After seeing one of them being not only sent flying away by Nina, soone who unlike them, has taken the energy path as her main, not to ntion that her flas despite being the non-improved, light orange-colored ones, easily burned the flesh of their teammate which had been tempered with fire attributed resources for so many years, the other two guys froze for a second before they fiercely turned to see Nina.
They two of them took out their spirit weapons, which were swords, they both used one handed long swords since they are the "easiest" to wield and the easiest to train in order to obtain intent.
Or at least that's the general consensus publicly reached, the truth is that a weapon's strength and efficiency is determined by the user and the resulting intent's power and quality also depends on the user, after all no one would dare to call Iris or Nerissa's intent "common" after being slashed by their swords, which are one handed long type ones as well.
Speaking of which, drawing their swords out had the complete opposite they wanted on Nina, since weaklings like them not only dared to disparage Iris but even used the sa sword type as her, though theirs were shorter than hers.
"Tsk", the youngest of the three sisters clicked her tongue, she actually felt angered that she couldn't beat the hell out of those guys with her bare hands anymore, sothing that those two could notice.
"What the hell is up with her, did she go crazy or sothing?", said the first guy, to which the other one who hasn't spoken since all this started, shouted.
"Who cares, just cut her damn face up!", he took the initiative to slash his sword at Nina, which led the other guy no option but to follow since their other teammate was returning sword in hand, to cleanse the humiliation he just suffered.
And so, Nina found herself face to face with three incoming swords, she might have beco rather wild lately but that doesn't an she is reckless, so she also took out her own spirit weapon.
Which was naturally a sword, but it was quite a rare choice, as it had the shape of a gladius, having a straight, wide, double-edged blade, the difference lied in the fact that it was a bit long for a gladius, reaching a length of a ter while a regular gladius is around half of that.
That being said, compared to the longswords those three used, which had a length of more than one ter and a half, it looked like a poor choice, especially since she had to deal with three of them at the sa ti with a sword whose design doesn't include a guard.
"How dare you use a toy like that against us!", roared the guy who took the initiative, as he swung his sword even harder, just to be t with a disdainful expression on the pretty face of the youngest of the three sisters.
"Clang!", a loud tallic sound echoed through the sky, accompanied by the pupils of those three guys contracting like needles, their three swords were… deflected aside by that small sword of Nina.
Or it would be more accurate to say they were basically smacked aside, since she didn't use the edge of the sword but the flat side of it, also the impact was so heavy that the hands with which they wielded their swords went numb.
"You guys still cling to useless prejudices, what a surprise", casually said Nina, but that wasn't all, in the fraction of a second that it took those three to react, a small dagger appeared on her left hand which then stabbed at the side of the enemy at her left.
"Damn it…", the guy in question was a second too late to dodge or retreat and his sword was too long and too far from his left side to be used to block, but then at the last second a thin looking sword got in the way of her dagger.
"Get it together you fools, what the hell are you doing losing it just because the opponent used so tricks!", shouted the captain who jumped in at the last second in order to save that guy who was about to be stabbed by Nina's dagger.
That being said, he swore to his insides as he saw the sparks flying due to the clash of his rapier and Nina's dagger.
'What the hell, how is a damn dagger producing such a strong impact', luckily for him those three got their stuff together and retreated to regroup and the captain followed right after.
"As weird as it might sound, her spirit weapon must be a heavy sword and the dagger is the sa, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to smack away your swords at the sa ti and block mine with a re dagger", concluded the captain.
And he was right, contrary to what one would expect from the young and nimble looking Nina, she is a heavy sword user, add to that the fact that her gladius looking sword is definitely not what a heavy sword would usually be and you get a double surprise, not to ntion that she complented her fighting style with a dagger.
"I still don't understand how she deflected our three swords at the sa ti, we are main body path cultivators dam it", cursed the guy who took the initiative to attack Nina earlier.
"It's probably sothing she learned due to the Bladeheart after betraying the Redheart and the Lord", added the guy with the burn wound on his chest, to which Nina snorted as she said from afar.
"The answer is way simpler than that, my sword is heavier than the three of yours combined, you wanted to know why I was "stuck" at the early stage of the Star Axys realm right, let show you", with those words, Nina concentrated for a second and an invisible pressure was exuded by her body.
She allowed the aura of her body path cultivation to leak out of her, thus letting those four see what was her realm.
"No way!", exclaid the third guy, while the captain actually frowned, the pressure exuded by Nina belonged to the early stage of the Stellar Constellation realm in the body path.
Which ans that here was only around a minor realm of difference between her main and secondary cultivation paths, and in case you wonder why is that so surprising for those three, that's because they as middle stage Star Axys body path cultivators, are only at the early stage of the Earth Origin realm in the soul path which is their secondary path.
In other words, Nina surpassed them by two whole minor realms in terms of secondary path cultivation, which is naturally harder and slower than main path cultivation in which they only surpassed her by a minor realm and that is taking into account the fact that they advanced said minor realm thanks to resources being poured in them for the sake of this event.
