Chapter 156: The Final Trial

Teral's hyped up casting began to stimulate the crowd even more. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's time. For the first time since the sky island has been put up, this is the first time that someone has gotten through the final trial! Let us give a giant applause for the last two contenders! Now... we'll announce the tallied up points! Zeta is in the lead with 18,348 points! Bonus points for sealing the dragon. That was the biggest turning point in that battle! Zieglind coming in second with 16,348 points! What a jump in points! Zieglind dealt the most damage in that round by a whopping 83,840 damage! The dragon in its base state has about 50,000 HP but in its elemental form, it has about 120,000 health! Zieglind managed to half its health! And for the final one, even though Mizuki is out of the competition we still have to congratulate him, for dealing 43,483 damage! Mizuki fell off in the second phase of the Elemental Dragon but he singlehandedly took down the dragon in its base form. That's why Mizuki gets 10,382 points, barely going over 10,000."

"He?" I was confused. "It seems that they don't know that she's a woman. Well, not that I care."

"Now... for the main event that everyone was waiting for. The final stage. I'm sure everyone here is excited. So I'll get right to it." Teral snapped his fingers and the arena changed again into... an arena? But this time it's different. Spikes were at the bottom of the arena below and it seems to be we're in a flying platform. "The final enemy that you'll have to defeat... is the person in front of you!"

"Huh?" I was confused.

"Huh?" And so is Zeta.

"In short!" Teral pointed at us, "You two are the final trial! Last man standing wins!"

"Well... This is easy." I knew what I had to do. "I surrende-"

"Please don't suggest something so trivial as surrendering. Because if you do, the Flower or Zeratria as a reward will be voided. And if you two hold back your blows against each other, the Flower of Zeratria will be voided. So... Do your best! The only way to get the reward is to win this fight! Now... go! This is the final trial!"

"Welp... Zeta. I guess we just have to do this. We already got the Flower of Zeratria on our hands. So just blow me away with your spells and we can go back."

"Dragon Lightning!" Zeta suddenly summoned a gigantic dragon of lightning and it launched itself to me. This spell is too dangerous to be taken by me so I just dodged to the side.

"Hey!"

"Well, we haven't gotten to try our powers against each other. So why not do it here?"

"So you're saying you want to test your powers against me?"

"Exactly."

"Well then. It's your funeral."

"Is it?"

"Hoo... Let's see. Gazer Form, Come, Death Scythe!" Hundreds of death scythes appeared behind me as they spun vertically in high revolutions. I launched them all to Zeta using psychokinetic powers.

"Barrier!" Zeta is blocking the spinning Death Scythes coming at him. But the weapons are slowly tearing down his barrier. "Dispel, Frozen Double!" Zeta stepped back and all the death scythes smashed the sculpture that looked like Zeta. It seems that its from his skill Frozen Double. It attracts all attacks at it letting the caster avoid danger.

"Come here! Scythe's Swipe! My scythe grew large and I put the edge of my scythe behind Zeta and pulled him near me.

"Suicide Blast!" Zeta's body suddenly began to emit fire. He's going to explode. So I stepped back and so did he, "Frozen Double!" He got out of there unscathed.

"Impressive."

"No time for compliments! Falling Meteorites!" Tons of fireballs came falling down from the sky. "Lightning Shots!" Hundreds of lightning spears were summoned near Zeta and launched themselves to me. It seems that Zeta's double casting is a passive skill noted to be feared.

But magic is useless against me especially if they're slow, "Sweeping Death!" All of Zeta's spells suddenly disappeared into thin air.

"What!? Tsk."

"My turn! Soul Drag!" Zeta is slowly getting pulled towards me.

"Teleport!" Zeta teleported at the very edge of the arena to get out of my pull range. "Chaos Fire Blasts!" Shotgun like blasts came out from Zeta's hands as he threw it at me.

"Anti-Magic Shield!" I set up in front of me and blocked all of Zeta's spells in exchange for the mana it was used for casting that spell. "320 mana for each blast? That's a lot."

"Absolute Rainfall of Arrows!" Thousands of arrows were suddenly summoned at the sky and fell down.

"Protection from Arrows!" A barrier mostly for protecting arrows. I negated his attack.

"Armor Piercer!" A small laser came out of Zeta's finger but it managed to penetrate through my armor and through my shoulder with a clean cut. Zeta was worried but I gave him the okay that I'm still good to go. "Summon, Dem-" Then I remembered that this is the sky island. I don't know why but I get the feeling that they won't welcome demons here. "Fireball Blast!"

"Fireball Blast!" Both of our spells collided and cancelled each other.

It seems that I have to get a bit serious. I rushed in started off with a large swing of my weapon. He dodged it easily. "Cleave!" I added to my weapon.

"Cleave?"

"You'll see." I rushed at him again and started off with a large upward swing in which he stepped back to dodge but a giant tear on his clothes says otherwise.

"I got hit?" He was confused.

I have to take advantage of this situation so I followed up with a vertical slice, in which he stepped back again but a shallow wound appeared on his shoulders. "Heh."

"What's going on?"

"I don't know."

"Then I'll just have to discover it myself! Frozen Seal!"

My feet were suddenly chained to the ground by a bunch of ice chains. "Torched Body!" I changed into an ethereal form of fire and melted his frozen seal. "Fire Pillar!" A lot of pillar flames come out from the ground and rose up to the surface.

"Frozen Field!" Zeta froze them all.

"It seems that we have to settle this once and for all." I then winked at him. Wishing that he got my signal. We need to give Greta the flower immediately so there's no time to fool around. Prolonging this fight will only make matters worse.

"I see. Then so be it." It seems that he got it. Zeta began to chant and a giant lightning orb began charging up at the tip of his staff.

Well, we just need to show that the fight itself is difficult so there's obviously going to be fake things that I have to show.I began to release some of my dark aura just to show that I'm powering up somehow. "Fists of Fury!" I summoned both of my hands' avatar. It's a gigantic two fists that mimics my own.

"Dragon Lightning's Orb!" Zeta finished casting his spell and that orb of lightning was wide as the whole arena. "DISAPPEAR!" Zeta then let the dragon lightning orb fall down on me.

I won't dodge it. "I'll take it all!" I raised both of my fist and the fist of fury did the same. As soon as both of our spells came in contact, I felt the overbearing pressure on my body. "ARGHHHH!!!" I tried to lift it with all my strength but this heavy dragon lightning orb is also damaging my body the longer I hold on it. Then the only thing I can do is smash it!

I widened my arms as if accepting the dragon lightning orb and began to squash it. "I'LL... DESTROY THIS!" I began to compress the dragon lightning orb to the size of a human, to a size of a ball, to a size of a marble until I could crush it with my own hand.

Since we already secured the Flower of Zeratria, the only thing I need to do is end this fight. I then dropped on the ground.

"Eh?" Zeta was confused.

"It's over ladies and gentlemen!" Teral began to speak, "Zeta wins the trials of the sky island! Gaining a total points of 21,300! And Zieglind coming in second with 20,000 points! Congratulations to the both of you! Everyone! Let's all give praise to these two young men!" Teral then jumped down from where he was casting and went to us. He snapped his fingers and all our health and mana and our exhaustion suddenly disappeared. "Now, congratulations to the both of you. Zeta Reysh, you may have the Flower of Zeratria." Teral snapped his fingers and a giant beacon of light shot up to the sky and revealed the Flower of Zeratria.