Just as the two boys were about to lunge at each other one more time, the referee immediately put a halt to the match.

"STOP!"

"Kh!"

"Uh!"

The two quickly turned their heads towards the referee questioningly. The ref only took one glance at them and announced.

"The fight is a draw! Both contestants' protective enchantments have been broken!!!"

"What?!"

"!"

Robert and Zephyr quickly took a look at their armor and noticed that it was just as the referee had said. Both their enchantments have been broken. Their earlier techniques had cancelled each other out, but the resulting shockwave had destroyed not only the arena, their protective enchantments had also been destroyed.

"Dammit!"

"Tsk..."

The two felt helpless at such an unexpected outcome. This match should have been the deciding fight between the two, but it ended in such an unpleasant way.

"Nothing we can do...right?"

"Bah...who cares, it's not like we won or lost to each other. Now I can proudly declare myself as the new representative of the Kings."

"Hah. Idiot, you're about to graduate, how short-lived."

"Tsk...If only you didn't do what you did then we–"

"Yes, yes, get down already Robby. I need to naahhp..." A lazy voice interrupted.

Robert turned to the side and noticed Alice waiting there for him. He took one last look at Zephyr and walked off the stage.

Zephyr shrugged uncaringly and went off as well.

"What a shame...looks like you two are only about equal." Another voice suddenly echoed next to Robert and Alice.

The two looked towards the source of the voice and it turned out to be the missing Cecil.

"Yeah, it was regrettable. I wanted to at least beat him once in an official match before graduating." Robert helplessly said. Then he added, "By the way, I don't think you should stay here any longer."

"Huh?"

Cecil immediately felt danger and he quickly ducked down.

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"DON'T MOVE, IDIOT!"

Cecil quickly turned around and caught the other fist that was swinging towards his face.

"Lulu, please calm down."

"Not yet, not until I pummel that stupid face of yours!"

"C-come on, don't be so unreasonable."

"Wash your face, Cecil Silvaria! I won't be satisfied until I at least pummel you once!"

Robert and Alice only sighed seeing the couple having a lover's spat. They quickly went towards the waiting room. Inside everyone greeted the Sword King and praised him for a spectacular match.

Not long after, a furious Lucia stormed into the room. Cecil wasn't around so everyone knew that he had once again escaped.

There was a short intermission before the next match began. It was between 2 Kings, Apocalyptic Queen Lucia and Ghost Queen Alice.

Once their names were called the two quickly head up to the stage side by side. Alice was lazy as usual, but Lucia was radiating an aura of immense blood thirst. This aura wasn't directed at Alice, but more like towards the foxkin boy up in the supporting beams of the stadium.

"...c.r.a.p, that's scary." Cecil mumbled.

Even before the match, Lucia was already emitting a reddish aura from her body. She was p.i.s.sed and it was clear she needed an outlet.

Even if Alice was a fellow King, it didn't look like Lucia was going to make things easy for her.

"Sorry Alice...but I'm going to win...then I'm going to kick that fool's face in." Lucia darkly said.

"Umu...well, if you want to win...you're going to have to work for it..."

Lucia nodded and pulled out only her s.h.i.+rayuki. She got in stance and focused. All the anger she felt towards Cecil, she channeled into her mana and the color of her aura immediately began to change.

From the scarlet red into a deep purple, she was using her new element to power her Elemental Burst.

Her senses sharpened and she felt in complete control of her body and her surroundings. She tuned out all of the roaring and hubbub that the audience was causing and she focused herself to this moment, this match.

Alice grimaced a little when she saw the girl's change. Lucia never exhibited such concentration and pressure in her previous matches.

"Hmm...This is gonna be troublesome..."

Alice retrieved her weapons from her spatial ring, a pair of daggers that also acted as bra.s.s knuckles.

The handle had rings that Alice could put her fingers through and they were also sharp. For Cecil, it wasn't an ideal weapon since his family's martial arts were focused more on the body of the pract.i.tioner rather than the weapon.

His dagger arts needed ones hands and weapons to be flexible and dexterous. These daggers weren't compatible to use in his martial arts.

Alice however was different. She was an agility-based fighter, so having a firm grip on her daggers while moving at incredibly high speeds was ideal for her. Alice readied herself for the match.

This was bound to be her toughest battle yet, but she didn't shy away from it. She was instead slightly smiling in antic.i.p.ation.

"FIGHT!"

Once the referee gave the cue, the two girls on stage immediately vanished from their spots. The crowd was bewildered at the sight, but in the next instant multiple scars began to decorate the stage's floor.

The loud clangs of metal hitting metal resounded in the stadium. These sounds originated from the arena, but no one could see the cause of all these noise.

"Gosh...they're moving too fast! Can't these two fight normally?! How are we supposed to enjoy this fight?" Audrey complained.

It was just as she said, the two girls were moving way too fast. To the ordinary crowd, Alice and Lucia had disappeared from their sights, but to the trained people inside the stadium, their eyes could still keep up with the speeds of those two girls.

