The Medallion novel Chapter 28

"It seems like you do know a lot of things. However this is not the Deadly Powder. Instead it is the Poisonous Powder. I knew you were injured by that spiritual beast earlier and the powder you inhaled will exacerbate your wound. Very soon no one will be able to save you." The woman clad in blue wore a victorious smile.

Marcia frowned as she realized that she had walked right into her trap. She was clearly luring her into a fight to attack with the powder.

"Sneaky bitch!" Rocky was also angered by the trick. He found it too despicable.

Marcia grew furious and the Dragon Spirit Mark on her arm expanded as her spiritual power went berserk in the form of shock waves. Rocky found it difficult to withstand those shock waves of spiritual energy. He felt humbled in the presence of such great power.

She was really a powerful one!

In an instant, Marcia cloned herself and there were a couple of more versions of her around. All those versions charged towards the woman in blue. The woman was not afraid and her right arm was shining with bright, green light. The veins around her became thick, like the roots of an ancient tree and they were as hard as rock. One lash and there was a deep crack on the ground. If a human was hit by it, he or she would be crushed.

Very soon Marcia and the other woman were fighting on the ground with periodic bangs of explosions and light shining from their spiritual marks. It was like a storm of sand and ice sweeping the whole place. It was terrifying and awe-inspiring at the same time.

Rocky couldn't even see the figures of those two women. He could only guess their position by the ruins they had left in their path. The ground was caved in and sank in certain places, interspersed with small mushroom clouds here and there and earth-shaking explosions. The battle scene looked like a destructed field.

Rocky could sense that the spiritual energy output from both of them kept on increasing. This made the encounter that was going in until now, look like just a warm-up. The level of spiritual energy was powerful like a tsunami now. It was making Rocky feel suffocated. He found it unbearable.

Moments later, their battle went up a notch. It turned more intense with the ground shaking with further violence as the sun too got covered by the dust, spurred and stirred up by them. The spiritual energy now reached the place where Rocky was standing, causing strong air waves to fill up the space. Rocky was backing down yet he felt a giant rock pressing against his chest which made it difficult for him to breathe.

As the fight kept on getting more intense, a slim figure suddenly shot out of the storm of dust. She backed down a couple of steps. She was shaking and had turned pale with blood coming out of her mouth.

"It looks like that beautiful general has been hurt pretty bad." Rocky saw that the woman was Marcia and he couldn't help worrying about her. However, there was nothing that he could do to help her. Being a rookie spirit manipulator he was of no use to her, while she was hundreds of times stronger than him.

"You just took in my Poisonous Powder, yet you are using your spiritual power with no abstinence. You are as good as dead now." The woman in blue walked out of the storm, perspiring and panting. It was not being an easy fight for her either.

"Just a tiny bit of poison is not going to stop me!" Marcia sneered. Just when she was about to charge at her again, she fumbled and landed on one of her knees. It appeared that she could no longer endure the wounds she had received.

"Are you still going to try and play tough? Hand it over, or I will take it myself off your dead body. And I can be rough unlike some men around you." The woman clad in blue pressed on.

"Not in this life of yours." Marcia bit her lips.