This time the field was restored, the battle would be between Gale and Eve, both mages prepared and warmed up, it seemed to be a very interesting fight, a sprinter and a puppet master, it would be an interesting fight. The parents were looking forward to them.
– Start the fight! – Queen Aria said, she was trying to hide that she had her favorite in this fight, she even asked Margareth to declare the winner when the time came.
The two started the fight, Gale prepared her daggers of celestial energy, Eve conjured her two puppets Fiery Doll and Drill Doll, they weren't kidding, Eve sent the piercing puppet like a missile chasing Gale, and the flaming puppet to launch the trails of flames trying to hit the sprinter. Gale dodged as best she could and launched her daggers of celestial energy.
– Come on princess, I know you can do more than just run... Drill Puppet: Rocket Launch + Fiery Puppet: Pyro Party. — Conjured Eve consecutively, the first spell not only reinforced the drills of the Drill Doll but it dismembered into legs, arms, torso and head (which had a drill at the bottom that was hidden when in full puppet form) and then the parts high-revving spikes invested aerodynamically; the second spell caused the Fiery Doll to move nimbly around Gale releasing jets of fire augmented by oil jets from smaller secondary cannons that were hidden and revealed with the spell's activation.
Gale came out of the siege with all the speed he had to suffer as little damage from the flames as possible, as well as managing to dodge the piercing puppet very well with elegant acrobatics.
– This move is good, but against a sprinter, either you hit and kill, or you won't hold him friend... Lyrics of Heaven! – Conjured Gale mixing his hypersonic magic with the celestial energy in the sound waves, it was a frontal attack, direct and very powerful dragging Eve and her puppets back.
Eve wasn't so helpless, she conjured five puppets with big shells that looked like they were made for defense, was covering her 360 degrees and above as well. They were very skilled, Gale had seven puppets to deal with, but only two were offensive. The parents were very proud.
– This, my daughter, shows her what the Novels are made of. –Ingrid brandished excitedly.
– Impressive, even so young, she is already very good with puppet mastery, I couldn't handle seven puppets simultaneously at her age, this requires a refinement and proficiency worthy of a prodigy. – Praised Maurice who was impressed with his daughter.
– But you've always specialized in using a master puppet, concentrating your magical energy on a puppet, and even that's why you're one of the few puppet masters who can maintain high direct combat performance and control an advanced puppet at the same time. time... Eve may not have that proficiency, each is strong in an area, even if it's the same clan. – Commented Adriana Analytical.
– That's true, but as good as it is, it can't go easy, after all she's facing a Gallard, and from what I've heard, this one is thick. – Said Thiago.
– Gale is the one who was once a boy, isn't she? – Terrence asked in a calm tone, he had no indifference, mockery or bad intentions, it was just a statement without any prejudice.
– Yes, and today is this beautiful girl, but even so, the victory will belong to Eve – Maurice said with conviction.
– Correction, she were always a beautiful girl, it just took a while to figure it out. – Terrence said fondly
In the main box, Valtor could not contain himself.
– Go my daughter, drag her on the floor with those puppets, I know you're capable! – Valtor said, he was there at that moment, living that moment, he seemed not to worry about anything else, just seeing his daughter shine.
– Her performance is brilliant, she can be skillful, quick and with an impressive speed of reasoning, she is the key to her team, she helps the trap team to be so efficient, in addition to sensorial and intercepting skills to ensure the triggering the planes. – Emiliana commented that she had trained all her students a lot, but Gale stood out.
– I have to agree, we're seeing all of this live… But Eve won't be easy to defeat, seven puppets at once, even if five are defensive, it takes a proficiency and refinement that I dare say only Otrera had something on that level in the Academy. – Edward commented impressed.
– And Eddy is not exaggerating, this girl controls her magical flow better than many medical mages of this age group, even more than the Polo refining which I already found impressive and close to what I had at this age, but this girl... – Said Otrera who was perplexed.
