The Mysterious Black Magician Chapter 66 - Fusing Skills

"Kiko Sun?!!!"

Everyone shouted under their breaths after Bren Storm called out Kiko's na as his opponent.

This decision of his was unexpected to all. Even his friends were having shocked faces. They also weren't expecting Bren to choose Kiko to be his opponent.

Why did he choose soone of such caliber to be his opponent? His friends asked in their minds. It was known to everyone that Kiko was from the Elite section. And he was a wielder of great talent that was favored by the instructors and even by the elders as the one who has a high chance of bringing the whole academy into the top of the ranking.. Such thoughts were present in everyone's mind.

Each trainee has scattered thought at the mont.

Actually, this was also the reason why Bren chose Kiko as the opponent.

Kiko frowned.

He never expected that soone would challenge him so blatantly.

"Fool," Marco muttered while staring daggers at Bren and shook his head in disgust.

"Hahaha. What a joke! That guy probably hit his head so hard and forgot who he shouldn't choose to challenge." Bruno followed while guffawing.

"Hehe. Is that guy an idiot?" Other friends of them said and chuckled.

"Tsk, such a pushover." Kiko felt awful at Bren. He originally wanted to fight that Froggyman and embarrass him.

The judges seed to be excited at the next duel.

"Hehe. So we are already at the climax of the show?" Instructor Musk asked with a grin.

"This is what I've been waiting for...! Finally, finally! Ahahaha!" Torr exclaid excitedly. Finally, he was able to witness again that kid's ancient technique, the Earth-Crushing Technique.

"Oh, I started to like that kid. Soone who is not afraid to challenge a strong opponent is worthy of praise." Instructor Beth pointed to Bren.

Yman who was near the judge's table heard what the Instructor Beth said. Because of her words, he felt so arrow let loose and hit his head from behind.

Regardless, for him, he would rather escape or chose a weaker opponent than feed himself to the beast.

Safety first!

Most of the trainees wanted to question Bren of why he chose Kiko as his opponent.

But Bren had reasons that were not simple to achieve. He knew that Kiko was strong. And that is also the reason why he chose him as an opponent.

If ever he was able to defeat him in this duel, even out of luck only, for sure his popularity would rise imdiately.

And he might get a chance to be close to the most beautiful girls in this academy. Actually, not just that. It is also about his family. The Storm family used to be one of the tops in the Middle Region.

Yet their family slowly declined for not producing talented offspring for about 5 generations.

In order to prove himself. He must defeat soone stronger. And the best target for him was Kiko who was favored by many in this academy.

If he lost in this duel, nothing really much of an impact on him. After all, the gap in their strength was noticeable.

On the official's table, Mayor Chan and Chief Henderson also have curious faces. They already had so news about this specific trainee who was said to have a great talent, with the high probability of bringing the academy into the top of ranking once again.

After choosing their weapons, everyone expected for Kiko to use a sword. But contrary to their expectations, he chose nothing.

He was barehanded!

Bren felt like he just swallowed a bitter food. And he was wearing a grim expression on his face.

"Arrogant. I will defeat you." Bren mumbled and the sword in his hand trembled from his grip.

"Hehe..." Kiko smirked while spreading his hands open, welcoming Bren to attack.

"Haha, that kid even has the heart to feel pity to his opponent and present a handicap." The judge's Torr chuckled at Kiko's behavior but he found it amusing.

"I don't think he was pitying him. More like, he is looking down on his opponent. Mhm." Instructor Musk added while nodding his head.

"Kufufu. I hope to see a good fight." Instructor Beth cackled.

After their resonance, their body was imdiately enveloped by greenish brilliance.

Without wasting any second, while he was holding the sword hilt in his right hand, Bren caressed the sword blade using his left hand and it was followed by the mana of green brilliance, coating the sword blade.

Then more mana burst on his feet as he made a huge sudden stride towards Kiko.

"Dieeeee!!!! Bastard!!!" He dashed towards Kiko like a cot.

And followed by...

BANG!

