The duel between Shin and Haru had been decided, and both of them directly used a "gate" to go to the deserted place where they practiced their magic before.
Everyone also followed them. After all, they were curious about the duel between Shin and Haru. In their mind, Shin was an invincible existence, and no one was able to defeat him. Still, on the other hand, Haru's existence was also quite mysterious, or rather, even though he was around them all the time, they felt that he was deeper than they thought.
If they had to say that Haru was similar to an ocean, they could see the surface of the ocean, but they didn't know how deep this ocean was, and if they wanted to know, they might be drowned to death, except for girls, of course since if it were a girl, they would feel like they were wrapped around gentle warm water.
But enough of that, since the duel was about to start, Shin and Haru were standing facing each other with 20 meters of distance between them.
"Haru, are you sure?" Shin asked.
"Yes." Haru nodded and said, "Don't hold back."
"........" Shin was speechless, but he felt that he wouldn't lose to anyone, especially not to someone around his age. He then released all of his magic and caused the air to tremble.
"!!!"
Everyone watching from a distance was in shock, and they were full of cold sweat when they felt Shin's power.
"Shin, don't be too serious!" August shouted.
"Yeah, it is just a small battle!" Merlin quickly shouted.
But Shin ignored them, and he said, "Haru, this is the last chance."
"Sure." Haru nodded calmly and said, "Show me all of your power."
"Good, then I won't hold back!" Shin then gathered all of his magic power into both of his palms, creating the new fire magic that he had created before. He focussed everything on his palms, gathering all the combustible gas, creating a more powerful fire!
Everyone was dumbfounded since they didn't expect Shin to be so serious, but unlike everyone who had gotten used to Shin's antics, both May and Elizabeth hadn't seen Shin in this state at all, which was why both of them were a bit scared.
Haru shook his head when he saw Shin preparing his magic. After all, the preparation of his magic was very long. During the casting time, he could defeat Shin instantly, but it wouldn't be fun to defeat him like that, and he also wanted to show Shin that Shin wasn't the only one in this world.
"Take this, Haru!" Shin released powerful blue fire magic on the side of Haru. After all, he knew he couldn't hurt Haru, but he could scare him, right?
The blue fire magic was like a cannon moving very fast on the straight line, destroying everything along its path, but suddenly a hole appeared in the space, then devoured all the blue fire magic.
"..........."
Everyone was dumbfounded by this.
Shin was also dumbfounded since he would have never expected his magic to be defeated just like this, however...
Suddenly a hole appeared in the space again, and the blue fire magic that Shin sent came out from the hole and was moved toward Shin!
Shin, dumbfounded, slowed down his reaction speed, but as the protagonist of this world, he quickly reacted and used his barrier magic, but he only saw his fire magic only passed him right beside him, and it didn't hit him.
Haru smiled and said, "If you don't get serious, you'll lose against me, Shin."
"........." If it was before, they would think that Haru's words were a joke, but at this moment, they realized that Haru might have a way to defeat Shin, especially when they saw that he could reflect Shin's magic at Shin himself.
Shin was full of cold sweat and asked, "Is that space magic?"
"I have developed this magic, thanks to you," Haru said simply when in truth, he developed this magic by himself. Still, this magic had a similar ability to the "gate," using this magic. He could create and control portals that expand and retract according to his will, absorb attacks and reflect them as he chose.
So, in conclusion, Shin's fire magic was useless at this moment since Haru could reflect Shin's magic easily.
Of course, unlike those small villains in the story, Haru didn't explain his magic ability, so everyone could only stare at him, wondering what kind of magic he had used to reflect Shin's magic.
"It's interesting magic!" Shin didn't show pessimism, but rather, he was quite excited when he saw that someone could match him. He wasn't sure how Haru was able to develop such magic. Still, one thing for sure, he knew that his strongest magic might be useless at this moment, or rather most of the magic would be useless since he was sure that Haru would be able to reflect all of his magic to him. He then took out a sword from his space storage and said, "If magic is useless, then what about a sword?" Leaving such words out of his mouth, he dashed toward Haru and started a close-distance battle!
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When everyone saw this, Maria, Yuri, Lynn, and Sicily could only shake their heads.
"What's wrong? Why do you have such a reaction?" Melinda asked with a confused expression. After all, she knew herself that her grandson's ability at swordsmanship was very amazing and he was taught by the sword saint himself. However, she had to admit that even though Haru's magic might not have an attack power, it was very amazing magic since it was able to reflect Shin's magic. With that magic alone, she believed Haru's talent at magic wasn't even lost to her grandson.
"No, even though Haru's magic might be powerful, his strong point isn't magic, but it is a sword," Yuri said with a sigh.
"Huh?!" Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard Yuri's words, but what had happened in front of them answered their doubt, and they realized that Haru was strong!
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Shin had observed a "hole" magic that was developed by Haru and knew that it was used to absorb something, then reflect it according to the caster's will. Still, even though it was convenient and powerful magic, it had a great weakness, and that weakness was a close distance attack since he didn't think that "hole" magic could be used from a close distance.
Shin closed the distance between him and Haru. He was low since he wanted to give Haru a sneak attack from below to up. His sword started to vibrate, and his body was as fast as the wind. He saw Haru was right in front of him, and he thought to end the duel swiftly, but...
Haru also took out a sword and swung his sword toward Shin's sword.
"!!!"
Shin was dumbfounded, but then, he was shocked when he saw his sword was cut in half!
"Wha--?!" Shin was in shock, but then, he could feel something cold on his neck, and he quickly realized what it was.
"You lose, Shin," Haru said simply, then moved his sword away from Shin's neck.
Those words reverberated through Shin's ears, and he knew that he had lost at that moment.