Chapter 210. Nyra vs. Astrid: Grudge Match

Celeste’s POV

“Rahhhhh!” Astrid roared, her voice cracking with fury the moment she laid eyes on Nyra. Despite her berserker frenzy, she still maintained slivers of awareness—enough to know exactly whom she was facing.

“You’ll pay for what you did to my brother!” she bellowed, stomping her massive foot onto the wooden platform. The ground shuddered beneath her, sending a shockwave through the arena that nearly sent Nyra tumbling off the edge.

I watched in tense silence from the sidelines as Nyra’s lips curled in a defiant grin. “Wow, I didn’t mean to kill him,” she called back, her tone deceptively light. “But that’s not the point. I refuse to lose to you now!”

A blue-green aura blossomed around her, rippling outward until every hair on my arms stood up. Water particles from the moisture in the air began to swirl around Nyra, coalescing into dozens of luminous orbs. “This is probably the direct inverse of my ocean-drain attack,” she explained, her voic