Kalrina could feel the power thrumming from the weapon in her hand. It was like a dull vibration pulsating out of the chakram. It was not a weapon for mere mortals. It was meant for divinity. If she had attained this weapon in any other situation, she would have killed its owner to keep it for the very purpose that Meera had given it to her.

Something had changed in Meera. She was no longer the same girl who had sent the Sovereign on her way. For one, she radiated power, like Veridiana used to. Not in the same intensity as the departed sorceress, but in a similar manner. On a whim, Kalrina used Identify on her.

[The Mirrorborn Slayer – Level ???]

Kalrina raised an eyebrow. I see…so you did a class upgrade, but when?

No time had passed between her dispatching of Veridiana and Aksha's unbridled fury, so when did Meera do it? One could not do a class upgrade in a matter of minutes. There were choices to be made. Careful choices and one needed to consider how they would impact their future classes. Something had happened, and I'll ask her if I can survive this coming fight.

Meera walked to the edge of the poison pool, which was spreading to the tree line. The poison was so potent that even from this far away, its fumes were making Kalrina's eyes water. The powerful girl breathed in deep and let loose her dark flames from her mouth as if she were a dragon breathing out dark flames that would burn the world to cinders.

Instantly, the world grew hot. The snow lost its cold, and Kalrina sweated in her warm coat—another gift from Meera. She owed the girl a lot and wondered if she could ever repay her.

But there was another curious thing about her. She seemed to have the ability to steal the abilities of her opponents. Until a few moments ago, she didn't have any ice skills but suddenly, she had somehow acquired them. Then, this flame skill, the healing skill, the strength-enhancing skill, and all her mirror skills. All these skills belonged to different classes. Unless the gods had granted her the boon of having four separate classes, Meera's class ability was to steal skills. Kalrina was sure of it.

Her comrade took less than a minute to burn off the poison and scorch the clearing. Aksha had run off to the treeline on the opposite side to take cover. For if she thought she could brave the flames, she would be nothing more than cinders.

Meera nodded to Kalrina. "You're up." With that, she ran off to do her job.

Kalrina drew a deep breath. "Eston, I do this for you…" She placed a hand over her barren womb, where once was her child who was ripped from this world. "And you too, little one."

Kalrina stepped out of the woods to face her foe. Aksha did the same when she realized the flames were gone for good. The ground smoked, and the snow had already snuffed out any embers of Meera's dark flames.

Aksha said nothing and scanned the treeline as if Kalrina were no threat at all.

"She's not coming, you devious cunt." Kalrina dropped her nice act. "It's just you and me. You're all mine."

"Good, then I'll melt your skin and send you on your way like I did that mongrel you were lying with."

Kalrina drew a sharp breath. "His name was Eston, and you will feel his pain before I'm through with you."

Aksha replied by waving her hand dismissively and shooting several poisonous blobs at Kalrina. She rolled out of the way and imitated Meera by littering the clearing with tiny mirror shards. She then used the Mirror Phantom skill to create duplicates of herself.

Aksha's eyes never left Kalrina, but that was only until her phantoms started to converge on her. Kalrina stowed Meera's chakram in her Belt for now. She used Mirror Shield to create a circular boundary around them.

This confused the poison sorceress, who had been ignoring the descent of her phantoms as they could do nothing to her. After all, they were meant to confuse her while she set up her real attack. The biggest downside of the mirror class was how long it took to set up a good attack.

Kalrina teleported amongst her mirages and used a Mirror Blast. At the last moment, Aksha raised a poison wall, which absorbed the attack. Aksha thrust her arm outwards, and a green sludge in the form of her hand burst outwards, smashing through many of Kalrina's phantoms.

Kalrina herself was out of harm's way. She formed two circular chakrams similar to Meera's and sent them flying towards Aksha, who slapped them out of the air with her poisonous hand, which was okay, as they were nothing but diversions. Her next attack, however, was not a diversion.

She moved her arms in a circular motion and formed a shield to activate the Mirror Shard Storm skill. She didn't aim it at Aksha but at the Mirror Shields, she had created. Then she activated her Shimmering Reverse skill at the shields. Mirror Shard Storm was the upgraded version of Mirror Shard Fury. This was the same skill she had used at Aksha back in the cell, which popped the cloud cover around her cell.

Using it with Shimmering Reverse truly made it deadly. Shimmering Reverse, when used in conjunction with her shields, made the shields reflect the shards to a target of Kalrina's choosing. She swung the shield, shooting the shards at all her shields surrounding them. They all reflected the shards at Aksha, so she was assailed from all sides.

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The hateful woman was not the least bit concerned—a thick barrier of dark purple poison formed around Aksha. Kalrina's shards melted as soon as they touched the poison barrier.

Kalrina's confidence dwindled, and the intensity of the shards slowed until she finally stopped wasting her Mana on this attack. Aksha smirked at her slightly, which, for her, was as much a shit-eating smirk as normal people's.

Without a sound, she thrust her arms outwards. Poison spikes ejected from her barrier and shattered her shields. Kalrina dove to the ground to dodge the spike, but still, one of them speared her arm. Pain like none other erupted in her. She wanted to hack off her limb, but she had faced much worse, and that too at the hands of this woman.

"You're outclassed," Aksha drawled.

"I'm not done yet," Kalrina seethed. She formed three layers of mirror shields to protect herself from Aksha's attacks. Then she took out a Healing potion with a quivering hand. Her hand shook so hard from the pain that she spilled so much of the potion as she tried to bring the vial to her lips. Her vision had grown so hazy that she saw three of everything. She somehow drank the potion, and the pain lessened, and the poison was cleared of her system, but her troubles were not over.

Aksha broke through her shields with a poison punch.

