Chapter 744 - Stuck Mid-Air
As if a wave of ice had shot outward from the center of the arena, it was now covered in solid flas that were rippling with a silver shine. Enveloped in the flas was the giants' young warrior, unable to move. The flas were clearly damaging her to a high extent despite the resistance to fire she had as a fire giant. anwhile, Selena stood in a capsule of her flas that slowly opened up after it had protected her from her own explosion. It wouldn't really be able to damage her, but it would still be able to restrict her movent, due to the nature of this magical elent.
Slowly, Selena stepped forward, snuffing out the flas in a straight path in front of her all the way to the giant warrior. Soon, she stood in front of her, and held the tip of her wand against her forehead, "This is my win... right?" She said, and the giant warrior, grinding her teeth, simply stared back. In an attempt to escape, she tried to rip herself loose from the solid flas, but the mont she was able to push so of them away, new flas took the hollow space that she had created. In the end, the warrior was unable to free herself, as the damage from the flas was steadily accumulating.
"Fine! You win, alright?!" The warrior yelled out angrily, upset that she had lost this easily, and the fifth fight had quickly concluded. With a relieved smile on his face, Eisen watched as the Grandour was getting more and more nervous. The flas in the arena quickly disappeared, and the giant warrior was imdiately treated by healers that were on standby, trying to treat the wounds that covered her body.
"Rudia, you're up next. Get ready." Eisen said confidently, knowing that nothing stood in the way of the ten victories anymore. If Selena was able to overco her weaknesses like this, then he was sure that Rudia was capable of the sa. And the fact that the other three dragon knights were great and one-to-one combat was sothing that Eisen was already greatly aware of.
Selena stepped up to the area where Eisen and the others were waiting, and was quickly congratulated by everyone. Although clearly, she felt kind of awkward being this much larger than the others in her group. Either way, that was going to change quite soon, as the other dragon knights would soon step into the arena as well. Rudia, standing confidently in the arena with her bow in hand, soon grew to a similar size, and imdiately stared forward at the opponent that was stepping out of the arena's other entrance.
The audience cheered a particular amount for this one. It seed like he was one of the more famous warriors of the arena, soone that was fighting quite often. These last five fighters that the dragon knights would fight against were the top five ranked warriors in the arena, after all.
Giant society is based around strength and physical ability. The stronger you were, the more respect you were worthy of. So of course, any fighter that wanted to be known to be worth a damn entered this arena to try and gain fa through combat. And this one was particularly popular. He was a giant mage, but as far as Eisen could tell, he wasn't a fire giant. Rather than that, judging from his stature and grey-ish skin, he was a stone giant. It was the first ti that one of the warriors wasn't a fire giant.
"What a surprise that you would let outsiders fight for you." Eisen said curiously, but the Grandour scoffed, "Hah, he's not a true outsider. He's lived in our clan since birth. He may not be a fire giant by race, but he is one by honor." The Grandour said in a clear voice, absolutely confident in what he was saying. To the extent where Eisen couldn't help himself but chuckle.
The Grandour was cocky, but he didn't seem like a bad person as far as Eisen could tell throughout all of this. He was simply sowhat conceited. But as long as he didn't throw so kind of fit upon losing, and accepted the truth that Eisen was the son of the first Grandour, then he didn't really care about the personality that he was showing off right now. More than that, Eisen was curious about the magic of a stone giant mage that grew up in the fire giant clan.
The staff that he was holding was made with the expertise of the fire giant clan. It was certainly of quite a high quality, and showed a lot of use.
The stone giant slightly bowed his head to Rudia, "I apologize, but I will be putting a stop to your winning-streak tonight."
"Heh, we'll see about that." Rudia replied with a scoffed chuckle, readying her bow with confidence. And soon, the fight begun. Imdiately, Rudia nocked an arrow and shot it. It didn't even take a second, and this giant, heavy arrow was flying at the stone giant. But with just a wave of his wand, the arrow stopped moving. It was suspended mid-air for a short mont, before just falling straight to the ground.
With a deep frown, the red half-dragon archer quickly shot another arrow, followed by a flurry of others. But no matter what she did, the sa thing kept happening, the arrows stopped moving, just to fall to the ground in a straight line. It was unnatural. It seed that this was the stone giant's magical elent, however. At the very least, he had encased himself in a layer of elental mana.
"Interesting." Eisen muttered quietly. Considering that the arrow fell straight down after being suspended mid-air, it wasn't like the ti of the arrow was stopped. Did it steal the arrow's montum instead?
