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Chapter 58- CIARA MERLIN VS RAFFAELO JUN

The excitement that filled the Stands as the battle began seemed nearly insignificant to the two participants that faced each other on the Arena.

One was a girl, with black raven hair and bright emerald green eyes. She held a silver wand on her hand and an aura of mystery and magic exuded from her very being.

The other was a boy, white hair and beautiful white pale eyes. He exuded strength and sharpness in contrast with the innocent facade his eyes gave off.

The battle had begun just as Michaelo disappeared and Ciara quickly twirled her wand in the air while she jumped a long distance away from Raph.

"6th tier magic ! fiery Implosion".

Five balls of fire, the size of a school bus formed around her.

They collided with each other, causing it to compress and collapse on itself and a crater formed due to the mass as She waved her wand again and projected the ball of fire towards Raph.

"this again ?" . Raph muttered as he stretched out his hand horizontally in the air as the hilt of his sword formed from the gathered cold wind.

He quickly grabbed it, swinging it down in one swift motion and slicing the ball of fire into two parts.

Each missing him by a long shot and colliding with the walls of the Arena.

Ciara's brows furrowed as the crowd screamed in excitement.

'....did he…just cut my magic ?' She thought to herself when she felt a swift breeze and a sudden appearance in front of her.

"don't get lost in your thoughts, Ciara".

His voice sent a cold chill down her spine as she bit her lips and pulled her wand up, blocking a strike from Raph's sword. Discover more content at empire

The force of the attack sent a terrible vibration down her bones as the ground compressed further into the soil.

She yelped.

'What ? These brutes and their insane speed and strength !' She thought, causing a thrust of air to form at the tip of her wand blowing herself away from Raph to her side.

She forced her wand into the ground to reduce her momentum as mana swirled up in her body.

"7th tier magic ! Rock Drill !".

The ground vibrated as bits of rock formed, colliding with each other as seven large rotating drills formed from rocks.

Of course, it didn't form instantly, she had to maneuver her body with the wind, blocking and dodging some of Raph's intense attacks until it finally formed, hovering over her.

"Die !" She cried out in annoyance as one shot down towards Raph.

He quickly back flipped, dodging it in an instant and landed on the ground. He inhaled deeply as the wind swirled up while he ran across the side of the Arena dodging each of the drills as it collided with the ground causing splints of rock to explode into the air.

This occurred for about 15 seconds until he suddenly stopped when the last drill was sent towards him.

He pulled his sword up and in an instant made numerous motions with his sword and disappeared from his position as the rock drill turned into bits of rock in an instant and exploded.

"Again ?!" Ciara cried out. 'Fucking unprecedented events' She thought to herself.

How do you think magic works ? The formation of the supernatural or the elemental from nothing ? What is that nothing? Of course it is mana.

Magic is formed from a coalition of mana while a set of formulas are recited to create a magic attack.

These set of formulas are known as magic spells.

However most talented mages have the ability of bypassing the use of spells by either using it in their minds without needing to call upon it or using it in their own way.

The Merlin household are a family of mages who have bypassed this rule a long time ago. Everything set as impossible has been made possible with their intense research on magic and thus the ability to use magic attacks without reciting magic spells.

Magic attacks have the ability of canceling each other out due to their nature of being made of mana.

Thus mana cancels out mana and aura cancels out aura.

Though? Aura canceling out Mana ? yes it is possible but the level of proficiency one has to reach to obtain that level of efficiency would be unfathomable.

However, a young boy most likely in the 7th star seemed to be effortlessly cutting off her magic.

'How does he keep doing it ?!' Ciara thought when she swirled her wand again.

"Tch !". She bit her lip as the wind propelled her to her left dodging an attack from Raph.

"you're rather mobile. I thought mages couldn't keep up in a frontal assault ?" Raph asked with a raised tone of curiosity as he swung his sword across the air, causing a crescent aura to shoot out towards her.

Ciara cursed under her breath. "Who do you think you're messing with !".

Yellow Lightning sparks began to emit from the tip of her wand as she screamed out in annoyance.

"7th tier magic ! Lightning torrent".

A crisp sound followed by sparks of lightning emitted throughout the Arena, projecting towards Raph.

"try and cut this".

Raph stopped in his tracks, panicked evident in his expression and raised his left hand in the air, slamming it to the ground in an instant. "impact igloo".

A cold wind surrounded him in an instant as snow began to form from his hand when the stream of lightning grew intense and ravaged through the Arena causing a loud explosion.

The ground shook as it broke causing rocks to explode into the air while Ciara stood at the other side of it panting lightly.

'I used a lot of mana for that one….but an area of effect attack like that must have done a number on him'. She thought to herself noticing the streams of cold fumes emitting from the position Raph had been just before her attack.

The crowd had gone nearly silent in anticipation since the fumes blocked their view of what had occurred to the Jun boy.

The Patriarchs seemed intently interested to find out what he did as well though the Jun patriarch was passive in the whole matter.

"..he should be…at least paralyzed…right ?" Ciara muttered waving her wand in the air, causing the rocks surrounding her to rise up forming a wall.

The fumes finally cleared revealing a self contained snow igloo.

Ciara scoffed when the igloo suddenly cracked and broke down revealing Raph.

Some parts of his body, especially his left hand had been burnt from the brunt of her lightning but other than that. He seemed fine.

No. He seemed, too fine.

The young boy sighed as he shrugged off the pieces of ice that were still on his body. He slowly turned his gaze towards Ciara. A bright smile appeared on his face.

"Ciara, You're annoying. Do you know that ?". He said with a raised tone that seemed contrasting to his smile.

"Annoying ? Me ?! It's you filthy men that are annoying !". she cried out in annoyance. Her peerless beautiful face wrinkled in annoyance.

She swirled her wand again sending the walls of rock surrounding her into the air and projected it towards Raph in an instant.

He scoffed, swinging his sword in a swift numerous motion and disappeared from his position, sliding on the ground as he charged towards Ciara.

The four walls of rocks broke down into tiny debris, falling on the ground like rain as Raph swung his blade down towards Ciara.

"Ah!" She muttered, startled by his sudden appearance and caused the wind to propel her backwards dodging the attack by a hair's breadth.

'What's wrong with him ?! why is he so fast !'. She cried out in her mind as Raph suddenly charged towards her again.

She controlled the wind, pushing herself further and faster but Raph only needed to increase his speed to catch up.

"7th tier magic ! Tsunami !" She cried out as a wave of water formed between the two stopping Raph from going after her.

He clicked his tongue, swinging his sword when the wall of water suddenly grew larger towards the sky, completely sealing one half of the Arena.

He stabbed his sword on the ground as the water descended down on him.

"Cold Zero".

A chilling sound echoed in the Arena as ice spread from his sword to the large stream of water that had descended, turning it into a beautiful sculpture in the span of a minute before it could fall on him.

He sighed, a chilling breeze exuding out of his mouth as he pulled his sword out of the ground and jumped over the wall of ice.

Ciara stood behind it, panting lightly as she felt a presence above her.

"....you've used a lot of 7th tier magic. Your mana reserves must be running low".

Raph said as he slid down from the top to the bottom.

"...what's it to you ?" She asked, propelling herself further back, away from Raph as he landed on the ground.

"...why won't you use it ? you can't defeat me otherwise". Raph said with a calm tone while Ciara glared at him.

She was well aware after facing him for what seemed like five minutes. He's strong and she probably wouldn't be able to tire him out or win unless she went all out but still She couldn't bring herself to do it, afterall.

'He is a man. He doesn't deserve my best'.