Humanity Return
Ch. 76 – Perfect Plan?
The air came out forcefully from the crack of the blond-haired young man's lips because of the shock was not his play. His concentration broke out and the lightning in his sword exploded into the surroundings after hearing that whisper.
He immediately turned his head towards the podium outside the arena and saw the black-haired youth waving his hand towards him.
“Leinn...!”
A furious voice shook the stadium, shocking the audience there.
The young man who was the target of the anger looked unconcerned and just smiled towards him.
It took a few seconds for Roland to be able to stabilize his emotions and realize the situation.
He instantly returned his attention to his opponent, and the sight he saw instantly increased his vigilance.
The aura was seen twisting the staff and its body was like it was dancing, a sight that was not unfamiliar to the audience the previous day.
It was just that this time the girl looked much more serious, sweat pouring profusely past her two closed eyes.
Roland realized he was one step late and started to lower his horses, intending to shorten the distance between them.
His movements came to a halt once more when he saw Aura open his eyes and banging the tip of his stick onto the arena floor.
“Aaah..!”
The light blue mana began to spin rapidly as it sucked into the girl's body, making her body glow with light.
This was one of the techniques that Aura had, but he could not use it before as he would enter into a weak position for a few seconds while doing so.
Long red streaks started to come out from the end of the stick and adorned the stone arena below.
One, two, five, ten...
[Domain Name]
High-intermediate level magic that changes the Mana around its user into Fire Mana, making it easier for Fire User Magic to use their magic here.
This magic was very similar to the magic used by Adeline in the previous day, it was just that the scale of the change was not the same and this magic did not have the slightest attack ability.
But this magic has one advantage...
[Fire Storm, Fourfold]
A magic circle appeared under Roland's feet and a fire vortex that was much larger than the previous day appeared from that circle. Aura had already started running to the side while chanting an advanced spell.
“One hundred and eight fireballs, seals and swallows..”.
[Thousand Birds]
The voice could be heard for a moment, before it was swallowed by the sound of lightning shouts that tore through the fire vortex along with the stone floor below.
The wave of lightning continued to walk and passed through where Aura stood before, ripping off almost half of the red line on the stone floor and obliterating it.
Roland realized that Aura had already predicted his movements and managed to make a move before he unleashed his attack.
“...kill evil of the world!”
The vortex of nearly annihilated flames instantly stopped in place and was sucked into the huge magic circle that appeared in the sky.
[108-fold Evil Suppressing Fire!]
Ten white fireballs instantly appeared and exerted immense pressure on the blond young man, forcing him to lower his sword.
The fireball grew rapidly around Roland and exerted increasing pressure.
Aura stopped running and closed her eyes, chanting the next magic.
One by one the magic circles appeared above that red floor.
Roland of course did not stay still and clasped the sword hilt with its tip fixed on the stone floor below with both hands. His entire body began to be enveloped in lightning that was seen jumping around.
Finally 108 white fireballs appeared and stopped increasing, just floating quietly around the blond young man.
The pressure from the magic coupled with his head still in pain greatly slowed down his speed of gathering Mana for the next attack
“One hundred and eight fires become the foundation on earth.”.
The fireballs began to move and formed a formation around Roland, the fire rope connecting one fireball to another. The formation began to look like a magic circle.
“My body becomes a sealing container..”
The fireballs started to burn even stronger and a huge pressure fell on Roland who was in the middle of it, a huge crack started to spread on the stone floor under his feet.
“and sky be key-!”
Crackles!
The concentration of Aura was split apart by the sudden sound of loud lightning, and she sensed that something was starting to damage the magic circle she was making.
The spectators around them could clearly see the situation above that arena and were extremely shocked.
The golden lightning had enveloped the entire sword Roland was holding, from the hilt to the tip of his blade.
Everyone who saw him was stunned by the sight of a young man grasping a bolt of lightning.
“Storm Sky Style, Finisher”
A whisper that was as loud as the rumbling of lightning echoed throughout the stadium, shaking Aura's body and making her react late.
