Now they return to the Tactic camp, where Lance and Natalie are. Eldaro brought Sabrina to camp and sat her on the chair, staring at her with angry eyes.
"Why are you here, Queen?" Eldaro inquires. "I told you to stay with the reinforcements to defend them."
"Okay okay, you can drop that title, please? Because we are friends," Sabrina says as Eldaro nods, "Well... Honestly, I find that kinda boring so I come here fast by teleport crystal and found your camp." Sabrina rubs her back of the head, "Also I heard the rumor that some mage has defeated you so I wanna challenge her to... eh some revenge." Eldaro glared harsher at Sabrina, making her use her hand to cover her eyes, “Oh please, I don't like that stare."
"It's funny, Sabrina, you still enjoy making trouble like before, don't you?" Eldaro sits down in his chair, while Sabrina smiles nervously. "Please take your seats, we have lots of chairs," Everyone in the tent finds a chair and sits down around the table. Eldaro signs "I hope the reinforcement is okay for now."
"Don't worry, I selected the best soldiers for this trip," Sabrina smiled at him. "Don't worry, they will make it... Just wait two days." Eldaro is too tired to be angry at her now and sighs.
"I would like to ask with your majesty," Rose asks as Sabrina nods. "What is your relationship with captain Eldaro?"?
'Oh, we have been friends since our childhood,' says Sabrina while drinking a cup of coffee. Everyone but Sunset is surprised by the answer. "Don't be like that, we were surprised when we found out Leo is a prince. He said that he didn't want to be rooted in the palace so he stepped out and explored."
"You... You are friends with the Royal Family. Oh, man, if I know that, I am going into the army." Lance, lying on the table, says..
"Sorry, don't think your uncle is a friend of the King and Queen, it doesn't mean you will be safe in our army." Eldaro puts the gun on the table. "Well, we will travel together for many years until Leo takes the crown and rules the kingdom." Eldaro takes a picture of three "Even his parents banned him from going exploring with us, he tries to sneak out if he has a chance. Man, every time he comes out, many troubles come with us."
Sabrina sighs, "Yeah, those memories are good," she says, "I just wish I could go back to those days and relive those moments." Sabrina set down the cup of tea. Anyway, who defeated you, Eldaro? I wanna know," Sabrina said with glee, all eyes except for Eldaro's turn to Sunset, making her nervous. She puts her face near the Black Coat mage as she walks toward Sunset and asks, "Oh, so you're the one who defeated Eldaro?". "I want to challenge you to a fight. Do you accept?"
Sunset pushes Sabrina's face with her wooden staff, "No, we have an important thing to do than this ridiculous duel. Right, Eldaro?"
"Yep, Sabrina, can you sit down for a while?" Eldaro asks and Sabrina just sits down but grumbles inside. "Ok, what will you four gonna do with the Hydra?"
"Honestly, I don't know what we will do for that monster, but we will prepare some sort of thing." Natalie is drinking a cup of coffee." But honestly, at present, we can only ask you to sharpen Matt's sword, "Natalie explains as Matt puts the sword on the table. Eldaro and Sabrina impress with the sword. "The scale of that Hydra is too tough for the sword."
"Well, we can do that. Also, Eldaro has some missiles that are still not used, maybe he can support you outside of the gate," Sabrina explains. "You will get more by the time the supply arrives. Besides, this is their test so they don't wanna fail." She smiles."I wonder how they are doing?"
Meanwhile in Rock Lake
"Aghh... Why are there so many insects here?" says the large bird robot struggling to shoot the large pack of Giant Bees. She is as big as an adult man, her body is blue with some green patterns and red wings.
"That's because you touch the beehives, leader" A man wears heavy armor, holding a shield and a sword. "We need something to clear them out."
"I have an idea," Suggests the woman holding the blue wand and wearing a mage robe with a mage hat. "Hey birdy, you have a grenade?" The bird robot turns her head at the woman "Can you shoot into the middle of the pack?" The bird nods and she takes out the small cannon from her back and shoots a grenade into the middle of the pack. The woman uses "Fireballs" and throws the grenade, making a large explosion. The bees are burnt out and drop into the ground. The man and the woman are breathing hard.
