64 Chapter 64: Fire and Ice (2/2)

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Serpens slowly disappeared, his frozen form vaporizing and falling apart into powdery snow. I had recalled him, knowing that he would no longer be able to fight.

Jie Bing regarded me warily, his breathing a little heavier than before. He frowned in irritation, and I understood why even though he didn't say anything.

I had forced him to use his trump card. This was no doubt the legendary Absolute Zero. Jie Bing had been saving it to use against the top fifty…no, the top ten mages of our academy, but he was forced to use it against me, a mere 500+ ranked student. He felt a little aggrieved, not to mention remarkably impressed by my display.

”Hmph.”

He snorted coldly, and then drew his spear back, getting ready to attack me. before I could react, he was suddenly lunging at me, his spear streaking forward in a deadly arc as it sort to pierce my chest.

”GUOOOOH!”

Taurus materialized beside Jie Bing and slammed into him with a furious charge. Jie Bing was barely able to respond, twisting around and forming yet another gigantic shield. As his shield cracked and broke, he jumped from one fragment to another, bounding upward and avoiding Taurus's charge by sailing above him. He directed another blast of Absolute Zero onto Taurus, freezing the gigantic bull, but I didn't dismiss him as I did the frozen Serpens earlier.

”Taurus!” I yelled. ”Keep fighting!”

With a bellow, Taurus broke out of the ice, his form glowing crimson, almost as if his body had been immolated. Flames ran around his thick hide, and blazed particularly ferociously at his horns. He turned to growl at a stunned Jie Bing.

Why was he so surprised? Did he not know that the element of Taurus was fire? Naturally Taurus would have a higher resistance to ice techniques if he enveloped himself in flames. I rarely did it because it expended too much of my magical energy.

But under this cold, it was pointless to conserve my strength. My energy was gradually getting sapped away by the ice. If that was the case, I might as well heat things up. Like Jie Bing, I didn't see a point in holding anything back.

My opponent was already meeting Taurus's charge, surprisingly meeting his charge head-on and lancing through Taurus's thick forehead with his spear, only for the weapon to melt. Clicking his tongue, Jie Bing materialized a gigantic hammer, holding the huge weapon with both hands and smashing it into Taurus, causing the giant bull's head to whip backward.

Even with the flames wreathing him, the sheer mass of Jie Bing's hammer was enough to faze Taurus. Jie Bing then transformed the hammer into an axe and cleaved through Taurus. My Constellation spirit was able to avoid getting decapitated by pulling his head back, but the deadly immense blade cleaved through the metallic armor plating on his shoulder.

Grunting in pain, Taurus kicked out with his hooves, forcing Jie Bing back, even as the latter created an ice shield with his left hand to absorb the blow. Skidding backward, he then hurled an ice spear at Taurus.

The giant bull snarled and pawed the ground before charging Jie Bing. Like a matador of old, Jie Bing deftly avoided Taurus's charge, deftly dancing to the side. This time, he had switched his weapon into an ice bow and was launching volley of icicles at him. Most of them shattered against Taurus's armor plating, but a few got through and peppered his hide, drawing some blood. Those that did hit immediately froze over, expanding rapidly across Taurus as if to try and entomb him in ice.

Taurus's movements increasingly grew sluggish, and he dully spun around to try and track the evading Jie Bing.

”Taurus, Aldebaran!” I ordered. Taurus's jaws slightly opened and a tremendous torrent of flames washed over the frozen arena, instantly melting all the ice. In an instant, the pseudo tundra had turned into slush water, flowing downward to form a shallow pool that lapped at our heels. Jie Bing's eyes widened briefly as he tried to raise his shield to defend against Taurus's sudden attack, but the flames overwhelmed him and incinerated him.

Or so I thought, but I could briefly detect his sturdy life-signs from behind the inferno.

”Taurus, finish him off!” I commanded. The giant bull obeyed immediately, kicking off the ground and ramming into Jie Bing's last known position.

”!!!”

”Guh?!”

Taurus grunted in surprise as a huge ice spear pierced through his chest and exited through his back, the lance possessing enough power to penetrate his armor plating. As the smoke and flames cleared, slowly frozen away by Jie Bing's second Absolute Zero, I saw how my opponent had achieved the effect.

He had braced his ice spear against the ground, using the power of the earth to fuel his strike like the hunting African tribes from ancient times, using wooden spears to use the lion's or leopard's own pounce against them.

Taurus disappeared slowly with a grunt. Jie Bing's ice spear crumbled slightly, turning into a much smaller ice spear, but it somehow still remained intact. He then threw it in my direction. I slightly dodged it, only for Jie Bing to cross the distance between us while I was distracted, freeze a new ice sword in his hands and slash downward. I couldn't even bring up my newly summoned Gemini twin swords up for a parry.

Swish!

My glasses were knocked off my face and blood streamed from my eyes. Blinded, I desperately unleashed Castor and Pollux, the black and white destructive energies blasting Jie Bing backward, but he landed unharmed on the ground some distance away.

I could feel the blood around my eyes freezing as Jie Bing activated his ice spells again. Without Taurus and his flames, there was no way for me to reverse the environment and heat it up, not unless I summoned another Constellation spirit.

Even though he was aware of that, Jie Bing couldn't help but be polite. Raising his ice sword, he pointed it at me.

”Do you still wish to continue?” he asked. If I didn't, he would respect my wishes and grant me a dignified loss. If I did, then he would continue to do his best to defeat me.

I merely smiled warmly despite my forcibly closed eyes, my excitement boiling uncontrollably inside my chest. ”Of course. This match isn't over yet.”