'Bam!'
"It's terrible! Alicia is fighting the archmage, the sage, and Zircodina Princess in the arena!"
Alex and the dean turned to the person who opened the door. They saw Firia full of sweat and gasped for the air . She seemed to rush at her full speed to reach the dean's office.
"What happened?"
"That... that bastard harassed Alica. Alicia was disgusted by him and kicked him. Then the Hero companion challenged her in the arena. Now, she is fighting the three of them. Alex... Alicia... was..."
Before Firia finished, Alex looked at his teacher hurriedly, "Teacher."
The dean nodded, "I will stop their rank 8, you can do your own job."
The dean and Alex were running to the arena.
***
A few minutes before, Alicia, Firia, and Viola were rushing to the arena.
In the arena, they saw Joshua fighting an unknown man. However, Alicia recognized him. He was the hero he met a year ago in Zircodina.
Joshua was bleeding all over, he looked as if he was about to collapse at any moment. They anxiously looked for his teacher. But they spotted that his teacher was stopped by an unknown old man and seemed like he couldn't move.
Alicia couldn't stand what she was seeing. Even if Joshua fought with Alex, he was still her classmate and also a citizen of Acacia. So, she rushed to the arena.
"Stop!"
The hero turned to the source of the voice and he was captivated by the owner of that voice. The one who stopped him was a woman, and her beauty easily surpassed Sandra and Ayaka. Even Zircodina Princess named Rieze de Andalla Zircodina. His lust took over him.
"Hooo... Lady, I like you. Come with me as we conquer the demon, and you will become mine. The hero's wife."
Alicia looked at him with disgust. "It seems even after a year, your disgusting personalities remain to persist, Hero."
"One year ago?"
He seemed to remember that woman, "You... aren't you the one who visited the castle as an ambassador from this kingdom? I see, it seems like I missed a beauty like you that day. Now, I am going to invite you officially, and you will become my wife."
"How dare you? You are not qualified, I already have my man and he is a lot better than you in every aspect," Alicia spat on him. Her relationship with Alex was known by everyone. There may be no official announcement yet. However, people already treated them as a couple. But now Alicia finally confirmed her relationship with Alex in front of everyone.
"Oh, really? Who is the person who dares to go against me, the Hero? Where is he? I want to see him right now! He will surely give you to me."
"Are you even a hero? All I can see is only a disgusting person standing in front of me," Alicia said.
Upon hearing this, the hero's companions, Sandra, Ayaka, and Rieze were getting angry. But even Alicia was shocked, how can they defend such garbage to this point.
"You are a whore! Don't you dare think that we are going to be afraid of you just because you are a princess!" This time Zircodina's princess, Rieze was the one who spoke.
"Yeah! That's right," Sandra and Ayaka nodded.
"I challenge you to duel!" The proud princess of Zircodina challenged Alicia to a duel. According to the information, this princess was older than her by three years. She was the same age as her eldest sister, Lea. But her power would always be overshadowed by her sister. This was also one of the reasons why she got so flared up. She almost reached rank 4 while Lea already a rank 6 because of Alex's pill.
"You? A woman who can't even win against my eldest sister? You are not qualified to fight me alone. You should ask your companion to join and help you," while Alicia was saying that, she looked down at the other two girls, Sandra and Ayaka.
"You!" Sandra and Ayaka were provoked, and they went to the stage as well. "Since you want to be ruined so bad, then so be it. Even though we were rank 2, both of us can fight a rank 3 easily. You will regret your decision today!"
"Sluts," Alicia looked at them angrily, but then she turned to the hero, John "I'm wondering, why does Zircodina's hero come to our academy?
"Haha," John laughed and arrogantly said, "We got some information that you have a legendary job. What was it again? Oh, right. It's an alchemist if I'm not mistaken. I was going to reluctantly invite him since he was a man. But after meeting you here, I want to have you as my wife. I don't need that kind of trash. Well, maybe I can have him as my slave to make me some pills."
"You bastard," Alicia was getting angry hearing John's answer because the alchemist that he was talking about was her lover, Alex.
"Stop! Do you seriously think that we are not going to stop you from mocking our Hero?" Rieze quickly stopped Alicia.
"Oh, judging by your reaction, you seem to have a special relationship with him. Don't worry, I don't need him. I will kill him and make you one of my wives."
"You!" Alicia became angrier than before. She wanted to kill this garbage right at that moment. "Fine, I will beat all of you, first!"
If it was in the past, Firia would be provoked and joined Alicia to fight them. But after a lot of things she experienced inside the dungeon, she had matured. She cooled herself down. She saw that Joshua's teacher couldn't stop them, which meant that the unknown old man was stronger than him. It was even possible that the old man was a rank 8.
