Chapter 80: Chapter 80
“Who do you think will win? Is it our young prodigy, Eru, a wielder of both Aura and Magic? Or will it be our wandering spellsword, Freya Nightingale?” the man in a fancy suit hyped up the atmosphere; he spread his arms wide, inviting reactions from the crowd in the audience stand. The crowd responded in kind as they continued their cheering from the audience stand. Meanwhile, both Eru and Freya Nightingale were still circling the colosseum’s arena, formulating plans inside of their heads. Suddenly, Freya Nightingale crossed her twin swords. Blue and a red light appeared on each of Freya Nightingale’s swords as she slashed them towards Eru.
Eru roared then an aura barrier formed around Eru, nearly blocking Freya Nightingale’s blue and red swords attack. Eru’s aura barrier broke apart, and he was forced to defend Freya Nightingale’s attack using his own body. Eru held the black sword up front, ready to take Freya Nightingale’s attack. What Eru was not expecting was that Freya Nightingale was already gone from where she was previously. When Eru blocked Freya Nightingale’s attack using his black sword, Freya Nightingale was already in front of Eru, ready to cast another spell. Freya Nightingale’s mouth opened up, “Fire Blast”, she said. A cone made of flames passed through Eru, blasting him towards the colosseum’s arena wall.
Eru managed to recover by using his nimbleness in the air, but Freya Nightingale had already anticipated that. Two flames bullets were aimed straight at Eru while another two flying icicles were also aimed at Eru. Freya Nightingale waved her arms, and the flames bullets together with the flying icicles were launched at Eru. Eru gritted his teeth; he charged ahead, taking the risk to get hit in order to get close to Freya Nightingale. And get hit Eru did, as the flames, and the ice hit Eru’s torso dead on. Although he got hit, Eru’s risk paid off as he’s now close to Freya Nightingale. The latter was in Eru’s length of attack as he swung his black sword.
Freya Nightingale managed to block Eru’s swing, but she was sent flying backwards just by the sheer power of Eru’s attack. ‘What is this power….’ Freya Nightingale’s thought as she cast a spell to soften the impact of her inevitable crash. Eru did not let this chance go away as he chased after Freya Nightingale. What Freya Nightingale failed to notice was that Eru’s body was slightly larger than before. His veins were visible on his face while Eru’s hair was raised up. Freya Nightingale once again blocked Eru’s attack, and she was sent flying once more.
Eru kept pressuring Freya Nightingale by chasing her every time she got pushed back. Until eventually, Freya Nightingale has had enough as she casted a barrier around herself. Not that it mattered as Freya Nightingale’s barrier was immediately shattered by Eru’s strike. “Argh!” Freya Nightingale screamed in pain as her body was flung backwards and blood dripped from her mouth. Freya Nightingale flipped through the air before landing on her knee. She panted heavily while looking at her opponent, that was charging straight at her. Freya Nightingale did not have enough chance to recover because Eru was constantly pressuring her.
‘How can this guy suddenly get this strong….’ Freya Nightingale muttered to herself while defending against Eru’s attack. What Freya Nightingale did not realize was that Eru activated Eruken silently without her notice. And Freya Nightingale could not be blamed for not noticing it as Eru only triggered Eruken whenever he attacked. After that, Eru immediately turned off Eruken, saving himself some energy and deceiving his opponent at the same time. The state of the battle continues to be in Eru’s favour. Freya Nightingale tried all sorts of tricks at her disposal to get Eru off her back. As a spellsword, Freya Nightingale’s array of magic techniques was vast and varied. She used nearly every trick in her locker to get Eru off her back, whether it was by magic or a combination of swords and magic.
