Chapter 150: Strange comprehension (1/2)
Chapter 150: Strange comprehension
“I wonder what kind of powerful figure this new Golden Stag substitute will turn out to be.”
Watching Gezny, the second contestant for Golden Stag, take to the field, looking as thin as a bamboo stick, such a thought floated in everyone’s mind in the stands.
Imperceptibly, everyone had come to the subconscious belief that Windsor, the member representing Snow Wolf, couldn’t possibly win this bout.
The very skinny-looking Gezny didn’t have the slightest desire to trade words with his opponent. When he came into the field, he directly signaled his readiness at Kleis.
Hence the fight started very quickly.
“Snow Spirit!”
The moment the fight began, a white ball of snow appeared around Windsor, fluttering in circles around him like a snow spirit in the depths of a forest on a snowy night.
This was clearly a very standard strategy. Launching an arcane skill integrating attack with defense, this was the first choice for almost every arcane master in a fight.
The dazzling brilliance of arcane particles also appeared on Gezny’s hands.
His body, and even the clothes he wore suddenly turned into an extremely bright red.
“Hiss…”
There was a collective gasp in the stands.
In fact, even without using your eyes, you could judge what kind of arcane skills the fighters were using in the field just by the various voices coming from the stands.
Only a particularly fearsome arcane skill, or perhaps one extremely peculiar, and one that almost no one knew of could cause such a tsunami-like wave of hisses.
“What arcane skill is that?”
Ayrin was also thoroughly mesmerized.
After turning entirely into a bright red color, Gezny actually began to melt, starting from the feet. His whole body started slowly sinking down. It quickly vanished, and became an extremely bright puddle of thick, sticky blood.
“I don’t know.” Charlotte stared in a daze. She never heard about an arcane skill like that either.
Facing Gezny, Windsor was also staring in a daze. After hesitating a moment, he chanted in a quiet voice. The “Snow Spirit” revolving around him still stayed near him, but a white arrow of snow half as big as a man instantly took form in front of him, then shot toward that puddle of blood at astonishing speed.
“Puff!”
The white arrow of ice struck the ground, exploded, forming a blanket of ice covering the entirety of that thick sticky pool of blood.
“What!”
However, what made the spectators in the stands gasp once again, what made Windsor turn white as snow was, a bright red color also emerged under Windsor’s feet.
Like a layer of sticky blood oozing from the ground, a dense, sticky pool of blood also formed at his feet.
Before he could launch another arcane skill, a blood-red figure suddenly flashed into existence on his left. It was impressively Gezny.
“Hiss…”
Windsor himself couldn’t hold back an audible hiss. Along with the pull of the arcane particles from his fingers, the “Snow Spirit” fluttering around him smashed ruthlessly in Gezny’s direction.
The Snow Spirit exploded on Gezny.
At the same time, without a sound and without a trace, a scarlet hand stretched out from the blood at Windsor’s feet, grabbing both his legs.
“Ah!”
Windsor shrieked. His legs also made bone-cracking sounds.
“Puff!”
The Snow Spirit directly went through the blood-red figure’s chest. Bloody waves spread along the hole in its wake, then the entire blood-red figure once again shrank down like a puddle of blood.
The sticky puddle of blood vanished from under Windsor’s feet as though it seeped into the ground. In the meantime, Windsor couldn’t stand upright any longer. He fell to the ground.
“The bones in his legs have been crushed to pieces!”
“What on earth is this arcane skill!”
Amidst the continuous shouts of surprise, Ayrin actually didn’t peep a word. He watched without even a blink.
He saw the puddle of blood once again bubble where Gezny had first disappeared from, then Gezny’s body once again appeared in its original spot as though nothing happened, looking at the fallen Windsor.
Charlotte turned her head left and right, looking at the stands, listening to the voices coming from them. She said, astounded, “This secret skill must surely have appeared very rarely. It seems there’s no one in the entire stands who knows about this secret skill.”
“Could it be a skill that merely deceives the sight, while in fact you go underground below your opponent’s feet?” Ayrin asked all of a sudden.
Charlotte turned around and looked at him with a shake of her head. “It’s impossible to know with mere conjectures. The only way to feel what kind of secret skill it truly is is probably to face him.”
River Bend Academy was an extremely formidable team just like Golden Stag. In the rest area reserved for participant teams in the stands, a boy in that team who looked only thirteen to fourteen couldn’t resist saying, “This year, Golden Stag Academy is even harder to deal with than last year.”
This boy’s hair was of a peculiar bronze color. His height was very short, and his eyes were an azure blue. He looked particularly smart and clever. He seemed to have some sort of ADHD; his hands moved here and then moved there, without any cease. Now and then, he even couldn’t stop himself from taking out a complex building block toy. He tore it apart, then very quickly rebuilt it again.