Scarlet

Under everyone’s eyes, Amelia begins to float up into the air with white light shining all around her. Meanwhile Leonidas does the same on his side of the arena but with red light and blood around him.

And faster than I’m sure a lot of the audience can even see, the two rush straight at each other, with the Demon Lord quickly throwing all sorts of weapons made of blood at her while trying to use multiple skills on her person. But every last one of the attacks he uses vanishes the moment it gets within a couple meters of her, the woman grinning at the lack of surprise on his face.

I’m sure his direct skills aren’t doing anything either.

Because I know exactly what that white field around Amelia is.

That’s her Bane of Magic Title-Bearing Mythic skill.

A skill that negates all magic within the field.

Leonidas grins and mutters, “Guess we’re doing this, then?”

His wife just smiles and gives him a little salute as she says, “Yep.”

Then he transforms into his beast form and lets out a roar to the audiences absolute excitement. And the duel quickly turns into a game of chase as Amelia flies around the arena, negating any magic used around her while repeatedly sending bolts of null magic out at him that she manifests right outside of the field.

I’m not entirely sure how she’s flying in the middle of her field, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she had some sort of control over everything in it somehow.

But this little game continues for quite a while, showcasing the biggest differences between her and a blood lycan.

Blood lycans specialize in both physical strength and magical power. Meanwhile Amelia only specializes in magic.

As for their magics… a blood lycan’s best power is their regeneration. Meanwhile Amelia has a massive amount of mana with the ability to negate other people’s magic.

So the battle quickly becomes one of attrition.

To see if her mana can outlast his regeneration or not.

Unfortunately for them both, they each know each other’s skills. So there aren’t any surprises between the two.

And I also know that, unlike Leonidas’s Title-Bearing and other Mythic skills, Amelia only has one she can use. Since the Title-Bearing Mythic skill she has attached to her White Knight of Humanity Title can’t be used against Leonidas.

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Amelia just doesn’t have the mana to use it.

The skill erases someone from existence.

And even if she had the mana, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t use Erase on him. In fact, I’m absolutely certain she wouldn’t.

The skill erases the person’s existence entirely. Which messes with everyone’s memories as well, acting like they never existed after that point.

Time magic is a bit of a taboo in terms of changing the past, so it only affects a certain time before now.

So her erasing him for example wouldn’t erase me from existence due to him being my biological father. But it would still screw everything up.

Not to mention that she loves him. She wouldn’t risk the anti-death clause not working for her skill.

But all that aside, she literally couldn’t use it even if she wanted to. Its mana cost is dependent on the one she’s erasing and how powerful they are in comparison to her.

And Leonidas is still stronger than her at the end of the day in terms of pure brute force power.

Their duel continues, with both of them clashing repeatedly, Amelia striking him with her null magic and Leonidas punching and clawing at the attacks. And throughout the entire battle, not a single person can take their eyes off of them.

More than a few people in the stadium even mention under my powerful hearing that they can’t even see the two of them. That they’re nothing but blurs in their vision due to how fast they’re moving.

But all things come to an end eventually, and this battle is no different.

After Amelia reaches somewhere around half of her mana left, she suddenly flares her Bane of Magic field straight at Leonidas, startling him before she dissipates it after he enters it, canceling any buffs he had. Then she rushes in and uses some sort of skill that shines so brightly that I’m blinded along with pretty much everyone else in the entire stadium.

Several seconds pass with no noise whatsoever. As if whatever she just did completely erased all sounds all around us.

Finally, the light begins to fade, and I open my eyes again to find a shocking sight.

Amelia standing alone, visibly exhausted in the stadium with no Leonidas in sight. Following which she is teleported to the rest of us at the same time as Leonidas appears.

And silence fills the entire stadium.

The silence doesn’t last long before everyone begins to question what the hell just happened. And to be honest, I can’t help but agree with them.

But instead of questioning it out loud, I just turn to look at Gramps with a brow raised in question.

He chuckles and answers my unasked question, “Amelia appears to have obtained a new mythic skill, and she used it to surprise Leonidas in their duel. But if you want to know what the skill actually does, you’ll have to fight her yourself.”

I stare at him with more than a little surprise on my face.

Excuse me, sir, I thought you hated Amelia…

He doesn’t say any more. Just returns to the spot he was above the arena before, next to his fae partner right as said partner begins talking about what just happened. Which is to say that he didn’t see what happened either.

Surprising.

After that duel, the others are rather boring in comparison. Including my own.

Eventually we all finally move on to the final round of the tournament.

And the five competitors in the final round include me, Amelia, Black – surprisingly – and two Noble demons. A duke and a duchess.

Neither of whom I recognize.

Kind of ironic that none of the Demon Lords or the other Knights are here but two random Noble demons are. But that’s because they were all pitted against each other.

Anyways, King Oberon begins to explain the final round of the tournament competition.