be enough to help you in this battle. Fire ter ice, so maybe it’ll give us an edge.”

  Roselle’s eyes widened with surprise and intrigue. “That’s incredible, Runebelle! It’s like you’re evolving, just like I did with my lightning powers. We’ll use every advantage we get to defeat Aliana and put ao this.”

  Aliana’s taunted Roselle and Runebelle, “I hope you ehat brief moment of respite, because it’s the st one you’ll get.”

  She lunged forward with incredible speed, her Swod Franting her unmatched agility and strength. Her icy bde gleamed with a deadly aura as she aimed to strike down her oppos swiftly and decisively.

  Aliana Vanished. Roselle’s heightened seraio track Aliana’s blinding speed, the world seemed to blur around her. Every mome like ay as she desperately sought to catch a glimpse of her oppo.

  In the midst of this frantic search, Roselle’s instincts suddenly screamed at her, and she shifted her focus downward. There, she spotted the fai hint of movement—a glint of icy steel aimed at her feet.

  Time seemed to slow to a crawl as Roselle reacted with lightning speed. She swung her massive on downward with all her might, unleashing a powerful bst that sent a shockwave of force toward the ground. The grouh her feet quaked as the force of the bst disrupted the attack that had been aimed at her.

  Roselle’s heart pounded in her chest as she realized she had narrowly avoided Aliana’s lethal strike.

  Aliana’s swift aless assault tinued as she stepped bad ted, “Heaven’s Icy Crystal.” With those words, the air around her seemed to shimmer with an intense cold.

  Icy crystals began to form around Aliana, their sharp edges gleaming with an otherworldly frost. These crystals rapidly multiplied, creating a barrier of gcial beauty and deadly danger.

  The crystals expanded outward, eng the battlefield in an icy prison. Roselle and her panions found themselves trapped within this frigid byrinth, with the shimmering, razor-sharp crystals closing in from all sides.

  “We’re running out of room,” Roselle thought to herself, her eyes sing the encroag ice. “We need a way out of this, or we’ll be crushed!”

  Roselle’s gaze shifted to Runebelle, and she could see the worry creeping in on their face. Roselle took a deep breath and said, “We ’t let this ice trap us. We o find a way to break through, or we’ll be at Aliana’s mercy. Let’s focus our energy and look for oints in the ice barrier.”

  Roselle turo Runebelle and urgently whispered, “Runebelle, try to use your energy to create fire. Maybe it melt this ice.”

  Runebelle nodded and focused her energy, attempting to gee fire with her healing abilities. However, to their disappoi, the ice remained ued. Roselle sighed, realizing it was worth a try but not a solution.

  “We’ll figure this out, Runebelle,” Roselle reassured her sister, “We ’t give up now. Let’s keep looking for a way out.”

  Roselle, with a glimmer of hope in her eyes, turo Runebelle and said, “Runebelle, try summoning your pilrs again, but focus on the element of fire this time. Let’s see if we create a trated burst of heat.”

  Runebelle Roselle’s suggestion and summoned her three pilrs, trating solely on the element of fire. The fiery pilrs maed, their fmes dang with intense heat. However, as the encroag ice crystals closed in, the ice crystals pierced through the fiery pilrs, extinguishing their fmes one by one. Runebelle’s shoulders slumped with disappoi as their attempt to break free from the icy prison failed.

  Roselle pced a f hand on Runebelle’s shoulder and said, “It’s okay, Runebelle. We tried, but it seems our fire isn’t strong enough. We’ll find another way out of here, together.”

  Runebelle nodded.

  Roselle observed Aliana’s as with a gnd she could see that her oppo wasn’t just sitting idly by. The ancer was gathering and f a colossal ice shard, h ominously above them. The impending threat of the gigantic shard desding upon them, coupled with the ice crystals closing in, presented a dire situation.

  Roselle’s mind raced as she assessed the situation. The odds seemed stacked against them. She had tried various approaches, but none had proven effective against Aliana’s overwhelming power.

  As a st-ditch effort, Roselle grabbed her massive on and began firing at the ining ice crystals. She k was a desperate move, but with no other optio, she had to try. To her surprise and frustration, the on shots seemed to have no effect against Aliana’s formidable ice magic.

  The projectiles from her on struck the ice crystals but failed to shatter or explode them. It was as if Aliana’s ice was impervious to her attacks, leaving Roselle feeling increasingly helpless.

  Roselle’s frustration grew as she tinued firing, her golden hair streaming behind her as she unleashed a barrage of shots. She couldn’t afford to give up, but the realization that her attacks were futile against Aliana’s magic weighed heavily on her.