"Now I know why our Queen gives us this exam." The bird says, "To test our spirit, besides to test if we can make the Supports safe or not." The bird points at the cart with supports item and two tanks
"Then why do we have to deliver those tanks, my leader?" The man says, "I mean we have some men to protect them but it's still hard to go to that Volcano."
"As soon as I complete this delivery, I am not going to be a shipper anymore." The bird says happily, making the woman facepalm, "Anyway, we may join the campsite to fight along with the campsite so the tanks will enhance our firepower. Besides this is a powerful opponent so those supports may not be enough."
"I see... But remember you are a leader of this reinforcement team. Don't cause any trouble," The woman glares at the bird, making the bird have a nervous smile.
"Fine, I will be careful. We should keep going then, you two announce to the other that the road is clear while I will go ahead for scouting."The bird demands, and the duo nod, go back to the team.
As the reinforcement keeps going to the Volcano, they hope they can do it to support the campsite for slaying the demon.
Back to the Tactic Tent
"So I will sharpen this sword, you four should practice in our training zone to improve yourself," Eldaro suggests and the Team nods in agreement. "Good, me and Sabrina will talk awhile alone. Dismiss," The gang, except Sabrina, goes outside the camp. The Team and Rose head to the training zone with Sunset's direction.
"Sabrina, I know you wanna challenge her but we have an important thing to do right now," Eldaro said as he sat down.
"I know. But I'm still pissed off when you get defeated by her," Sabrina folds her hand in anger," But anyway, I can handle that Hydra you know?" Eldaro is surprised.
"You know how to counter the "head growing" of that Hydra," Eldaro asks. He receives a shaking head from Sabrina, "Did you hear the information about the Hydra that I sent for you 3 hours ago." Sabrina shakes her head, " then no, you don't go into that gate. I would rather send someone who knows that monster than you."
"Fine, I won't go and I will stay here for defense," Sabrina makes a cup of coffee, "But I ask you to support them as you can."
"No need to command that, Queenie. I already know what I am doing." Eldaro takes out a board from his dimension pocket "But we need a backup plan. We split into two situations, "He draws a board and separates into two small boards', "First is what if The Team fails."
"Well, I will rescue them and support them by myself. Besides, I think the chance of The Team failing is quite low because they are very strong right now plus they already know that monster." Sabrina sips the coffee "I would rather turn into the second situation."
"Why are you sure about that? They just fail once and can be in danger again," Eldaro retorted "Besides I only got three small missiles, 2 medium ones, and a Black Hole missile. I can only support them like that"
"I'm very sure about that, Eldaro," Sabrina confirms, "Besides I read their mana but I can't read the Black Coat mage mana. Make me feel weird about this."
"Why can't you read her mana," Eldaro asks in a surprised tone.
"Well, we read mana based on the mana core so we can know if they are strong or not. The three humans are good and can sustain many damages but the Black Coat mage is just a mystery. Just like... she doesn't have the mana core." Sabrina says in a quite scary tone " Is she even a human?"
"Nah, she's good," Eldaro answers, making Sabrina glares at him, "Anyway, we should go to the second situation if they truly slay the Hydra."
" I suppose that the reinforcement will come. I suppose we will use the transparent spell to see through that gate, then we will split our campsite into two by the time the reinforcement comes." Sabrina suggests
" I agree. We will stay at this campsite for defense, draw a magic circle to teleport to the second campsite if this one is down. About the tank, I got one there." He reveals the tank on the table, which makes Sabrina deadpanned. " What, you know I can do that right?"
"But that will be lost a week to recover that spell you know? Besides any magic come to it will regain average size."Sabrina now takes a stone to sharpen her boomerang "In case, we have to prepare in any situation happens." Eldaro nods " Okay, we should go to the training zone to see if the Team is training or not." Sabrina stands up and leaves the campsite. Eldaro sighs in relief.
"Heh, she doesn't ask me about Sunset's appearance," Eldaro thinks and follows Sabrina to the training zone.
Training zone
Eldaro and Sabrina come to the Training Zone. They see that Matt and Rose are sparring with each other while Natalie and Sunset are learning magic from each other. Sabrina grins and rushes to Sunset to take off her coat but she slams into an earth pole made by Sunset.
"You are the third person to try to take off my coat. Sabrina," Sunset points at Paul and Jame, make them whistle and get out of the zone because they finish training today. "I wonder why everyone is curious about my appearance."
