Fight me!!

Somewhere in a flying dungeon in Gravity rock zone in the grand magic zone.

In this place, gravity doesn't follow normal logic. A young man wearing a kimono with black hair and white shades walked towards a big room in this dungeon. He stood beside another young man with long white hair and patterns near like eyes.

" Yo Licht! looks like the fat pig failed. His life signs disappeared "

"Don't worry about it, I never expected to gain the power of Kirin. What matters is we got what we needed. What about salamander ? "

" Fana was successful in getting its power "

" As expected of Fana. There are only a few magic stones left after that we won't have to worry about anything ."

: Back to Julian :

I woke up the next day refreshed. I had gained a lot of information from this mission.

Along with the mastery of the mana zone my control of flames also increased.

I felt like the formation of mana pressure, feeling of familiarity with the dark phoenix, and getting the power of [Devouring flames ] from the system was no coincidence. Moreover, Kirin said that the person we call God had also the same eyes as me, this created a lot of possibilities. I hope I get my answers in the witch forest.

Getting out of my room, I met up with Lucis and Charmy as Luck was still asleep. After eating breakfast we went to Olivia's house. There a funeral was held by her family. Olivia lost her father, cousin, uncle, and aunt. She had a cousin of age 12 who was crying a lot hugging Olivia.

After the funeral, we were thanked for saving them with a discount on clothes if we bought them from them. Their family made clothes for Royal and Noble households.

Lucis took us to show some places in the Royal realm like the royal museums etc. which were not accessible except for the permission of a royal. The person who enjoyed it the most was Charmy who almost tried every sweet in the place.

I made a detailed report and gave it to Lucis who would give it to the wizard king. After telling our goodbyes we set out towards our base. Luck was pretty happy as he got to fight strong opponents and he got ideas about his new spells. I checked my mind space and found that Kirin was still asleep while absorbing my mental powers and mana to reconstruct its body. I was not in a hurry to get his powers anyway so I didn't disturb him.

I knew that it was possible for a person to use two types of magic from Mars of Diamond kingdom so I was curious to see what happens when I combine fire with lightning.

After a few days, Wizard king offered a lot of stars for our contribution. Everyone was pretty happy with this result. As we didn't come last in the ranking everyone was pretty motivated to earn more stars and improve their squad's image.

After having some fun with the squad I decided to indulge myself in serious training again and leave the matter of witch forest for a later date.

I informed everyone and flew towards the grand magic zone for training. I wanted to try some new moves which were not suitable for practice in the forest. With my current flying speed, it took me less than a day to arrive near the volcanic region of the grand magic zone.

Here the sky was always dark with large volcanos and the land is completely made of lava rock.

The first thing I did was apply mana skin. It was the first thing I learned before mana zone. Mana skin was different from reinforcement mana. In reinforcement mana, we use the mana of our own body to form a protective layer to increase attack and defense but for mana skin, we have to create a balance between the emitted mana and reinforcement mana to cover our skin. The mixture of the two makes us immune to changing temperatures around us. I person who mastered mana skin can only learn mana zone.

Until now all my spells were straightforward forwards so I decided to make them more complex. I had left Secre to do explore the area.

I opened my palms and a large red fireball was summoned, I threw it rear the ground creating a small crater. I again summoned the fireball but this time compressed it as much as I could and threw it again creating a bigger crater. The compression takes time so it was not usable in a fast-paced battle.

To make it faster I decided to try something. Four tentacles grew from by back and each of them compressed an orb of red flames and threw it causing mass destruction. Being successful in the attempt I manipulated all the tentacles to form a giant fire orb and compress it again and threw it again this time creating a crater of more than 50 m.

The rest of the day I experimented with a lot of spells and increased my mastery of the tentacles and at the end of the day I upgraded my tentacles to a proper spell

My grimoire shone indicating the formation of a new spell.

[ Kagune ]

The Tentacles emerging from my back became denser and their control increased a lot. They now felt like a part of my body like my wings had become. I didn't know how to stand in the air with mana zone yet to wings were ideal for me. I tested the range of [kagune] and found that I could now extend up to 100 m.

I decided to take a break and walked my way to the top of the volcano where I found a hot spring. On the way, I met with a lot of mana beasts and some of them even evolved to gain the property of elementalization. It was my first time seeing one so I took some time researching it before. From it, I found that any physical attacks less than intermediate mana reinforcement could hurt it but advanced mana reinforcement is enough to kill it. My [kagune] was enforced with advanced [reinforcement magic] so it was easy. I speculated that elementalization will make you weaker to our opposite element than in normal form.

On the way, I defeated many mana beasts only using [Kagune] while trying a new technique. I didn't kill the beasts as I didn't need to do that as I had brought plenty of food with me. A few years back, I had joined the hunter guild for experience and money but joining magic knights fulfilled my every requirement.

I always felt pleasure after completing missions. Watching people's smiling faces make my day too. At the end of the day, I hear various stories from all the members of black bulls.

Reaching the top I removed my clothes and dipped into the hot spring washing my fatigue away. Secre too started floating in the hot spring.

On top of my hand, an orb of fire was rotating at high speed releasing a threatening aura. The orb was darker than a normal orb with a black core. This was the evolved spell of the fireball.

[orb of chaos ]

This can be used as a projectile with the help of [ Kagune ].

" Quite a spell you got their brat "a voice of a woman ranged in my ears.

My eyes widened as I didn't detect anything with my Ki or Mana zone. I became alert and prepared for battle.

I saw that orange-haired woman wearing the ' Crimson Lions' robe was standing near me with her arms crossed.

I recognized who it was and didn't drop my guard. The person standing near me was Mereoleona Vermillion, currently the strongest person after Wizard king in the Clover Kingdom. Though I was seeing her for the first time, I recognized her facial features hearing from Leopold. I completely forgot she trained in the grand magic zone.

"Red eyes ..black bulls vest .. you must be Julian my brother mentioned about. Didn't expect to see you here " she said.

I came back to my senses and realized that I was practically naked and sat down hurriedly with embarrassment. I could feel Secre show an expression of shame seeing me completely naked.

" I came here to practice spells that were dangerous around the base, " I said.

" Hmm, seems like you have grasped the concept of mana zone. Impressive!

Ne fight me, I haven't fought with another magic knight for a long time.

Let me see your strength my brother praises you so much !!

And don't you dare refuse "

This woman is a battle maniac! She didn't even give me an option but it was still fighting her would be exciting, I thought. I cleaned myself and went down the volcano where she said she will be waiting.

Based on her nature I thought that she would jump into the hot spring without any worry but the reality is often disappointing.