Chapter 24: Holy Dawn Academy’s greatest secret skill! (2/2)
His strength was very astonishing at this moment, but the arcane particles coming out of his body immediately vanished from sight as soon as they came into contact with the black flames, swallowed within, as if their powers merged into the fiery black trails.
Without the support of his arcane particles, the thick armor of sand around him collapsed, the grains of sand flowing away like water, then blown backward and dispersed by a formidable force.
His body flew back together with the scattered streams of sand.
A sandstorm rose, enveloping the greater half of the stands. Many students suffered incomparable pain from the beating of sand and gravel. Added to the shock inside their hearts, they trembled from head to toe for a long while.
Ayrin and Belo had the same exact expression on their faces, a rare scene. Both had their mouth open wide, unable to close them at this moment.
“Dark Destruction Dragon!”
At the top of the arena, standing at the edge of the dome just like Liszt, Minlur almost lost his footing and fell from the sky at this moment. His expression was just the same as if someone had stepped on his face. “Plum… Senior Plum actually taught her this secret… secret skill on the sly?!”
Ciaran also lost the air of a prim lady, her hair in disarray. “She actually learned it!”
“Even you couldn’t learn it, but she actually learned it, don’t you feel mad?”
Liszt’s lazy expression returned to his face with a smile. “I was wondering what she was doing with her arm always wrapped in so many bandages, it turns out it’s to protect her arm as much as possible when she trains and uses this move. However, with her previous level, she would have had to force herself too much to use this secret skill, so even this way she’d still have suffered severe injuries.”
“What’s that?”
In a corner of the stands, the boys who were ready to tie Stingham up and give him a thrashing froze up, fear written all over their faces.
Stingham pushed a fist away and stuck his head out. “Why does it feel like the aura of a dragon!”
“Dragon aura? Arcane particle swallowing!”
The one called captain Hansen suddenly turned pale. “Dark Destruction Dragon! The strongest secret skill of Holy Dawn Academy, a skill that can swallow the opponent’s arcane particles, Dark Destruction Dragon!”
“Impossible! Isn’t Dark Destruction Dragon the skill that stands side by side with Holy Gates of Life? It was lost long ago! Didn’t they say it’s been a long long while since anyone in the entire Holy Dawn Academy learned this skill!”
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On the edge of the arena, several Southern Monsoon teachers in charge of the team likewise shouted in a daze, “How could this be! How could they even have Dark Destruction Dragon!”
The entire Holy Dawn Arena was in chaos.
The sandy wind vanished bit by bit.
The crowd’s sight slowly cleared up. They saw the half of the field where Ferdinand previously stood entirely covered in yellow sand.
Two figures, one big and one small, stood above the sand.
Chris and Ferdinand. They were both still standing!
Chris stood not far away in front of Ferdinand. Tiny grains of sand covered her body and hair. Blood oozed from the bandages on her left hand. Ferdinand’s body was also severely wounded, especially his face; it looked as if someone had stepped over and over on it; probably even people from Southern Monsoon wouldn’t recognize him anymore.
“I didn’t expect… didn’t expect you actually managed to train such a terrifying arcane skill.”
Ferdinand said out all of a sudden, his voice a little blurry, as if his tongue had been beaten swollen.
“Worthy of the girl I admire. It’s unfortunate, you’re all by yourself in the end. You don’t have powerful teammates like me, all of them ready to bravely fight at the cost of their lives!”
His voice became feverish and confident all of a sudden. “It’s unfortunate this arcane skill is too powerful, you can’t endure this kind of power either. Right now you’re certainly unable to lift even a finger, you’re about to pass out, right? That’s why the final victors are still us from Southern Monsoon Academy. Chris, just obediently transfer to our school, come make history with us, come create a miracle!”
“What!”
Ayrin had just closed his mouth shut, but he almost jumped up when he heard Ferdinand make that kind of noise.
Could it be Chris still couldn’t beat this guy after fighting her way this far, after using such power? Were they still going to lose this match?
“There’s no need to force yourself.”
Chris’ voice rose at this moment, weak yet brimming with resolution, making Ayrin’s blood almost boil.
“You still want to sound tough, you still want to scare me. Just quietly fall down.”
Chris struggled to lift her head. She stretched out her right hand, stretched out a finger.
She looked like she wanted to use this finger to push Ferdinand’s forehead, but she was much shorter than him and couldn’t reach it.
This finger then fell on Ferdinand’s chest.
“You even saw through that…” Ferdinand said, helpless, before her finger even landed on him. Then with a “boom,” his huge body fell back straight, like a rock. And then he didn’t move any longer.
“Chris wins, Holy Dawn Academy wins.”
A referee ascertained Ferdinand’s unconsciousness with a single glance. He signaled the medical team to enter the field at the same time he announced the end of the match.
“Ah!” Ayrin exclaimed with incomparable excitement when he heard that. The screams of almost every Holy Dawn student followed his shortly after.
“We finally won!”
Chris let out the trace of a smile at this moment, then her body also fell softly on the ground.
Sound disappeared all of a sudden.
The medical team lifted her, as anxious as if they were facing an army, and carried her away. Everyone in the field understood what truly happened.
A burst of drums and applause rose from the stands occupied by the Southern Monsoon students.
Everyone understood that at the very end of the fight, she’d stood on the edge of unconsciousness just like Ferdinand, but she only fell down after hearing the announcement of her victory.
What kind of determination was that? What kind of victory was this?