With the words coming out of Diluc’s mouth, the sphere of fla floating above his head starts shrinking to a certain size, seemingly creating an even more terrifying flas possessing temperature so high that even so of the academy staff starts worrying about the safety of the other freshn in the exams, especially those within the close vicinity of the emperor-like young man.
"Don’t make a move yet, and no need to panic too much, should push cos to shove, I will take care of everything"
Before those worried adults can even start to warn the emperor-like young man to the dangers of whatever spell it is that he is casting, a powerful, confident voice cos from the principal herself, the words coming out of her mouth clearly tinged with anticipation and curiosity as well, things that are mostly related to the magic currently being perford by Diluc himself.
anwhile, on the arena, the freshn who attacked just previously are about to be thrown into utter surprise once again as the magic spells they hurled towards their target begins closing in on his vicinity, only for their expectations to be completely shattered as they get closer to the source of the fire.
Dozens of spells of all elental affinity, gigantic rocks carved like cold weapons, ice forged like daggers, tallic needles seemingly sharper than any sword there is, water seemingly wanting to devour everything in its path, wood that clearly wants to absorb every nutrients it can get its hand on, and even fire seemingly want to destroy and turn everything into ashes, every single one of the attacks that Diluc’s opponent sent towards his way seemingly has the intent to completely incapacitate him, yet amidst all that, he just stood there, completely unmoved by such sight.
It doesn’t even end with that, as waves from all sorts of weapons travels towards his current location as well, not to ntion assortnt of flying weapons, arrows, along with all other projectiles, it does seem that there is just no more way for him to escape out of this predicant all by himself.
"Expand…"
As another word leaves the mouth of the emperor-like Diluc, the ball of fla floating above himself seemingly trembled into an utter joy, almost as if a loyal retainer who receives their chance to once again, prove themselves and their usefulness to their lord, eager to show just what sort of skills they have to convince the master they serve that they are worthy of their position.
The next few monts, what those other freshn fear the most just had to happen in the most horrible of ways, the ball of fla now showing reaction once again, but rather than how it forms all too slowly compared to a normal spell, as well as how slowly it compresses itself into sothing barely smaller than an adult’s head, the ball expands at an alarming rate, clearly wanting to devour everything that ca along its path.
With the fast expansion of the emperor-like young man’s offensives, it doesn’t even take a mont for the now spherical barrier of violent flas to approach the attacks that his opponents sent towards his way, creating contact between his attack and their attacks for the second ti.
As much as the audience, along with those other freshn student wishes that this attack is only similar to the one that neutralizes that massive white ball the freshn miraculously ford previously, the truth can never be farther from that, as the mont that the barrier expanding cos into contact with anyone else’s spells, only two reactions were witnessed by everyone.
And by no ans, were these reactions the ones that they expected or hoped to see, nor was it ones that they can, at the very least, feel comfortable with, no, what they witnessed the emperor-like young man’s spell is doing to their spells was sothing that will most likely make them question their authenticity as a genius of their respective places, seeing that there is soone like this, of the sa age as them, just a little bit above their level in terms of their core, and yet, seemingly standing a far distance away from them.
What makes these freshn feel all these are exactly how their spells reacted to the nature of Diluc’s spell, the first one being the fact that whichever spell that barrier of raging fla cos in contact with, are destroyed with the finest brutality, dissipating completely in the air along with the trace of whatever elental mana was used to cast the spells, removing even the trace of that spells existence, making it seem like no one has ever casted a spell there to begin with, just like how water turns into air and wood turns into ash when they are subjected to a certain amount of heat, only the process they are watching made this process near instantaneous.
As for the second reaction of the spells towards the barrier of fla, it feels even more ridiculous than the first one, so much that even the previously mildly amused Aria stood up from her seat and directly moves herself right above the arena in order to witness the spell as close as she can, with the fascination glowing in her eyes exceeding more than just normal curiosity about a person from the younger generation, turning into one similar to how everyone is intrigued by mystical things.
’The mana is... submitting?’
As she observes the phenonon happening below her, the horned principal mutters to herself with trace of uncertainty still apparent on her shaking voice, said uncertainty being only a small part of it as most of her voice’s current shaking is due to the excitent that she is currently finding to be quite difficult to contain.
’Just what kind of surprises do you have in store, kid?’
Rembering who the parents of this young man is, Aria rely smiles as she feels the mana dancing around in the air, sothing that she only observes during two occasions, first is when there is a gathering of multiple geniuses within one place with mana dancing around the entirety of the place, and the second one when there soone similar to her exist, an individual with talent that far outshines even the elite masses with those individuals having mana dance around them without any real effort in their part.
Seeing the expanding fire elental spell in the distance, this oftentis volatile principal, for the first ti in a while, held such profound look on her eyes forged by all sorts of experiences, her eyes ever so often glowing every ti she witnesses a spell being devoured, or rather, absorbed completely by the barrier of fla, the assortnt of colors from all elental attribute disappearing within the ardent burning of Diluc’s spell, pushing it to expand even faster than it already does.
On the other hand, the attackers who witnesses the second reaction of Diluc’s spell towards other spells felt the difference between them and him all the more, as the spells they hurled towards his direction were either completely removed along with its traces, or devoured to be a part of the very spell’s strength, making it appear like this spell is the equivalent of the young man stating sothing to them.
’Resist and perish, follow and prosper’
As if they are sohow controlled by a single individual during that short mont of ti, all those freshn thought of the sa words with the only difference in them being that each individual heard it with their own voices in their heads, seemingly completely cold in front of such force approaching them.
"I…I surrender!!"
"I don’t want to be here anymore!!"
"Jump from the spires!!! Run away!!!"
"I-I-I s-s-surrend-der!!"
"Please spare m-!!!"
"Fuck this, Co what may, I am ready!!"
"I’ll be eliminated anyway, I should go as grand as I can, HAHAHA!!!"
Watching as the barrier of flas gradually approaching their distance, Diluc’s multitude of opponents starts fleeing away in all directions, all while so of them still choses to stand their ground and decided to defend their place no matter the cost, and protect that small amount of pride they still have for themselves, the latter group, while being mocked by fellow freshn who escaped for their lives, were actually being secretly praised by the majority of the student audience, whether they the second, third or fourth years, comnding their guts for standing to face an unknown, clearly dangerous spell without anything but the desire to prove that they are better than what their opponents expected.
Despite gathering all their wills to stand proud and try to defend themselves within their own spires though, those remaining opponents of Diluc couldn’t help but feel just a little bit worried as the flaming barrier starts getting closer and closer towards them, all while tearing apart everything that it encounters along its way, almost as if it is a great devourer that wants nothing more than to consu everything around it.
’Did I make the wrong choice?’
Reviews
All reviews (0)