I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

As she spoke, Linslet fired several arrows that struck the Silent Fortress armor on Velseria's body, quickly condensing a large amount of ice crystals. Immediately, the Silent Fortress's agility decreased visibly.

Upon hearing Linslet's words, Velseria gritted her teeth. Although she wanted to refute Linslet's words, Yuhaka swung his greatsword at this moment, forcing Velseria to swing her huge mechanical arm at Yuhaka. However, Yuhaka's agility allowed him to dodge the attack and swing his huge Demon-Slaying Holy Sword at Velseria.

In response to Yuhaka's attack, Velseria quickly spun her elven armor, throwing Yuhaka off her. To be honest, Velseria already had a very clear understanding of the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword in Yuhaka's hand. That elven armor could easily tear through her armor, and if she were to be cut again, she would be a fool.

Meanwhile, Fiana, standing behind Claire's group, prepared her flute and music, and said:

"The music is ready!"

As she spoke, Fiana began to play her flute. A wondrous melody emanated from it, and Claire and the others felt as if they possessed inexhaustible power. Claire then flicked her flaming whip and addressed the group:

"Great! Alice and I will help Youyou deal with Versailles, Linslet, and Fiana. We'd appreciate your support!"

Hearing Claire's words, Linslet also drew her bowstring and aimed at the distant Silent Fortress, saying:

"Leave the support to us!"

Fiana also waved her club-like hunting whistle and said:

"Everyone, go for it! Leave the support to us!"

Chapter 708 [Dual Plan]

"Hey OwO!"

Yuhaka swung his Demon-Slaying Holy Sword at Velseria's elven armor. Velseria, wary of Yuhaka, didn't choose to meet his attack head-on. For Velseria, each of Yuhaka's attacks could leave a terrible sword mark on her armor or slice off a piece. Although she didn't know the origin of the sword spirit in Yuhaka's hand, Velseria already considered Yuhaka a formidable opponent.

Velseria swung her massive mechanical arm and slammed it down directly at Yuhaka. Yuhaka dodged Velseria's attack with a backflip.

The instant Yuhaka dodged, several arrows flew from behind Velseria and struck her armor. Soon, a layer of ice crystals condensed on Velseria's elven magic armor, immediately reducing her agility once again.

When she felt her Silent Fortress suddenly slow down, Vilcelia gritted her teeth. After all, how would you feel if someone suddenly gave you a slowing status when you were having a close battle with someone?

The answer is obviously: I'm furious.

At this moment, Vercelia also wished she could get rid of Claire and the others all at once, but Yuhaka would keep pestering her, and Claire and the others would be as slippery as eels, impossible to catch.

Versailles was furious.

If I had called those obstacles over back then, they might have been able to stop Claire and the others, but now there's no going back.

As Velseria spun around, she shook off the ice blocks from her elven armor and forced back the charging Yuhaka. But at that moment, Velseria noticed that Claire and Alice were charging towards her separately, causing her to hesitate slightly about who to attack.

However, in the end, Versailles decided it was better to attack Claire first, since Claire was the commander of the team. If Claire was eliminated first, they would be like headless flies for a short period of time.

Claire had anticipated that Versailles would attack her first, since defeating the captain first is the most common tactic in a match.

“Scarlett—!”

With Claire's shout, her flaming whip transformed into a fire cat and charged towards Velcelia. Velcelia yelled "Mudata!" and swung her massive arm, sending Scarlet flying as he hurtled through the cannon fire. Just as Velcelia turned her cannon towards Scarlet, she suddenly noticed Claire continuing her charge.

However, Velcelia noticed that Claire did not have any elven magic equipment, so Velcelia believed that Claire posed no threat to her.

After Claire touched Velseria's Silent Fortress, she began to unleash her fire spirit magic, "Blood Song," a spirit magic that generates vibrations through the palm to create an extremely high-temperature state on the target. (Author's note: I'm just wondering if Claire's hands don't feel the heat???)

Because this spirit magic requires direct contact with the target to be used, it is basically very difficult to use in battle. In addition, the time required for chanting magic is enough for the opponent to realize what spirit magic you are about to use.

"Hmph, all bravado and no strategy! Such elven magic can never destroy my armor!"

