"What is this madness?"

"Does he not have a limit?"

Mia placed her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath.

"We're completely exhausted over here..."

The siren dropped to the ground, feeling her magic dwindle after an exhausting confrontation with Orion.

Even Stella, who acted as the vanguard, couldn't help but feel her muscles ache.

On the other side, Orion stared at them with disinterest.

As more time passed, everyone entered an exhausted state. But the same couldn't be said for Orion.

Neither his face nor his movements showed signs of fatigue.

"I've been... running around like crazy..."

"And he isn't even tired?"

Heaving furiously, the family's daughter pierced the ground with her weapon to keep herself from falling down.

Her knees were shaking slightly, demonstrating the intense stress that she went through standing against her father.

"I'm here to alleviate that."

Karteira appeared behind her before placing her hand on her shoulder.

A white aura covered her body, rapidly removing the exhaustion from her entire body.

As vigor returned to her body, she glanced over her shoulder, only to see Karteira already helping the others behind her.

'This has been going on for a long time.'

Turning her head back toward Orion, she thought.

Without Karteira, this clash would have been won by him. A battle of attrition was out of the question at this point.

Even in normal circumstances, Orion was an unrivaled monster.

The man, whose greatest achievement was the stamina he obtained after continuously training his body, was now on another scale.

"Eh~"

Expelling a mocking sound from her mouth, Stella smiled.

"Here I was, thinking I was getting closer to his level."

Pulling Catharsis from the ground, she spun the naginata around her and took a fighting stance.

"I guess I still have a long way to go, isn't it?"

As she prepared to clash against Orion, the other two walked past her with furious steps.

"I'm done!"

Frustrated beyond belief, Mia's wings vibrated frantically. The speed at which her wings moved also affected the grass under her.

The always cold and responsible fairy glared at him with so much rage, she couldn't contain her emotions.

Wind magic covered her body, lifting her body off the ground.

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Seeing this, Stella took a step back after realizing what was happening.

"I'm not usually like this... but I cannot accept this any longer."

Senia, floating freely while under her magic, glared at Orion.

"If we need to focus on knocking you out, then I'll do it!"

Magic gathered around her at an absurd rate.

At one point, both noticed that their magic was interfering with the other.

"..."

But instead of making way for the other one, they kept pulling even more energy toward them.

Mia pulled the surrounding air, while Senia absorbed the humidity in the air.

As if trying to surpass the other, they grew more powerful by the second.

But everything had a limit.

Their innate limits, which were impossible to go past, even after improving over the past year, were right in front of them.

'I won't be able to win against him if I remain weak!'

Clenching her fists, Senia looked down. She could feel the energy surge within her core, but it dissipated as soon as it arrived.

On the other hand, Mia was losing her composure. Anger kept growing as she felt impatient. She wanted for Orion to return to his senses.

But as if affected by the other's magic, a strange exchange happened between Mia and Senia.

Water magic soothed Mia's anger, while wind magic pushed Senia further past her innate limits.

Under Orion's neutral gaze, a cocoon of magic engulfed the siren, while Mia bent her upper body forward.

"What's happening?"

Amelia stared with anxiety as a drop of sweat trickled down her cheek.

Nia clenched her chest, feeling that the same thing that had happened to her was also taking place for her sister.

"Sis..."

Mia's wings stretched behind her before separating. Under their progenitor's gaze, the half-fairies evolved into a new species.

As if waiting for her sister to awaken her transformation, Nia began to feel her entire body heat up.

They both clenched their chests as their respective magic ran rampant inside their cores.

Ripping everything apart, they felt their entire existence beginning to be reconstructed.

The water and earth fairy, Nia, and her sister, the wind fairy, Mia, underwent an evolution.

Titania, all the way back, frowned.

Feeling the link between her and the two fairies strengthen, she looked conflicted.

"Why is our link getting stronger? I thought for certain they would retrieve their human nature if provided the opportunity."

In her mind, she already perceived the true nature of this evolution. Far stronger than a common fairy, they were essentially out of her control by this point.

Instead, they had merged with the fairy gene, rejecting their human one.

The process was excruciatingly painful, but it came with a major opportunity.