"...No, then the arrow wouldn't stay suspended mid-air like that..." Eiro muttered. He made sure to watch closely as Rudia shot one more arrow. And then, Eiro noticed it. It was just slightly, but the arrow seed to be able to move a certain amount into the mana, and then it just stopped. But while its forward-montum continued for a mont, the rotation stopped a lot more quickly.
"Ah, so that's it, then." Eisen muttered with a grin on his face, while the Grandour looked at the old man, "What, you aren't trying to tell that you saw through his magic already, are you?"
Eiro chuckled slightly as he nodded, making his golden eyes flash slightly in his demonic form, "Of course, sothing like this is nothing for a man that lived a hundred thousand years."
The Grandour slightly widened his eyes, but imdiately turned his attention back onto the arena, "Still going on about that, huh? We'll see if you are truly telling the truth!"
"That we will." Eisen replied, and also kept watching the fight in the arena. Eisen couldn't very well just tell Rudia about it. She had to figure a way around this magic herself. But it seed like she herself was starting to figure the magic of this stone giant out as well.
Instead of grabbing one of her normal arrows, she grabbed an arrow made specifically to pierce through one's defenses. It had a drill-type tip and would rotate at incredible speeds upon being shot. Pulling her bowstring back as far as she could, she shot her drill arrow forward. It basically dug its way through the mana, and the stone giant even slightly flinched. But even then, the arrow still stopped.
With a slight smile, knowing that she was on the way to figuring sothing out, she instead pulled out a blunt-headed arrow, and shot it at the stone giant. However, just before she released, she jerked her bow up and down just once. This was a weird trick that she had learned after playing around with the techniques that Brody had taught her.
Eisen lightly smiled as he watched the arrow twist around. Like this, you shouldn't be able to control it, but that didn't matter. All that Rudia needed was the exact thing that happened. Instead of hitting the stone giant's mana at high speeds with the tip of an arrow, it hit it at slow speeds with the back of the arrow. And not in a straight line either. Instead, it was pointed slightly down.
The heavy blunt tip weighed the arrow down quite a bit, and slowly, the arrow slid away. It slid out of an invisible mass, and Rudia figured out what the secret to this guy's magic was.
The stone giants were particularly impressive in terms of their defensive abilities. As such, it made sense for a stone giant's magic elent to be related to that concept as well, even if they grew up in the fire giant clan. As far as both Eisen and Rudia could tell, the elent was quite simple. Upon impact with sothing, it solidified, and then released soon later. Like a non-newtonian fluid of sorts. It grabbed onto the arrows and slowed them down imdiately, and when the arrow's force fully dissipated, the mana released and the arrow dropped to the ground.
It was quite an interesting elent, though. If he had the chance, Eisen would love to grab a quick sample of it later. It would be great to have with him for so nice defensive items.
Either way, now that the elent had been figured out, Rudia knew what she had to do in order to win this duel. Earlier, when the stone giant flinched, it was because one of Rudia's arrow penetrated deeper than he had thought. So clearly, this mana could be broken through with force.
And so, Rudia once more prepared a drill-head arrow. But now, she didn't just do that, but also applied so magic to the mix.
Being the descendant of a dragon, Rudia of course still had a close connection to flas. It was why the elents of all the dragon knights were related to fire in so way, with their own unique twist. Xenia ntioned that they would probably grow out of the basis of the flas at so point when their elents evolved, so that they would end up with sothing more fine-tuned toward the other aspect of their magic.
Either way, Rudia's elent was based around the manipulation of her arrows. Mostly, she used it to speed them up and add force onto them, as if she was giving a rocket boost to them.
And so, as flas gathered up around the arrow she was pulling back, Rudia grinned, ready to break through her opponent's magic.
The mont she released her arrow, it shot forward, deep into the stone giant's mana, but once more it was stopped. However, an instant later, faster than anyone could tell, Rudia had already shot another arrow. This ti, a blunt-head arrow, using magic to not only speed it up, but also to create a small forward-facing explosion on impact. And so, the blunt-head arrow hit the drill-head arrow's back the mont it was released from the mana, just barely impacting with its end. And so, the drill-head arrow took on the montum of the blunt-head arrow, and shot through the mana, and the arrow pierced the stone giant's mana.
It was a successful attack.... however, it seed like the stone giant would now move from defense over to offense after seeing his opponent's abilities.
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