"why did you ask me to come here and didn't try to cheer him up before I came?"
Barak asked in front of the infirmary that question to Kim Yong simply waiting for him while also watching the fight between Ben and Diana coming to an end.
"Do you really think I had such an effect on him than you his master did?"
Kim Yong is watching how Ben catches Dianas right foot slamming her in the ground, followed by a punch knocking her out in less than a minute after the fight started.
He is now looking at Barak thinking about what he said, Barak realised he is right moreover is he even sure after he read his thoughts, through the eletric impulse in the brain deciphering them, that he is jealous of Kim Yongs growth.
'Well he doesn't know how much effort Kim Yong puts in to get so strong as he is right now'
Barak is thinking as the next fight loudly echoes through the infirmary
"Hello and welcome back to the 3rd fight of today! Where we have an interesting match up between a Magicians who is at the same time an Archer and a Swordsman trying to unlock Aura!"
Barak is observing Kim Yong with a frown on his face, seeing his Mana cicuits still healing and cooling down, as he is guessing that his Mana cicuits will heal in the finals.
"Kim Yong why are your Mana circuits still so damaged?"
Kim Yong started smiling at him, Barak knowing damn well why his circuits are still damaged from overheating them.
'This child let them be damaged to learn better manipulation of Mana!'
Barak knew that Kim Yong is a training maniac and a masochist but not to such a degree, even he didn't dare to do such things while he was young however he also knew that it didn't injured Kim Yong, on the contrary it increased his Mana manipulation by a lot.
"Master I think we should watch that fight know since there will definitely one use their art"
Barak knew what Kim Yong is doing, which is why he sighed before grabbing his arm, blue lightning sparkled around them and they both are in Kim Yong his room.
The room is a simple training room beneath a specific VIP area.
"Oh you are back brother and Master too!"
Kim Yong is sitting back down on the ground to meditate, Edward is slashing, stabbing and parrying with his spear learning more movements of his art, moreover is he trying out what his Life energy can it and can not do.
Barak watches the scene with a relaxed expression as he watches on the huge hologram in the room Rica stepping on the stage.
"in the right side of the arena do we have The princess of spirits, the Magical archer, The spirit Mage Rica who now comes on the stage with her wand!"
The cheers of the crowd are echoing through the arena as Rica waves her hand to the crowd, as the commentator made the last announcement before the fight.
"In the left side of the arena we have the sword master, The Magic swordsman, The next Sword Saint Lu Gao!"
The crowd was hype to see what the next so called sword saint has in his arsenal moreover could the battle of some peoples debate end with these two.
Which profession do you find stronger, a Mage with his spells to counter every situation or a Swordsman with his mastery over the sword like it is a body part of them with also the highest possibility to awaken Aura in the human domain?
That question is a huge myterious in the human domain as the most mages were weaker in rank then swordsman in general, however as they all were equal in Rank the Mages seem to have won more... but that didn't matter to Lu Gao or Rica really anything.
Lu Gao with his white hair and violet eyes together with his fit body along with his height of 180cm looked Imposing, his eyes swept across the stage, finding his enemy and Elena Isa the referee as well as his brother love interest.
'She doesn't want to marry my brother but this iron head of a swordsman still tries to woo her... I am sick of it.'
Contrary to his calm outer appearance his thoughts are not an ounce nice as he is cussing all the time and doesn't even want to fight here, all he wants to do is to train, fight demons and unlock Aura to have a safe regeneration of a cut off arm.
'My fricking stupid brother made with her a bet that if I win the tournament, she will go on a date with him... WHO THE FRICKING HELL ACCEPTS SUCH A CRAP OF A DEAL WHEN HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW HIGH THE FRICKING SKY IS?!'
Lu Gao was so sick of his brother trying to impress girls with him that his resistance to girls charm and beauty also increased, so he wasn't surprised by her beauty but is annoyed by such beautiful people.
Rica watches him with a confused expression as her Panda spoke in her mind which caused her confusion to increase even more.
"That warrior is forced to participate in the tournament for someone else... to impress girls for him"
Rica had three question in her mind to the panda, who clearly is amused by such a development, nonetheless her questions are left unanswered as Elena raises her hand.
"Let's Begin, Fight!"
Rica casted a spell called [Ice Lance] and enhanced it with the spell [Water sphere] creating around the stage a water bubble, which enhances all water magic by 200% and ice magic by 100%.
Lu Gao isn't bothered by it as he started to move towards her, a snake appeared showing the path he travelled, in less than a second he got in front of the spear, slashing up to split it in two.
^Clang^
Lu Gao is a bit surprised as he heard that her affinity are air, earth, water and wood, so all other spells she would have casted with other elements should be multiple times weaker or harder to cast with more mana being used.
'That gauntlet is really helpful Alan gave me'
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Magilas Glove A+ Rank
Natures Blessing
lets the wielder use every Element as long as he knows how they function
Mana Blessing
Grants the wielder a 20% faster recovery for Mana.
Mana agglomeration
lets the wielder gather his Mana and natures Mana on the Gauntlet
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Alan gave Rica that gauntlet after he gained his Either Core but Rica never wanted to use this glove as it felt like cheating to her, however after seeing everyone using strong artifacts (Includes weapons, armor etc.) she thought that she need a few too.
