God of Tricksters

After Ava came to him, they went to Leonardo. 

"Sir Leonardo, if you don't mind, can you put a barrier here?" Theo asked politely.

"Hmm?" Leonardo narrowed his eyes. "Are you going to spar?"

"Yes. Agata and Ava will fight me." Theo nodded with a calm expression.

"Oh? They both have improved so much over the past three months, and they need experiences to polish what they have acquired, which can be solved by going to the other side. 

"And you must want to check their progress first, right? Just to see them using their own technique awkwardly." Leonardo chuckled. 

"Ehm, I am in the same situation, you know." Theo pointed at himself. 

"Whatever." Leonardo shrugged and summoned two Rooks. 

When they formed a barrier, they enveloped the entire garden. 

"This should be enough for you three to fight." Leonardo nodded. 

"Yes." Theo nodded with a serious expression. 

"Good. Go, go! I want to see the fight." Leonardo playfully chuckled.

"Sir Leonardo, your age…"

"If you are always serious, you will have wrinkles soon, you know. This is the secret to maintaining your youth and long life." Leonardo made a smug smile.

"Whatever." Theo facepalmed and turned around, facing Ava and Agata. "Alright. Today, you two are going to fight me. Show me your progress, so I know what I can expect from both of you on the other side, okay?"

Ava raised her foot and smiled. "Kyu."

"Understood." Agata nodded with a serious expression. She needed to make sure she didn't mess up.

After getting their confirmation, Theo leaped to an empty space as he raised his spear. 

"Let's go." Theo smiled.

Agata's expression became grim as she immediately bent down on her knees and placed her hands on the ground.

Suddenly, the ground trembled as two chunks of dirt came out of the ground, trying to crush him.

Theo used his spear to stop the two chunks of dirt, relying on its toughness.

Seeing Agata's attack fail, Ava covered her body with lightning and leaped toward Theo. 

Ava's blow was quite powerful even for him, so Theo didn't take a risk and jumped upward, avoiding both Ava and Agata's attack. 

Agata had expected it and raised her hand. "Tornado."

Theo raised his head and saw a tornado appear on top of him. 

"Oh, wow. From dirt to wind, I feel like you have grasped the illusion technique." Theo smiled, debunking Agata's attack. 

Even though it looked like a real deal, Theo knew it was Agata's pink smoke. She used an illusion skill similar to Theo's Illusion Manipulation to make them look real, according to Leonardo's instruction.

Theo smiled and covered his spear with Magic Power Expansion before hitting the tornado. 

Bang. 

The Magic Power Expansion generated a shock wave that blew Theo away. 

It turned out, Theo used the shock wave to avoid Ava as well since the latter went past him right after the shock wave. 

"Kyu." Ava pouted because she couldn't hit Theo. 

"Try again, Ava." Theo smirked. "Though, you might want to use all your power immediately since the fight isn't gonna last long." 

Since Theo wanted to test it, Ava raised the output of her lightning as it started sparking around her body.

She pointed her foot toward him and released a bolt of lightning.

Theo landed on the ground before he looked down, finding a ring of fire that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The ring of fire surrounded him, forcing him to take this bolt of lightning head-on. 

If he were another person, they would strike the bolt of lightning. But Theo didn't plan to destroy both of them. 

He simply used his Blink to send him away. 

Without him standing in the ring of fire, the bolt of lightning exploded and the lightning spark destroyed the fire illusion. 

"Agata. I think you should use only one affinity instead of all. This way, it will be hard for someone to recognize your affinity, giving you the advantage." Theo gave a piece of advice while fighting. 

"That's my plan, but in a situation where I need to kill my enemy, I should be prepared to use all this to confuse them a bit. That's why I'm planning to test it on you." 

"Fair enough." Theo nodded. As soon as he landed on the ground, he hurriedly made his way toward Agata.

Ava obviously didn't allow him to approach her as she had already arrived next to Theo and planned to kick him. However, Clone Theo emerged from thin air and blocked Ava's kick. 

After that, twenty Magic Bullets came out of the ground and flew toward her. 

Ava waved her foot and spread the lightning to destroy the bullets. 

On the other hand, Theo was approaching Agata.

As if planning to fight him one-on-one, Agata used her illusion to wield a scythe and waved it toward him. 

Theo harrumphed and struck her scythe, stopping her swing.

Agata smirked as the blade extended to Theo's neck. 

The latter realized what she was up to and ducked down before leaping away. "You might want to maintain your poker face during the whole fight. People would notice that you're up to something. Alea would have an easier time to figure it out." 

Agata didn't say anything because there was a reason for her smile. 

Suddenly, Ava had arrived behind him and was about to kick him.

When Theo realized it, he raised his eyebrows. "I see. You're planning to make me suspicious and leap away this whole time. Tricky…" 

"You taught me." Agata smiled as she closed her eyes. 

Ava hit Theo's back to end the fight, showing him that they had improved. 

To their surprise, Theo chose to throw his spear into the air before his body disappeared, leaving only Magic Bullets. 

"!!!" Ava hurriedly covered her body with lightning while Agata made a shield as the Magic Bullets hit them.

Boom. 

Ava landed on the ground as she turned around while Agata frowned, seeing Clone Theo. 

When the spear landed next to him, Clone Theo picked it up and smiled. "Well, well. It's round two now."

"…" Ava was speechless as she looked at Clone Theo as she didn't keep track of Theo's movement before the fight.

On the other hand, Agata made a wry smile as she said, "That clone… No, you must have changed your real body with your clone before I gave you the report earlier. You already knew about the spar and tricked me into thinking it's your body.

"In other words, I have been tricked even before the match started." Agata gritted her teeth before smiling. "You got me."

"You need to learn more…" Theo shrugged while pointing the spear to them.