“That is…”

Most guests were confused by Princess Evelyn’s transformation, especially the people from the human region. But few of them understood what had happened to her.

“Is that the beastification of the Beastmen race?”

One of the guests from the human region muttered. Unlike the people from the demi-human region who knew about beastification, the guests from the human region knew very little about it. Although some of them had read about beastification in books, they had never seen it in person.

“That is indeed the beastification of the beastmen race. I know it because I’ve seen it before and fought one of them.” King Leonida explained to the guests from the human region, who looked confused and curious. They nodded in understanding and thanked King Leonida for bothering to explain to them.

“But… the beastification on Princess Evelyn looks slightly different from the beastmen races I’ve fought before.” King Leonida added his explanation.

In the guest area of ​​the demi-human region, King Regulus smiled with satisfaction when he saw his daughter in the battle arena. The people sitting in that area weren’t particularly curious when they saw the changes in Princess Evelyn because they already knew about beastification.

“Is it okay if your daughter uses beastification?” Queen Jasmine asked King Regulus. Their seats weren’t that far apart. Because of that, King Regulus could still hear Queen Jasmine’s question even though he said it in a low voice.

“Hmm? Sooner or later, she should be able to master it completely. So using beastification in this battle, I don’t think it’s a problem. I was the one who had advised him to use it in battle.” King Leonida answered Queen Jasmine’s question. His face didn’t look worried about Princess Evelyn’s condition.

When Princess Evelyn was selected as a participant to represent Arcuz Grand Academy, King Regulus secretly spoke to his daughter via telepathy to allow her to use beastification.

“Doesn’t beastification have to be trained for years to be used safely? Moreover, Princess Evelyn looks like she’s forced her transformation and her beastification isn’t perfect. Aren’t you afraid something bad will happen to your daughter?” Queen Jasmine asked another question.

“You don’t have to worry about that, Queen Jasmine. I’m sure my daughter will be fine.” King Regulus replied nonchalantly.

Queen Jasmine asked not because she intended to interfere with the affairs of other kingdoms. It was purely out of curiosity about King Regulus’s concern for Princess Evelyn’s condition.

But Queen Jasmine was taken aback by King Regulus’s answer. She didn’t expect that the one who asked Princess Evelyn to use beastification was her father.

Queen Jasmine knows a lot about beastification, including its advantages and disadvantages. Beastification is an innate ability of the beastmen race that will multiply the power and speed of the user. It can be twice, four times to ten times, depending on the burden they can bear. Because of that ability, the beastmen race became the strongest race in the demi-human region.

However, this ability is not without its weaknesses. The beastmen race did have that ability from the moment they were born. But that ability cannot be used immediately. When beastification is activated, the skill will carry an extremely heavy burden on the user’s body. If they weren’t strong, their muscles would be torn apart, their veins would be severed, and their internal organs crushed.

That’s why special training is needed so that the beastmen race can use it without side effects. Usually, double the strength by using beastification requires ten years of intensive training. But if that person was a genius and possessed an extraordinary physique, it might only take five to seven years.

Princess Jasmine had only trained for less than five years to use beastification. Even though she is a genius from the beastmen race, her physical strength is not that special, and she is only slightly stronger than the human race. Because the training time is not long and her physique is ordinary for the beastmen race, her beastification is not perfect.

Besides, Princess Evelyn could only use beastification at twice the power in a short time. If she forced herself to use that power beyond the limits of her physical ability, then the risk would be fatal or even kill her.

“Is that so? I hope everything goes according to your words.” Queen Jasmine shrugged her shoulders and said no further. Why would she think about Princess Evelyn if King Regulus, as her father, wasn’t worried about her? Queen Jasmine didn’t care about it and returned her focus to the battle arena.

“This magic of yours will no longer affect me, Kyouka!” Princess Evelyn walked slowly towards Kyouka. Every step he took would crack the ice on the battle arena. After that, Princess Evelyn moved towards Kyouka at a terrifying speed.

