Chapter 73: I don’t need your help
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Delia’s eyes widened at the Hammer coming down at her and then she glanced at the ’spider-legs’ holding her to the ground and realized they were doing more than pinning her down. The legs were going to suffer the most from the force of the hammer and what she’d suffer would only knock her out. Probably.
Even as intent on winning as he was, Aurelius wasn’t going for a completely lethal strike.
That said, Delia didn’t just lie there and wait for the attack to hit. Her hands were free enough to form seals that created a spell circle. Wind, water, and lightning surged out in perfect unison and perfect chaos to the combined might of a storm.
The water packed the punch that pushed against the spider legs. The lightning packed the explosive force, and together, they broke the legs so the wind could lift Delia away just as the Earthen hammer finally hit.
*BANG!*
The hammer destroyed what was left of the ’spider-leg’ spell and Aurelius let out a sigh that his tactic hadn’t worked. Even then though he still smiled and Delia mirrored that smile as she was back on her feet, hunched over slightly in the pose of someone ready to pounce.
A storm brewed around her and she looked ready to burst out her most powerful spell yet. But then, she heard the sound of a leg making hard contact with someone’s stomach followed by the buzzer sound of someone flying over the boundary of the Outer Ring.
She looked over and she saw Caius with his leg raised still in the pose of delivering a kick and she saw Baler fly a few more feet before he hit the ground hard and started to rock side to side in pain.
"What?" Delia let out. The Caius she knocked out last week could not have done that. Or maybe he could have and just didn’t? But why?
’To let me win?’ Delia asked herself and then shook her head, ’Hell, no! I beat him fair and square. This— This is new."