As the dust settled, an injured Princess Misaki carried a knocked-out and critically injured Jason on her back.

Elowen released the strengthened vein trees she had created to defend herself and those around her, but the explosion still caused a few injuries.

Elowen noticed Princess Misaki approaching them from a distance, fatigued and injured. She raced up to Princess Misaki, asking if she was alright and if she needed to be healed.

Princess Misaki smiled and responded, "It's okay; you don't need to waste your remaining energy just to heal me."

Elowen refused to budge, realizing how much suffering Princess Misaki was in, and began to treat her by generating healing flowers that could heal anything they touched.

As Elowen treated Princess Misaki, Albert, one of Jason's team members, expressed amazement at Jason's defeat, saying, "I never imagined Jason getting knocked out in a battle of power.".

Emily, irritated, remarked, "I told him we should have fought Princess Misaki all at the same time.".

"But he didn't listen," she went on.

Darius then told Emily, "We probably would have lost because of Princess Misaki's genius and skill."

When Princess Misaki overheard their argument, she stated, "Relax; I could never win against Jason in a battle of raw strength.".

"I only won because of my skill and experience with my family's Heavenly Sky ability," Princess Misaki explained.

Sophie, who was lying on the ground from exhaustion, replied, "Well, at least he had fun fighting someone as strong as you, Your Highness.".

Princess Misaki laughed and responded, "Well, I'm honored.".

As they all agreed not to attack each other so they could relax for a while, Aria observed that there were a lot more spiders than usual.

A few spiders started climbing on everyone, but they were too exhausted to notice.

Aria immediately grasped what was going on, but before she could inform everyone that they were being attacked, all of the spiders bit them at the same time. Injecting incredibly lethal and toxic venom into their bodies, leaving them entirely paralyzed and unable to move.

As they lay there on the ground, paralyzed and perplexed by what was going on, they heard a laugh and a familiar voice.

"You guys all look pathetic, you know?" Prince Magnus mocked him as he assumed a higher position with two other teams at his side.

"What on earth are you doing, Prince Magnus?" Elowen inquired, puzzled.

But Prince Magnus responded arrogantly, "I am not obligated to explain myself to a peasant like you.".

Jack then exclaimed in anger, "You've been plotting behind our backs?"

"How could you betray your team?".

In the blink of an eye, Prince Magnus stood in front of Jack, resting his finger on his head, and threateningly said, "Watch how you speak to a royal prince like me.".

"Or would you rather I accelerate your brain until it resembles jelly?" he inquired menacingly.

"So those venomous spiders that bit us were done by you?" Princess Misaki then questioned Prince Magnus.

To which Prince Magnus replied, "Yes, Your Highness.".

"But it wasn't me who told them to bite you, but my comrade over here who controlled them to bite you all," he remarked.

Prince Magnus then told everyone how he had left to join forces with other teams.

He went on to reveal that he was the one who arranged for Princess Misaki and her crew to face Jason and his team. Because he knew they'd tire each other out, and all he had to do was swoop in after they were all exhausted and easily steal their crowns.

"I knew you were up to something," Jack responded angrily.

Misaki, the princess, replied, "Why go to all that trouble just to get us to eliminate each other if you call yourself the strongest among us?".

"Are you that scared to fight us?" she mocked.

Prince Magnus responded with a smile and laughter, "Why would I be scared of you?"

"Plus, it is more fun to watch ants fight each other to death than to instantly squash them beneath my feet.".

"That's just boring," he said.

Prince Magnus then stepped on Jack's head and began applying pressure to it.

Elowen used her innate skills to detoxify her body from the venom injected by the spiders. She then promptly generated countless torn tree veins that sprouted from the ground, shielding everyone from Prince Magnus and his team.

Prince Magnus then stopped his teammates from attacking Elowen, stating to Princess Misaki, smiling, "Before I take all of the crowns you all have."

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"I'm going to have a little bit of fun.".

Prince Magnus then turned to gaze at Elowen with a sinister grin, pointing his finger at her, and said, "Starting with you, first."

Princess Misaki, figuring out what Prince Magnus meant, turned to yell at Elowen to leave them and fled to safety.

But it was too late; Prince Magnus stood before Elowen in a flash, faster than she could react. And he thrust his hand into Elowen's chest, causing her to bleed profusely. He raised her heart rate at a rapid speed.

"Elowen!" Princess Misaki and Aria shouted in terror and disbelief.

Elowen struggled to push Prince Magnus away while bleeding from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. But she was too weak, and Prince Magnus merely drove his palm further into her chest, inflicting more misery.

"Don't tell me you're going to die from this, Elowen?" Prince Magnus taunted.

The scene then shifted to Xavier, who was engaged in an intense and fierce battle against Jupiter.

Xavier suffered a lot throughout this fight because Jupiter was continually generating obstacles and attacks to catch him off guard.

Using the sword entrusted to him as a gift by his grandfather, Xavier slashed in half the building Jupiter had made and flung at him.

Jupiter then drew miniature explosives at Xavier, which exploded instantaneously. Fortunately, Xavier was able to defend himself from the explosion by activating his vector barrier.

But suddenly Jupiter emerged behind Xavier, attempting to stab him from behind.

Xavier grabbed Jupiter's blade with his bare hands, but Jupiter used the chance to make more explosives behind Xavier's back, which detonated and seriously injured him.

Jupiter grabbed Xavier by the collar and began to slam him, throwing away numerous walls he had built.

Xavier attempted to break Jupiter's grip, but Jupiter quickly overcame him and smashed him to the ground.

