Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better!-Chapter 111: Counterattack
As Diluc thought about that, the first face that appears in his mind is that violent, petite principal who seems to look way too strong for her physique, a choice that he really wouldn’t like to choose despite possibly being the best support he can possibly have.
"Let’s cross the bridge when we get there…"
As the face surfaces from his mind, the emperor-like young man couldn’t help but look towards the direction of that violent principal that he had only met personally once, and even that meeting is not something formal but rather her single-mindedly forcing him to focus on the fight against her during the entire time.
Noticing that he is looking towards their direction, Aria sends a smile towards him as if she’s a good old friend he has ever since he was a child, said smile something that should’ve appeared so mesmerizing coming from a lady possessing such charm like her, had it not been for the fact that her fearsome reputation overshadows said charm.
Seeing the smile from the white-haired, volatile maiden, Diluc felt all of his hairs standing on its very end, almost as if this friendly smile directed towards him is something that is masking the gaze of a hunter recognizing its prey.
Shaking his head to rid himself of these sorts of thoughts though, the young man still flying in mid air through his fire elemental magic redirects most of his attention towards the fellow freshmen students that just attacked him, smiling as he thought of doing something grander especially since he decided that he must pull the attention of the greatest potential support that he can acquire within this academy.
While he is thinking of that, the very target of this shows he just about to perform is also looking at him with anticipation apparent on her gem-like eyes, the smile on her face shifting from the previous faked gentle one to one that she feels is more fitting to her, a smile filled with ardent desire to see new kind of spells and magic for the sole purpose of just seeing it.
’Show me what you got, kid…’ thinking of this to herself, Aria’s smile only got wider as she notices that the only student that she had fought with in the entrance exams that actually made her interested appears to be going all out already, a fact that she can tell due to the joyous, excited dancing of the fire elemental mana in the air.
"I initially plan to not make too much of a fuss about it but…"
Interrupting the thoughts in her mind, Aria once again heard the emperor-like young man speaks in a voice tinged with a hint of coldness, the pause as he speaks causing his attackers to feel all the more terrified as the air around them feels heavier and heavier by the second.
"Well, that’s you right? Shouting all those things and not even attacking at all…"
After a short moment of waiting, they finally witnessed Diluc making his move, a move that no longer surprises, but rather, scares, every single one of his opponents, as well as make those freshmen located in spires a bit farther than him wary of his existence.
Who he scares the most though is the very same young man taking the lead in all those attacks and shouting all sorts of things that makes the other freshmen student motivated to take him down, the young man shaking in panic and terror as he successively take steps back from the middle of the spire he is currently standing on, even at the risk of him falling from the very spot he thought he will defend with his all.
The reason for that being the fact that right in the middle of this spire, a tall, well-built young man sporting a slightly long hair stands proud and silent, his attention clearly on the entire surrounding rather than on the original occupant of this spire alone, the expression on his face that of someone who decided to do something he never thought he would once again.
"Let’s send you all off with a bang"
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Diluc announced with a smile on his face as he remains standing straight as a spear, a fiery red glow shining on him as a spell’s magic circle starts manifesting just right above his head, the fire elemental mana in the surrounding starting to get sucked dry again after just barely recovering from his previous attack, yet despite all that, mana dances gleefully to his will as if they were faithful subordinates doing their best to please their lord.
Right in the middle of this spell that not even those older students are familiar with, a sphere made solely of a brightly burning, azure flame starts to take its form, the fire elemental mana directly being fed to it causing it to grow bigger in size by the second, and there’s seemingly nothing that Diluc’s opponents can do to stop this attack from happening.
The one who lead this charge, previously shouting all sorts of struggles that he thought the emperor-like young man is experiencing, is now frozen on spot, the fear, or rather, terror that he is feeling right now causing his limbs to just give up on him, unable to move themselves away from the source of their terror causing him to just stand there, watching with shaking body hoping that this will not be the end of him.
On the other hand, the freshmen who knew that this attack is meant for them, in an unpracticed unison, all looked at each other and in a split second decided that whatever it is that this young man is planning to do, they need to stop it at all cost, and what more efficient way for them to do it than to hurl spells at him in order to destabilize whatever attack he is concocting.
And that is exactly what they do, at least, those who managed to regain a hint of courage for them to move themselves once again, some of them not so good with magic that they still need to chant in order to manifest their attacks, some just creating magic circles without any problem in their part and some casting spells just between the two, finding it neither that hard nor that easy.
Hence once again, in one particular part of this arena filled with towering spires that will make any normal human dizzy of their height, flashes of brilliant, mesmerizing light of different colors reveals itself, some of them as bright and vigorous as the high sun’s golden yellow, some as gentle and soothing as the deep sea’s blue, some as peaceful and calming like the lush wood’s green.
While one might think that this is nothing more than a perfectly planned lightshow in the distance, the truth can never be farther from said guess, as this waves of light contains all the destructive force that one might need in order to take the life of others, spells, cast by the mages who seem way too eager to get rid of the young man they attacked altogether by forcing the spell he is channeling to collapse upon itself, all while they just watch there and enjoy the show they thought is about to come.
Seeing that their attacks is closing in the distance to the emperor-like young man, most of these geniuses from all walks of life starts releasing sighs of relief as they thought that within that range, there is just absolutely no way that he can avoid being hurt by their attacks.
’The thing he did to our first attack is most likely just a fluke, there’s no way he can do that again…’
’Even if that is not a fluke, no way that sort of magic doesn’t take out too much mana from him, that attack he is preparing is probably his last one before he needs to rest…’
’It’s a good thing our spells didn’t merge now, I doubt that he can still do something like that to spells coming from all around him!!’
’I should probably get ready to get out of the competition if he somehow managed to survive this attack’
All sorts of thoughts appear in the attacking freshmen’s mind, most of them hopeful that their combined strength will do something to severely damage the emperor-like young man at the very least, while there is still a minority that is preparing for the worst thing to happen.
Diluc, seeing all these attacks coming towards him however, merely smiles as the sphere of flame above his head reaches a certain size, no longer growing further than that, making all his opponents believe that this is truly the limit of his stamina, and he can no longer do anything past this.
That is why their disappointment and despair become all the more apparent as they heard the next words coming out of the young man’s proudly smiling mouth.
"Collapse…"
