Chronicles of the Red Sovereign

I was very surprised at the speed Senior Trent showed as he lunged at me. I almost lost my bearings and I was lucky to barely dodge when I saw the blade on his halberd already a few centimeters in front of me. But as I said, barely.

I tried to dodge to the left but he managed to nick me on my right shoulder which tore my sleeve. I used Rile to push his halberd away then swung Sanx in an arc in an attempt to hit him. But Senior Trent ducked and swung his halberd on my legs which I managed to jump over.

I reinforced some energy on my legs and jumped out of the way then somersaulted a few times before landing a few feet away from him.

“You have nice reflexes.” he grinned. “But, I thought you’re a mage? How come you can do things a martial artist can do?”

“What about you? What’s your problem?!” I exclaimed at him. “You attacked me all of a sudden!”

“I told you… I want to fight you.”

-My gosh… Is this guy a battle maniac of some sort?

In the blink of an eye, Senior Trent vanished from my line of sight and appeared all of a sudden in front of me, his fist already coming my way. I deflected it using my swords and pushed him away. I then delivered a kick at the side of his head then swung my two swords at him. But he was able to deflect both of my attacks with his halberd and used the same halberd to throw me away.

-He’s so fast. Is he perhaps using <Flash Step>?

<Flash Step> is a skill that can increase one’s speed. Others misinterpret it as <Teleportation> but in reality, the user was moving at the speed the naked eyes couldn’t catch up on which may seem like he was teleporting.

I had the feeling that Senior Trent was using <Flash Step>. But considering he was a magus knight with a lightning attribute, he already had exceptional speed in the beginning.

-Well, he’s not the only one that could use <Flash Step>.

I gathered energy all around my body, circulating it with most of its concentration my legs. I visualized my fast movement and I saw myself lunging at Senior Trent at a fast speed. I swung my sword at him from above but he managed to dodge it, of course, I was able to get him back for tearing my uniform’s sleeve by using external energy to hit him on the chest while I was at it.

It wasn’t a strong attack just enough to push him back and maybe cause a bruise or something. I tried to hide my smile when I saw his confused expression as he looked at the blown right sleeve of his uniform.

“You’ve got some good tricks Junior Luna. And I can see you can use <Flash Step> as well.”

The next few minutes of our fight turned out to involve speed. A lot. If anyone was watching on the sidelines they’d obviously only see after images of both the timed we were lunging at each other as well as when our weapons clashed.

-<Spear-defeating Stance>

I bended my knees a little, then pointed the sword on my right forward and lastly gripped the sword on my left as I placed at the right side of my waist. I covered my swords with energy and watched as Senior Trent lunged at me with his halberd on its way to me.

I sped forward, using the sword on my right to deflect his halberd my making it slide sideways through the blade and then went to his neck using my other sword.

Just as my sword came dangerous close to Senior Trent’s neck, I realized if I continued, I could kill him but on the bad side, it was too late to pull back because of the momentum of my swing.

-Please let him be able to dodge!

That was what’s on my head and I really hoped Senior Trent could really dodge it or else I would be in deep trouble. My swords were enhanced with natural energy so it was sharper than usual.

I was already feeling dread, but I was taken aback when I smelled the scent of something burning, and my sword was suddenly deflected by lightning. It threw me across the clearing, but I managed to land on the trunk of a tree and jumped to the ground. I also saw Senior Trent get blown away by the same thing, only he was more unlucky since he ended up slamming to a tree with a thick trunk.

All of a sudden, lightning wrapped around his body with his halberd cackling with the same dark blue lightning tendrils.

“That was close.” I heard him say. “Really close. You’re really good with combat…”

-Not exactly…

“Let’s see how you’ll do with having magic on the mix.”

My first thought after hearing those words; ‘He’s crazy!’

-Has he lost his mind with my last attack? Now he wants me to fight him with magic involved?

The lightning around him became thicker as it danced all around him. A few of those tendrils even strayed to the ground which burnt it.

I prided myself for being more advanced than my peers in terms of combat and magic, but Senior Trent was making me run for my money. But I had to admit, despite having quite a hard time dealing with him without utilizing the full use of <Mystic Arts>, fighting Senior Trent was worth it.

-Trent Kidlat. Aha! He’s the top student of the entire third years!

I remembered seeing his name on top of the third year rosters in the past exams. He was the one who was able to beat Torii for the top spot!

“Are you sure you want to go that far?” I asked. “My magic underwent some… changes, for the lack of word, these days. I don’t think I can hold back.”

“Which makes it more fun.”

“If you say so.”

Converting external energy into flames could take some of my strength and concentration, so I opted on using the new skill a reawakened after acquiring my fox core.

“<Fox Fire>”

I visualized small orbs of bluish-white flames spread behind me, nine of them, like my tails. Just as Senior Trent lunged at me with his halberd coated with lightning, I threw smaller fireballs from the orbs towards him, like some sort of lasers, which surprisingly he managed to either evade or dodge. He probably got hit too but he did not show it.

When I figured it would be useless to throw attacks at him, I decided to lunge at him as well.

I coated my swords with fox fire and swung at the incoming Senior Trent.

Fire and lightning clashed. And although it may seem weird, I think the two of us had smiles on our faces as we exchanged blows.

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A/N:

Sorry for the crappy fight scene, I really suck at making one. It’s different from my imagination and the ones I see in anime than actually putting it into words. I hope it’s okay and I wish for your understanding.

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