The Levian second commander sized up Elisa and said, "I hope you have the strength to back your sharp tongue." Elisa giggled and said, "Ohhh, honey, you just don't know what I have in store for you." For the first time ever since he entered the forsaken realm, for some unknown reason, he felt some kind of weariness towards Elisa, as he couldn't clearly gauge her strength. This meant the only way to uncover her true strength is by engaging her in a battle, which he wasn't certain of winning.
Elisa, looking at the second commander of the Levian army, said to herself, "This guy seems to have the strength of 8 billion ISG. I will be at a disadvantage if I engage with this form alone. I will have to partially transform to match him. And if I want to completely suppress him, I would have to use my true dragon form. I will provoke him to make the first move so I can verify his power."
The second commander of the Levian army sent a telepathic message to his comrades to set up a formation and trap Elisa within so that he could deal with her. Elisa, being very sensitive to her surroundings, clearly heard the message relayed to the Levian soldiers. She laughed out loud and said, "Do you think your weak formations could trap this empress?" The Levian soldiers hearing this were now on high alert, as it was impossible for other beings to listen to or hear a psychic message that wasn't directed to them, but his little girl clearly heard everything and even downplayed their formation ability as if she already knew the formation and how she could counter it.
This made the commander warier of Elisa; he then decided to engage her in battle to clearly gauge her strength. He waved his hand, and a long sword appeared in his hands as he charged towards Elisa. Elisa, seeing this partially transformed being, dashed towards the second commander. With her entire arm transformed into a hard, scaly exoskeleton with black fiery claws on each finger. The two beings collided, and then BOOM! The second commander was sent a few meters back, and so was Elisa. The second commander had his hand tremble due to the head-on collision between him and Elisa. What shocked him most was that Elisa's body was so powerful as to withstand the attack of his half-step peak-turn longsword without suffering any serious injuries.
Elisa, on the other hand, was shocked because the long sword just now was a weapon powerful enough to pry off some of her scales upon impact.
The Levian soldiers were shocked the most, as the fragile little girl had been able to withstand a head-on clash with the second commander with just her bare hands and claws. The second commander, after colliding with Elisa, quickly understood that this partially transformed woman was at least a powerful special lifeform born and bred in the forsaken realm who was able to escape the levian progenitor's calculations and divinations, making her a very dangerous foe to deal with.
Elisa in this form had the strength equal to the second commander with half-step peak-turn defenses. The commander then called out in a loud tone, "Prepare the clan's treasure and attack with me." The Levian armies all rushed towards Elisa with their clans' treasure, which was a million kilometers tall. Elisa, seeing this, roared, and then an illusory dragon silhouette appeared behind her, striking fear and terror in the minds and hearts of the Levian soldiers rushing over. With a single step she disappeared and reappeared before the million-kilometer treasure; she then transformed into her draconic form, which was now shrunken to a million kilometers, and with a swipe of her arm she activated the time-tearing slash. The treasure, which seemed indestructible, was slashed into two; this was possible because of the black flames, which defied all logic. Half of the beings in the treasures were instantly annihilated by the black flames and the immense power of Elisa's true body, which now had 45 billion times the strength of ISG.
The second commander was greatly alarmed by the twist and turn of events. The two revered elders turned towards the direction of the second elder's armies, who had been met with the unforeseen situation their ancestor predicted would happen. One of the revered elders tried to intervene, but the other stopped him, as that would make their massive plan fall apart.
Elisa in her true form was an anomaly; even true peak-turns couldn't explain it, as she didn't follow the normal cultivation, and the beyond-realm laws and suppressions didn't seem to affect her in any way. With a single flap of her wings, she appeared directly at the second treasure of the Levian army. With a whip of her tail, the treasure housing several hundred Levian soldiers was sent tumbling into the distance. This time the beings weren't killed, but they suffered minor injuries, which would affect their collective control of the treasure. The second elder, seeing this, became very mad, and he clenched his chest, and the robe he wore became drenched with his blood. This was a sacrificial technique their Levian progenitor had taught them to boost their power with the help of a treasure he had implanted within all his commanders.
The second commander's armor changed from silver to pitch black, and the blackness seemed to swallow any light that fell on it. A long spear appeared in his hands, and a long tail appeared behind him with two horns on his head.
The power of the second elder had now reached 45 billion times the strength of an ISG, and his height also grew to ten million kilometers. He dashed towards Elisa at a terrifying speed with the spear pointed towards her. Elisa, being a battle fanatic, dashed towards the second commander with renewed ambition of testing her true limits. The armies of the levian seeing this, retreated to a safe distance, hiding in their clan treasures, because the force of a clash at that level could instantly annihilate them on the spot.
CLANG! A spear and claw clashed at a speed a hundred quintillion times the blink of an eye. The space of 100 light-years was reduced to fragments and chaos; even the time in that space wasn't spared. They clashed for several rounds, and with every clash, the very foundations of the space they passed were destroyed. Elisa and the second commander were now evenly matched; they both broke off and sized each other up, as it was up to both parties to reveal their trump cards to change the tide of the battle.
The second commander spat out a fist-sized golden mirror and chanted in the language of the Levians. All of a sudden the mirror began to spin and increase in size till it became 100 light-years in diameter; it stopped spinning, and the second commander pointed it towards Elisa. This mirror was a spiritual body-sealing treasure, which could be below the true peak-turns level. The moment Elisa saw her reflection in the mirror, her consciousness fell into a layered illusion. The illusionary world of the mirror was very difficult to tell from reality. Elisa's body remained motionless in the real world, but for some unknown reason, the second commander and the two revered elders couldn't get close to her as the very space she was in began to melt and crumble.
Inside the golden mirror, where Elisa's trapped consciousness was shown as a reflection of what was happening in her body, one could see her dragon form lying curled up with her head tucked into her belly region and tail curled around her massive body with her wings folded. The army of the levians inside the forsaken realm all cheered because from the golden mirror they could see Elisa fall into the illusion and not resist. Within Elisa's consciousness she could feel the time slowdown was very abnormal, because time within the mirror's illusion was 3.5 million samsaras, equaling 12 hours in the forsaken realm. Seeing Elisa decided to learn and decode the engravings etched on her with the help of the time dilation of the golden mirror's illusory world.
Elisa then divided her consciousness into two, the first containing 80% to study the engravings, the remaining 15% to observe the illusory world, and the last 5% to maintain the flames burning around her in the real world. For powerful beings at that level, they could divide their concentrations amongst various complex tasks that even quantum computers may take several hundreds of years to complete.