Chapter 15: Combat Practice

The second match is between a boy called Hugo and a girl with the name Wylda. The battle started with wylda casting [1st circle – Aqua ball] towards Hugo rendered him being knocked down.

Because of [Aqua ball] properties, his clothes also become wet. Still the power of aqua ball is quite weak so he immediately stands up and approaches Wylda before she could cast another spell.

Looking at the approaching Hugo, Wylda tried to fend off him and try to make some distance to cast another spell. A game of cat and mouse begins within the two students.

Soon, Wylda manages to gain some distance after having a lucky shot of a [Aqua Ball] towards Hugo. Then, she immediately casts another overcharge [Aqua Ball] with more mana in it.

A spell could be overcharged with more mana to become stronger and potent but it also takes more time to cast and needs fast speed calculation to hold the magic circle.

Looking at the overcharged water ball spell, Hugo tries to get up and approach Wylda quickly. But, at the last moment Hugo still got blasted by the spell and got out of the arena.

Then, Teacher Elis ends the match and declares Wylda as the winner. She goes back to her spot and immediately calms his rough breath from casting spells many times.

For a first year, Wylda's performance is very good as she could already cast 1st circle spells in battle without trouble. But her mana is insufficient to cast spells more than four times.

Still most of the first year students couldn't even manage to perform 1st circle spells more than twice especially in the battle where you need to pay attention towards your opponent.

'Hmm.. it seems she didn't consider fighting in the next round. Looking at Jayna's personality I doubt she will try to hurt an exhausted girl. Well, none of it is my problem.' Thought Angus inwardly as half listening to the evaluation that teacher Elis gave after the match.

Done with lecturing, teacher Elis called Angus and princess Jayna for the next match. Jayna is looking at Angus like want to beat him down because of yesterday's event and Angus's personality that keeps ignoring her.

As for Angus, he makes one of his shoe laces loose before walking toward the arena in a calm manner.

Before the match started, "Umm… Teacher, I surrender." Said Angus in a calm manner.

"Eh… you sure about that?" asked the teacher.

"Yes, I know my own capabilities. I will only lose easily fighting with such a strong princess Jayna. So, it is a waste of time." Explained Angus with a lazy attitude.

Hearing such an explanation, the princess who wanted to beat Angus replied, "Coward!! If you are truly a man fight me!"

Hearing this Angus replied, "Princess this has nothing to do with gender, it's just this fight is pointless." While Angus walks outside the arena and back to his spot.

"STOP IGNORING ME!!" Shouted Jayna

At this moment, the princess clouded by anger cast a spell toward Angus's back [1st circle – flame shot]. Looking at this teacher Elis managed to react and cast her own spell to stop her [1st circle - entangle].

But, Jayna's mind power is quite high and cast the spell in matter of seconds before being stop. All the small fireballs already approached Angus's back. Still all of this also predicted and monitored by Angus.

By making it look like a coincidence, Angus kneel down, pretend to tie up his loose shoelaces and manage to dodge the flame balls by a hair breath. The fireballs managed to explode at the distance later.

Looking at the [flame shot] misses Angus's back, teacher Elis feels relief before releasing princess Jayna from her spell.

"Jayna, I don't know what kind of grudge you have with Angus but in my class an act like sneak attack is truly dishonorable, especially the one that is doing it is a high class noble such as yourself." [Teacher Elis]

"As a punishment, you will be disqualified at this little tournament and make Wylda as the winner by default. Now back to your spot so we could continue the lesson."

Reprimand by her teacher, Jayna feeling down and confused as to why she lately becomes easily agitated by these small things. But, she immediately puts this back in her mind before focusing on the lesson teacher Elis gives.

After a few practical lessons about basic self – defense, teacher Elis explains about elemental affinity. In Firuman, every being has different elemental affinity since they were born. The elemental affinity is useful to decide the path of someone to take.

For example, Wylda has an affinity towards water so she could learn and cast more water-based spells easily compared to other elements.

But, this does not mean she could not cast another spell beside water – based one. She will need more effort to learn and cast other elementals compared to water based spells.

To learn about one elemental affinity, people usually look at their hereditary elemental affinity or try many different kinds of elemental based spell to know about it. It is also very rare for people to have more than one elemental affinity.

It also didn't mean that having many elemental affinity is stronger. Because at the later stage, the one that has complete mastery over their elemental mastery is the strongest.

But, having many elemental affinities will hinder them to have complete mastery over their element.

It means having many elemental affinities also need working more than having only one elemental affinity. Still having more elemental affinities also makes that person cast more versatile spells compared to only one elemental.

According to Angus hereditary elemental affinity, he should have fire affinity from his father or wind affinity from his mother.

During the private lesson with teacher Andria, Angus already found his elemental affinity. He is more to fire elemental rather than wind based spells.

At that time, he didn't try to learn another elemental base spell to not increase his intelligence stat. But, now he could learn all the 1st circle spells that the academy provided to find his true elemental affinity.

Although it takes time and needs a lot of hard work, he still has an idle system to help him learn those spells easily.

Soon, the combat training course ends and Angus immediately leaves the cafeteria to have lunch. In the afternoon, he attended the smith class and found it quite interesting.

The new student of this course will be taught how to do basic smiting theoretically. It is similar to the smiting process on earth but the tools use mana to be controlled properly.

The teacher is an old man from the dwarf race, a half-height race with long beard and fat body composition, told them that it is important to have better mana control to make the tools work more precisely.

Unfortunately, new students of this course could only become helpers for months before to do any real smithing.

Done with the smith class, Angus goes back to his dorm and enters his room silently.

Looking at his host chart, 'Let's test it against other students.'

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 15/15

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 6

Intelligence: 7

Vitality: 9

Soul Point: 2