The atmosphere was starting to become tense with every passing second, the fight between the arcus and Carolina had become tenser than a few moments ago, Sasha and Luke were looking at their friend in need with intense hope that he would figure out a way to fight back to his rival.
Luke had a clear idea of what she meant by depending too much on magic but it did not matter because he could not help him anyway.
Sasha getting anxious by every second asked Luke: What do you think Luke, is he going to win or not, What does Lady Carolina mean by that statement?;
: no Sasha not yet from my experience he got what she meant just half, but I hope he soon corrects his mistakes as soon as possible, before everything ends, if she wants to, she can finish him in a moment;
: Wait what, So she going easy on him, this bad and here I thought he had some strong realization and might have a chance; Sasha replied to opinion of Luke.
: Well let us see, what happens in this fight; Luke says as he focuses on a magic screen showing Arcus breathing heavily, he has started to look tired without giving any hit to his opponent.
Soon after Arcus stands on his feet he feels weakness in his feet, and dizzy: What kind of attack is that? I am not even bleeding even after being thrown like that; he has a lot of questions in his mind but he ignores all of his pain to fight till last.
Bravo my brave warrior, I don't think you can keep this for long, just admit defeat, weakness has no place in the army;
Listening to the belittling of Carolina, Arcus felt his anger swelling inside him, barely standing he looked at her: You have no right to decide the worth of others, I will fight you till I have even a tiny bit of strength to move on;
With declaration arcus gives a hard look at his opponent and thoughts in his mind: shit if I don't do something quickly my action will not defy my words, I can't let that happen;
While looking at Carolina, he runs his mind to find a way to defeat her, what kind of thing I am lacking? Asking himself this question, his eyes stopped on Carolina: Wait something is not right here, she is not even a little bit tired; he understood that as he saw his opponent standing happily without even a sweet after so many continuous attacks.
But before he runs his brain more, his enemy attacks him again by using the same methods of disappearing in thin air, This time Arcus has all of the senses ready to test the theory that has come to his mind.
She appeared out of nowhere on the left side of Arcus, Being ready knowing an attack was coming he dodged her attack before she was about to hit him.
And instead of attacking her like last time, he moves away from her and makes a distance between them, Carolina surprised by the change of attitude tries to provoke him and says: Hey you coward running now, what happened to your pride honour? You are making all of my excitement go away;
Attacking again at the young man, Carolina uses mid kick as she aims at his ribs but Arcus steps behind before it is about to hit him, he has become used to her speed because of his reflexes that have been improving with every attack he doges,
: Well this guy is interesting, he is improving in dogging and as well as getting used to my attacks, unlike a few moments ago, when he was attacking recklessly, he has improved a lot and he is planning something, I can smell it; she thinks in her mind as she analyses arcus.
Attack after attack Arcus started to try to give a body blows, as he dodged her attack, but every time Carolina's doges were super smooth,'' Just a little more I am about to get what I need to defeat her''; thought Arcus.
: Hey, what is your deal fight me trying to connect punch, sorry but I don't think you will ever do that; Carolina says in a provoking line.
But Arcus responds with no word at all and continues to ignore her.
: Ok so we have an attitude issue now, Let me give you some lessons on how you should answer people if they are talking to you;
This time she gave a high kick to his face that Arcus tried to avoid a second before it was about to hit him but she was just faking, instead of kick she grabbed his neck with both of her legs and threw him in the air, making him temporarily still in the air and then she punches him in the gut, this time Arcus spits blood from his mouth as he lands on the ground.
: Oh that felt a little relaxing now, let us see you wanna quit now, why to suffer so much, I don't understand.;
Carolina asked an injured guy that has been bleeding from his mouth, he stood up while coughing and smiled as he wiped out blood from his face.
: you wanna know the reason, Well it is not as great as any of you guys, I just don't have any specific reason if you ask me; Arcus spoke with a weak voice.
