First of all, the fighting place is the school arena. We can fight to our heart’s content and it’s unavoidable to display magic to the students.
But if the headmaster fights against me seriously, I’m worried about the impact on the surrounding. Since we’re going to use long range attacks, there is enough possibility of stray magic projectiles reaching the audience. When I think about it, it seems the countermeasure for that has been taken care of.
It appears that the barrier that covered the school during the disturbance of revolution is installed between the arena and the audience seating. Various improvements were added up based on the faults of previous installment. Once the barrier is invoked, it won’t be broken until the mana supplemented is cut off, making it something similar to a switch.
Even though we can fight without worrying about the surrounding, the graduation assignment has not yet been announced. I expect the delay is just to prepare the countermeasures and emergency precautions.
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“The match will in two days time so I suggest you spend the time studying… The announcement of the assignment will be made to the students later through their respective teachers. I look forward to seeing how many people will turn out.” (Rodwell)
“Since the opponent is me, there are probably a lot of people who are going to say that I shouldn’t fight.” (Sirius)
“That would be a problem, wouldn’t it? Shall I state that I shall cancel the graduation should they not attend?” (Rodwell)
“If you do such thing, there will be people coming to complain.” (Sirius)
“That’s preferable. It would be good if they show on the appointed day. If they come to make a complaint, I shall persuade them to come.” (Rodwell)
That is a considerably irresponsible method to cope with the complaints but he probably looking forward to the aspirations that may come the situation.
No matter what he does, people say that it is because he is a genius but if they think that’s the standard to have strength, as they will hopefully realise during the fight, they will realise how much power they may gain with effort.
(Editor Note: the bit about it being handed down wasn’t clear, so I did my best)
Due to the contrasting black and white attires, I think it’s am interesting display, with us side by side. The headmaster was smiling but my body was tense as I knew he had fighting fierce spirit inside.
“The day has finally come, Sirius-kun. Let me hear once again. Are you truly going to fight me? It won’t be strange for you to die if you do badly, you know?” (Rodwell)
“I’m always next to door of death when I fight. Furthermore, the headmaster will be my stepping stone in order to reach higher.” (Sirius)
“Huhuhu… stepping stone is wonderful but can you really do it so easily? Well then, shall we start the match soon?” (Rodwell)
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After finishing this last confirmation, we separated from each other at once and took a certain distance. It appears that I’ll be in unfavorable position since magicians have an advantage in ranged attacks and on plain ground, but I have decided to show the fight that the headmaster wants from the beginning. And after showing enough to the students, it will be a free form fight.
Although we arrived at our designated location, the headmaster invoked magic to raise his voice and began to talk about this match to the students gathered.
“Students of Elysion academy. All of you probably think like this: “Is there any meaning of doing a hopeless battle? It is certainly immature of him to go all out against a single student.” and you might think there is no point for a reckless challenger to fight the ‘Magic Master’. But…when this is over, you will know you have made a grave mistake.” (Rodwell)
Thereupon, the headmaster stopped talking once, he looked around with his mantle swinging and proclaimed loudly, “From now on, please watch the battle carefully. This battle will make you realize that you have infinite potential in magic, even if you believe you don’t have any talent at all. It is a well known fact that the person in front of you is a colorless, however, a colorless that is aware of how high he can go if he put his effort. The period of laughing without knowing anything and looking down on others will end today.” (Rodwell)
The barrier spread between the arena and audience seating just as the headmaster finished his speech. Once the headmaster confirmed it, he turned towards the live coverage seats. Magna-sensei nodded and took magic stone out of his chest.
“Well then, let’s begin the match!” (Magna)
A [Flame Lance] were shot towards the sky from the magic stone, the battle between me and the headmaster… Rodwell began.
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“First of all, us see what you can do.” (Rodwell)
I let Rodwell make the first move, he is ‘Master Magic’ after all. Assuming chantless is his nature, it seemed there were nearly ten spears of fire brought forth. As Rodwell was smiling, he shot [Flame Lance]s without holding back.
He said this was a show, but to have abruptly fired ten [Flame Lance]s, isn’t the degree of difficulty high? Won’t a normal student be finished just like that?
While everyone had already assumed the fight was over, I waved my hand and all [Flame Lance]s exploded and disappeared in the air.
Looking at the result, the students in the audience seating were astonished at what had happened.
{…Say, what on earth happened just now?} (Magna)
{It is [Impact], Magna-sensei. I’ve seen that when I practiced together with him. Even so, I didn’t think he was able to use ten of it at the same time…} (Mark)
{This much is only natural for Sirius-sama.} (Emilia)
“Aniki! As I expected!” (Reus)
While the students were stunned, Rodwell threw [Flame Lance]s again and I intercepted in the same way earlier and shot it down. After that was repeated twice, Rodwell stopped his magic and matched his eyes with Magna-sensei’s.
