9 THRONES

CHAPTER 136: STAGE 3

Vann smiled bitterly, now he understood why Atrea was nicknamed the queen of birds. He had to admit the use of hundreds of birds, 3 giant eagles and 1 golden crow belonging to Atrea was quite frightening. At least of all the people that Vann was fighting, except for the ruler of the magma pillar, he had never encountered such a terrifying figure as Atrea.

Now that he felt all the birds around staring at him like prey, even the water dragon which was Vann's strongest technique was also defeated by Atrea.

Though Vann's water dragon technique was what he learned from the previous academy chief against the Golden Fire Emperor, although it was not the same, but his strength should not be underestimated. Atrea was able to fight against the water dragon which showed just how terrifying her spirit was.

The spectator who from earlier observed everything that happened could not help but be surprised "Great! As expected of the Bird Queen, Miss Atrea!".

"I finally saw Miss Atrea's 3 best bird spirits again! 2 The sky eagle and the golden crow, if not for the existence of Tarion, Miss Atrea would have been the best in the academy".

"What did you say? Although there was no Tarion, wouldn't Poris still be able to defeat Miss Atrea?".

"Are you still new to the Wood Sword Academy? Everyone knows that Poris and Miss Atrea have never fought in person! Miss Atrea was unlucky and had to face Tarion early which made her lose before going up against Poris".

Tardi who was in the audience seats smiled "Truly interesting, our Wood Sword Academy is at least not lacking in talent in the slightest, I will probably manage to rise in office as long as all of these talents develop!".

Atrea's voice echoed again around Vann "I have to admit, you're so powerful! I don't think your talent is inferior to Tarion's, maybe even more so. But you have a big shortcoming: time, if you train for another year or 2 years, you win! Even so, I must not let you win because I must obtain the strongest rank of the Wood Sword Academy. Therefore, I can only defeat you now!".

The 2 golden eagles and crows flapped their wings again and flew towards Vann with hundreds of birds, planning to end this fight as soon as possible.

Vann did not plan to give up, he thought of continuing to use the water dragon until Atrea was exhausted. Although the possibility is not great, but Vann may succeed in making Atrea tired first before defeating him.

Actually Vann can win without problems if he uses the power of the Vermilion Bird, the problem is that Vann does not plan to use that power unless certain circumstances are very risky. After all the Vermilion Bird Blood was a saint-level weapon spirit, if used as a surprise attack, Vann might be able to turn things around in the midst of a life-and-death crisis.

When Vann was planning on using the power of the water dragon again, the Vermilion Bird's voice sounded "Son, why don't you use the 3rd stage of your 5 Element Sword Technique? Isn't stage 3 the element of fire? All female birds called Atrea are strong, but their weakness should be the same - fire! Compared to water, Atrea bird spirits should get bigger wounds when exposed to fire. Since you're not planning on using me, then you can only choose the 5 Elements Sword Technique stage 3 right?".

Hearing Vermilion Bird's suggestion, Vann hesitated a little before saying in his mind "I can't use the 5 Elements Sword Technique of the 3rd stage, I've practiced many times but always ended up failing. Though I understand how to use this technique, but when I use the 3rd stage, the flames that should have formed around the sword did not appear! Therefore, I have never worn the 3rd stage".

"Wait a minute!", said Vermilion Bird thinking of something "Was that time you were wearing the 3rd stage before I became your spirit?".

"Right, is there a problem?", asked Vann.

"Not strange, your spirit is the opposite water ball of the fire element. The existence of the spirit also affects its master, those who have the spirit of water become close and easily use the element of water. But the opposite is true, they are not very suitable for the fire element that is the opposite of water. Not only that, every time they tried to learn a fire element ability or technique, there must be a mismatch that made it harder to learn", Vermilion Bird explained "But don't you now have me as your spirit? Why not try it again? My existence here must have covered up your weakness that is not suited to the fire element!".

Breathing out, a trace of fire was seen from Vann's eyes "Switch Technique 5 Element stage 3, Fire Storm!".

Vann stepped forward and slashed his sword towards the hundreds of birds that approached him, traces of fire starting to appear on Vann's sword.

Initially the traces of fire contained in Vann's sword was only a small collection of fire, but the fire in Vann's sword continued to get bigger until Vann slashed his sword towards the enemy.

"Booooom!".

A loud burst of flames rang out, the arena where Vann fought against Atrea was covered by flames.

The birds in the arena began to burn, 2 eagles and a giant golden crow were also affected by the fire.

Many spectators who were in the arena sweating due to the temperature of the arena turned hot, even though the distance of the audience was quite far from the arena stage where the fight took place, but the heat of the fire on the Vann arena remained so they were a little wondering how hot it would be if they stood in the same arena on Vann.

Amidst the burning flames, the 2 golden eagles and crows found the flames on their bodies completely unquenchable but instead the flames continued to become increasingly stronger.

Realizing all that, the eyes of the 3 birds became sharp.

Although the body was burned by fire, they tried to kill Vann first so that Atrea would still be considered the winner.

Looking at the 3 approaching birds, Vann did not sit idly by but instead replaced his attack again "Strade Technique 5 Element stage 2, Wind Blade!".

"Dash!".

Hundreds of blades of wind flew from Vann's sword and slashed 3 birds, each time the blades of wind passed through the fire then they did not make the fire extinguish but rather the fire kept getting stronger.

Under the force of the fire and the slash of the wind blades, 3 birds fell down before reaching Vann, they lay on the ground about 5 meters away from Vann. If they managed to fly another 5 meters, Atrea might be the winner.

Looking at the 3 fallen birds, Vann did not stop but instead rushed forward and pointed his sword towards the golden crow "I hope you give up, there is no need to complicate the fight anymore right?".

The figure of Atrea actually emerged from behind the golden crow, he looked at Vann before smiling bitterly "I admit defeat, you are really stronger than me!".