[ Magic Combat Lessons ]
It is by far the most entertaining subject that this Academy has to offer, for battle junkies that is. I mean, you get to beat up your opponent with cool magical powers....and it is entirely legal! Though the risk of killing is prevented. But still fun! You can spam coolass magic shits. Who in the world did not even once imagine wielding superpowers like this?
"Azriel Lauven vs Lucas Garvel. Come up to the Arena"
Hearing my name being called out, I stepped out from the bleachers as I sneered at the beaten up Viego. He had his match before me, and I must say that he was beaten very badly...what was worse than that was, the one who beat him up was The Strongest. Yuri Arghain.
Clicking his tongue, Viego stared at the white haired lady at a distance. I also followed his line of sight and stared at her. I must say, she was stunningly beautiful...with a silky long white hair and a stoic expression as well as jewelled blue eyes, she looked stunning. But staring at her, I felt a great anxiety....an anxiety screaming at me that I shouldn't mess with her.
Like her Blessing of Winter, Yuri Arghain was also unapproachable like a raging blizzard. Which was why she looked so terrifying even at a distance, despite her being stunning.
"She's the Devil, dude. The Devil."
Viego grumbled beside me while he was massaging his jaw, he was hit by the hilt of Yuri's sword on his jaw and so it was giving him so much pain, fortunately for him, there was a healer stationed nearby so it was healed instantly.
"Hahaha just be thankful for being alive"
I chuckled at him in which he also responded with a chuckle and turned back to the bleachers after wishing me luck on my match.
Nodding at him as thanks for the goodluck, I came up to the Arena and faced the caramel haired man across me. Azriel Lauven, 1st son of Marquis Lauven, I heard that he received the blessing of the swords and is ranked 7th on the school ranking. He is around Elite Red Stage.
Speaking of stages, a week ago during the Magic Lessons, I successfully ascended to Pristine Red Stage, and now I have the same raw power as Yuri Arghain. I even got scolded for doing that in the middle of class.
"Prepare for Comba!"
The referee shouted as I drew out my sword from its sheathe and took up a stance. Azriel too, drew out his sword but it was not from a sheathe...he manifested three swords and had them floating all around him. With a solemn gaze, he took up a stance by raising his empty hands and had the tip of the longswords be pointed in my direction.
"Begin!"
The Referee shouted as Azriel extended his hand forward and shot the first sword towards me at great speed.
Like a javelin, The sword collided with mine as I tried to parry it, but it was not bounced off...it felt like someone was holding it as it then fenced with me. Then it was not the end, because I am currently occupied with one sword....another flew to my blind spot. What the fucking shit? This is cheating! Ref! Do something!
As the one that flew on my blindspot was coming to pierce me, I gritted my teeth and pushed the other sword off with strength and moved swiftly to zoom towards Azriel, not letting the second sword pierce me.
But Azriel is not that dumb, with a smile, he willed the third sword as he stepped onto it and used it like a floating device.
Is this guy fricking Green g*****? From Sp***r-man?
Then as he floated in the air with the Sword, he did not leave the ring of arena as he just willed the first and second swords to attack me.
Okay fine, I will get serious.
Sighing, I called out the flames and then swang my sword towards the two incoming blade. After one swing, a torrent of flame soon came out from my sword and destroyed the swords.
Seeing that, Azriel was surprised but he did not falter, he summoned yet another batch of swords and rained it down to me.
"[ Graveyard of Swords ]"
Staring up at the swords, I took a deep breathe and struck a stance with my sword lowered to the ground, I prepared a stance.
"[ Valiere Swordsmanship: Tiger of Flames ]"
After swinging my sword upwards, a large Tiger made out of pure red flames rose up to the sky and devoured the swords that was coming to rain down on me. Then as if that was not enough, it also lunged at Azriel which surprised him and made him fall down to the ground.
"Winner is: Lucas Garvel!"
Since the tiger did not entirely destroy him, he was just left incapacitated as victory was given to me. Shaking hands with Azriel as a sign of proper sportsmanship, I led him down to the healer and helped him get healed.
"That was a powerful attack, as expected of The Chosen One. He was also able to use the Sword Saint's technique"
As Azriel was being healed by a healer, I heard him utter words of praises towards me. Hearing it somewhat made me be flustered. It was embarassing being treated like a big shot.
Right, after I became The Chosen One. I was assigned to a great master, that master was one of The Ten Strongest in the Continent and is called The Archanus Empire's Sword Saint.
Apparently, my master was one terrifying monster. His presence was the same as his name, Draken Valiere. He was like a huge dragon. And apparently, the technique that he taught me and he also used was a technique that his older sister had developed herself. He sang words of praises about her, calling her a person who has monstrous talent and is better than a prodigy. Listening to those words kinda made me wonder who his sister was and where she is, but seeing the look on his eyes....I just chose to not ask him. It must be a family matter.
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Stretching infront of the pond, Roanoke started removing his shirt. He held a bamboo stick by his right hand and then shot his master a glance, who is currently lazing around once again.
"I will be off to defeat it now, Master"
He uttered with a confident tone. Hearing him speak those words, Li Sheng just chuckled and waved his hand as if he did not care what Roanoke was going to do. He was just there.
It has been 2 weeks since Roanoke learned about Ki and a month since he was branded as a criminal. According to Li Sheng, the process of tainting the pure nature energy with his mortal energy was called the process of making Ki, so the one that he used after the tainting was Ki. After finding out about that power, Roanoke trained day and night with it and only stopped to eat and sleep. He trained by doing his family martial arts underwater and played tag with the fastest fishes underwater, and as he was training like that...He finally broke through The Elite Red stage and reached Pristine Red stage. He could now feel his energy being light.
"Bring it up after defeating it, okay? So we can have Crab meat for dinner"
Li Sheng chuckled, telling Roanoke to bring the food back up like he was out to go on a grocery, and the golden haired lad just rolled his eyes as he bid farewell to his master and dove into the deep pond.
The golden haired lad swam deeper and deeper into the pond until he reached the cave where he last met the oversized crab.
Unlike before, he really went down to the waterbed and awaited the crab to come out.
It didn't take a minute for the crab to come out as its oversized body emerged out from the Cave.
Staring at that crab, Roanoke held the bamboo stick on his hand firmly and started using the Ki.
'Let's go, Geoffrey 2.0 skull crusher version"
Roanoke smiled and then wrapped the Ki around his legs and moved towards the Giant Crab in great speed.
The Crab responded to his speed as it also moved its pincer to meet the puny human.
The battle underwater has started.