My Soul card is a Reaper

The instructor and the stranger turned their heads to look at Azzy.

"Oh, you are new here and from Empyreon Plane. I guess you have never met such an existence. He is my Divine soldier," Arin explained about this divine soldier of hers who addresses her as a sister, "When you grow strong enough, you can use a part of your body and sacrifice a Tier's worth of soul energy to create an existence. They do your bidding as your soldier, act as your shield, and also your sword."

The young man continued her explanation, pointing at himself with his thumb, "I'm not a mere soldier. I'm divine soldier Ark. I was created when my sister went through her divine awakening when she was 12. I can grow stronger with her and even if I die, I can still resurrect, unlike normal soldiers." He had a grin and a proud expression on his face.

Arin, however, looked displeased. She raised her hand and gave a knock on his head, "he is past that age and cannot create a divine soldier even if he wants. Are you that bored to boast about yourself?"

"Ouch… that hurts, sister."

"So, he is Angelic world's version of Arcana spirit, huh, except without any soul. But that also means that I'm vulnerable to spies. Also, this woman managed to figure out that I sensed her presence earlier. I really need to be careful when using the Aura Sensing technique from now onwards, especially when surrounded by 9-star rankers," thought Azzy, digesting the information.

The Reaper quickly said, "It's not an issue, Azrael. As long as you have mastered Aura Sensing, you can sense their presence too. As for this woman, she didn't exactly sense that you had locked onto her. She merely figured it out by using a defensive technique. That was breached by something and you are the only one in the arena. It was obvious that she figured out that it was you."

"Oh, I see… Wait what? I have yet mastered the Aura Sensing? For years, I thought I did."

"Well, you only thought that you did, as you were satisfied as long you could sense the auras of life and only focused on increasing your range.

After a while, the three of them made their way to the Arena's battle platform.

The divine soldier Ark acted as the spectator while the two got on top of the platform and were ready to fight.

Instructor Arin then spoke of the rules, "No skill cards. No equipment. No Flight. And No time limit either. You can fight until you are either in no condition to fight anymore or give up on your own." Azzy couldn't help but give a blank stare at her from top to bottom as if he were pointing out the fact that she was wearing equipment. The Nine-star rank Angel acted as if she didn't capture the meaning and gestured him to come at her.

Maintaining a speed comparable to those in 7-star rank, Azzy charged forward at her and threw a punch.

Arin smoothly evaded with a sidestep. Azzy saw it and replied with his right arm, which missed the punch earlier, swinging to the side to strike at her waist.

"Oh"

Arin swiftly moved to the back, evading his arm swing. Azzy followed it up by taking a lunge at her with his right arm stretching further.

Arin saw that the student's aim was her neck. Her superior reflexes allowed her to evade it with a somersault, but just as she was about to land on her hands, an energy blast was shot out of Azzy's palm, striking her left wrist and making her lose her balance.

Her eyes widened in surprise, "wha… ugh…"

As her cheek planted to the floor, her eyes captured Azzy's next attack. He pushed out a lot of divine energy, and rapidly started condensing in front of his palm. "It's divine energy, not the angelic light."

Azzy shot out a thin but concentrated energy beam this time.

Just in time, her wings erupted from her back and flapped swiftly, evading the divine beam. Azzy's attack missed her hand and made a hole in the ground. He retracted it, transforming it into a condensed ball of divine energy.

"Hmm? Silver?"

Azzy found her wings were silverish, just like Nyra's. It only indicates that she is likely from one of the minor noble houses.

Flying in the air, instructor Arin looked down at Azzy and asked, "Do you really have no idea where your parents came from, Rael?"

Azzy was slightly taken aback by a weird question, but he replied in the end, "I know where they are from, Instructor. I just don't care." His vague reply caused misunderstanding for her, and she reacted by flapping her wings and flying at him, intending to punch him.

She was about to punch him down with her fist but before it happened, she paused in mid-air and saw her abdomen. The divine beam that was still floating above his palm shot toward her abdomen, creating a fist-sized hole in her stomach area.

"Wha… How?" She looked at him and then her abdomen, collapsing to the floor.

This even shocked Azzy to the core. "What the…"

Since she is of noble bloodline and a rank-9 expert, he thought she would be able to resist it but she couldn't.

He controlled its power strictly to 6-star, but his divine beam ignored her defenses altogether. Azzy couldn't help but be impressed by Baphomet's divinity, which seemed stronger than Jupiter's. Little did he know that he merely absorbed Jupiter's power, but he fused with Baphomet's.

"Argh…"

Arin couldn't help but scream in pain; blood started oozing through the gap, and her divine soldier rushed to the platform in worry, "sister."

Azzy dismissed the attack quickly. "I'm sorry. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine… argh… damn it…" As she stopped bleeding with a layer of energy over her stomach while rolling on the floor in pain, Azzy approached her normally and offered help, "Wait. Let me heal it." After attaining divinity from Baphomet, he also attained healing abilities but never explored them much. Hence, it isn't that strong.

It was just a basic healing technique that usually heals external injuries. As Azzy applied it to her abdomen, her skin regenerated, which stopped the bleeding, but her insides didn't regenerate in the end.

Nevertheless, she thanked Azzy, gave her stamp on his scroll of admission after announcing that his test was over, and left with her Divine Soldier to heal at the healing ward. Enjoy exclusive adventures from My Virtual Library Empire

As he took a look at the stamp, it had nothing but the symbol of a star with the number 2 glowing on top of it.

"Hmm… I wonder what this is. Let's go and inquire around…"