Just like Sofia, Ayaka faced a similar situation. Her opponent was a shrimp. 

His body was three meters long and created an “S” shape instead of curving like “C”. 

He had two pairs of walking legs that seemed to be sharp enough to be a blade. It was like he was wielding two pairs of scythes.

His body was red and showed no weakness. 

Ayaka, on the other hand, only wielded her spear and a pair of shoes Kai made for her to add the initial boost of her momentum. 

“So, how do I cook you…” Ayaka muttered while squinting her eyes. “Deep fry? Normal? Or…” 

Before she finished, the shrimp shouted in anger. “Shut up, Human! Your puny life wants to kill this lord? Impossible!”

Ayaka ignored him and licked her lips as if she could taste him already. “This is gonna be good. You’re going to be the first seafood that I catch myself.”

The shrimp couldn’t contain his anger anymore and leaped toward Ayaka while swinging both his scythes.

Ayaka ducked down and let him hit her spear. 

The spear rotated because of the force while Ayaka disappeared.

Suddenly, the shrimp’s vision raised even though he was looking straight at Ayaka’s spear before realizing what had happened. He hurriedly turned around and saw Ayaka lifting his body easily. 

Even though he wasn’t that big, his weight was around three hundred kilograms. It wasn’t easy to lift him up, so the shrimp was stunned when he saw Ayaka raising his body. 

Ayaka, on the contrary, felt the shrimp light, considering her ant blood allowed her to carry something a few times heavier than her body’s weight. 

With the addition of intense training for the past year, along with the control over her Magic Power or Magic Particles, Ayaka could lift something more than ten times of her body weight.

The moment the shrimp’s body was in the air, a red Magic Circle appeared beneath the shrimp and exploded. 

Boom!

The Magic Circle caused a huge explosion, engulfing both of them. More importantly, that kind of explosion produced a powerful shock wave that helped Ayaka in turning his body over. 

She dove down head first like the german suplex but with the additional force from the explosion. 

As soon as the shrimp’s head hit the ground, it buried underneath the ground. 

Without underestimating him, Ayaka leaped forward and grabbed the spear that fell to the ground. 

The shrimp obviously didn’t like what Ayaka did and spun his body, coming out of the ground in an instant. 

After that, the water next to them began to rise as if the shrimp controlled it. 

“!!!” Ayaka finally recognized the shrimp’s magic. “I guess you don’t have anyone with fire magic in your rank. It’s either water, lightning, and wind… I’m sad.”

The shrimp rebuked her while waving his hand, controlling the water to flood the area. “Keep underestimating us and you will pay dearly.”

Ayaka glanced to the side and struck the ground with her spear. Another red-colored Magic Circle appeared and caused a fan-shaped series of explosions. 

The explosions dispersed the water easily while Ayaka smiled, “What did you say again?” 

The shrimp clenched his teeth and leaped toward her. 

Ayaka also planned to challenge him in terms of strength, wondering how far she could go with her momentum and strength. 

She waved her spear downwards while the shrimp caught her spear with four feet. 

Bam!

The collision produced a loud sound to the surroundings along with the shock wave. However, the two seemed to have realized each other’s brute force. 

Ayaka tried to keep pushing down, but the shrimp didn’t budge. The same applied to the shrimp who tried to push the spear back.

Seeing their strength was equal, the spear and the four legs went sideways as both Ayaka and the shrimp leaned to the right. 

Not letting go of the spear, the shrimp hurriedly summoned more water that seeped through the ground. 

From there, three water pillars rose, surrounding Ayaka. 

“Three Execution Pillars.”

Ayaka’s expression turned serious as a red flame soon covered her entire body. After that, another Magic Circle emerged beneath her.

“Scarlet Explosion!” 

Boom!

The explosion engulfed both of them while blowing away all the water pillars. Ayaka was uninjured because her flame armor protected her body. 

Meanwhile, the shrimp seemed to be fine as well with water covering his body.

Both of them realized their magic countered each other, making this battle a long one. 

Unfortunately, Ayaka couldn’t afford a prolonged battle. The reason was the same as others. She didn’t have enough Magic Power to last that long. 

That was the only weakness the girls had in this battle. They simply had no time to gather more Magic Power even though they managed to increase the power of their magic and strength to the level of the sea race’s top ten fighters. 

Seeing that the battle wouldn’t progress as she imagined, Ayaka decided to make a risky move. 

She placed her hand on the ground and created a huge magic circle. 

However, the shrimp didn’t let her do whatever she wanted. He raised his hand, and a few more water pillars broke through the ground and resurfaced, destroying the Magic Circle. 

Ayaka only took a look at the magic circle’s condition for a moment and headed straight to the shrimp with her spear. 

Behind her spear was another Magic Circle. 

As if understanding her power, another water pillar emerged behind him and flew to Ayaka at high speed, creating enough force to blow one away. 

Ayaka wanted to dodge it, but her momentum was too fast, so there would be a huge chance for her to slip when changing direction. 

Hence, Ayaka struck the water with all her might. The Magic Circle also released an incredible amount of fire and boosted the spear’s power, splitting the water into two. 

She continued to do it for a while and got closer and closer to the shrimp. But when she was about to reach him, the shrimp moved to the side while clapping both walking legs. 

This forced Ayaka to move to the side because several water pillars came from several directions, trying to hit her stomach. 

If she received that kind of pressure, a broken bone was possible. 

Surprisingly, the shrimp continued controlling the water pillar. Instead of shooting in one direction, the water pillars began to move like that of a snake, bouncing left and right.

Ayaka soon realized these seven water pillars were completely under the shrimp’s control, making it even harder to get close to him. 

It was clear the solution to this type of attack was dispersing them, but Ayaka chose another way, trying to outsmart the shrimp. After all, that was the only way to defeat a stronger opponent. 

A pair of wings appeared on her back as she jumped up and let the wing take over. 

The shrimp was surprised to see Ayaka flying, but he soon made the pillars follow her. 

Ayaka furrowed her eyebrows because she soon realized she couldn’t fly too high or the shrimp might target the others instead of her. 

After contemplating for a few minutes, she summoned a huge Magic Circle above her head.

“Scarlet Explosion.” 

Boom. 

The explosion engulfed both of them again while evaporating the water. 

Ayaka dove down while the shrimp waved all his feet.. Inside the smoke, a clicking sound echoed in the area as it produced a powerful shock wave that dispersed the steam.