Cultivation Through Artifacts

"Whenever you are ready," Khal said calmly, both his hands holding his spear with a firm grip.

Darla nodded and without hesitation moved. With a strong push with his feet against the ground, she closed the distance between her and Khal in a flash, and swung her spear vertically.

Swish!

BAM!

A slight explosion was heard the very next second as Khal raised his ice spear to defend against the attack, sending powerful ripples through the air.

"Huh? What is happening?"

Many creatures in the surroundings stopped doing whatever they were practicing and glanced around to find the source of the previous blast.

"Look! Over there! They are fighting each other." one Berserker pointed toward the eastern section, where Khal and Darla's figure could be seen fighting each other with two ice spears.

BOOM!

Another powerful shockwave broke forth from Khal's direction, forcing many to raise their hands to protect themselves. Some even had to take a step back as all of them were below the Second Stage.

"T-This... Why are they fighting so seriously? Do they have grudge against each other or what?" one Berserker asked quietly while thick bean-sized sweat drops started to flow down from his face.

"Maybe that guy was a previous lover of that beauty and something happened?"

"Could he have cheated on her?" another Berserker asked after swallowing hardly. Just imagining himself under those powerful barrages made his abdomen turn numb from fear.

"T-That must be the case, yeah. Even though her expression seems cold, I can somewhat feel her fury. That guy is a dead person for sure."

BAM!

Deflecting another strike from Darla while being completely oblivious of the forming misunderstanding behind his back, Khal jump a meter back and raised his spear, ready to meet Darla's attack once again.

However, to his surprise, Darla stopped attacking and just looked at him coldly before she asked, "Will you quit defending yourself and start attacking me already or what?"

'How do you want me to attack you if you don't even give me enough time to blink?' Khal reviled in his heart, but quickly took a deep breath and lowered his stance.

The main reason why he was only defending and did nothing at all was in truth not because he couldn't or was forced to only defend, but because he was analyzing Darla's technique.

After activating his Power Imitation for the first time, Khal finally realized how his Talent worked. It seemed that his Talent was like an empty scroll and whatever he saw, will be written inside it and he could gain access to it whenever he wanted.

Of course, this doesn't mean he could use it perfectly right from the start, as such power doesn't and shouldn't even exist to begin with, or everything that exists would lose its meaning.

That being said, although Khal can use any skill and ability after just seeing it once, he still has to practice with it if he wished to reach perfection. Or, if he wished to use a technique with perfection, he must make sure to imitate someone that already achieved perfection, or else he must need to practice.

'Well, I have already learned a few of his techniques, I guess it will be enough.' Khal tightened his grip and lowered his posture.

"Hm?" Darla frowned when she saw Khal's posture, but soon widened her eyes with shock.

'Wait! Isn't that m-' Darla started to think, but just as she was about to finish her line of thought Khal pushed his feet against the ground and appeared right before her.

"!?"

Watching as the ice spear descended on her figure from above in the exact same manner as she did previously, Darla raised her weapon horizontally with both hands, meeting the attack head-on!

BOOM!

"Here I come!" Khal said with a calm smile and began his assault.

Swinging, pulling, thrusting, and chopping. Khal's barrage of attacks was like rain falling during a storm; neverending and crazy!

He bombarded Darla precisely the same way as she did against him, making her do only defense without any chance of counterattack! To put it simply, she was cornered completely!

"Just how... Do you know about our Mist Dance?!" Darla asked with a startled expression as she defended against Khal.

"It's a secret technique of my family that only the Fairy Race is capable of practicing and no one else!"

Khal just smiled without answering. This made Darla feel angry and caused her face to turn colder than ever before.

"Fine! If you won't talk, that's fine for me. Then I will force you instead!"

BAM!

Immediately after Darla said those words, an icy power burst from her body, freezing the ground below her feet and causing the surrounding temperature to drop drastically in a flash!

Just under a few seconds, the climate that felt as if one was during summer fell below zero. The ground froze, the grass and bushes on the sides became blue from the frost, while many Berserkers started to tremble from the cold.

Especially Khal, as he was the closest to all of this and he was the one who fell under the most coldness out of everyone. Just like the grass and leaves around him, his hair and brows turned white while his entire body began to shake profusely.

'So you want to make me give up?' Khal narrowed his eyes as he instantly realized Darla's plan.

It seems she thinks she will be able to force him to give up this fight and tell her the truth.

But unfortunately, this won't happen at all as Khal had something that will help him in this situation, and that was his Hell Blaze! With that, he was pretty sure Darla's ice power won't affect him.

'If you use ice, then I will use fire! Let's see which element is the strongest!' Khal said inwardly, but just as he was about to summon his Hell Blaze, a shocking sight emerged.

Suddenly, Khal felt as something inside his body moved, and just as he could have understood what was happening, he noticed as his body temperature began to rise continuously while he was feeling less and less cold by the second!

What's more, around the tip of his ice spear several ice particles started to materialize one by one, while a slight connection formed between him and them!

"I-Impossible! But how!?" Darla now could no longer keep up her facade as she became totally dumbstruck upon seeing the sight before her.