"Hahaha! Let me show you Elisabeth's glorious light!"
The second Alice called for the duel to begin, Paul's amiable features shifted. His gentle smile vanished, replaced by an arrogant grimace as superiority and disdain danced in his eyes.
Without wasting a second, his voice filled the stadium with his spell's incantation as his posture wafted the confidence to breeze through a match against a weak alchemist.
The audience gawked as light condensed and swirled around the teenager like a divine halo. Anticipation gripped their hearts as they gawked at the spectacle in surprise and awe.
Even the other academy students nodded in approval at Paul's swift casting before shaking their heads at his adversary's lazy approach. After all, two seconds had already passed, but his mouth remained closed.