Calista had already looked at the referee countless times before making that decision. From the looks of it, the match wasn't over until Rebecca admitted her defeat with her own mouth. Calista as a result hardened her heart and ordered Nadia to attack while Rebecca underwent the painful ordeal.
Nadia didn't hold back this time because she didn't want to lengthen the competition any longer. She wanted to defeat her so she didn't have to see her screaming like that.
She commanded the entire lightning element in the vicinity and her hair started to float as if charged by the overwhelming static that was converging towards her. She was using the electric charge in the air to generate lightning that she would then use to bombard Rebecca who was one step away from rolling on the ground in pain.
As soon as her lightning reached within the vicinity of Rebecca, Nadia closed her eyes subconsciously in order to avoid seeing what was about to happen. That much amount of lightning had been enough to burn Rebecca into a crisp. But the screams that were already haunting didn't increase in intensity or pitch as if the lightning had not caused her any pain at all.
She urged some more lightning bolts towards Rebecca but this time forcefully kept her eyes open so she could determine whether her attacks even reached Rebecca or not.
As soon as the lightning entered her personal space, a blackish substance came out of Rebecca's skin and easily absorbed Nadia's attack. Nadia was dumbfounded at the current situation.
She had been unable to hit a person who had been rolling around in pain and was unable to fight back at all. She conjured the most brutal lightning strike that she could muster with the little amount of mana that she had remaining. The bolt pierced through space itself and arrived at its destination instantly.
Nadia was keen to see the result of her biggest effort yet but once again she had to be struck by disappointment as the lightning bolt almost bounced off of Rebecca as her body was constantly secreting some kind of black lustrous substance that managed to repel the lightning attack as easy as a kid jumping over a trampoline.
Rebecca's body was going through some unexpected changes that were unheard of. Even Calista wasn't able to understand how someone could resist such powerful attacks despite being in such a vulnerable situation. She had even gained firsthand knowledge from those who had evolved using potions before but she had never once heard about something like this. This black substance from her body was able to shield her from almost all kinds of attacks and she didn't even have to be conscious for it to work.
While the audience was mesmerized by her performance, Rebecca was feeling nothing even close to that. She was suffocating. Her lungs felt as if they were filled with sand. Every time she tried to breathe, she ended up trying to dig into her own chest because there was something crushing it from the inside out. Rebecca had felt this kind of sensation before. She had almost drowned in the past when she had been a kid and this suffocation was even more severe than that. But the feeling that she got was the same.
At this moment, Rebecca's consciousness was highly unstable. One wrong move and she might even lose her connection to her own body. Her sea of consciousness was currently agitated as if someone had thrown in a huge stone to create giant ripples in it.
Rebecca was currently like a boat in troubled waters that was disturbed by every little wave that it encountered and swayed around dangerously from each impact. There was a danger of capsizing at any moment but Rebecca was determined to survive.
She tried to struggle in order to emerge out of the consciousness storm unscathed but it was easier said than done. Each wave sent her under the water and was intent on drowning her till she forgot who she used to be.
Rebecca was a fighter and did not give up no matter how many times she fell and drowned she swam back up and tried leaving the sea. Her perseverance in that manner was unmatched as she was willing to go to any extent to achieve her goal.
It wasn't long before she felt the strength in her body fade little by little. She had lost all her strength in order to fight back against the oppressive tides in her consciousness. She knew that the tides were being generated by the abnormal amount of energy that she had ingested by drinking that potion. It was too great for her to handle on her own. It was the same energy that was currently busy drowning her into oblivion.
Just as she felt that she wouldn't be able to go back up to the surface again even if she tried as hard as possible, something changed in the stormy sea.
A warm and gentle breeze started to reverse all the harmful effects of the potion that she was currently trying to get under control. The breeze felt refreshing and peaceful and the warmth spread throughout her body. At the same time, the rising tides began to grow smaller and smaller until the sea had become as calm as it had been in the past before she had taken that black potion.
Rebecca was dumbfounded. She was unable to understand what had happened that had saved her from her absolute death.
In fact, she had felt that the origin of the warmth had been from her womb. Her womb had emitted some kind of warm and magical energy that had absorbed all the excess energy from her body that had been wreaking havoc inside her and had saved her from her impending doom. Before Rebecca could have even begun comprehend that energy, its vibration and its imprint vanished as if it had never been there at all.
Even the white bearded teacher who had handed over the potion to Rebecca had never imagined that Rebecca would be able to absorb the entirety of the potion by herself. He had thought that the Rebecca would absorb some of it and the rest she could endure and forcefully expel from her body later on. But the results had surprised even him.
It had to be known that the energy in that black potion had been unimaginably high and a D rank equivalent high school student would have had a negligible chance of successful evolution let alone absorbing it all without sparing even a little.
If Rebecca could have looked at the bearded old man at this moment she would have found her otherwise unfaltering teacher with his jaw on the ground, his eyes wide open in shock and his body trembling from excitement. This was something that had been unprecedented. A barely D rank mage had managed to completely absorb the energy of the evolution potion without suffering from any of the side effects.
In the audience stands, Wallice had a severe frown on her face that blackened her very face and made it look frightening and colorless. Gabby who was sitting to her side felt chills running down his spine as he felt that his teacher was looking at him while making that expression. Thankfully for him, it was not directed at him at all. He took his time and finally managed to look at her before asking, "What happened? Is something wrong?"
Wallice came out of her reverie but the frown on her face didn't vanish at all but seemed to have intensified. She looked at Gabby seriously and said, "Everything has changed. If what I am thinking has truly taken place then your opponent in the finals might not necessarily be Merion high school. It would be better for you if you kept a watch on her moves as well. She might just make a comeback now that she has survived and evolved."
Harry was sitting at the top of the audience stands and was shocked to find such a talent; someone who was daring enough to try to evolve while fighting a match. He had never seen such a person in his life. But what had truly sent him reeling into shock was not that she had tried to evolve mid fight but the fact that she had done so in a perfect manner. She had managed to completely absorb the energy from the potion. Usually when other mages tried to evolve, there would be a part of the energy that would remain in their bodies and would harm their future development somewhat. But Rebecca would not encounter any such trouble in the future because she had no leftover energy. All of it had either been used to enhance the mana channels and mana storage capacity in her body or had been completely absorbed by her without leaving a speck of it.
Most of the spectators had been unaware of the miracle that had taken place on the field and had only been aware that Rebecca had suddenly fallen on the floor and had come to the conclusion that the victor of the match had been decided. The fallen Rebecca was very close to becoming the loser of the match.
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