“What!” Kyouka was surprised and intended to cast a spell on Princess Evelyn. But Kyouka’s response was too late because Princess Evelyn was already in front of her and swung her claws.

Crushing Claw

Cracks!

Boooooooooommmmmmmmmm!

Princess Evelyn easily broke Kyouka’s ice barrier. Not only that, Kyouka within the barrier was even affected by Princess Evelyn’s attack. She was blown away a few meters and got a wound on her chest.

“Urgh!” Kyouka quickly cast a healing spell on her wound, but Princess Evelyn didn’t let Kyouka freely do so.

Princess Evelyn charged forward towards Kyouka and suddenly disappeared from her sight. Kyouka quickly formed a barrier around her. But the same thing happened. Kyouka’s barrier was easily broken after getting hit by Princess Evelyn, and Kyouka got another wound on her back.

“Argh!” Kyouka gritted her teeth in pain. She was still not used to feeling such pain, even though she had experienced it back in the Cirlus Kingdom. Even in such a situation, Kyouka could hear worried screams from her friends, including Clara.

Kyouka was the daughter of a billionaire in Japan before she was summoned to this world. She is a perfect girl who is smart, beautiful, and full of wealth. She was like a royal princess if placed on the continent of Clorius. Kyouka is a pampered girl with lavish amenities galore. During her life in Japan, she has never been injured as she is now.

But after being summoned to the Clorius continent, Kyouka’s life changed drastically. She has the title of hero, and many people respect her as much as when she was in Japan. But that couldn’t cover up the fact that Kyouka was sometimes injured by the enemy or even risked her life to survive in that world.

Kyouka never imagined that she would be injured like this while in Japan. Although this kind of pain was nothing new to her, Kyouka didn’t want to get used to it if possible.

“Give up, Kyouka! You can’t beat me! I don’t want to hurt you anymore.” Princess Evelyn walked slowly towards Kyouka with a brownish light enveloping her body. At the tip of her claws, there was blood dripping. It was Kyouka’s blood that Princess Evelyn got from her previous attack.

“I haven’t lost yet! I will beat you in this fight!” Kyouka said with determination. Even though she wanted to cry because of the pain all over her body, she would firmly refuse when asked to give up. One thing that hasn’t changed from Kyouka in Japan to this world is her sense of competition and the feeling of not wanting to lose.

Kyouka’s stubbornness overcame the pain. Mana overflowed from her body, and a shockwave spread throughout the battle arena.

“What!?” Princess Evelyn was pushed back by the shockwave that Kyouka released.

(Shiori! Please help me!)

Kyouka muttered in her heart. Ziel had sealed Shiori’s memories inside Kyouka, Clara, and Princess Iris. But for some reason, Kyouka was still connected to Shiori and could read her life experiences.

Kyouka did possess extraordinary powers as a hero, but her knowledge of magic was limited to the lessons she learned from the mage of the Rubelia Kingdom and the books she read in the royal library. Shiori’s memory was very useful for Kyouka in learning magic because she had more experience and knowledge than Kyouka.

Kyouka opened six magic circles and faintly saw the seventh magic circle. Kyouka’s current level of strength was Magic Grandmaster and had almost broken through to the Magic King level. Her strength is far above the other heroes.

Kyouka’s strength increased significantly for the same reason as Clara and the other girls. She also eats Leviathan meat and secretly participates in intensive training with Clara and the girls, so the other heroes don’t know.

Thunderbolt Cage

Dozens of black lightning flashed from the sky onto the battle arena. Princess Evelyn had intended to dodge the thunderbolts, but she was a step slower. The lightning bolts formed a cage to restrict Princess Evelyn’s movements so she couldn’t dodge Kyouka’s next attack.

“I have to get out of this cage immediately!” Princess Evelyn gritted her teeth because she sensed the danger if she lingered in that lightning cage. But before Princess Evelyn could think of a way to break out of the cage, Kyouka’s attack came first.

