Sam felt pretty frustrated.
The surrounding environment is not allowing him to use different elements, but the fire element alone is a bit limiting to his abilities, he almost felt like he didn"t put enough effort in developing his elements.
The woman in the black is like a slippery loach. He couldn"t catch her no matter how much he tried. She is managing to dodge the attacks by a hair"s breadth.
But still, after he got used to her rhythm, he managed to get some hits in and the fight actually started at the moment.
The lady is surprised. She certainly didn"t expect Sam to catch on to her rhythm so quickly, much less managing to attack her.
Both of them almost abandoned their fire elements as they started fighting. For some reason Sam"s golden flames are on par with her black flames, both of them couldn"t completely take out the other with that, so they tacitly went for normal hand-to-hand combat.
Sam finally understood how she can move like that. She is using some kind of technique that could repel something.
Her unnatural moments with which she managed to dodge almost all of his ranged attacks are because she is using this technique on the ground so that she would be repelled from it.
This is similar to that of ripple style a bit. But ripple style doesn"t predict the direction of the repulsion, and only repels or diverts things, but it is a lot more versatile and could be used in many ways even in ranged attacks, but her style can only be used on contact.
Sam wanted to test some of his speculations in the battle and gestured Arkiv to shoot an arrow.
When the arrow came near her, she made some hand motions near the arrow contact point and its direction was completely changed.
The arrow directly moved towards Sam.
Sam caught the arrow and a smirk appeared on his face.
This is the reason, why his instincts are screaming not to let anyone else interfere.
She is using her repel style to make Sam suffer the damage. As for why she is not doing the opposite, he doesn"t know, but since he already got the conclusion, he doesn"t have to be wary of her too much, he started attacking her, but this time he used void style.
Her dodging is impeccable.
But with Sam"s speed, she is only dodging it by a hair"s breadth.
So, when the punch hit the empty air, the void style would still be active and she would receive some damage if she is not careful.
While seeing the fight progress intensely, Noah and Arkiv are looking at each other with the same expression.
"Why don"t we figure out, who stays and who leaves between us, before they are done?" Noah asked Arkiv calmly.
"And the winner gets to fight Sam?"
"Yes, he might even be too exhausted to deal with us, when he would be done with her, so it is not a bad thing. Even if he surprises us once again without any exhaustion, it would still be great to have a second place."
"Sure, a normal duel?"
"No Blood arts."
"Deal."
"Deal."
With that, they shook hands and stepped away from each other as they got ready to fight. Sam almost wanted to roll his eyes.
If not for the high energy consumption and resistance from the environment he would have used the different elements and finished the fight by now, but here they are having a blind trust that he would finish the fight and they are exhausting their energy without caring about the resistance from the environment.
The two battles went on and on. Noah had the upper hand over Arkiv and right when she was about to solidify that upper hand by handing a critical blow, the woman in black who is fighting Sam changed tracks and ran towards her.
Sam didn"t let her go though, he moved after her and even used partial light fusion. Light element is one of the most energy consuming elements, but it does increase speed.
The woman in black attacked both Noah and Arkiv with black flames. The flames took the shape of a Black phoenix and moved in two directions catching them completely off guard.
Both of them tried their best to defend but still had to take the hits directly.
Their bodies caught the black flame.
At this exact moment, Sam"s punch landed on her back, the black robe was torn apart and his fist almost lodged itself into her body, but she is too st.u.r.dy and the flesh is too thick to finish the process.
But the impact wasn"t negated. She felt her whole internal organs shake and started spitting blood. Because of her face cover, the blood didn"t come out directly, but it started seeping out of the cloth.
Sam wanted to follow up, but Noah and Arkiv are injured, he moved to them and used the golden flames to devour those black flames.
"I think, it is better if you quit."
Sam said after he looked at their state, their bodies are damaged badly and if not for him, half of their bodies would have been molten.
Just one attack in their weakened state and they are going to die.
Sam looked at the woman and felt she is dangerous beyond belief.
There are not many people in this world, that would show their back to him in a battle like this.
But she did and almost killed two other players.
At that instant, her speed is far beyond his imagination.
She used the repel style to the maximum and reached the same speed as his wind elemental fusion.
Noah and Arkiv looked at her with resentment and gave up which made them disappear into thin air.
Finally, only Sam and her left in this place. She is clearly injured and Sam is also a bit fatigued, but he has the upper hand in this exchange.
At this moment, she spoke calmly.
"I brought a gift for you actually."
As she spoke, she took out something from her spatial ring and Sam widened his eyes in shock.
She is holding the lightning blade. She threw the blade towards Sam who caught hold of it, the spirit instantly reacted to his touch.
"Where did you get it? He couldn"t possibly be using this. Spirit weapons are not allowed."
"Well, they are not allowed to be used, but they can be taken from the spatial ring of a dead person and given to another."
Sam closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"I know you wouldn"t believe me. That is why I brought something else."
She waved her hand and Arman"s body fell out of her spatial ring.
Sam looked at him with a dead gaze. He didn"t expect that Arman would die, he thought he might have given up, but dead? That is not even something he thought.
"He fought bravely and in fact, he gave me a tough fight. But he is not as smart as you. He didn"t realize the energy consumption he has is too much in this environment and he didn"t factor that I can recover almost three times faster than he does.
And some snide remarks here and there, he is dead."
Sam slowly walked towards his body. He didn"t have a good start with Arman, to be precise, they had a good start, but after that start, Arman got too greedy for the thunder prison.
He didn"t stop at all costs and kept on pushing it, Sam couldn"t take it and made him break. He broke the will, soul, and body and reconstructed them back to normal. Like he is some kind of a toy or a machine.
But after that, they had developed a healthy boss and employee relationship and later they could even be considered friends, Sam suddenly felt a bit heavy in his heart.
He has seen too much death to feel like this.
Just when Sam was about to squat and take a look at Arman"s body, The woman made her move and stabbed her palm near his collarbone as she released the black flames out her hands.
She wanted to burn him.
Sam held her arm tightly and started emitting golden flames.
He bent down with her arm still in his body and gently pushed Arman"s body to side and stood up again.
She looked at his dead eyes which showed no emotion and felt a bit anxious.
The golden flames and the black flames clashed.
"You seemed to have known too much about me to use Arman"s death as an emotional bait, but you didn"t know enough, if you have known you wouldn"t have come this close to me."
As he spoke, his eyes turned red and skin turned paler as his teeth turned into fangs.
Her eyes started shaking at his transformation and she tried her best to move away. But Sam didn"t let her go. He pulled her towards him and bit into her neck forcefully as he sucked her blood out while burning her with the golden flames.
The clash between the golden flames and black flames became weaker as the black flames are dwindling crazily.