A hard fought Battle

Novis held his sword tightly as he headed into battle, Erastus was starting to enrage more and more sending countless blades towards Novis, yet he did not yield,

he would continue to push forward no matter how sharp the swords were, no matter how many there were, he did not care about anything except winning.

He ran straight for him and dodged them efficiently, he created chairs of Water as stepping stones jumping from one to another until he got close enough for a strike to which he attempted to land a jump attack,

but Erastus dashed back evading the hit and creating multiple blades where he stood, creating the perfect trap to skewer Novis.

Darius attempts to keep calm, he can't really comprehend what emotions he should be feeling, whether it should be joy for finding someone on par with his strength, or hatred that someone could actually beat him nevertheless he decides to change his Magic a little and uses all the strength within him to fight the fool.

He starts by creating two massive boulders and throwing them straight at the fool whilst dashing right behind them, a normal opponent would be too focused on the boulder and would be susceptible to an attack from behind, but the fool is no ordinary opponent, he grins as he jumps up to the boulder, stops them in place, grabs them, and slams both of them right into the ground creating a smoke screen of sorts to land another attack with his Ice rapier, Darius notices the attack but lets the fool land the hit anyways.

"I thought this would be harder." He says while thrusting into Darius.

"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭."

Although the fool had clearly landed a hit, it seemed as if it had done little to no damage, his chest was frozen yet again but it was almost as if he resisted it this time.

"You can't just use the same trick twice, this Magic of mine is quite adaptable you know that?"

He quickly grabs the sword and snaps it in half whilst looking the fool dead in the eye with murderous intent.

"I hope you have more tricks up your sleeves, or else I might just end this quickly."

After the rapier is broken, the fool steps back getting ready for a counter-attack, Darius sees this and simply swipes his hand downwards in a swift maneuver thus creating a massive pillar of Rock crushing the fool giving him a slight concussion.

"You seem a little weak from just that, oh poor you, there's a lot more than just that."

The pillar crumbles out of thin air and another one reappears after doing another swipe, he repeats this process at least another ten times.

"ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS LUCE? ISN'T THIS FUN?"

"𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰... 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥... 𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺..."

The fool is repeatedly pummeled again and again each pillar slightly larger than the last, his swift maneuvers getting more oomph, rage, and effort after each pillar.

Novis on the other hand reacts to the trap Erastus had laid, and with his momentum going downwards, he creates a pole right above him to which he swings off of and lands safely and elegantly.

"To think you would use a move like that Teacher, not feeling very honorable today now are we?"

"Oh shut up what would you know about honor, the only thing that matters is who lives and who dies."

"Sure dead men may tell no tales, but can you really live with impaling your student to death?"

"JUST FIGHT ME ALREADY."

"If you say so."

Erastus starts planting more traps down whilst he gathers another barrage of swords in the meantime, Novis notices this and treads the battlefield carefully and does not stop annoying his opponent,

with his sword in his right hand, and his left creating more and more various objects, he avoids the traps and creates chairs, vases, and couches even made out of Water, just to throw at his opponent, although they are Water, their durability and destructibility seem like the real thing.

"𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳."

"Such a renowned teacher, yet you run away in a fight against a student."

"FINE THEN, I DON'T NEED ANY PLANS TO FIGHT THE LIKES OF YOU."

Erastus attacks Novis with all of his anger, he uses the hundreds of swords he had been accumulating to cover his weak spots, Novis blocks most of his attacks with furniture and with his chain sword,

Erastus starts using all his strength and fights him with many different types of weapons, grabbing new ones from his grand collection,

he switches from broadsword to spear to halberd to daggers, Novis starts to get overwhelmed with how much fury and attacks he has to deal with, but he does not falter.

"𝘐'𝘝𝘌 𝘎𝘖𝘛 𝘐𝘛."

The fool gets extremely annoyed after being pummeled for so long and finally has an idea of what to do with his opponent.

He quickly runs and evades the pillars using his Hermes boots, whilst creating two daggers made out of Lighting, and charges straight at his opponent.

The second he gets within ten meters Darius smiles.

