It was finally time, Mid terms have arrived.
Everyone was standing in their designated positions, the theme was a tropical island, the goal was to remain the last one standing. It was a battle royal.
Prism's magic stadium was used again to generate the theme and to also make sure all the students are safe during the test.
They had already done the written test a few days prior to the practical, so they were given plenty time to mentally prepare for this test, they were given weapons of their own choosing that were enchanted to not break easily.
Regina stood with dual axes in hand her face was strangely stern as she took a deep breath and let it out, she glanced to her right noticing a few normal students most likely from the other classes.
Her expression turned colder and she prepared herself waiting for the bell to ring and signal the start of the test.
Arron stood on the beach side, his position was quite revealing thankfully there didn't seem to be anyone that was teleported near him.
Adam stood in the forest his hands tight on his dual daggers mentally preparing himself for the test.
Amanda brandished her rapier ready to activate her mana cloak when the test begins.
Evelyn had the usual stoic expression on her face she looked around seeing a few students who gulped when they noticed her fierce gaze.
Suzi took her stance ready for the bell to ring at any moment to pounce at the person opposite her, opposite her stood Evan his hands on a lance with a blade like that of a sword, Suzi realized something she had never seen Evan fight before and therefore had no prior knowledge to his fighting style. On the opposite end Evan had seen her fight plenty times to know how she usually fights so he had a confident smirk on his face.
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Everyone was ready Reyna oversaw the test from several screens which were magically connected to drones that surveyed the arena, Reyna's eyes lingered on two screens one with Amanda in it and another with Evan in it, her two nephews. She could not help but scowl, twins just like her and Samuel the king.
Reyna let out a deep breath and finally pressed the button announcing the start of the test.
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Regina immediately pounced on one student lodged one of her axes in his chest letting go before she slashed with her other axe to his neck, he did not even register the pain before he was teleported out, eliminated and healed by the advanced arena, Regina picked up her axe in satisfaction.
She turned her attention to a student who watched the entire thing, he trembled as he backed away his sword held up high to defend himself from any incoming attacks.
Regina's smile widened as she approached activating one of her many illusion spells that she learned, ensnaring the poor student causing him to stare out into space his weapon clattering to the floor as he stretched a hand out forward as if reaching out to something.
Regina didn't care to see what he was reaching out for as she swiftly decapitated him with one of her axes, he disappeared into blue particles immediately healed and restored by the arena.
Regina continued walking forward, with a smile on her face. If she had wanted she could win this entire thing without lifting a finger using her illusion spells. a frown slowly crept on her face, all though... Amanda could be a problem now that she was injected...
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Arron strolled through the beach scratching the back of his head, he still hadn't met anyone despite walking for minutes, it was definitely strange, maybe he should go into the forest?
He shrugged and strolled deeper into the forest leaving the beach side.
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Amanda jumped through the trees several students from other classes jumping after her chasing her. Amanda had to run since she couldn't take on that many students alone, the lower classes were teaming up on the royal class students.
She activated her mana cloak and took off running leaving them in the dust, she winced slightly feeling uncomfortable in her the suits they were put in, she felt uncomfortable in her middle back area like the suit was constricting on a part of her body, the suits were grey metallic and covered most of their body, it served to monitor them and also give them armour as in a real situation one would most likely have armour on them, but these should be perfectly measured right...?
She continued running through the discomfort speeding up by the second, she had gotten more proficient with using mana cloak, she was sure mana cloak should not buff someone like this, the enhancements she got were just too good.
Mana cloak was just a simple enhancement spell that Amanda relied on, every time she used it she would get stronger for some reason. Even her father Samuel the emperor suspected it might actually be an ability that activated unconsciously whenever Amanda used mana cloak, it was called Illusive ability syndrome he said, when one would mistakenly activate an ability instead of a spell leading them to think they don't possess an ability, Amanda of course dismissed that as just some bull crap.
She jumped up in a tree she had already lost sight of the lower class students having outrun them, she smirked and continued jumping through the trees. In her wake a small impossibly white feather floated down to the floor it's divine light fading slowly...
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Evelyn faced off against five class A students and 2 class B students, it seemed they were ganging up on the royal class...
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That didn't matter to her, she waved a hand in the air causing several pink ethereal weapons to form and launch themselves at the students eliminating the B class students the A class students managed to blocked the attack and retaliate attacking Evelyn with several fire balls and arrows at her.
Evelyn just erected a pink barrier to block all of the attacks she flicked her finger sending a shockwave that broke the barrier and pushed back all incoming projectiles staggering the charging students.
She prepared and created a pink long sword in her hand that she attacked the students with eliminating one with a slash to the side, and blocking an incoming attack with a punch her hand was encased in a thin pink barrier the barrier expanded pushing the enemy's war axe off and staggering them giving Evelyn enough time to attack and eliminate them with a single swing to the neck.
The remaining mage and archers were too scared to move which made it easy for Evelyn to stomp on the floor and erect three spikes each to one person behind them impaling their backs and eliminating them causing the three to burst into blue particles.
She let out a sigh and looked up at the sky, there was a slowly encroaching barrier of course since it was a wide and big tropical island there are many places to hide at, so they made this barrier to force the students to eventually fight each other so a winner is guaranteed.
