"Second from the S cla.s.s, we'll have Armin! Step up boy!!!"

'So instructor Jin is sending our number 1 and 25 together... that means I'm next with number 24.' Cecil thought.

The other instructors quickly did the same and had two of their students come down to the arena. Soon, 16 students from cla.s.s S to G had gathered together in the middle of the stadium's arena.

The instructors started casting a barrier around the arena. Instructor Jin walked right up to the 16 and asked.

"Who wants the honor to go first?"

Everyone involuntarily turned their gazes to Lucia. Lucia already knew that she would be the first to go so she had already stepped forward immediately after the instructor asked the question.

"Alright, our first ranked student will set us an example! Now for the rest of you! Please proceed outside of the barrier."

While the other 15 were walking out of the barrier, Lucia had begun stretching her body. Her actions earned her some doubtful gazes from the rest of the students. It wasn't like she was going to do some extraneous activity. All she would be doing was casting her magic, but her stretching was welcomed by all the boys however.

Cecil's eyes turned cold when he noticed the odd glances the boys were sending her.

Instructor Jin waited patiently until she was finished. After she finished, Jin asked her.

"So, what spell will you be showing us Lucia?"

"Instructor...Are you sure it's safe for you to stay inside the barrier?"

"WAHAHAHA! You don't have to worry about me, little one! Just cast your magic without restraint! And don't worry about the barrier! It's able to withstand tier 6 magic so it will be absolutely fine for you to show us your strongest!"

Lucia nodded at his words. "Alright... uhm... step back a bit instructor."

Instructor Jin took a couple step backs and Lucia closed her eyes and began gathering her mana.

'I can't use Divine Punishment here... Let's go with Explosion.'

Without any chants, Lucia stretched out both her hands and a crimson red magic circle formed above her right hand and an aqua blue magic circle formed above her left. She then threw the magic circles into the air like two disks.

The blue magic circle stayed afloat in the air while the red magic circle fell to the ground. She then unsheathed b.u.t.terfly and pointed it at the two magic circles ahead of her. When she channeled her mana into the kodachi, the small magic circles immediately enlarged, almost encompa.s.sing the whole arena.

The mana in the air immediately started to rumble.

"Oh!" Instructor Jin exclaimed in surprise. It wasn't only the instructor, but everyone in the stadium broke out in surprise at the sudden abnormal mana activity. The headmaster was really surprised and smiled gently. He was just about to stretch out his arm and reinforce the barrier, but he stopped and widened his eyes a bit seeing Lucia's next action.

Lucia concentrated and shrunk the magic circles to about a third of its size. Only then did the rumbling stop.

"What superb control!" The headmaster smiled in appreciation.

Lucia then started chanting, but it wasn't like the normal chants of orthodox spells. It was an original chant that Lucia made only so that she could have a clearer picture of her spell as well as a better control of its output.

"Scorched earth and frozen skies! Heed my call and obliterate my enemies–EXPLOSION!"

The magic circles enlarged again by about 20 percent of its size before it blinked out of existence.

Everyone was puzzled and thought that Lucia had misfired her spell. The students found that the activation sequence as well as the chant was somewhat odd and they immediately presumed that Lucia had failed in casting her spell. Some of the girls in the other cla.s.ses even started smirking and gloating.

Lucia however had immediately backed off to where Instructor Jin was standing and casted a lava and ice barrier around them. Cecil had also rushed in front of S cla.s.s' sitting area. He activated Mana Burst and quickly constructed a Mana Barrier around them. He also did his best to thicken and darken the surface of the barrier as well.

"Cecil?"

"Hey, brat!"

"Eh?"

"What's the deal?"

The cla.s.s was puzzled at Cecil's actions, but he didn't pay them any mind and only focused on strengthening the barrier.

Just as his barrier was almost complete, a loud screeching noise rang throughout the stadium and a white light blossomed at the area where the two magic circles had blinked out of existence. Then a large bright explosion engulfed the arena.

Everyone's ears started to ring and many were left disorientated. Some of the students in the other cla.s.ses had outright fainted from the screeching explosion.

Only cla.s.s S was relatively okay. Other than the fact that some of them experienced mild nausea and a brief headache, they were all fine and fairing much better than the other 7 cla.s.ses and this was because of Cecil's Mana Barrier which dampened out most of the noise.

The inside of the protective barrier that was encompa.s.sing the arena was still engulfed in a bright light. It wasn't the first time Cecil thought this, but the loud screeching noise and that bright white explosion was similar to the odd phenomenon that brought him and Silver to Alterna.

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Fina and Eli who were witnessing this absurd spell immediately rose from their seats and ran to the edge of the seating area. Fina was anxious enough that she started calling out to Lucia.

"Lucia! Lucia!!"

Elizabeth who followed her tried to calm her down.

"Calm down Eli, Lucia knows what she's doing! There's no way she would cast a suicidal spell..."

Although she said this, even Eli herself wasn't so sure and was mired with worry and unease.

Cecil who saw the two worried girls spoke up to rea.s.sure them.

"Don't worry."

"But... Cecil!"

"Don't worry, she's okay. This isn't the first time she's used this spell. And do remember. She casted a barrier before the explosion happened."

