The final battle

Today is the day of the final battle. It's the most important battle I have faced until now. I need to win to be able to smoothly carry out my plans to conquer Angelica. Perhaps winning will even get me closer to Emily as she doesn't seem the type to dwell on losing a tournament.

Alesia and I went through the teleportation portal and appeared in my dorm room.

"I have faith in you, Drake, win this battle." Alesia gave me some more encouraging and soon we took off in the direction of the battle stage. It's way busier than the last few days. I could see people everywhere. Mostly people from noble families who came here to inspect the best of the best the academy currently had to offer.

Although it was weird that a 12-year-old boy would be a part of it, they didn't care. As long as you had the power to back you up age would be just a number. If you don't have the power, you'll probably die very soon.

I went in the direction of the stage and saw Emily standing there. She saw me as well and came to me.

"Hey Drake ready for the battle?"

"I sure am, you?"

"Of course, let's give the people a battle they'll never forget."

"Yea let's."

We just had a brief conversation as the battle would soon start. Both of us were signaled to come to opposite sides of the stage and then walk on top of it.

Standing on the stage facing Emily, the battle didn't immediately start. Instead, I could see a beautiful woman coming up on the stage as well. A woman with an incredible figure, not a lot of women would be her match. Nice curly blond hair matched her figure as she ascended to the stage.

"Welcome spectators. I'm the Principal of this academy and I'll be the one kicking off the match."

The beautiful woman was none other than the principal I met on the day of the try-outs. Even though I never met her again after that encounter I never forget her. She is absolutely stunning and conquering her would be a major accomplishment.

I fantasized multiple times about having sex with a woman of her standing. Those nice big tits and her huge supple ass. Paired with a beautiful face and those blond hairs. She was a woman every man dreamed of obtaining. But I wouldn't let that happen. I already had my sight set on her and I would give it my all to get her.

After giving a short speech she left the stage again and the battle between me and Emily had started.

Both of us didn't cast any big spells only checking each other out with some basic spells. It's the first time for me to go against lightning magic. I'm not even capable of using it myself right now, but I'll definitely learn it in the future.

She cast a lightning strike in my direction. It was one of the most basic spells of lightning magic. Yet it still had great speed and would cause big damage if hit. Luckily my body isn't of a normal kind and speeds like that are still possible to react to.

I barely dodged it to the side. But immediately after multiple lightning strikes fell upon me. Not just in the direction I was standing, but even in the direction of my possible escape routes. Seems like Emily is starting to get serious. Let's return the favor then.

I combined fire and wind magic and created multiple fire bullets. In my previous battles, I only fired it once and it was only one fire bullet. Now for every lightning strike flying towards me, a fire bullet is sent to interject.

When both came into contact explosions happened all over. The lightning strikes were completely negated and although they lost quite some power the fire bullets still soared towards Emily.

But because of lack of power remaining in the fire bullets, she easily deflected them with fire magic of her own. Both of us started to take the battle utmost serious now. The slow beginning was now over and what followed was just amazing.

For every lightning strike or fireball she cast I countered them with fire bullets or wind cutters. Both of us didn't retreat a single bit. It was purely offensive magic clashing into each other. If one of us would relax for only a second the match could be over.

After multiple explosions happened because of the clashing magic, I cast a sudden flame storm. Emily countered with a flame storm of her own. Instead of exploding like the other spells did when they collided into each other, the firestorm only grew in size. The heat it radiated was astonishing.

A small smirk appeared on my face as I planned this to happen. I used wind magic and created a small tornado. Because of my limited power right now the tornado wasn't that big, but it was powerful nonetheless.

When it came into contact with the firestorm it didn't extinguish it, no it did the exact opposite. The fire started to radiate around the tornado forming a fire tornado. Every spectator had their mouths gaping. How was it possible for a student to create such powerful magic.

Even Emily was greatly surprised as a raging fire tornado came closer to her. But instead of greatly panicking she countered with some huge magic of her own. She combined her magic as well and created a simple fireball, but fused it together with lightning magic. It looked like a fireball with lightning surrounded it, but it would definitely be more powerful than just adding those two together.

Instead of creating just one, which was already hard enough and needed the utmost concentration. Two more appeared in front of her. All three of them fired a the same time into the fire tornado. Coming into contact with each other, both non-beginner level magics exploded. It wasn't an explosion like last time this one was way bigger.

Even I could feel the power of the explosion as I got blasted to the ground. Luckily I didn't receive a lot of damage. Emily as well just like me was blasted to the ground not taking a lot of damage.

Seems we are evenly powerful. I wanted to see if it was possible to not use my other elements but seems like that isn't the case.

I smoothly recovered and got back on my feet. Lightning strikes were already flying towards me. I sighed and cast an earth barrier. If I can't keep it a secret let's just let the world know. The lightning strikes crashed into the earth barrier, they weren't able to pass through at all.

Everyone present including Emily, Angelica, and the Principal was dumbfounded that I actually used another kind of element. Dual-affinity is rare, but Triple-affinity? That's unheard of.

What I did after that shattered everyone's minds yet again. A wave of water was heading in the direction of Emily. She got her mind back on track and used a firestorm to try and destroy the wave.

It succeeded, but she had to put a lot of effort into it. My newly showed elements were perfect counters to hers. Earth could deal with the lightning magic while water could deal with her fire magic. So it didn't take long for me to completely take the upper hand.

I fired rock shards and ice spears in her direction, like crazy and Emily had it difficult to try and counter them. It was draining her stamina very quickly.

After a little bit, it was time for me to end it. Using water magic and wind magic I created a small blizzard raging towards Emily. When I get older and become stronger, spells like blizzard or firestorm won't be so small anymore, they'll be able to sweep up everything in its path.

Emily tried to counter the blizzard to the best of her abilities. She fired only one fireball fused with lightning magic into the center of the blizzard. But it didn't have the same impact as the three from before had on the fire tornado. The blizzard although weakened still went in her direction.

With great difficulty, she was able to cast yet another fireball infused with her lightning magic. This drained her of her last shreds of stamina but was able to stop the blizzard in its tracks.

Even the number one student of the school has limited stamina and will be exhausted. But still she put up a great match, it wasn't easy.

After the blizzard vanished I stood 2 meters away from Emily ready to cast a fireball.

"I lose, I can't counter you anymore."

Emily knew she had lost and thus accepted her defeat. I stopped casting and said to her.

"That was quite a match Emily, hope you won't hold it against me in the future that I beat you in the end."

"I'm not that shallow, you won fair and square. But still for you to use 2 more elements. You definitely are a monster."

"Haha, I guess so."

The principal walked up on the stage to announce the results. The look on her face was really fun. Surprise was still written on her face. Well, it's to be expected I guess. There have only been stories about mages with an affinity to four different kinds of elements.

"After this amazing match, we had just now our winner has been decided. It's the Drake from 4th year."

The spectators started clapping, still with faces of disbelief. The principal threw me one last glance and then disappeared from the stage again. Rewards would be handed out later, for now, there wasn't much more for me to do here.

I walked off the stage where I could see the principal waiting for me.

"Meet me in my office."

And with that, she went off again. Let's see what she is going to say.