"Also, what is this "betrayal" you are talking about; it was that guy the one who throwed us out of our own house and forced us give up what our mother left us, in order for us to be taken in by sister Iris… he who we once called father", added Nina with an obviously angered expression on her pretty face, with each word the glow in her eyes increased more and more.
"Humph, you should have obeyed back then, who told you to rebel against your family for the sake of an outcast, of course the Lord had to protect the secrets of the Blaze… Redheart family from being leaked to the Bladeheart by you three", casually said the captain, nearly making the mistake of calling their family Blazeheart instead of Redheart, to then add.
"Speaking of that, we have to thank you for three for sothing else, had it not been by the fact that the matriarch luckily found a certain "important" thing which caused the Ancestor to wake up with an incredibly good mood so ti ago, then we wouldn't have been all granted access to stuff like this…", said the guy nearly had his side stabbed by Nina earlier.
"Blaze Commandnt", the four of them exploded in orange flas which then dimd down, turning into dark orange flas, that was the basic form of the Blaze Commandnt technique from the Blazeheart family, there was an exception though, the captain's flas turned blue.
The strange part is that these guys aren't part of the main branches of the Blazeheart, Nina and her sisters know it better than anyone else, because they are from, they are part of the family branch to which they belonged before they were "exiled".
And their talent is nothing much either, so they under normal circumstances wouldn't be allowed to train in sothing like Blaze Commandnt, with the exception of the captain since he has reached the peak of the Carnal Disaster realm at the sa age of the sister in the middle, Lina.
But even then, due to his lacking lineage he should have only been given the right to practice with Blaze Commandnt too recently, so he should at most be at the basic level which is the dark orange fla level, and not the blue fla one which is the first level instead.
It was then that the words from earlier were processed by Nina.
'An important thing that would cause those disgusting people to have an incredibly good mood… our ho', thought the youngest of the three sisters, she lowered her head for a second and her body started trembling a bit.
Sothing that those three noticed and smirked at.
"That's right, regret it, had you not acted out of place then you wouldn't have had to agree to never learn the core techniques from the family!", shouted the sa guy from earlier, he seed to hold a really deep grudge against Nina.
And it was easy to understand when you look at his body below his clothes, he has a burning mark that goes all the way from his chest to his lower abdon, sothing that he got a long ti ago, sothing that Nina made to him when he tried to mock her after she lost the right to use the Blazeheart last na.
"Enough", said the captain, the fight has extended more than it should, sure he wanted to show off the fact that he could use blue flas, but not to Nina who is younger than him, which turns this into a humiliation, but to Lina who used to look down on him back then.
"Why, there is nothing she can do now, even if her attribute is strong since she is a main energy path, she won't be able to…", while the scarred guy was in the middle of speaking, a blur appeared behind of him.
"Watch out!", the captain felt his hairs stand on their ends, he tried to warn his subordinate but knowing he won't make it in ti, he instead released his flas and the other two did the sa.
"Booom!", however their flas were blasted a way by the ones that exploded out of Nina's body.
"Impossible!", the captain's mouth widened in shock as he saw the bright orange flas that surrounded Nina, because at their very center they… had turned blue, now imagine his expression when he saw Nina's hand which was grabbing the face of the guy from earlier.
He was completely fine and was conscious, however he wasn't moving not saying anything at all, not because he didn't want to, of course, but because he couldn't.
"It seems like you guys had your fun ransacking whatever was left from our ho… it was made so only those our age from our branch could enter to prevent greedy old trash from taking things, who would have thought the descendants of the ones our mother saves would stoop as low as to do such a thing".
Nina who was looking down in a way that her eyes weren't visible, raised her head so that she was now facing that guy.
'What is up with her eyes, is that why I can't move!', inwardly scread the scarred guy as he saw the now blue colored eyes of the youngest of the three sisters.
"Let go of him", said the captain, seeing that things had gotten strange, he inwardly gritted his teeth, their original orders were to try and convince the three sisters to co back, and for that they could lie and act if needed.
The problem is that, such a thing would an they would need to lower themselves in front of them and back then when those three lost their last na and status, they who used to be of a lower standing, naturally despised them, so they were really against the idea of resorting to that.
Luckily for them, they were told that they could force them to co back too, so the consensus they reached was to defeat the three sisters and capture them, but things had gone awry.
'It's not possible since they have no access to Blaze Commandnt, but still her attribute might have suffered a mutation which caused it to beco her flas blue', thought the captain to then say.
"The Lord gave us the right to decide whether you should be brought back by force, or with honor, I can make it so you can pay a visit to "that place", but only if you let go of him", he said.
Naturally that was a lie, but he saw how fiercely did Nina react when her childhood's ho was ntioned, so she wanted to use that to confuse, the mont she let go of that guy he was going to cut that annoying dominant arm of hers.
