Myah put her head on my shoulder as the fights continued almost like an actual tournament. I was pretty sure most everyone had forgotten this was a training session or decided to ignore that fact, cause everyone seemed to be going all out regardless of that fact. Not that I had a problem with that. At least when I went up against Zack I didn't have to hold back for any reason. In general it was good to know that peope were taking it seriously.
But the inevitable fact was that people were going to die during the final exam. That was a constant bane on everyone's mind. And everyone was praying it wasn't going to be them.
Ironically it was the ones who prayed hardest that ended up dead. It was just the way things were. The life of a guardian wasn't a game. We fought real time monsters and real time supernaturals which would gladly wipe us out if given the slightest chance to do so.
I looked over at Myah who was squeezing my arm in reaction to the fights. I didn't say anything cause it wasn't like there was anything i could say to cheer her up. After all it's a training tournament and I can't go and be like "Oh don't worry they'll be fine", cause alot of students were getting hurt and some were being sent to the nurse bay.
Yeah the fights were that intense and just bad shit crazy, the whole arena shook with the force of magic attacks.
I looked across the arena towards Zack who was staring intently at Myah. What was his problem? The girl wasn't interested and I doubted that she would be any time soon. Myah noticed a few minutes later and clung to me even tighter. "Kai, he's looking straight at me. What should I do?", she asked me, a bit nervously.
I didn't really know what to do except probably fly over to him and start beating the shit out of the dude.
"Don't look at him. just ignore him. You can bury your face in my jacket if you want", I said softly to her. She immediately did so and I noticed a frustrated look come on Zacks face. It was so comical that I couldn't help but giggle a little while staring at him. What a way to piss a guy off. I was pretty sure he wanted to bash me in at that point but he couldn't since Mrs Williams wouldn't let him have that chance until our match came up.
And when it did I wouldn't hesitate to beat the living shit out of him once I got him. But Zack was also a very good fighter, judging from his matchups he didn't play around either. He ended his matches quickly or as quickly as possible.
He was mostly the heavy attack type. Dude used hammer blows and what not to beat his opponents. And if they put up a defense spell or something like that he just used overwhelming brute strength to bash through them. He definitely used strength enhancer magic which is pretty dangerous though basic. Plus the damage physical enhancer magic created depended solely on the manna output. In short the more manna output the stronger the spell. It's simple yet deadly depending on the person.
Some hunters had been able to bash in whole mountains with a single punch after mastering such power. The downside was the immense strain it put on ones body. It could blow your blood vessels or seriously damage your nervous system and ultimately kill you if nothing was done precisely at the moment.
In short enhancer magic wasn't used beyond someone's limit. So far it was supernaturals who used enhancer magic to that point to increase speed,strength and agility. Though hunters used it only ten out of a thousand could use it at the save level and not sustain any serious damage beyond what they took from their opponents. Simply put the enhancer magic at that point wouldn't hurt the user but he would take damage from the person he was fighting.
I had to be weary of Zack's enhancement magic abilities since a direct blow from that could severely damage my internal organs and possibly put me in a hospital for a while. No not a morgue like you're probably thinking.Though if I reacted in time I would take about as much damage as a normal person would taking a blow from his foe or something.
I watched as Zack punched a boy across the ring with savage force.The boy hit the wall of the arena hard,collapsing instantly.
Turning to me,Zack raised his finger to me. The message was as clear as day. I was next soon and he would do much worse to me than that.But I wasn't bothered.I could take him easily. The worst would be a bloody nose. It wasn't long before it was my turn again. I was going up against Jason carter. He was one of the best fire magic users at Meridian high. As I walked out to the arena he stood there with his hands on fire already. I could tell he wasn't going to go easy after seeing me one shot a lot of his classmates without even trying. Hopefully he would put up a good fight cause this was boring. Almost immediately after the bell two fire balls came down on me from the sky I dodged the first only to get hit by the second,singing my clothes a bit. I Leaped back as a secondary explosion took place, spiraling into a massive flame pillar before subsiding. A two stage fire attack. Impressive. I turned around just in time to see a kick coming at me. I leaped back just in time. Unfortunately for me the kick was also a two stage attack because a large fire blast came at me,hitting me hard in the gut land driving me back.Planting
my feet on the ground I managed to stop my backward movement,Looking up though I saw him barreling towards me with a spinning kick. Carter brought his erect leg down on my shoulder forcing me to one knee and cracking the ground a bit from the force. Before I could punch him he leaped backwards and landing on his feet he swung his fist shouting "Fire king fist!!". Immediately a massive fire blast came at me with insane speed. All I could do was cross my arms over my chest in attempt to block. The attack hit me full force blowing me away into the arena wall. I gasped as the wind went out of me. This guy was pretty good but I was starting to catch on to his little technique. It was clear to me that he knew I was insanely fast and because of that I was also good at dodging attacks but with a two stage attack you normally wouldn't see it coming especially as it came immediately after the first. This method was very effective since a good ninety percent of people couldn't dodge these kind of attacks as it was way too fast to react to.
I pulled myself out of the wall as Jason walked up to me at a steady pace, clearly gearing up for another barrage of attacks. I shot a quick glance to Myah who was watching me with fear and anticipation in her eyes as she clenched her fists in anxiousness.
I smirked at Jason. I cracked my knuckles as he approached. I burst toward him, charging up lightning magic in my hands. Leaping into the air I came down on him with a barrage of kicks. He dodged and blocked as I drove him back.Spinning around, I landed on my right hand and kicked him in the chest once before pivoting on my hand and round house kicking him in the right side of his head driving him sideways. I ran at him and this time I kicked him to the left.
I repeated this until he was in the center of the ring with after taking a fierce blow from me. He raised his hands and slamming them into the ground he pulled the out again and they were literally engulfed in flames. A magic pentagon appeared in from him. "Dragons roar", He hissed. An insanely massive fire blast came at me biting the ground beneath it as it took the form of a dragons head and came at me. I folded my arms as it did,smiling. It was then everyone knew something was up. Just as the blast reached me it hit an electrical barrier,dissipating into sparks but the force ruffled my hair and blew at my clothes but I was unscathed.
Jason gasped as did everyone else.
I grinned." My turn Jason".
I raised my hand to the sky. The clouds began to swirl dangerously as purple lightning cackled inside of it. I brought my hand down toward him slowly. "See ya", I said" come forth Lightning gods spear "
A purple circle appeared as the barrier came became clear now.
" He trapped him in a barrier to stop incoming attacks.So he wasn't moving randomly on incredible" Luke said in admiration and worry for his friend as a low humming like something charging up began to grow louder.
"That's not it luke", Mrs Williams said coyly, clearly interested and smiling seductively
"What do you mean?", Luke asked confused.
"That barrier is to contain the massive attack he's about to launch,to keep everyone safe from the blast",She explained.
Luke's eyes widened in shock as he looked at the sky.
The Lightning came down with ferocious force and slammed into Jason. He screams as the Lightning went through his body. He collapsed as the Lightning subsided.
I shot a deadly look in Zacks direction but he met it steadily.
We stared at each other for a few minutes before I left the arena and moved back next to Myah who hugged me tightly.