A loud explosion was heard. The mixture of smoke and dust arises. Forming like a tree.

Then,

Whoosh! The burned sll was carried by the wind as it invaded their nostrils.

The area was dead silent like it was desolated.

A mont later when the dust and smoke were carried by the wind and caused the surroundings to clear up, a charred body fell face-first on the ground.

Then it glowed for a mont and next second, a deity cushioning on a person's back. His color went back to normal also, but he lost his consciousness.

"He was defeated in one explosion?!! All the people in the area shouted behind their breaths!"

"Such domineering aura!"

"A true genius indeed!"

Everyone thinks so.

Kiko walked towards his friends as if nothing happened in the first place. After three steps he stopped and glanced at Yman. Narrowed eyes and disgust was visible on his face. In Kiko's mind, it should be that person that is laying like a charred piece of wood at the mont.

'Well, there are still more chances to co, and next ti I will make sure to grill that frog as crispy as possible.'

After a quick thought, he proceeded towards his friends who were at the mont in full excitent.

"Hahaha, Kiko Dude, you have never told us that you're bad at grilling this whole ti. Ahahaha!" Bruno who was holding his stomach exclaid with a big laugh.

"Yeah, gyahaha, oh boy, you overcooked that one. Gyehehehe!" One of Kiko's friends added and cackled.

"Ha~haaaah! I already expected this to happen." Said Marco as he shook his head in disappointnt for that guy who challenged Kiko.

*Sigh!* Kiko sighed as he wanted to fight that froggy originally but was spoiled by that side character.

For Kiko though, everyone was a side character for his glorious path of achieving his goal.

Even that frog was just a codic villain for him. He just wanted to squash him for a swallow reason of 'that guy was like a personified bad on, whenever he saw his face, his goodwill will be sullied, because of how unhealthy and gloomy he looks.

Like, he was spreading negativities around him.'

Seeing his face made Kiko want to vomit. It was what he originally felt before. That was also the reason why they ganged up on him when he passed by in the alleyway on that day of the evaluation exam.

However, after that incident on the cliff, his anger towards that person had reached the pinnacle of a re disgust. And now sprouted a real animosity towards that person.

But after realizing that even that re frog, an unessential codic villain has almost killed him?! Kiko realized that he could not just let loose his cool.

And so even in the hospital, he practiced and invented new techniques. With his high level of control with his mana, he finally found a better ability for him. An ability that suits that person. An ability to grill that frog for good.

And now he wanted to thoroughly dispatch him.

Everyone was having surprised and unbelievable faces at the mont. Not all of them were smart enough to understand what happened in that instant. And most of them were overco by deep emotions that wanted to scream that man's na.

"He-He-He's so coooooool!!!" Most of the trainees thought so."

"Kyaaaaahhhhh!!!" So girls failed to hide their emotions and burst into deep admiration then shouted on top of their lungs as their emotions finally wailed up.

"Kiko!!!"

"Coooool!!!"

"Marry !!!"

"Please be my boyfriend!"

"One night is enough!"

"Two nights is okay too!"

"No, make it three!!!"

"No, daddy K' make your baby!" So random gay shouted in a flirtatious tone.

Screams of excitent overco the whole training grounds at the mont.

"Woah! What was that?" Bob exclaid in puzzlent of what or how it happened. That guy nad Bren was KO'ed in just one instance!

"Kere boy, Yman bro, what was that explosion?!" Since the two remained silent, he asked again after calling their nas.

"Ahaha. Must be his new technique. What do you think, my prince?" Keremi replied while showing a tired smile. He too had no idea why that guy nad Bren suddenly exploded before his sword tip pierced Kiko's face.

Yman scratches the side of his face before opening his mouth, "Actually, I failed to see the whole picture of the skill execution — but..."

"But?" Bob repeated.

"It must be so kind of — skill fusion."

"Skill fusion?" Bob repeated in puzzlent as more question marks floated above his head.

"Hm, must be a combination of skills or techniques. Right, my prince?" Keremi explained.

