The SSS Ranked Demon King Goes to the Hero Academy-Chapter 36: The Final Battle of the Trial. (4)

A big smile was sculpted on Bīng Xuě’s face. The boy smiled excitedly.

He was having his second serious battle, which was even more exciting than the previous one.

The aura around him began extending at great speed, cooling the air and lowering the temperature of his surroundings.

As he did, Noelia analyzed.

She had more or less understood her opponent’s ability.

A very unfair ability, the capacity to create unbreakable rules in reality.

An extremely annoying ability for her.

While her texture manipulation was extremely versatile, it was still an F-rank ability.

It didn’t affect concepts or rules, so she was at a complete disadvantage against an ability like Bīng Xuě’s.

At least Noelia knew it was difficult for Bīng Xuě to discover what her ability was, so he probably wasn’t going to prohibit [texture manipulation].

However, the cold ability was a problem.

But she came to a conclusion very similar to Aku’s. She wouldn’t raise her body temperature but would maintain it.

Someone like her who could manipulate and create matter had it very easy to make a body conserve its temperature.

Though using her ability on herself had never pleased her.

Luckily, it wasn’t like she had to manipulate her body atom by atom. Her ability acted automatically according to her thoughts.

The cold arrived, but she wasn’t affected.

Though the air became colder around her.

"Tch, maybe I should have conserved the air temperature too," she said quietly to herself as Bīng Xuě lunged at her.

His cyan blue hair waved in the air as he created an ice axe and brought it down on the girl.

"Let’s see what else you can do!" Bīng Xuě roared with excitement on his face, bringing the weapon in his hand down.

Noelia acted quickly. She had total control of her body thanks to the manipulation of fundamental forces that her texture manipulation offered.

By manipulating the texture of quantum fields of subatomic particles, their movement and functioning could also be altered.

Her arm moved quickly upward as her fingers caught the axe’s blade.

At the same time her other arm was already accelerating toward the boy’s stomach.

Noelia landed a powerful punch on the young man, with enough force to pierce through a tank’s armor.

However, the curse nullified that damage, something Noelia had anticipated.

She had seen how the young man had nullified the force of the gravitational waves.

But then she activated her ability on the boy’s body.

In an instant the texture of all his organic tissues changed.

With a simple touch his entire body was affected by her ability, which altered the texture of every surface in his body to something more fragile and rough.

Bīng Xuě’s body began bleeding both inside and out, as if he had received hundreds of cuts.

The pain was unbearable, but unlike what one would think, that excited Bīng Xuě more.

In an instant his wounds had healed. His aura surrounded him and concentrated on his body while his axe exploded into hundreds of blades.

The blades spun toward the girl who moved away in the air while sending gravitational waves against them to destroy them.

Bīng Xuě didn’t wait. He quickly lunged at Noelia while supporting himself on the ice dust.

The combat became a dance of aerial blows and acrobatics.

The boy used the ice dust to propel himself in the air from any direction and attack the girl.

Noelia tried to defend herself as best she could but didn’t have enough combat experience to match the boy’s tricks and tactics.

He hit her multiple times, and while her attire and ability cushioned the blow, there was a limit to her capacity.

Each blow transferred part of the cold aura into the girl’s body, slowly cooling her body.

Noelia was losing the lead in the attack. Her weapons were too far for her to collect them with her ability and her body was getting colder.

"Heh, I think that’ll be enough," the boy then said with a smile.

Suddenly, hundreds of lotus-shaped marks began glowing on Noelia’s body.

"What the hell?" the young woman said as multiple sharp ice stars pierced her skin.

Noelia had to act very quickly, creating a repellent shield from her skin using electromagnetic force.

The electromagnetic force doesn’t only affect magnetic metals but can affect all matter.

In fact, that force is already present in all atoms.

The only problem with making this type of repulsion shields is that it pushes all matter, including air.

So she could only use it in specific zones.

"Ha! I’m not done. Healing is [Taboo], breathing is [Taboo]," the boy shouted with a smile as he lunged at the girl. "Blocking attacks is [Taboo]!"

Bīng Xuě in his hybrid form had less need for oxygen to survive, since demons in his world didn’t breathe.

But activating those three taboos at that instant had been a violent strategy.

Noelia could no longer heal from the wounds she had received from the "ice stars," nor could she defend herself from the rest of the attacks, and the lack of oxygen would weaken her.

The boy connected a powerful kick to her belly while the impact zone began freezing.

Noelia shot toward the ground. It was an immediate defeat.

Or so Bīng Xuě thought.

However, not being able to breathe meant it didn’t matter if she pushed the oxygen away.

Not being able to heal meant Bīng Xuě couldn’t either.

And if no one could defend themselves, then Bīng Xuě’s curse wouldn’t be active.

Noelia had been put against the ropes, but that didn’t necessarily have to be good for him.

In an instant, electromagnetic waves pushed the ice from her entire body, as well as the rest of the matter.

A chemical vacuum was generated around her, but she didn’t care since even if her body could suffer from pressure changes, by manipulating her own matter she wouldn’t be affected.

The girl smiled beneath her mask.

It was time to end it all.