The image of Michael's disembodied Diva appeared hovering above his head. Its robotic hand had futuristic features that looked just like complicated metal contraptions that Blazelle had no way of understanding.
Blazelle slowly backed away from Michael. There was no mistaking it. That was a Diva.
"How…HOW DO YOU HAVE A DIVA?!" she screamed out.
She had thought that only chosen people could become Maugnetic. Only people like her could have the talent and luck to become one of the leading powers of the world.
Yet somehow, this golden-haired boy casually revealed that he had a Diva all along.
"Where?..."
It was then that she remembered that the Fairies had a GodForge piece in their possession. That was how he must have obtained his own Diva!
But still, that didn't explain how he became a Maugnetic.
After all, she was only able to become one after a gruesome and risky operation that transplanted the GodForge piece directly into her heart. As far as she knew, only those Healers from the conglomerate Sinclair's Elixirs could perform such a risky task without killing the person.
"And where? Where's your Mithril Relic?!?"
The only reason she could manifest her Diva was because of the rapier that she held in her hands. It was a Mithril Relic slathered in the Oil of Old, allowing her to focus the power in the GodForge piece into the Diva. Without it, she wouldn't have been able to draw upon her Diva's power, much less manifest it in reality.
However, Michael clearly didn't have a Mithril Relic in his hands. He had nothing—no weapons, no metal armor, and not even a single tool.
Yet somehow, he could manifest his Diva without it.
Everything she was seeing about Michael completely contrasted what she was taught about Diva and Maugnetics!
"Bro Mike! What's that?! That's so cool!" Zion said, jumping up and down in excitement.
"I knew boss could do anything," Jaku said, leaning his sword on his shoulder.
"Master! That's so ninja!" Fudge praised.
"FUFUFU! Look at how talented my son is!" Lylia bragged.
"You made me worried there," Yuna chuckled, staring at Michael's back with a certain look on her face.
The appearance of Michael's Diva completely annihilated the worry on their faces. Seeing him contrast Blazelle's own Diva gave them a sense of hope, not only for this battle, but for the battle that was to come in the future.
"You said that our Reborn company can't keep up with the sharks of the world. I beg to differ" Michael said, pointing his finger up at his Diva. "I'm more than capable of it."
Blazelle gritted her teeth. "Tsk! It doesn't matter how you got one. I can see that yours is still underdeveloped!"
The fact that Michael's Diva only showed a hand meant that his progress in Body Formation couldn't have been more than the first stage. And she was right.
"Let me guess. You just awakened your Diva, right? You think that you can defeat me or my cousin with that? You haven't even awakened your Aubility!"
The unexpected appearance of Michael's Diva made Blazelle a little unsettled. But as she realized the immature state it was in, she started to regain her confidence.
She slowly fixed her posture, turning it upright. The flaming Diva above her head frowned even deeper as it stared at the Diva above Michael.
"I bet you don't even know what an Aubility is!" Blazelle taunted. "Would you like me to show you, little boy?"
Michael smiled. "I do want to see how I stack up against someone like you. You said that you're in the second stage of Body Formation, right?"
Blazelle nodded, hiding the fact that she was still unnerved from the fact that he knew about Body Formation.
"That's right. I am an ultra genius that was capable of awakening my Aubility as soon as I ascended the second stage of Body Formation. Just look at my Diva," she said, pointing upwards.
"My Diva has formed most of its body. Unlike yours. Do you dare to fight me without any one of your allies helping you?" she asked, specifically looking over to the skeleton monster standing relaxed behind Michael.
"Of course. I swear that this is a one on one fight between us. Give me your best shot," Michael replied.
Blazelle's smile warped, sensing a chance. If she could defeat Michael, she could turn the tides and even possibly win the bout against the Rebornians!
She immediately moved her body, swinging her rapier in accordance to the stances she learned.
With each thrust of her rapier, the Fiery Diva above her head swung its arms and created fire in its wake.
Finishing her final stance, Blazelle immediately thrusted her rapier towards Michael. However, it was clear that the distance between them was far too wide for her weapon to hit him. But she didn't care.
The Fiery Diva ballooned up twice its original size before it raised both its hands and slammed it towards Michael.
Michael immediately took a step back just as the Diva's arms crashed onto the ground, creating a fiery crater that turned everything into glowing igneous rocks.
At this very moment, a strange mark appeared on the ground where the Diva's hands landed. It was a cartoonish image of a flame with a stick for its hands and legs, looking mad and angry.
Michael noticed that this image wasn't made out of mana, unlike everything in the world.
"Oh…you've noticed it, have you?" Blazelle said ominously. "Too bad you have no idea what it does!"
She lunged her rapier again towards Michael, with her Diva thrashing the ground as it tried to hit Michael.
Michael dashed away from the two of them using a simple [Air Dash] spell in his feet.
However, Blazelle rushed towards him again, this time, thrusting her rapier multiple times in a single second.
Each of Blazelle's thrusts missed their mark, hitting the trees and the boulders behind Michael.
The Diva above her head continued to thrash on the ground, leaving behind that mark of that anthropomorphic cartoon flame.
Eventually, everything around him was inundated with these marks on the ground.
And as he stepped backwards, he inadvertently came too close to one of the marks on the tree.
Blazelle smiled as the mark suddenly exploded out into a fiery mess. Michael dodged from getting hit directly, but the shockwave pushed him just enough for him to come close to another mark on a large boulder.
That mark exploded as well, sending chunks of fiery rock all over the forest.
Michael quickly used a magic spell, creating a wall of Water to protect himself from the shooting debris.
Blazelle laughed maniacally, lunging at Michael's [Water Wall].
As soon as her rapier made contact with the [Water Wall], the same mark appeared on the water spell's surface.
Michael's eyes widened as his own magicexploded out into fiery flames, almost hurting him from being too close.
"What?! How did Water get turned into flames?!" Zion shouted as he saw what happened.
"Something's weird. Those flames aren't made out of mana!" Sheina noticed.
Blazelle laughed. "That's right. This is my Aubility! I can make anything explode out into a fire with anything I touch, or my Diva touches! Your magic spells are of no use! I'll turn them into my own bombs HAHAHA!"