NOVEL NEXT Chapter 161: Three......
At a time, Naomi and Rehabab had been the most aggressive of opponents, both of them out for each other's blood, but now here against Bernald, they were working together and the most interesting thing was that they couldn't be bothered to give their all.
With just their weapons out, they both attacked Bernald, comfortable with just putting the man on the defensive and on a few occasions slipping up and giving the man a chance to be on the offensive though they always did reverse the dynamic a minute later.
Without it needing to be said, everyone knew that Bernald was the weakest of their opponent especially after Blake gave them a breakdown of their opponent's abilities.
Before Blake's judgement of Kail's ability, Rehabab and Naomi had pleaded to be given different opponents, but Blake had insisted that they battle Bernald.
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The team saw their opponents as a fierce power for them to contend with but Blake saw something else.
After being given a breakdown of Ciara's nature by Lena even before he inspected her and then being given tools to confront her, the only real threat on this battlefield was Ezriel.
Rehabab and Naomi had at first been upset that Blake was looking down on their strength, but he waved off their complaints and let them know that their opponent was meant to be a challenge.
Blake let them know that he was sending the two of them as overkill, the aim of them clashing with Bernald being to capture him alive.
To capture an opponent was far more difficult than killing one, and in that context, Rehabab and Naomi understood that though their battle wouldn't be life-threatening it would be quite hard.
With orders to take things slow at the beginning, Rehabab and Naomi rather than competing on who was stronger, competed on who could be lazier, the two of them cooking up a plan that would give them a loophole to go around Blake's order.
The pair had hoped to enrage Bernald with their antics.
They put on a show of not thinking much of his power hoping to enrage him into coming after them, but to their surprise, if patience was a being it would be Bernald.
After his attack on Blake with the lightning dragon, at no other time did he use a mana technique if his opponents didn't.
With his staff in hand, he clashed with the two of them, dexterously fending off Naomi's ruthless hammer and Rehabab's deadly sword.
With a quick step forward, while holding his staff with both his hands, Bernald deflected Naomi's hammer to the side, sending the piercing explosion that had been hungering for him to the ground.
Bernald would have loved to follow up on his move with an attack, but with a lazy expression, Rehabab swung the flat side of his blade at him, this an obvious show of the fact that he wasn't willing to kill him.
Merely smiling at this, Bernald jumped back and gracefully escaped the swing, but while he did that, he swung his staff in Naomi's direction, having a sharp wave of mana shoot out of it.
The man wave cut through the air in a curved arc, looking like the blade of the Grim Reaper.
Seeing the incoming danger, Noami grabbed her hammer and jumped out of the way, entering into a roll and then spinning her hammer and slamming it down on the mana wave which had actually changed direction and come after.
"Nifty technique" Naomi muttered but then an order reached her ears and she couldn't help but look to the Rehabab to confirm that he had also heard the same thing, his spiking aura being all that he needed to say.
"Hey old man, it seems playtime is over."
"Oh, you guys finally decided to get serious," Bernald said looking at Rehabab whose body had begun glowing red, his molten-like skin becoming more pronounced.
Though Bernald had recognized Rehabab as the demon missing from the battle between Hannah and the underworld army and Naomi as the disciple of the champion of the church of light, after asking once and receiving no answer from, them he hadn't broached on the topic.
Naomi got down on her knees, her hands apart and sinking into the ground and then smiling at Bernald she lifted up her hand like she were lifting a table.
It was a simple action from Naomi, one which should normally have seen her carrying up dirt, but instead, it saw her lifting several meters of the hardened moulded earth like she was holding onto the edge of two wooden planks.
Moving away from Naomi, the amount of earth, she raised rapidly increased and by the time it got to Bernald's location, two walls of earth folded up from the ground and then they clapped together with him in the middle.
The movement of the walls of earth weren't exceptionally fast and should have been easily dodged by Bernald but when he tried to get his feet to work, he found himself stuck, his body frozen in Place,
Naomi gave him a smirk as her walls squashed him in the middle, but not before she saw the huge boiling ball of fire that hovered over Rehabab and was then thrown at Rehabab.
Naomi's walls sought to crush Bernald in between them, but Rehabab's attack sought nothing but pure destruction.
Naomi had initially thought he had through flames, but when the attack landed what had erupted was an implosion of magma.
"What the hell" Naomi cried looking at Rehabab with a bit of dread. '
"You're not the only one improving," Rehabab said in a gruff tone.
"Well, you better improve because depending on how this battle goes you might be pushed to number three or four," Naomi said glancing at the dome Blake had cloaked himself and the sixth order being in with a glint.
"You also believe he can subdue a sixth order."
"He subdued you when he was far weaker than now didn't he.?"
Rehabab nodded to Naomi's words, lifted his sword and sliced into the lightning serpent that shot out from the site of the explosion.