"Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!"
The bell rang, and the match started as the thirty minutes countdown began.
As soon as the bell rang, Maria released his magic seal, his body soon surrounded by a red orange aura with occasional tiny sparks of flame.
"Ah... I see. Your magic is fire-based. Such a passionate type of magic, isn't it? Too bad for you to meet me in this match though." said his opponent in a passive-aggressive manner.
Then he raised his hands, a gust of dusty wind raised with his hand's movements...
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"Ah... I see... What a good strategy he had." said Chris, slightly amused by Maria's opponent.
"Indeed, using the dust in the air as his barrier. Dust explodes when having direct contact with high heat, this will not be an easy match for Maria." said Sky.
"Mhmm... Interesting. I'm looking forward to my turn... Ah... Never mind, on a second thought, I'm not very looking forward to it after all." said Chris after a short thought.
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Maria stared at his opponent, he looks slightly uncertain, or rather he is a bit confused and oblivious of his opponent's intention of doing that seemly harmless move, and indeed, in terms of direct attacks, that dust wind doesn't really give much damage.
After a brief observation on his opponent, Maria threw out a small fireball directly to the dust storm that is now covering more than half of the area of field B, and with no doubt, the fireball caused a rather big scale of dust explosion that spread through a quarter of the field. Witnessing that scary explosion, instead of showing any shock or any negative reactions, Maria is very amused by that, he even claps in excitement, which caused his opponent to be rather confused.
Then, Maria continues to throw another fireball, followed by another and another, it seems like the explosion had clicked a weird fetish inside of him, he seems to be having fun doing it despite the explosion had indeed caused some mild burn injuries on him. Then, he seems to be noticing something and stopped his 'fun game' all of the sudden.
"Oh? Did he finally realize that I'm in a safe area that the explosion will never get me?" That's what his opponent thought.
"Ah! If I continue to do this, his fancy mustache might get burnt, which is not good." And this is what Maria actually thought...
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Waiting area.
"Ah... I seriously wonder if this person actually realized what kind of situation he is facing right now?" said Sky, a bit triggered by Maria's rather unexplainable moves.
"Well, I wondered about that as well, but it seems like he was having a lot of fun just now, so, I think he should be alright." said Chris as he continues to observe the match on both of the fields.
"True... And it seems like Maria is not the only one who is having fun right now, look at Mr. Blair, instead of having a proper battle, he looks more like playing a game with his opponent." said Sky as he pointed at the match on field A.
Just as Sky said, instead of really fighting his opponent, he is having fun watching his opponent continuously launching attacks to some sort of 'imaginary enemy' that no one can see due to the hallucination magic from Blair, Blair is obviously trying hard to hold in his laughter as he is watching all the stupid moves of his opponent.
"Ah... He can be quite an awful person despite of his 'gentleman's character's setting'." said Chris, with a shrug.
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Field B. The dusty wind had slowly filled the whole area of the field except for the area around Maria's opponent. After all the observations and nonsense, Maria finally understood his opponent's fighting strategy as he brushed off the dust that keeps sticking on his body, this dust is no ordinary dust but some special invasive and parasitic dust, once the dust is attached to the target, the target's magic and energy force will be slowly absorbed by the dust and will eventually be drained out in about ten minutes if remained attached. At the same time, he finally realized that the dust layer gives a big disadvantage to his fire magic.
Maria pouted in annoyance, it's very obvious that he somewhat does not like this flow of the match. After a short emo moment, he decided to use a skill he hasn't use for a long time. He waved his hand a bit and created a fire cylinder wall around his opponent that trapped him in perfectly, and this time, it's really weird that the dust in the atmosphere on the field did not explode at all...
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"Ah... So he forced Maria to use that skill he hated most." said Sky, a bit amused.
"What is that skill? Why the dust didn't explode at all? I thought when a dust cloud contacted will direct fire, it will explode." said Junior, rather curious.
"Well, usually that's what would happen, but not with Maria's 'cold fire'." said Sky.
"Cold fire? Is that even possible?" Junior asked, even more curious.
"Well, technically, it is not really a 'cold' fire, it still has a quite high temperature that is around two hundred degrees Celsius. But it is certainly not hot enough for the dust to explode. While it is possible to create without magic by using some special chemicals, it is also easily achievable with some adjusted elemental magic. So basically, it's a really boring fire magic if used as a direct attack." Chris explained.
"Boring fire aside, it's a really cruel technique." said Sky.
"Cruel technique?" Junior is even more curious about Maria's techniques, and Itsuki had shown some interest in the topic as well...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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