Chapter 102: The battle between the strongest of St. Lauren! (1/2)

Chapter 102: The battle between the strongest of St. Lauren!

Chris stood where she was without moving an inch. Facing Ferguillo, she lifted a single hand.

Ferguillo mumbled something for a second, then his body flashed and suddenly appeared to Chris’ side.

“Puff puff puff puff…”

Their hands and feet suddenly hit each other at frightening speed, generating extremely heavy sounds that made the spectators feel utterly uncomfortable.

Within the space several meters wide, countless hands and feet and silhouettes whirled around. It was wholly difficult to distinguish which silhouette was a real one.

Neither Chris nor Ferguillo used all that many arcane skills, they both fought at close-range in a battle of pure strength.

Clearly, Ferguillo was the one who kept advancing, while Chris merely defended herself.

Everyone could vaguely distinguish Chris blocking Ferguillo’s strikes no matter from which direction he attacked. His fists and kicks rained like storm, yet couldn’t find any way past.

Very quickly, someone in the stands said, “It’s Holy Dawn Academy’s Soft Coiling Serpent!”

More and more people noticed that Chris’ body looked soft, as if it were entirely boneless. Her arms and legs could even distort at inconceivable angles, to the point several great pythons seemed to be coiled around her body from beginning to end, blocking every strike from Ferguillo.

“This is an arcane skill from Holy Dawn Academy specializing in defense. Chris actually masters it so well!”

“Ferguillo’s strength looks much greater than hers, why can’t his attacks land?”

“This defensive arcane skill of hers has special tricks to diffuse strength. It’s especially aimed at opponents with a greater strength than the user. Only, she doesn’t expose the slightest gap even when Ferguillo’s assault is so swift and fierce. She’s probably the only one who can stay so focused and cool-headed.”

“These two are purposefully not using arcane skills and having a purely physical contest right now? They seem about equal?”

Within a few dozen seconds, while these kind of voices came down nonstop from the stands, the rapid and oppressive sounds of hands and feet clashing together stopped all of a sudden. Two human silhouettes broke apart. Ferguillo and Chris both stilled again a dozen meters away from each other.

“So fast!”

“What a powerful physical strength. Ferguillo’s physical strength seems even higher than Wilde’s, he also looks faster than Wilde!” Ayrin didn’t even blink at the edge of the field. “Mere passive defense, not taking the initiative to attack, this is indeed another good method to cope with Ferguillo!”

“She wants to rely on absolute defense?” In a corner of the stands, many elite masters of Iron Forest Academy were frowning. “Relying on passive defense to cope with Ferguillo’s assault every single time, not launching any counterattack. If this goes on, even if Ferguillo exhausts himself and wins, he still wouldn’t have enough left in the tank to deal with the next opponent.”

“With a mere common human bloodline, you actually managed to train your strength and reaction speed to such a degree. You’re indeed an Amazing Girl.” Ferguillo’s expression was still faint, yet he couldn’t hold back the flames of war blazing deep inside his chest.

“The boss’ fighting spirit is really fired up, he’s going to use a genuinely powerful skill!” Extremely familiar with him, the members of team Iron Forest could tell just by looking at the form of his back.

“What!”

The entire arena suddenly broke into earthshaking cheers and cries of alarm.

Ferguillo seemed to be staying where he was without moving an inch, but just at this time, another Ferguillo suddenly tore through the air behind Chris, seemingly holding a dazzling sun in his hand and pressing it ruthlessly in the direction of Chris’ back.

Chris suddenly whipped around. She lifted her hands slightly. Just at this moment, Ferguillo’s forward momentum halted all of a sudden, and his body quickly fell back several dozen meters, leaving a series of pretty afterimages behind him!

“What happened?”

“Why are there two Ferguillos!”

Ayrin exclaimed in disbelief, just like many people in the stands.

“Ice Mirror Reflection and Shadowless Blink Strike, added to Three Slashes of Sun and Moon!” Carter’s explained in a calm voice, “What’s standing motionless in his original spot isn’t Ferguillo, it’s only an ice mirror with his reflection left inside it.”

“It’s a confusion-type skill?” The immobile Ferguillo in the original spot indeed seemed to evaporate and become hazy, then vanish. Ayrin was a little taken aback. “He actually launched three arcane skills in succession in this short frame of time, his invocation speed actually reached such a level?”

“How did Chris react in time?” Stingham suddenly muttered, “Ferguillo retreated so fiercely, what does it mean now?”

“Undulation Perception!” At the same time, in team Iron Forest, the team-leading teacher Lee’s expression turned completely solemn. “Chris actually grasped Holy Dawn Academy’s Undulation Perception as well. She can immediately sense the undulations of arcane particles at close range, so, apart from arcane skills that can conceal the undulations of arcane particles, I fear any surprise attack is utterly useless against her.”

“She must have thought about using some powerful counterattack next.” At different ends of the field, Lee and Carter actually said at the same time in light voices, “She thought about it, but didn’t act on it. Yet she still forced Ferguillo back in this manner. This is a very risky move, but it really paid off.”

“An impenetrable defense!” In team Agate Lake, Sofia couldn’t resist shaking her head, her tone a little dismayed as she said, “At the very least, I definitely can’t do any better when it comes to defense.”

In this exchange of attack and defense, the consumption of arcane particles was simply not of a scale. Imperceptibly, Ferguillo already ate a little loss.

However, apart from the cold will to fight growing even stronger in his eyes, his face remained unfazed.

A dazzling magenta stream of arcane particles flowed out from the tips of his fingers. The air around him seemed to flare all of a sudden. Strange tornadoes started spinning one after another, carrying with them a strange pink color, then materialized into countless dozens of pink feathers glittering with the light of precious stones.

These glittering, beautiful, colorful feathers floated all around him. Then he pressed forward in Chris’ direction, his steps unhurried.