As she spoke, Velseria swung her massive arm at Claire, but Yuhaka suddenly appeared and grabbed Claire, causing Velseria's attack to miss.

After realizing she had failed, Velcelia was also quite troubled by the incredibly agile Yhaka. Not only was he fast, but he could also easily slice through her armor. Just as Velcelia was looking at Yhaka with a headache—

"[Magic Ice Bolt]——!"

As Linslet fired an ice arrow that struck Velseria's armor, Velseria spoke after Linslet's seemingly insignificant attack:

"I told you long ago, such an attack has nothing to do with me—what?!"

Verseria stared in astonishment as she saw cracks appearing on the spot where Linslet's arrow had struck her armor.

Claire, held in Yhaka's arms in a princess carry, also hugged Yhaka's neck and smiled with satisfaction at her successful tactic, saying:

"It seems the plan worked after all."

"Rapid temperature difference, huh... So that's what you were after!"

Velseria hadn't expected that Claire and the others had such a hidden plan besides Yuhaka. The cracks on Velseria's armor were increasing. At that moment, Alice rode the storm and rushed towards Velseria. Only then did Velseria notice that Alice was rushing towards her.

"what?!"

Before Verseria could dodge, Alice used the high-speed movement generated by the burst of the storm to swing her spear and thrust it straight at Verseria's chest. The spear tip, wreathed in the storm, pierced through Verseria's shattered armor and went straight through her chest.

Alice looked into Velseria's icy blue eyes, and at that moment, Velseria also showed a hint of panic in her eyes.

"Wind, blow!"

As the spear pierced Viseria's chest, a fierce gust of wind erupted, tearing Viseria's elven armor to shreds. Viseria, now without her armor, was propelled into the air by the powerful wind before crashing to the ground.

"Phew...phew...did it work...?"

Alice stared in disbelief at Viseria lying on the ground. To be honest, Alice hadn't expected to be able to defeat her sister... well, even though she did it with the help of her teammates...

Just when Claire and the others thought they had defeated Visselia, Visselia's body began to convulse, and she said:

"I...cannot...lose..."

The next scene was an unbelievable sight for everyone.

Chapter 709 [Broken Form: Relentless Spiral Sword Dance]

"Aaaaaaaahh ...

The fragments of the destroyed elven magical armor seemed to be drawn to the screaming Velseria, though the fused fragments transformed into something else entirely.

"What...what the hell is this?!"

Claire, nestled in Yuhaka's arms, looked at Velcelia in the distance and said this. At this moment, the elven magic armor on Velcelia's body gradually transformed into a terrifying appearance. The pitch-black armor covered Velcelia's entire body, making her look like the ghost of a knight.

Black divine energy flowed out from the gaps in her armor like mist. This visible black divine energy gave off an ominous aura, indicating that Viseria was acting very strangely at this moment.

At this moment, Estée in her sword form said to Eugène and Claire:

“Master, that is a cursed inscription.”

Upon hearing Esther's words, a big question mark appeared above Yuhaka's head, clearly indicating that he didn't understand what Esther was talking about. However, Claire, who was standing next to him, knew perfectly well what Esther was saying.

"What?! Velseria has a cursed mark on her body?!"

Claire looked at Ester in Yuhaka's hand with a shocked expression and said this. It was clear that Claire couldn't understand why Alice's sister would imprint such a seriously prohibited item on her cursed armor.

At this moment, Viseria's teammates also noticed her strange behavior and rushed out from their hiding place. However, when the four of them rushed to Viseria's side, the strangely shaped black knight swung his arm and sent the four of them flying. At the same time, they were ripped open and blood splattered from the wounds.

The crowd was stunned by what they saw, and an alarm immediately went off, signaling the end of the match.

At the same time, the ominous divine power energy on Velseria transformed into tentacles and flew towards Yuhaka and the others. In response to the sudden attack of the tentacles, Alice also wielded her spear, which was wrapped in a whirlwind, and released it, instantly blowing away the divine power energy that had transformed into tentacles around her.

Alice looked at Viseria, who was covered in dark elven magic armor, and asked her question:

"Why! Why did you touch the cursed seal, sister?! Answer me! Sister!"

To be honest, Alice couldn't understand how the knight she once admired could have fallen to such a state.