The only person that could stop him was her idol, the academy's dean, Alex's teacher. So, she sneaked out and rushed toward the dean's office. She also didn't bring her staff that day as Alicia did, so even if she joined the fight, she might only become a burden.
She rushed off toward the dean's office at her full speed.
***
Alicia looked at the trio. The strongest one between those three was Zircodina Princess, Rieze. She almost reached rank 4, her battle efficiency might be on par with those of rank 4. The other two said they can fight a rank 3 like her.
"Fireball!"
"Wind Slash!"
"Sword Strike!"
Alicia looked at the three incoming strikes, she wasn't that surprised seeing them can unleash chantless magic, since they were an archmage and a sage. Meanwhile, Zircodina's Princess seemed like she could only use her sword. She looked at the Fireball and the Wind Strike.
"Ice Spear!"
Two spears appeared above her head and immediately flew toward the two magic casts by the enemy while at the same time she parried the Sword Strike from Zircodina's Princess with her staff. Since her staff was a rank 5 staff that Alex made, it can easily fend off Rieze's strike.
"I'm not done yet!"
"Fire Net!" Sandra cast her magic once again. Net-like magic made of fire appeared in the middle of the arena.
"I will help you, Rieze!" Ayaka shouted to Rieze. Upon hearing her, Rieze immediately pulled back. Then, Ayaka cast her magic, "Wind Storm!"
A tornado then formed in the center of the arena. The wind gradually became bigger and bigger. Once the wind touched Sandra's Fire Net, it seemed to warp around the wind and fuse with it, creating a fire tornado.
Alicia looked at this magic and was a bit surprised. If it was two months ago, she might be panicked looking at this kind of attack. However, after her two months of experience in the dungeon, she could easily calm herself down. Then, she cast her magic.
"Ice Field!"
This was the intermediate level of magic that she learned in the dungeon. After reaching rank 3, with two spiritual liquids and Alex's pill, she could easily cast intermediate magic. After she used this magic, the temperature around the arena suddenly dropped.
People in the arena felt the sudden coldness and some thumb-sized ice crystal appeared on the arena. Alicia's Ice Field seemed like it was about to freeze the fire tornado. The fire in the tornado seemed to become smaller and smaller. Then, it somehow froze and broke. The huge frozen tornado shattered, leaving a lot of small ice crystals to fall like a droplet.
Alicia's appearance became aloof in that ice field. The shattered ice rained on her, made her look like a snow fairy wandered in the snowy land. People were mesmerized by this display of power and beauty.
The hero was captivated by this sight as well. He became even more determined to make her one of his wives.
"Hmph," Alicia snorted.
"Don't get cocky!" Rieze immediately jumped off to get closer to Alicia. She seemed like she was going to defeat her by Close Combat technique since she was a mage.
She swung her sword toward Alicia.
Alicia was watching her movement, then she smiled. She blocked it with her staff. It was easy since she could handle a rank 3 melee combat. Even though she was specialized in magic, she had also polished her melee combat.
When her sword was blocked, Rieze was shocked. She glared at Alicia who suddenly raised her staff about to hit her.
She raised her sword as well, trying to block it. But it was so sudden, he felt something on his leg, tripped her down. She was tripped by Alicia's leg.
"Ah!" Rieze fell.
"Hah! Even if your opponent raises their weapon, it doesn't mean that they are going to attack you with their weapon. Alex is tricky," Alicia giggled.
If only Alex heard this, he would correct her almost immediately. He might also say, 'It is not a trick. It is the most basic technique in melee combat.'
Rieze glared at Alicia, "Fight me square and fair!" She shouted.
"Fight you square and fair? When you're fighting, no one will move like how you want them to move. They will only care about winning. What use is being square and fair if you lose your life because of it? I also give you a high ground already by fighting the three of you all at once," Alicia snorted.
"You!" Rieze was angry.
"Fire Spear!"
"Wind Spear!"
There were three spears shot by each element.
"Ice Wall!"
A giant ice wall appeared from the ground, blocking the magic spear's charge. However, Alicia was miscalculated. One of the spears managed to pierce her ice wall. She was surprised but she still managed to dodge the spear.
'Boom!'
Alicia managed to dodge it, although barely. She was blown away because of the shockwave made by the explosion. Although she didn't get any injuries, she still couldn't get her balance back in the air because she was thrown away.
Meanwhile, Rieze already got back on her feet and was covered by Sandra and Ayaka. Rieze looked at them, and she nodded.
Noticing her intention in her gaze, Ayaka and Sandra also nodded.
"Wind Spear!"
"Flame Spear!"
"Sword Wave!"
The trio attacked Alicia who was in the air together once again.
Alicia watched this happening and she became a bit panicked. When she reached the arena's floor, she rolled down and got up hurriedly.
"Ice..." She looked at the attack that was coming its way and almost reached her. She thought to herself, "I won't make it!"
'Boom!'