– This is impressive, but it's no use having such a good refinement and not using it correctly, Gale isn't behind in this fight, it's a fight of skills, the one that falters the most, loses. – Commented Morrigan intrigued.
– Morrigan don't underestimate Eve so much, she's the strongest mage in her group, the smartest, and her refining, I've also never seen a girl that age with such proficiency, Maurice even though she uses a master puppet, manages to manipulate almost 200 puppets at the same time, in this step she will pass her father in number of puppets before the age of 30. – Commented Derek, that even having blood ties with Gale, he rooted more for his student.
– Gale is tough, she'll find a way. – Emma smiled.
– My granddaughter has a way of using celestial magic that is unconventional, but it works very well, I trust her. – Aria said, she knew she had to remain impartial.
– She is unique, she is my angel, my princess, she moves with the grace of an angel and hits with the fury of a devil, I can only be proud of her. – Said Valtor emotional and proud.
Those two mages were really spectacular, Eve used her offensive puppets to attack and kept a shield around her in 360 degrees, but spaced enough to direct them all to one side if necessary to block a more powerful attack.
– As absurd as it seems, I'll beat you by fatigue or hit you with a fatal wound. – Eve said, she threw the Drill Doll in projectile pieces and set ablaze with the flames of the Fiery Doll. Eve even performed a transmutation as the defensive puppets entered an expansive formation forming a tortoiseshell-style dome.
– I have my tactics, I don't need Sandy and Adam to blow things up, friend. Laughed Gale who moved nimbly, not only dodged the puppets and aimed at the defensive puppets launching several daggers of celestial energy, when she had launched at all the defensive puppets she blew up the daggers made of energy, and then released a hypersonic scream that passed through the cracks in the cracks that even intensified, through the internal ricochet.
– Friend, I won't deny it, the coup was good, but now is payback... It's time for that "child" of mine that you are one of the few who knew about. – Eve said, she was conjuring a third offensive puppet, now she only had those three on the field. She Summoned the Flaming Drill Doll, a monstrous ten-foot puppet with a stout torso, two pairs of long arms with sharp, piercing drills catching fire like a tornado of steel and flame, the legs had several flaming thorns that twirled, and several drills. flaming from the torso.
– Fucked up for good! – Gale said, who started to run, three deadly puppets running after her, it was difficult to dodge even with her speed, not to mention the puppets' extension capabilities.
– Now that things are going to be good... Flaming Drill Puppet: Piercing Flaming Drill Hunt + Fiery Puppet: Pyro Cover Comet + Drill Puppet: Tornado Spinner Drill. Conjured Eve, who Conjured one of her most powerful solo spells. The Flaming Drill Doll stretched arms, legs and necks chasing the target in high rotation; Fiery Doll had started to rotate on its own axis becoming a comet of flames with its arms spread wide generating the main flames, a rotational axis creating an incredible moving comet of flames; Drill Doll stretched its limbs and began to spin like a hurricane filled with deadly drills like a pawn. All three were hunting Gale who was cutting a crease.
Gale realized something, Eve had sent the puppets after the princess and had run out of defenses and so figured it out and was going to take a chance.
– You forgot the main weakness of the puppet masters, your attack is good, but the defense is questionable... Celestial Trail: Light Running. – Conjured Gale that emanated celestial energy, was the closest to using this energy in a way closer to classical use, but also used its super-speed leaving a trail of celestial energy and so she crossed Eve several times and still managed to throw daggers of explosive celestial energy to keep the other marionettes away, and it was easy with the three clones she conjured to keep delaying the marionettes while landing a few more blows with celestial energy trails at an absurd speed.
Eve was defeated, her puppets had fallen to the ground for their mistress to be defeated and incapacitated.
– The winner has been decided… Gale Gallard. – Announced Margareth.