"Because you are a mystery. And the mystery that increases people's curiosity, "Sabrina answers and rubbing her face to clean the dust" Anyway, what are you training?"
"Well, light magic. It was hard for me, though, because I lost 4 hours to perform the "Light arrow" perfectly. Now, I wonder what dark magic I have to start first through." Sunset performs a "Light arrow" and chants something on her staff.
"How about we spar a bit?" Sabrina asks, making Sunset suspect her "You know, I just wanna know how strong you are."
"Well... uh no. I don't have the mood to fight with you right now. Besides I just fi- " Sunset gets her sentence cut when Sabrina drags her to the small zone to sparring. "Sorry, you will come here to me. I heard that you are a weird mage too so I wanna see how weird you are?" Sabrina keeps dragging Sunset to her zone.
"No... I don't in the mood right now." Sunset tries to pull back but fails. After being dragged for a while, she and Sabrina stand at each other. The others take a spot to sit and they wanna watch the duo fight together. " Do I have a choice named "I surrender"?
"You can surrender... IF you really fight me." Sabrina retorts as she drags her boomerang and ready to fight "Now show me what you got, Black Coat mage."
Few minutes before the sparring
Many campsite members gather around the training zone to watch the battle. A rumor spread among them that the Queen was a very strong woman, and some of them used to spar with her, but they had no chance to fight her. Thanks to Paul and Jame, the audience has heard that the Queen will be sparing with the Black Coat mage, so they rush to the arena. Before the duo begins the battle, they are already watching it. They also start to bet on who will win. There was a large majority of bets on the Queen wins.
Eldaro is surprised about this, but he is powerless to stop it, so he joins the bet with the campsite member, but he bets on the Black Coat mage. Many members boo him, but he doesn't listen. Rose is there to put the bet on Sabrina. Rose feels proud when many members cheer for her. The two of them return to the others with popcorn Eldaro has brought near the bet and Eldaro smirks at Rose. The others deadpanned from what they were doing.
Now
Sunset sighs as she realizes that she won't be able to escape this. Sabrina grins and is in a fighting stance, knowing that the Black Coat mage is still injured and that she wants to take the opportunity to see his face.
Sabrina warns, "If you lose, you have to show your appearance to everyone.".
"Hey, that's not- "Sunset gets cut off when a boomerang flies towards her, forcing her to block it with the staff. Boomerangs go back to Sabrina; Sabrina catches it.
"Sorry, life is not fair," Sabrina retorts, throwing her boomerang at Sunset again, then taking a metal circle and charging at Sunset. Sundown leaps to dodge Sabrina's boomerang attack and block her attack. Sunset's ear flinches when she hears a boomerang flying back towards her. Sunset is pushed to the ground by Sabrina, and the circle is swung towards her. Sunset teleports to Sabrina's back and uses "Wyvern slash" on her. She rolls forward to dodge and catch the boomerang on its way. Sabrina grinned as she watched Sunset.
" I like it now, even though you're injured, you still fight." Sabrina praises Sunset for fulfilling her wishes
Sunset plugs the staff to the ground and asks, "Do I have a chance here?". While it stands there, Sunset retrieves another wooden staff from her dimensional pocket. Sabrina feels strange when Sunset does that, but she continues to fight.
With her big boomerang, Sabrina charges at Sunset. Sunset blocks it with her staff. The duo continues to fight like a sword fight. Then Sabrina jumps backward, throws the boomerang at Sunset, and grabs her circles to charge at Sunset. Sunset teleports over Sabrina and uses Wyvern Slash vertically. Sabrina blocks it with her metal circles and sees the boomerang coming back to her. She slips Sunset by her left leg, making Sunset fall to the ground, and then she jumps up, grabs the boomerang, and slams it into Sunset. Sunset teleports out of the slam and kneels down due to her injury.
"Ughh... you are really know how to torture the wounded." Sunset starts rubbing the wound and grunts.
"You should get used to that. Especially the long battle," Sabrina spins the metal circles, "Well, I think I can use this Chakram for revealing your face." Sunset grins at her.
"Sure, if you can. Even if I don't know what Chakram is?" Sunset smirks.
