Conquering His Cold Heart

Frost and Indra turned to look at each other before smiling wildly.

"I'm fine with betting another 10,000DP."

"That all, I'm good with 15,000." Frost raised the stakes by an additional 5000DP over his brother starting a pissing match between them.

"18, 000"

"20,000"

"22,000"

"24,000"

"30,000!!!!" Indra roared at the top of his lungs a very large number making Frost hesitate with his next bid. However before he could shout an even more outrageous number a dainty white hand appeared from behind and covered his mouth shut. A similar situation happened to Indra though it was accompanied by a bonk on the head and whisper of the word 'idiot'.

"30,000DP it is then, may the best dungeon core win." Dark also finding the stakes to be rather high for a simple duel tactically supported the actions taken by Maya and Izuna. "Guardians please leave the arena so your charges can let loose."

"Yes Dark God-sama." With a few words of encouragement and perhaps a threat or two Maya and Izuna relegated themselves to the stands, leaving Frost and Indra facing one another in the centre of the ring.

"By the way I should probably tell you before we start, Maya made me eat a special dish that improves my strength." Though even more eager to bust up his elder brother's cocky face and earn a whopping 40,000DP he still decided to warn him.

"No worries, Izuna did the same thing to me. She said there was a 200% chance of Maya pumping you up with some kind body enhancing meal or drugs, so she'd only be levelling the playing field hahahahaha."

"Their rivalry goes deep I see." Frost simply shook his head. Knowing that Indra was also boosted he thus felt no hesitation in going all out.

At practically the same time both he and Indra donned their combat modes. Ice chakra formed into dense moulded plates, covering Frost in a beautiful white coloured armour. While his 4 star glaive the [wolf howling at the moon] was taken from his storage ring and twirled between his hands.

Flickers of silver cold flames danced around the blade edge making the already powerful glaive appear even more deadly. His physical armour which had been mended and altered slightly by Daki was already equipped beneath his robes, working in concert with the exterior chakra armour. With all that in place Frost was ready for battle.

Maya nodded her head in approval as Frost set himself up in just a couple seconds. She turned to look at Izuna with a cocky grin, hoping to lord over her with his dashing appearance however all she got was a look of contempt and a chin gesture directing her to look at Indra. Unlike Frost who was garbed in head to toe in his robes and now ice armour, Indra showed off a lot more skin.

His chest was partially exposed as was his forearms and some of his calves. A very different style compared to Frost's noble scholar image but no less attractive. In fact in Izuna's eyes Indra's wild look was far better, practically no contest but that wasn't the main point for her gesture.

Sparks of lightning formed arcs around Indra's body, acting like a defensive barrier. His long hair was also strewn with sparks causing it flay outwards into sharp spikes. This was the lightning element's version of chakra armour and was the first time Frost had laid eyes on something so unorthodox.

His ice element as well as Sam's metal element behaved and looked like regular armour when in their protective form, a stark contrast to Indra's armour that appeared to be full of gaps. Seeing the snakelike lightning tendrils wrapping themselves around Indra's body Frost couldn't help but wonder how much protection it actually provided.

Would his glaive glide through the obvious gaps or was there more to this barrier of lightning than meets the eye.

Indra wasn't finished there however, along with covering himself with lightning chakra armour he summoned a large two handed blade, a katana. A very sharp single edged blade with devasting cutting and thrusting power. A weapon that relied primarily on skill to be truly effective and from first glance its quality was likely equal to the [wolf howling at the moon] thus making it a 4 star weapon.

The lightning chakra enveloped the blade, drastically improving the weapon's sharpness and speed.

Frost frowned as his heart thumped away in anticipation. Indra would not be an easy opponent. Maya warned him ahead of time about another nasty feature of the lightning element. Though not as adept in defence like the ice and metal elements the lighting element was unbelievably fast and destructive. Some of its effects also happened out of sight, deep within the user's body.

There was a reason why Maya used her super speed in their earlier training.

Seeing that both his sons were kitted out and ready to begin Dark smiled before bellowing from his comfortable seat.

"The duel will began when I ring the gong!" He summoned an ornate gong and giant mallet in the air. "Good luck!"