There was also a sign that displayed how many students remained, currently there were 525/731 So far a lot had been eliminated mostly the weaker ones.
Evelyn sighed and continued on her way, even though sighing like that was unlady like, Evelyn didn't care since she was all alone she could do what she wants. She felt triumphant at being able to do unlady like things, she felt proud at being able to break the rules every once in a while, a wide grin made it's way on her face Take that miss Martinez hehehe~~... She spotted a drone flying it's eye looking straight at her.
She paused taking a moment to realize what happened then her face turned a deep shade of red as she hid her face, she didn't know why she felt embarrassed at being spotted doing unlady like things like sighing.
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"What is she even doing?" A professor asked scratching the top of his head confused at why Evelyn was hiding her face while walking through the forest.
"I don't know, kids nowadays are weird man." Another responded sighing and shaking his head.
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Suzi walked carefully her instincts flaring at her as a blade of light came flying at her which she dodged barely her skin was grazed as blood trickled down her left cheek.
"Bastard, did you finally show yourself?" Suzi cursed irritated at Evan's playstyle.
"The first few minutes I was just toying with you, you know that?" He chuckled to himself as he brandished his now mana coated blade, it shines with a golden light it's blade blinding to Suzi.
She hadn't expected him to use elemental magic especially that of the light variant, she had a hard time dodging his attacks as the blades were quick he even threw a light net at her which almost got her if she didn't tear it open with her claws... And embarrassedly her teeth as well... She was angered that she was forced to use her teeth is such an embarrassing way.
Suzi growled and charged forward her hand glowing in a grey light she unleashed a series of rapid slashes Evan was surprised by her speed and precision, he barely managed to block the attacks aimed at his vitals and he was grazed by the rest.
Suzi was not finished her anger boiling over as she pounced at him grabbing him and slamming him into a tree causing him to gasp out for air, he didn't have much time to react when a slash came flying at his neck which he ducked down and rolled away to safety. The slash was so strong that it tore into the tree and snapped it in half.
Evan felt sweat trickle down his chin at Suzi's display of strength and speed. He let out a nervous laugh and planted his spear to the ground, "I'm going to borrow a move out of your book sister, Haha..." He chuckled as his body began to glow in a golden light similar to Amanda's aura when she activated her mana cloak.
Unfortunately it was not as effective as hers since Amanda was quite proficient in using it and Evan was not as much, but it would suffice to stand his ground against Suzi who's eyes turned to him her pupils changed to resemble those of a predator as they shined in a golden light evidence of the use of mana in the eyes.
"Let's do this now..." He smiled as he activated another spell, his body was covered in a golden bright sheen that was semi-translucent, it was light barrier a basic protective spell that covered the user's body in light type mana providing protection against magical and physical attacks.
Evan let breathed in a deep breath. He charged in as Suzi prepared to receive him with her mana claws flaring in intensity, her claws changed to resemble scaly ones like those of a dragon as they took on a more solid state when she grabbed his blade and smirked, unfortunately for her a blade of light lodged itself into her shoulder before dissipating Evan did not relent he completely let go of his weapon and conjured another spell into his hand.
Light javelin, a spell that was self explanatory, he took advantage of Suzi's pained state to stab her straight in the stomach letting go of the javelin sending her flying into a tree shattering it, sending splinters of wood and chunks of dirt and rock flying. Suzi clutched the javelin in her hand and forcefully ripped it out, in place of the injury a scaly aura that was similar to her claws replaced the wound.
She gritted her teeth, that was enough to stop the bleeding but it won't last long she needed to rest and use mana healing to patch up the wound a little, it's still not as good as true healing magic but it was good enough.
She looked back up at Evan who was panting holding his lance in hand as he pointed it at her, the tip glowed in a bright light that almost blinded Suzi if she hadn't reinforced her eyes like her father taught her.
She growled as she stomped forward the ground breaking under her feet, her mana flared her eyes focusing on Evan as she gathered as much mana in her claws as possible preparing for a big attack.
Evan smiled in nervousness, he had that tendency to smile when he was nervous. He hated the idea of letting an enemy know they cornered him, so he loved to smile in the face of his opposers.
"Here I go Terras." His smile widened as the ball of light gathering at the tip glowed brighter than before.
And all at once they both unleashed their attacks, a beam of light shot forward towards Suzi while she slashed forward in a horizontal arc, a grey silver slash was sent outwards slashing through the beam of light. Evan's eyes widened and his smile widened even more.
"Looks like I-" he couldn't finish as the slash reached him slashing across his waist.
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"-Lose..." He sighed finishing his words after the arena healed him and teleported him out.
"That Terras girl is quite strong, you've got some strong allies at your side sis~" He looked up at the screens that were in the waiting room of the losers, the ones that were eliminated were allowed to spectate the rest of the fight or leave to go home or something.
"Let's see what Amanda's doing." He sat down at a chair and looked for the screen displaying his sister's performance.
"Huh? What's going on?" He asked as all the screens displaying the fights were replaced with static.
"What the hell's going on? Did a malfunction happen?" A student asked scratching the back of his head.
"All the screens are off!" another exclaimed before another on reprimanded him, "Yeah no shit, do you think we don't have eyes?"
"What?" Was all Evan could think as worry for his sister slowly replaced his confusion.