: Then why are you fighting even after so many injuries, What demons killed your family or your love something, You don't look like the kind of guy with a sad background;
Answering Carolina he stares her in the eyes, his eyes had fear in them: It is my father, that demon just wants me to work in his shop, I will never waste my youth selling clothes to some middle-aged woman, I wanna play with young babes not with some old ladies and I don't like how they look at me, dam it I hate being with old people;
Gazing at Carolina he said jokingly: Man I want to be with a young and fierce woman like you, Look at you with such a well-made body and frightening aura, if you go on a date with me now, I might consider letting you win.
: Oh look at you talking like you will win when you are barely standing, well I liked that a young man like you considered me attractive but sorry I will still not go easy on you just because you are cute; Carolina replied without minding the flirt coming from his foe.
Soon after finishing her line, she tried to attack him again, with her kick but this time Arcus felt her coming at him, Just a moment ago he was not able to see her aura or magic power, which had been making it hard for Arcus to locate her.
But this time he felt her from the direction she was about to kick him, even felt her magic a moment before she hit him, With a smirk on his face he looked at her as he fell after taking a kick oh his head.
: Wow her kicks are something, If she gets serious I will be done for but now I can see and feel it, her movement, scent and even her magic that was impossible in starting of the fight, It is getting clear with every second, now it is my turn to do some action; arcus felt thoughts building in his mind as he gets on his knees.
However, this time he stands up soon after, in an offensive pose, Carolina understood that he was ready to go to action this time and said: Good someone is motivated now, Looks like you understand now what were you lacking, now give me good fight;
This time not giving a first chance to his opponent, Arcus attacks her with a direct right punch, but she is still faster than him, she gets behind him and punches right back at him.
when her punch was about to hit him, in that microsecond Arcus increased the magic intensity in his body to top level and punched right back at her, Both of their fists collided with each other making a huge shockwave and making both of them fly far away from each other.
All this time Arcus had been using all of his magic continuously, depending highly on magic but after taking a lesson from his opponent, he learned a simple lesson of improving instinct to speed up your offence and defence along with magic adaptation in fighting.
So what he did is that while Carolina attacked him from behind, which Arcus had anticipated, he got ready with all of his senses, to counter her attack, and to increase the power in his punch he increased the magic power in his body to the topmost, making his complete body as strong as his competitor.
Controlling magic needs a lot of attention and a clear mind but doing something like magic manipulation is a feat that only a few people can do, This advantages them by using less magic in battles and decreasing the toll on the body due to the use of excessive magic.
Carolina falls back a few miles away destroying trees on her way along with barrier, whereas Arcus falls in the river that has been flowing a few meters from their fighting area.
All of the audience was looking at the damaging effect that one attack from both of them had done on the area.
: Hu, that is what happens when people who know how to use their powers properly collide, Man, this brings back memories; Rievant smiles as he looks at a pleasant view.
Sasha getting worried about her friend asks her other comrade and friend: what do you think Luke, do you think he is ok, will be able to fight;
: don't worry Sasha I can feel his determination when he attacked, this fight has just started and it will end soon;
On the other side of the screen, Carolina stands again as she bleeds from her head, She had been hit by many trees on her way of flying, due to the impact.
She stands up with one side of his face raised, her eyes burning with excitement, Without taking care of her head she shouts; This is fun, Arcus come out, I know you will not stop from just that;
Arcus lost his conscious for a second when he woke up, he saw he was drowning inside the river and heard someone shouting outside,'' It must be her, such an anxious lady can't stay without me for a second'' Funny thoughts popped out of his brain, it was a little cold in the water, perfect for his heated body but he knew that it is no time to relax he grabs his fist tight and gets out of water slowly.
When Carolina saw Arcus coming out of the water from miles away with her sharp cat eyes, she laughed in excitement: Good now come at me;
After catching some breaths, Arcus starts running at her at full speed, Even though they are miles away it does not take them long to reach each other.
Again both of them were standing in front of each other as an enemy.
Without exchanging words, both of them launch an attack at each other, Carolina attacks him with her elbow which Arcus blocks with both of his hands easily this time.
