The tournament (4)

Right now I'm standing opposite of Alison ready to start our battle. She is most likely stronger than most of the 7th-year students. From childhood, all sorts of knowledge has been ingrained in her brain. She has grown up with the best teachers and expensive potions, all to make sure that she would grow up into an amazing mage.

That's the good thing about being the daughter of a major noble family I guess. But in the end, I have grown up with something way better. The system. With it, I have trained my body in being a fighter and being a mage. And with my prowess, I will beat her.

Just like most people think I am Alison is a dual-class mage. She has both affinities for water and wind magic. Even if she has had the help from her family since childhood, this is purely her own talent.

It's my first time going up against someone else who is able to cast two kinds of elements. I was a bit nervous as I don't really know what to expect. I have seen some of her matches, but just like me, she made quick work of every one of them.

Opposite to her quite and composed nature, she started out with a barrage of spells. Ice spears and wind cutters are flying all around me. The power behind all of these spells is definitely stronger than when I faced my previous opponents.

I decided to act a bit more in a showy way and cast a huge firestorm. The ice spears were immediately melted and the wind cutter's dissipated completely. But Alison cast an ice barrier to defend herself against the firestorm.

The ice barrier was melting, but in the end, held up against the strong power of the firestorm. Both of us were standing on the stage in the exact same position in which we started. None of us looked even a little bit tired at all.

After a few seconds of staring each other down, I cast a gust of wind in her direction. It doesn't have a lot of damaging capabilities, but throwing an opponent off balance can make the battle end very quickly.

In response, Alison cast an exactly same gust of wind. Both gusts met each other in the middle and canceled each other out. It seems we are really matched up evenly against each other.

Even though I can definitely turn this battle around using earth and water magic, I don't want to make it known right now. If I have to I will only use the other elements in the final. It would be even better to not use them at all right known, but this will pretty much not be possible.

After going through another few exchanges with each other it really looked like we are dead even. So I decided to spice things up a bit. Before I only used magic, so let's start using body strength for a bit.

I started moving around at high speed. It wasn't at groundbreaking speed, but still able to not let her lock on to me to fire her magic. Moving at higher speed didn't hinder me at all in casting magic. So trying to move closer to her with agility I fired fireballs in her direction.

She easily canceled them out with her water magic, but because of the smoke created from the exchange, she lost sight of me for a bit. I moved behind her at my full speed and created another gust of wind.

She caught on to me a little bit too late as her reaction was a bit on the slow side. She got knocked away and fell down backward, but just before she got hit she cast a gust as well. This slowed me down for a small bit but just enough for her to start getting up on her feet again.

I still fired a few wind cutters, which she just barely dodged. Had I not been hit by her gust this would have been the end of the match. But still, Alison is on the back foot now.

I started to barrage her with spell after spell. Not giving her a moment to rest. But she either barely dodged or just canceled them out with a spell of her own. It seems she is able to use her body as well. Any normal mage definitely can't move around like her.

I could see beads of sweat starting to appear on her face and her breath rugged as well. I was definitely wearing her out. So I increased the intensity of spells even more.

Then something happened I didn't expect at all. After barely dodging yet another spell. She cast a spell and suddenly a huge wave of water came crashing down on me. Its intensity was way stronger than the wave of water summoned by the guy I fought against yesterday.

It seems she planned this out to try and catch me off guard. I can truly say that she succeeded as I didn't expect her to have left this kind of spell in the tank. Any normal mage attending this school would have been finished.

Luckily I'm not a normal mage at all. Conjuring up a wind cutter I threw it in the direction of the wave of water. A normal wind cutter would be utterly useless. So I put all my power in it and just after it was thrown away I imbued it with fire magic.

I combined the wind cutter with fire elements to make it a flaming wind cutter. Its offensive power is extraordinary. When it came into contact with the wave it smoothly slashed it apart. The couldn't overpower my magic at all.

After slicing apart the wave, the flaming wind cutter slashed through the air in the direction of Alison. Her face was really pale as she had extended the last bits of her power to conjure the huge wave of water.

Seeing this flaming wind cutter coming at her she knew that she had been defeated and didn't even lift a finger to try and save herself.

Before it hit multiple barriers came into fruition around her and completely blocked the flaming wind cutter. After which an announcement was made.

"Winner Drake, he will play in the final tomorrow."

It was the first time I had to expend a great deal of power, so I was glad that I won and could take a rest now. After giving Angelica in the crowd a glance like I always did I started to walk off the stage.

Before reaching the end of the stage I could hear a single sentence coming from Alison. "Come to the student council room next Monday." After which she left not even giving me an explanation as to why? Well, I'll see about it on Monday. Right now I have to focus on tomorrow. I have to defeat Emily who was known as the strongest mage in the school right now. The battle will probably be even more difficult than the battle just now.