The Magician of Sound

When she was about to touch the water, her body suddenly stopped as a mysterious power wrapped her body. 

"What?!" Ilareca widened her eyes and turned to the side. 

Arba also noticed them as her tornado was interrupted and dispersed.

Suddenly, a man covered with black metal flew on top of the water at high speed. His left hand was hanging uselessly, but his right hand was above his head, planning to hit Ilareca. 

Ilareca struggled to the point she formed a hand to stop the man, but a hole suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She soon realized an arrow had just created that hole on the giant hand, allowing the man to arrive before her. 

She waved her staff and struck the man, but the latter had enough strength to push her back into the air.

"Kh." Ilareca spun her body. "Water Droplet. Obey me."

The water particles in the air suddenly began to gather around her as they covered her staff, creating a giant water spiral formed by her body's rotation. 

The wind gently wrapped Arba's hands as she struck Ilareca. "Ha!"

Bam. 

The collision dispersed both the wind and water to the side while blowing Ilareca away. 

She spun a few times and used the water droplets to stop the momentum before everyone could continue attacking her. 

It was then she started looking around and recognizing all of them. 

"You…" Ilareca raised her head and found all top ten fighters from their side had died. "How? How did they die? You couldn't afford to kill them! Your strength wasn't supposed to be this strong."

However, she soon found the reason when only three of them helped Arba in this fight. At the same time, Devain couldn't use his left hand, Felice was too tired to participate in the fight for a long time, and Tasha was covered with wounds. 

She realized they made a certain sacrifice to kill their top ten fighters. After all, there was no Michelle, Sofia, Ayaka, and Ria Ross, who was supposed to be the strongest among them. 

"You…" Ilareca gritted her teeth and shouted, "You are shameless. You don't have the ability to kill me by yourself and you call yourself the strongest humanity?"

Arba closed her eyes and smiled. "As much as I want to rebuke your words, I don't need to. After all, you taught us this tactic… Wasn't your Sea Race who planned the fight between our king and two other protectors? And you are calling us shameless to fight you in this situation? This is why I don't like greenhorn… This is a checkmate made by our king." 

All of them smiled when they heard the last sentence. They still remembered when Kai visited them for a brief moment, giving instruction to all of them. 

"You talk too much." Tasha raised her hand and a pink sphere appeared out of thin air. After that, she charged the sphere with her lightning before compressing it as her arrow. She aimed her arrow and shot her. 

Ilareca released the water droplet that let her stay afloat and started falling to avoid the arrow. 

Felice hurriedly raised her again with the Telekinesis, but Ilareca dispersed the water droplets to stop the Telekinesis. 

"What? You can do that?" Felice widened her eyes and soon figured out what had happened. Ilareca was using the water droplets to carry her Magic Power, dispersing the Telekinesis. 

Unfortunately for her, Devain was floating above the water with Felice's help. 

Seeing Devain, Ilareca waved her hand, raising the water to form two giant hands. 

He was soon engulfed by the hands while Arba took this chance to use her wind to redirect Tasha's arrow and increase its speed. 

The arrow flew faster than her, catching up to her. 

Ilareca blocked the arrow with her staff, but the lightning was released from its compressed form, electrocuting her.

"Aaaaahhhhh!" She screamed in pain and crashed into the water, losing her consciousness for three seconds.

The moment she woke up, Ilareca looked around, finding something she could use. She hurriedly swam forward, using the water as her cover. 

Suddenly, she leaped from the water and Felice was right in front of her eyes. 

"I got you!" Ilareca smirked. 

"No, you." Felice waved her hand upward, boosting Ilareca's momentum to launch her to the sky. "Go!"

"What?!" Ilareca widened her eyes and hurriedly summoned three water elementals to help her. 

Unfortunately for her, Felice used her Telekinesis to disperse the water, Devain created a giant metal fan and swung it to blow the elemental away, and Tasha's arrow sparked on the very bottom of the elemental, making the rest of its body lose the water supply. 

Without her elementals, Ilareca needed to face Arba alone. 

"No!" Ilareca tried to spin her body, but Felice stopped her movement before dropping to the ground due to exhaustion. There wasn't much Magic Power left in her body. 

Arba covered her fists with her wind power and sent both hands to hit her chest. Surprisingly, Arba caught her staff and used her wind to take it away. 

"Wha—" Ilareca dropped her jaw and saw Arba losing her momentum. This way, she couldn't do another attack. "You won't be able to attack me again." 

"Yeah. It's not me after all." Arba smiled. "I am just an old woman. The youngsters should be the heroes, not me."

Suddenly, a pink Magic Circle appeared next to her as Devain emerged from within.

Ilareca soon realized Devain's aim was to kill her. Hence, she raised both hands, trying to protect her heart and head.

However, Devain didn't care about them and struck her stomach. 

Despite her tough skin, Devain's metal hand pierced through her stomach. 

Ilareca coughed up blood and thought it was impossible for Devain to pierce her skin because it was strong enough to withstand his power in this situation. After all, they were still falling and his punch would just boost her momentum. 

Suddenly, Felice dropped to the ground, struggling to get up. It turned out she used the remaining of her Magic Power to stop Ilareca for a second, allowing Devain's hand to pierce through her stomach. 

"Impossible…" Blood began to flow out of the hole and her mouth. Ilareca was unwilling to die without accomplishing anything, so she immediately grabbed Devain's hand, trying to bring him inside the water to drown him. 

Unfortunately for her, Tasha saw through her plan and appeared next to them while clapping her hands. 

"Teleportation!" 

"No—!" Ilareca gasped as the scenery soon changed as they were teleported five hundred meters above the ground. 

Arba only raised her head and muttered, "You can't use your water droplets anymore because it uses too much of your Magic Power. And in that state, you have no other choice than to die…"

Still, Ilareca had her own pride and her unwillingness gave her a bit of her strength. 

"Even if I need to die, I am going to make you suffer." She raised both hands, trying to snap Devain's head, only to find it useless.

Tasha's arrow pierced her right hand and the compressed lightning sparked, obliterating her entire arm. 

Meanwhile, the other one could only grasp Devain's head and had no strength left to snap his neck.

Devain hit her head with his head, cracking her skull. 

"No… N…" Ilareca was unwilling, but her consciousness had already left her body.

Tasha used her Teleportation to send them to the ground, letting Devain arrive on the land and create a small crater. 

Tasha and Arba surrounded them to make sure she had died.