Chapter 131: Frozen Princess (Edited)

'Oh, look at that, it worked!'

Cedric blinked as he saw what happened to Anton. To be fair, he wasn't sure that it would end up like this. He was just trying something out and it succeeded...somehow, at the expense of Anton's well-being but that's to be expected, after all this is a fight.

[Notice! Skill: 『Dispel』 learned.]

Yes, Cedric tried using Dispel through clapping and it worked. Typically, he needs a medium like a wand, orb, or a staff to cast a spell. Additionally, one needs to chant an aria to do so. Of course, there are ways to bypass those requirements; such as having perfect control over mana, Ki in Cedric's case, or having a complete understanding of the spell.

『Dispel』 is Magic and usually needs mana to cast. However, there are ways to work around it, otherwise, how could Cedric cast it when he doesn't even have an ounce of mana in his body?

Cedric, being the genius that he is, discovered this and found a rather unorthodox way to do so. He does feel a little bad for making Anton his test subject but hey, it worked! Luck played a huge role but it still worked.

And with Cedric's memory and absurdly fast learning curve, he will master this in no time.

'Sorry, Dude. I didn't mean it, but you asked for it.' Cedric sighed inwardly as he saw his opponent being carried away to the infirmary.

'Still, he's a bit impressive. I reckon that he raised his strength from Tier 3 Lv.7 to Tier 4 Lv.5 when he decided to go all out.'

Unfortunately for Anton however, Cedric's 『Dispel』 was the perfect counter for him. Well, who could've thought that Anton would go all out and use his strongest skill at the very start of the match?

Cedric did see it coming, but at the same time, his using Dispel had a 50% chance of failing so the fight could've ended a bit differently. However, he succeeded so...lucky?

'I still don't know why he's hiding that much but meh...I don't particularly care. It's my business anyway.'

He's also aware of the stares he's receiving from his fellow freshmen but he decided to ignore them. This isn't the first time, nor would be the last. It's annoying but he could only get used to it.

Since he already defeated Anton, he could move on to his next match. He barely used any energy to defeat Anton, and even if he did, he already recovered it by now.

He's still good to go so he decided to accept the next challenge, this one coming from Isabella herself.

**

From the audience, Isabella sat in a lone corner, watching as her batchmates competed with each other. She accepted challenges earlier and defeated everyone who thought they could replace her.

However, for the most part, Isabella wasn't really concerned about the rest. Her focus is on the sole person she challenged, and that's Cedric.

If she told anybody that she lost some sleep because of this man...a man, they'd most likely react as if the world was ending.

Irritation crept up to her heart as she saw this. She doesn't know she's so upset by this but she does know that she doesn't like this at all.

Thus, to vent out her frustrations, she conjured several compressed glaciers above her. She didn't hold back because she knew that Cedric could take it. Besides, she wanted this match to happen. She wants to see just how far ahead Cedric is and to do that, she needs to show some sincerity.

'3...2...1! Fight!'

Woosh!

As soon as the countdown ended, Isabella launched her attack. Ice crackled around her and a freezing cloud erupted from her body.

She saw Cedric finally reacting, but instead of looking at her, his attention was on her attack instead.

Due to her focus, Isabella entered a state where time seemed to slow down. She saw, in clear detail, how Cedric's eyes looked at her attack; calmly analyzing it, and seemingly getting bored by how slow it was.

She saw how Cedric merely tilted his head to evade her attack. Not minding the formation of ice exploding behind him at all.

If she wasn't paying attention at all, she would've missed it. But Cedric flicked a finger and launched a small plume of fire towards the ice formation behind him.

To her surprise, she felt the heat contained by that tiny plume of fire and was astonished. With her affinity with Ice, a fire of that size shouldn't even make her feel anything yet when Cedric does it, it's somehow different.

Then, she saw how the massive ice formation behind him melted like snow under the summer's heat as soon as the plume of fire made contact with it.

The fact that he was able to do something like that so effortlessly caused Isabella's worldview to be shaken.

'I spent a decent chunk of my mana to cast that spell, I also did it at my top speed yet he dodged it like it was some randomly thrown pebble and melted it with ordinary fire?'

'Sure, his temperature control is phenomenal, but to do it so effortlessly like that...and only spend a drop of his Ki to do so?'

'What kind of monster am I up against?' Isabella was truly shaken by his display of skill.

Unknowingly, the Frozen Princess started sweating nervously. Her thoughts raced, nearly forgetting that she was in the middle of a fight.

Still, she recovered pretty fast at least, and launched her follow-up attack.

She stomped forward, casting a spell where ice crept up in a cone shape toward Cedric. Yet to her overwhelming surprise, as if predicting her next move, Cedric did the same. The only difference was, instead of Ice, Cedric did it with flames.

The clash of the elements caused a steam cloud to erupt, covering both the participants. With this obstruction, the audience could only groan because they couldn't tell what was happening anymore.