Chapter 438

Chapter 438: Flame kin (part 2)

Once the whirlwinds had turned to flames, it was time for Luciano to begin the next phase of his plan.

‘This should suffice’ Luciano thought as he brought out his golden sword before throwing it into the ring of flames around it.

‘What is he planning?’ Austin was shocked as he saw Luciano direct more flames at the sword.

‘In almost 3 years of our stay in the school, Luciano had only used the sword during our battle against the knight-rank praying mantis.’

‘We only knew that it granted the user berserk mode with more power and speed the more it gets hit. So what is he doing now?’ Blake couldn’t help but ask as Luciano kept on pouring golden flames on the sword.

‘Attacking him would only be a waste of mana.’ Using this opportunity, Austin began putting out the flames closest to him.

After close to 3 minutes of heating his golden sword, Luciano opened his hands causing the sword to transform into dual-chained sickles and flew to him.

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The peak epic tier weapon could transform from a sword to dual-chained sickles or long staff with blades at both ends.

It had one active and two passive skills. Its only active skill was the berserker, but its true strength was in its two passive skills.

The first passive skill was the one that Blake saw, as long as the blades kept getting struck the physical and magical power being supplied by the berserker skill would keep increasing. The same went for the second passive skill, but only as the sword kept increasing in temperature.

Heat marks!

With the glowing tattoos of heat marks absorbing the heat from the sea of flames all around, Luciano began spinning the chains of the blades as he activated its berserker skill.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

The sickles began hitting the ground, and with every hit, the ring of fire as well as the fire whirlwinds began increasing in size and intensity.

Luciano wasn’t done yet, he activated berserk mode (fire pathway) causing his eyes to glow with golden light and the flames to double in size.

“What the fuck?!”

Everyone including Austin was shocked by the enormous amount of flames Luciano had generated. His entire half of the battlefield was covered with golden flames to the point that even those sitting in the top seats of the arena couldn’t see him.

‘Fuck me!’ Austin cursed as he hurriedly activated the spell-holding ring given to him by his family.

The rank 2 of the capital raised his hand into the air before a torrent of water burst out of the ring, submerging the other half of the battlefield.

‘What the fuck is that ring?’ Blake couldn’t help but ask.

[That is a spell-holding ring and the reason why you haven’t seen one before is that they are rare. They can store spells, and depending on their grade they could hold up to angel-rank spells.]

[The spell holding ring also allows the user to control the stored spell which in this case is a demigod-rank spell called, waterfall, just as if they were the ones that cast the spell.] The system explained.

‘That explains why they are rare.’ Blake began fantasizing about everything he could do if he got his hands on one. He started making plans to get one.

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Back on the battlefield which was divided into fire and water.

Thanks to the passive ability of the water element that granted waterborns fins and gills, Austin had no problem being submerged in water.

(AN: I can’t come up with a better name for the hero level of the water element. Does anyone have a better name?)

‘This should be enough.’ Austin tried to convince himself, but there was still a part of him that felt he was underestimating Luciano.

“You think that is enough, I will teach you not to underestimate the power of the golden flames.” Luciano said using mana to propagate his voice into the water body Austin was in.

‘He must be bluffing, he can’t quench a demigod water spell just like that.’ Austin was both confused and anxious, but he had no time to think about it because the sea of golden flames was coming toward him.

Right before everyone’s eyes, the large body of water began evaporating at an alarming rate.

‘How can he control so many flames all at once and from such a far distance?’ Blake couldn’t help but ask as he found the scene currently playing out unbelievable.

[Not sure but it’s most likely his sword.] The system said as both of their eyes were glued to the screen.

After close to 5 minutes of the arena being drowned by the fizzling noise produced by the clash of both elements, the silence had returned.

Thanks to the special screens, the steam produced wasn’t obstructing the view, allowing the crowd to see that both competitors hadn’t moved an inch.

It was a stalemate!

Luciano’s flames had completely quenched a demigod-level water spell, but that was not for long because Austin had once again activated the spell-holding ring.

‘This is the last charge. I might not make it past the next round, but if I take him out it would be worth it.’ Austin thought as he controlled waterfall spell to move toward Luciano.

That was when Luciano brought out his artifact which was a stone pyramid with inscriptions of an eye amid flames.

“Lord of chaos, Eternal flames that’s turns everything to ashes, bestow on your faithful servant the flames to vanquish all iniquity.”

Immediately after the chant was over golden flames burst out of the stone pyramid in Luciano’s hands and instantly evaporated every single drop of water before attacking Austin and causing the golden barrier to envelope him.

“Winner, Luciano!” The host announced.

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