Professor Nerissa spent the next few minutes talking about what each combatant could have done better, she pointed out their flaws and educated the rest of the class on mistakes not to make during combat.
"The next pair should enter into the circle now" she instructed
This time it was a brown haired boy who was lean and looked too young for his age, he had a pair of gloves on, and his opponent was a pink haired girl with a lot of freckles on her face, he heard someone in the crowd call her Sharon. zephyrus hardly took notice of these people so he had little to no information on them, asides the fact that they were in the same year.
"Begin!" professor Nerissa instructed
This time neither party charged, it seemed like they were waiting for each other to make the first move. The rest of the class was shocked because their time was counting down and both parties had not taken any action, professor Nerissa knew that both fighters were reserved combatants due to the fact that she had seen them in training prior to this moment, so she knew they were probably conjuring up their trump cards and waiting to the final moment to make use of it.
This was the first time she had allowed the students of this year combat against each other so most of them were most probably not aware of each other's abilities, their previous classes were mostly her demonstrating different techniques and having them master weaponry and also combine abilities.
"What are you guys trying to do, this is not a staring contest" someone said from the crowd of students, this comment seemed to spur the other students into making their own comments and soon thee whole room became noisy and chaotic.
Professor Nerissa silenced the whole class with a look, she didn't blame them for their reaction, teenagers were always hot blooded, only very few of them could see the bigger picture, the holographic timer showed that both combatants had exhausted over three minutes and they had just a minutes and some seconds left.
In an actual battle she knew these two would be dead already since no one would sit by waiting for their opponent to channel enough energy for their trump card, but this was just a training session meant to educate the students and she felt that they could do well as support.
At the same time two arcane circles appeared one above and the second one by the side, the one above had a green hue to it and looked to be larger than the other one from the larger arcane circle a large flower appeared to be budding and from it a thick spear formed
"Holy oak; spear of destruction level one" Sharon shouted as she unleased all her energy reserves into the arcane circle.
"Golden vine; wall of reflection" the boy said and also released all of his energy into his own arcane circle thick gold vines crawled out of the arcane circle and formed a wall in front of the brown haired boy, the room also lit up with a golden light as the vines started to glow.
The large spear shot towards the boy at neck breaking speed, the spear looked to be about 8 feet long and had a diameter of about five inches, very few students could follow the trajectory of the spear, as the spear came In contact with the wall of vines the vines glowed brighter till most of the students had to cover their eyes.
Professor Nerissa could see what was going on as soon as the spear came in contact with the wall of vines, it seemed to absorb all the kinetic energy from the spear, imbue the spear with slightly greater kinetic energy and shoot it back towards it's perceived aggressor, all this happened in the fraction of a second.
She knew most of the students wouldn't catch this since they were blinded by the bright light and even without the light, the spear moved too fast for their eyes to follow, she knew she had to stop the spear or it would impale the freckled girl. She moved at a speed far faster than the human eye could register and raised her arm at the incoming spear, and it disintegrated before it could come in contact with her.
Sharon was shaking in fear it was instinctive since she couldn't even see the spear after it hit the wall but something in her knew that she was very close to dying, both combatants collapsed as soon as the fight was over and had to be taken to the infirmary.
No one in the class saw what had transpired, a few knew that the spear had been redirected but saw it vanish before it could meet it's intended target.
"Before we take a look at the video recap of what transpired during their duel, I would like you all to learn that using up all your energy reserves in one move during a real-life battle is very risky and might end up costing you your life. It can only be used during desperate situations, I am sure that you already know this but for low level and some mid-level elites, whenever you exhaust your energy reserves completely you lose consciousness immediately. In extreme cases it might result to death or inability to channel energy again" she stated firmly
"Shiro wins his duel, which in practical situations might not be the case since in such situations one would hardly find themselves in one on one duels. Now let's take a look at the what happened during the duel" she announced
The holographic screen came up again and the video began at the point they activated their arcane circles, as soon as the spear shot out of the flower, the video speed slowed down the whole class saw the spear make contact with wall of golden vines, the vines contracted as soon as the spear touched it and snapped back into shape shooting the spear back to Sharon there was a slight disturbance in the video but no one could tell what it was, but the spear faded away before it could hit it's intended target.