"Why, he was really thankful earlier, so I thought of giving him another present since the one he received when he called us "abandoned orphans", didn't seem to be enough for him", said Nina, which gave the captain a bad premonition.
"Don't you dare…", while the captain was in the middle of shouting at the youngest of the three sisters, the flas on the hand with which Nina was holding onto the guy's face, changed the color of their core to blue and then… the body of the scarred guy exploded in blue flas.
The interesting part of all this, is that the flas that were now burning the scarred guy's body to a crisp were his own ones and that wasn't all, they turned blue as well, not to ntion that even when he was dying, he couldn't let out even a peep, he barely managed to tremble and look in despair at those fierce blue eyes that looked at him with complete indifference.
"Nolan!", shouted the guy who was punched on the chest earlier by Nina, the previous scene took long to describe but it happened in less than a second, the scarred guy exploded in blue flas and then turned into ashes.
"Why are you angry, I seem to rember those old pieces of trash and that guy saying sothing along the lines of, "You don't get to negotiate with the Blazeheart family", when they took everything we had, I'm simply respecting that agreent right now", casually said Nina, the anger that seed to have been overwhelming her earlier had subsided the mont her body trembled earlier, which was when her originally orange-red eyes a sign of her pure Blazeheart lineage had dyed blue.
'Damn it", cursed the captain as he pointed his sword at Nina, cladding it in flas as he shouted.
"Blazing Sword, you two block her weapons, we have to kill her!", the other two nodded, they didn't know how to use Blazing Sword, but they still had one trick up their sleeves, which was intent.
It was only first level intent and early stage one at that, but that was enough, the captain had peak first level intent as well as Blazing sword, so he should be able to wrap things up.
With a "swoosh", the three of them flashed at Nina who was still floating at the place where she burned the scarred guy to ashes a second ago.
"Don't you find amusing the fact that the training you follow requires you two use a spirit weapon in order to improve your flas and that the one that makes the vast majority of you, is the sword and yet you mock us who were taken in by the Bladeheart family?", mumbled Nina as she raised her gladius and dagger-like short heavy sword since it wasn't a dagger, considering how nicely it was accepting sword intent.
Once again, the captain was the only one who managed to react in ti, his pupils contracted as he saw the middle stage first level intent cladding the two swords in Nina's hands, unfortunately it was too late to stop their change.
"Crack!", crystal shattering-like sounds echoed through the sky as the one-handed long swords of those two were destroyed by Nina's gladius and short sword, their intents were cleanly cut by hers and their swords received a dent due to the sharpness of hers, a dent that then extended resulting in they breaking by the impact caused by the heavy weight of the gladius and short sword.
But their weapons weren't the only ones to suffer, those two guys who had taken the frontline since they had to block Nina's swords, then had smoke co out of them, their proximity to Nina made their body hair lit up in flas and then burn their skin.
"Aghhhh!", which caused the natural reaction of them retreating unconsciously as their bodies tried to get away from the heat, it was quite a ridiculous sight considering they are fire attributed cultivators.
The captain who reached Nina a second later, also felt an increase in the temperature, but the blue flas around his body protected him, so his attack did follow through.
"Clang!", unfortunately his thin rapier was naturally unable to cut through the wide blade of Nina's heavy gladius, the captain feeling the short sword coming at him, jumped backwards just to see Nina smirking in a certain direction.
'Shit!', he flashed at that direction appearing in front of the guy who had the burn wound on his chest, but the attack which he expected and was prepared to block, never ca.
"C-Captain", instead of that, a familiar scene repeated itself, Nina was grabbing the head of the other remaining subordinate, this ti by the backside, the guy managed to call the captain before the flas on the tips of Nina's fingers turned blue and his body exploded in blue flas, turning him into ashes just like it happened to the scarred guy.
"Ned…", mumbled the guy with the burn wound on his chest as he saw the other guy he grew up with be burned alive and die without a chance to even scream.
'Why, why are they not even resisting, useless fools!', the captain on the other hand cursed at the dead, since they didn't even "dare" to try and resist, in his mind they were too coward to even risk their lives in order to create an opening for him to attack Nina.
In other words, only those who were grabbed by Nina could feel it… the pressure being radiated by the blue core of her flas and from where did it originate.
"I-It has to be Blaze Commandnt, she must have read a copy of it before they were prohibited from doing so, in order to trick the oath they signed or sothing like that!", exclaid the remaining Star Axys realm guy.
The captain's expression twisted, to use a spirit technique without the need to call its na, mastery of it is needed, if the youngest of the three sisters could indeed do that, then she was way out of his league then, since he could barely use early-stage blue flas and had to shout the na for it.
Luckily for him… or not, depending on how you see it, Nina directly explained.
"I haven't used any spirit techniques yet, did you think we wasted our ti at the Bladeheart or what, that was just pure swordplay", she said while adding to herself.
'While using our flas the way our mother did… though let alone , but even eldest sister Mina were unable, until a mont ago'.
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