Gale had her clones pick up the puppets and bring them close to Eve and help her friend to her feet, it might be a qualifying fight, but that didn't mean he couldn't help a friend after the battle.
– It was an amazing fight! – Gale smiled extending her hand to his friend.
– Equally. – Eve said that even full of bruises and injuries did not lose her good mood, she stood up and made a hand signal collecting her puppets for her warehouse dimension. – I'll have a good job perfecting my puppets, very ingenious your plan, from the beginning I knew I had to put you down for good so you wouldn't exploit my weakness. –
So the two went to the medical wing of the arena to recover, it had been an exciting and also respectful fight between the two mages. In the main box, everyone was delighted with that fight.
– I knew my girl would make it! – Valtor said, who almost jumped out of his chair.
– Really, Gale, clone magic, speed, hypersonic voice, celestial magic, she really is an impressive Gallard, a range of versatile abilities that at first glance seem disjointed but can be used dangerously connected. – Otrera said thinking about the fight he witnessed.
– She is really good, and even though her use of celestial energy is rudimentary and crude, she makes efficient use of it. – George said he knew the skills of young Gallard.
– My niece is really impressive, she can use classic Gallard spells in a unique way, she is the only Gallard with this particular combination of spells, super speed, hypersonic voice and celestial energy. - Ethan said proudly.
– Her mother was a sprinter, a great sprinter, she would be proud of our daughter. – Valtor said, remembering his deceased wife with affection and teary eyes.
– She would be proud, dear, for sure… Emiliana, you are really developing her best, congratulations. – Aria smiled, grateful for the development of her granddaughter.
– Derek, don't be disappointed either, your student, she demonstrated a very powerful blow, she was unlucky to catch a sprinter, she is very good and a unique refinement... We are well served with these boys. – Commented Edward.
– I'm honored! – Derek said.
– The next fight interests me a lot… Keith Haze, this boy catches my attention, he must have formidable skills. – Morrigan said intrigued and interested in the young man who had a similar origin to yours.
– I assure you, Morrigan, this boy is everything you can imagine and more, his raw potential was well honed by Henri. –Commented Margareth.
– And I guarantee, he has intriguing and dangerous sensorial aptitudes, after that they will definitely need to restore the real arena. – Henri laughed as if he knew something specific.
– Don't go underestimating Mira, she can be deadly. – Trent said leaning on one of the pillars elegantly. – If you think Alister's nephew's accuracy is good, you'll see what lethal aim is. –
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The field was restored, it was Keith and Mira's turn to head for the battlefield, they were two mages with very different styles, and in the stands their parents were there to cheer.
Fabi Haze, 44 years old, her eyes were reddish brown, her neck-length red hair, large and gentle bearing, her fair skin. Fabi was a civilian who was a teacher at the "Winona Hecatrix" preparatory school named after Helena's grandmother who was a prominent mage in history.
Edmundo Haze, 48 years old, his eyes were brown, his hair short and black, his skin black. Edmundo was a psychologist specializing in adolescent behavior.
Cheering for Mira were her mother, aunt and grandparents.
Crissy Target, 38, her eyes were green, her long blond hair with a perfect arch, her skin white, an older version and just as pretty as Mira; she was a widow, her husband died in the last war in one of the raids where they used Ohana, Crissy was a very haughty and excited Royal Guard captain, had a military record among the finest. She was Mira's mother.
Thaty Target, 40, her eyes were green, her blond hair cut short, her skin white; Thaty was Mira's aunt and heiress to the noble title of Countess of Ironmines in the central region of the country, an elegant and accommodating woman, her husband was on a business trip and she had a daughter in the Royal Guard, Amber.
Craig Damaron-Target, 68, his eyes were blue, his hair black, his skin fair; he was the consort of the current Countess of Ironmines and grandfather to Mira.
Trig Target, 70, her eyes were green, her long blond hair already pulling to gray, her skin white; she was the Countess of Ironmines and Mira's grandmother, a lively, patient woman who loved to play cards with Aria and Helena, as well as gossip.
