73 Tournament 4 (1/2)

”The winner is Ivan Hope”, the referee announced, as soon as the sign appeared that his opponent had lost.

After that the two of them did shake hands before they left the stage, so the next pair could fight.

Next up were Miss. Tang and a man who had shown a lot of skill in fire magic. Which would be a bad match for him. To Ivan's knowledge Miss. Tang was proficient in ice magic which was able to counter fire magic well. Of course it worked the other way around too, but since she was stronger it should be easy for her to win. He could only hope that her opponent would make it a good fight, so that he could gain some information about her fighting style.

After the announcement by the referee the both of them greeted each other before starting their fight.

Both of them pulled out their staffs and Ivan once again marveled at how great Miss. Tangs staff looked. Her opponent's staff on the other hand was much simpler.

While the spectators cheered the two of them started to cast their first skills. What surprised Ivan a bit was that neither of them called out their pets. He could kinda understand why Miss. Tang didn't call out her pet, since she had hidden it until now, but her opponent had already shown his before. So he couldn't understand his decision not to call it out now, since he was of the opinion that that guy would need any help he could get. And his pet which was a simple vampire bat should be able to at least disrupt his opponent.

Over Miss. Tangs head a large ice crystal formed, while above her opponents head a much smaller fireball congregated. Of course size wasn't the most important thing, since smaller fire balls with higher heat would work much better, than larger but colder ones.

After that both of them waved their staffs forward at the same time, which made their conjured skills fly towards the middle of the stage. There the two skills clashed in an explosion of steam and pressure.

This was the most primitive way of comparing the strength of ones magic skills, since there were no sophistication in it, but only pure strength counted.

Soon the steam vanished and one could see a much smaller ice crystal remaining floating in the air. From this it was clear who had won this contest. And indeed, as soon as the ice crystal appeared, the fire mage did forfeit.

*Damn, there wasn't really much to learn from this fight.*, Ivan was disappointed. After all this clash had brought him no new information.

After that the fights of the first round continued until only 10 people were left in the tournament.