"Array Magic : Seal the World."
As the mentor in front of Rio completed her cast, a purple-colored array surrounded the whole ground. She completed her Dimension sealing array.
It was apparent that she couldn't compete with Rio in strength so she needed to put more distance between them, and the fact that the arrogant brat didn't use any wand, made his magic power weaker.
On the other side of the ground, Rio was making one plan after another. The sealing of dimensional magic removed one of his tricks.
'One' of his tricks.
He conjured a spell which formed a sword made of cyan fire in his hand. Everyone was shocked as fire was said to be formless and couldn't just take any shape. The use of a spell that was similar to a fire sword was big news.
Rio held the fire sword and lunged towards the mentor.
The mentor tried to conjure an ice barrier around her, as arrays took too much time to form.
Rio took a flight spell to go inside the barrier from the uncovered top, but ice surrounded the roof quicker than he could move.
He landed on the ground and made it rumble around him. Many pillars of rock started forming inside the barrier erected by the mentor.
The woman cursed her luck and dispelled the barrier quickly. The pillars were smeared with Darkness magic and started sapping the vitality of the mentor.
She quickly understood her situation and flew away.
Rio had a smirk on his face. In the air, you could be fast but your reactions would get slow.
The fire in his hands turned into a gun and shot a few fire bullets at her.
Everyone including the mentors who watched the scene was flabbergasted. This kind of fine magic control was unheard of.
The mentor formed a dome of water around her and waved her wand at Rio.
"Fire Magic : Setting Sun!"
A big sphere of fire crashed at Rio and engulfed him.
The mentor thought the fight was over with that, but Rio emerged from the sphere and caught her by surprise.
He formed a flame sword and moved it near her throat.
But the sword met resistance on its way by the wand of the mentor.
'I can't lose to this brat, my pride is on the line.' The mentor thought.
She pushed Rio away with an Air current and formed many icicles around her, coated with darkness magic. The icicles went towards Rio at a high speed. "Ice Magic : Last Winter!"
'They are too fast for me to dodge, and darkness magic makes most of my spells useless. Fuck! I hate dimension sealing arrays!' Rio thought.
He formed a dense Air Barrier which was close to his skin and started circulating it around his body.
The icicles crashed into the barrier and the darkness got dispelled by the circulation. He had to bear the blunt impact of the icicles whose edges were eroded by the Air Barrier but it wasn't enough to destroy the attack.
The mentor was not sitting idle while this was happening and started to chant for a new array.
"Array Magic : Restricting Vines."
Green plant stems started coming out of the ground and surrounded Rio and his barrier until no one could see inside.
'Ok enough with playing mister helpless. If I want to get this mission, I need to show them something they would never have expected.'
Suddenly, in the Air Barrier, the air element was changed into the fire element and formed the Fire Barrier.
The fire started eating at the dry part of the plant stem and made 'pop' sounds in the wet regions. Suddenly the fire turned from red to cyan color and started freezing the vines.
The audience and the mentor couldn't see the fire, only that the vines were turning into ice.
"True Magic : Bone Chilling Flames."
The True Magic series was lost in time and needed raw materials to learn a spell. Unlike normal magic, True Magic didn't have any cast time and used the surrounding world energies to form themselves. Rio gained the True Magic series from a B-Class dungeon which was similar to a temple.
The Bone-Chilling Flames were acquired by Rio in a fateful encounter. He had to refine the flames to integrate them into his system and use it. The flame had the special property of freezing nearly anything and its fire nature made it formless and thus, it's easy to spread.
Next, the fire attacked the eye of the array and dispelled it. The vines burst in different directions revealing the burning masked man.
The cyan fire formed around his right hand a blazing sword and turned into ice.
Everyone was holding their breaths watching the scene.
"Don't tell me he is-," A member of the audience started to say.
"A Multi Caster!" The mentor said just before she was called back by Mados.
The mentor got her cue. "Zephyr passes."
'What the- If I knew this was so easy, why didn't I just show it from the start!' Rio was on the verge of killing someone at that time.
Multi Caster were a group of people who could cast multiple Elemental magic at the same time, they could change a Fire Ball into a Water Ball with their will. The study of Multi Casting was very profound, there were only 4 known people who were Multi Casters in the entire continent.
At the same time with Kal.
Mados was staring at Kal and Kal was staring in return at Rio.
"Why didn't you tell me he is a Multi Caster?" Mados said.
The arrival of a Multi Caster was a big event. If the news got out he won't be able to get Zephyr on his side for political reasons.
Moreover, having so many witnesses didn't help.
"Because I didn't know myself." Kal looked genuinely surprised.
Mados had to pick his mouth from below.
He didn't waste words and formed a mind link with Zephyr.
Or so he tried.
What his mind met while forming the mind link was a big wall created by blood and bones. Two big cat-like eyes stared at his consciousness.
When his consciousness returned to his body, he slowly opened his eyes and was drenched in cold sweat.
'This is interesting.'
He left his seat and quickly warped to the gate from which Zephyr would arrive in the hall.
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