"But will that barrier be enough?" Fina worriedly asked.

Cecil scratched his cheek while hesitating. He wasn't used to talking very long with anyone other than Lucia, but decided to explain a bit about Lucia's spell.

"The spell Lucia used was her only original chanting spell that combined both her water and fire elements. It's called Explosion. The barrier she used was also a spell she exclusively created to handle to repercussions of casting the spell at a danger-close distance. It's her Glacial Magma Barrier spell."

Cecil paused in hesitation. He didn't want to reveal anymore of Lucia's original spells' details, but seeing how genuinely worried Fina and Eli were, he could only continue.

"It's her strongest barrier type original spell. It could easily handle tier 4 and tier 5 spells. It could also withstand the impact of a tier 6 spell to some degree, but the only problem is that her vision and hearing is seal inside the barrier, which in this case would actually be a good thing considering how noisy and bright Explosion is."

Hearing how powerful the barrier spell was, Fina and Eli were finally put at ease. They only continued staring into the brightly lit arena barrier hoping to find the silhouette of their spirited fox friend.

After about a minute, the light from Lucia's Explosion spell died down. Just as Cecil said, Lucia and Instructor Jin were protected safely behind Lucia's barrier. To every students and teachers' astonishment however, was the destruction caused by the spell.

The area that was affected was entirely destroyed. A large smooth crater that was about 5 meters deep at its lowest point was what remained of the arena. Lucia's spell had cleanly obliterated more than half of the stadium's large arena.

The most astonis.h.i.+ng part was that the barrier that encompa.s.sed the arena had signs of cracking. This meant that Lucia's Explosion spell was close to Tier 7. It was safe to say that Explosion was a high ranked tier 6 magic spell that was infinitesimally close to low rank Tier 7 in strength.

The ice and magma hardened barrier started to crumble and Lucia stepped out of the barrier and observed her handiwork. She smiled proudly and nodded in satisfaction. She turned towards instructor Jin who was also dazedly witnessing the destruction caused by her spell.

"So, instructor... how was it?"

"..."

The stadium was silent so everyone heard Lucia. They could only send the monstrously talented girl a horrified look at how nonchalant she asked that question. The crowd was even more surprised at how composed Lucia was.

Even after casting such a strong magic spell, she didn't look the least bit strained. Judging by how high tiered the spell was earlier, it was bound to use up a sizeable amount of mana, but how come Lucia still looked so spirited even after that? Even for an initial stage mana core spell caster, wasn't the amount of mana she had somewhat abnormally high?

Such were the thoughts of stupefied students and instructors. Only the headmaster was smiling in appreciation at Lucia's splendid performance.

The students and teachers who weren't in the know started suspecting whether or not Lucia was already close to the Mid stage mana core level and thought that she only needed a small push before stepping into that stage.

That of course wasn't the case. Lucia had used up the mana inside two of her tails to cast explosion. It was a lot of mana, about 2000 units worth. She would have to spend at least a day or two to acc.u.mulate and fill up the mana in her tails' mana cores.

Seeing that Lucia was okay, Cecil inwardly let out a sigh of relief and began walking back to his seat after he dispelled his Mana Barrier. Fina and Eli were also relieved seeing that Lucia was safe and okay. They smiled wryly after hearing Lucia nonchalant question and walked back towards their seat.

Everyone in S cla.s.s were silently discussing and admiring the strongest spell caster that was in their cla.s.s.

Instructor Jin snapped out of his daze and took a look at his teacher exclusive MID. The results of Lucia's spell were sent to his MID from the active mana sensors that were distributed inside the whole stadium.

The sensors were something unique to the stadium that was used to sense the spells invoked by the people inside the arena. It served to help quickly adjust the power output and strength of the arena's barrier that encompa.s.sed the arena. It was only because of these sensors that the barrier had only cracked instead of breaking due to Lucia's spell.

"High Ranked 6th Tier spell! Splendid! Just splendid, Lucia!" his exclamation caused another round of astonished gasps from the students around and teachers.

"Tier 6 mage, what the heck..."

"Are you kidding me?!"

"As expected of this year's strongest... she's already on par if not stronger than some of our seniors."

"We're way out of her league..."

"Tsk... just look at how full of herself she is."

"..."

There were some who admired her and there were also others who frowned at her results due to jealousy.

"This spell isn't listed in our academy's database. Is it an original spell, Lucia?" Instructor Jin inquired.

"Yes! It's an original, a combination of fire and water. It's part of my Compound Magic Series! Its official name is Compound Magic Spell: Explosion!" Lucia said enthusiastically.

"Compound magic... a combination of fire and water huh?" Instructor Jin smiled and then began tapping away at his MID.

The instructor created a new spell sub-category under the original spell category in the academy's database. He copied Lucia and named the new category Compound Magic and listed Explosion as the first ever magic spell in its category list.

Spell : Explosion

Tier : High Rank Tier 6

Atttribute : Water and Fire

Origin : Original spell created by Core stage Spell caster Lucia Yukihime.

Chant : 'Scorched earth and frozen skies! Heed my call and obliterate my enemies'

Instructor Jin then remembered that Lucia had shrunk the spell at the last minute, he then changed the tier.

Tier : High Rank Tier 6 – ?