Corrupt Creations

Elyra tried to expel the poison from inside her body using her Mana, but she felt it was a really hard thing to do. It was something that would take a lot of time and it was impossible to do in the middle of a fight. 

"Now I understand why you didn't want anyone seeing your abilities. You're actually using the Evergreen Poison... Why are you able to use it? Only the Elf Queen can use it..." Elyra was feeling the numbing sensation that poison produced on some parts of her body, but she didn't panic, she calmly stopped to ask Seth about it. 

"It's a long story, but you can say that I have inherited it from the World Tree, before it was destroyed." 

"Does the Elf Queen know about it?" 

"Of course she knows it. She was there on that day." 

"I see... I was naïve for asking this. But being able to use the Evergreen Poison doesn't mean you will be able to cope with me." 

Boom! 

Elyra's body turned green because of the huge quantity of wind element energy circling around her. Her body that was previously invaded by the Evergreen Poison, shone in a green light and turned into an illusory wind, disappearing in single second. 

That wind current rose towards the sky, where she finally appeared. Most of the Evergreen Poison running inside her veins was left behind after her body had turned into and illusory wind. This ability she was able to use was something she was only able to execute after reaching a certain degree of mastery over the wind element. It is something that she needed to spend a lot of Mana just to execute for some seconds. 

Seth watched her graceful form vanishing and he started to feel that the wind element was indeed awesome. 

Boom! 

A windstorm surged around Elyra as she prepared to attack Seth this time. She knew that if she gave Seth enough time, his poison would inevitably enter her body, weakening her considerably. She decided to use her strongest abilities and end the spar. 

What she didn't notice, was that she was already using hundred percent of her power against him, even though he was from a lower realm of power. 

Elyra opened up her arms and a tornado formed from her body. Sharp wind blades were swirling in high velocity, slicing even the air. She was the center of everything, the core of her technique. 

The tornado expanded covering a huge area of two hundred meters but it didn't show any signs of stopping. 

Seth was forced to retreat quickly, or else he would be sliced in half by one of these wind blades. 

The tornado kept expanding and very quickly it turned into a huge swirling demon, that literally razed everything that was on its way. Those razor-sharp wind blades sliced every single boulder and every single tree apart, making them join in with the things swirling inside the tornado. 

"Holy Shit!" Seth finally realized Elyra was fighting seriously now. 

His body started to be dragged towards the tornado and not even his Shadow Walk was enough to make him escape now. However, at a time like this, he started to realize the mechanics behind the wind element. 

While his body was being dragged, he started to realize how Elyra's Mana was interacting with the particles and creating the wind. However, he couldn't afford to study it for now. 

Seth forcibly stopped as a dark green mist exploded around him. That mist was insanely dense and the poison around it started to be sucked by the tornado, merging with everything else. 

A huge battle of attrition between both of them, initiated. While Seth's poison was infecting and destroying Elyra's Mana and trying to reach the place she was to infect her body, Elyra's wind energy was slicing that dark green mist part and pushing it far away. 

However, this battle gave Seth time to learn about the wind element. He had a sudden insight about it and his Evergreen Essence suddenly stopped trying to destroy Elyra's wind, merging with it instead and being carried everywhere way easier than before. 

In just some brief seconds, the entire tornado turned into a dark green poisonous tornado and it was inevitable that Elyra would be poisoned, since she was right at the middle. 

She felt her skin going numb and couldn't understand how Seth's Evergreen Pison so easily merged with her wind energy. If this were to continue, the poison would enter her body and make her incapable of fighting. 

Elyra had to deal with this Evergreen Poison once and for all, and there was only one thing she could do to make that happen. 

Swoosh! 

Bang! Bang! Boom! 

She forcibly dispelled her tornado and everything that had been lifted, crashed down on the ground. 

A fierce gale suddenly came out of nowhere, creating a huge wind storm in the whole area. Elyra suddenly drew a sword out of her spatial ring and the wind storm converged around the blade of her sword.

"Wind-Rend!" 

RIP! 

A very loud ripping noise echoed on the whole area. Seth's Evergreen Essence was sliced apart, the rocks and the destroyed trees were sliced apart, even the air was sliced apart. 

A wind blade cut through everything as if they were just a thin sheet of paper. Elyra planned to show Seth he would be incapable before a technique like this, and that was the only motive she executed it. She didn't plan to land this blow on Seth's body, so right before it was about to touch him, she started to retract her power in order to cancel the attack. 

However, what Seth wanted to accomplish fighting against Elyra, was to test his new abilities. That included his reinforced though body and his Evergreen Essence healing effectiveness. That is why his body suddenly vanished from where he was, since he activated the second stance of his Shadow Walk, executing a mini-teleport through a tunnel of darkness. 

He appeared right Infront Elyra's still incoming Wind-Rend slash, letting it make direct contact with his chest area. 

Swoosh! 

Everything happened so quickly that Elyra could only try to forcibly dispel her technique, even suffering a backlash in the process. But it was still able to connected with Seth's chest, trying to pierce through his body and cleave him in half. 

Seth was sent flying, but his body resisted her attack, at least not being cleaved. However, he flew for more than a kilometer, crashing on the floor and sliding more hundred meters until he stopped. 

"No! Seth!" Elyra rushed towards the area he landed and her countenance couldn't even be described as grave. There was actually an expression of despair of her face. 

When she arrived there, Seth's body was lying flat on the floor and there was a huge opened cut covering his whole torso. Elyra panicked and quickly started to infuse Mana inside his body, but she failed to notice that the huge cut was not even bleeding anymore. 

"Please! Seth! Please!" Her hand was shaking as she infused Mana on his body. Inwardly she was certain that if he were able to survive, it would be a miracle. 

However... 

Suddenly, Elyra felt Seth grabbing her hand, scaring her. Her already pale skin turned a degree paler, and her already quickly beating heart, shot. 

Seth, still lying of the floor, forced a smile and said: "Don't worry. It will be alright." 

"Seth, I'm sorry... If not for me trying to show you that it would be something impossible for you, none of this would have happened." 

"You're wrong Elyra. Cough... It was me, that purposely jumped in front of your skill." While saying, a green light started to cover the wound on his chest area, and it started to slowly heal. 

Elyra got surprised after witnessing his wounds closing after that light appeared. It would take some time for it to fully close, but Seth was able to roughly gauge the toughness of his body.

Elyra's strongest attack, wasn't able to penetrate his bones and wound any of his internal organs. That showed how strong and though was his skin and muscles right now. As for his regeneration, his own body recovering speed, coupled with the Evergreen Essence, was a combo he didn't expect that it would be so efficient. 

He was sure that in an hour, he would be able to fully heal that immense cut he had on his chest, not leaving even a scar behind. 

"You purposely jumped in front of my skill? Why...?" 

"For testing this." Seth pointed towards his Evergreen Essence and at the same time, through his hand that was still holding Elyra's hand, he absorbed all the Evergreen Poison that was still inside her body. 

The sequence of facts that has happened, left Elyra speechless. She just discovered that the secret behind the Evergreen Essence was greater than the elves thought. Seth's Evergreen Essence seemed to be even more special than what she had seen from the Elf Queen. 

She was so shocked because of all these facts, that she didn't even notice that Seth was still holding her hand.