24 Abstract Magic

The skeleton went after the ice goblin; it swung its sword diagonally at its shoulder; the goblin raised its club to block the sword.

Mana gathered on both of their weapons. The skeleton had activated its physical boost magic while the goblin activated its ice magic.

Rather than another ice shard, the ice actually grew like a thorn from the club, it became a spiked club.

The sword still cut through the club, but it ran out of power before it could damage the goblin, it only left a shallow mark as the goblin moved back.

Mana started to gather on the club once more, and the club's missing part got replaced with ice.

On the other side, the imp was having an easier time fighting the fire goblin, imp has a high resistance toward fire so it could just ignore the goblin's magic.

It becomes a purely physical battle; the imp kicks at the higher level creature, while the creature blocks it with its club.

The goblins have a higher level than the imp or the skeleton, which means they are physically stronger.

Goblins and imps are cousins, they have similar physical strength at the same level. But currently, the goblin has higher levels, so it is supposed to be stronger.

The only edge the imp had was its training focused on its legs, which allowed it to fight on equal grounds with the Goblin.

Meanwhile, Char and Anne were engaging with the summoners. They tried to get closer but their opponent kept attacking them from a distance while keeping their distance.

"Damn, they are trying to tire us out!" Char cursed as he dodged another fireball coming toward him.

"They are higher level, which means they have more mana pool than us, they can keep firing until we make a mistake," he thought.

Char pivoted as he turned to the fighting goblins, "To win, I can just kill the summoned creature. It's pointless to engage against the summoner if they have no intention to fight!"

He ran at the goblin, but suddenly an ice shard grew from the floor, blocking his way.

"Damn, they're using abstract magic!" he realized.

What differentiates creatures with 'mage' in their names such as goblin mage or ogre mage were their ability to use abstract magic.

Every creature has magic, which makes them a mage, but abstract magic is different. Normally magic has a fixed form such as a fireball will always be a projectile, but abstract magic could allow the creature to change the form of their magic.

"This fight just became complicated, abstract magic is rarely used under baron rank since they are hard to control and hardly stronger than normal magic, but once someone could control the abstract magic, their versatility increased dramatically!"

Char turned at the boy who just blocked his way, "If you want to fight me then fight, if you don't want to fight me then don't block my way!" he shouted.

"Why would I fight you? All I need is to buy some time and my goblin mage will surely beat your skeleton! There is no way it will lose against a mere skeleton!" the older boy smirked.

"We shall see about that, for now, I will show you that you just pick a fight with someone you should not!" Char declared as he went after the boy once more.

Mana gathered on his limbs as he activated half powered physical boost on all of his limbs, his speed increased considerably even though not as fast as it did in his fight against Robert.

Char zigzagged as he dodged another projectile before he reached the boy's side. He had pulled his sword, ready to block Char's attack.

Their sword clashed. After a few hits rather than stopping each other, Char's sharpened sword cut his enemy's sword in half as he tried to cut it at the same place repeatedly.

But the older boy did not just stand there, he already raised his hand at Char's stomach when he tried to attack.

A ball of ice appeared on his palm before it launched at Char's stomach, Char's sword stopped as he fell to his knee in pain.

The older boy about to hit him when he got sent flying by a flaming roundhouse kick, Anne had finished her fight and came to his rescue.

"You let your guard down," She helped him up.

"Yeah, I did not expect him to do that. Using other magic while in a sword fight is really convenient," he shrugged.

"Have the fight end?" he asked.

"It's about to end," She said as she pointed at the skeleton.

Its left hand was missing, and it did not dodge when the goblin swung its ice spiked club at its head. Its head got smashed and sent flying away, but its body stayed standing.

Its headless body swung its sword at the goblin's neck, beheading the creature before it had time to reorient itself.

On the other hand, the Imp had also finished its battle. It kicked the goblin in the crotch area before smashing its head with its iron kick.

The referee declared their win before they went down from the arena. There was no more fight for the day, so they went back to their own dorm after saying goodbye.

"I actually lost a fight. How long has it been since I lost someone?" Char thought.

"But from the last fight, I actually learned a lot of things. The way I train my skeleton is similar to how to train abstract magic. Although normal magic is not as malleable as abstract magic, it definitely can be altered according to the user's will."

"Should I let Skelly become a skeleton mage so I can have abstract magic? But since normal magic can actually be trained in a similar way, it should not be too important to have abstract magic."

"It is good in swordsmanship, but magic is also important. Can't it just take both paths?" he wondered.

"It has more magic circles than normal creatures, so it might be possible!" he realized.