The Absolute: Humanity's Second Chance

And there, one could actually see a small twirling of tornado-like nigh-invisible force. It was light blue in color, and threatened to materialize on her hand.

'Such... exquisite Mana Control is hard to come by.' He thought with a light smile. This battle was already won. It was only a matter if time.

Juliette stared at the Void borne spirit vigilantly. The opponents also vigilantly stared back at her. Non moving at all. One being the other's full focus.

Time felt nonexistent to them.

Meanwhile, Juliette continued to gather Mana at her palm. She easily attracted Mana like breathing, the action was just involuntary for her.

Just a single thought, and Mana would gush from her heart to her palm. Then she extricately guided it using her will to circulate clockwise, forming a cyclone-like twirl.

Of course, such an action required plenty of Mana and focus, in which case she realized that she had a lot of it. As an Apprentice, her Mana recovery rate was that of an Apprentice.

And as a talented person, and someone innately good with Mana, her recovery rate was even higher than other Apprentice Ascenders.

Thus her recovery rate was higher than her total reserves, giving her the subconscious feeling of having infinite Mana. Just a feeling though.

For, before she even drained the 10 units she already had, they would instantly recover. Hence throughout the minute long stare-down, Juliette had gathered Mana comparable to 200 units within her hand.

That much Mana actually felt dense and heavy. Not to the point of being a burden to her, but she doubted an ordinary first generational human would easily bare with it.

"..."

"..."

And mind you, her actions were impossible for the ordinary mind to comprehend. Not even a spirit woubd dare do such a thing.

The final product would be devastating, she thought, yet she still did not prematurely use it. Instead, she rushed towards the opponent once again.

Her awareness active. At the same time, the opponent retreated. Learning from its previous lesson, it did not prematurely rush towards her as well.

But even that was to her advantage.

'Hmph, foolish.' She scoffed internally, as she suddenly increased her speed. But at that moment, the Void borne spirit paused and slashed with its left hand.

...!!!

Juliette's instincts kicked in, as her body instinctively pushed itself aside. But no attack followed up, and her senses flared up, warning her of great danger instead.

'Dammit!!' She clicked her tongue in annoyance as for once, her intuition was off. She fell into the opponent's trap.

For the moment she rolled over and stood up, she instinctively crossed her arms before her chest, while willing The Primordial Source to distribute her stat points.

She distributed 50/50 to both Intelligence and Wisdom, temporarily ignoring the other Stats.

Then the next moment, without giving her time to breathe, a powerful invisible force smashed onto her body, sending her flying tens of meters back at great speed.

Along the way, it left a very deep gash stretching for five meters, it being a ruler-length deep.

As for Juliette, her body was thrown approximately twelve meters away, where she rolled over the rough surface, for four more meters.

"..."

As for Damien, he just stood still, with his arms crossed before his chest. He was as expressionless as ever. Yet one could tell that he was slightly worried.

His right heel was slightly raised up, as if ready to rush forward at full speed. Yet as things seem, he managed to stop himself in time.

"Keuk, kak, kuek!!"

Juliette used her fist to prop herself up. It was glowing slightly blue in color, due to the gathered Mana trapped within, which was inching closer to 300 units now.

She coughed out blood as her vision was slightly blurry. Slightly, though.

Overall, she only sustained blunt damage, thanks to the 0,6 Points of Magic Defense that she now had.

"..."

A moment later, she grit her teeth and slowly stood up. Taking in deep breathes of air to slightly calm her heart and nerves, she looked up at the sky, trying to reign in her emotions.

But rage slowly crept up within her heart. The pain hurt. And she has never been through such pain before. But more importantly, the disgrace!!

The disgrace she felt!!

The embarrassment!!

The more she thought on them, the more her rage climbed up the roof. Her man was watching her. And her opportunity to impress him was gone.

Gone just like that?!

Woosh~

The blue color around her hand became more intense, almost overshadowing her entire hand, and cloaking it in blue.

Bang!!

Along with that, powerful Mana exploded out in the form of powerful winds around her. Her hair danced wildly within the air, as if a storm was inching closer and closer to her.

"..."

Juliette immediately kicked off the ground, bursting off at terrifying speeds. She was slightly faster than normal. Almost transcending subsonic speed.

