"Her magic wand has grown longer! It's turned into a mage's staff!"
"She can fly! And she's flying on fire!"
The crowd below stared wide-eyed as Amy, wielding a two meters long mage's staff and riding on wheels of fire, flew towards Hank.
Melee mages are generally unseen by most people. To them, mages should stand still and elegantly cast spells with their magic wands. Even mages who can form armor on their bodies only enhance their defense, allowing them to cast spells more easily.
The teachers at the Magic Academy will give some introductions about melee mages, but the Magic Academy does not teach melee magic because there are simply no teachers in this field. Therefore, even the students of the Magic Academy don't know much about melee mages.
So now, looking at Amy, their eyes are full of novelty and anticipation. The simplest way for a mage to move quickly is to use teleportation magic, but that is just spatial transfer, not flying directly with the body. The way Amy is flying low in the air on fire wheels looks so cool.
"Teacher, I want to learn this too." a Magic Academy student said to his teacher below the stage.
"I want to learn that too." the teacher said, his eyes widening as he looked at Amy, equally amazed.
"This little brat, does she really know melee magic?" Hank narrowed his eyes as he watched Amy fly towards him, but his movements were swift. He pointed his magic wand forward and said coldly, "Vines hidden beneath the earth, heed my call! Entangle your enemies, and cast them into the abyss forever!"
A green light shone from the ground in front of him, and black vines emerged from the ground, writhing flexibly like octopus tentacles. There were as many as eight of them, each as thick as an adult's thigh, extending more than two meters above the ground, forming a circle. At the same time, they suddenly slammed down towards Amy, who was standing in the center, blocking all her view, seemingly intending to flatten her in one fell swoop.
A female teacher appeared in a flash outside the vines, her magic wand raised, seemingly ready to strike.
Capas glanced at the vines, raised his hand, and gestured for the teacher not to act.
"This!" Mai Ge suddenly stood up, looking at the stage with some nervousness.
"It's a problem that can be solved with standard procedures, don't worry." Crassus calmly ate a bite of tofu pudding, showing no sign of panic.
The crowd below held their breath, knowing that Hank had used the same move to throw Klaus and the others out of the arena. Now, he only needed to focus on Amy, and she was flying too close, surrounded by the vines. Even if she wanted to unleash her previous ice-fireball, it would be too late. Was she going to be eliminated here?
"Please! Amy, you absolutely have to win!" Daphne clenched her fists tightly, her little face filled with anxiety.
"Can she get away?" On the stage, Klaus and the Magic Academy students beside him were also tense. They had been entangled by those strange vines before. In addition to the binding effect, there were also some small thorns on the vines that had a muscle-paralyzing effect. They still felt weak all over.
"Even a level five mage would have no chance of escaping from this distance if entangled and surrounded by my vines. Little brat, you're still too weak to fight me. Today I'll leave you with a lasting memory so you know who you shouldn't mess with." Hank said with a sneer, his right hand suddenly clenching inward. As the eight vines slammed down, they also tightened rapidly, as if to pocket a bag. Amy was no longer visible, only a huge black lantern remained standing in the center of the stands.
"Is it over?"
The hearts of everyone in the audience sank. In this situation, Amy probably had no chance, right?
The members of the Mage Tower beamed with joy. Although Amy was small, but she had a somewhat oppressive presence. Now that the outcome seemed certain, the challenge had come to a perfect end.
"Green-haired Monster, the branches you planted are just as annoying as you." Amy's voice rang out from the vine thicket.
"Bang!"
A dull thud rang out, and the vines binding Amy instantly burst open, splintering wood chips everywhere. The vines, which had been tightening inwards, were flung outwards as if struck by a heavy blow.
Amy appeared in everyone's sight, still in her forward-slamming stance, her mage staff gripped tightly in both hands. Purple light swirled at the tip of the mage staff, and the wind and fire wheels beneath her feet spun rapidly. Her gaze towards Hank was calm and composed.
"So handsome! Amy is absolutely amazing! I can't take it anymore, I'm totally smitten!" Daphne stretched her hand out towards the main stage and then collapsed into her chair.
"A terrifying woman." Ignaz glanced at Daphne, shook his head, and shrank back to the side.
"She's escaped!"
A gasp erupted from the audience, who were filled with surprise and excitement, their emotions fully engaged and captivated by Amy's formidable strength.
"How is this possible!" Hank stared wide-eyed at Amy and the black vines that had snapped into pieces and were now dissipating on the ground, finding it hard to believe what he was seeing.
His proud intermediate level spell had been smashed through by her own mage staff? And she was just someone who had only been learning magic for a little over a month! If this were to reach the Mage Tower, the aura of genius he had always worn would likely vanish.
"Little brat, very well, you've successfully angered me. I'll show you just how powerful a true level four mage is!" Hank roared through gritted teeth, raising his magic wand and rapidly chanting a spell: "Wood element of nature, heed my call, transform wood into arrows, rain down arrows..."
"Oh no! He's about to use the intermediate spell, Berserk Arrow Rain. This is an intermediate spell that's several times more powerful than Entangling Vines. Once it's successfully cast, countless wooden arrows will rain down, covering a very wide area, and there's no way to avoid them!" Klaus exclaimed, instinctively taking a step forward.
"This is bad, that little girl definitely can't withstand this Berserk Arrow Rain." a magic academy teacher in the audience said nervously.
The audience, who had just been excited by Amy's escape, tensed up again. Amy had already given them so many surprises, they just didn't know how she would handle the upcoming magic.
"Casting a spell that requires incantation while standing still in front of a melee mage?" Mai Ge's lips twitched.
"I'll hit you!"
Amy appeared in front of Hank in the blink of an eye, then raised her mage staff.
"Bang!"
A muffled thud echoed as the purple mage staff slammed into Hank's face. His gloomy expression instantly contorted, and blood spurted upwards in a red arc from his nose.