46 Library of Mages 6 (2/2)
Emily kept sending the feathers, but she couldn't harm Jol at all. Her control was not enough to attack with more at the same time. Or at least I thought so. Out of nowhere, four two-meter blades appeared, aiming at Jol from four different directions.
While everyone was focused on Jol and her dodging, Emily made the blades from the feathers. With her hand high up she watched as the shocked Jol didn't move.
As her hand descended, the blades fell. Twisting her body to the limit, she tried to dodge the incoming blades. The stadium was filled with high pitched screeching of the shield as the blades scratched on it. It didn't break. Using this chance Jol run out of the circle of feathers and attacked!
Her sword slashed at Emily's shield shattering it in one slash. The fight was over.
”Ok, you two. We will let you know of the results later. S-320 vs. A-5341, Let's go.”
Emily and Jol left the field while my opponent and I entered it. We got the shields and put them on. I was wondering how my soul image will react to this shield. But I wasn't planning on using my soul image in this fight.
I could dominate the fight with pure strength, but that would be no fun. So, I prepared a few things that I can use instead. The moment the word 'start' reached my ears, I used the seal in my hand to summon a shield in front of me. Seconds later, a fireball blasted the shield making it shake slightly.
This was the same Shield Seal I created a month ago. I did some small changes to make it a little bit stronger which decreased the size to a slightly larger round shield. Defending from the approaching fire, with my other hand I grabbed more Instaurare Cores.
For the past month, I kept studying seals, preparing more different types of seals. Which I now wanted to put into use. Seals can do a lot. Almost anything. With a little help from Ike, Travis and his team I created quite a few seals.
I activated the Seal in my left hand, the Instaurare Core glowed brown as I slammed it into the ground. Pillars of dirt rose from the ground creating a forest. This Seal was holding one of three spells Ike learned even though he was a Martial Artist, The Forest of Pillars.
With the protection of the pillars I ran around the place hiding from my opponent, and he wasn't pleased with the current situation. He blasted the pillars destroying them, but their sheer number would exhaust his elemental essence.
I couldn't use The Forest of Pillars Seal again, it was a single use only. With that, I pulled another seal and activated it. A metal dagger shoot up from the ground which I grabbed quickly. This seal was another gift from Ike. The Dagger was summoned with the help of a Martial Technique, and thanks to the simplicity of Martial techniques I was able to stack more of them in one Instaurare Core.
The biggest problem with these kinds of seals is that I cannot recharge them myself. The spell needs to be put inside of the seal by a person that can cast it.
With the dagger in hand, I made a quick dash and threw it mid-dash at my opponent. He reacted quickly to the flying dagger, but his reaction speed wasn't fast enough. The dagger slashed at the Shield and cut it clean making it disappear!
It was a perfect throw! Just enough to break the mana shield but not to hurt the opponent. In case I would fail I was ready to summon another dagger with the seal if my opponent would've somehow dodged it.