After throwing one chakram at Sunset, Sabrina charges at her to throw a boomerang at her. Sunset dodges the chakram and blocks the boomerang. The boomerang keeps rubbing her staff like a wheel, making it hard to stand against it. Sunset pokes the boomerang as much as she can, and the chakram returns to her. Sunset has no time to react, so the chakram slashes her left back hoof. Sunset feels hurt but tries to cope.
Boomerang finally comes to a halt. As Sabrina is already in front of Sunset, she uses another chakram and slashes at her. Sunset kneels down to dodge and places her front hoof on the ground. Suddenly, the pole of earth appeared, and Sabrina couldn't react in time and got hit in the belly. Sunset uses "Wyvern Slash" to burn Sabrina.Sabrina kicks the boomerang away from Sunset, she does much acrobatics backward before she stands. Sabrina catches the chakram and breathes deeply.
" Even though you're injured, you can still fight like this." Sabrina smiles at Sunset.
"My attack still isn't finished!" Sunset commandingly said as she started to cast another spell. Backing off slightly, Sabrina cautiously defended herself. Holding her boomerang defensively, Sabrina was surprised to see several magical circles glowing on her boomerang. Having no time to react, Sabrina took the full force of the explosion as the magical circles blew up almost right as Sabrina noticed them.
The audience around the arena is dead silent, and they start murmuring about the Black Coat mage. Sabrina stands there with just a little bruise from the smoke, and Sunset takes caution. As Sabrina starts flicking dust off her body, she smiles at the mage.
Sabrina asks, "You're not surprised, are you?"
Sunset replies, "At least I can risk the enchantment on your earring."
Sabrina prepares to attack at sunset with two chakrams. Sunset is in a defensive position. Sabrina rushes at Sunset at a faster pace, making her surprised, and slashes Sunset's back hoof. After the slash, Sunset grunts and kneels down. Sabrina continues to rush at Sunset, making sure that she doesn't have a chance to recover. Sunset swings her staff to rub the ground around her, a "Firewall" appears after that, forcing Sabrina to stop. Then, Sabrina walks around the wall as she searches for any slits it has. "Clever girl." Sabrina thinks.
After walking around the "Firewall" for a while, Sabrina finally found the slits of the wall and saw Sunset in it. Sabrina throws the chakram at Sunset, but Sunset deflects it to Sabrina with his staff. The deflected chakram has fire all around it, so Sabrina must dodge it. As it plugs into the ground, the chakram is still on fire. Sabrina realizes that Sunset is chanting something as she looks back at her. She senses danger brewing, and she rushes to Sunset to break the chanting.
Sunset sees Sabrina charging into her path, but she continues chanting the spell. Sunset puts her hand to her staff, and Sabrina knows she has finished chanting, but she rushes towards her, hoping it will hurt her. The fire of Sunset's "firewall" is condensing into her staff, forcing Sabrina to stop because of the heat of the fire. Sunset's staff contains a large fireball after the condensing of fire, and Sabrina wonders what she will do with it.
She enchants the chakram to turn it into a water aura, then throws it at sunset. Sunset swings the staff, a large "Wyvern Slash" appears, burning the chakram. Due to the slash, Sabrina falls to the ground. After that, Sunset uses her "Wyvern Slash" in a vertical fashion to hit Sabrina, and it explodes at Sabrina's spot. Sunset sits down as she is exhausted by the attack. Her mana pool is quite large, but her stamina is limited, so she wishes to know the spell that can increase her stamina.
Outside the 'arena'
It was a fantastic fight, the two competitors appeared to be at equivalent levels. Now, the audiences have more questions about the Black Coat mage. Rose is surprised that the mage can battle against the Queen, while Eldaro seems to be analyzing the battle with Matt, Natalie, and Lance. They want to learn what kind of mage the Black Coat mage is, but she seems to be quite... Unexpectedly.
"I have several questions about that Black Coat mage in my mind," Rose begins wondering as she rubs her chin.
Natalie and Matt are eating noodle cups while Lance says, "You can ask us if you want. We're her teammates anyway." Lance sees the noodle cups and asks "Where did you get them? I'm starving like hell here." Natalie and Matt point at the food store as Lance is surprised.
"Don't worry, I'll get you breakfast." Eldaro pats his nephew on the back. "In actuality, Rose and I have a few questions about this mage you've got there."