Some of the untrained people in the audience were beginning to complain, so Headmaster Elufied had to step in.

He casted a s.p.a.ce-time magic around the arena. It was a barrier that visually slowed down what was happening inside it. It wasn't a practical magic since it could only be used for diversion and such, but in the current situation it was an ideal solution.

The audience could finally see what was happening. Although, it wasn't in real-time the audience was able to see the exchanges the two girls were conducting at high speeds.

The barrier didn't affect the time inside it so technically, what the audience was witnessing was actually the afterimages left behind by the two girls. The actual battle was already many steps ahead of what was visually shown.

Alice was already smiling widely when the fight finally kicked into motion. She finally had someone who could keep up with her speed in battle, and fight evenly with her. Neither Zephyr nor Robert could keep up with her speed.

Their only countermeasure when facing her was to indiscriminately bomb the area around them with magic spells or battle skills, but not Lucia. Lucia was exchanging blows with her evenly! She was even matching her speed with Alice even when the rabbitkin girl accelerated even faster.

"This is so fun!"

Alice pulled out an array of fine needles and throwing knives from her spatial ring. She flicked her hand and shot them at Lucia in tricky angles and timing.

Lucia clicked her tongue in annoyance. Alice was fast, very fast. She wondered how her opponent could actually keep up with her when she was using Elemental Burst that was being powered by her new element.

Now to top things off with her speed, Lucia's opponent was also a master at throwing weapons. This day couldn't just get any more annoying for her. First she meets a love rival, after that Cecil began to openly avoid her, and now this.

"GRAAAAH DAMMIT!"

Lucia let her emotions take the better of her and she exerted even more mana into her Elemental Burst. She quickly released two of her tails' mana cores and her aura grew more defined and st.u.r.dy.

The projectiles that were aiming at her halted a couple of inches away from her body. The aura surrounding her had grown more substantial and it displayed small signs of becoming a natural mana barrier.

Alice was surprised seeing this. She laughed and lunged straight at Lucia. Her dagger slashed straight through that thick aura, but it was blocked by Lucia's katana.

Lucia then wrapped more of her aura onto her katana's blade, she then kicked Alice back and quickly swung her weapon.

"Ascending Blade!!!"

The blade beam flew directly at Alice, but she flashed away and appeared next to Lucia. Seeming as though she had antic.i.p.ated this, Lucia already had her kodachi, the b.u.t.terfly, in her left hand.

"Lava Storm! Geyser! Crimson Lotus!"

She sent 3 magic spells at point blank range towards Alice.

"Tch..."

Alice flashed away and got out of range, but the magic spells were danger close to Lucia that she should be affected by the spells.

At least, that's what Alice and many others thought. But to their astonishment, the spells that were supposed to hit Lucia had actually turned back into mana which she then reabsorbed into her tails. She shouted and sent more Lava Storms at Alice.

Lucia also sent Glacial Meteors at Alice. She basically decimated everything in the surroundings as long as Alice was there. Even after using many top middle-tier magic spells like drinking water, she didn't even seem to be out of breath or exhausted of her mana.

She sent them out like a torrential rainfall, to the point where the arena was destroyed beyond recognition.

"Tsk...If you're just going to dodge...then let's use something that you can't avoid!!!"

Lucia gathered her mana and multiple large magic formations appeared all around the arena. To make sure that Alice wouldn't take advantage of her 'safe' position where none of her spells affected her, Lucia began to move around the arena at high speeds once more.

Lucia released another one of her tails' cores and exerted even more mana into her Elemental Burst. She pushed herself to move even faster, it was to the point where even Alice struggled to keep up with her. In the next instant, Lava Storms, Ice Pillars, Geysers, Meteors, Crimson Lotuses, and other mid ranked magic spells that Lucia knew erupted inside of the arena's protective barrier.

It was a literal scene of what an actual apocalypse would look like, fire raining down from the skies and erupting from the earth, ice blasting into the air or storming around the area. The scene was even more visually shocking than her Apocalypse Spell.

By the time all of the spells had subsided. Lucia appeared once again in the middle of the stage. Not long later, a battered and wounded Alice appeared not far from her.

"You sure are unreasonable..." Alice expressed with a strained smile.

"...Sorry, I was just annoyed...I shouldn't have taken it out on you..." Lucia said remorsefully. She had exploded in annoyance and she regretted it as soon as she saw the condition Alice was in.

"It's no biggie; just promise me you'll do much worse towards your Cecil later, alright?"

"S-sure...that's what I intend to do..."

"...so this isn't your worst?"

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"N-no...at least, I don't think it is?"

Alice smirked and looked up above. She then giggled and stuck her tongue out before striding off of the stage. Robert was already waiting for her nearby. She jumped into his embrace and Robert carried her straight towards the infirmary.

"WINNER! LUCIA YUKHIME!!!"

"Phew..." Lucia calmed herself and walked off of the stage. Although she had vented her annoyance somewhat, she still was fuming mad at Cecil.

Up on the beams of the stadium, Cecil was already fretting...

"C-c.r.a.p...this is bad!"