In the elite class training grounds of Filomena Nobility Academy, Bella was currently in a match against a mage named Sylvia. Sylvia dressed in a grey mage’s attire which enveloped her entire frame. However, apart from well-known mages, mages would generally not exposed what type of magic they were well-versed in.
It was different from those fantasy novels that Bella read in her past life. The magicians from this world wore equipment to hide their magic attributes. Ariel and the Holy Mage Gilbert also didn’t wear mages equipment that had any information hinting of the owner’s magic. Not only the mages, when Bella encountered other magical professions, even they wouldn’t wear any equipment that indicated their magical attributes.
Mages did this so that their opponents wouldn’t be able to know their magic traits in advance. It was to prevent the opponents from preparing countermeasures against their magical attributes using various methods like immunity armors. Bella became a little gloomy as half of Sylvia’s face was covered. Apart from her pleasant voice, Bella couldn’t determine if Sylvia’s real face was pretty or not.
“Duchess Bellina, if you are not focused then don’t blame me.”
Sylvia raised her azure blue magic rod which was embedded with a blue gemstone on its tip. It was glittering with pure blue radiance. It glittered with pure blue radiance. As it flickered, a small whirlwind spun towards Bella’s direction. There were plenty of sharp pieces of ice blade that danced inside the tornado.
“This is fusion magic. The wind attribute, Brutal Cloud Tornado, and the ice attribute, Ice Blade fused into the Icy Tornado. It’s already worth it to be able to see fusion magic in this practice match.”
“Miss Sylvia isn’t planning on being merciful. Isn’t this fusion magic a move that she would only use during official matches?! She actually used it in a practice match.”
“Bellina is done for. If she was wearing the Dragon-Slaying Armor that she wore in the previous round, she would have been able to resist against the fusion magic. Her current armor won’t be able to make it. I’m betting 500 gold coins that she is going to fly.”
“Peter, are you regretting on placing your bet on Duchess Bellina? Because I do, a little…”
“No, I don’t regret. Banker, I will bet another 500 gold coins on Duchess Bellina.”
Bella was flabbergasted. Weren’t mages suppose to chant an extremely shameless and delusional incantation before using the actual spell? How did Sylvia skip it entirely? Wasn’t she cheating? She thought to herself, “Referee, this mage isn’t casting her spell according to the norm. She is cheating, so this match is invalid!”
Bella didn’t have a detailed conversation with Ariel about the mage’s profession. If she had, she would have known that this world’s mage and other magical professions were able to cast spell swiftly. When casting a spell, the mage would first make the incantation in their heart quickly and silently. There wasn’t a need to yell out, as it would just put the opponent on guard, which would defeat the purpose of a sneak attack.
The Icy Tornado quickly enveloped Bella. Bella didn’t try to evade Sylvia’s magic attack as this Icy Tornado had a homing effect. Since she couldn’t dodge it, she would just upright block against it.
The pieces of ice shards in the tornado spun with the wind and crashed onto Bella’s body. However, when the ice blades were a short distance away from Bella’s position, they would be blocked by an invisible barrier. The ice blades that would be shattered by the invisible barrier were unable to deal with any physical damage to Bella.
“Holy Knight’s unique skill, Holy Guard. Duchess Bellina, you… you are a Holy Knight!”
This time, it was Sylvia’s turn to be astonished, as Bella didn’t even wear the Holy Knight’s standard ornament, the Holy Cross. She had thought that Bella was just a higher classed knight. Among the Holy Knights freshmen, only the “Thunder Knight” Aurora and the “Dusk Knight” Daphne had reached this level. This Bellina was a Holy Knight as well? Wasn’t this too big of a joke?
“Miss Sylvia, could you now tell me if you have any boyfriend?”
“You… why are you concern about this? I have no boyfriend. Does this answer satisfy you?”
“I see, you will have one soon enough!”
Bella used the same move that she used against the assassin earlier. She smashed her fist on the training grounds, which caused even more severe damage to the floor that already had the cracks from earlier. William had learned his lesson this time. Before the shockwave could reach him, he jumped out of the arena. Bella had already displayed the strength of a Holy Knight and it wouldn’t be shameful to evade the shockwave of the attack. After all, they were both Holy Knights, right?!
After the training grounds had been smashed up, the next match would be unable to carry on. But Bella wasn’t judged as violating any rules. She simply had to compensate for the repair fees of the training grounds after the match. This attack had immediately destroyed Sylvia’s Icy Tornado and the strength had nearly shattered the isolation array that Holy Knight William had deployed around the training grounds.
Bella’s attack didn’t do any harm to Sylvia, as Sylvia had also learned the Mage’s classic magic spell, flight magic. When Bella was executing her attack, Sylvia was already in the sky, floating around six meters above the training grounds. The rules of the match didn’t state that mages couldn’t use flight magic. Hence, Sylvia wasn’t violating any rules when she flew into the air.
“Miss Mage, you are cheating… if you are man… a woman, then come down and have a proper match! How capable are you to stay in the air and blast your spells from there?”
“If you are so capable, then come up to fight me! Duchess Bellina, you better admit defeat. A Holy Knight without a flying mount cannot defeat me!”
“Sylvia, I will not admit defeat. It is impossible for me to give up this match before I get to see your true face.”
Sylvia was still floating in the air and using her instant ice attribute magic, Ice Thrust, and her wind attribute magic, Wind Blade to assault Bella from above. Bella was relying on the Holy Knight’s defensive unique skill, the Holy Guard to forcefully block against Sylvia’s magic attacks. Bella might look pathetic, but her defense was very tough and Sylvia’s magic attacks couldn’t break through the defenses. The two sides had fallen into a stalemate.
Sylvia saw that it wasn’t a good idea to waste time and energy like this since the mages’ flight magic tend to exhaust a huge amount of mana. She might look to be very relaxed now, but the longer the flight, the faster the consumption of her mana. If she wasn’t able to defeat Bella within a certain amount of time, and once she had insufficient mana, she would have to wait for the Holy Knight to “teach her a lesson”.
Bella might seem to be in a disadvantage, but she was very composed, while her Holy Guard’s barrier didn’t any signs of fluctuation. This meant that she still had strength, and as long as she was able to drag it out until Sylvia’s mana ran out, she would win this match. Since this Sylvia dared to admit she didn’t have a boyfriend, then she couldn’t blame Bella for having any bad intentions.
Holy Knight William was in a difficult situation. He was in charge of proctoring this match, and when he saw that they were in a stalemate, he wanted to declare this match as a draw. Sylvia was the Aldridge Empire’s Aristocratic Family’s descendant and if she lost to a knight that wasn’t from the Octavia Empire which was a knight empire, she would truly be shaming her Arcana Aristocratic Family’s reputation.
William couldn’t afford to offend Sylvia, nor could he offend Bella. Bella was now the Duchess of the Gabriel Empire and had her own Duchy. If he was to judge that Bella had lost, he would have to spit out all the money that he had took in.
Bella didn’t any signs that she was going to be defeated. If he was to judge that she lost, it might just offend two empires. The Octavia Empire had always asserted that every Holy Knight, no matter from which empire, they were their “honorary citizens”.
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