The next day...
"Boulder charge!!" Three large boulders with a radius of one metre flew toward Max at speeds surpassing sound.
"Cloak of lightning!!" (Défense lightning spell)
"Overcharge!" (Speed boost lightning spell)
Max responded by covering himself in lightning and facing the boulders head on.
Unlike his battle with Iliana, he wasn't playing around this time. Maybe because Abel was a dude or some other reason... though it was probably the former.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Max broke through all the boulders and continued heading for Abel. He had promised himself to not use his space element in this match as it would likely make things too easy for him.
"Hmph!, Earth spikes!" Seeing the closing in Max, Abel cast another spell as he backed away. He didn't want to throw hands with someone covered in lightning.
Not to mention, their speed and size difference. Max could likely dance on his head without him being able to do anything. Being big and burly worked against him in this fight.
As he backed away his shoulder length white hair was flaring in the wind, his brown eyes looking back and forth as the thought of his next move.
Max, dodged the earth spikes which reduced his speed. This gave Abel a second to think of what to do next.
"Quicksand!"
Abel flew into the sky, which anyone can do from level seven. He had made all the fighting group into a quicksand pit, banking on the fact that Max hadn't leant how to fly yet. This was a very impressive feat considering that the ground they fought on was more than half a kilometre.
"Damn, seems I can't hold back against uncle Abel, why can't he just go easy on the little me?". Max was really in a hard spot, like how Abel thought, Max couldn't fly yet, so if he didn't use his space element like he said then he'd loose.
"Teleport".
Max disappeared from Abel's view. Seeing this, Abel flew higher up as everyone had long noticed that Max could only teleport to a short distance away.
"True bolt" a lightning bolt, a meter thick flew towards Abel.
What Abel didn't expect was that as soon as he appeared in the air Max would cast a strong offensive spell.
Although his plan of staying out of Max's teleport range worked, he had neglected to remember that Max could still attack from a distance. Although he had tried to take it seriously, it was hard to think that a five year old would be a real threat even with more power.
"Oh, shit!"
Boom!
The spell made contact with the unguarded Abel and he was blown away.
Boom! Abel hit the ground hard.
"Argh, that hurts" Abel said to himself looking at his reddened skin. His right hand which he blocked with had gone numb.
"True bolt..barrage!!" One bolt after the other flew toward Abel from the sky after Max appeared a few meters above him.
"What?!...Aaaaaagh!!". A pained scream from Abel's hoarse voice was heard throughout the mountain.
After the dust cleared, Abel could be seen passed out, his body twitching every now and then. His grey robe ripped all over.
Since he had fainted the ground returned to normal, and Max stop continuosly teleporting in the air and landed on the ground. His chest heaving up and down, he had gone beyond his previous limit by a bit after all.
....
"Gulp"×4 the other elders who were looking on gulped down some saliva seeing their supposedly third strongest so easily beaten. Although he had subconsciously held back and underestimated Max, he still used used at least seventy percent of his power but was still beaten.
"Is it just me or is the young prince getting stronger each day that passes by?". Caroline asked after managing to close her mouth.
"Well, technically he's just getting used to his strength". Ron had surprisingly gulped with the rest answered after regaining his wits.
{Well maybe him perving on me yesterday was a good thing, better embarrassed than charred}. Iliana thought with a somewhat relieved expression.
"So which one of you is going to fight him next?". Mary said while looking at Ron and Caroline.
"Why does it seem like you're excluding yourself from the list?" Caroline asked with narrowed eyes.
"Well I'm a healer after all, what could he possibly gain from fighting harmless little old me?". Mary said with a pout on her beautiful face.
"Just admit that you don't want to get charred like Abel". Iliana suddenly said with a chuckle.
"Well of course I don't, if I was certain that he would only get handsy like he did with you, I might have considered doing it, he's still a little child after all, I would be able to easily control myself unlike some people". Mary replied Iliana and even took a shot at Iliana for her embarrassing moment the previous day.
"Hmph, lets fight it out!". Iliana embarrassed at how she reacted to the touch of a child sort a fight from Mary with a red face not knowing what else to say.
"Have you no shame?, you really want to fight a healer... pedo". Mary took another shot with a look of disdain on her face.
"What did you say?!". After being called a pedo, Iliana couldn't take it anymore and jumped on Mary.
"Come down, and Mary, why have such a big mouth when you're a wimp?". Caroline intervened and grabbed Iliana by her collar, while looking at Mary who was now hiding behind a tree with her head poking out.
"I..I don't know what you mean". Mary refused to admit that she had a big mouth.
"Sigh, whatever, I'll fight the young master next". Caroline seeing that they were just children in adult bodies chose to fight the young master next to end the matter.
....
"Hahaha, who would have thought that you'd beat Abel in your first match, I'm proud of you son". Igneel said while patting Max's head behind the horns then walked toward the defeated Abel.
"Well, hahaha, you certainly did a number on him, did you have to barrage the spell though? Hahaha". Anyone could tell that Igneel was really pleased at the moment.
*Mary, come heal the poor guy*. (Igneel)
*Yes your highness* (Mary)
.....
"Damn, I can't believe I lost". A dejected Abel could be seen sitting on a tree branch alone somewhere in the forest.
After being healed by Mary and waking up, he excused himself due to the shame.
"Well then again, the young prince is technically stronger than me by a major realm after all...plus with the king's recent personality, he might have beaten me up if I had won".