Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 172: Elsa versus Freya!

"Yes sir! Combatant Elsa is ready sir!" Elsa, who had been getting closer to Muku, recently played along. Which was a rare thing for the quiet little girl.

"Hahaha... Sorry, sorry. I'm ready too" Freya just couldn't hold herself back anymore as she laughed out loud before apologizing.

"No need to be sorry. This isn't some kind of serious affair. We're here to learn from each other. So there's no need to get too serious. Just try to do your best, learn what you can and be a good sport. Winning isn't the main thing here. Now, I'm going to throw this coin I made into the sky. The moment it reaches the ground. Your duel starts," Muku, who had intentionally done what he did, spoke.

He had noticed how the newbies were taking it too seriously. So, he had to remind them. Doing it like that might create unnecessary tension in the team, which he didn't want to see.

With that said, he threw the coin that narcissistically had his face on it into the sky. He was already sitting with the others before it even reached its highest point in the air. So, only Elsa and Freya were left in the ring.

It was sure going to be an interesting match. Elsa, the water element prodigy.

Who was arguably the most talented member of their team. She just sucked up everything she was taught with seemingly zero effort. Then there was Freya, the gentle girl who was under the tutelage of an ancient plant fairy. Both housing fairies.

Pak!

The coin that had been the focus of everyone since it was tossed up finally hit the ground.

"Water arrows!" Elsa was the first one to attack. Throwing one of her oldest and most adept spells. While it wasn't too strong, it certainly packed a punch and could win her the match instantly if Freya was slow to react.

"Bramble shield!" Fortunately for Freya, her reaction time was good enough as she created a shield in time.

It wasn't something she just naturally possessed. She had been training with Iris in her mindscale whenever she had time. The fee for the lessons being... more of her memories. It also seemed like Iris had developed a real interest in Freya as well.

She might have been influenced by the memories of a tough life Freya had. Well, whatever the reason, Freya was gaining significant benefits from the relationship.

As for the "Bramble shield" it was part of a new spell set she had gotten from Iris less than a few hours earlier. Iris had evolved her plant magic to combat most of the other elements. She developed the "bramble" series to combat water spells in particular.

The defining characteristic of the spells was their ability to almost instantaneously absorb water based on its power level or quantity. Which was a rather annoying attribute that Elsa quickly realised.

The attack she was anticipating to set the battle's tempo in her favour was instantly neutralised. Freya's shield almost instantaneously sucked up all the arrows. It even buffed up the shield a bit.

"What?!" Elsa exclaimed in surprise while stepping back. She wasn't the only one who was surprised though. The others were the same. After all, Freya had never used her plant element I'm front of them ever since the Jade incident.

Honestly, with the little time Freya had spent with Iris. They didn't expect much plant magic from her. They expected her to use the sword Muku had made for her more. Yet there she was competing against Elsa in magic.

The battle didn't pause there, though, as Elsa was a decently seasoned warrior at that time. So one unexpected occurrence wouldn't leave her frozen. So she proceeded to throw different minor spells at Freya, trying to see the limits of her shield.

Interestingly enough, the shield kept on sucking more and more water and getting larger. It got to the point where Freya was completely hidden behind a giant shield about five metres tall. Made out of thick intertwining thorny vines.

Elsa could've stopped sooner but she wanted to make sure of something. It took a bit longer than she thought but she was finally done.

"Bramble surge!" Unfortunately for Elsa, Freya was done as well. She let out another unexpected move as her second move.

It was at a time when Elsa and the others were starting to think she only knew one defensive plant spell too.

The shield came apart and the hundreds of thick vines all surged at Elsa. The situation seemed rather familiar to when Iris fought or... beat up the four beasts rather.

Emily couldn't help but get nervous despite knowing Elsa's capabilities. Fortunately for her, Elsa lived up to her battle-genius reputation and got away.

How she did it, however, was quite surprising. For an unknown amount of time since the battle began. She had been covering the ground with water. For some reason, however, the water wasn't sinking into the ground. Likely because of Elsa's actions.

Just when the thorny vines were about to hit her. She slid away. It was more of, the water on the ground grabbed her feet and moved her out of the way. Everyone was instantly stunned by the ingenious way of using her element. No one among them had ever thought of such a thing.

Then again, maybe it was because of her element that she had such a thought. Or her young age that allowed her to think of such crazy things. Well, whatever the reason, they were impressed. They were certain from that act alone that Elsa was going to be a nightmare to all her enemies in the future.

"Water Cleaver!" Elsa instantly capitalised on her unexpected move and used an unexpected move of her own.

The others had only seen her use the waterblade before. Which would be a metre or so long, with a width of around five to ten centimetres. However, there she was releasing a blade of water close to ten metres tall with a width of around a metre.

She had slid to Freya's side. So when the blade struck, it sliced the vines in two from the source. Just to show that it was an intentional miss. The bald cut the vines just ten centimetres away from Freya.

Seeing that, Freya froze on the spot. All her power exited her body along with her will to fight. She had been outmatched and she knew it. While it was the Apocalypse. Where age no longer equalled strength. It still stung to be defeated by such a young girl who still had baby fat on her face.

"... I lose. You win" Freya spoke after recovering a little. She had already done the best he current self could anyway. So it was fine.

"Mmh", Elsa acknowledged Freya's words, then walked off the stage calmly. Which showed just how grounded she was.

That's what everyone but Emily thought anyone. She knew her sister well. The little girl was probably jumping all over the place in her head. She just didn't want anyone to see her as someone childish for some reason.

Foll𝑜w current novels on fɾēewebnσveℓ.com.

Which was rather ironic since everyone saw her as a child anyway...