Chapter 129: Blowing the horn of Sea God Academy’s counterattack (2/2)
Sven had stayed silent ever since the previous fight. Now he suddenly said in a soft voice, “I still have some arcane particles left…”
A faint, strange smile floated at the corner of his lips.
“Sting of the Flying Shoal!”
He watched Audrey break through the huge shark and rush in his face. Once again, he lifted his hands.
Radiant light akin to a shoal of small silver fishes swimming densely together appeared in front of him, enveloping Audrey’s entire figure inside.
Shattered ice floated around her. Wild gusts of wind rose in front of her, blowing the blocks of ice and striking them against the “shoal.”
She appeared in front of Sven, stretched out her right arm horizontally. The power of the ice wrapped around her right hand could easily press Sven down to the ground.
Sven watched Audrey appear in front of him, watched the hand of ice and snow come increasingly closer to his chest. He didn’t make the slightest motion.
Audrey looked at him. Her hand didn’t land. She fell back instead.
“The fight is over!”
“Audrey wins!”
Kleis breathed in deeply and declared the end of the fight. At the same time, the medical team rushed inside the field.
The stands were strangely quiet. Ayrin couldn’t help but start shouting, his voice exceptionally clear and startling in the huge arena: “Sven, you fought bravely!”
“Do your best, Sea God Academy!”
One second later, cheers and encouragements exploded from the stands like a volcanic eruption.
“I never thought this member of team Sea God who’s participating in the tournament for the first time would show us such a performance.” In team Dragon Breath, captain Morgan shook his head and faintly said, “This way, it’ll be hard even for Audrey to sort them out in one fell swoop.”
“Fourth fight between Dragon Breath Academy and Sea God Academy. Audrey against Pitt.”
“Look, the Sea God fighter who’s coming out, even his eyes seem different now,” Moss couldn’t help but say when he saw the fourth contestant representing Sea God Academy.
“Sven didn’t only force Audrey to consume her arcane particles. He also used his fearless courage to thoroughly rouse his teammates’ fighting spirit,” Sophia whispered, also very admirative.
No matter the final result, those from Sea God Academy should have shed the burden inside their chests, because Sven’s performance alone was already enough to garner everyone’s respect for Sea God Academy.
Audrey smiled faintly.
Previously, she had the feeling everything was in her grasp, that she could fight any way she wished against the members of team Sea God.
But Sven’s performance moments ago suddenly dispersed her feeling.
Now, she probably couldn’t seize victory by repeating the same stereotyped method.
That said, wasn’t that why the tournament was interesting anyway?
Opponents worthy of respect, opponents fighting better than expected, hotblooded yet fair duels, wasn’t that the genuine interesting part of this tournament?
“Let’s begin.” She gestured at the referee, indicating she was ready.
“Ship-Bewildering Storm!”
When referee Kleis declared the start of the fight, the fourth contestant for Sea God Academy didn’t pay any notice to Audrey’s actions. He merely used his fastest speed to spray his arcane particles out of his palms and his ten fingers.
Dazzling magenta particles immediately combined with arcane energy and transformed into countless white granules.
More and more white granules shuttled back and forth in a chaos, becoming a storm quickly expanding through the entire field.
“Puff!” “Puff!” “Puff!” “Puff!”…
The minute granules actually created strips of sparks when they rubbed against the ground.
“This arcane skill is actually so powerful! Each tiny granule actually contains such power! There’s no way you can block it without a powerful defensive skill.”
“This is simply an arcane skill that combines attack and defense. You can’t even see where he’s standing inside.”
“With an arcane skill of this level, an arcane master with two open gates will probably consume all their arcane particles just by using it once.”
“Basically, he only planned to use it once, to use this kind of one-shot skill to force a confrontation with Audrey!”
A brouhaha swept through the stands. Even though Audrey fell back twice in succession, the huge storm of granules was already drawing near her face.
“Frozen Boundary!”
Audrey clearly hesitated for a second. Her steps entirely halted.
Layer upon layer of transparent crystals covered her body.
In the black-red arena, her entire person transformed into an immobile sculpture of ice.
“Puff puff puff puff…”
Countless tiny particles battered the transparent crystal, again and again.
“She wants to withstand it with such a method.” Chris’ eyes flashed. She said in a soft voice, “Her opponent has to continuously consume a great many arcane particles. Also, her arcane level is higher than her opponent’s, so she only has to persevere for a little bit, her opponent won’t be able to persist for too long.”
“It looked like she hesitated just now. Maybe she has an even better way to dispatch her opponent, but she didn’t want to expose it in this match.” Ayrin nodded. He couldn’t stop himself from asking, “Chris, do you think you can beat her?”
T/N: Looking back, I regret not calling team Sea God team Neptune instead. I didn’t do it because Neptune isn’t part of this novel’s mythology, but Sea God just sounds… blah.