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Latia turned and glanced at Davian for a moment before nodding.
Latia stopped her fire elemental magic and sprayed water everywhere.
She used her mana to lower the temperature of the water elemental magic to its extreme.
The water sprayed on the ground immediately turned into ice and solidified.
Davian began to openly direct.
"Etin is coming! Fire attacks like before! Buy time!"
Latia shot fire elemental magic again.
Etin began to thrash its huge limbs again.
Davian shouted again.
"Lay down as wide an area of ice as possible when it's far away!"
As Etin staggered away in a zigzag pattern, Latia manifested water elemental magic again.
After several repetitions, a fairly large area became an ice floor.
"Nubes! Lure it onto the ice!"
"Got it!"
Nubes, with his large shield in front, charged at Etin.
Whoosh.
Etin's huge axe passed by where Nubes had been.
Nubes, who rolled away to avoid the axe, began to retreat again.
Etin swung its axe and chased after Nubes.
Etin, swinging its axe at Nubes, stepped onto the ice rink that Latia had created.
"Nubes! Body check! Latia! Help with telekinesis!"
Nubes turned and dashed across the ice as if sliding.
After holding his shield close to his shoulder.
Crash!
He crashed straight into Etin's ankle.
At the same time as Etin's foot slipped.
Etin's giant axe was aimed at Nubes.
Boom!
Latia's fireball flew towards Etin's axe and exploded.
A perfect direction.
While losing his balance as his foot slipped, he hit the side of the huge axe he was swinging.
Wobble.
"Aaaargh!"
Nubes, throwing himself again, delivered a body check.
At the same time.
Latia's telekinesis was activated.
She grabbed one of Etin's huge heads and pulled it forward strongly.
Etin completely lost its balance and floundered.
In the meantime, the foot that had been raised high plunged straight down onto Nubes's head.
As if saying it would step on and kill this bug even if it fell.
Latia shouted.
"Nubes! Dodge!"
She was already pulling Etin's head with telekinesis.
She didn't have the strength to cast an attack spell to help Nubes.
But Nubes didn't avoid Etin's sole.
Crunch!
Etin's giant sole completely crushed Nubes.
"Nubes!"
Latia, startled, was about to withdraw her telekinesis when.
"Aaaargh! Did you think I'd let both feet touch the ground like this!"
Nubes, protecting his head and shoulders with his shield, slowly raised his body, trembling.
"Now...! Fall over!"
Nubes, who had fully stood up, lifted Etin's foot high.
The moment he lifted his foot to step on Nubes again.
Stagger.
Etin's huge body, having completely lost its balance, fell forward.
Crash!
Latia's fire elemental magic, manifested almost simultaneously.
Whoosh!
A powerful pillar of fire spewed out towards Etin's left head.
"Kaaaargh!"
Etin covered the top of its head with both hands and struggled.
But it was already fallen.
Since both hands were protecting the top of its head, it couldn't get up again.
It twisted its body this way and that, but Latia's fire elemental magic persistently targeted the same spot.
Sizzle.
The thick skin of the back of its hand burned.
This time, a scream erupted from the right head, which was not being attacked by the pillar of fire.
Hurriedly dropping its left hand from the top of its head.
Now, the right hand, facing the pillar of fire head-on, hurriedly grabbed the left hand and pulled it up again.
But the left hand shook off the right hand.
"Kaaaargh!"
In the meantime, the left head was facing the pillar of fire head-on and began to burn.
Vellum asked.
"What is that doing now? Why is it like that?"
Davian nodded.
"I knew it. It was right that the left and right move separately. The right head moves the left limbs. The left head moves the right limbs. It seems to feel pain separately too."
It was an incredibly convenient system when deploying attacks freely.
But when faced with pain and fear of fire, it became a strange body where the left and right acted separately.
Latia's pillar of fire stubbornly targeted only one spot.
"Kaaaargh!"
Etin tried to get up somehow.
But both heads were already giving different commands to the limbs.
Bonita crossed her arms.
"It's over."
At that time.
Thump.
The Leonel team also succeeded in knocking Etin down.
The two swordsmen now began to rush at Etin's neck in earnest.
But Etin's defense was also formidable.
Even in its fallen state, it swung both arms to prevent the swordsmen from approaching its vitals.
On the other hand.
Latia's pillar of fire had already moved to the right head.
Nubes was standing next to the pillar of fire, doing something, sticking his sword into the pillar of fire.
"What is he doing there again? Won't that be hot for his hand?"
"He must want to get the last hit."
"Last hit?"
A moment later.
Nubes pulled out the sword he had been heating in the pillar of fire.
The blade was glowing red.
Nubes, holding the sword firmly in both hands, ran towards the fallen Etin.
Thwack.
Nubes plunged the sword deep into Etin's right neck.
"Kaaaargh!"
Etin's twitching movements subsided.
Ting.
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[Stage Quest in Progress]
―Achieved Victory in the 1st Match
―Reward: 3,000 Mana Points (x2)
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A moment later.
―The 1st Match is won by the Gray Bear Expedition!
There was no cheering or applause.
The spectators all turned their heads and looked at one spot in the audience.