Mia and Nia became Dryads, Aid of the Tree of Life. It meant that they could plunge into the limitless power of the Remnant of Life and use its energy indefinitely.

'Life and Death' had no power over them, as they became the Icon of a Remnant.

Titania's sigil activated out of her control as she stared at them from afar.

A part of her was immensely relieved that they remained faithful to her after sharing many moments together.

These twins were, to her, like children. Children that brought back her emotions as a human, compared to the fairies she created as a Remnant.

Mia and Nia felt their bones crack as a visual change happened to them.

It wasn't much, but they gained height. Around ten centimeters pushed their 152 cm to 160 cm.

Their wings also stretched longer, touching the back of their knees. Their hair grew longer, adopting the same light green Titania possessed.

More mature features appeared on their faces as they aged, leaving their younger looks behind.

As their bodies were lifted, horizontally stretching over the ground, a blast of magic ripped through the air.

Released from their transformation, they slowly dropped to the ground.

Peerless beauties that weren't present before opened their eyes.

The sigil of their Remnant flashed in their eyes for a brief instant as they felt Titania's energy embrace their entire being.

With a smile, they both looked toward her.

Titania inhaled audibly, holding the emotions that were welling up inside her. If the situation were different, she would have cried.

But just as fast as they turned to her, they both focused on Orion.

Orion was starting to make a move at last.

Perhaps the lack of action made him impatient, but his body appeared darker than before.

Spikes of dark magic emerged from the ground as he lifted his hand upward. But contrary to everyone's expectations, his target wasn't Mia.

It was Senia, who was still undergoing her evolution.

"Not so fast."

Spinning her body elegantly, Mia stood in front of her friend.

Swiping her right hand in front of her, wind magic listened to her every order.

"Shield."

A wide wall of pure wind formed in front of her as Orion's magic arrived at high speed.

With a smile, Mia held back the attack entirely. Not a single spike pierced her defense.

Orion warped in front of her and punched her shield with every bit of strength.

"..."

It cracked under his power instantly.

'Another hit and it'll crumble.'

From her spot, Nia stretched her hand toward her sister. Sending her thoughts to her, she supported her sister with her newfound power.

The earth next to Mia cracked open as a blade of metal emerged from it. Without hesitation, she grabbed it firmly and pulled it out.

Giving a nod to her twin sister, Mia prepared for the next attack.

Orion spun around and kicked her defensive wall, shattering it entirely.

With her sister's sword in hand, she imbued wind magic over its surface.

"Care for a dance?"

A fierce clash happened as Mia countered Orion's every move.

She appeared very proficient and successful, but it was only a front.

In fact, she was getting pushed back, only defending at the very last second.

But it wasn't relevant. All she needed was to gain enough time for Senia to finish.

And just as Orion's last blow sent Mia's sword flying off her hand, the cocoon of water exploded, sending a torrent of water crashing forward.

Mia fled the scene, leaving Orion dragging his feet into the mud. The water was only arriving at his knees, which wasn't enough to destabilize it.

As the water washed away, a glowing light stared him down.

Suddenly, large shards of ice flew toward him and pierced the ground near the left and right sides of Orion, while another went between his feet.

Senia, assuming a form that wasn't very different from her usual self, spun around in the air as if her body were inside a vortex.

The instant she stopped moving, columns of water raptured through the ground, while powdered snow fell from the air.

Opening her arms wide over her body, she opened her mouth.

A beautiful and melodic voice escaped her throat, shaking the very foundation of her existence.

Answering her voice, bullets of ice and water formed around her before crashing on Orion.

Pelted by violent objects, he was forced to take a step back.

That was when everyone saw Senia at her greatest. The peak of her existence, past the realm of the sirens.

Her tail was longer and far more lustrous, with scales gleaming magic energy. Her eyes were fiercer, removed of shyness.

But most of all, Senia was using her magic differently. Like Amelia, she could use the sub-magic that was ice.

And, except for her, not a single siren ever evolved to this stage.

Rinsing her siren blood, Senia embraced the 'Empress of the Seas' bloodline.

She became the only one in the entire world...

A Lorelei.