Humanity Return
Ch. 64 – Actual Ability
Arena repairs take longer due to damage. Some teachers even went down to help speed up the improvement and eventually, restore the arena to its original state while strengthening it as well.
And on top of that arena right now was a pair of fighters standing on two different sides alongside their Contracted Beasts.
On one side was the pink-haired little girl clasping a stick taller than her, standing there with a solemn expression alongside the large, calm-looking wolf accompanying her.
“Haha! We meet again, Aura Flameheart!”
A loud voice coming from the man standing on the other side of the arena, sounded filled with great arrogance.
Aura raised her face and found her opponent this time.
A big man in luxurious clothes with a black shield and a golden hammer in both hands. Beside him stood a large **** that was snorting loudly.
“Let's make a good fight!”
Bartolomeo Schwein's attempt to show ‘niat nya’ it did not receive a reply from his opponent it.
Aura looked at him seriously, but her mind was somewhere else.
He recalled the nervous feeling he felt yesterday, and back then he was only at the stadium as a spectator. He thought the nervousness would multiply as he stood up as a fighter today.
But at this moment, his beating heart had been produced by a different feeling.
A feeling he doesn't recognize, a feeling that makes him happy.
That new feeling filled his entire body with energy.
“Bet ready!”
And courage.
“Start!”
Along with the start of the fight, Aura instantly held the tip of her staff with her right hand and twisted her entire body.
Bartolomeo who saw this showed a relaxed expression, until when Aura finished twisting his body and swung his staff from the bottom up with all his might, scraping the stone floor below him.
“What?!”
A long red line emerged from the floor that touched the staff, extending at incredible speed towards Bartolomeo.
The line eventually passed over a distance of 50 meters and reached below the man's feet and stopped extending.
Before he could recognize what it was, a magic circle appeared and began to spin from the end of that red line, just below his feet.
Surprised by that, he raised his face then looked at Aura who was surrounded by red Mana and was chanting her magic incantation.
[Flame Storm]
The red line in the arena was lit up brightly and the magic circle at the end started to spin at once enlarging very quickly.
“Oiink!?”
A voice that either came from Bartolomeo or his Beast could be heard simultaneously with a giant white fire spiral emerging from under their feet, covering their entire vision.
The spectators at the stadium took a deep breath, shocked by the sight before them.
Medium flame magic, Flame Storm. The magic that was supposed to be no more than two meters wide filled nearly half the arena in front of them, revealing an extremely majestic scene.
Many of the spectators there began to realize one thing after waking up from their shock.
“Hahaha! It turns out that rumor was true!”
Amidst the firestorm stood the big young man and his Beast, laughing heartily which made his stomach tremble violently.
“Fire Princess Flameheart can't burn anything!”
The surrounding spectators started to make a commotion after hearing that, they had already realized that the firestorm in front of them was not emitting the slightest hint of heat on those sitting not far from him.
Bartolomeo looked delighted upon realizing this, finding all he had to do was busying the Wolf Beast in front of him and dropping the girl who did not have any attack magic.
His laughter did not stop for a while until when he realized one strange thing.
‘Why does he keep using this?’
A huge fire magic that did not deal any damage, an unreasonable move.
Bartolomeo also realized that Aura had inserted not the least amount of Mana into his magic, resulting in that gigantic firestorm.
Sensing the growing uneasy feeling, he was finally able to see his opponent from the small crevices of the storm.
“A-what...?”
There was a large wolf lying down and Aura holding her staff horizontally.
Rufus had already been in that position ever since he saw the expression Aura showed at the start of this fight.
Aura seemed to be chanting an advanced magic, which made Bartolomeo more alert.
He began to try to walk out from the middle of that firestorm.
And he found himself unable to move, the same could be seen from the Beast beside him who was visibly trying to move without success.
The fire magic that could not burn anything turned out to have another purpose.
The large amount of mana released by the Aura forced the Mana in the air to move around as well, producing an enormous pressure outside the small circle in the center of the fire vortex.
Bartolomeo could only show an expression of disbelief as he looked at Aura who had just finished her preparations.
“One hundred and eight fireballs, seals and swallows, destroy the evil of the world!”
Along with the last note, Aura slammed the tip of her wand with all her might onto the floor and hit the red line in front of her.
[108-fold Evil Suppressing Fire!]
The dzing!
The red line lit up brightly then disappeared, leaving behind a magic circle that was spinning ever firmer under the big young man's feet.
Suddenly the magic circle stopped spinning, making the firestorm around it also stop spinning.
‘Exposure!’
Bartolomeo leaped out of the magic circle with his Contracted Beast, and what he discovered was that a much greater pressure than before had already befallen their bodies.
The human and the Beast fell slamming the stone floor under them violently.
“A-what is this?!”
“O-oink..”
This time all the spectators in the stadium jumped up from their seats, because the disappearance of the white firestorm made them able to see the events in the arena clearly.
The circle that had stopped suddenly appeared to produce a circle with a different carving in the middle, and began to rotate once again.
The magic circle instantly enlarged more than five times and stopped when it reached 30 meters wide.
“Smagic Plated?!” shouted one of the teachers wearing a long robe.
The magic circle that befell another magic circle, Magic Plated. Using the engraving on the magic circle that has appeared, Magic User adds a new circle on it to change the magic as a whole.
Techniques that required extremely high magic theory abilities, with people known to be able to do it that fast were no more than 100 people, and they were all at the peak of Rank B or so.
Most of the spectators in the stadium recognized this technique, but almost all of them had only first seen Layered Magic at levels this high used in the original fight.
Some of those who were Magic Users just stared at the magic circle without blinking.
“Magic... fire element.. seal type... high-early level..”.
One of those Magic Users came from the teacher's waiting area, who started muttering as he looked at the increasingly bright magic circle.
It seemed like he was the first to begin to understand the composition of the magic circle.
“Magic.... what is this..?”.
His mutterings were getting longer and clearer as he could not find the identity of the magic from his memories. He did not recognize the magic.
“Haaa..!”
Of course no one knew of the magic, as this was the first time Aura had used it in a fight, the magic produced from one of her magic theories.
Created by him the moment he finished reading the final level seal-type magic book.
His curiosity prompted him to combine the various magic theories from all the books he read, resulting in a high-early level sealing fire magic, the 108-fold Evil Suppressing Fire.
“Urk..”.
“Oink!”
White fireballs started popping around the circle one by one, adding to the pressure generated there.
The aura was still in the same position and continued to circulate the Mana in his body, increasing the speed of the formation of the fireball in that air.
After ten seconds had passed and the air was filled with 30 white fireballs that began to form a formation, a loud sound broke its concentration.
“Completed!”
“Huh?”
That shock caused Aura to stop the flow of her Mana, stopping the round of the magic circle in that arena.
He began to look towards Bartolomeo's already motionless body, only to realize that his opponent had already lost his consciousness along with his Contracted Beast.
