65 Chapter 65: Hot and Cold (2/2)

”Corvus, Gienah!”

All of my Corvus suddenly transformed into black streaks of light that blazed across the arena to strike Jie Bing with the force of a meteor. Even his Absolute Zero was unable to stop the meteoric explosions of kinetic energy produced by the speeding crow-bullets. Force equals mass times acceleration. As tiny as each individual Corvus was, they were accelerating at near the speed of light, and thus the amount of energy unleashed by their collision was almost equal to a nuclear explosion. Well, I probably was exaggerating and they were probably moving at less than half of c, the speed of light, but even so it was still a display of tremendous power.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

”Ugh…!”

A cry escaped Jie Bing's lips as he struggled to hold up his icy shield. This time, he no longer just created a simple ice shield, but instead erected a colossal glacial wall that was several meters thick. They surrounded him like a fortress not unlike Chang Cheng's Great Wall. It was an all-round, absolute defense that protected him from the ferocious meteoric bombardment of Corvus's Gienah.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Despite its immense density, the thick ice wall trembled and cracked under the powerful bombardment. No matter how sturdy the enormous glacial barrier was, it couldn't possibly hold up against an orbital bombardment from rapidly accelerating meteors. At least not forever.

And then…I ran out of power. The last of my Corvus faded away, exploding against Jie Bing's icy screen with tremendous impact and causing several more tremors that continued to reverberate violently across the arena. Relieved, Jie Bing raised his head to stare at me.

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But while he was defending against what seemed to be my last-ditch attack, I had gone and summoned yet another Constellation weapon.

It didn't matter that I couldn't see Jie Bing. I had already pinpointed his location through the eyes of my Corvus. While they were bombarding him, I had adjusted my aim and continued to face the direction where he was standing in, unflinchingly withstanding the best I had to throw at him. The reason why I maintained my distance was because my Constellation weapon this time would be a ranged type, not a close combat kind.

Sagittarius sparked into existence into my hand, the dull black bow initially not eye-catching. But the arrow I had summoned was certainly a beacon of horror and awe, flames flowing into the slowly expanding projectile.

”Alnasl.”

Before Jie Bing could react, I had already fired the blazing arrow.

At first, the ice mage didn't move. The spectators also fell silent. The colossal ice wall he had erected had served as an impregnable fortress that had survived my meteoric bombardment of Gienah. There was no way a single arrow could break it.

Unfortunately, they had forgotten the element of Sagittarius. Fire – which was super-effective against ice magic and constructs.

Ka-boom!

The searing heat of Alnasl simply vaporized the gargantuan ice wall in an instant and detonated against a shocked Jie Bing. To be fair, he couldn't dodge even if he wanted to – the arrow was traveling too quickly for him to react. A catastrophic conflagration enveloped the entire arena, mushrooming upward in a hellish inferno that cast a grim, crimson glow upon the stunned spectators.

The scorched body of Jie Bing toppled out of the ravenous flames, smoldering and unconscious. Steam billowed about him, gallons of water vaporized and boiling furiously as the red, bloodthirsty inferno consumed what was remained of Jie Bing's once formidable frost fortress.

”Winner…Richard Huang!”

Teacher Fielding wasted no time in declaring me the winner. As the boundary field activated to extinguish the ravenous flames and restore the devastated arena, several medics hurried into the scene to grab hold of the charred Jie Bing to ferry him to the infirmary.

”Phew…”

Slumping down onto the ground, pain beginning to throb across my body now that the battle was over and my adrenaline wore off, I stayed put because of my eyes. They were still frozen shut…but the ice had melted away from the intense heat of my Alnasl. Blinking, I slowly opened them and looked around, only to find that my vision was blurry.

Fortunately, my discarded glasses were lying a few meters away from me. I scrambled to retrieve them, putting them back on and sighing in relief. I felt vulnerable when I was blinded. Plus summoning took up a lot of magical energy. I couldn't summon a soul beast or Constellation spirit and keep him in existence forever because he would continue to drain me of my energy if I did so. Moreover, the moment I fell asleep or lost consciousness, they would automatically disappear. It was too exhausting to maintain their existences for an extended period of time. Maybe an hour or two at the longest, before my magical energy ran out.

I would need a different spell that would create a specially conditioned environment if I wanted to maintain them for extended periods of time, and even then they would have to remain within that artificial spatial field…

While I was thinking to myself, I was suddenly jolted out of my thoughts by an earth-shaking roar from the crowd. Everyone was cheering for some reason. Most of the noise was generated by students from the lower ranks, particularly those over one thousand, as well as a significant number of the first year students. Even after several months since my victory over Crowley's Academy, I continued to retain a following from the first years. Or so it seemed.

Alicia was also jumping up and down, to my surprise, her usual elegant dignity forgotten. She was exchanging high fives with an excitedly screaming Harvey and a grinning Wang Fei. Even the usually moody Stan was smiling in delight, recognizing the significance of this victory. Dong Fang Yue Chu was also beaming, looking proud, as if he was the one who had fought and defeated Jie Bing.

This would definitely make people sit up and notice Ultimate Outcast Society. And my ranking, though I was unaware of it at that time, had just soared up to 428.

At this rate, I might just make it into the top 100 by the end of next year, before the university exams…