Everyone was very excited and the mages were willing to go out in a nice fight, each one had their tactics.
– Start the fight. – Announced the Queen Aria.
Mira already had her kusarigama launching lethal frontal attacks while Keith tried to dodge the scythe and the weight trying to get closer, to help he also launched chaos energy shots.
– Come on, big guy, I know you can do more than that. – Mira laughed, showed strength and speed in the movements, it was something scary, it was a defense and attack at the same time, she knew of his superior destructive potential, so she found a way to keep him away and be able to fight at the same time.
– If it's soft, it's going to be bad, my friend. – Laughed Keith who threw thousands of marbles sized spheres made by chaos energy, and he manipulates gravity, to make them securely attached to the ground.
– I'll have my way! – Said Mira who controls her spellbook by telekinesis above her head, emanating several Kusarigamas with the sickle part rotating quickly and managing to move the spheres away.
The spectators would have quite a fight to watch and they were all looking forward to it.
– Come on my son, show these people what you are capable of. – Fabi said, she was afraid for her son.
– Calm down dear, our son will do well... He always knows how to get out in a fight, he knows how to get by. – Edmundo said, he was excited about his son, he knew about his delinquent past, but he knew he could use what he learned for something better.
Mira's family was very excited.
– Why didn't gravity boy try to increase the gravity mass of Mira's weapons? – Asked Craig who was trying to foresee the battle.
– Because he knows she can still control the weapons with telekinesis, it can be more exhausting, but Mira could, it all depends on how refined her telekinesis has become. – Commented Crissy objective and analytical.
In the main box, the fight was being very well analyzed.
– Mira is trying to control the field, if he increases the weight of the Kusarigamas she will use the weapons to crush him, if he softens the weight, she will use telekinesis to use them at high speed... She is not silly. – George said, he was the greatest expert in combat with Grimoires in the entire nation.
– I wouldn't have said it better, but this boy, he's hiding something, a way out of it, he doesn't seem like the type that attack with simple force. – Morrigan said, she could see the harshness that life had instilled in Keith.
The fight continued, it was exciting, Keith tried to use his gravity power to mock Mira's main Kusarigama attacks, but it didn't have as much effect, when he weighed her more Mira continued to use her strength in line with her telekinesis, when Keith left the extremely light weapon she started using the weapon at a higher speed even hitting some cuts and forcing Keith to back off a little.
– I have to admit Mira, you surprised me, I thought I had managed to find a way to mock the deadliest crosshairs in the room, sorry for the pun... Chaos Ball + Gravity Bind. – Conjured Keith who did the two spells simultaneously, the first one he Conjured a large energy sphere of chaos just above the enemy's head and used gravity to weigh her down with the weight of hundreds of tons, besides the physical damage still has an explosion that makes it bounce in the air.
Then Keith rushed forward to deliver a couple of gravitational-enhanced punches, but Mira seemed to recover from the impact and prepare her own blow in midair.
– Good big boy, but I can manage... Scythe Trap: Blades Cocoon. – Conjured Mira, her spellbook opened and from there came out (still connected to the spellbook by the magic seal in the book) scythes connected to chains that attacked Keith and also wound him like a cocoon of metallic chains with scythes embedded in parts of the body, Keith's Blood ran down the currents.
Keith had suffered lethal wounds, but he could still fight, he was strong and tough, so the gravitational mage used his magic at an absurd level to break free, took all the gravitational weight off the blades and chains, he breaks free at the same time as he had to deal with the wounds of the blade, he had to defeat his opponent.
– I won't deny you were smarter, and lethal, now I'll have to use what I was saving for the final, but I can't lose here... Chaos Satellites + Gravity Bind. – Conjured Keith, he summoned several large spheres of energy from chaos, then he increased the gravitational field around with increasing mass causing a minefield that fired Mira from one sphere to another violently hardly leaving the ground by the force of the gravitational field, only being dragged from sphere to sphere by impacts.
