My Soul card is a Reaper

Izora's body shivered by Azzy's sharp tone, followed by her eyes widened in realization, "That thing took over my body again?" She then saw her son's expression and forced out a smile, sitting down at the edge of the bed, "You are thinking too much. It just happens every once a while and it will not stay permanently. It will stay like for half a minute or so and will disappear on its own.

You don't have to worry about it."

"Hmm…" Azzy's frown deepened, watching her suspiciously. He doesn't want to believe her words but he cannot do anything about it. After all, unlike him, where the Protos energy is associated with his Arcana spirits, the Protos energy inside his mom is linked to her soul. Either she controls it or he had to suppress her soul orb with the Decarune seal.

Those are the only ways to put away the Protos energy.

Since his mother has already reached the legendary realm, she will have the maximum life span of 5000 years, meaning she will easily live for at least 2000 years without a problem. Moreover, Azzy and the entire clan is there to protect her anyway. Hence, he wasn't worried about even destroying her soul orb in case of a worst case scenario.

But, just in case, he decided on teaching decarune sealing technique to his parents so that they can manage on their own too.

A few hours later;

"Welcome back to the Finals of the Intra Clan tournament. Without further ado, let's proceed to the main event, starting with the finals of beginner division.

Kian Smoke and Damon Silver, please make it to the battle platform."

Roughly eight minutes later;

"Oraa…"

Kian Smoke's abdomen was pierced by the Spear and raised high in the air before he was swung away, crashing to the ground outside the platform.

"The winner of the competition is Damon Silver."

In the VIP Box, Ares Silver couldn't help but applaud him, taking revenge for him by winning against the Smoke clan in the finals.

"Now, for the next battle. Let's welcome the finalists of the Intermediate division, Sia Night and Sebastian Night."

"The winner of the competition is Sebastian Night"

"Last but not least, Finalists of the Advanced division, let's cheer with a round of applause for Sasha Blood and Avia Night."

"Kyaaaaa"

The cheering grew louder as the two beauties entered the arena, walking side by side at a steady pace and staring to the front.

As they stepped onto the platform and distanced themselves from each other, Azzy announced, "Keeping earlier battles between the clan leaders in mind, there is a special rule added to this specific match." Taking a glance at Sasha and then at Avia, who turned their heads to look at him in curiosity, he continued, "No technique that's above the realm of legendary realm is allowed.

As soon as a finalist use a technique that end up having the power of a Supreme realm, the match will be stopped right there, declaring the other party as the winner."

Not just the two finalists but even the clan leaders were taken aback by Azzy's surprising announcement, and Sasha couldn't help but protest due to her ill feelings for Azzy, which increased more after her great ancestor was humbled by Azzy's father earlier, "Excuse me, Pavilion Master Azrael, don't you think you are now overstepping your boundaries?"

"Hmm?" Azzy looked at her calmly. While Avia also seemed calm, he could swear that she was also displeased by his announcement.

"How so?" He asked Sasha.

Sasha Blood replied, "We are here to become the representatives of the clan for the upcoming hidden clan tournament, not here for your entertainment. You keep adding whatever rules came to your mind whenever you want to. It is foolish to not expect a such level of an attack from legendary realm Arcana masters when they are facing the opponent from the same realm.

You might as well say that we should restrict our soul realm altogether."

Avia quietly nodded, agreeing with her.

Azzy saw it and nodded, "Fair point. The rule was indeed foolish."

Sasha let out a smirk under her hood, getting all happy because of this small victory, but then, she saw Azzy raise his hand and conjure a familiar seal above both of his hands in almost like an instant and threw it before them.

Avia and Sasha slid to the side in reflex but the seal changed their directions and struck them before they could dodge it again, and both of them immediately fell to their knees in shock.

"My… my soul orb… this is the ancient Decarune seal… How?" Sasha experienced that seal from her ancestor a lot of times in the past. The sealing techniques wouldn't let the target see what kind of mystic symbols and runes used in the technique unless the user let them do so.