'Oh? Mana Enhancement?' Damien thought to himself as he watched the ongoing battle.

Or rather, Juliette rushing towards her opponent covered in a wave of Mana, to be precise. His worry was dissipated.

What Juliette did not know was that, Damien was more than impressed by her actions from beginning to end. Not one bit disappointed.

Meanwhile, Juliette herself burst off at terrifying speed and easily approached near the Void borne spirit. She was not rage-possessed. Yet she was.

The Void borne spirit was surprised and hurriedly rolled over to avoid her monstrous charge. Juliette did not think much about it, to her, the spirit was on its death row.

But the moment she paused to fix her posture, the Void borne spirit felt immense danger from her, thus it waved it's hand and sent out another invisible blade towards her.

'A fourth one?!' Juliette was surprised.

'A nigh-advanced Extra Ability?' And so was Damien. But their surprise, amounted to nothing.

For while surprised, Juliette also instinctively sent out the gathered Mana within her enclosed fist forward.

She threw it out, and it flashed like a blue bullet, clashing with the incoming invisible blade at lightning speed.

BOOOM!!!

Upon contact, the two supernatural level attacks exploded out into an explosion that sent both of them flying backwards.

Juliette suffered far less damage as she had magic defense value equivalent to her magic damage value. Hence the effects slightly canceled each other out.

Slightly.

Because the aftermath of the explosion was something far greater than what 0,6 points of magic damage could do.

It was comparable to 1 point of magic damage, which was the coverage of a hundred meter radius!!

"..."

"..."

Such was the terrifying force of the attack that Juliette just threw out. It was devastating. And it was purely Mana-enforced!!

Both figures stared in stupor as they watched the blue light covering a hundred meters diameter illuminate them and their soroundings.

And meanwhile,

[ TING!!! ]

[ You have killed the Lvl 3 Void borne Spirit, Oid. You have obtained 18,15 units of Life Essece ]

[ Bonus effect has been applied. You have individually obtained 36,3 (36) units of Life Essence. Your partner has obtained 44,53 (45) units of Life Essence ]

[ TING!!! ]

[ An achievement made!!! ]

[ You have automatically comprehended the rare Extra Ability, "Mana Control" ]

[ You have automatically comprehended the rare Extra Ability, "Mana Enhancement" ]

[ As the first to automatically comprehend Abilities, rare-rated ones, you have been rewarded with 200 units of Life Essence ]

[ You have obtained the exclusive reward of a 200% increase of Mana absorption for the next 24 hours ]

"..."

Juliette was surprised, but more than that, she was joyful. She finally got Abilities of her own!!

She could not wait to show off to Damien. Unfortunately, as she stood up, she suddenly fell down face flat and fainted.

Unfortunately once again, Damien was even more surprised by something else. Thus, he failed to realize the situation Juliette was in.

[ TING!!! ]

[ You have killed the Lvl 3 Void borne Spirit, Oid. You have obtained 18,15 units of Life Essece ]

[ Due to being two level lower, your Life Essence obtained has increased by 20% ]

[ Bonus effect has been applied. You have individually obtained 44,53 (45) units of Life Essence. Your partner has obtained 36,3 (36) units of Life Essence ]

[ Congratulations. You've obtained the following resources: Spirit Shard(Impure/Tier 1), Bracelet of Oid(Superior) ]

[ For defeating a trial opponent, you have obtained the following rewards: Extra Ability(×1), Tier 1 Random Treasure Chest(×1), Spirit Fragment(1/4) ]

"..."

Damien was surprised at the fact that this Void borne spirit... was actually his trial!!

It was unbelievable. But more than that, he was happy. He was so happy he wished to share the news with his now-favorite person.

Unfortunately, for the nth time,

...!!!

"Juliette!!" Damien finally realized the actions that Juliette had made, and it clicked to him that they were normally impossible for the current her.

He rushed towards her and checked her pulse, and luckily, everything was fine. Her heart rate was still beating normal. Her blood flow was also not chaotic.

As for internal damages, he would have to check later with her, once she woke up. Overall, she was 50% alright at the moment.

She should wake up in a few minutes.

Until then, he could just wait for her opponent. The next opponent was bound to be a spirit as well, since Juliette goes against spirit types.

It was as if she was favored by spirits, or were their nemesis. Either way, he was-–