"You know that whole pillar thing got boring, I prefer doing things MY WAY."

And sprints towards him. Leaps. And drops kick him straight in his abdomen, sending him all the way to the edge of the arena he had created.

"𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘐 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘠𝘌𝘛 𝘏𝘌 𝘈𝘓𝘞𝘈𝘠𝘚 𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘌𝘚 𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘎𝘠 𝘛𝘖 𝘉𝘌𝘈𝘛 𝘔𝘐𝘕𝘌."

The fool takes a deep breath whilst he can.

"𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴."

He gets back up into his stance with his daggers, takes another deep breath, and stays almost emotionless. He runs at his opponent expecting everything yet nothing.

Darius smirks and decides to punch him right in the face judging by his trajectory and speed.

But before the fool gets too close, he starts throwing multiple daggers at him that just end up missing.

"Did you really think that would work?"

"Not really no, but you did."

He then quickly gets within the range of his dagger, dodges his punch, and sweeps him onto the floor with a ferocious kick, immediately stabbing him into his chest with one dagger, whilst throwing another on the floor,

they all start conducting electricity together including the one stuck inside his chest and start breaking his stone flesh little by little.

"Not so tough now are you?"

"YOU LITTLE."

The fool creates a hammer with his Lightning and hammers the dagger deeper into Darius, with each bash causing him to become desperate more and more.

Novis overwhelmed by his Teacher eventually gets stabbed by a sword in the side of his body, he was unable to react that fast with Erastus attacking so violently and frequently,

but he does not give up, he continues to fight harder, using his sword with both his hand and with an injury this serious, he decides to put all of his strength and his core into a last-ditch effort,

the chains on the sword start revving up, and increasing in speed faster and faster until finally he creates a sword so sharp it completely tears and breaks Erastus's blades

whilst also grazing his neck causing him to collapse to the ground, leaving a pool of blood along with him. Novis feels happy for a slight moment upon winning but ends up falling to the ground as well.

Darius could not take the pain anymore, he hardens his body entirely and entered a fury, his eyes completely turned red, he broke all the daggers with one swift motion by slamming his fist into the ground, and although one was still stuck inside him, he decided to go for the fool's skull instead, attempting to break it entirely.

The fool instantly understood the danger he was in, he quickly threw away the hammer and created a dagger of ice, if his body adapted already to the heat and power of lightning rejecting it enough to allow him to get up, then surely the resistant to ice must have lowered, the two of them had a contest of endurance.

Both extreme heat and cold flowed through Darius's body, whilst the fool withstood a lot of damage throughout the entire fight, and with Darius being as strong as he is, he might actually be able to crush the fool's skull completely, they both screamed in agony whilst pushing themselves even further, the fool stuck his daggers deeper into Darius, whilst he strengthened his grip and the force of his hands, pushing them together as much as he could.

"I WILL WIN THIS!." They both screamed at the same time.

The screams woke up Novis, to which he quickly crawled to his teacher, he knew what he was capable of and that even though he may be bleeding out, he could use that blood and turn them into swords, and with the amount he had lost it would be too many to deal with.

He crawled on top of him and created a bubble of water around his head drowning him till he was unconscious.

"I'm sorry it has to be this way but, I can't lose this battle."

Novis then collapses again onto the floor.

The fool felt the pressure get to his head, a loud crack could be heard, and eventually, he collapsed to the ground, Darius smiled with both daggers still within his flesh, and he slowly stood up, breathing heavily and almost falling back down yet again.

He stared at his throne to which he was limping towards.

"𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦-"

"HEY!"

The fool slowly got up.

"We're not done yet." He says with little to no air within his body.

"Fine then, I'll just have to pummel you back into the ground."

Darius sluggishly ran towards the fool, he had planned to end everything with one last punch directed at his jaw.

"𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺."

Right before the punch lands, the fool's hair turns white, he swiftly redirects the punch with his palm and almost guides his body into slamming into the ground.

"Wha-"

"Just rest already, you've fought long enough and so did everyone else, this is over."

The fool had almost healed back completely by the looks of it, Darius unable to continue to push forward, falls unconscious into a deep slumber.