Gooooooonnnnnnnggggggg!

With the mallet striking against the gong the duel began and both participants rushed towards one another with their weapons at the ready. However it was clear that one was far superior when it came to speed.

Frost barely managed to make out Indra's cocky smile before his body was replaced with streaks of lightning only to rematerialize a moment later to his left with his katana already swinging.

Clang!

Their first clash forced Frost to make a quick deflection, knocking him slightly off balance, a weakness Indra was keen to exploit.

'Fuck he's fast!' Frost loudly cursed internally as he tried to quickly reposition himself. Thanks to Maya's training he was able to effectively react to Indra's speed but transitioning straight to offence after parrying in time was a bit difficult. Before he could even get a solid stance in place Indra practically teleported to his right side with his katana thrusting straight for his left leg.

Frost immediately decided to abandon his position and chance for retaliation, he jump upwards to avoid the thrust and backflipped out of way.

"[ice entanglement]" While in the air he quickly cast the 2nd circle spell [ice entanglement] with a shortened aria causing a magic crest to appear beneath Indra's position. Vines of ice quickly reached out from the crest to take hold of Indra's legs but met with only air. Indra had already vanished from the area, appearing several metres away with a wide smile on his face.

He watched Frost land on the ground without moving.

"To be honest I didn't think you'd be able to react that well during our first clash. Not only did you manage to perfectly parry my slash you even dodged my thrust and cast magic at my feet while you avoided it….you're the first to come out unscathed." Indra's smile stretched as he spoke, becoming wild, almost mad in appearance.

"This is so much fun! More brother! Let's keep dancing! Hahahahahaha!" Indra practically snapped as his excitement levels went through the roof, finally there was someone at his level who could handle his speed.

Lighting chakra users have the ability run lightning through their own bodies drastically increasing their speed, acceleration and reaction times to obscene levels however it mainly focuses on linear movements. As long as Frost can follow Indra's pre-dashing motions and predict his path he should be able to mount an effective defence and counterattack. Simple but easier said than done.

"[Ice floor]" Before Indra finished his maddened rant Frost covered the arena floor around him with ice hoping to impede Indra's speed, however.

"Hahahahahaha that won't work little brother." Indra appeared a moment later at his side with his katana raised above his head. The areas of ice floor that he stepped on were destroyed by his lightning armour thus allowing him to stand on solid ground. He wasn't even the slightest bit phased by Frost's magic.

"[Fierce swallow's slash]" Indra's katana became coated in a purple sheen and the image of a fierce looking swallow formed behind it, making the already sudden attack even faster. Frost barely managed to catch the blow with his glaive and unfortunately earned a gash on his left cheek that dripped ruby red blood. Indra had drawn first blood in their duel, yet Frost was the one with the bigger smile.

"Hahahahahaha I knew it you're just like me brother you live for battle!" Indra thoroughly enjoyed the look on his younger brother's face before quickly backstepping to avoid Frost's vicious counterattack. It was true Frost was just as enthralled as his brother perhaps even more so.

"[Freezing fireball]" Frost instantly cast specialty 3rd circle magic without any warning. A large silver ball of freezing fire thus appeared in front of him before launching straight at Indra.

Boom! The attack obviously missed but the area was lit up with cold fire.

"Hoh that's cold even at this distance." Indra commented as he appeared tens of metres away.

Schwing!

An ice bolt appeared the moment he spoke and was cut down by his katana without any effort, the next attack however wouldn't be quite so easy to handle.

"[Claw of the ice wolf]" The freezing fireball and ice bolt were merely pretences to his real attack. Frost appeared from Indra's blindside the moment he slashed apart the ice bolt with his glaive raised overhead, time for Indra to be on the defensive.

Claws of ice formed before the glaive as it swung down against Indra's shoulder. Frost hoped that with his strategic attacks and sudden ambush he'd catch his brother by surprise but unfortunately the lightning dungeon core was just too quick.

"[Spark storm]" Without much effort Indra rotated his body and struck out with his katana. Fierce tendrils of lightning wrapped themselves around his weapon before transforming into lightning katanas. The image of a powerful lightning storm then appeared behind Indra. He was using an advanced skill.