{Everyone, good eyes are needed to intercept magic but are you aware Sirius-kun invoked his magic chantlessly? He wasn’t taught by anybody but it appears that he learned it by himself.} (Magna)
It seems those are the words prepared for the students who don’t understand even if they look. Hearing those words, the students who realized about it were surprised again but this is just the beginning.
“Huhu… isn’t it simply becoming a warm up with this degree? Well then, shall I raise the difficulty a bit!?” (Rodwell)
Whether the tension is rising or not, Rodwell invoked [Multi Elemental], like that which was used against Gregory and others.
Spear of fire, ball of water, blade of wind and lump of stone appeared, three of each. And then, Rodwell launched them while waving his arm at the same time. I can intercept [Flame Lance]s and [Rock Bullet]s with [Impact] but since it has poor effect on the ball of water and blade of wind, I purposely avoid aiming at those.
“Strafe [Impact]!” (Sirius)
Extending both hands, I fired off [Impact] and collided with the magic fired at me from the front.
Speaking concretely, I only evade the ball of water and the blade of wind while intercepting spear of fire and lump of stone with [Impact]. Since I avoided it while moving around the ring, the aftermath of Rodwell magic fired flew at the audience seating but it was all prevented by the barrier. The audience seating were safe because of the barrier but the students understood that Rodwell didn’t cut corners by seeing how the countless magic hit the barrier violently.
{Err… It look like he sometimes flies in the air, why is that?} (Magna)
{He’s flying by using [Rock Bullet] as a foothold. If it’s like Reus’ sword, Sirius-sama can handle it easily.} (Emilia)
{…Amazing. If it’s me, it’s too many for me to defend. How on earth can you evade such fierce attacks?} (Mark)
{Everything is a result of training. That person continued to constantly train himself and never forget to put up great effort. We siblings are not able to touch him even if we siblings attack at the same time. He has no problem with that degree of attack.” (Emilia)
Let alone the siblings, Reese also sometimes joined the fight. If I compared this with avoiding Emilia’s blade of wind and Reese’s countless bullets of water while dealing with Reus’ sword, this is easy.
Whether Rodwell noticed about my use of the rock bullegs or not, he increased the number of magic and he fired off when it’s nearly 30 spells but everything was evaded.
This situation continued for a while, and when I had gotten used to Rodwell’s style, he suddenly changed the way he moved. When I thought the number of [Rock Bullet] was decreasing, the soil under my feet rose and began to stop my movement. Furthermore, another wall of soil appeared in front of me and the previous soil movement was stopped. I was aimed at that moment but I successfully avoided by leaping to the sides.
“Is it [Create]? What a clever action…” (Sirius)
“Though I can’t use it for offense, it has enough effect if it used in this situation. Either way, you can’t defeat me just by evading, you know?” (Rodwell)
Even though I used that tactic aiming for him to be exhausted in mana, he still had it a lot from looking at his condition. Rodwell was serious and it seemed even the students understood too, so let’s begin the assault.
“[Boost]” (Sirius)
Since it’s easy to evade magic with strengthened body, I intercepted his magic by firing [Impact] at the opponent. However, Rodwell made full use of step and avoided it, and returned the favor by firing his magic. Is it normal to cast magic while moving? ‘Mobile artillery’ is a troublesome thing.
“Although I can still attack while moving, it’s not easy to aim, you know.” (Rodwell)
“I get it! [String]” (Sirius)
I made wide hand swing, flicked the thick magic string that I made like a whip and attacked Rodwell while tearing up the ground. The opponent was caught off guard but it was easily avoided since it’s a frontal attack.
“I was surprised. Indeed, to use [String] like that… No, I’m surprised how you make string with such strength.” (Rodwell)
“Thank you. But, my attack is not over yet, you know?” (Sirius)
I’m going to lead the opponent by hitting the [String] to the center where the stand-by [Impact] which had been installed here and there in the arena. There were several installed [Impact] spoiled due to the aftermath of earlier magic assault but since the [Impact] is completely connected to the [String], it is possible to launched them simultaneously with one indication.
While I evaded a lot earlier by running around the arena, it was actually for that reason. Rodwell who was concentrating on offensive came to my direction and noticed there were other mana in surrounding area besides his own mana.
“This is…by no means, was it also done behind the scene?” (Rodwell)
“That’s right. [Impact] from all directions… can you evade it?” (Sirius)
“Lifell-sama, please have a little modesty…” (Senia?)