Chapter 110: knockout 8.

"Deal!" Instructor Zirrack said with a smile as he shook professor Alfred's hands to seal the deal.

'I am putting a lot on that kid. If he wins we both win, but if he loses more exercises… hehe.' Instructor Zirrack grinned as he returned to the training grounds through a warp gate.

'Patience isn't one of my virtues…' He was eager to start the final match right away but he had to follow the rules he had set.

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"I bet the entire school is watching." Brian looked around training grounds and could feel the anticipation in the air.

"Even if the entire Calton city was watching it doesn't matter..." Luciano said.

"Yup…" Blake nodded in agreement.

"I just want to get this over with. The rest is quite helpful but it isn't the real deal." Blake said while yawning.

"I just hope basic magic and elemental mastery exams aren't tasking or else we would surely have a poor performance..." Castiel said with a worried expression.

The knockout exam was draining especially for those who had made it into the 4th to 5th round. All parts of their bodies were aching from the hits they had sustained, they felt like taking a week off but unfortunately, they had the last 2 exams the next day.

"The finalists should step up for the final battle." Instructor Zirrack called up Luciano and Blake for the highly anticipated match.

This was the match which the entire first year had been looking forward to since the beginning of the semester. Blake had been on the top since the beginning and hadn't been challenged once and since no one could force Luciano to challenge him, they could only imagine the fight between them.

But now, both of them had been forced to fight and even though it wasn't going to affect their ranks they would get to satisfy their fantasy.

"May the best man win…" Blake said to Luciano as they both walked up to the battleground. "Oh, and don't quit…" Blake's words stunned Luciano for a second before they took their positions on the battleground.

"The rules are still the same. Keep things clean the match continues. On my mark, begin!"

With the match signaled to start, both Luciano and Blake brought out their estoc and katana from their dimensional amulet.

"Let's get this over with, shall we…" Unsheathing their swords they both darted towards each other.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

The sound of metal clashing against each other echoed all over the arena as Blake and Luciano displayed their sword skills.

After gauging each other sword skills, they both withdrew and began preparing different spells. Blake activated the lightning reinforcement and infused Reaper with the lightning element. Since his fire was inferior to the golden flames, Blake had no intentions of wasting time in a losing battle so he decided to focus more on speed.

On the other hand, Luciano knew his weakness and that was his lack of speed to keep up with Blake and in other to remove such a disadvantage, he cast the wind domain.

[You can't defeat him in a ranged battle because of his superior flames that mean you have no other option than to face him in the wind domain, but be careful wind and fire is a deadly combination.] The system quickly analyzed the situation.

'Noted…' Blake darted towards Luciano with the speed of a bullet, but before he could reach him Luciano conjured a flame wall in his path.

Even if he had a rotten brain, Blake knew that if he passed through the wall with flame cloak only danger awaited him, so he quickly cast a mini flame burst that propelled him to the side before casting another mini flame burst that propelled him towards Luciano before giving a vertical strike.

Surprisingly, Luciano didn't cast another flame Wall to keep his distance instead, he welcomed his attacks.

When Blake's vertical strike was about to hit its mark, a gust of wind pushed Luciano out of the way, and using the momentum from the push, Luciano stabbed at Blake's side.

'Shit!' Blake cursed as he finally understood why he didn't bother blocking, but a petty trick like this wasn't enough to affect him. Blake cast an electromagnetic field on his hand, pulling the short sword from its sheathe to his left hand before using it to block the side jab.

After successfully dodging the surprise attack, Blake had no plans of being on the defense so he didn't give Luciano any breathing space. He made the electricity squirming around his body increase, forming an electromagnetic field in the form of a white halo.

He tried stunning Luciano by using the electricity from the halo to connect with the estoc, but that was when the symbols on the estoc lit up stopping the electricity from continuing on its path, but that wasn't the main reason Blake cast the electromagnetic field.

Seeing his attempt to stun Luciano had failed, Blake instantly let go of his katana and punched Luciano on his abdomen activating the effects of the Raiju breathing technique.

Before he could chain more punches to increase the damage of the technique, Luciano swung his estoc at his hands.

Ding!

Before the estoc could chop Blake's handoff, the katana was pulled back to his hand perfectly defending the attack and forcing both of them to withdraw.

'Yep, he is surely the most troublesome person I have a face so far.' Blake couldn't help but admit that Luciano was a tough opponent.

'This match is meant to be a walk in the park, but I can't use the space element because it may be considered cheating. Also, I can't use Blink because no one knows professor Mack gave Me the spell.' Blake was trying to devise a winning plan.

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"I must say that is a brilliant way to use the lightning element. I wonder what he calls that technique?" Prince Bryon said as he took a sip of his wine.

"It is for his level, but techniques like that have little or no effect in high-level combat." Principal Lovren chipped in.