Chapter 141: Still hasn’t had enough? (1/2)
Chapter 141: Still hasn’t had enough?
“I’ve consumed almost all my arcane particles. I have to win with a blitz.”
“Looks like I can only use this tactic.”
His hands propped on his knees, Ayrin gasped fiercely for breath. He raised his head slightly and looked at Austin, Mountain Kings’ fourth contestant, coming into the field.
Austin’s expression was particularly bad.
Mountain Kings Academy had always traditionally been a strong team. As soon as the groups were drawn, all the observers believed that Mountain Kings Academy were the ones most likely to eliminate Silver Trout Academy and qualify into the top eight, in case Silver Trout had some harsh fights before they met.
He’d always been the number three in team Mountain Kings, his strength second only to vice-captain Rykiel and captain Werther. Previously, when they saw Holy Dawn Academy’s school team, he had also been the one who mocked them the loudest. But now, looking at Ayrin’s clearly tired and spent appearance, he still didn’t have any confidence in his victory.
“How should I fight?”
His thoughts tangled in his mind for a long while. He only made up his mind when Ayrin gestured at referee Kleis he was ready. He was going to fight the way he was best at, assault Ayrin with raw strength and explosiveness. Otherwise, if Ayrin were to force him on a contest of something he wasn’t good in, victory would be even harder to glimpse.
“Holy Dawn Academy against Mountain Kings Academy, Austin against Ayrin, begin!”
Feeling the situation more and more strange, Kleis signaled with his eyes at the assistant referees to be even more careful. Only then did he declare the start of the fight.
“Royal Dash!”
With a “Boom,” his entire body radiant with golden beams of light, Austin seemed to transform into a big human-shaped ax slashing at Ayrin with alarming speed.
“Hoooo… Hoooo…”
As soon as Austin moved, Ayrin’s clothes flapped noisily, plastered against him by the wild gusts of wind rushing to his face.
“What a formidable force!”
Ayrin shouted without the slightest fear. His whole person immediately flashed to the side.
“Divine Inhale!”
A chant rushed out of Austin’s mouth like an explosive bellow.
“What arcane skill is that!”
Ayrin opened his eyes wide. His body felt like steel attracted by a huge magnet, sucked toward Austin.
“Hammer of Death!”
As Ayrin firmly stamped his feet on the ground, resisting this force, Austin chanted in another explosive bellow. Countless bronze- and black-colored particles combined in the air, condensing in front of him into a huge hammer taller than a grown man, smashing ruthlessly in Ayrin’s direction.
“Triple Burst Rhapsody!”
“A mighty triple strike, that’s exactly Austin’s most proficient, most formidable move!”
Such surprised cries rumbled in the stands.
“Evil Flaming Eye!”
A huge burning eye shot away in front of Ayrin.
“What!”
In the stands, almost half the crowd stood up in spite of themselves. Even Kleis’ and the assistant referees’ eyebrows shot up. They forced down the urge to act.
In everyone’s opinion, since Ayrin couldn’t dodge in time, the only thing he could do was to launch an arcane skill and weaken the power of the Hammer of Death, then try to block it or perhaps dodge it afterward.
But no one expected was, Ayrin’s Evil Flaming Eye didn’t fire at all in the direction of the Hammer of Death, but directly shot at Austin.
“Bang!”
At the same time the Hammer of Death smashed on Ayrin, the Evil Flaming Eye had also already reached Austin’s chest.
“What!”
Austin had never imagined Ayrin would entirely disregard his own safety. After launching his triple strike, he only had time to swerve one arm horizontally and shield it in front of his chest.
“Boom!”
A blaze exploded in front of him. His whole body snapped back and flew away.
“Bang!” “Bang!”
After the strikes smashed Ayrin to the ground, he still rebounded heavily twice in succession.
“What on earth is he doing?”
“He didn’t try to defend even against the Hammer of Death, but directly used a mutually destructive tactic?”
“The Hammer of Death has such formidable power, how can his body withstand it? Isn’t he afraid of being directly struck dead?!”
“Right now, all his bones are probably be shattered.”
“Hammer of Death is clearly so much more powerful than his Evil Flaming Eye. It might be possible for Austin to stand up after eating his Evil Flaming Eye, but how is he going to stand up after this? Could it be he knew he was going to lose for sure, so he tried to create an opening for the ones coming after him?”
The stands were in an uproar. Many people even started asking quietly, “Won’t he be directly killed?”
“He really used this tactic again.” This thought flashed at the same in the minds of people from Iron Forest Academy, Divine Shield Academy, and Agate Lake Academy.
“What!”
“He can still get up?”
“How can he be so hardy!”
What made people in the entire arena stare in disbelief was, after being smashed to the ground and bouncing twice, thumping the ground with his crashes, Ayrin immediately got up on swaying legs just like Austin.
And what made people gasp even harder was, Ayrin was actually hurting so much even his face was completely twisted, yet he was the first one to start dashing, even before Austin, charging toward the latter.
“Impossible…”
Austin’s chest was still hurting so much he couldn’t even catch his breath, and his body felt as though it had cracked open, as though it were out of his control. Even his body hair stood on end at this moment. However, his long painstaking training still moved his body, as if subconsciously, making him launch an arcane skill at the fastest speed.
“Royal Dash!”