Thunder Blade

Lightning compression blades shot towards Princess Evelyn with astonishing speed. Princess Evelyn’s face became serious, and she attacked the thunder blade and the lightning cage with her full strength.

Crushing Claw

Boooooooooommmmmmmmmm!

Their attacks clashed, and Princess Evelyn managed to break out of the lightning cage. Princess Evelyn’s condition didn’t look good because her face was pale, and blood was flowing from the corners of her lips.

In the blink of an eye, Princess Evelyn arrived in front of Kyouka and swung her claws. Kyouka quickly created a barrier and tried to block the attack. But Princess Evelyn’s attack was too strong and easily shattered the barrier. Kyouka was blown away and got a wound on her hand from that attack.

“Argh!” Kyouka felt pain over her body, but she didn’t stand still after being hit by Princess Evelyn’s attack. She purposely kept her distance from Princess Evelyn and cast another spell.

Ice Needle Rain

Kyouka created hundreds of ice needles in the sky and dropped them at high speed, raining down on Princess Evelyn. Kyouka’s attack made Princess Evelyn give up her intention to chase after Kyouka and choose to retreat to avoid the ice needles.

On the other hand, Kyouka didn’t want to a standstill. She healed the wound she received from Princess Evelyn’s attack. Kyouka kept racking her brains to find a way to end the fight immediately.

Even though Kyouka’s power increased greatly and gained Shiori’s life experience, she still wasn’t used to using her powers.

Kyouka couldn’t use that power for a long time. What’s more, she suffered pretty bad injuries and lost a lot of blood from being constantly hit by Princess Evelyn’s attacks. Therefore Kyouka was determined to defeat Princess Evelyn in her next attack.

“I will win this battle, Princess Evelyn! I will defeat you with my final blow!” Kyouka suddenly declared her victory to Princess Evelyn.

“What have you said!?” Princess Evelyn was confused by Kyouka’s words. She was indeed pressured by Kyouka right now, but she felt like she could reverse this situation since Kyouka had suffered far more severe injuries than her.

Earth Prison

The ground in the battle arena rose, forming a cube and enclosing Kyouka within. Princess Evelyn didn’t understand what Kyouka was doing. But not long after, Princess Evelyn felt a chill down her spine, and the entire battle arena darkened. When Princess Evelyn looked up, her body suddenly tensed up.

Glacier Impact

Huge chunks of ice covered the sky above the battle arena. Princess Evelyn could only open her mouth at sight. She finally knew why Kyouka covered herself with the cube from the ground. Instead of giving up, Princess Evelyn felt the opposite. Her eyes were fiery and radiated a fighting spirit.

(I can’t lose because dad is watching my fight! I will prove that I am not weaker than my brother!)

Princess Evelyn compressed the brownish aura on her claws. She intended to have a head-on confrontation with the giant ice floe.

“I won’t lose to that big chunk of ice!” Princess Evelyn roared and swung her claws at the giant chunk of ice.

Crushing Claw

Boooooooooooommmmmmmm!

Princess Evelyn’s and Kyouka’s attack clashed in midair and unleashed a shockwave throughout the battle arena. The barrier around the place trembled from the impact of their clash of attacks.

The guests from all over the Clorius continent focused their gazes on the battle arena, covered in icy mist due to the shattered glacier. They were curious about the winner of that great battle.

It didn’t take long for the fog to dissipate and reveal a person still standing in the battle arena. The guests’ eyes didn’t blink slightly as they waited for the figure to be seen clearly. Is that Princess Evelyn? Is that Kyouka? They wanted to know the winner of the match immediately.

After the fog cleared, the guests were shocked. Some of them cheered, especially the people from the human region, because the one who was still standing in the battle arena was Kyouka. On the other hand, Princess Evelyn lay unconscious, not far from her.

“The winner is Kyouka from Piqmentia Grand Academy!” Jourelio quickly announced the result of the match in the third round after seeing the condition of the two girls.