Mira was defeated, she was very dangerous, Keith had to resort to a new secret move, he knew he owed a longer fight against his opponent, but realized that if he took more chances he could be defeated, even killed if she used her strongest spell and Keith knew him, knew he couldn't escape if she used him. The battlefield was totally destroyed and in rubble.
– The winner has been decided. – Decreed Queen Aria.
– Sorry Mira, I couldn't risk it, I was lucky that the spell got caught. – Keith laughed, who took his friend from the ground along with the grimoire and took her to the medical wing, he also needed medical treatment for the deep cuts.
– It's okay, you showed that you really have fiber. – Mira smiled, who wasn't having a bad time being taken by a cat to the medical ward on her lap.
– You were an incredible opponent. – Said Keith sincerely.
That fight had been really interesting, several potential outcomes, but that had been decided by an emergency spell that proved to be very effective. In the main box, the fight was very talked about.
– I knew that kid had something up his sleeve, I have to admit, his use of gravity is impressive… He's potentially one of the most destructive first-year mages, he has potential. – Commented Morrigan marveled.
– Yes, I saw a lot of potential in him, in addition to a high stamina, it was a waste of him to go down the path of crime. – Margareth said.
– This fight was impressive, the boy has talent, he can be a physical heavyweight fighter and also destructive projectiles, open your eyes Alister, this boy can replace you, he looks like he's a Taurus. – Ethan commented ironically.
– One more of these and you sleep on the couch. – Commented Alister ironically joking.
– I take that back. – Ethan laughed.
– He is really impressive, this technique is not yet fully developed, he has more elaborate plans for that blow. – Henri commented that he knew the student well.
– I have to admit, my boys are going through some trouble, but it was a good fight. – Commented Trent.
– That spell, that boy has a future, let's see what the next round has in store. – Morrigan said curiously.
– I have to admit, this exam of the triad is being very interesting, but it has a logistical flaw, there are nine pairs, nine go on to the next phase, one to go to close five pairs. – Commented Teresa.
– Recap, friend. – Commented Nora.
– Interesting, and really of those who lost, there were impressive mages, it's only fair that they have a second chance, but we still have three more fights, which I hope will be as exciting as the Emiliana boys, Henri and Astarte are taking them all to now and there's one of each in the next ones, apparently you can see which are the strongest trios of the first year. – Maeve commented.
– These exams are always… Revealing… Perhaps one of the things I missed most about exile. – Laughed Morrigan thoughtfully, she loved to analyze young talents, and Keith had called her a lot of attention, maybe even a new receptacle in case she needed it one day, her experiments could have some negative effects over time.
– SELF-TAXED Exile that is very clear. – Aria commented so that there would be no misunderstandings or malicious interpretations.
– We all know you have nothing to do with it, queen. – Morrigan said.
– What matters is that we are all back, and these young people are showing strength and determination to be worthy of carrying the spirit of Celestia forward. – Said Otrera.
– The next fight is Nathan's, I hope he does well. – Emma said worried.
– Calm down Emma, you know that Nathan will do well, after all he is training like a doomed to make Lady Morrigan proud. – Commented Ethan.
– What do I have to do with this story? – Morrigan said ironically and with an arched eyebrow.
– He is inspired by you a lot, these are not empty words, he is inspired, truly inspired, admires your past, your struggle. – Ethan commented.
– I can't deny that he came by surprising me, after all I should give the boy some chance, but he's going to face another dark master, right? That little bitch's nephew Fernanda Allure stole my scythe. – Morrigan said. – Another fight for me to delight, or disappoint me, I hope they use the magic of the dark element with honor. –
– They will, even you, the greatest of dark users will be impressed by their talents. - Commented Derek.
– It's going to be a good fight. – Astarte laughed.