As for Alice's questioning, Velseria couldn't hear it at this moment. Velseria swung her huge arm from her elven magic armor and slammed it down hard towards Alice's position, but Alice dodged the attack very quickly.

Just as Alice was about to charge forward again to thrust her spear, Claire, who had just stepped down from Yuhaka's arms, grabbed Alice's arm and said:

"Calm down, Alice! This is not the time to be reckless!"

Hearing Claire's words, Alice, who had acted impulsively just moments before, quickly calmed down. After taking a deep breath to calm herself, Alice said to Claire:

“You’re right, Claire, now is not the time to be reckless… Let’s rescue those senior knights first.”

Claire nodded in agreement with Alice's suggestion. At this moment, the four injured senior knights were already unconscious, and Vilcalia's out-of-control elven magic armor was now truly stripping the four of their divine power. If this continued, something terrible would happen to them.

“Yohaka and I will distract Verseria, Alice, you go and help Linslet and the others rescue those people.”

Hearing Claire's words, Alice nodded in agreement with Claire's plan and said:

"I understand. I'll leave this to you."

As Alice spoke, she ran towards Linslet and the others. The out-of-control Velseria tried to send out tentacles to entangle Alice, but a wind blade swiftly cut off all the tentacles formed by the divine power. The one who wielded this wind blade was Yuhaka.

At this moment, Yhaka had already drawn his other weapon, the divine sword Baradion. He had mistaken the ominous aura emanating from Velseria for something bad... well, it wasn't really anything special...

Hey! What are you looking at? Look this way!

Claire launched several fireballs at Velseria using spirit magic, and Velseria, who was being attacked by spirit magic, also shifted her attention to Claire and Yuhaka.

Seeing that Versailles had shifted her attention to this side, Claire also said to Yuhaka:

"Youyou, the enemy is yours now. You don't need to hide your strength anymore."

Upon hearing Claire's words, Yuhaka's eyes lit up, and he charged towards Velseria with his twin swords. In less than a second, Yuhaka was in front of Velseria and used the [Breaking Form: Revolve Spiral Sword Dance], one of the ultimate sword techniques that Grevas had taught him.

According to Grevas, this move called Breaking Form: Revolve Sword Dance is a destructive sword technique used to deal with large Pokémon, which is relatively suitable for users like Eyjafjalla who are good at dual-wielding.

In an instant, Yuhaka, as if dancing, slashed at various parts of Velseria's mutated giant elven armor with his sword. Each of Yuhaka's attacks destroyed a portion of the armor on Velseria's elven armor, while Velseria's attacks could not hit Yuhaka, who was fluttering like a butterfly.

Meanwhile, Claire, watching Yuhaka's battle from a distance, wore a helpless expression. Claire was frustrated because Yuhaka was too strong and they were too weak. It felt like they were just dragging Yuhaka down, which made Claire feel a little uncomfortable.

This made Claire feel a little uncomfortable; it seemed that she and Linslett needed to put in more effort.

After Yhaka swung his 17th sword, he unleashed his final X-slash at Velseria, wielding the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword in one hand and Baradion in the other. With Yhaka's final strike, Velseria's eerie elven armor was completely destroyed, and Velseria, now without her armor, was about to collapse to the ground, unable to support herself.

Yuhaka, who was standing nearby, caught Versailles as she was about to fall to the ground.

Meanwhile, the audience watching from outside the stadium cheered for Yuhaka and her team's victory.

Chapter 710 [Bronya's Plans]

In the forest outside the arena, Vivian, a merchant from the Skeleton Alliance, looked at the large screen in the distance and saw Velcelia lying in Yuhaka's arms, saying:

"Oh dear, has your heart failed? It's such a shame we finally found a suitable test subject..."

In order to gather information, Vivian specifically traveled to the elven forest to observe Viseria's battle situation, but the current situation...

"It seems that the [Heart] Transplantation Curse Imprint still has a long way to go before it can be put into practical use..."

Vivian sighed, but then, thinking of Yhaka's performance in the match, she revealed a scheming smile and said:

"However, that child seems quite interesting; he could be a suitable test subject."

Just as Vivian was thinking this, a voice came from not far behind her that made her tremble.

“My students are not your toys, Vivian Melosa.”

"—?!"