Rica is shooting that Ice spear towards his face, Lu Gao now close to her couldn't dodge that spear, he stabbed with his one of his Katanas, with a simple eastern dragon wrapping himself around the entire blade.
^Boom^
Orange hue and green hue with a bit of cyan hue in it crashed, causing shockwaves and a blinding light in the center of that clash.
"You are smarter than I thought"
Rica said as she swings around on a water vine created by her, Lu Gao observed the vine a bit before seeing a glove at her hand with an unique mana signature.
'so that is the secret behind you being able to use ice element so strong'
Lu Gao knew she could create the element with her air and water affinity but it wouldn't be an affinity, so it would severely weaker.
Rica draw a circle with a cyan hue around the circle, in the circle are little arrows of ice along with some balls of Ice, while she also chanted another spell of the shadow element.
Lu Gao is seeing the circle with huge amount of atmosphere Mana being created and waited until she finished it, as he felt this is a trick to ignore his surroundings furthermore get hit by the real attack.
[Skill: Heightened senses has been activated]
His senses along with his Mana sensitivity increased, making it able for him to feel the shadow particles gather behind her.
'Well I can't see what kind of spell it is but that is enough'
Now that he knew what the hidden attack element is, he jumped up to her as again a snake in an orange hue appeared behind him, he emerged in her vision as swords are aimed at her chest, she twisted her body to the right in the air furthermore activated the spell [Shadow sword]
^Clang^ ^drip^
Rica and Lu Goa got a small cut on different areas, Rica gut a cut on her side near her upper chest area, Lu Gao got a cut at his right cheek.
Rica her [Ice Land] spell wasn't disrupted in the air as she unleashed its power, as arrows out of ice as well as huge Ice balls are raining down at Lu Gao and her.
Lu Gao with his heightened senses is feeling multiple water spells hidden on them, at the same time is he slashing up as an arc of orange hue shot up splitting all balls of Ice in its path in two, after that followed a second swing of his sword and second arc destroyed the remaining ones.
'Now comes the real problem'
The arrows of Ice are a bit bigger than normal arrows and tougher than them, as they even got enhanced by lighting of Ice, making them sharper and sturdier.
Lu Gao is thinking about multiple options as he is feeling his feets are freezing, he instinctively jumps while a root of Ice chased him, next to it is a real tree growing in a beautiful white hue, Lu Gao saw that and realised he underestimated her a lot.
Rica commanded the arrows to target him, they all are flying at Lu Gao in the air with no way to dodge, but to be on the safe side she also created ice roots chasing him.
'Ice Land is a spell where I can control everything but to meet the conditions to activate it are hard'
Rica is watching how Lu Gao is watching her arrows and roots getting close to him, not being sure of her victory... and it was good that she wasn't.
^Crack^ ^Boom^
Everything Rica casted to attack him disappeared in an instance even to fast for her eye, Panda only smirks as he gives her an advice.
"cancel the Ice Land spell and let it Implode, Then you will win this match"
Rica not wanting to make the fight any longer than it should be did what Panda told her.
"Lets see how you will come out of it without showing your element, will you further deny it or will you accept your affinity and reaching new heights of strength as well as getting closer to Aura you desire so much"
Panda said in a monologue in his own realm watching the fight from there, as well as sending that monologue he had to Lu Gao to see his spirit burn with a newfound strength.
Lu Gao in the Ice Land is asking himself how she suddenly got so smart and realised him denying his affinity, at the same time are his senses playing tricks on him through the Ice land closing in on him as well as twisting and turning in every direction.
'How did she know I deny my affinity that even my family doesn't know?'
No one dared to do that what Rica did against someone of his proficiency with the sword and his presumed element of air nonetheless he never used his affinity because of a promise with his dying sister, the only person that knew his real affinity.
He will lose that fight if he doesn't use his affinity yet he firmly is denying the existence of his affinity, his promise to his sister is replaying like a broken record in his head always showing his sister with white hair and sky blue eyes looking like a skeleton saying
"Promise me use your affinity not until- your brother becomes patriarch"
His Affinity tries to relentlessly release itself to protect him, the swords that are sealed artifacts scream at him to unleash them... yet he still denies all of them.
His dying sister again replayed in his mind the ice land already pushing him together slowly taking his mobility.
"Will you accept such an outcome, will you always stay in the shadows of your brother while you deserve to stand at the top of your family?"
This voice again spoke to him, this deep and profound voice containing a lot of wisdom talked to him again, it felt weird for him but.. his words hold the truth as he didn't supress his affinity anymore.
Now also seeing the memory like it really played out, his sister only acting to die as she was sold to to the military afterwards... and his father manipulating what she really said.
"Promise me use your affinity not until your life or your dear friends are in danger, you have the potential to become the new Sword Saint.
contrary to you I only have a gift for the Mace with the ice affinity of our mother, become strong enough with the sword alone and discard what I said earlier, use your affinity whenever you like!"
His sister now didn't even act sick but stood before she left infront of him and told him that.
'Thanks sister'
His affinity Magma and his gift named the Ego Swordsmaster that let him two spirits or souls possess two swords that grow with him, enhanced by his profession Soul Swordsman, all of that denied and sealed power burst out of him.
^BOOOM^
The imploded Ice Land is now completely gone and its place took a field of Magma along with in the center of it a Swordsman, ready to engage in a fight with all of his power... having fun for the first time after 9 years.