Chapter 125: Is That All You Got?
"That's… lightning element…"
"Holy… that monster is a dual elemental mage, and now we even have a lightning elemental mage…"
"The freshmen this year sure are gathering of monsters and weirdos"
Watching the events unfold, the audiences couldn't help but talk among themselves as their eyes glow, wondering what more tricks can Diluc show them, because if not, he's going to be eliminated by those three nobles, a result that most of them would really love to happen.
With the way that the attacks of his opponents are arranged though, all appearing to be hell bent on eliminating him in one fell swoop, the majority of the less insightful audiences believes that there's just no way for him to turn the tide around once again, insisting on this belief of theirs even after the emperor-like young man performs near impossible, borderline miraculous feats during this competition time and time again.
Meanwhile, the ones stronger than these previously described audience appears all the more excited as the thought that given just easy it appears for Diluc to handle all that trouble that previously comes his way, then there's just no chance that he doesn't have any trick that he can use to deal with these nobles' attack on him, a belief easily proven to be true as the emperor-like young man begins his moves the next moment.
Seeing the lightning elemental mana dancing around the sword of the young noble who proclaims himself as the one who will deal with him, Diluc couldn't help but feel fascinated and curious as to just what sort of power does the lightning element has, knowing for sure that there will be a massive destructive property to it but also wondering whether it is really all there is to it.
Of course, despite his sheer curiosity to find out more about this element that he encountered face to face for the first time in his entire life, the emperor-like young man still opts to move with caution as he never knew just what sort of damage any attack from lightning elemental spells or martial arts can do to him, making him spread his senses as he focuses more attention towards the proud young noble when compared to the other two young noble attacking him at the same time.
A decision that is definitely most advantageous to him as the moment that he approaches even closer to the direction of the three, the proud young noble's smile grows even bigger, his arms lifting the sword and moving the tip away from the previous location where it is pointing towards the emperor-like young man, said tip now directed towards the skies as if waiting for its blessing before it smites the target of its user.
Not even a few moments later, the sword in the proud young noble's grasp starts revealing an eerie, cracking white glow, the glow dancing around violently as if it couldn't wait to jump on its target and wreak havoc there, the young man wielding the sword seemingly not affected at all as he looks at the glowing sword with a natural expression of pride plastered on his face, almost as if telling everyone that only him is capable of doing something like this, within the group of the freshmen at the very least.
"I told you, there's a huge difference between nobles and commoners like you, vermin, it should be your honor as you will let me make you feel that difference!!!" scanning the sword on his hand before nodding with a satisfactory smile on his face, the proud young noble said before once again directing the end of his sword towards Diluc, said noble's expression changing from the satisfactory smile to a smile filled with unbridled malice and killing intent.
Being sensitive to such things after all the dragons that he had undergone contract with, Diluc couldn't help but frown as he wonders just what is it that made this young noble so fixated on him, not in a good way but In a very troublesome and problematic way for him, the fact alone that this young man is willing to show such murderous intent towards him despite the fact that the academy staff already said that killing is strictly prohibited here tells so much on what the young man's opinion of him is.
Of course, with such an amateurish show of killing intent, the academy staff and the instructors are instantly alarmed as well, sending themselves into an edge as the nearest staff prepares to intervene and make their move the moment that the felt that something is about to go even more south from this point forward, the only one who appears to be quite unperturbed despite the fact that there appears to be intent of murder in this arena being the sole person who should be concerned the most.
Sitting calmly on her chair, the white-haired, horned little beauty of a principal merely watches with one of her dainty hands serving as a perching for her head, the bored expression on her face something that made the beauty with beast-like feature standing right beside her to wonder why is it that she doesn't even appear to be a single bit worried when someone quite powerful is targeting her future disciple with the intent to kill.
"Ar— Miss Aria, shouldn't we make a move and intervene here?" clearly concerned towards the emperor-like young man as well, the lady with the black, cat-like feature asked as she looks at the horned beauty, who appears to be all to fine with everything happening in the arena right now.
Hearing the words of her confidant and closest friend, the white-haired beauty couldn't help but smile helplessly as she starts directly influencing the mana round her, in her vicinity forming some numbers of snowflakes that seems to move, change shape, disappear and even appear again according to her will, her nonchalant attitude of playing with mana as if to entertain herself rather than pay attention towards the events in the arena making the beastkin beauty wonder whether there's really a problem happening right now.
"Aeonia, you saw that kid's strength in his information, you should know that even if there's a lightning elemental martial artist attacking him, as long as they are of the same level, he's definitely coming out of that battle victorious, he might come not come out unscathed but he will win nevertheless…"
Explaining to her long-time friend, Aria said with a smile on her face as she finally directs her attention towards the fight that is happening right now, the proud young noble already swinging his sword towards her future disciple, making her eyes reveal a peculiar glow as she lets out a few more words as the lightning wave created by the young noble's attack travel the air.
"If there's anyone that you all should be worried about, it shouldn't be that kid but that arrogant retard who couldn't stop speaking about noble this commoner that bullshit" she added as the smile on her face changes to one who seems to be an incarnate of hell itself, her mind occupied on the thoughts of what sort of things should she make the freshmen do in order to at least diminish, if not completely sweep this kind of mentality from them.
As she is thinking of that, the traveling wave of lightning moves at a speed faster than the previous two attacks that target the emperor-like young man, eventually reaching the two and even surpassing them, appearing to be the first attack that will land on Diluc.
Anticipating what is going to happen next, nearly all of the audience are in the edge of their seat, their bodies leaning in as if it could help them to see the result of the first contact among these geniuses of the geniuses of these freshmen, their minds occupied of the thoughts of who will come out on top after this fight ends.
Appearing to hit the emperor-like young man directly, the wave of lightning elemental mana starts to go violent as its previous barely contained shape now exploded into a raging sea of lightning spanning a few couples of meters from the point of contact, the glaring white light emitted from the lightning obscuring everything from everyone's sight, the only one who had an idea of what goes down being the three young nobles who smiles the moment that the lightning spreads.
Not only the lightning, but also the fire elemental attack of the maniacal young noble and that seemingly perverted young lady's wind elemental attack lands right on the spot where the lightning elemental attack explodes, all three nobles feeling like they hit quite a solid target, said solid target feeling weaker and weaker as time goes by, making them smile victoriously as they all thought that it is definitely their opponent that they hit with their attacks.
Seeing that there's no one coming out of the still raging attack from the three of them, the proud young noble couldn't help but start laughing to himself arrogantly as he points his still cracking sword towards the attack, all while mocking and taunting, shouting with such vigor as if he's a young hero who just subdued an evil dragon.
"See that!? I told you there's a large disparity between us!!! And yet you still dare to approach us!!! Now face the consequences!!!"
Looking at the attack not dissipating until now, the young man already turns around and start paying his attention towards the friends of the emperor-like young man, intending to eliminate them as well, his sword already preparing for the next attack if not for the voice that comes out right above him, shocking him out of his wits.
"Is that all you got?"