Hence, she had no knowledge of this 100,000 year old sealing technique that's basically lost in the time, but she knows how it operates on her soul.

Sasha's pale face went even paler in shock as if all the blood was drained from her while Avia displayed the rare facial expression of frown on her face, losing her calmness for the first time in months.

Looking down at the ladies, Azzy put his hand behind and spoke coldly, "I change the rule for then. No soul energy is allowed to be used in this battle. Since the tournament is a contest of skills anyway, I believe even in such conditions, you can still give your all. Or is it that you are too dependent on your soul skills and soul energy?

If you aren't willing to play with the rules, you can withdraw from the competition. Both of you have already been selected as the representatives of the clan, which already achieved the purpose of the tournament anyway. So, whether you want to fight each other or not, for a clear winner, will depend on your choice. Now, you have 100 seconds to prepare."

After saying what he wants to, Azzy slowly rose in the air and floated in the sky, taking a glance at the clan leaders and then stare down at the two finalists, muttering under his breath, "Both of your ancestors forced my dad to such state, just to prove himself. If I don't teach you girls your place, everything my dad fought for will be gone for naught.

Even if I have to resort using force, I will stand by my dad's side and show that Garcia family is the one in charge of the clan. All of you must obey."

Injury of his dad because of two foolish supreme realm experts and his helplessness not to show off his true strength, followed by learning that his mom lost the control over Protos energy, these two things caused disturbance in Azzy's heart, letting his dark side slightly taken him over.

More than that, it looked like the Reaper is also in favor of his decision, although the latter feels like his host is still very soft.

The battle started eventually as neither of them wants to be seen as experts who depend on their Arcana spirits.

Both of them brought out their attribute energies, Avia still created pure dark energy twin daggers and Sasha slashed her own wrist with her long and sharp nails, bringing out a significant amount of blood to create hundreds of needles made of her blood.

As she threw all of them at Avia, the latter charged forward, slashing them with the daggers. The needles turned into droplets of blood upon getting slashed but Sasha, with her telepathic control over her blood, transformed them back into the needles almost instantly and attacked Avia.

Seeing the effect, Avia halted her moments and let the blood needles pierce the body and enter her system to attack her organs.

"Argh…"

She couldn't help but let out a piercing scream, which echoed all over the stadium. However, fortunately, the pain didn't last for a long time.

By the time Sasha reduced their distance with a blood saber in her hand, Avia destroyed all the foreign particles inside her body with her attribute energy and blocked the saber with one of the daggers and slash Sasha's abdomen with the other dagger.

Sasha's body couldn't block the dagger and had a wide cut just above her stomach, spilling out more blood.

However, Sasha didn't back down. Instead, with her telepathic connection, she transformed the spilled blood into a dagger, which shot directly toward Avia's chest.

Avia's eyes captured it and she twisted her body at the last fraction of second and ducked before sweeping her feet to trip her opponent.

Sasha Blood lost her balance and had her head hit the floor but her eyes are on the blood dagger hovering above them and she controlled it to attack Avia once again, this time, right on her head.

Avia knew that she couldn't dodge this time. She instinctively moved her hand to to protect her head and let the dagger pierce her left wrist and wound it.

"Ugh…"

Letting out a groan of pain, Avia, who was already feeling dizzy due to extensive usage of her attribute, forcefully brought out more dark energy from her legs as she stomped onto Sasha's body.

Just as it was about to strike the wounded abdomen of Sasha, which hasn't healed yet, blood gushed out of the cut skin and transformed into a spike.

"Argh…"

A scream escaped from Avia's mouth once again as her foot was pierced by the spike, which came out of the other side of the foot and transformed into the shape of an anchor.

"Hehe… you are too young to defeat me, Avia," A sadistic smile appeared on Sasha as their eyes met.