Chapter 58: ...It Pours (1/2)
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”Darkness.”
Tyler Mana surged forth and immediately, absolute darkness spreads from a point next to Rain. This spell was originally a tier 1 spell that would only be able to fill a 15-foot-radius sphere with magical darkness for a duration of 15 minutes. However, with the sheer amount of mana the spell had consumed from him, he could sense that the range of the spell had massively increased, almost covering the entire hall.
The darkness was pure, even a creature with Darkvision would be unable to see through this darkness, and nonmagical light would be unable to illuminate it. Rain was a dark elf, so naturally, she possessed the racial trait of Darkvision. Originally, she had wanted to continue her pursuit using her Darkvision, but when she noticed that it couldn't penetrate through the darkness, she halted her step and took a defensive stance without hesitation.
She was a little familiar with this spell so she had expected an immediate attack from her blind spot, however, after waiting for a few seconds, nothing happened. Although she didn't know why he hadn't used this time to strike, she wouldn't waste any time and give him an unforeseen opportunity.
Without further delays, she cast two high-tiered spells.
”Delay Magic. Electrosphere.”
”Max magic Daylight.”
The moment Tyler cast darkness, he immediately began his formation of several magic circles for the spells he had learned including several Tier 1 spells. Fighting an actual high-leveled opponent was a lot harder than he thought and he could no longer half-ass it. He was beginning to lose a step in the fight since he wasn't used to fighting as a magic caster.
The dark elf was using a bunch of enhancement spells that disregarded his speed advantage and he didn't have any such spells since he hadn't thought they would be useful. Well, he was wrong, her experience and skills were superior to his and he needed a chance to catch his breath and give himself a semblance of preparation.
He knew he had a lot of weaknesses but he wasn't expecting to be so totally overwhelmed by a girl that literally just came out of a coma. 'Sigh... I'm not a very good magic caster.' If he wanted to learn more about magic, he would need to find a teacher, however, he felt like if he asks this dark elf or Liz he would be embarrassing himself.
Tyler had been influenced by the Gray-War troll's spell, the fog of darkness in learning his darkness spell. Though he was a lot weaker than the troll's as he could only take away the sense of sight. This was why Tyler hadn't chosen to attack instead, he knew she would sense any attacks he threw her way but as long as he stayed still she wouldn't sense him and he should be able to buy himself enough time to finally set up all his spells.
However, the absolute darkness in the room was suddenly nullified by the intense brightness of day. Both the darkness spell and the Daylight spell were polar opposite and normally they would cancel each other out but Tyler was stunned when his spell shattered first.
Rain, finally able to locate her target didn't give Tyler any time to be shocked as she cast another spell. ”Triplet Max Magic. Chaos Lightning.”
With the thunderous crackling of purple electricity, Rain stretched forth her left arm, and three massive bolts of dark purple lightning arc through the air at Tyler from several angles like they had a mind of their own, closing him in a box as they struck down on him.
The attack was incredibly fast but Tyler had reacted fast enough to use his skill: spatial movement. However, most of his field of vision was obstructed by the huge purple lightning and Tyler could only teleport a few feet away from his prior location. He was about to move when he noticed only one of the purple lightning had struck the ground he had stood on, shattering the densely reinforced marble floor.
The other two purple lightning had bounced off the ground in his direction, Tyler thought about using spatial movement one more time when he realized he had already used it a total of three times today and only had one left. He needed to save that last one for a serious emergency and from the looks of it, those purple lighting could also bounce off the ground one more time.
Gritting his teeth he no longer wasted time and cast several defensive spells at once. ”Fire shield.”
”Lesser Resistance - Lightning.”
”Leaser Magic barrier.”
Tyler almost felt faint from the sheer amount of mana he was losing, these were all supposed to be weak Tier 1 and 2 spells, yet they drained more energy than he thought higher-tiered spells should. Thin and wispy flames wreathe his body and a faint translucent barrier appeared around him.
The Chao lightning struck Tyler head-on and shattered the magic barrier that protected him. The fire shield soon dissipated before his eyes along with the chaos lightning. Tyler was about to sigh in relief when suddenly Rain appeared before him at a low angle already brandishing her weapons towards him. It didn't seem like she was the one that had just cast several high-tiered spells in a row.
Her stamina and Mana reserves were certainly not something to scoff at. Tyler narrowly avoided her uppercut strike before taking wide strides backward and preparing for her follow-up attack. He came into this fight with total confidence in victory and had placed several restrictions on himself, he hadn't even planned on using a weapon to better control his magic power but somehow he was now at a complete disadvantage and he wasn't even sure he could win against this girl even with a weapon.