There, a middle-aged nobleman was sitting, looking down at the arena with a solemn expression.
The lord who occupied most of the vast Campus Plains in the center of the continent and the nobleman who owned the continent's top intelligence agency.
The head of the Specula family.
It was Moldin Specula.
Moldin Specula slowly stood up.
Clap, clap, clap.
Moldin Specula began to clap.
"Impressive. So this is the expedition representing Elton Academy."
Only then did applause and cheers erupt from the audience.
Nubes and Latia returned to where their friends were.
"Good work, Nubes."
"Oh! Davian. I won again!"
"Good job. You too, good work Latia."
"What, with just this."
Luna approached Nubes and cast a healing spell.
"You're hurt a lot here and there, Nubes."
"It's okay. This much is nothing. I'll be all better if I eat dinner later. But what are they going to give us for lunch? They've prepared such a big match, so the meal will be amazing, right?"
Vellum shook his head.
―After moving to the banquet hall for lunch, the 2nd match will be held. The 2nd match is a 2-on-2 bare-knuckle sparring match. Each team should select two players to participate.
"2-on-2 bare-knuckle sparring? Then the people who will go out from our side are……."
Bonita placed her hand on Vellum's shoulder.
"Why are you looking around Vellum? It's just you and me."
"Ah……? That's right? If we want to leave Davian behind, it's just you and me?"
Nubes placed his hand on Vellum's remaining shoulder.
"Don't worry too much Vellum. I, the symbol of victory, Nubes, will give you strength."
"Ha. You, big guy, the symbol of what?"
Nubes put his hands on his hips and stretched out his body.
"Symbol of victory. I've won every match I've been in so far."
"Yes. That's amazing. Very."
Banquet Hall.
Leonel approached Nubes, who was absentmindedly tearing apart a whole water buffalo barbecue.
"You, you're lucky."
Nubes, with his mouth full of meat, raised his head.
"Euh ehndee."
"What are you saying. Swallow the meat you're chewing and speak."
Nubes swallowed the meat.
"Not luck."
Leonel scoffed.
"Anyway, arrogant bastards. It won't go the way you want this afternoon."
Davian turned his head and looked at Leonel.
"I think it'll end without going to the third round again?"
Leonel's brow twitched.
"What? You arrogant bastard……."
"When are you coming out? This time? Next time?"
"When should I go out?"
"Do as you please. It doesn't matter anyway."
Grip.
Leonel grabbed Davian's shoulder hard.
"Let go. Unless you want to have a fight here."
"Arrogant little bastard. Come out in the third match. I'll show you what it's like to be afraid of adults."
"It has to be held for the third match to happen."
Grind.
Leonel, glaring at Davian, left the spot.
A moment later, this time, the head of the family, Moldin Specula, came to the Gray Bear Expedition's table.
"Liber. You have wonderful friends."
"It's thanks to my father sending me to Elton Academy."
"You went because you have a high mana affinity, I didn't do anything. Anyway, it hasn't even been half a year since I sent you to the Academy, but you've grown a lot and come back. Liber."
"Thank you, Father."
Moldin laughed loudly.
"The spoiled youngest Liber has disappeared without a trace."
This time, he turned his head to Davian.
"Are you Davian, the third son of the Naone family?"
"Yes, that's right. Nice to meet you."
"I've heard the rumors. Your fame is already spreading across the continent."
"I just happened to be involved in a few incidents."
"You're a humble friend. You must be very skilled too."
Moldin lightly bowed his head towards Latia.
"Aren't you the eldest daughter of the Meridiem Duchy. I enjoyed the 1st match."
It was a very appropriate tone, neither too respectful nor treating them like children.
"Thank you. The arena and banquet hall are very wonderful. It's impressive."
Moldin made eye contact with each of the other friends and greeted them.
Even though they were the friends of his youngest son, he never treated them carelessly.
He was the very image of a dignified nobleman.
"Then I look forward to the afternoon match too. Liber."
"Yes! Father."
After Moldin left, Vellum asked.
"Father is completely different from the eldest brother?"
"To gather information from various places, he has to build relationships with many nobles. Even if he looks like that on the outside, he's a very greedy person. Our family's information organization has grown this much only after Father's generation."
"I see."
After a lunch in the banquet hall lasting about two hours, the people moved back to the arena.
―Now, let's begin the 2nd match.
During lunch, a large training ground had been set up in the middle of the arena.
The training ground, made by laying wide flat stone blocks, was about 20 meters wide and long.
―The players from each team are requested to come up to the training ground.
Bonita and Vellum went up to the training ground.
Two warriors also came up from Leonel's side.
One was tall and slender.
But whenever his thin clothes fluttered in the wind, the tightly packed muscles were revealed.
The other had a body that was hard to see as a trained warrior.
His fat chin was split into three and his stomach was bulging out.
His weight seemed to be roughly 200 kilograms.
―The match ends when both players are unable to fight or fall out of the training ground. Once a player falls out of the training ground, they cannot climb back onto the training ground.
Luna, looking at the training ground, asked in a surprised voice.
"If you're pushed out of the training ground, it's over?"
"It seems so."
"Look at those guys' sizes. Aren't Bonita and Vellum too disadvantaged?"
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