184 – Doubt (14)
Dozens of sharp icicles rush towards Luna. I became dizzy and clenched my fists.
As the blue horses, the water spirits, run in front of Luna, a curtain of water unfolds. Thanks to this, I was able to completely capture the icicle baptism.
But it only happens once. A fierce wind blew so hard that I couldn’t open my eyes. Luna covered her face with her arms and held on, then fell onto her back.
When she returned to her body, her water curtain froze immediately.
I was watching the scene from the waiting tent.
How did this happen? Luna, who wields the wind spirit, was pushed back by the wind controlled by her opponent. Is this really what Favela did? It was to the point where I suspected that it might have happened because Luna miscontrolled herself.
How did this happen? The world, not sparring, had become strange.
The sky turned black, and the whole world suddenly became winter.
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The lights of the candles and magic lanterns in the tent repeatedly dimmed and brightened at the same time, and the tent’s pillars were losing strength and tilting.
“What…” “Things happen.”
Sparring was not important. The world was shaking as if something had happened.
I came out of the tent and looked at the tent of the judges overseeing the game. There were several teaching assistants and students running around busily.
When I sensed that the situation was going strangely, I immediately ran there.
“Call the professor. Right now!”
I went to the assistant and asked.
“Why don’t you stop sparring?”
“You too, help me!”
The instructor pointed to the sparring barrier.
And some students were standing in front of the entrance to the sparring hall, breaking something transparent.
“One, two three!”
“Harder!”
And a large bell announcing the beginning and end of the sparring match was trapped inside a six-sided block of ice. One student was pouring fire magic on it, and it didn’t melt easily.
The teaching assistant shouted.
“The magic artifact malfunctioned due to an abnormal phenomenon. “I can’t go in there because of the barrier.”
I instinctively turned my eyes to Luna beyond the barrier. She was barely able to defend herself against Favela’s one-sided attack.
Luna’s spirits were busy blocking the ice in the favela. Luna, cornered, was slowly backing away.
I didn’t know exactly what was the cause or the problem, but I was certain that the sparring had to be stopped. In a situation where they were cut off from the outside world by a barrier and could not be controlled, those two were the most dangerous.
I immediately moved to the waiting tent where there was no one watching.
***
A wolf flew in and blocked the icicles flying in front with its body, and when they tried to buy time by building a wall of water, it instantly froze them and broke them.
Favela’s attacks continued to come from unpredictable directions. If her spirits, who make their own decisions, had assisted her and faced her alone, she would have seen her blood.
A one-sided situation. I didn’t expect this much. Although Fabella dealt strictly with low-level magic, her great strength was that she could cast her magic without much preparation. There was no problem in the casting speed or the completeness of the magic.
It was as if a high-ranking wizard was toying with an apprentice wizard using only low-level magic.
Luna’s spirits were very intimidated for an unknown reason. Because of that, she couldn’t easily approach Fabella.
Once again, the bitter wind struck Luna and she fell while taking a step back.
Immediately, the moisture on the floor quickly froze and flowed under Luna’s feet as if a fuse had been lit.
This froze Luna’s hands and feet and restrained her without any time to resist.
The wolf spirit crushed the ice with its teeth, but it was broken and frozen again.
“… !”
Icicles were floating all around her, aiming at Luna.
Luna looked at where the favela was. And she made eye contact with her again.
She was so caught up in the battle that she didn’t notice, but Fabella’s eyes were already wet.
And Luna sensed that this sparring had an unknown story attached to it.
At that moment, the professor’s loud shout rang out from one end of the sparring hall.
“Stop!”
But the favela seemed to have no intention of ending it yet. She stretched her arms out in the air.
She then clenched her fist and pulled her arm towards her body. Then, out of the dozens of icicles surrounding Luna, only one rushed towards Luna.
The moment her icicle was about to pass by her Luna, someone flew in and hugged her with her body to protect her.
And Fabella, who saw that, screamed like a scream.
