My World Traveling System: The Harbinger of Death

Chapter 516: Fourth Fight: Stein & Bernard VS Cathyl & Vheslia 3

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After Vheslia's reveal of her Aura Guardian, a lot of the spectators were left surprised! They had never thought a mage would develop Aura to the extend she could shape it as an Aura Guardian.

Aura Guardians were the materialization of the Aura of a person. Aura is developed as an expression of the soul, and therefore, everyone is able to shape and create their own Aura.

Auras shape in different forms and colors varying from person to person, but it usually shapes itself to the elemental affinity of the user. Vheslia's affinity with shadow and darkness makes her Aura emerge like a purple and dark shadow over her body.

However, it is often said that Magicians don't develop Auras as they can use the power of Spells for all sorts of purposes, meanwhile, Auras are way more important for physical fighters, who are not that good at magic and therefore require the usage of Auras to enhance their long-ranged methods of fighting.

The power of Auras is developed the more a person develops their physique and psyche, and physical fighters have an easier time awakening it than pure magicians, but well, there are always exceptions to the rules, one of them was Matsuo back then when he fought against the Abyss Magic user Oni, Uehara. In that time he awakened his Aura despite the odds as he had been training both magic and physical martial arts.

However, Vheslia shouldn't had developed an Aura so easily if she was a magician, a pure magic user has a hard time having an Aura due to their poorly developed physical bodies which they don't develop as much as their own magic. It's hard for people to become all rounders and usually specializing and min-maxing a certain build is always better.

But Vheslia had completely beaten the expectations of everyone here! She developed a powerful Aura against the odds, and even summoned a powerful Aura Guardian!

What these people didn't knew was something very secretive which only Frank and his group gave for granted. Even more, this was also the reason why Matsuo was able to develop an Aura despite his bigger specialization over magic than physical martial arts.

And this was… Mana Core! The Mana Cores of Terra were truly a unique and special organ, as people grew stronger and cultivated their Mana Cores, they naturally developed what was called a Mana Aura.

This Mana Aura was no different than the Aura concept of this world, if not even better and more suited for powerful specialized magicians such as Vheslia, someone whose Mana Core was already at Rank 10! Therefore, the power of her Mana Core was incredible, and so was her Divine Mana Aura.

Since she acquired this ability that she had been training it, Mana Auras don't require the development of the body, although they do appreciate it, even more if the user opens up Mana Veins for the Mana Aura to go through. Vheslia had merged the best of both worlds while also keeping her magician specialization. By using the power of the Demonic Runes that are naturally developed by her Demon Race, which were strengthened as an Archdemon after drinking Frank's blood and evolving into one, she used these runes to enhance her power proportional to her Aura and Mana Pool, and through this, she became physical strong and resilient!

Of course, it wasn't as much compared to the physical power of a strong Vampire Demigod such as Bernard… but it was strong enough to enhance her reflexes and give her the ability to take physical hit without immediately dropping half-dead in the process!

Her powerful Mana Aura Guardian emerged as a gigantic, armored warrior, floating behind her and lacking legs. It resembled a powerful guardian, a familiar that protected her with its tough armor and its enormous axe and shield. Unlike Sadako's Aura Guardian, which was a savage Oni with two massive clubs, this one was a more defense-oriented Aura Guardian.

"Gruuuuooohhh…!"

The gigantic Aura Guardian roared, as I suddenly changed shape before Bernard could ever react!

"Huh?!"

FLASH!

Vheslia coated herself in shadows and flashed towards Bernard like a beam of shadows, reaching up to him in an instant, her Aura Guardian, however, had changed shapes, as its giant axe suddenly turned into a massive longsword!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Ngh?!"

Bernard gritted his teeth as he evaded the powerful sword slashes with everything he had, he was barely hanging out as he jumped around, the slashing attacks were pushing him down, and it's not like Vheslia was doing nothing either!

"Shadow Spear Arrows!"

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

A dozen of powerful spear-shaped arrows flew towards Bernard from all directions, these powerful piercing weapons were incredibly sharp and strong, despite being made of shadows! They tried to pierce through Bernard's body, but his slender body and incredible reflexes even helped him evade such deadly projectiles.

However, even as he evaded and took small damage over time, he couldn't let this continue…

"I cannot let this continue; she's suppressing me! If I stay passively evading all the time, I will eventually lose!" he thought, as he smiled and suddenly coated himself in shadows, jumping into he ground and flashing towards Vheslia at an incredible speed!

"GOTCHA!" he laughed, reaching behind Vheslia with several knives on his hands, and about to throw them all to her back!

"I knew you would do that." Said Vheslia, as she clasped her fingers, suddenly, two enormous arms surged from the shadows below her, these were hard, steel arms… it was another Aura Guardian!

"Nngh?! What?! Impossible! T-Two Aura Guardians?!" asked Bernard in disbelief.

"There's no limit to how many you can have, its all up to the caster's Mana Pool. And I got a lot." said Vheslia, as she overcharged her staff with mana and suddenly fired an explosive beam of darkness towards Bernard at point blank!

"Nnnggraaaaagggh…!"

BOOOMMM!!!

CLASH!

The massive beam hit the barrier around the battlefield, as Bernard was thrown away in an instant, his entire body twisted around as his bones broke easily, he fell over the ground, like a ragdoll…

"Heh…"

However, he smiled and laughed.

"What?"

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