Runebelle and Arlysa stood fag each other with tension in the air that caused surges of power. Arlysa with her dark attire and sinister demeanor exuded an aura of darkhat trasted sharply with Runebelle’s gloominess.

  Arlysa chuckled darkly. She observed Runebelle taking out her smaller rapid-fire on. She taunted, “Oh, how adorable, little girl. You think that tiny toy gun stand up to the power of darkness?”

  Runebelle remained silent with her blue and pink hair framing her face as she held her on at the ready. She decided not to respond to Arlysa’s taunts with words but let her as speak for her.

  Arlysa was uerred by Runebelle’s silence. She raised her magical staff and summoned a wave of shadowy energy that surged toward Runebelle. The dark tendrils of magic shed out with deadly i seeking to overwhelm her.

  Runebelle swiftly dodged the ining dark energy. Her smaller on spat out rapid bursts of energy in parison to her sisters. Each shot was aimed with precision. The bsts of energy collided with Arlysa’s dark magic, creating sparks and explosions in the air.

  Arlysa let out a dark ughter and said, “You try to resist me little girl, but darkness will alrevail. It’s only a matter of time before you fall.”

  Runebelle remained focused oask at hand. Arlysa eled her dark magid called out,

  “Dark Cage,”

  Dark orbs of energy materialized all around her whied a menag barrier that threateo engulf her.

  With a swift motion of her hands, Runebelle summoned her elemental pilrs. Three pilrs of ice, fire ah emerged around her, each representing a different element.

  The dark orbs of energy unched by Arlysa began to pummel Runebelle’s elemental pilrs. The agic created a chaotic spectacle as dark and elemental forces collided in a fierce battle.

  The ice pilr absorbed the dark energy, freezing it into twisted shapes before shattering it into harmless ice crystals. The fire pilr ed the dark orbs with hungry fmes, redug them to ash. The earth pilr acted as a solid shield, blog any stray energy that mao get past the other two.

  Arlysa pointed her staff towards Runebelle, whiched out a powerful dark energy bst. This bst tore through Runebelle’s elemental pilrs, shattering their defenses and striking the young creation directly. The force of the attack sent Runebelle stumbling backward, her smaller on falling from her grasp.

  Arlysa stepped forward, her face looking dark and malevolent. She poi Runebelle and spoke in a chilling tone, “You’re tougher than you look, but not tough enough to withstand the darkness. You see, darkness has a way of seeping into every crad crevice, eroding evero of defenses.”

  Runebelle remained silent but the damage was evident.

  Arlysa smmed her staff into the ground, a surge of dark power coursed through her, causing her form to be enveloped in a malevolent, pulsating aura. Dark skulls emerged from her body, swirling around her like vengeful spirits, and her presence became even more menag.

  Runebelle, despite her gloomy disposition, couldn’t help but feel an ominous sense of dread at the dispy of Arlysa’s enhanced power. The dark energy radiating from her oppo alpable, and it posed a signifit threat.

  Arlysa grinned wickedly. “You’re about to witrue darkness, my dear. Prepare yourself for the abyss.”

  With those ominous words, Arlysa raised her staff high, ready to unleash a torrent of darkness upon Runebelle who stood her ground.

  With her staff raised high, Arlysa eled her dark power into the spell, causing the atmosphere arouo grow even more foreboding. The dark skulls that surrounded her swirled faster, their eyes gleaming with an eerie crimson light.

  A massive sphere of pure darkness formed above her staff, its preseninous that it seemed to devour the very light around it.

  With a malicious grin, Arlysa directed the sphere of darkoward her gloomy oppo.

  “Eclipse Annihition!”

  The sphere hurtled through the air leaving a trail of inky bess in its wake and aimed to engulf Runebelle in its malevolent embrace.

  Runebelle’s desperate attempt to defend herself with her three elemental pilrs proved futile against the overwhelming power of Arlysa’s Eclipse Annihition. As the sphere of pure darkness desded upon her, it ed her protective barriers with ease, shattering them like fragile gss.

  The dark energy engulfed Runebelle, and for a moment, the beach was bathed in an eerie, unnatural darkness. The force of the Eclipse Annihition was relentless, and Runebelle was caught in its devastating grip.

  Arlysa watched in triumph as her spell took effed Runebelle’s body was obscured within the enveloping darkness. The ominous sphere seemed to drain the very vitality from the young creation, leaving her weakened. Her dark aura pulsated around her while Runebelle’s unyielding gloomy demeanor.

  “What darkness have you seen in your life, young one?” Arlysa inquired “Why do you persist with that mencholic expression, even in the face of such power?”

  Runebelle, though weakened by the dark spell, remained resolute. Her eyes, still locked onto Arlysa, held a depth of sorrow that seemed to transd her youehough she held onto sadness, she spoke carrying a strength in her words. “I’ve known nothing but sadness in my life. Every time something good came, something else took it away. I’ve had nothing, and everyoayed away from me because of my hair, the two colors... it’s always been this way.”

  The darkness of the Eclipse Annihition seemed to resoh the sadness within her.

  Arlysa, her dark power pulsating around her, regarded Runebelle with fasation and uanding. She could sehe depth of Runebelle’s sorrow, and it intrigued her.

  “Such sorrow be a powerful force,” Arlysa mused, her dark aura intensifying. “It drive oo great heights, or it e them entirely. What do you choose, young one? Will you let your sadness define you, or will you use it? What if I were to be the oo use it?”