He punched her in the stomach while putting a huge load of magic into his fist This time it hit her hard, She did not get time to avoid his attack because she was busy attacking his face but before it reached Arcus's face he took advantage of length of his hand.
just like Arcus, she spits blood from her face, making her still for a few moments, The attack on her guts takes a toll on her.
But without taking the time she tries to attack him, but her body doesn't let her be, In Arcus's case Carolina let him take a little rest because she was playing with him but Arcus was serious.
He gets ready for the second punch, Looking at how the situation has changed Carolina smiles as she lies on her knees, her face is the only thing that is available at that time that is going to face another super strong attack, She gets ready to accept her fate but...
Arcus stops in the middle of his attack, and gazes at her face, unable to understand what happened Carolina has a question mark on her face.
: what happened why are you stopping now, are you that tired suddenly that you can't even punch me now;
; No it is not like that lady Carolina, I just can't hit a woman on her face; Arcus says with confidence.
wait what why though, how are you gonna win like that;
I don't know I punched you in the stomach because I found it pretty ok but punching on a face, no way, woman's faces are very important to them, and I can never commit such a sin;
Haha, you are something, What if the enemy is from another country or even a demon tribe then what will you do?; Carolina asked as if she had heard the most amusing thing in her life.
Then I will prefer to let my comrades handle her but still, if I am alone then I will break my law because there is nothing more important than my motherland;
Surprised by the serious words from Arcus, whom she had thought was joking about not hitting the woman she asks one more question: then if you are not gonna hit me now, you are going to lose a winning battle today;
: I don't care but I am still not going to hit you;
Good glad to know, haven't meet proper man like you for long; Carolina says as she stands up.
Sasha was looking at all of the conversations from the other side of the screen::wait, that moron there he goes again with his tricks with a woman, it is good he respect woman's beauty but how is he gonna win now?
: But it is impressive that he respects women, I would not hit women either if they were not my serious enemies;
: Not you Luke, It is good now I have two good guys in support but is not going to create problems in future; Sasha asks with a worried expression.
on the other side, Carolina recovers from an earlier attack that was done by Arcus and now she gets super serious.
Before I attack you let me tell you a secret arcus, You are gonna lose now;
Wait from when did you start calling me by name?;
: Dam it that is not important; Carolina gets angry with Arcus.
Before he asks further questions related to how come she is so sure, Carolina starts to shine brightly, wait This magic power is too much, so you were not serious earlier;
Obviously, who goes all out while playing with kids;
So why now?
: Because you proved that you are much more than just some random kid with a dream of becoming a soldier because some told him to; Carolina says as her eyes and body shine red with aura.
This is one of my special attacks, ''destructive hell''; as soon as she finishes this line her right hand starts to shine with the darkest red aura.
But deciding not to give up until the end, Arcus also charges his punch with every ounce of strength he has left.
Just like the previous attack that blasted them miles away, they reached at each other with direct and straight punches, no techniques just attack based on pure strength.
As their punches touched each other, strong lighting started to form in their sorrowing, and then a vacuum formed around them, It was clear from the attack that this attack had much more destructive power than before.
Sir they are going to destroy everything, don't you think we should stop them; Luke asked Reivant as he requested to stop their attack.
You fool look at them they are giving their all, It is rare to see such a view in soldiers enrolling on exams, just watch and don't worry about your friend's safety, Carloina is professional she will never use force more than necessary.
Luke and Sasha both look at screens with worry and hope Arcus remains safe.
In battle their attack was taking longer than before and Arcus's right hand started to burn more and more, he knew it was impossible for him to but he continued to attack with all his might.
Then suddenly he felt even more pressure from Carolina's side and it became hard for Arcus to keep forcing her hand in the opposite direction of her force.
Bye-bye, my dear future junior; Just after she finishes this line a sudden storm of force starts to build against Arcus, it is as if all forces of nature have poured power against him.
This time instead of flying to a distance he fell to the ground and Carolina diverted all of the force to the ground with him.
A large load of pressure started to crush his bones, and he was not even able to move his finger, just as he thought he had his limit, Because of how much pressure he felt, Carolina stopped her magic from flowing, making everything back to normal and gives arcus a pop on his right cheek with her finger....