The Magician of Sound

"Ice Dragon." Sofia summoned another dragon\'s head.

The stingray created a small tornado to engulf the dragon\'s head.

A smile appeared on Sofia\'s face as soon as the dragon\'s head was covered with dust. She raised two fingers and poured more Magic Power. "Splash!"

"!!!" The stingray realized it was a trap, but it was too late.

Suddenly, the dragon\'s head exploded, creating a series of ice winds. The burst produced an icy shock wave that blew the dust away while freezing them.

The stingray would face some problems to save them, so she thought this was the best she could do.

The dust was dispersed and frozen, making it unusable.

Using this chance, Sofia leaped forward while summoning a Magic Circle.

The stingray flapped its fins and created several spikes from the ground in order to stop Sofia.

Sofia effortlessly avoided it by jumping into the air.

The stingray thought he managed to catch her because he summoned a few more pillars that were going to skewer her.

Unfortunately for him, Sofia already expected something like this. There was a trail of ice on her boots as it connected her to the ground.

This was the magic she used back when she traveled from a building to the ground by sliding in a small ice trail she created.

Instead of creating it first, Sofia managed to create the ice trail together with her movement. And this magic allowed her to catch the stingray off guard because she suddenly stopped and stumbled as if she was going to fall.

The ice trail had stopped expanding and pulled her down.

Sofia used this force to launch herself to the ground and avoided the pillars. Of course, she intentionally landed on the area without spikes and closed the gap between them.

"!!!" The stingray widened his eyes in shock and tried to launch himself into the air, but Sofia had already arrived before him, waving her hand.

"Ice Shock."

The Magic Circle created an icy shock wave that made one feel a burning sensation just by touching it.

And the stingray had half of his body sprayed with such a cold breeze. He couldn\'t help but wail in pain. "Argh!"

Sofia wanted to launch another attack, but the stingray managed to pull himself together and escaped into the air while enduring all that pain.

Only when he was in the air did he gather the remaining dust to destroy the frostbite on his body.

"…" Sofia clicked her tongue. "I can\'t kill you that easily, huh."

"Hmph."

The stingray flapped his fins to summon a few more giant pillars, but Sofia hurriedly sealed all the frozen dust under a layer of ice.

After that, Sofia waved her hand and generated an icy wind to freeze the sea.

The stingray obviously didn\'t allow her to do it and confronted her by using his remaining dust. Because of the amount of dust, he maintained a certain distance with her and dispersed all her wind.

The stingray then summoned a few more spikes to kill her, but Sofia increased the depth of her eyes to prevent it from coming out of the ground.

They expended their Magic Power without care. The dispersed dust destroyed the ice while the ice kept spreading until people could see two different sides standing side by side.

"You won\'t last long, young lady." The stingray squinted his eyes, wondering what her intention was. He obviously had enough Magic Power to withstand this power all day, so Sofia must be plotting something.

Suddenly, he looked up and realized what she wanted to do.

She wanted to decrease the air above them to lower the temperature of the surrounding area. If she completed this, she would be able to use her power more efficiently.

"No! You\'re not going to do this!" The stingray hurriedly poured all his power to the icy wind, overpowering Sofia.

In the end, Sofia retracted her power while clenching her hands.

Sofia panted a few times while looking at the stingray. She never expected to find herself in this type of situation, wondering what she should do.

"My Magic Power isn\'t going to last…" Sofia frowned. "I need to make a little sacrifice to kill this stingray."

Steeling her resolve, Sofia said, "You can\'t defeat me."

The stingray harrumphed and shook his head. "That\'s not something you decide."

"You think?" Sofia smiled as if looking down on him.

The stingray dove down and prepared to attack her again.

She had yet to know that the stingray also thought about the same thing as her. They both wanted to end this battle as soon as possible. Although Sofia had exhausted her Magic Power, the stingray realized his body wasn\'t going to last because of the injuries he suffered from her dry ice.

Hence, the stingray wanted to end it with this movement even if it required a small sacrifice.

He flew straight to her while forming a dust drill that would penetrate everything.

As if responding to his attack, Sofia formed several thick ice walls. Unfortunately, these walls were not enough to stop the stingray because they immediately shattered into pieces upon contact with the drill.

The stingray continued with the same speed while carefully observing his surroundings to locate Sofia.

He didn\'t find her until the last wall.

As soon as he broke the last layer, Sofia was the last wall that caught his fins in order to stop him. She even froze her own body and formed a small wall to support her body to avoid losing against his strength.

Before the dust destroyed her, Sofia smirked and said, "I caught you! Ice Boom!"

"Kh!" The stingray gritted his teeth and looked Sofia in the eyes.

The Magic Circle released a high amount of dry icy wind that engulfed both of them. Sofia was immune to this power while the stingray was frozen in an instant.

However, the shock wave still blew both of them away. Sofia landed several meters away while the stingray fell to the ground at the same distance. Still, his fins shattered into pieces and he wouldn\'t be able to continue the fight anymore.

As much as she wanted to celebrate her victory, she soon found something was missing from the stingray.

"Wait, where\'s the dust?" Sofia looked around, finding nothing.

Little did she know, there was another thing that she missed.

The stingray turned out to be severing his own tail and launched it using the dust.

The tail flew straight to Sofia.

"Holy—" Sofia widened her eyes but couldn\'t avoid it.

The tail ended up piercing her stomach and creating a hole in it.

"…" Sofia looked down and thought, \'Am I going to die… Kai…\'

"I will bring you with me! Even if I need to die, I can make Kai Carter suffer… That is if he can survive in the battle against my king…" The stingray tiredly glared at Sofia, who was still shocked by the tail.

However, his life ended soon when two portals appeared on the battlefield. One was before the tail and sucked the tail inside. The other one was on top of the stingray, releasing the tail.

The tail then pierced through his head, shattered it into a few pieces, ultimately killing him.

Leah made her appearance next to Sofia, who spat a mouthful of blood and dropped to the ground.

She managed to catch her and teleported her to the top of the building where Evan stayed.

Her hands were shaking, but Leah maintained eye contact with Sofia, saying, "Stay awake, okay? Evan is gonna heal you!"

Evan also hurriedly went to her and used his magic to heal her.