Zero was punched by Maria until she felt her bones cracking, her body fell into the snow, as she vomited a mouthful of blood. Her eyes were red shot in fury, she was completely overwhelmed.
"Unnnggh…!" She groaned, suddenly beginning to laugh. "Hah… Hahahah! Bwahahaha!"
"What's so fucking funny?" Asked Maria.
"You're trying so hard…" Laughed Zero. "So, so hard…"
"Huh?" Maria felt confused. "(What's up with this weird bitch?)"
Zero suddenly stood up, her entire body healing in mere seconds, as armor made of ice covered her body seconds later, and then, a massive mass of mana emerged around her, in the shape of a furious sea snake, the power of her Leviathan's necklace!
FLAAAAAAASSSSHHHH!!!!
And alongside that, her true aura of Mana emerged, all of her surroundings suddenly became her domain of Frost and Icy Winds, as countless tornadoes of winds emerged everywhere, freezing everything everywhere.
Maria sighed, but this was to be expected. Since the beginning that Zero was "playing around" Maria tried to use this opportunity to beat her as much as possible and to deal as much damage… But at the end, an S Rank Monster like her was just as durable as Maria.
She wasn't going to go down with a few fists. All the wounds except those in her soul were healed in seconds, the icy winds simply closed all of them.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Alright, alright! Let's go all out them!" Zero laughed. "No more games!!! {Frost Typhoon}!"
An amalgamation of winds and ice emerged out of thin air, impacting Maria in mere seconds!
Maria resisted the attack while being pushed down into the floor, as she gathered her own Mana and freed herself. The divinity of Moonlight activated as she utilized even more Moonlight Essence, an enormous shockwave of pink and purple light appeared!
"I won't go down easily either!" Maria's aura quickly started to change, as she began growing larger and larger.
She activated all her Body Skills, as her entire body shapeshifted, swinging around, and reshaping itself completely into something else. Abyssal Darkness started spreading everywhere. Countless swarms of flies appeared around her, endless seas of poison, black lightning reverberated across her body as the power of moonlight tightly kept it all together.
A massive and beautiful titaness of moonlight emerged, as she quickly rushed forward, shaking the entire surroundings while Zero laughed, floating up into the skies as she summoned countless storms of winter against her, shaping them as a giant of wind and ice itself!
"Hahahah! Yes! I've been sealed for five thousand years for this! Let's fight, young titaness!" Laughed Zero. As she clashed against Maria with all her magic power!
Maria's enormous titan fists hit the gigantic claws of the entity made of winds and ice that encompassed Zero, the two quickly beginning to hit one another constantly. Explosions of frost and darkness spread across the skies.
"Too weak." Maria said, activating the [Selene's Palm of Judgement] Skill together with her Divine Lightning and then her Demonic Ghostly Fist Techniques, as her gigantic, titanic palms unleashed destructive, heaven-piercing blows!
CLAASH! CLAASH! CLAAASH! CLAAAASH!!!
"Ahahahah! HAHAHAHA!" Zero continued to laugh as she tanked Maria's hits utilizing her magic alone. Gigantic shields made of ice appeared one after the other, as she gathered the Frost Essence everywhere within this area to regain her Mana at insanely fast speeds. "More! MORE!"
Despite looking like a frail lady, Zero was an insane battle junkie, and Maria realized this a bit too late. The harder she hit her, the more euphoric Zero would become.
"{Skadi's Spears}!!!"
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Suddenly, several spiraling icy winds gathered and generated spear shapes, firing themselves against Maria all at once!
CLAAASH! CLAAAASH! CLAAAAASH!
Maria intercepted them with her own body, as her gigantic body was capable of easily tanking magic attacks. However, these spells weren't as simple as she thought.
The spears suddenly expanded, combining together inside of Maria's phantasmal body, and then exploding into a bomb made of wind itself!
Maria's entire body suddenly exploded, as she was divided into countless tiny pieces, falling into the snow lands…
"I can't believe you let me do that, Bwahahaha- Eh?"
However, Zero herself had someone else she had to take care of as well, which surprised her once more, as a rain of flames emerged from the skies, all of the arrows resembled infernal specters in the shape of snakes!
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM BOOOM! BOOOM!
Each arrow exploded over her gigantic mass of Mana shaped into a giant and began destroying it with flames consuming it all. These flames took the shape of infernal snakes, much similar to Maria's own familiars.
And that was because while Maria fought her upfront, she had sent her familiars to merge with Emeraldine's techniques, generating such a power!
"{Infernal Snake Swarm}…" Emeraldine smirked with confidence, as her spiritual aura emerged. Nature and Light combining together with Flames from her new ghostly companion. The other two spirits didn't liked him that much, but they couldn't complain now. "Let's do a new one now, with all of us together!"
As Emeraldine prepared herself, she pointed her bow at Zero, who glanced at her furiously while burning alive. Her wounds constantly healing but the flames were strong, burning her soul as well and permanently weakening her and damaging her.
As strong as the witch of winter was, she was incapable of healing soul wounds, and these were already beginning to take effect on her strength, while slowly making her more irritated.
"You damn bitch! Why do you dare get in the way of my amazing fight against Maria! She belongs to me! She's only mine to fight and kill!!!" She roared furiously, pointing her winds against Emeraldine. "DIEEEE!"
"{Mystical Moon Phase Circle}!"
However, in front of Zero, a ring of beautiful moons changing phases emerged, as they started to absorb her magic continuously while rotating around beautifully!
"What?! You've already regenerated?!"
Zero's face distorted in shock as she saw Maria emerge from all her pieces, reforming herself in mere seconds into her glorious and beautiful Titaness shape!
"Here, I think you lost this, have it back!"