"How will we do that?" Shiina asked curiously since most of the things she comprehended were combat orientated.

  "Naturally through combat." Shiro smiled.

  "You three will take me on at the same time and I’ll evaluate your performances. If you do very well, I shall reward you with more things. If you don’t do as well as I expected, you’ll get nothing. This is a one time thing so I hope you don’t disappoint. I don’t have time to continuously come back and train you since I’m busy with a few things outside." She explained as all three members had serious expressions on their face.

  "Seems like you’re ready, feel free to start whenever. Perhaps you also need a moment to talk amongst yourselves for a strategy. After all, I don’t think you have worked with one another just yet so it may be a little difficult."

  "We would like to have a talk with one another if you do not mind your highness." Akhess said as Shiro nodded her head.

  "Sure, take all the time you need."

  Walking back to Nan Tian, she sat back down on her chair before crossing her legs.

  Looking at the three talking to each other, Shiro didn’t eavesdrop since that would be rather rude.

  "Do you think those three will be able to work together well enough?" Nan Tian asked curiously.

  "Pft of course not. While they have good willpower, they’re inexperienced. It’s one thing to talk about a plan of action but it’s another to carry it out. After all, they cannot foresee everything that happens in a fight, especially since they know nothing about me. The key is how they will adapt to the change once the plan is shattered apart. How will they carry out a plan that they haven’t discussed? How would they understand each other’s actions and how would they ask for help without me knowing. They won’t be able to communicate silently just yet since it’s their first time working with one another." Shiro replied.

  "However, there is the off chance that they could synergise well so we’ll just have to see what happens." She shrugged as Nan Tian nodded his head.

  "Honestly, the one I’m most curious about is Akhess. He seems like the strategist since he’s explaining the situation and the plan to the other two. But with the way his powers work, I’m wondering how he would impact the fight. If he uses too much of his own blood, there is a chance he could pass out. If he uses his ally’s blood, it could be dangerous for them. And as for using your blood, I doubt he would, considering the fact that you are the queen and their benefactor." Nan Tian explained.

  Thinking about it for a moment, Shiro nodded her head since that is indeed a problem. Being a blood spirit has its benefits and negatives and in a situation like this, it would be hard to bring out 100% of his power.

  Understanding this, Shiro stood up once more.

  "I forgot to mention this earlier but Akhess, feel free to use your spells on me. Taking a bit of blood won’t harm me since I can take off an entire arm and still grow it back." Shiro said with a smile as all three paused in confusion.

  "Pardon?" Akhess said as he didn’t understand what she meant by the fact that she could take off an entire arm.

  "Well basically just know that you can use your skill on me. I want to see 100% of what you’re capable of after all. And just so that you three understand the situation……"

  Summoning a sword, Shiro cut off her right now and burnt it to ashes before a small charge of grace to regrow it in an instant.

  "You can’t hurt me badly so it doesn’t matter." Shiro finished with a grin.

  Seeing the shock and surprise on their faces, Shiro raised her eyebrow at the lack of response.

  {Oh my, you broke them before the fight even started.} Nimue smirked.

  ’Well I was just trying to reassure them. They can’t harm me after all and there is no danger to my life.’ Shiro shrugged.

  {Pft who hurts themselves to this extent while explaining the situation? If I didn’t know you better, I would have thought that you were an M from how much you harm yourself.} Nimue giggled as Shiro rolled her eyes.

  ’It’s better to show than tell. It doesn’t affect me too much so cutting off an army doesn’t matter. Plus, it’s not painful.’ Shiro shrugged.

  {Bullsh*t. Cutting off an arm is obviously painful but you’re just abnormal.} Nimue rolled her eyes.

  This was a woman who casually broke her arm and punched a hole in her stomach so that Silvia could test out her healing spells after all. Common sense had long left her brain!

  ’Mn…… maybe.’


  {It’s not a maybe, it’s a definitely. Anyways they seem to have recovered.}

  Nodding her head, Shiro focused back on reality.

  "So, will you use your skills on me or not? Because like I said before, if you don’t perform well, I’ll be disappointed." Shiro narrowed her eyes as Akhess froze in nervousness before calming himself and nodded his head.

  "Understood." He replied as Shiro nodded her head.

  "Good. Shall we start then?" Shiro asked as she created two tier 5 magic circles.

  Summoning two normal looking swords, Shiro stood in a relaxed position and waited for them to make a move.

  Looking at each other, they nodded as Oran slammed his hand against the ground.

  Two tier 5 magic circles wrapped around both Shiina and Akhess as lighting flickered on their body.

  Suddenly, a pillar of earth shot out from the ground, launching the two towards her.

  Raising her eyebrow, Shiro couldn’t help but smile at the way Oran had comprehended the book that she had given him. What was a self buff skill was actually used to empower his allies who didn’t have this power.

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  ’Interesting.’ Shiro thought while taking a step back and raised her sword.

  Just as she did this, she noticed that her foot started to freeze as the ground beneath her was already frozen in that short moment.

  Shrugging her shoulders, she bent her body back and avoided their first strikes. Shiina tried to cut her with an ice sword while Akhess tried to pierce her with a blood rapier.

  Looking at the two swords that missed their target, Shiro flexed her fingers as two ice pillars erupted out from the ground and slammed the two of them in the stomach, launching them up.

  Gritting her teeth, Shiina swiped her hand horizontally as tens of ice knives shot towards her.

  Using her left hand, Shiro shattered the ice around her foot before cutting down the ice knives with her right hand.

  Just as she did this, Oran appeared behind her with lightning flickering around his body as he had applied the buff to himself.

  Kicking towards Shiro, earth had wrapped around his leg like martial armour but Shiro only gave him a side glance before grabbing his ankle with her hand, stopping his kick.

  Seeing this, Oran quickly morphed his earthen armour into a blade so that he can force Shiro to let go.

  Following along for now, Shiro let go of his leg before slamming her elbow into his stomach.

  As Orna left melee range, tens of ice pillars erupted out of the ground and were slowly dyed red as Shiro quickly looked towards Shiina and Akhess.

  Seeing that both of them were draining their blood into the pillars, Shiro raised her eyebrow and twisted her body.

  Slashing all of the pillars and shattering them to pieces, Shiro watched as blood gushed out of the ice stumps.

  Seeing this, both of them activated tier 4 magic circles as the blood and ice morphed into blades which shot towards her.

  Activating a simple mana barrier, Shiro blocked all of them with ease.

  Surprisingly, it wasn’t over as the blood and ice fused together into chains that wrapped around her barrier.

  Slamming her hands together, more magic circles appeared as ice chains shot towards Shiro.

  Realising that this was frozen slumber, Shiro decided to expose one of its biggest weaknesses and that was without the chains securing the target, it was hard to freeze the target properly.

  Stomping down with her foot, tens of blades appeared in the space around her and slashed apart all of the chains.

  As the chains were slashed apart, the blood that was stored inside became misted which polluted the area.

  Raising her eyebrow, Shiro saw that this was probably a poison type skill. Unfortunately, she was basically immune to poison so doing so was actually such a waste.

  Walking through the mist like it was nothing, Akhess was shocked since doing so would have started to cut her body since there were tiny blades in the mist.

  If it was a normal person, just being in the mist was painful, never mind walking through it. If a small wound opened, he would have been able to drain her blood but her regeneration healed all of the small cuts instantly.

  Arriving before the two, Shiro smiled.

  "Anything else?"