[Falling Heaven]
Roland thrust the lightning in his hand into the stone floor below him and his hand clasped back into an ordinary sword, without the slightest lightning energy.
Before the spectators at the stadium could wonder after seeing that nothing had happened, they suddenly realized their seats were all starting to shake violently.
Crackles!
Boom...!
A white light followed by an abiding rumble appeared and shocked all of them, then the sound of thousands of thunder and explosions shook the entire stadium.
Many of the spectators had even fallen from their seats after feeling that great tremor.
The entire townspeople could also feel a slight tremor and felt puzzled by the strange phenomenon, until they heard the sound of a huge thunder coming next.
They saw a clear sky and were getting more confused.
A thick fog of dust covered the entire stadium for a while and everyone there could only hear the sound of lightning sparks slowly getting smaller.
The first sight they saw was a 50-meter wide hole that came out of the arena was clearly visible in the middle of the stadium, and in the middle of the hole was Roland grasping the handle of a sword that stuck deep enough into the ground.
“Haaah..”.
Crackles...
White steam filled with lightning came out from the blonde youth's breath.
Roland pulled out his sword and sheathed back on his back, then pulled out his other sword.
He raised his face and looked at the sky, a small smile could be seen on his face.
At that moment the spectators at the stadium realized Aura's figure was completely invisible above what was left of the arena, they followed Roland's gaze and raised their faces as well.
A small silhouette can be seen hovering far above the stadium and is starting to fall back. It was none other than the Aura surrounded by Mana protectors.
Aura was already estimating what Roland was going to do from his horses, thanks to the information from Adeline.
He had already prepared various plans to fight against him.
The first plan was for him to successfully complete his third stage layered magic and seal Roland completely, this was foiled by Roland who managed to launch his attack first.
The attack from Roland who possessed the ferocity characteristic of the Lightning Element's Mana could damage the magic circle of other elements effectively, making him an extremely dangerous enemy of the Magic User.
So the second plan started to work, which almost failed as well.
Aura already knew of the upcoming technique, but she had misjudged its strength. Nine out of ten of his Mana protectors were destroyed and he was blown 300 meters into the air.
“Ha...!”
Eventually Aura chose to turn this mistake into her advantage.
He so had more time in the air, meaning he could cast more magic.
The audience at the stadium could see magic circles begin to form behind the free-falling girl, and the speed increased as time went on.
By the time he reached a height of 50 meters from the ground, dozens of magic circles were already spinning in front and behind his body.
[Mana Bullet, Chained]
The 50 centimeter wide Mana ball began to fall rapidly towards where Roland was based, forming a light blue rain.
Boom boom...
Dust fog once again covered the arena and only the sound of explosions could be heard. This went on for a while until finally there was silence above the arena.
Roland realized this hail of bullets was simply to cover his gaze and naturally, he could feel a huge Mana from his back. He turned his head and looked at the white fire spear that had already almost reached his face.
Clangs!
His sword slashed the fire spear and flicked it to the side, he realized the fire spear was a magic wand enveloped in the Mana Fire.
“...?!”
Roland reflexively swung his sword upwards and managed to brush off what he considered to be his true attack.
Nah!
His slash hit the second strike and did not feel the slightest bit of strength within. It turned out that the one he just brushed aside was a long black stick, which did not look scuffed in the slightest after receiving his slash.
‘Sword sheath..?’
Suddenly, in front of him was a shadow that began to move very quickly.
He could see the silhouette of the long sword in the shadow's hand.
“Leinn...?!”
The name came out without realizing it, then he realized it could not happen.
The identity of the shadow was none other than Aura who was in a very low position, with both hands grasping a dark blue sword.
Blood seemed to seep out from both of Aura's small arms without him noticing, he simply swung the sword in his hand with all his might towards his opponent's chest.
A smile appeared on Roland's face.
After resisting the attacks from those two different directions, his body was not in a good position.
He realized that in that position, he could not possibly dodge or resist his opponent's attack...
“Gear One”
...in the usual way.
Crackle...!
