Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 162: Chase vs Arrora

The people were frightened when they witnessed her power and the power of her spell. Unlike the commoners, the nobles, the kings, Rosaline did not show any emotion in her face as she turned to look at Queen Cassia.

"Forgive me for finishing the battle so soon, Queen Cassia, I don't waste my friend's energy before her duel"

Queen Cassia nodded and the excitement in people's hearts rose to see the surprise duel as they had no idea there's a duel on the agenda.

Chase stood there in the arena while Rosaline and Aster walked towards the kings as the guards brought two thrones and put them before the kings.

"Come and face me"

Chase challenged Arora as everyone in the arena turned their gazes at her

Since even Rosaline was a mid-level grandmaster, she had faith in her strength to teach Chase a lesson.

"Who is she?"

A noble asked his friend while Arrora was walking to the battleground

"I don't know for sure but it might be the girl who beat Princess Darlene's sister during the war between Korrinth and Agoria," said the other noble.

"Isn't that little girl not even a great master like Princess Darlene?"

"so this girl is just a peak level master?"

"Even if she's a great master, she can't fight Miss Chase who is positively a grandmaster"

"But what if she's a grandmaster too?"

The noble asked as the other one shook his head with a chuckle

"There's no grandmaster in the entire rank four region, brother"

Don noticed that many people were staring at Arrora. Many people had pity and sympathy when looking at her as if they were looking at a lamp that's going to get butchered. They all decided that she would lose before even the battle begins.

"Reveal your cultivation level, I'll lower mine to give you a fair fight"

Chase revealed her cultivation as she said,

"Low-level grandmaster"

The people gasped when they saw the cultivation level of Chase as she stood there with an arrogant look in her face.

"I told you, she's a grandmaster"

The noble said

"She's done, but she still gets some face for fighting a grandmaster even if Miss Chase lowered her cultivation level"

"Typical"

Don mumbled under his breath as he wouldn't have revealed his cultivation level before the opponent. But since Chase was a typical arrogant young miss who had already thought as she's going to win the duel, it was no surprise to him that she revealed her cultivation level. 

"Oh darling, it seems your girl is in real trouble"

King Noa showed a fake pity towards Arrora

"No need"

The moment Arrora said, she revealed her true cultivation level, the low-level grandmaster level just like Chase but because of the partial battle energy in her body, she could be compared to Rosaline herself.

"What the?!"

The look on everyone's face completely changed from pity to dumbstruck in a flash when they saw Arrora's cultivation level.

Unlike most of them, Yvonne was pretty happy as every single of nobles were betted on Chase now all she wanted is Arrora to win to make her richer.

 "A grandmaster in all rank 4 kingdoms"

Even the kings were startled as Lord Clemo glanced at the nobles who previously looked down on them with a proud grin on his face.

King Mattia felt like his throat tightening a bit and took a sip of water from the glass that was placed beside him.

"You're"

Chase opened her mouth but Arrora unsheathed her sword and calmly said

"Stop talking and fight"

There was a hint of anger that flashed through Chase's eyes, Rosaline and Aster also seemed very surprised and for the first time, Rosaline took a glance at Don, a small-time king who was able to get a grandmaster to work under him.

Arrora wanted to finish the battle as quickly as she could and did not plan to give Chase the time to cast any major spells. However, when she took a step forward, she saw an arrow coming right at her as she dodged the arrow just in time with her sword.

Chase was extremely fast as it only took her a second or less than a second, to take an arrow from her quiver and fire at Arrora with deadly precision.

"Incinerate"

Chase shot an arrow on fire at Arrora, it was aimed at her heart and when the arrow came closer, Arrora cut the arrow into two halves and shocked the audiences with her sword skill. The two halves grazed Arrora's sleeves but they didn't touch her skin to wound her.

Rosaline and Aster couldn't sit there relaxed anymore as they slightly leaned forward but Don was still in his lazy posture without worrying about the duel.

"You seems confident in her victory, King Don"

King Noa rolled his eyes and changed the way he addressed him.

Yet, even though Don looked confident and lazy, he was studying the battle with great concentration and already found a couple of things that she and the army had to improve.

A crucial factor when it comes to archers like Chase was the distance between them and the enemy. If the enemy got close to an archer, he or she would probably end up dead unless he or she was a remarkable close-combat warrior or mage too. But at distance, an archer like Chase was a nightmare to foes.

As time went by, Chase's speed of shooting an arrow multiplied by many folds as Arrora was having a hard time evading and dodging the arrows.

"I've had enough"

Arrora grumbled and formed a shield made of air element around her

"Wind Shield"

She made up a name on the spot so no one could suspect the fact that she could control the element itself.

Considering the arrows she was firing, Arrora knew the shield could only last a few moments but a few moments were enough to get closer to Chase and finish the fight once and for all.

Only now Rosaline became quite worried as she had already guessed what's Arrora thinking to accomplish by forming a shield. Even though Arrora didn't have the control over the air element like Don and disappeared completely from one's view in a flash, she was still pretty fast as Arrora's figure blurred.

"Watch out"

Chase had a confused face when she couldn't find her target as Rosaline almost shouted when she saw the white blur appear behind Chase.

When she appeared behind Chase's back, she didn't waste any time but swung her sword to cut off Chase's arm and cripple her forever.

"Chase"

Aster couldn't sit still when she saw Arrora swinging her sword, but when the sword touched Chase's body, there was a sudden blast, the blast sound that Don was familiar with

"Protective shield"

The protective shield was a defensive spell the archers or any long combat mages would cast on themselves before the battle begins. Just like the name suggests, the protective shield's purpose was to protect the user by absorbing a limited amount of damage for a limited amount of time.SInce Arrora was comparatively more powerful than Chase, the shield could only withstand a single strike from her, hence the blast.

When the dust cleared, everyone was able to clearly see the two girls.

Don looked at Arrora to see there was nothing but few scratches and tears in the battle robes. However, unlike Arrora, Chase was in pretty bad shape due to the backlash plus the force of Arrora's attack.

Looking at Chase's coughing up blood and lying on the ground in a poor state,Rosaline's anger volcano erupted inside her, she couldn't bear the thought that her teammate, her friend was beaten to this state by a girl from a backwater rank 4 kingdom.

Kate was not Rosaline's friend but she was Chase's. When Chase told her about what happened in Korrinth, she decided to let Chase handle it on her own as for a grandmaster and an expert tracker like Chase, it would be a simple matter to hunt down the one who put Kate in a coma and kill her.

However now everything seemed to be happening as exactly opposite of what she thought at first. This gathering was meant to be her break from searching for the mysterious killer of Minister Brian, the first task that she got from her teacher and failed miserably. Her failure affected her mindset and it was the reason that she is having a tough time breaking through to the next level.

However what meant to be her time to relax, now made her even more furious, and looking at Arrora walking towards Chase with killing intent in her eyes, she was unable to hold her anger anymore as she stood from her seat.

"Falling Star"

She shouted as a huge fireball appeared above Arrora and came soaring down at her.

Everyone stared at Arrora and thought that she would be hurt badly or even killed by the fireball.

However the fireball seemed stopped in its path as when everyone looked at the fireball, they saw Don holding the fireball above his head with one hand and shielded Arrora with an air shield using his other hand.

"Is that King Don?"

He was holding the fireball like a stone and didn't seem to be hurt by its heat while Rosaline stared at him with a surprised face look on her as Don asked

"Are you in this duel?"