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[Magic cannon x100]

Rose tried to dodge Adrian's attack but it wasn't as simple as it seemed. Adrian hadn't just shot the hundred attacks close to her, but he was spreading them in the surroundings, creating a space where there were only magic cannons.

If she wanted to dodge them all, she would have to leave that certain area but if she did, she would have to materialize outside of it and outside of it was out of bounds.

That left her only one option.

Up.

Rose turned into lightning and the next time she appeared, she was above the arena, but as soon as she did, she hurriedly crossed her arms in front of her because the next moment, a punch landed on her crossed arms, breaking one and fracturing other, causing her to further gain height in the sky.

Just as she managed to stop her ascending, she hurriedly channeled mana and began to mend her bones. A trick she discovered herself after observing Adrian's magic potions.

Just as her arm was in the working condition, she once again moved them to dodge a kick from above her and as she was struck with it, her body fell faster than it rose up in the sky.

As she fell, she fell into the net of [Magic cannons] Adrian had prepared and a chain of explosions ensued, injuring her further than the damaged insides she already had from that kick.

Slam!!

She fell on the stage, her body battered and broken. She tried to stand up but she couldn't. As for the rest in the arena, they were more than shocked, or stumped.

They couldn't believe the scene in front of them. Turning into lightning was impossible even for the emperor who was the king of lightning known in the empire.

If that wasn't enough, then it was Adrian's performance. What he showed was amazing in its own sense and if that wasn't enough, he was ruthless as hell.

Bam!

Adrian landed in the crater with a bang and looked at Rose who was trying to stand up but her body was too damaged to do that. There were multiple concussions on her head from where she was bleeding and multiple bone fractures.

She couldn't get up no matter how much she tried. She was down for the good.

So the match should have ended at that and the referee was also about to do that when Adrian turned his eyes to him and froze him down to his core.

Adrian turned to look at Rose. She was hurt, battered, and injured beyond anything a tough man could take but even then, she was trying to get up.

[That should be enough of a wake up call]

Allison advised him but to him, that didn't matter. He raised his hand and used the skill [Breath of life] on her.

'How can I disrespect my queen when she's trying her best?' Rose's eyes were full of life and determination. There was no sign on giving up in those eyes and that was what mattered to Adrian.

Rose healed, her blood stopped flowing and power coursed through her veins. As she looked at Adrian with confusion in her eyes, Adrian said, "You're trying to control it. It's yours. Don't control it. Be it."

To Adrian, who was very well versed in all sorts of elements, lightning was a specialty he also focused on and he could guide Rose greatly if she just listened.

However, Rose wasn't going to do that. She wanted something else. She wanted more. She wanted something of her own.

Adrian could teach her a million things but they would be Adrian's. She wanted something that was solely hers and to do that, she needed to have this fight. A fight where Adrian wouldn't hold back juts because of who she was.

She smiled, a smile that was as rare as the harmony of planets in a straight line. But to Adrian, that smile said everything. She liked it.

So Adrian smiled back.

And…

"Kugh!!"

Rose fell on her knees as Adrian suddenly appeared in front of her and kneed her in the stomach but stood in his place with his knee still raised as Rose coughed blood on the ground.

"You were distracted just now," Adrian said before he grabbed her by her arm and flung her in the air, slamming her in the ground once again with added intensity to inflict more damage on her.

"Love is good, it's amazing." Adrian didn't let go of her arm and pulled her again, slamming her on the other side of the ground as he said, "Until it becomes a distraction."

Adrian let go of her and took a step back to let her collect herself.

As she stood up, stumbling over, Adrian smirked and took another step back. He could have went in at that moment but then that wouldn't be a lesson, just a beating.

Rose managed to stand stable on her two feet and looked at Adrian, her eyes a little unfocused from the newfound concussions on her head.

"Having trouble seeing? Then just let the lightning guide you," Adrian said as he took another step back but this time there was no sound, no indication of him taking a step back.

Rose closed her eyes because she had long lost Adrian. No matter how hard she tried, her senses just couldn't pick him up.

Lightning began to course through her veins as she remembered what Adrian said.

He was right. The lightning was erratic. So much so that she had to spend a good amount of her concentration to try and control it.

Still, it wasn't proving helpful because no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't control it. While she did so, Adrian was at the edge of the stage, just waiting there for her.

"This is a waste of time," A duke from the crowd said.

However, unlike how he expected for others to go along with him, no one did. They saw what she did and they also saw how Adrian effortlessly put her down.

No one butted in and the duke had no choice but to grumble to himself and shut up about it. As for the old men in the high tower, they were also exchanging glances with each other.

When Adrian asked Orion to give her a title of a count, Orion just thought he was trying to secure a girl for himself but seeing the events now, he was changing his mindset.

"We need to secure her," Zarden said and Orion nodded. Rafael, on the other hand, had a different mindset. A cautious one. He knew what kind of a person Adrian was and if even Orion tried using Rose, he wouldn't care to make the empire an enemy of himself. And from what he had seen, he was sure the empire wouldn't exist after he would have had his way with it.

As the empire talked about various things, Rose was still focusing on controlling her lightning while Adrian was patiently waiting for her.

As soon as Rose opened her eyes, thinking she had finally had it under her control, she was blown back from the clash of lightning that existed inside of her.

It was lucky she didn't die from the impact on the spot but Adrian made sure she wouldn't as he used the party system to feed her the potion as soon as the lightning inside her clashed.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Cough!!! Cough!!!" Mouthful of blood and ragged breathing as if her diaphragm was messed up which it was, Rose tried to contain herself and wondered what happened.

"Not all lightning is the same," Adrian came closer to her now that the shockwave form the clash of lightning passed.

"You need to make sure you're the lightning. Not the lightning inside of you," Adrian said as he cast another skill on her, fixing her back to health.

She tried to stand up but the impact from before was still fresh in her mind so she tried to take a breather but Adrian wasn't going to allow her that luxury.

As soon as she stood up, Adrian once again kicked her in her stomach, once again sending her to her knees.

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He grabbed her arm again but this time, instead of slamming her into the ground, she threw her up above in the sky.

She came to her senses as soon as she was up in the sky but before she could focus any further, Adrian appeared before her once again and punched her throwing her in another direction.

While everyone thought that this would be a match over since it was an out of bounds, Adrian appeared behind her and hit her again, throwing her in another direction.

And again.

And then once again.

And then he just kept doing it until everyone began to feel true pity for Rose but the two individuals involved didn't care.

Adrian wasn't hurting and she could tell because she was barely getting any damage.

Instead, he was erasing his presence with each hit, leaving Rose's senses unable to pick him up.

But that wasn't how Adrian wanted her to find him.

She closed her eyes and focused again.

'Not all lightning is the same.'

'Don't control it.'

Suddenly, she opened her eyes, her eye color pale blue instead of her usual dark pink.

Her entire being was covered in the same glow and her hair color began to change to sky blue.

And then…

Boomm!!!