  Runebelle observed the dire situation unfolding before her, her normally sad face etched with . She wracked her brain, searg for a way to assist Roselle in this seemingly impossible battle. With Roselle’s on proving iive against Aliana’s ice magic, they needed a neroach, and fast.

  “What I do?” Runebelle thought to herself, her mind rag with possibilities.“I o do something,” Runebelle thought to herself, “Roselle’s on alone won’t cut it, and her lightning shots won’t do much against Aliana’s ice, but if I somehow infuse my fire affinity into her aybe we’ll have a ce.”

  She trated on her fire affinity, trying to tap into the small fme that had always been a part of her.

  ‘It’s worth a try,I may not have a strong fire affinity, but if I el it into Roselle’s on, perhaps we break through Aliana’s ice.’

  Runebelle focused on amplifying her faint fire energy, making it burn brighter and hotter. She could feel the warmth spreading through her, and for the first time, she realized the potential of her fire affinity.

  A system message suddenly fshed in Runebelle’s mind, its text glowing brightly:

  “New Ability Unlocked:

  Fire Infusion – You have harnessed your fire affinity to infuse objects with intense heat. This ability allows you to enhaacks with fiery energy, potentially breaking through id other defenses. Use it wisely.”

  Runebelle felt a surge of excitement when she read the message.

  Runebelle’s heart sank however as she saw Roselle giving up on her on. The ice crystals were closing in fast.

  With a resolved look, Roselle turo Runebelle,“Brace yourself, Runebelle,” she said firmly. “We’re out of time, and those ice crystals are too close. This…is going to hurt… it’s going to hurt…a lot.”

  Runebelle nodded, uanding the gravity of the situation. She khey had to act quickly to avoid the impending disaster. Without hesitation, she focused on her newly unlocked ability, Fire Infusion, and directed it toward Roselle’s on. She eled the fiery energy, infusing it with intense heat, and hoped that this desperate move would make a difference.

  Runebelle successfully infused Roselle’s massive on with the element of fire. Roselle looked surprised but wasted no time. She immediately fired off powerful fire shots from her enhanced on, targeting the ice crystals that surrouhem. The explosive impact of the fire shots caused the ice crystals to shatter and explode, creating a fiery dispy of destru.

  Runebelle and Roselle rolled out of the way just in time to avoid the massive ice shard that had been formed in the sky above them. The explosion of the ice crystals sent shockwaves through the battlefield, and Aliana was caught off guard by the sudden turn of events.

  Runebelle and Roselle found themselves panting and covered in dirt and soot, but they had mao avert the immi danger.

  Aliana excimed, “This ’t be! Not even a fire caster at the academy has ever posed a threat to my ice, especially not while I’m in Swod Form! You two are nothing but the foolish creations of Dr.Kintovar!”

  Roselle, still panting from the intense exge, looked at Aliana with a gre. “It’s like I told you. We’re more than just Creations of Dr.Kintovar,” she stated firmly. “t, we learn, and we grow. We’re strohan you think, especially when we work together!”

  Runebelle, standing beside Roselle, maintained her usual gloom but with a hint of the will within it that Roselle was showing.

  Aliana held evident frustration in her eyes, ched her fists. “I won’t be defeated by the likes of you! I am still Leagues faster than you. So while you may be able to melt my ice, it doesn’t mean anything if you’re not fast enough to stop me!” She raised her sword, preparing for atack.

  Roselle exged a quice with Risebelle, who was still rec her mana reserves. They both nodded in silent agreement. With the ply veyed, Roselle turned her attention back to Aliana, who reparing for atack.

  Aliana charged forward with incredible speed, her Swod Form allowio move like a blur, Roselle braced herself for the immi csh. She raised her on, ready to defend against Aliana’s assault.

  Aliana’s sword cshed with Roselle’s on once more, and this time, the freezing effect was instantaneous. However, to her bewilderment, the ice around Roselle’s on began to melt almost immediately, revealing the fiery energy infused within.

  Aliana’s eyes widened in surprise as the fiery energy tered the ice, causing it to dissolve rapidly. Before she could react, Roselle swung her on with precision, knog Aliana away and causio cry out in pain. A portion of her ielted uhe impact, leaving her momentarily disoriented and vulnerable.

  “You...you ’t do this to me!” Aliana hissed. “My Swod Form is invincible! INVINCIBLE!”

  Roselle stood her ground with a fierce response. “No. You’re wrong, you are vulnerable, just like anyone else, and I’ll prove it, by beating you with my move! Get ready to see the what iv’e been cookin!”