The tournament (3)

On the third day of the tournament, I am the last one standing from all 4th and even 5th-year students. Some 6th year are still in the running including Emily. The rest of the ones still in the tournament are 7th-year students.

Unlike yesterday no-one underestimates me anymore. Everyone has seen what I can do. From now on they will come at me with everything they've got. Not that it really matters. Everyone who steps up to the stage to fight against me will get defeated.

My next match is up against a 7th-year student. Unlike the other one, I faced this one is a water mage. Water magic is very versatile. It can take on a lot of forms but still, have very high destructive power. It's also very effective against fire mages, as it can reduce a lot of the fire's destructive power.

I'm also able to use, but I have never used it in a battle. So let's see what this guy can do.

He started to fire a few ice spears in my direction, which I easily dodged. Unlike most mages who don't really rely on their body strength, I have full confidence in mine. I'm very agile and my punching power isn't weak as well. This gives me an advantage over immobile mages.

Dodging the ice spears doesn't take any effort at all and my opponent saw that. So he stopped and cast a bigger spell. A wave of water came towards me with great strength. It definitely wasn't some small wave. If you get hit by this one it will really hurt.

When the wave was in front of me I sliced it apart with wind magic. Even though fire magic is weak against water magic, wind magic is easily able to slice it up.

My opponent had a slightly surprised look on his face. Like he didn't expect me to easily slice apart one of his stronger spells. Seeing his expression I knew this battle wouldn't get much more difficult so I decided to start my attack.

I cast a strong gust of wind in his direction. He tried to shield himself with water but to no avail. It blew the water away like it was nothing and he fell down backwards, because of the wind.

When he struggled up again I fired a few fireballs and wind cutters in his direction. Had they been normal he could have dealt with them. But I put a lot of power in these spells, capable of shredding him apart. So the teacher intervened and saved him.

"Winner Drake."

And like that, I won another match.

Giving yet another glance in the direction of Angelica I walked off the stage. It was really fun seeing her expression after every victory. She said in her own words that if I won the tournament she would become mine.

Of course, I know that the only reason she told me this was because she was sure that I had no chance of ever winning it. But now seeing me defeating even the 7th year students a weird feeling would start to creep up in her.

I don't expect that she will willingly become mine after I won the tournament. That would be wishful thinking, but it sure as hell will decrease the distance between us. I haven't really thought about my next move towards her, but I'm sure I'll think of something when the time comes.

After a short rest I had yet another match, but just like all my previous ones, I dealt with my opponent easily and cleanly. Not giving him a chance to even graze me. In the whole tournament, I have never gotten hit even a single time.

Like this, I won another few matches and only 4 people are remaining right now. A 4th year, two 6th year and one 7th year.

Normally all four would be 7th year students, but it seems like this year the 7th year students are not really strong.

My next opponent was one of the 6th year students, but it wasn't Emily. The funny thing about my opponent is that she just like Emily is a part of my major quest. The student council president.

Her name is Alison Blackrish. She is from an incredibly powerful and influential noble family. Only the royal family is stronger than the Blackrish family. Even the family of Alesia and Angelica, the Flamery family, pales in comparison.

Her strength is no joke as well. Probably in the entire school, only Emily is able to outmatch her. She is the student council president and thus has quite some influence in the school as well. I really don't want to get on bad terms with her.

Even though I have to make her mine as well to complete the major quest. Doing this will be really dangerous. If I don't succeed or her family finds out about my advances, it probably won't take long for me to disappear from this world.

It's out of the question for someone as Alison to even think about becoming the woman of someone like me. Practically a nobody.

But this will change in the future. I might be a nobody now. I'm not even close to thinking of challenging a major noble family. But in the future, it will be the other way around. They will have to be wary of me as I can easily erase them from this world. Well, this is all talk for the future, the long distant future.

Then again this Alison definitely has quite the charm as well. She is probably about 18 years old right now and she looks absolutely stunning. A beautiful yet very serious looking face. Great body with curves in the right places. Just stunning.

But she is my opponent right now and I have to defeat her. So basking in her beauty would have to be delayed for later.

"I hope you won't hold it against me Miss student council president. Defeating you that is."

"Hmpf"

All I got back was a simple hmpf. She definitely doesn't see me as her opponent. Maybe not even as a human being. Just a lowly ant that needs to be exterminated.

Seeing her just shrugging me off like that pissed me off quite a bit. Even though she is of a higher standing my showcase of power should be enough to invoke quite some curiosity in people. Especially people from her standing. Not every day that a twelve-year-old joins a tournament and absolutely smashes everybody.

Well if she hasn't noticed me up until now, I'll make sure that she definitely knows who I am after ingraining it in her body. I would do my absolute best to smash this match.