"Mhm." Yman slightly nodded. He really felt awkward about the way Keremi called him.

"So it's like that." Bob in realization mumbled and added, "But what kind of skills he fused?"

Keremi and Bob glanced at Yman. Who was now in between of the two.

Yman's eyes slightly narrowed.

"I'm not too sure, but, hm..." he stopped for a mont and thought, while slightly biting the tip of his thumb.

"If I made a guess, it would be his explosion ability with the addition of fire and wind elent. And hid it in the ground using his earth elent." Yman explained.

"A-A-A land mine?"

"Basically. Fufufu. As expected of you my prince."

"No. This is just my honest deduction but I'm not too sure if it was really the truth. Regardless, only the person himself knows the truth."

Actually, this was just based on Yman's observation of Kiko's skill that he saw he used from that day on the cliff. And because he used so earth elent ability on that day, he assud he had an affinity for it. Then he used fire also. And the explosion happened from below of that guy nad Bren. So it must be sothing like a landmine.

It was also known to everyone that Kiko had an Earth-Crushing Technique which is an explosive type of ability. Not just explosive but it also can cause an explosion. Although not a strong explosion, it would have different results if he combined it using his fire elent.

It only ans that Kiko delayed the explosion like a tid bomb.

But the problem cos, how he managed to delay the explosion? Or hold it for a certain period of ti?

The only possible answer that Yman cos up with is...he coated it using a wind elent. Only wind elents can do such. If it was water, then it will defuse the explosion instead. Earth and water was not a good pair, it shortens the water's ti of manifestation. Because basic knowledge says: earth absorbs water.

That's why Yman assud that Kiko also had an affinity for wind elents.

Yman suddenly noticed so realization. The chanics and execution of combining the skills to create a new type of skills. Just like when he was executing his channeling ability. Maybe he could also do so tricks with his ability?

Not only the trainees were surprised at the results of the duel, but also the judges themselves. And even the officials.

"Ahaha. So that's the reason he did not choose a weapon. I thought he was just cocky. Hahaha. This kid is really an interesting person." Instructor Torr exclaid in excitent. He beca more of a fan of Kiko's talent.

"Fufufu. In any case, although the fight I expected did not happen, the result is more than a good fight. Fufufu. I wanted to train him personally." Beth declared.

"Heeehehehe. No. That kid should be trained by ." Musk also declared.

"No way. That kid belongs to . His abilities were more suited to be one of my students." Torr joined the two.

They were really surprised by Kiko's skills. But because of excitent, they failed to voice it out.

The chief showed more interest at Kiko after such a domineering performance.

Mayor Chan and Principal Mar giggled in excitent as they thought, 'Middle Region Magic Academy will surely reach the top ranking on this year's competition with this person.'

Kiko's na resounded.

Almina who was tending on Kesha heard a loud cheering noise from the training ground. She looked towards the area and thought sothing interesting probably happened.

|Not only does he have high control with his mana, but he also has super-fast casting speed.| Yman thought in dismay.

Yman glanced at the blonde and surprised that she was having the sa face. No reaction at all. Only nodded her head slightly. Probably, she appreciated Kiko's performance. Looks like she found a new friend.

After the unconscious Bren was brought to the dical tent, many trainees went next after Kiko's duel.

So shouted as they won, adding more confidence in themselves. While so griefed as they lost but it only bore courage to make themselves stronger. Although so took it seriously and felt down. While their friends tried to liven them.

As more trainees finished their duel, Yman's turn ca closer.

Sistela who was in standby mode a while ago finally woke up, she yawned and asked. Actually, as of now Yman and Sistela are still in 'resonance' state.

In standby mode, the use of battery and mana was being conserved and only a little of it would be spent. But it also ans so of its features are in lock mode.

Yman could not show Sistela's form to others, she looked so funny. Although her head was cute, her body was awkward.

So he had to spend so mana and battery. And it also a part of her training in controlling mana by herself. After all, she will be the lever and Yman was a switch only.

'Nothing. Just so kind of a ga.' He replied through a 'thought conversation'.