"Go ahead. Maybe I can help you out, but I'm not sure what she has in mind, because she's unpredictable," Natalie said while she continued to eat. Natalie purred, "So good.".
"Okay... First, I'm not sure where the magic circles are. And second, is she really a mage?" Since she has never encountered a black coat mage in the past", Rose sighs in relief because she hasn't faced that kind of opponent.
Well, I can't answer the second question," Natalie begins to explain, "but maybe she ... I have no idea what she is doing. Besides the first one, which is just like transferring the trap," Rose and Eldaro show the faces like "I don't understand", Natalie takes the last sip to finish her noodle "I mean she drew the trap on her body and her staff before. When she touches the boomerang, the trap will be transferred to it."
Rose and Eldaro nod their heads in understanding and look back at the kneeling mage. Eldaro notices that there is still a wooden staff plugged on the ground. Eldaro is intrigued by this.
"Okay... do you know why she plugs the staff on the ground like this?" Eldaro asks the trio. Due to their teammate's unpredictability, they shake their heads and are unsure about this. Eldaro sighs and looks back to the fight, hoping to find an answer.
Inside the 'arena'
Sunset sits down, tired as she is, and looks at the smoke, and hopes that Sabrina has been knocked out. As the smoke begins to fade, it reveals a more injured Sabrina holding another boomerang in her hands.
While another earring is broken into pieces, Sabrina says, "You should give up now." then she taunts Sunset, "You look pretty tired." She sees the mage standing up, and she continues fighting. Sabrina thinks as she is in a battle stance, "I'll knock her out now.".
With a boomerang in hand, Sabrina rushes at Sunset. Sunset creates an earth wall to prevent Sabrina from approaching. Sabrina slashes at the earth wall, which splits in two, then she slams the boomerang at Sunset. Sunset teleports herself far away to Sabrina to make sure she isn't coming, but she has to sit down because she's tired. Sabrina smirks and rushes at Sunset again, but she finds that the ground is shining.
All the 'arena' is illuminated by a large magic circle, so Sabrina needs to slow down as she tries to figure out what is going on. A large snowflake is inside the circle. Eldaro sees the circle and understands it is a spell, so he orders anyone to defend it.
"Everyone defend yourselves. The magic circle is about to explode," Eldaro commands, but no one understands what he is saying. "NOW!" he yells in an angry tone, causing everyone to listen to him. Mage and priests around the 'arena' cast 'shield' spells, while others raise the big shield to defend. The shield spell Natalie uses wraps around her and others.
Sabrina feels her legs are frozen due to the spell. Then she saw Sunset using a shield spell to cover herself, so she used her boomerang to cover herself as well. The 'arena' becomes frozen and then it explodes, freezing the entire arena and some surrounding areas, accompanied by cold smoke. The audience lowers the shield and sees that the arena is frozen; they start to go into the 'arena' zone to see if everyone inside is okay so they can provide treatment.
"Captain, where are you? If you're still alive, please speak up!" they yell while looking for Eldaro, "I know how I hate you, but I don't want you to die like this." The soldier is knocked over by Eldaro and is shocked. The five members of his team are standing in front of him: Rose, Matt, Natalie, and Lance.
"You hate me, huh? How about I train you for this?" Eldaro sneers, making the soldier's face pale. "But worry aside, let's enter to meet the Queen and the Mage."
"Yes, sir," and all the soldiers rush into the arena.
They finally made it inside the 'arena'. When the smoke fades, they see their queen encased in ice while trying to cover herself with a boomerang. Their queen is unfrozen by using the fire magic of the nearby mages. The Queen cannot stand when unfrozen but still wakes due to the frozen. Soldiers carry her into a Medical tent after helping her up. Eldaro and the Team are searching for Sunset. Upon finding her, she was sitting on the ice with a bare face and she appeared very tired.
"You've surprised me, Sunset," Eldaro said as he helped her up
Sunset smiles at the team. "I should rest then."
I don't know how you can use that spell, but you have to explain it to me later, okay?" Natalie says with an angry tone.
"Fine," Sunset lies down on the ice, ignoring the fact that it is very cold. Sunset is brought back to the sleeping tent so that no one will see her appearance while she is being healed by Eldaro and the Team. They will have a long discussion about this now.