The poisoned fist retracted into her hand, and she seemed to laugh at Kalrina with her eyes. "You were boasting about destroying my home, my sisterhood, and how you would do the same to me. Yet here I stand, and there you lie."

Kalrina gritted her teeth and jumped to her feet. She formed a small circular mirror and used the Reflective Flare. A bright flash of light blinded Aksha. The sorceress blocked the bright light by putting up a hand.

Kalrina formed a massive mirror spear and hurled it at full speed at the sorceress. The mirror skewered her nemesis through the mid-section to impale itself in the ground. Aksha coughed out blood. A smile spread across Kalrina's face as she formed another spear and launched it at Aksha, hoping to finish her off.

Aksha broke through the spear holding her down and moved at the last moment. Mirror shards flew everywhere as Aksha grunted and ate the green poison dripping from her right hand. As Kalrina watched, the hole in the sorceress of rebirth's abdomen closed.

Kalrina had always heard she was a monster, but seeing it in action was something else. Her daughters couldn't compare to her at all. Kalrina formed a disc under her feet and zipped away, and just in time, as Aksha whipped her hand, and a liquid, red poison snake slithered through the air.

Kalrina shot at it with mirror shards, but all it did was spray poison on the ground, where it hissed as it dissolved her shards. She formed a massive shield, but the snake broke through as if it were nothing. Aksha grunted, and the snake sped up and curled itself around Kalrina.

She immediately jumped to one of the mirror shards lying about, out of harm's way, but the damage to her coat was done. Her arms were wet with the red poison eating its way through, and pain was slowly building up in them. She quickly took off the coat and tossed it aside. Her arms had turned a deep red shade where the poison had seeped through, and they burned something fierce.

She quickly bent down, scooped up piles of snow in her hands, and rubbed them on her poisoned arms. The cold sent a shiver down her spine, but she had other things to worry about. The poison snake had turned around and was coming for her. Instead of trying to fight or outrun the poison snake, both of which were useless, she made to cut off the head of the snake.

She teleported to the mirror closest to Aksha and activated a Mirror Blast, only for the sorceress to raise another poison wall. She swung her arm, and the wall became a wave that came for Kalrina. Once again, Kalrina had to teleport to save her life.

She had half a mind to activate Mirror World, but that skill took too long to set up. That left only one thing—Meera's chakram. But for that, she needed to get close to Aksha, and she could not do that without dying. The thought of running away popped into her mind, but she squashed it immediately.

I either end this here and now or die in attempt.

She activated Mirror Phantom once more, and many copies of herself spanned the clearing. Aksha's snake paused and looked about, unsure of which one to attack. Kalrina put a hand in her Belt. Her fingers tightened around the chakram.

With a roar, she ran for Aksha, as did her phantoms. Many more snakes erupted out of the poison snake's body. The creature resembled a Jaganra, an almost mythical creature said to embody poison in living form.

"Oh, that's almost like a Hydra!" Meera shouted from somewhere in the woods to Kalrina's right.

"No, that's a Jaganra," Kalrina retorted, and her phantoms echoed the same as if to prove a point.

Aksha, not caring for the banter, unleashed her Jaganra, which weaved in and out through her phantoms, destroying many. Kalrina ran straight through, dodging as best as she could. She didn't care how many of the phantoms went down if she could reach Aksha and finish her.

A snake came for her. She ducked its fangs, but a drop of its poison landed on her cheek. She bit her lower lip to stop herself from screaming, but ended up wincing, and Aksha didn't miss it. All the snakeheads ignored everyone else and came straight for Kalrina. She stopped her Mirror Phantom skill, the shards fell to the ground, giving her many more jump points.

So, next came a dance that was Kalrina's only hope of survival. She used Mirror Step every time one of the heads got too close. She hoped that the Jaganra skill would exhaust a lot of her Mana, and even Aksha would have to stop it sometime.

They must've done this for several long, nerve-wracking minutes before Aksha grunted in frustration, and the poisonous Jaganra fell to the ground.

Kalrina huffed and wiped the sweat off her brow. "Phew, and I thought you could go on forever. Oh, and look what I found." She pulled a vial of blue liquid. "A Mana potion."

She drank it slowly, savoring it as if it were tea.

Aksha's upper lip twitched, and she muttered something. Then, ten daughters sprang out from her back, and those daughters split into two as well. In two breaths, she was staring down a veritable army.

"Clip her wings," Aksha ordered.

The daughters got to work, and they fanned out in every direction, dissolving her mirrors or covering them with their poison. One by one, her jump points were destroyed.

Kalrina clapped once they were done. "Good job, you imbeciles. I always knew you had shit for brains. Since you love my mirrors so much, here's more of them."

She blasted mirrors in all directions. The daughters didn't move for them but instead started shooting at her with small poison pellets. Once again, Kalrina started teleporting around. The daughters did end up getting lucky here and there, but this pale green poison was nothing compared to the red one.

Then Kalrina made her mistake. She ended up teleporting too close to a daughter who tried to reach for Kalrina but ended up gripping her Belt with a poisonous hand. Kalrina couldn't risk losing the Belt, so she tried to slash out the daughter's throat, only for another to fall on her and then another. The rest quickly covered or destroyed her shards, leaving her stuck.

They pushed her down to her knees. One slapped her across the face with a poisonous hand. Kalrina tried reaching for the Belt and earned another kick or punch every time she tried.

"Hey girls, it looks like one of our Belts," said the daughter holding the Belt. "Since it's ours, then everything inside it is also ours."

She put a hand inside the Belt, but a chakram came spinning from above and cut off her arm at the elbow. Then Meera appeared and caught her chakram before it hit the ground.

"I told you to call for help."

Kalrina smiled a bloody smile. "Help."

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