  Runebelle, uo maintain eye tact, looked down as if her very existence was burdened by the weight of her emotions. The area of the beach she stood upon was engulfed in the darkness, and it seemed as though the shadows themselves respoo her profound sadness.

  Meanwhile, amidst the chaotic battle against the mages, Risebelle felt an inexplicable u was not something she could see or hear, nor was it a physical sensation, but rather a deep, instinctual feeling that something was amiss with Runebelle.

  Risebelle’s focus wavered for a moment. She tried to prehend this uliion. She fought off the mages and ect the dots at the same time.

  Ign the barrage of magical attacks from the mages, Risebelle’s focus sharpened on the area where Runebelle had st been seen. It was as though an invisible arm bell had rung within her, and she khat she had to act quickly.

  “Roselle!” Risebelle called out urgently to her younger sister, who was engaged in bat with Sylra. “I o che Runebelle. Keep Sylra busy for me!”

  Roselle, though still locked in battle, uood the gravity of the situation. She o Risebelle and redoubled her efforts to fend off Sylra, allowing Risebelle a moment to break away.

  As Roselle tinued her intetle with Sylra, the blows from Sylra’s Earth-enhatacks began to take their toll. She could feel her syic body straining uhe relentless assault, and her movements were growing sluggish.

  Sylra, her rough demeanor and aggressive fighting style, pressed the advantage. She delivered a powerful punch that nded squarely on Roselle’s side, sending her sprawling to the sandy ground. Roselle grunted in pain upon rising slowly from the ground.

  Despite the pain, Roselle tried to keep Sylra engaged in bat as per Risebelle’s instru.

  Sylra with a fident smirk taunted, “You ’t even handle a fight with me, little girl. How did you pn on stopping the whole of Magical Academy?”

  Roselle, though battered and bruised, refused to back down. She ched her fists and prepared to face Sylra once more.

  Meanwhile, Risebelle moved quickly, darting away from the chaotic battle with the mages. Her heart raced with worry for Runebelle, and she couldn’t shake the feeling that something had goerribly wrong.

  She reached the area where Runebelle had been engulfed by the Eclipse Annihition. The darkness pressive, and the air felt heavy with sorrow. Risebelle called out her sister’s name.

  “Runebelle! Are you okay? you hear me?”

  Within the shroud of darkness, Runebelle’s gloomy figure became visible. Though still filled with sadness, she showed a glimmer of hope when she heard Risebelle.

  “I’m here,” Runebelle replied, “But I’m trapped, and I ’t break free from this darkness.”

  Risebelle’s eyes narrowed while assessing the situation. She could see the profound sadness in Runebelle’s eyes, and it broke her heart. But she khat they couldn’t afford to linger in this darkness.

  “I’m going to get you out of there, Runebelle,” Risebelle decred.

  As Risebelle moved to rescue Runebelle from the oppressive darkness of the Eclipse Annihition, Arlysa, the Elite Mage with an affinity for darkness, had other pns. With a sinister grin, she harhe power of the dark aura surrounding her.

  “Oh no, dear Risebelle,” Arlysa taunted with malice. “You won’t be interfering in this little drama.”

  With a swift and practiced motion, Arlysa extended her hand toward Risebelle. Dark energy surged from her fiips, f tendrils of shadow that shot out with incredible speed. Before Risebelle could react, the tendrils coiled around her, ensnaring her in an inky, suffog darkness.

  Risebelle struggled against the binding darkness, her movements growing sluggish. The shadows tighteheir grip. She could feel her strength waning as Arlysa’s power held her firmly in pce.

  Meanwhile, the battle between Roselle and Sylra raged oe the pain and fatigue, Roselle refused to yield to her oppo. She had to keep Sylra occupied.

  Sylra lunged forward using her Earth-enharength poised for another powerful attack . Roselle grew in her resolve. With a surge of power, she activated her lightning affinity, causing crag arcs of electricity to gather around her body. Sylra’s eyes widened in surprise in witnessing this sudden transformation.

  “What?” Sylra excimed, caught off guard by Roselle’s newfound energy.

  In that critical moment, Roselle unleashed her attack move with a triumphant shout.

  “Thundercp, Surge!”

  The air around Roselle surged with yellowish energy as a burst of lightnied from her, f a rapidly spinning fan of electridrils. This fan of pure, crag electricity homed in on its target with remarkable precision.

  The Thundercp Surge discharged tendrils of lightning that struck out with pinpoint accuracy, delivering jolts of electricity upon impact. Sylra, uo rea time, was enveloped by the electrifying assault, her body vulsing from the powerful shocks.

  The sand gathered around Sylra, obsg her from view, Roselle had expected her Thundercp Surge to have a signifit impa her oppo. However, when the sand cleared, Roselle’s eyes widened in astonishment. Sylra stood before her, unharmed and unfazed by the lightning attack.

  fusion and frustration welled up within Roselle who tried to prehend what had just happened. Sylra, with an air of fidence, began to expiure of her abilities.

  With an air of superiority, Sylra decred, “Your entire affinity won’t work on me, little girl. My Earth affinity allows me to create a sinkhole within my body for charges, abs any amount of electricity you throw at me. My body is filled with the earth’s essence, making me impervious to lightning damage.”

  Roselle could hardly believe what she was hearing. The realization that her primary affinity was iive against Sylra’s Earth affinity left her jaw dropped to the ground. She had ted on her lightning abilities to be her on in this battle but it seemed that Sylra had found a way to ralize that advantage.

  “You ’t be serious,” Roselle said incredulously as now she was filled with frustration and disbelief.

  “How am I supposed to fight her now?”