Novel Full Chapter 15 - Combat Practice
The second match is between a boy called Hugo and a girl with the name Wylda. The battle started with wylda casting [1st circle – Aqua ball] towards Hugo rendered him being knocked down.
Because of [Aqua ball] properties, his clothes also become wet. Still, the power of the aqua ball is relatively weak, so he could immediately stand up and approach Wylda before she could cast another spell.
Looking at the approaching Hugo, Wylda tried to fend off him and make some distance to cast another spell. A game of cat and mouse begins within the two students.
Soon, Wylda gains some distance after having a lucky shot of a [Aqua Ball] towards Hugo and knocks him down. Then, she immediately casts another overcharge [Aqua Ball] with more mana in it.
A spell could be overcharged with more mana to become stronger and potent, but it also takes more time to cast and mind power to calculate the spell to hold the magic circle.
Looking at the overcharged water ball spell, Hugo tries to get up and approach Wylda quickly. But Hugo still got blasted by the spell and got knocked out of the arena.
Then, Teacher Elis ends the match and declares Wylda as the winner. Wylda goes back to her spot and immediately calms his ragged breath from casting spells many times.
For a first-year, Wylda's performance is outstanding as she could already cast 1st circle spells in battle without trouble a few times. Still, her mana is insufficient to cast spells more than four times.
However, this is an excellent performance. Most first-year students couldn't even perform 1st circle spells more than twice, especially in the battle where you need to pay attention towards your opponent.
'Hmm.. it seems she didn't consider fighting in the next round. Looking at Jayna's personality, I doubt she will try to hurt an exhausted girl. Well, none of it is my problem.' Thought Angus inwardly as he half-listening to the evaluation that teacher Elis gave after the match.
Done with the evaluation, teacher Elis called Angus and princess Jayna for the next match. Jayna is looking at Angus like she was waiting for this moment her entire life. She wants to beat him down because of yesterday's event and Angus's personality that keeps ignoring her.
As for Angus, he makes one of his shoe laces lose before calmly walking toward the arena.
Before the match started, "Umm… Teacher, I surrender." Said Angus in a lazy tone.
"Eh… you sure about that?" asked the teacher.
"Yes, I know my own capabilities. I will lose easily fighting with such a strong princess Jayna. So, it is just a waste of time." Explained Angus with a lazy attitude.
Hearing such an explanation, the princess who wanted to beat Angus replied, "Coward!! If you are truly a man, fight me!"
Hearing this, Angus replied, "Princess, this has nothing to do with gender. It's just that this fight is pointless." At the same time, Angus walks outside the arena and back to his spot.
"STOP IGNORING ME!!" Shouted Jayna
At this moment, the princess, clouded by anger, cast a spell toward Angus's back [1st circle – Flame Shot]. Looking at this, teacher Elis reacted and released her own spell to stop her [1st circle - Entangle].
But, Jayna's mind power is relatively high, and she cast the spell in a matter of seconds before being stopped. All the small fireballs already approached Angus's back. Still, all of this was also predicted and monitored by Angus.
By making it look like a coincidence, Angus kneels down, pretends to tie up his loose shoelaces, and manages to dodge all the small flame balls within a hair breath. The fireballs managed to explode in the distance.
Looking at the [Flame Shot] misses Angus's back, teacher Elis feels relief before releasing princess Jayna from her spell.
"Jayna, I don't know what kind of grudge you have with Angus, but in my class, an act like a sneak attack is truly dishonorable, especially the one that is doing it is a high-class noble such as yourself." rebuked Teacher Elis.
"As a punishment, you will be disqualified at this little tournament and make Wylda the winner by default. Now back to your spot so we could continue the lesson."
Reprimand by her teacher, Jayna feels down and confused about why she lately becomes easily agitated by these minor things. But, she immediately puts this back in her mind before focusing on the lesson teacher Elis gives.
After a few practical lessons about basic self–defense, teacher Elis explains about elemental affinity. In Firuman, every person has different elemental affinity since they were born. The elemental affinity is helpful to decide the path of someone to take.
For example, Wylda has an affinity for water, so she could quickly learn and cast more water-based spells than other elements.
But, this does not mean she could not cast another spell besides a water-based one. She will need more effort to learn and cast other elementals compared to water-based spells.
To learn about one elemental affinity, people usually look at their hereditary elemental affinity or try many different kinds of elemental-based spells to know about it. It is also very rare for people to have more than one elemental affinity.
It also didn't mean that having many elemental affinities is stronger and better. Because at the later stage, the one that has complete mastery over their elemental mastery is stronger than people that didn't manage to master them.
Having many elemental affinities will only hinder them from getting a complete mastery over their element since mastering an element takes time and a lot of practice.
It means having many elemental affinities also needs working more than having only one elemental affinity. Still, having more elemental affinities also could cast more versatile spells than only having one elemental affinity.
According to Angus's hereditary elemental affinity, he should have fire affinity from his father or wind affinity from his mother.
During the private lesson with teacher Andria, Angus already checks his elemental affinity. He is inclined more towards fire elemental rather than wind-based spells.
At that time, he didn't try to learn another elemental base spell not to increase his intelligence stat. Now, he could freely learn all the 1st circle spells the academy provided to find his true elemental affinity.
Although it takes time and needs a lot of hard work, he still has an idle system to easily help him learn those spells.
Soon, the combat training course ends, and Angus immediately leaves the cafeteria to have lunch. In the afternoon, he attended the smithing class and found it quite interesting.
The new student of this course will be taught how to do the basic smithing process theoretically. It is similar to the smiting process on earth, but the tools use mana as their energy source.
The teacher, an old man from the dwarf race, a half-height race with a long beard and fat body composition, told them that it is essential to have better mana control to make the tools work more precisely.
Unfortunately, new students of this course could only become helpers for months before they start to do any real smithing.
Done with the smithing class, Angus goes back to his dorm and enters his room silently.
After looking at his status chart, 'Let's fight against other students.' thought Angus.
Host: Angus Victory
Age: 8 Years Old
MP: 15/15
Strength: 6
Dexterity: 6
Intelligence: 7
Vitality: 9
Soul Point: 2