A young female walked toward them, bowed at Vincenzo, and said, "Professor Biersack, my na is Carn Lancaster. I am nineteen years old, level 20 Interdiate Ice Mage."
"Ah, as expected from Mages' Academy of Sinerin. Professor Peckgray, would you like to head to the arena now to register the duel? Or would you like to forfeit and acknowledged that we have won?"
"Haha... I like your joke. Let's head down to the arena to register the duel together, Professor Biersack."
In the arena of Flun city. After Arthur and Carn completed the registration forms, they headed into the arena as instructed by the arena master. The professors and students of Nosh, along with professors and students of Sinerin, were sitting at the audience's side to observe the duel.
As usual, Arthur let his opponent attack first. Carn wasted no ti and imdiately casted [Ice Spear] to create a floating spear made out of ice then commanded it to fly toward Arthur. As the Ice Spear was about to hit Arthur, a Skeleton Warrior appeared in front of him to block it using its shield. The Ice Spear fell on the ground but quickly flew back up. It attempted to hit Arthur again and was blocked by the Skeleton once again. After six tis being blocked by the Skeleton Warrior, the Ice Spear faded and disappeared.
The Skeleton Warrior dashed forward and slashed its sword at Carn. Carn casted [Ice Barrier] spell, to create a barrier made of ice around her. The Skeleton strongly struck its sword at the Ice Barrier but failed to break through it. Unlike the [Circle of Protection] spell that can reflect a portion of damages to its attackers, [Ice Barrier] only absorbed incoming damages. Carn then casted [Freeze] spell to imdiately freeze the Skeleton, temporarily seizing all of his movents. The frozen effect only lasts for five seconds but before the effect's duration was over, the Skeleton Warrior was destroyed by another of Carn's [Ice Spear] spell.
[Ice Barrier], level 1 Ice Magic spell.
[Ice Spear], level 5 Ice Magic spell.
[Freeze], level 10 Ice Magic spell.
Professors and students on both sides could not keep their eyes away from the duel as the representatives for their Mages' Academy were fighting. Well, except for one student, Kain Almos (Kain Bersk). He had fallen asleep on Sofia Verardi's shoulder before the duel even began.
Before Kain approached Jaane's group, he approached another group and Sofia was the first person to ever shook Kain's hand at the Mages' Academy of Nosh. Like other students, Sofia used to hate Kain very much thinking he was too cocky. Even after hearing of Kains background from one of her classmates, Sofia still did not feel any sympathy for him. But after witnessing how sweet and gentle he was the first ti they ever talked, her view of him had rapidly changed. Notwithstanding, Kain rarely spoke to Sofia or told her of anything about him. Even so, their friendship has grown trendously since the first ti they have t. Sofia Verardi possessed an Angelic Soul and was a student of Light Magic in Mages' Academy of Nosh. She is currently twenty-two years old and was recently advanced into the Interdiate-tier of Light magic.
Kain always showed up to classes on ti despite the long hours that he trained alone after school. After eight hours of school, other students normally diated for three hours a day while Kain never ditates less than six hours a day. Even the great genius Arthur Castillo could not diate more than five hours a day. It was not because the other students were lazy and Kain was not. It was because ditation requires one hundred percent concentration at all tis. A small distraction would cause all the progress the magic caster had made from ditating that day to be lost. Better to be safe than be sorry, that was why other students normally ditate for a maximum of three hours a day to keep the progress they have made instead of taking the risk to lose it all.
How could Kain ditate that long? Because the author said so.
Kain had an advantage over other students? Not really. Kain, on the other hand, had to ditate twice much longer compared to the other students to match their daily progress because the progress he had made through ditation would be split evenly into Blood Magic and Conjuration Magic. To be able to advance faster in magic training, not only did Kain ditate for more than six hours but sotis even nine hours through using a blood pool inside of his Blood Ring.
After countless failures and got beaten too many tis by Master Whistler, Kain had learned to put on [I don't give a F*ck] mode to keep himself from being distracted. That was also why he refused to have friends and asked to have a dorm room dedicated to himself so he can avoid as many distractions as possible. Plus, Kain wouldn't have to worry about exposing himself when tapping into his blood pool during ditation. Kain still had his dorm room now and continued to refuse to share it with anyone. As one of the geniuses in Mages' Academy of Nosh, no professor would object to him on that request.
Is it fair for other students? Of course not. But guess what, life is a bitch.
Vincenzo Biersack could not advance into the Legend-tier in Conjuration Magic, but his vast knowledge of training was notable. Kain and Arthur were the two talented students that he had. He knew both of them would make him so proud in the future, that was why he put all of his efforts into research to co up with better teaching techniques for each of them. All students progressed differently, the sa goes for Kain and Arthur. Vincenzo made sure Kain and Arthur could learn as much as possible compared to other students and Arthur did not disappoint Vincenzo. A nineteen years old could master the Interdiate-tier of Conjuration Magic is sothing not everybody can do.
In the past, many people have thought Kain was being too cocky. So people still do now but Sofia thought otherwise. Sofia looked at how Kain tiredly fell asleep on her shoulder, she couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Kain had been training twice as hard compared to other students. The reason she knew about this was that she sneaked into his dorm room after school many tis just to watch him diated. Kain knew about this but because of his [I dont give a F*ck] mode, he did not confront Sofia about it.
Yes, she stalked his ass. Feel good to be the main character, isn't it?
Sofia didn't know how Kain could successfully diate that long but it was not sothing an average magic caster like her can understand. Every ti they hang out together on an off day, Kain usually fell asleep on her thigh while she was telling him stories of the famous Saint Warriors and Saint Mages of Toria Continents before they beca Gods and traveled to the higher realms.
At first, Sofia was surprised when Kain did not know any of these Saint Warriors and Saint Mages as children should have learned about them through bedti stories their parents normally read to them when they were small. But after carefully thinking about Kain's background, Sofia understood why. Not only Kain was an orphan, but he was being adopted by a Duchess that only cared about his power. He called the Duchess his mother, but she never showed him any kind of love affection that a mother should have for her son. If Kain didn't possess any kind of Elental Soul, Duchess Sybell Graylock would never have adopted him.
Jaane was busy watching the duel but when she turned her head toward Kain's direction, the corner of her eyes caught Sofia kissing him on his forehead. Jaane has been secretly looking at Kain from far away many tis since the day they spoke outside of the orphanage house. Is it because they both share the sa last na that was why she wanted to talk to him more? Regardless, Jaane smiled and felt happy for them as she turned back to focus on watching the duel between Arthur and Carn.
Carn casted [Ice Prison] spell to create a ring of ice surrounding Arthur to prevent him from escaping as her [Ice Spear] was flying toward him. Arthur remained calm and casted [Conjure Fire Demon], [Conjure Thunder Eagle], [Conjure Phantom Knight], and [Conjure Skeleton Warrior] spells. The Phantom Knight imdiately parried Carn's Ice Spear using its greatsword while the Skeleton Warrior ran away in panic. Who can bla it? A lowly Skeleton Warrior would be useless in this type of battle between two Interdiate Mages. The Fire Demon casted [Fla] spell, attempted to defrost the Ice Prison while the Thunder Eagle casted [Lightning Strike] spell on Carn to keep her at busy by casting [Ice Barrier] spells on herself.
[Fla], level 1 Fire spell.
[Ice Prison], level 11 Ice spell.
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