Jupiter then attempted to stab Xavier with his blade again, but Xavier simply laughed as Jupiter's blade was immediately stopped in place by his vector shield.

Using his vector shield, Xavier blasted Jupiter into the atmosphere. And Xavier shot him with countless air bullets that he manufactured by controlling the vectors of air molecules.

The air bullets easily penetrated Jupiter's body, but he was able to cut some of them in half and shelter himself from the rest by forming an exceedingly indestructible shield.

Jupiter, still in the air, drew a platform for him to safely stand on.

"Isn't that defying gravity?" Xavier asked jokingly.

Jupiter responded, "Imagination and reality don't often go together."

Xavier smirked and drew his blade, taking a sword stance. He began to concentrate as he activated his aura.

Jupiter, seeing Xavier use his aura, excitedly triggered his own.

Xavier then soars into the skies towards Jupiter, who jumps down from his platform. And they promptly clashed swords with Xavier.

Jupiter's and Xavier's auras clashed, destroying their surroundings.

As they clashed, Xavier took advantage of the opportunity to kick Jupiter to the ground before he could perceive or even react to the kick.

Jupiter smiled as he wiped his now-bleeding nose and said, "You're still as smart in battle as you've always been.".

Falling back to the ground and landing on his two feet, Xavier replied, "Well, I've always been like that whenever we've fought."

Jupiter then added, "The other times we fought were only in our training classes with Instructor Joshua."

"So they weren't real fights to begin with, just sparring," he explained.

Xavier replied, "Yeah, you're right."

"I guess you can say this is our very first serious battle against each other.".

Jupiter took a stance with his sword and responded, "Well, in that case, let's make it memorable."

Then, with lightning speed, Xavier and Jupiter charged at each other, engaging in an intense sword fight with each other.

As they fought, Jupiter outwitted Xavier and disarmed him with his sword.

But just then, Xavier's eyes began to glow blue again when he heard Aria and Princess Misaki's terrified shouts.

Jupiter took advantage of his newfound vulnerability by punching Xavier in the face. But his strike unfazed Xavier, not even moving his head an inch, which surprised him.

Xavier was taken aback by Aria and Princess Misaki's terrified voices.

"What's wrong?" Jupiter inquired as he calmly withdrew his fist.

"Can we call off the fight for now?" Xavier asked.

Jupiter was perplexed. "Why's that?"

And Xavier replied, "Because I have this uneasy feeling that something bad has happened to our teammates.".

Jupiter sheathed his sword and remarked, "Well, in that case, let's go see for ourselves.".

Xavier grinned and promised Jupiter, "Thanks, and I promise that we will get back to our fight once we verify that nothing bad happened.".

Jupiter responded, "Sayless.".

Returning to the tragic situation in which Prince Magnus had assumedly killed Elowen.

As Elowen collapsed to the ground, Prince Magnus began taunting Princess Misaki. But suddenly, he felt an attack coming at him. And managed to dodge it in time.

Prince Magnus was left confused and furious as to who would dare try to attack him.

But then Prince Magnus heard a voice remark: "You seemed to have chosen death, you cowardly prince.".

Prince Magnus turned around in rage to see who had said that about him, and it was none other than Xavier, who stood alongside Jupiter.

"Ah, so you've finally arrived, little Princess," Prince Magnus replied, mocking Xavier.

When Xavier saw what Prince Magnus had done to his friends, he became enraged, and his body flowed with sheer hatred and anger.

Jupiter placed his hand on Xavier's shoulder and calmed him down, telling him not to allow Prince Magnus to play with his emotions.

After calming himself down, Xavier asked Jupiter to go help Elowen. And he would take on Prince Magnus on his own.

Jupiter smiled, taken aback by Xavier's confidence, and urged him to make sure that Prince Magnus never tried to mess with them again.

Xavier smiled back, giving a thumbs up, and said, "You bet I will.".

Which made Prince Magnus laugh uncontrollably, calling Xavier stupid and delusional for believing he could defeat him.

And Xavier responded, "Let's see who's the delusional one."

Jupiter then rushed to Elowen's aid, asking Emily, who was still immobilized, where her pouch that stored all of her healing potions was.

Emily then told Jupiter where it was, and Jupiter took it and opened it to retrieve a healing potion. And carefully, I began pouring it down Elowen's mouth.

"Is she all right?" Aria asked, concerned.

Jupiter responded, "She's fine.".

"She's still breathing.".

Princess Misaki sighed in relief and added, "I'm glad she's fine."

Sophie then noticed the venom the spiders had injected into them was wearing off. And so they could all now move around, but with some difficulties.

Princess Misaki, barely on her feet, looked at Prince Magnus with distaste in her eyes and stated, "You stay right there, Magnus.".

"I will kill you with my bare hands.".

Prince Magnus chuckled and directed all of his teammates to brutally eliminate Princess Misaki and everyone else as he got himself ready to toy with Xavier.

Xavier released his rage-filled aura and prepared to kill Prince Magnus.

In response, Prince Magnus sparked his aura and mocked Xavier, saying, "I hope you can put up a good show for me.".

And Xavier said, "I'll make sure to engrave this moment into your mind."

Prince Magnus and Xavier dashed at each other, clashing fists, causing a powerful burst of air. Which completely devastated the ground beneath them.

Xavier then grabbed Prince Magnus's arm and threw him into the forest, away from everyone.

He then accelerated his body by manipulating the acceleration vector acting on it, propelling him forward at incredible speeds.