“No!!”
It was an urgent situation, but the man’s chest that touched her forehead felt strangely warm. Hot liquid dripped down Luna’s neck.
The faint herbal scent coming from his body was clearly Damian.
Damian released her face from his tight embrace. Damian checked Luna’s appearance and let out a sigh of relief.
Luna looked at Damian’s side and covered her mouth with both hands.
“… !”
Icicles pierced his side and his clothes were stained with blood.
And then Fabella from afar shouted.
“Damn, Damien!”
Upon seeing his side, Fabella lost her senses and rushed straight towards him.
Damian just checked Luna’s condition regardless of who called. He joked without even thinking about his own situation.
“… “Why didn’t you wave the white flag I gave you?”
“More than that… !”
Damian said after confirming that there were many eyes watching him.
“No. “You can’t pretend you know me now.”
The moment Fabella was about to get close to Damian, the sparring evaluation committee members and a professor from the Ministry of Magic intervened and stopped him.
“He is my junior. Please let me see! Please!”
The professor decisively cut off the request.
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“The sparring is over. “Take him.”
Then, in an instant, they surrounded Fabela like they were guarding a princess and dragged her out of the stadium.
Afterwards, healers from Eternia rushed over to check on Damian and Luna.
At some point, the snowstorm subsided and a ray of sunlight came down through the dark clouds.
***
It was concluded that the abnormal weather and several abnormal phenomena were caused by a malfunction in the magic circle that regulates the seasons beneath Eternia.
The spirits, who are sensitive to the natural environment and the magic of the earth, were greatly agitated by this, so Luna was unable to demonstrate her skills, and Fabella ended up making great use of her changed climate to make a big splash.
I was lying on the hospital bed after receiving treatment… I felt so embarrassed that I couldn’t move for a while.
Even though Luna had fought in a fierce battle, she was not seriously injured except for minor bruises.
I was embarrassed to be bedridden after suffering a serious injury that had nothing to do with sparring. Strictly speaking, this injury was unnecessary.
The icicle that flew towards Luna at the end was… He initially thought it had been thrown with the intention of directly harming Luna, but it has now been concluded that it was not intended to directly penetrate Luna in orbit.
In fact, there was no disagreement as I also realized the moment I ran towards Luna and blocked her with my body.
The icicle was passing Luna’s body. If I hadn’t thrown her body, it would have ended without incident.
Why the bell was frozen, why the normal seasonal magic had an error in its timing, and what exactly the icicle was aimed at remained a mystery.
Then, Haley and Xenia, seniors in the art department, came to the healing room again.
Manager Hayley laughed heartily as she looked at me lying down.
“You’re quite the newcomer, aren’t you?”
Xenia came next to me and said bluntly, poking the area where the icicle had penetrated with her finger.
“I guess the new member is Luna, so I was interested in her. Right? Right?”
“… Yes?”
“I didn’t secretly go out and waste my time thinking about how to score points. You showed such a cool side, so you really succeeded, right? Uh? Are you okay with leaving the seniors who cheered hard behind you?”
“That…” “I jumped in because my assistant told me to help.”
Haley asked.
“But how did you enter the barrier? “I think I was faster than the professor.”
… It’s simple, because I tore through the barrier with a magic sword and came in.
“There was a gap in the barrier the size of a mouse hole, so I squeezed myself in.”
“You made a good decision. These days, newbies are getting more popular day by day, so it’s a bit difficult. “Our classmates keep asking us about you.”
“… “I got hurt needlessly, so why is my popularity improving?”
“So, if you sacrifice yourself for a woman, you won’t become popular?”
Heyla took her box of cookies out of her pocket and placed them by my bedside.
“Okay, since you’re in pain, I’ll give you this. Oh, I almost forgot. “Favela wants to apologize and wants to meet separately later. What do you think?”
I shook my head.
“There is no need to apologize because it was my fault.”
“Okay, I’ll tell you that.”
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