32 The tournament 4 (1/2)
Right now I'm standing opposite of Alison ready to start our battle. She is most likely stronger than most of the 7th-year students. From childhood, all sorts of knowledge has been ingrained in her brain. She has grown up with the best teachers and expensive potions, all to make sure that she would grow up into an amazing mage.
That's the good thing about being the daughter of a major noble family I guess. But in the end, I have grown up with something way better. The system. With it, I have trained my body in being a fighter and being a mage. And with my prowess, I will beat her.
Just like most people think I am Alison is a dual-class mage. She has both affinities for water and wind magic. Even if she has had the help from her family since childhood, this is purely her own talent.
It's my first time going up against someone else who is able to cast two kinds of elements. I was a bit nervous as I don't really know what to expect. I have seen some of her matches, but just like me, she made quick work of every one of them.
Opposite to her quite and composed nature, she started out with a barrage of spells. Ice spears and wind cutters are flying all around me. The power behind all of these spells is definitely stronger than when I faced my previous opponents.
I decided to act a bit more in a showy way and cast a huge firestorm. The ice spears were immediately melted and the wind cutter's dissipated completely. But Alison cast an ice barrier to defend herself against the firestorm.
The ice barrier was melting, but in the end, held up against the strong power of the firestorm. Both of us were standing on the stage in the exact same position in which we started. None of us looked even a little bit tired at all.
After a few seconds of staring each other down, I cast a gust of wind in her direction. It doesn't have a lot of damaging capabilities, but throwing an opponent off balance can make the battle end very quickly.
In response, Alison cast an exactly same gust of wind. Both gusts met each other in the middle and canceled each other out. It seems we are really matched up evenly against each other.
Even though I can definitely turn this battle around using earth and water magic, I don't want to make it known right now. If I have to I will only use the other elements in the final. It would be even better to not use them at all right known, but this will pretty much not be possible.
After going through another few exchanges with each other it really looked like we are dead even. So I decided to spice things up a bit. Before I only used magic, so let's start using body strength for a bit.
I started moving around at high speed. It wasn't at groundbreaking speed, but still able to not let her lock on to me to fire her magic. Moving at higher speed didn't hinder me at all in casting magic. So trying to move closer to her with agility I fired fireballs in her direction.
She easily canceled them out with her water magic, but because of the smoke created from the exchange, she lost sight of me for a bit. I moved behind her at my full speed and created another gust of wind.
She caught on to me a little bit too late as her reaction was a bit on the slow side. She got knocked away and fell down backward, but just before she got hit she cast a gust as well. This slowed me down for a small bit but just enough for her to start getting up on her feet again.