While Alfred and Jack were fighting, Daisy was also fighting Grace. Unlike Alfred and Jack, Daisy and Grace were long-range fighters.
Standing nearly a hundred meters apart, they were hurling several attacks at each other.
[Ice Phoenix Wings]
Daisy clapped and conjured a massive bird made out of ice that spread its wings and rushed towards the middle-aged man.
Seeing this attack, Grace channeled a large amount of mana into his finger and released a powerful bolt of lightning.
Bang! Crack! Crack!
The lightning bolt traveled several meters in an instant, colliding with the ice phoenix before shattering it into pieces.
Even so, the ice was so cold that it began to change the atmosphere around them.
Sensing the temperature change, Grace was simply spitting out flames from his eyes.
"Your technique is A-Grade or higher, right?"
Daisy didn't understand why this man was starting a conversation in the middle of a battle, but one look at his face and she understood.
He was simply jealous.
That made sense. This man reached the middle stage of the Soul Sublimation Realm and had the lightning element.
But his lightning was quite weak. Normally, lightning should've strongest combat strength.
So, she understood his problem. After all, her ability was only B-grade because it had improved.
At that time, it couldn't influence the surroundings like it was doing right now.
But now, the mere presence of her ice could create snow. The temperature could drop as far as zero degrees around her.
That was just simply just the side effects of her technique.
"Yes, my technique is S-Grade."
Daisy nodded her head.
Grace showed a look of envy, but that soon turned into hatred, remembering very well how he had to sacrifice himself for the family because of his technique's grade.
"I am going to kill you."
That anger turned into strength as his mana began erupting like crazy.
The mana turned into lightning bolts, and thousands of mini lightning arcs appeared around his body.
Whoosh!
In an instant, his body covered several meters, appearing in front of Daisy instantaneously.
He took out a dagger from the spatial ring and coated it with lightning mana before stabbing it at her heart.
In his eyes, this should be normal.
After all, she was weaker than him by three levels. That was a massive weakness in this stage.
By infusing his spirit energy into his mana, he could improve the power of his mana, but that would also damage his soul.
Of course, he wasn't worried about his soul since he was going to sacrifice himself anyway.
Crack! Thud!
Just when he thought he had killed her, Daisy, in front of him, turned into a block of ice and cracked open before falling to the ground.
His senses flared like crazy. His spiritual sense was acting crazy as he sensed an attack coming his way.
[Lightning Step]
Suddenly, his body turned into a drop of lightning as he disappeared from that place.
Bang!
An arrow made out of ice passed through his previous position and struck a tree far away, instantly turning the tree into a block of ice.
After getting some distance, Grace decided to attack Daisy once more, but when he reached closer, he found that something was wrong with her.
His spiritual sense couldn't see the life in Daisy in front of her.
But his eyes were on her. He didn't see her move.
Just when he stopped to think about it, his senses flared once again, but this time, he was a tiny bit slow.
Crack!
In an instant, the arrow struck his body and covered him in a block of ice.
Boom!
Several powerful lightning bolts erupted from the block of ice, breaking it apart, but when Grace came out of it, both of his hands and legs seemed to be shaking.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two more arrows were shot towards him at an extraordinary speed. But he quickly took out two talismans and infused them with mana.
While his aim was a bit off, he managed to throw them towards the general direction of those arrows.
[Third Grade Talisman- Fire Dragon Arrow]
Both of the talismans transformed into a fiery dragon head that slammed towards the upcoming arrows.
At this moment, a bitter look appeared on his face.
Watching the arrows made out of ice collide with the fire dragon made from a third-grade talisman, he lost all will to continue this battle.
Normally, a third-grade talisman could be considered a trump card for a Soul Sublimation Realm cultivator.
A talisman of this level should be able to counter any attack of this realm and destroy a cultivator of this realm.
But a casual arrow from Daisy was able to blow it. While that might sound the same, considering Daisy was also at the Soul Sublimation Realm.
The power of the third-grade talisman was around the peak of the Soul Sublimation Realm cultivator's attack.
So, the fact that Daisy was able to counter this talisman with her ice arrows meant he no longer had any chance of blocking those attacks.
'No wonder my hands are frozen like this. A Soul Sublimation cultivator like myself should be immune to cold and heat.'
'But if there is a limit to this immunity. Even the drastic change of nature's temperature could affect me, much less something like this.'
'That bow! It must be an artifact of fourth grade, right? That's four times amplification on her mana.'
At this moment, a look of horror appeared on his face when he thought about her attack power.
Even with the best of his ability, he wouldn't be able to counter her.
But he didn't want to die like this. At least, he wanted to take her down with him.
Since they were both in the same realm, he wanted to make sure he could take her down.
And thankfully, he had just the right technique.
Whoosh!
Although his legs were weak, by using lightning steps, he managed to cover a great distance and chase towards her life presence.
Daisy couldn't hide her life presence, and her reaction speed was far less than a lightning user like Grace.
The moment Grace got closer to her, a crazy smile appeared on his face.
"Since I can't live. I will take you with me."
[Thunder Bomb]
A black cloud above his body released a bolt of lightning descending on him, while all of his lightning mana turned into a ball of lightning around him.
Boom!
The moment that the lightning bolt struck down, the lightning ball released an explosion so massive that a radius of hundreds of meters was instantly covered in the explosion.
The dust rose, the shockwave spread, and the ground trembled. The sheer amount of lightning released by that explosion caused massive damage.
Followed by a frenzied wave of flames that kept devouring anything on its path.
At this moment, nearly hundreds of meters away from the explosion, a small piece of snow merged into a large piece of ice.
From that ice, Daisy slowly emerged. A part of her clothes was covered in burnt marks, while her skin was fairly okay.
Even after the self-destruction, Grace didn't manage to land any damage on her.
But she still had a look of relief.
"Fortunately, my technique upgraded to S-Grade; otherwise, I wouldn't have such a powerful secret technique."
"But for a C-Grade to have such a destructive technique, it deserves the lightning element, the most violent and destructive element in nature."
Every inherent technique had a secret technique.
These secret techniques could only be unlocked at the Soul Sublimation Realm, simply because one would need a powerful soul to explore these techniques.
This also meant E-Grade and D-Grade didn't even have a secret technique since they couldn't even reach the Soul Sublimation Realm.
Putting aside Grace's Thunder Bomb, her secret technique was a space technique, allowing her to move through space.
It wasn't a teleportation but rather a portal through the dimension of ice that existed outside Earth's dimension.
This technique needed her to enter the dimension of ice through ice and come out through ice.
That meant without ice, she would be stuck in the dimension of ice forever.
More importantly, she couldn't come out of the places she hadn't visited yet, and without ice.
That meant she couldn't use this ability for normal transportation.
Of course, considering her technique was S-Grade, she could still affect nearly a kilometer with her ability.
"It's a good thing I spent all of my savings to buy this thing; even with my higher quality of mana, this battle would've been difficult."
The fact that her body was spotless of damage despite fighting someone who was three levels higher than her was simply thanks to three things.
The grade of her artifact, the power of her secret technique, and the grade of her inherent technique.
"But something is fishy here. That look on his face! There was no hatred or anger, just resignation at his last moment."
"That shouldn't be the look of a person who was forced to self-destruct. It seems like there is a deeper truth to their arrival."