16 15. Fierce Lioness

"Yes I do. So now tell me why you're attacking me." I asked with my arms crossed.

"HAHAHA, YOU WILL FIGHT WITH ME, NOW!" After yelling that she already exploded in flames and vanished from the spot.

Ordinary people would think she just bombed herself to oblivion or teleported away but I know what's going on.

Aether's eyes began to shine in gold as he raised his left hand and it began to give off an golden aura.

*Boom*

Suddenly a loud shockwave was created and you could see Mereoleona, with her fist in his left hand!

That's right, when she disappeared in a burst of flames she was actually rushing at me and delivered a deathly punch, aimed right at my head!

Everything happened in a blink of an eye!

Even though the punch was earthshattering it didn't even make my hand move.

"HAHAHA GOOD, BUT NOW LET'S SEE HOW YOU DEAL WITH THIS." She said with an crazy but also quite good looking smile on her face.

"HAH!" As her fist was still in my hand she shouted and her Grimoire started flipping pages.

*SWISH*

Suddenly an inferno was released from her fist and hit Aether head on!

"..."

"...di- did she kill him?" Someone asked.

After releasing the full flame on him Mereleona suddenly frowned and made a somersault to retreat.

"*cough* *cough* oh man I hate smoking." Aether said while coming out of the smoke.

"Wha- how!?" Mereoleona was flabbergasted. Even if it wasn't her full powered attack, it still should have left some marks on him, but theres absolutely nothing! He looks even better than before!

"Huh? Damn it! you burnt my clothes!" Aether said as he finally saw that everything except his shoes and pants was burned to ashes.

"So-SO HANDSOME KYAAAA!" A girl from the sidelines that was watching the whole thing with the other members shouted out as she got beet-red and nearly fainted.

Aether had currently his Grimoire out and was enveloped in an shiny gold and little black aura while his long silver hair was fluttering in the wind.

His perfect muscles out for everyone to see.

It made him look extremely handsome.

After that girl who shouted fainted, many others followed her.

"Ok, enough warmup, let the real fight begin!"

'This time, without Ikofos' Aether thought as he coated himself in a thick layer of his gold mana and in the next moment disappeared!

"Holy Magic, flying thunderspears!"

Aether appeared behind Mereleona, with 5 golden lightning bolts that crackle and sizzle the whole time levitating above his head.

"Go!" As Aether said this the five lightning bolts pierced through the sky, directly at her.

"SHIT!" Mereoleona raised her arms and quickly said

( I cant remember any spells from her so I will just make them up)

"Fire magic, fiery lion skin!" As she finished chanting a mantle of fire covered her and began to give off enormous heat.

But in the instant the flame skin covered her the bolts arrived and every one of them was a direct hit.

"Urgh!" Mereoleona was sent flying and then crashed into a wall.

"Round 2?" Aether said while walking forward.

No response.

"oh."

As Aether finally reached her

he saw her laying on the ground, she passed out.

But you could clearly see a smile on her face.

"Hmm" Aether scratches his chin with an puzzled expression.

This girl is clearly Mereleona.

But why does she look so young?!

She should be in her thirties now.

'Hm, and now that I look at her, her assets seem to be bigger too.'

"Did he just defeat the little sister of captain Fuegoleon?" Someone asked.

"What is going on here?" Fuegoleon appeared and looked at me with a piercing glare.

"Um, she attacked me and it was just self defense? And she destroyed my whole room!" I said while pointing at my room, or better said the hole in the building.

The people that were watching had a 'oh really?' look on their faces.

'That wasn't self defense, you completely destroyed her!' Was what everyone thought.

~

So after a conversation with Fuegoleon I got a new room and didn't get punished for sending his little sister into the dreamland.

"Hah~ what to do, what to do?" After getting new clothes Aether started to wander around the city to find something to entertain himself.

'Maybe I should go visit the kids?...nah, I just arrived here.' He thought.

"..elp..."

'Huh? What was that?' Aether stopped in his tracks and closed his eyes to concentrate better as he heard it again, but this time he understood it clearly.

"HELP!"

It was a cry of a woman, begging for help.

No one but me heard it, because it came from far away and I could only hear it because of my heightenend senses.

"Ikofos!" Aether dashed forward in the direction of the cry and summoned his spear as he jumped on it and flew.

One second he was there and on the next he was already a blur and you could only hear the boom of him breaking the sound barrier.