THE BULLY DEFEATS A BULLY
My magic could well be stronger than Spiros, but I advanced in my magic due to the overwhelming magic of the Dark Angel in my soul.
Spiros on the other hand, probably advanced through his own effort.
Spiros was the real genius between us.
Suddenly, a golden pentagram appeared behind Spiros as he prepared another magic.
"Damnit, my Starfire Flash despite its optimization would not be the match for Spiros' next magic", I complained to myself.
"I have to warn you, Oriese. The next assault will not be easy on you", Spiros warned me nicely this time.
A powerful hand appeared from Spiros' conjured pentagram. The hand glowed with a golden brilliance, capturing enormous magic from the surroundings in its grasp.
"The Hand of Reckoning"
The Hand reached toward me to grab me in its grasp.
This was probably the strongest magic that I ever faced in a Magic Arena duel, and it was a dishonor not to meet it. There was no longer a need to hide my hidden hands.
Suddenly, a sharp tip appeared from my hand that soon grew in brilliance. The sharp tip soon emerged as a colossal lance that aimed itself toward the hand conjuration of Spiros.
"Lance of Drakul"
The audience were amazed by my never been seen in public conjuration.
Although this wasn't my strongest magic, this was my most useful one. My growing Rails of Ikea was a more powerful conjuration, but that magic was a finishing move, that I could usually only cast once in battle.
My Lance of Drakul was my main weapon against my enemies.
My conjured lance breached through the palm conjured by Spiros and struck forth toward him. Despite being exhausted by the magic of his conjured hand, my lance still managed to strike Spiros.
"Arggghhhhh"
Spiros screamed as he was hurt by my conjured lance.
Now, I rose above Spiros as I was about to strike him again. Spiros at this time couldn't summon any magic to counter me.
"Kill me and end this", Spiros said to me calmly, ready to accept his fate.
Spiros' words surprised me.
In my mind, Spiros was an arrogant and privileged fool. But at the hands of defeat, he seemed to have experienced enlightenment of some sort.
"Hey, this fight is not over", someone shouted from the pavilion.
"We want blood", another added.
"Kill him to end it", a third person screamed.
"Aren't you a Bully? Just end him," someone else questioned me.
"Declare the battle", I said to the referee.
The referee was undecided whether to declare the battle in my favor, but obviously Spiros was already defeated, in his spirit. Eventually, he decided to end the fight.
"Duke Oriese, wins"
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The audience shouted out angrily. Some of them even in obscenities. They were unhappy that our fight was resolved without bloodshed.
However, the bloodthirst of the audience was soon quenched.
"Arggghhhhhh"
Suddenly, Spiros screamed in a fierce and loud shriek.
"I thought he already surrendered and had peace", I said to myself.
Spiros' body transformed and expanded to our shock and surprise.
"I shouldn't have declared this fight over so soon", the referee complained to himself.
The fight wasn't over yet.
However, the fight wasn't between Spiros and me now. Suddenly, Spiros' chest exploded as out rushed creatures that were vile and menacing.
Resembling spiders, those stuff that came out of Spiros rushed to the floating pavilions to strike at whoever was unfortunate enough to be there in its way.
The audience finally got the bloodshed that they wished for, but the blood that was shed, was theirs. The magical spiders clawed the people with their ferocious and tough claws and bit them with their maws.
Soon, those bitten by the spiders were stricken with curses. Their bodies, like Spiros, exploded to spawn more spiderlings.
The city guards tried to control the spiderlings, but the scene was too chaotic. They also don't really know what they were dealing with.
After a while, the priests from the Church of All-seeing arrived. With their holy lanterns, they shone their holy light at the chaotic scene.
Only by the effects of the holy light of the priests, the spiderlings stopped their rampage on the crowd. But they were not defeated by the holy light. The spiderlings retreated into the creaks under the ground of the city and disappeared.
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"Are people alright?" Apostle Greer asked as he came with his priests to stop the sudden invasion of spiderlings.
"What the hell happened here?" Prince Armanos asked us about the sudden appearance of the spiderlings that hurt and killed so many.
"You should ask your nephew about it", Apostle Greer asked Armanos back.
The spiderlings that attacked the magic arena came from Prince Spiros whose body mysteriously exploded to give birth to them. Spiros was still alive although he was badly wounded from the experience.
The priests quickly arrested Spiros and put him in chains.
Suddenly, someone protested Prince Spiros' capture.
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[Before Prince Spiros' reckoning]
Suddenly, Spiros' mind reached another realm, the realm of his soul that was covered by a boundless ocean.
"What is happening to me?" Spiros asked.
A large whale appeared over Spiros' head which smiled to him before falling back into the ocean. Then the image of someone appeared before Spiros.
"What have you learned today?" the person asked Spiros.
"I've learned to conjure a powerful spell and I pushed two useless freaks into a well with my magic", Spiros replied to the man who was his teacher.
Spiros was now a kid and he returned to the garden behind the Mithridocus mansion in Eloora city.
"Why must you harm two innocent children? There is nothing to be gained," the master asked Spiros.
"I feel powerful when I do that. What is the use of powerful magic if I don't use it to make others obey and fear me?" Spiros asked his teacher.
"Only a Bully uses his power over others indiscriminately. A real knight will defend the weak with his power. You have understood power in the wrong way", the master knight told him.