However, Eru proved to be too strong for Freya Nightingale’s trick. No matter what the latter threw at Eru, Eru was able to swat them aside and kept pressuring Freya Nightingale with his extraordinary’s strength. However, Freya Nightingale could do nought as she watched her last line of defence, her barrier, was shattered easily by Eru’s single swing of his sword. Eru thrust the black sword towards Freya Nightingale’s chest, which was blocked by the latter, causing her to fly across the colosseum’s arena. Freya Nightingale hit the wall before coughing blood. Her face was full of indignation, and her breathing was not steady. She raised her head up and looked at the monster in front of her, “W-what the hell are you!?” she yelled out before immediately getting up and setting up her defences.
“I’m your worst nightmare” Eru couldn’t help but say that famous sentence from his previous life with a slight smile on his face as he launched himself forward to once again attack Freya Nightingale. ‘What the hell am I supposed to do?’ Freya Nightingale was panicking, ‘Everything that I threw at him, all of them did not work.’ She threw everything at Eru, but no matter what it was, Eru easily thwarted her plans. Even when Freya Nightingale tried to set up some trap, Eru seemed to know where it was and dismantle it immediately. Eru kept attacking Freya Nightingale, trying to make the latter flustered and make a mistake. Eru recalled what the white-haired old man said to him, ‘Fighting while holding back is hard. Thankfully, I already made preparation on how to defeat Freya Nightingale or else I could be the one in her shoes now.’ Eru realized back when he watched Freya Nightingale before his fight against Judd that this fight would require him to rack his brain off.
Eru also realized that what Boris did in his fight was work against Freya Nightingale. The only drawback to Boris’s approach was that he did not have enough power to brute-force Freya Nightingale’s spell, and Boris also did not have knowledge of how Freya Nightingale’s fought. Boris could only grit his teeth and charged forward. Not Eru, though. Because he already saw Freya Nightingale’s fight, Eru could formulate a plan to defeat Freya Nightingale based on her performance yesterday. Of course, the plan could go haywire in a second, but Eru already knew how to make Freya Nightingale act according to his plan. And that was to pressure her with overwhelming strength. Boris nearly defeated Freya Nightingale with his physique; however, he was defeated by Freya Nightingale because of her schemes.
‘As long as I’m careful enough, I can pressure her continuously, creating fear and trepidation inside her. And once that feeling accumulates, I will finish it in one strike’, Eru thought while focusing on dismantling every attack that Freya Nightingale threw at him. Freya Nightingale’s expression was ugly. She did not expect that the young man in front of her was one of the greatest challenges she had ever met. ‘I guess I underestimated him’ Freya Nightingale let out a wry smile. ‘I should’ve watched him fight yesterday, formulate a plan to defeat this young monster in front of me. Guess I got arrogant’, Freya Nightingale struggled to fend of Eru’s attack using her vast array of spells and sword skills.
Eru was having none of that, though. Eru strength that was doubled by Eruken, easily thwarted everything Freya Nightingale could do. The man in a fancy suit saw this, and he couldn’t help but gulp, ‘How scary is this kid… Freya Nightingale was not one to be underestimated. She could easily beat a 2nd Grade Aura Master with her spells; however, that kid easily toyed with someone like that being a 2nd Grade Aura Master himself….’ The man in a fancy suit spread his arms wide, “What a marvellous display of strength by our young prodigy. Freya Nightingale that previously dominated the physically strong Boris, is now being dominated herself. Can she turn it around, or will Eru continue to dominate and win?”
The man in a fancy suit described the situation, hyping it up in the process. The crowd that previously tensed up watching Eru and Freya Nightingale’s fight now erupted in cheers because of the man in a fancy suit announcement. Meanwhile, the white-haired man was standing near the chained up blue-haired man. “Is it about to happen?” asked the white-haired man. The blue-haired man closed his eyes; the blue-haired man extended his senses using his aura. After a while, the blue-haired man opened his eyes before nodding. “The boy agreed to help?” the blue-haired man asked the white-haired old man. The white-haired old man slightly nodded, “Yeah. He and Rex will handle the distraction force and then I will handle the rest”, he said confidently. The blue-haired man closed his eyes once again. The white-haired man just looked at the blue-haired man with a complicated expression.
The white-haired old man looked up to the ceiling before taking a deep sigh.
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