Assimilate All Talents

Chapter 153: Fairness

With [Ground Shrink], Sol narrowed the distance between himself and Lapis in an instant. He swung his sword, but it was smoothly deflected by her spear. The two exchanged multiple attacks and skills within a few seconds, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats. Sol’s attacks were heavy and strong, while Lapis’s were fast and precise.

Everyone believed the match was even until Lapis stabbed forward with her spear. Sol swung to block it, but just as his sword was about to meet the shaft of the spear, it curved in a way that would normally be impossible and stabbed into his side.

As Sol was surprised by this maneuver, Lapis was equally surprised.

’How tough is his body?’

Though [Twisting Serpent] allowed her to curve her spear in unnatural ways at the cost of lower damage, she was barely able to stab half an inch into Sol’s side.

Before Lapis could retract her spear, Sol took this window of opportunity to strike and finally landed an attack of his own. He only managed to shallowly cut her left forearm before she jumped out of his attack.

Though shallow, the single cut more than satisfied him.

’Now let’s see how effective it was.’

Sol didn’t stop there and ran after her, continuing his onslaught. Lapis tried to defend as she did before but found it much harder to do so. She felt sluggish, and soon two more attacks got past her, cutting her once more.

She leapt back and searched through her body, quickly finding the cause.

Oeser figured it out as well and informed the spectators.

"That sword! The cold energy is making Lapis slower! It must have the [Frost Touch] skill! Does that mean it has a status skill for fire as well?!"

The small cuts on Lapis became frosted over as it spread through the rest of her arm and invaded her body. The cold energy slowed her movements and reaction speed.

[Elemental Ice Sword

Unique

Attack: 145-175

Durability: 900/900

Skills:

[Sharpness] Lv 7, [Frost Touch] Lv 7, [Ice Shatter] Lv 7]

Two intermediate water spells were chanted back to back. The first spell caused a warm wave to wash over Lapis, curing the effects of [Frost Touch], and the second spell healed all her wounds.

Once she was fully healed, Sol deactivated his Lipon.

Oeser was shocked, "Does Sol not plan to fight with his weapon?!"

"What? No, I’m just changing the element."

In one fluid motion, Sol popped out the ice cartridge, inserted another one, and pulled the trigger, releasing a sword made of stone.

"It can change to earth as well?! It can actually become any element?!"

With the new elemental sword in hand, Sol asked, "How about it? This one also has a status ailment, but it’s for lowering defense."

Lapis was still confused by all of this, "Don’t you want to win?"

He nodded, "I wan- no. I need to win."

"Then why risk it? Why throw away your advantage?"

"I just don’t want to win that way. It’s not fair to you, and it wouldn’t be earned for me. So how about it? Ready for round two?"

All eyes were on her, waiting for her answer. She took a step back and went for her spear. Oeser loved everything that was happening, and since no one told him to stop them, he prepared his wand once more.

Oeser excitedly announced, "We are going into a second round, ladies and gentlemen! Let the figh-!"

"I surrender."

Before he could finish, Lapis interrupted him. She put away her spear in her spatial ring and walked out of the arena.

"HUH?!"

Oeser wasn’t the only one shocked; everyone, including Sol, was surprised at her response. Sol was about to follow after her to ask why, but was promptly stopped by Oeser, who whispered to him.

"I know you’re confused, but stay for a second." He then exclaimed out loud, "What a surprising twist! Our winner for this round is Sol!"

Sol had to force a smile and wave at the audience, who chanted his name, before he could finally chase after her.