3 Then die.

"..."

"Cough cough" Hearing dead silence, a higher-up coughed loudly.

In an instant, everyone was woken up and cheered.

"Wooohoooo!"

"Hell yeah!"

"For the first round of the competition, Vaun Terranova, an Earth-born from Myriad Kingdom's Magic School will be facing Ulysses Umber, also an Earth-born from Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy!"

"Wow! Two Earth-borns immediately fight in the first round!"

"Although they're two Earth-borns, one of them already has a huge advantage since he hailed in Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy."

"I heard that a student in Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy can already be equivalent to a teacher in a lower school."

Everyone immediately expressed their opinions.

Naturally, Vaun who was walking up the stage heard it and can't help but be irritated.

I'm from a lower academy, so what!?

It doesn't necessarily mean that I'm lesser than people who hail from prestigious academies.

His previous arrogance disappeared. After all, in an Inter-school competition, different schools are competing against each other, not students.

Ulysses on the other hand walked up the stage with an indifferent look on his face. He wore a green robe with an earth crest on his chest. His actions exudes elegance and confidence.

When the two got in their positions, the emcee counted down and rang a bell.

Immediately, Vaun chanted an offensive earth spell.

Being an Earth-born, he can chant earth spells faster and the earth spells he casted are much more powerful than those without an Innate Talent.

However, before he can even finish casting his spell, Ulysses got ahead of him and threw him a spear made of earth.

Whoosh!

Beads of sweat poured down Vaun's forehead. Knowing that he won't have a chance to finish chanting, he decisively canceled it and chose to dodge.

Just when he thought he was in the clear, another Earth Spear came whizzing at him at a wind breaking speed.

"What the hell! How can he cast so fast!" Vaun said in horror as he dodged the other spear.

"I should start playing defensively and find an opportunity to fight back." He said silently in his heart as he began to cast an earth wall.

Since an earth wall spell simply elevates an existing piece of earth, it's much easier to cast. In addition to his innate attribute of being an Earth-born, the earth wall was casted almost in an instant.

However, to his surprise, his earth wall couldn't stop the spear at all!

Boom!

The Earth Spear penetrated the earth wall as though it was a piece of tofu and slammed on to Vaun fiercely.

"Your struggles are futile." Ulysses' cold voice rang in his ears, "Surrender now."

"Surrender? Haha!" Vaun laughed as he spew out blood, "Sorry but the word surrender doesn't exist in my vocabular-"

Before Vaun could even finish his sentence, another earth spear slammed into him followed by Ulysses' cold voice.

"Then die."

...

It took a long while before the emcee announced the results, "T-Th-The winner is Ulysses Umbra from Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy!"

The emcee then removed the magnification in his voice and shouted behind him, "Quickly, pull Vaun out of the stage and call our healers to heal him!"

In the bleachers, the students and teachers of Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy merely nodded in acknowledgement as though it was expected.

However, the students and teachers of Myriad Kingdom's Magic School was silent. They thought that the gap between them and Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy was something they could overcome with the passing of time. But they didn't expect the gap to be so huge!

One should know that Ulysses is merely an ordinary student in Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy. Vaun on the other hand was a Genius! With Vaun's defeat, doesn't this mean that every student in Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy is equivalent to a genius?

"As expected, the Myriad Kingdom's Magic School will be last in the Inter-school competition this year." Alfie shook her head bitterly.

Claude, on the other hand, looked at Ulysses who was exiting the stage with interest.

"Interesting. An ordinary student in Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy already has the knowledge of magic similar to that of a teacher in Myriad Kingdom's Magic School." He said silently in his heart.

He took a glance at Ulysses' information and surprisingly, he already has Intermediate Earth Magic.

Due to the existence of Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy, the following rounds became uninteresting as each round either ends with an early surrender or a one-hit-KO.

"For the thirtieth match, Deimon Igneous, a Fire-born from Aizen's Imperial Magic Academy will be fighting Freya Azuris from Runaan's Institute of Magic. What an interesting match-up! Two opposing elements will fight against each other, I wonder who will win?" The emcee said with a mysterious smile.

Soon, Deimon and Freya walked up the stage. The two wore outfits which matched their elements. Furthermore, there were crests on each of their chest, similar to the one Ulysses had, only theirs were Fire and Water.

"We meet again. I wonder how much you have improved, Freya. I hope you don't disappoint me." Deimon said calmly as he got in his position.

"Likewise." Freya replied, similarly getting into her position.

Ding ding ding

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