Chapter 437

Chapter 437: Flame kin.

The final event of the regional competition was the individual event and with Castiel clenching the victory in his match, the East had unofficially won the regional competition, but it wasn’t to be announced till the end of the final event.

Winning the regional competition would not only give the counselor of the region more authority and freedom to make certain laws, but it also meant greater allocation of resources for the region’s development.

As for the students that hadn’t been eliminated, they were no longer competing for their schools but themselves.

The last event of the regional competition was to determine the strongest student of the empire. The winner would get a large number of gold coins, artifacts and most importantly recognition.

Nobles did not need the gold coins, the artifacts from the royal family and the recognition were the most important thing. With the recognition, they could start their career in the military and later on venture into politics.

As for commoners, the recognition they would receive was even greater because they competed with those at the top of the food chain and won.

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Since this was still the first round, there was no break between fights. So once Castiel had won his match, Luciano had begun making his way up to the platform.

His opponent was Austin Karius, the rank 2 of the capital who had awakened the lightning and water element, making him quite a good counter for Luciano hypothetically.

“Begin!” The host announced the start of the last match of the 1st round.

Once the signal had been given, Austin who was in a deep blue elemental armor activated lightning reinforcement and dash forward while firing water spells.

‘Why do they always waste mana doing useless things at the beginning of the match all in the name of ‘probing’ the opponent?’ Luciano shook his head as he created a large ring of fire using golden flames.

Once the water spells got to him, the ring of golden flames rose, easily quenching them.

“My turn.” Luciano said as he began continuously firing large amounts of golden flames at Austin.

Sensing the mana used to cast such large amounts of flames, Austin saw no need in trying to counter them with water spells when he could just dodge them.

Putting more mana into lightning reinforcement, it became quite easier for the Austin to dodge the rain of fire spells.

‘He is quite slow compared to Blake and Damon, this shouldn’t be too difficult.’ Luciano thought as he began firing explosive fire arrows at both Austin’s current position and possible positions.

Although his predictions were not 100% accurate, it made it even more difficult for Austin to continue dodging.

“Fuck!” Austin cursed as the force and scorching heat from the explosions of one of the flame arrows hit him. (Luckily for him he had moved quite a distance away from it, thus receiving very little damage.)

‘The flames are too hot and powerful, I can’t even get close to him.’ Beads of sweat rolled down his face as the temperature of Luciano’s part of the battlefield had risen to staggering heights.

Normal flames were nothing compared to golden flames. Golden flames were more than 4 times as hot as normal flames, and in addition to that, golden flame users had twice as much control as normal pyromancers.

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The absurd power of the golden flames was the reason why Luciano rarely used the wind element.

‘At this rate, there is no doubt that I will lose.’ Austin thought.

The situation was very bad because the fire element was very destructive, so fire users were not meant to be allowed to go on the offense.

The hilarious part was that at the start of the match he had been the one on the attack, but now the tables were turned.

“If I want to have a chance I have to use it.” Austin said as he activated the ability of his elemental armor that doubled the power and control of his water spells.

“Let’s try this again.” With lightning reinforcement active, Austin once again dashed toward Luciano while dodging fire attacks and quenching flames when necessary with greater amounts of water.

‘His elemental armor is quite powerful, but does he think that it is enough to defeat me?’ Luciano scoffed at Austin’s futile attempts.

With golden flames burning in the surrounding the moisture in the air was minuscule meaning the power of water abilities would be reduced.

‘Time to add fuel to the flames.’

Luciano raised his hands and multiple mid-sized whirlwinds began appearing in the areas with the most flames.

With the addition of more flames and with the whirlwinds being very low in humidity, in a matter of seconds Luciano’s half of the battlefield was filled with flaming whirlwinds.

“How can he withstand so much heat?!” Austin couldn’t help but ask as he covered himself with a thin layer of water before returning to his side of the battlefield.

‘He is a monster!’ Austin was shocked as he watched Luciano standing in the middle of a ring of fire and multiple golden flame whirlwinds without even showing a sign of pain.

Although the pyromancers were resistant to fire, they still weren’t immune to it. A hot enough fire would still cause damage to their body, that was why when scorching flames were used for a prolonged period they could get a heat stroke.

Well, it wasn’t the same for members of the royal family. The golden flames were only second to white flames, so overheating and burning oneself had been put into consideration. That was why every member of the family had to go through heat training.

Right from birth, Luciano had been continuously exposed to heat, and as he got older the heat he was exposed to got fiercer.

He surely wasn’t immune to fire, but he wasn’t in the same league as normal people.

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