Darius and Erastus vs. The fool and Novis

"Woah there Darius calm down a bit."

"What's wrong? I thought you were the strongest no?" He starts to stretch and warm up his muscles

"Well I am but can't we settle this peacefully?"

"There's no fun in that, and either way you're going to lose, so decide fast."

The fool starts taking a couple of steps back whilst trying to ask Novis what to do in this situation.

"Psst, Novis, what should we-"

Darius starts running straight to the fool but at around ten meters away from him he stomps his foot as hard as he can on the ground, lifting the whole terrain in front of him causing the fool to rise into the air leaving him no way or time for him to dodge.

His style is very impressive, with each move he does not delay his next, he uses the momentum he built up and the stomp to leap into the air and aims to grab the fool's skull and smash him straight into the ground.

The fool sees this and quickly raises his right hand to propel himself to his left using Light magic, but Darius is no simple foe, he notices this slight quick movement and creates an enormous pillar of Rock to stop him, the entire dome was made by him, he can manipulate it and control it at will.

"𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦"

"𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦"

Darius proceeds with his original plan and slams the fool straight into the ground, Novis sees this happen within seconds and does not hesitate to join his friend in battle, out of complete reaction he pulls his sword out of thin air.

"LUCE, I'LL HELP YOU."

"No, you won't."

Erastus sees Novis attempt to help his friend and is not pleased, he will always be loyal to his King and protect him no matter what, he quickly summons a barrage of swords made of gems and ores in front of him, Novis quickly evades this but is still trying to process the situation he's in.

"Novis are you really going to commit treason against your own Kingdom just to help this miserable fool?"

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT HIM LIKE THAT, HE WILL WIN AND SO WILL I."

Novis readies his blade with the intent to beat his opponent quickly, although this confidence is quite good to have it can also lead to one's downfall.

They quickly clash blows with Erastus using an interesting blade, the edge of it is made out of diamonds but the handle uses obsidian, whilst the rest of the blade uses iron.

"Quite impressive Novis, but you have yet to see what I can do."

"SHUT UP AND DIE ALREADY."

The fool starts to get very annoyed, his friend is fighting someone on his behalf and he is currently losing against a King he considered mediocre.

He quickly delivers a swift kick to his jaw using his Light magic to increase its speed, usually any strong strike delivered to the jaw will cause the brain to rattle and daze the opponent, but Darius has a trick up his sleeve, he hardened his flesh within his entire body for a split second causing no damage nor harm to happen to him.

"Did you really think that would work?"

"Yes, but I know this will."

He does the exact same attack yet again

"𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦? 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵."

Darius hardens his flesh yet again but the fool has a trick up his sleeve, he understands that he needs to accelerate his brain not only for Novis but to adapt to his opponent, so he uses the split second he gains from his opponent being immobile to use his Light magic to help him escape his opponents grip.

"How about I start taking you a little seriously then?"

"Took you long enough."

Darius tries to punch the fool yet again but he evades swiftly and quickly creates a bow and arrow made out of ice to stick into his opponent, but he deflects it with his rocky flesh.

"If you're going to try and freeze me you're going to have to do more than that."

Novis fiercely fights his opponent pushing Erastus to the wall and landing a couple of cuts on him, but he is a Teacher for a reason, throughout their clashes, he was collecting swords within the air ready to unleash at Novis at the right moment, he observed his movements and even his heartbeat and noticed that within his third strike, he would always have bad posture and would try to catch his breath.

"I'LL KILL YOU." One

"I WILL WIN JUST YOU WAIT." Two

"FIGHT BACK ALREADY YOU COWARD." Three.

About a hundred blades were aimed straight at Novis's chest, right before they all pierced him he noticed them and surprisingly enough he managed to evade most of them by rolling out of the way, although he could have suffered more from this he still managed to injure his leg.

"HOW, JUST HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO CREATE SO MANY SWORDS?"

"Why would I tell my secret to the enemy?"

"YOU'RE MY TEACHER YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TEACH ME THESE THINGS."

"Since when were you this smart? Fine but this is all you're getting, I scattered my blood within the air and used the small portion of iron within it to activate my magic, with it I could create swords by using my core for the rest."

"𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘪𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳."

Novis puts on his boots of water to stop the bleeding whilst also getting ready to fight again.

"𝘐𝘧 𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵."

The fool keeps on dodging every attack Darius makes which irritates him more and more.

"THE MORE YOU DODGE, THE HARDER I'LL HIT YOU."

"Whatever you say but you have to hit me for that to work."

"𝘚𝘰 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘶𝘱 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯."

He creates a rapier out of complete Ice and challenged Darius head-on.

After dodging his direct punch he slides under his arm trying to pierce his heart with a lunge, but Darius quickly hardens himself, yet something different happens, the Rocky flesh slowly brittles making it easier to break, to which the fool wastes no opportunity and lands a direct punch onto Darius's chest breaking a couple of ribs.

"HOW, HOW DARE YOU INJURE ME AND MY MAGNIFICENT BODY, YOU WILL PAY WITH YOUR LIFE I WILL NOT HOLD BACK ANYMORE."

The cold wound the fool had left had quickly become somewhat elastic, instead of being brittle it almost reconstructs itself, adapting to its opponent's tools.

Novis struggles to fight Erastus, but after being wounded his mind becomes clearer and he starts considering him a threat although it may be too late.

"Novis you've done great really, but I'm sorry, you must die."

The swords that missed Novis had started suddenly appearing and gathering into a large cluster.

"𝘕𝘖, 𝘐𝘛 𝘊𝘈𝘕'𝘛 𝘌𝘕𝘋 𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌, 𝘐 𝘒𝘕𝘖𝘞 𝘐 𝘊𝘈𝘕 𝘉𝘌 𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘖𝘕𝘎𝘌𝘙 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛, 𝘐𝘍 𝘐 𝘏𝘈𝘋 𝘚𝘖𝘔𝘌 𝘔𝘖𝘙𝘌 𝘛𝘐𝘔𝘌 𝘔𝘈𝘠𝘉𝘌 𝘐 𝘊𝘖𝘜𝘓𝘋."

"NOVIS, YOU BETTER BE ALMOST DONE WITH YOUR FIGHT, MINES'S ALMOST OVER YOU KNOW THAT." The fool yelled across the battlefield although his comment didn't seem quite nice it was just enough to encourage Novis to do more than he could to think beyond the box of just swords and boots.

Novis stood his ground and guarded himself against all the blades coming his way by putting both his arms in front of him.

"What a useless struggle, there are almost a thousand blades you know that?"

All of them had gathered and were sent straight to pierce Novis with each one aiming towards a different body part, it was almost like a flea of flies heading straight towards him.

Yet when the blades were just centimeters away from him, they stopped, right in their spots, it looked as if it were a miracle but in reality, he had just used what was always given to him, water.

If his teacher could use his blood to create blades in thin air and have them float, then Novis could easily mix his water with the oxygen within the air, and in doing so he created hundreds of small discs that at first sight seemed like glass but instead was water extremely condensed enough to stop a blade flying at incredible speeds.

It only works if his body interacts with the air, he must at least touch it for it to be created if not it will not work, and this time he will not limit himself to just swords.

"Maybe, maybe I can win, IN FACT, I WILL WIN, LIKE I TOLD YOU BEFORE I'LL TELL YOU AGAIN, I'M WINNING THIS FIGHT."