Varian crashed into the floor, cracking the floor and dust rose, clouding vision.
"I can make it very painful or very painless, depending on your words." An ethereal voice said as a silhouette manifested itself.
It was a woman.
She was only five feet tall and looked like a petite beauty that no one could associate with a deva.
"Why aren't you talking? Hm?" She cocked her head and glanced at the rubble.
With a curious expression, her feet left the ground. On her back, something impossible happened.
A fire wing and an ice wing coalesced as if it was natural. With a single flap of her wings, the woman reached the rubble.
She pointed a finger at the rubble.
Kaa!
The space around the rubble which was mostly made of the floor's special tiles tightened. Then it twisted and cracked.
Shua!
The tough metal tiles were sliced apart and revealed the inside.
"Huh?" The woman raised a brow in confusion.
Varian was missing.
Boom!
A fist punched at her from behind. It moved so fast that it broke the sound barrier, and blasted away the air, creating a vacuum before it reached the face of his opponent.
Right when it was about to hit her, the woman turned around and raised her palm to meet his fist.
Boom!
A blinding light of blue, red, and yellow filled the room as their forces clashed.
Varian's fist, powered by his physical strength, telekinetic force, and augmented by lightning and space powers clashed with her palm.
The woman's palm shook violently as it confronted his fist. Her palm was covered in a protective layer of ice and fire. These two elements, despite their opposing natures, worked in tandem.
But even before the elemental barriers, Varian's fist encountered a space barrier.
"Ku!" Varian's punch easily broke through the solid space and reached her fire-ice barrier.
Whoosh! Kacha!
The fire was blasted away and the ice was broken down.
By this point, Varian's fist lost most of its momentum. But Varian wasn't disappointed.
His opponent was an elementalist. This physical attack was more than enough to severely injure her, if not kill her.
But—
"You!"
Varian's eyes widened in disbelief as he felt a huge recoil from his fist. He flipped back and stabilized himself in mid-air with lightning wings.
"Hehe. You were fooled by me." The woman covered her mouth and chuckled.
"…you are a body awakener too?" Varian said with a heavy expression.
"But of course." The woman lifted her head in pride. As if to show off, behind her, a huge circle was formed equally divided by fire and ice.
"…And you have two elements." Varian clenched his fists.
"Yep, I'm the best hybrid." The woman smirked, then her expression turned downcast. "But I'm not perfect. I only have two origins."
"…" Varian conjured a lightning spear silently and asked. "Since a single origin cannot awaken in two paths of the same avenue, your two origins each awakened in elemental paths, am I right?"
"That is obvious. My first origin is fire and space while the second is water and body." The woman's lips curled up as she patted her chest. "Of course, if I was a triple awakener with both origins, I'd be an awakener with six paths."
Varian's eyebrows twitched. He got the answer he wanted, so he stealthily increased the grip on his lightning spear to—
"Hey, talk about ethics!" The woman discovered his actions and waved her hand.