Grace and Eve were up next.
Compared to Zenith and Desmond, Grace and Eve were not as infamous as them. Rather, they were fairly popular among their peers.
Eve was sociable compared to Grace, so most of the time, Eve would be going around making new friends and helping others out. Grace wasn't as sociable but would always follow Eve everywhere she went.
Everyone in the school knew for a fact that Eve and Grace were always together.
Even when Eve wanted to join the new professor's class where all the misfits gathered, her friends all warned her not to join the class, but she didn't listen and just proceeded on. Surely enough, Grace followed her, joining the class as well.
And now, both of them are facing one another.
Eve stood on one side raising her staff while Grace unsheathed her sword and raised her shield. This was a rather peculiar sight for the audience, seeing how a mage is using a sword and shield.
Though the audience doesn't know it yet, Eve and the rest of her classmate knew how formidable Grace was on a battlefield.
There was nothing getting past that shield.
But that's not stopping Eve from trying.
Raising her staff, she cast [Vine Grip], summoning layers of vines beneath the ground, immobilising her movements.
Eve began setting up different attacking measures to stand a chance against her. Casting different spell buffs and defensive spells to give her an edge.
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[Arcana Shortsword]
Defensive Spell
Short swords are summoned in deep blue form, forming a defensive radius around the caster. The short sword is then floating around the caster and will attack anyone who comes close to it or can ve launched as a projectile if the caster wishes to.
Magic Requirement: 3th Magic Circle
Mana Consumption: Moderate
**
[Frozen Mist]
Sensory Spell
Freeze the surrounding air with wind magic and water magic, forming a small blizzard, causing mist to appear, covering the intended area.
Magic Requirement: 1st Magic Circle
Mana Consumption: Low
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[Magic Deluge]
AOE Damage Spell
Summons downpour of projectile that sprays through over the caster's target area.
Magic Requirement: 4th Magic Circle
Mana Consumption: High
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With a few seconds to cast the spell, Grace took her sword and imbued it with mana, immediately slashed the vines that entrapped her. Before she knew it, mist began to fog her surrounding vision, camouflaging Eve inside it.
Grace holds her shield and lowers her stance. The next attack could appear from anywhere, and she has to be prepared. She instinctively raised her shield above her had when something smashed against it. Butnit wasn't just one projectile that landed. A mass of projectile started raining down upon her as she gripped her shield tightly, bracing for impact.
The spell began slamming against her shield as the impact for each attack grew heavier and heavier, with no choice, Grace enchanted her sword with wind magic and slashed it upwards, destroying the projectiles landing on her and clearing the mist all together.
With the smoke cleared, Eve was out in the open with nowhere to hide.
Boosting herself with strengthening magic and speed boost, she charged straight for Eve, planning to end the match. As Grace swung her sword towards Eve,
*Clank*
Something parried her weapon. It was the summoned short swords. The sword began having an exchange with her when Eve was retreating to a safe distance. But Grace was persistent, blocking and parrying every blow the shortsword made until finally shattering the sword and going in for the kill.
Only to fall in Eve's trap.
[Delayed Magic Shard]
A delayed magic spell planted behind Grace's and directed for her while Eve's offensive spell was prepared to fire in front of her.
Grace sighed and smiled. Looks like she was defeated fair and square.
"I give u____"
*BOOOOOOMMMMMM*
In the middle of the main stage exploded immensely out of nowhere.
The two contestants were dragged along in the cross-fire as they suffered burns and searing pain all over their body. Luckily, Grace managed to block most of the damage thanks to her shield but received immense burn marks due to wearing metal for her armour.
Floating in the middle of the stage was a Green-robed male, as he hovered around, looking pleased with the damage that had just occurred.
The authority figures and teachers all stood up, trying to take action, but something was wrong.
They could cast or conjure anything out. It was as if their magic was blocked. Furthermore, chains appear in the middle of nowhere, chaining the entire audience from the main stage.
The only ones that were free were the guards standing by. As they rush towards the middle, trying to stop the boy, suddenly something dropped. One of the guards stopped in his track, trying to observe what happened, only for himself to be silent by something.
The rest couldn't see it due to its extreme speed, but the audience was able to witness the whole thing as crimson blood splattered everywhere in the stage like a fountain, splashing onto some of the audience's face.
The last guard was left alive as he slowly turned his head behind, witnessing a large beast.
"Wha___"
Before he could mutter another world, his entire head was ripped off by the beast's powerful jaxw, crushing its skull in its mouth.
It was a werewolf.
The man who was floating started laughing maniacally as he unveiled the hood from his robe and smiled.
His hair turned from black hair to a silver white. His canine teeth started protruding, revealing a fang in the end, and his eyes changed colour from brown to crimson red.
It was a vampire.
"It took a while, but finally. It managed to pay off."
The boy looked over to Eve and went straight to her.
"It's an honour meeting you, Eve... Or should I say, Princess Evaline."
Eve's eyes widened as she started breathing heavier and faster.
Grace immediately took up her sword and went straight for the man's neck without hesitation. The man dodged with no effort before stabbing her with something through her body. It was blood.
He managed to form the shape of a spike using her blood and used it to impale her. Grace dropped on the ground but managed to grab the man's robe, gripping it tightly as if her life depended on it.
"Yeesh. Royal knights are really tenacious." The man said before flicking his wrist.
In that instance, when the man flicked his wrist, Grace's hand shattered immediately with multiple blood spike protruding out from her hand, destroying it from the inside.
"GRACE!!!"Eve screamed in horror as she grabbed her staff, attending to cast a spell to protect her friend.
Only to be slapped by the man so hard that she flew a couple of feet backwards.
"Please. Have some class princess. Know when to give up when even your strongest bodyguard is broken."
"What I need now is the blood of the current generation's spirit master. Do you know how long it took for me to track you down. Urghh... the troubles I have to undergo."
"S..Sprit Master..?"
Without answering her question, the man then grabbed Eve by her collar, lifting her up and smelling her scent from her nape.
"Very sweet smell. I wonder how it tastes?"
Extending his finger out, he cuts Eve's neck, revealing a small cut where her blood starts to flow .
There, he wiped the blood off her neck and started licking it from his fingers.
"Damn. This is more delicious than I thought. Beufard, you wanna try this?"
The werewolf stares at him before giving him the finger and continues munching the flesh off the dead guards.
"Alright, fine. I'll just collect the blood and leaves."
The man placed his hand inside his robe and took something out, revealing a flask as he gently placed it against Eve's neck, pressing against her neck and allowing the blood to flow efficiently, filling up the flask.
Upon filling up the flask, he kept it back in his robes and dropped Eve on the ground. Signalling his comrade, it was time to leave. Not before the man changed his mind and walked towards Eve once again.
"On the second note, why not just bring her along. I could use a little snack while working. If anything goes wrong, I'll just take more blood."
The werewolf wipes the blood of his mouth as he snorts and ignores the man, continuing to his job of looking out for dangers.
"Alright. Time to go, Princess."
As the man reached out his hand for Eve. In that split second, something was chopped off.
"Huh?"
The man retrieves his hand only to be met with blood spilling out from his risk.
"Wha___" The werewolf was surprised with the sudden appearance of an uninvited guest.
A man appeared close to Eve, placing his palm on her head neck, which was filled with green light surrounding the air.
From there, the cuts and bruises she received all vanished as she struggled to open her eyes with tears flowing out from her eyes.
Leaning against the handle of a greatsword, a man appeared with an ominous mask and stepped on the hand he just sliced. Accompanying him was a large snake and a small Owl-Lion looking creature.
"So. Which of you f*cker did this to my student."