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That said, I, once again, aimed a spatial-charged nucleus between the two.
"I thought I was clear: I'm separating you two."
Claeg and Kaila were blasted apart again. This time, Kaila's entire left side was damaged, but she started to recover not long after.
"You're a nuisance," she called out in frustration. "So you won't let us get too close to each other, now? You that afraid of us?"
"Fine by me, there are other ways we can win..." Claeg signaled to his sister.
Kaila's eyes glowed brighter as she smiled.
"Let's see how you like my Blood World," she said as I noticed the moon had turned red. In fact, everything had developed a red tint.
I looked around to see that we had been enveloped in a mysterious red sheet of her spirit energy.
"What's this?" I asked, cluelessly.
"Marsh," Kaila commanded as blood streams began to gush from her palms. Soon, the entire area was ankle-deep in her blood. I floated off the ground to avoid touching it.
Wait, how is this even happening?
It seems her spirit energy is serving as a barrier to hold her blood within, Viraa remarked. If I had to guess, I would presume that she, or more likely they, will have an advantage within this domain.
At least that would be the case if they were facing any of the others, Viraa chuckled.
"I hope you're prepared," Kaila called out as she used one hand to draw blood from another, forming a whip. "Claeg, stand aside and wait for an opening. Attack the moment you see it."
"Yeah, yeah, just hurry up and cut off an arm or something. I'm starving."
"So you intend to eat me, do you?" I turned to Claeg on the left, but suddenly, a brief wall of blood fell between us as Kaila's whip snapped down and sliced clean through the ground.
"Wow...Didn't know blood could be that sharp," I muttered.
"You have no idea. Here, let me show you," Kaila stated as she whipped her edged blood, wrapping it around me, but Kaila's blood wasn't powerful enough to get through my stasis field. Instead of cutting me, the whips were held in place inches away from me.
"Now, do you see?" I said as I lowered into the bloody marsh. The liquid curved around my presence, unable to touch me. As I strolled toward Kaila, I raised my power slightly and forced the bloody waters to part with each step. "You two can't beat me."
Kaila and Claeg watched with a mixture of confusion and horror before Kaila shook herself free of hesitation.
"My blood can't touch you, so what? So long as you're within my domain, I can still strengthen Claeg until he's strong enough to smash through your defenses."
I looked around at the Blood World she'd created.
"What happens if I do this then?" I asked as I tapped my middle finger and thumb together before focusing an even more immense amount of spirit and spatial energy on them.
Claeg stupidly rushed toward me out of nowhere.
"No! Claeg, get back!" Kaila yelled as I snapped my fingers.
The release of energy was multiple times more powerful than my Expansion Shock was. I could feel the air vibrate as a dome of pure destruction eviscerated the ground and dismantled Kaila's Blood World while blasting both of them skyward. When it all ended, Claeg was somehow relatively okay with only a few cuts as his spirit enhancement broke apart.
I found that odd since I used enough power to rip through any protection he could have conjured easily. Then I noticed a little blood dripping from him.
I looked at Kaila, who was severely wounded again but healing, of course.
"You protected him with your blood," I commented as I flew closer to their vicinity.
"Of course I did. He would've died from a point-blank blast like that," Kaila responded as her body was mostly healed.
"I would've been fin—"
"He might've lost a limb, but he would've survived," I reassured her. I knitted my eyebrows and looked at her more closely.
Claeg charged at me again, but without diverting my focus, I forced him to the ground telekinetically and held him there.
"Why haven't you tried to fight me up close yet?" I asked Kaila as the thought crossed my mind. Her gaze kept flicking from me to Claeg, but she remained in the air with me. "I mean, sure, your brother is stronger and faster, but he just throws his muscles around and doesn't bother learning technique. I know you've realized you'd probably stand a better chance against me than him."
"What, you can read minds now too?" Kaila asked rhetorically. "Sure, I can fight physically if I want. I created a way for me to since I faced that fire bitch a few months ago. But if you want me to show you, you'll have to take down that shield of yours."
"Don't let her hear you call her that," I told her in a friendly, unthreatening manner. "But okay, I'm interested in seeing it, so I'll indulge you."
"Wonderful," Kaila grinned slyly as her power built up, her skin tinged with red, and the whites of her eyes became bloodshot. "Did you know that by changing the composition of my blood, I can force it to circulate and pump faster throughout my body and heart? Doing this pushes me to my limits but closes the gap between me and the others, making me stronger and faster than before."
To prove so, she moved faster than expected and attempted to connect a heavy kick I blocked with my arms. Then, she quickly spun into a sharp elbow directed at my neck. I crossed my left arm across my chest and caught her elbow in my palm, holding her there momentarily as she grinned in satisfaction.
"Impressive, isn't it? Due to my nature, I always preferred the easier way of taking down my prey, but I'm nothing like I was a moment ago," Kaila said proudly.
"Yeah, you're more adept at hand-to-hand than I expected," I complimented as I resisted against her considerable force.
"And that's not all..." she replied.
I looked down at where her elbow and my hand met and raised an eyebrow as some blood oozed from her pores and wriggled between my fingers.
I reflexively yanked my hand away, but it was too late. The blood started worming its way up my arm until I instinctively generated a discharge of spatial energy that lifted the blood from my skin. I watched in disgust as it tried to twist its way inwards and then explode.
"That's...disturbing."
"You prevented it that time, but I doubt you can do that if it's inside your body," Kaila stated as she readied for another attack. "A cut, the mouth, your ears. It doesn't matter what entrance; all it takes is a drop, then you're mine."
Her skin came to life as her blood crawled over it as if it had a mind of its own, "And once I get a grip, I'll drain every drop from you."
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Fun fact: Lift: a divine-class cintracy that grants Alissia the ability to move objects with her mind by generating a spatial field around objects or targets. This energy distorts the space around an object or target, granting her full control. Alissia's telekinetic abilities aren't limited to the extent of her spirit energy. While it requires spirit energy to utilize, items or targets she wants to lift doesn't have to be within her energy's reach. So long as she can see the object and has enough mastery of the power, she can lift objects of a variety of sizes.
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