Chapter 24: Holy Dawn Academy’s greatest secret skill! (1/2)
Chapter 24: Holy Dawn Academy’s greatest secret skill!
“Is that even a dream?” Belo threw a glance Ayrin’s way, a little speechless.
Ayrin’s expression was very serious. “Why wouldn’t it be?”
“She’s the one who keeps saying she wants to dominate the entire kingdom. Your dream is to help her, how can your own dream be built on someone else’s foundations?”
“Well anyway, this dream thing, isn’t it something that you most want to do right now, that you can see in front of you but is very difficult to achieve? What I want to do now is precisely to help her beat teams from other schools, why not?”
“Then you might as well say you want to beat all the other teams and become this great tournament’s champion yourself.”
“Same result, it’s more or less the same thing.”
“Idiot, this dream thing, how can you be so casual about it, it’s fine as long as it’s more or less the same?”
“…”
Ayrin was about to say firmly that he wasn’t being casual about it, that he’d decided his dream in all seriousness. But just at this moment, Chris started to advance toward Ferdinand with great difficulty.
Ferdinand helplessly watched Chris, considering in his mind which arcane skill to use to take her out of the fight without causing her any lethal injury.
“Sand Armor!”
He made up his mind when Chris was still over twenty meters away from him. First he shouted loudly, then clasped his hands together and fiercely struck them on the ground in front of him.
Dazzling magenta arcane particles closed packed together gushed out from his joined palms and rushed to the surface of the ground. A deep pit suddenly appeared on the ground, while his body sucked toward it streams of air mixed with large amounts of yellow sand and stone, becoming a thick armor of sand and stone.
His body seemed even bulkier now!
“You want to help her dominate the kingdom with your level? Just the current Ferdinand can crush you to death.” Belo couldn’t help but taunt Ayrin when he saw Ferdinand suddenly transform into a stone giant.
Ayrin didn’t hear Belo’s mockery at all, however. His entire attention was gathered on Chris and Ferdinand.
Chris came increasingly closer to Ferdinand. Her body wouldn’t stop swaying, yet she suddenly told Ferdinand in a firm tone, “Your Southern Monsoon team is indeed really strong this year, but I’m still going to beat you. The ones to enter the main qualifiers will be our Holy Dawn Academy.”
“Mm?”
The blond Stingham wasn’t seriously watching the match anymore in his corner of the stands, instead sticking his head left and right, seeing if there were pretty girls around him, when a shout suddenly escaped from him. His gaze locked tight on Chris.
“What?”
The four teammates beside him tensed up immediately.
“It looks like there’s a crack on Chris’ clothes.” Stingham shook his head in disappointment. “Too bad the crack’s not in a good place, you can’t see anything.”
“…” The four teammates around him almost puked out blood right on the spot.
…
“Unexpectedly…” At the same moment, on top of the arena, Liszt’s eyes flashed with the genuine shock of matters exceeding his expectations.
Just at this time, the clothes on Chris’ left hand cracked open entirely.
The sleeves of her outer uniform around her left hand, the sleeve of her inner uniform, they all suddenly tore open under a frightening aura.
And what halted the breath of everyone in the stands was, the exposed hand and arm were entirely covered in thick bandages.
“How could there be such a frightening aura?”
Ferdinand’s expression changed immediately.
Even if Chris weren’t injured, her reserve of arcane particles couldn’t be that much greater than his, but at this very moment, the aura gushing from Chris’ left hand made his heart flutter in panic, gave him a sense of hopelessness.
“Sand Giant!”
With a great shout shaking with inexplicable shock, countless dazzling arcane particles squirted out at top speed from his arms and legs without the slightest reserve.
Dense yellow grains of sand emerged from the ground, continuously gathering around his arms and legs.
His body grew upward nonstop, his arms and legs grew incomparably huge, especially his hands that looked like two giant hammers.
Anyone could tell this was an arcane skill combining arcane power and physical strength, could imagine how frightening the power would be when such a fist hammered down.
Within this short moment however, the aura gushing from Chris’ left hand seemed to have ignited the air several meters around her on her left side; even the thick bandages wrapped tightly around her left arm were charred pitch-black by the fiery aura seeping from her hand.
“What arcane skill is that?”
Ferdinand shouted out loud, incredulous.
Countless rays of black light radiated from Chris’ left hand, bringing with them a fiery aura devoid of warmth. He could hear scalp-numbing fracturing noises come Chris’ arm and the bandage around it.
“Ah!”
Almost everyone in the stands, no matter students from Holy Dawn Academy or Southern Monsoon Academy, everyone stood up and cried in alarm.
It seemed as if a monster with a body several dozen times bigger than Chris’ own drilled its way out of her left arm. In the space of a short instant, in the air on Chris’ left side, fire and blackness transformed into an unimaginable, malevolent, fiendish, terrible black flame dragon!
“Ah!”
Seeing the dragon whose mouth was about the same size as himself after he’d transformed into a giant, Ferdinand became so frightened he could no longer form words. He brandished his fists and smacked them toward the black dragon that flew through the air in his direction.
“Boom!”
Black streams of fire surrounded him in an instant.