Chapter 69: Duel Of Girls
Eleanor entered the white room, her blonde hair cascading down her back, as bright as the stars themselves, and her blue eyes looking like an ocean without waves, a river without a current…
Stopping in front of William, she nodded briefly, confirming that she was completely ready. To then go through the entire process that all the students did, handing her ID to the professor, the latter also nodded before handing her ID back.
“Okay, let’s begin!” he shouted, for the second time lunging first at a student.
But as if Eleanor had been waiting for this, she clasped her hands together, and between the two hands together an absurdly bright red light was formed, subsequently, she separated her hands to give rise to a golden fire shield.
The professor stopped in his tracks.
The same light was already blinding William a little, but he stopped because of the high temperatures emitted by that shield of fire, even at 5 meters away he felt a little irritation on his skin.
‘It will certainly be more difficult than Alan’, thought William.
Taking the battle more seriously, he used the same force he used on Alan, unleashing a devastating power.
But Eleanor did not flinch, instead, she went on the offensive this time, throwing the fire shield at William.
William moved a little to the right, because of the size of the shield, and its dimensions of 2 meters long and wide, he had to move extremely fast to dodge the attack.
After dodging it, he felt burning on his left hand, possibly being so close to the shield the high temperatures irritated his skin more.
“She’s extremely dangerous…” he muttered to himself silently.
“Still hasn’t figured it out, huh?”, Theos said observing the battle.
“What do you mean, husband?” asked Alice curiously.
Nora awaited silence, but the smile on her face betrayed that she already knew what Theos meant.
“You see, Alice, the Way of Eleanor, its power is extremely special… In addition to being in ridiculously high temperatures, it can override the defenses of anything, including Mana,” he revealed.
“!!!”, she startled, her gaze turning back to the battle that was unfolding.
Eleanor didn’t move from her place, standing there completely still, while throwing spells towards William.
He nimbly dodged all the blonde’s fire attacks, but more than anyone else he knew that if he continued like that, he would inevitably lose.
Not only that, it wouldn’t be a defeat for knocking him down or because an attack hit him, no, it would be a defeat for not keeping up with his opponent, which is even more humiliating.
‘She could easily beat anyone of Advanced rank, no doubt it’s as the ID says, she’s a Peak Intermediate and can even be considered in the Advanced rank,’ William mentally stated.
He couldn’t go on like this, the more he dodged, the more his skin burned and irritated, to make the situation worse, Eleanor didn’t seem to be left with little Mana… On the contrary, she looked relaxed, making it clear that she could keep fighting much, much more.
“Well…”, he sighed, releasing more power.
It wasn’t that he entered the rank of Master, but that he gathered everything an Advanced Peak can gather to cover his body with Mana.
With confidence, the professor went all out against Eleanor, not knowing that she was expecting exactly that.
“I won,” she declared with a faint smile.
The next moment, the entire room was surrounded by golden flames, so hot that the students had to retreat to avoid being charred.
The flames covered everything, walls, floors, and ceiling, there was nothing that the fire had not covered.
Under this extreme heat field, William fell to his knees, being in the epicenter of all that heat shock.
His whole body was sweating profusely from the intense heat, and the flames on the floor threatened to devour him, breaking through his mana defenses.
“Eleanor Sonne, you have won,” he declared.
Instantly, the flames disappeared from the entire room, turning into Mana particles that merged with the air.
Proudly, she walked out of the training room.
As she exited she was greeted by numerous applauses, compliments and congratulations, but she did not respond to any of this, instead staring at Theos, her chest slightly puffed out with pride.
‘This girl…’, thought Theos.
Looking away slightly, he met Alice’s murderous eyes directed at Eleanor.
The blonde was no slouch either, she too stared at Alice, almost as if sparks were flying from her gaze.
“Alice, we’d better go,” Theos requested.
Alice turned her head towards Theos, confused. “What for? It’s my turn, I want to fight too.”
Despite Alice’s pleading eyes, Theos knew what she wanted… To defeat Professor William faster and in a more dominant way than Eleanor, proving her superiority.
Although this would provide him with more Negative Mana because Eleanor might feel negative emotions, the truth was that he didn’t want Alice to be hurt by his whims of being more powerful, and he also didn’t want to torment Eleanor more.
Fortunately for him, two people in white coats entered the building, watching each of the students and each of the students watching them.
“Good morning.”
“Good morning.”
The two men greeted briefly, walking towards the entrance to the training room, they stopped as they saw William standing there, totally weak.
“I see, teacher number 17 has suffered several injuries from this generation of youngsters, the physical tests were canceled,” stated one of the men.
The other, a little taller but thinner, nodded in confirmation, writing down on papers all the information gathered.
“Excuse me, was the testing canceled for good?” one of the students asked.
The man nodded. “Yes, the professor is injured… More psychologically than physically, but injured.”
The last sentence the man said with a hint of pity, but no one noticed, except for Theos of course.
“So, what do we do now?” the student asked again.
“Now you will have to go to the last test, the verification of Pathways,” the man stated.
As if he would not take any more questions, the robed man walked away with his companion, exiting the building.
‘Wow, this changes a lot of things…’, Theos thought.
The black-haired man’s gaze shifted to the groups of still confused students, as several had not taken their combat test.
‘Haven’t the new heroines participated…’
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