Chapter 29 - The Duel

After school, there was a crowd of people at the dueling area.

This many people, do they really want to see me get beaten up by Rikal?

"Looks like you didn't run away."

Rikal said when he saw me at the dueling area.

"No, I didn't."

I nodded my head.

"Hey, you guys! I've heard that Norman, the loser, is now able to use magic. Let's see if it's true!"

Rikal says this to the students in the audience as if he's trying to cheer them up.

Then the students started laughing.

"If Norman couldn't use magic before, how can he suddenly use it?"

"Hey, Rikal, don't tease him too much!"

The students started to say whatever they wanted.

"Go ahead, take your shot."

Rikal grinned and gestured with his hand to shoot magic as if to provoke him.

Rikal and all the students in the audience think that there is no way I can use magic.

But.

"Master, you've got to beat that guy to death!"

"Good luck, Master Norman!"

Orobas and Crocell are the only ones who cheer me on.

Well, I guess the other students can't hear their voices, but still, just the two of them cheering me on is enough to give me courage.

Okay, I thought to myself.

First of all, let's surprise him.

With that in mind, I slowly walked over to Rikal.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing?"

Rikal said in a ridiculous tone.

I ignored him, and when I decided that I was close enough, I put my left hand in front of me and started chanting.

"Fuego Flama."

"Ugh!"

Completely caught off guard, Rikal uttered something and blew backward.

"Haha, looks like you really learned your magic."

Rikal said and stood up.

"Well, it's just basic magic that anyone can learn."

Yes, any sorcerer can manipulate a fireball.

"Fuego Flama."

However, there's not much I can do about it now.

So, I'll just do the best I can.

"It's not like the same attack works twice!"

Rikal, who saw the flaming bullet, also started to chant some magic.

"- Erase!”

At the same time as the chanting, a huge magic circle floated in the air to protect Rikal. Erasure magic.

The magic is activated by commanding the countless minute spirits in the atmosphere.

If this is the case, you can intervene with the spirit that your opponent has commanded to forcefully counteract the magic that has been invoked.

But my magic is not spirit-dependent.

"Gghhh"

Once again, a ball of flame strikes Rikal.

As I suspected, it seems that my magic cannot be erased by erasing magic.

Erasing magic is only a magic that intervenes with spirits.

I can't even erase my magic that I activated with the help of the demon.

"Agua Espeda, fire the water blade."

Without a moment's delay, I fired the water blade next.

"Erase!"

Once again, Rikal used erasure magic.

But he didn't disappear.

Rikal was hit by the water blade.

"Hey, what's that trick?"

Rikal said as he started to bleed.

The crowd seems to have noticed the change and begins to rustle.

I even heard a spectator say, "Isn't Rikal being attacked right now.....?"

"Flame, Fuego Flama."

Ignoring Rikal's question, he chanted the sorcery again.

"-Gust of wind, Rafaga!"

A green magic circle emerged from both of Rikal's hands.

Then, a gust of wind was generated from his hands.

The gusts hit the fireball and canceled each other out.

"Don't you dare. I'll kill you!"

Rikal barked.

Then he started chanting.

"Indigenous magic activated, silver world mundo de plata."

After all.

Even if you strike a simple magic, such as releasing fire or water, it will disappear as soon as there is a magic of elimination.

Therefore, it was necessary to learn magic that could not be erased by erasure magic.

This is how native magic was born.

The magic is embedded in layers of complexity and imprinted on your soul.

By imprinting the magic into your soul, you will be able to simplify some of the processes, such as chanting and magic circles, that would otherwise require a lot of work.

Multiple magic circles emerge with Rikal in the center.

Normally, you would need to chant for each magic circle to appear, but since it is a unique magic, you can make multiple magic circles appear with only one chant.

"I'll kill you with my unique magic."

As soon as Rikal said that, countless knives appeared in the air.

Knives created from nothing.

I can't even imagine how this magic is activated.

That's how high the magic is.

"Die!"

The countless knives all flew through the air towards me at once.

There's no way to prevent it.

I don't have the ability to do so.

So far.......

Well, I didn't think I could win from the start, and I did enough for myself, didn't I?

I closed my eyes in an attempt to give up.

"Master Norman! It's dangerous!"

What?

I open my eyes.

Crocell was standing in front of me.

What? Why are you here?

"Eeee!"

Crocell put her hands out in front of me.

Instantly, a huge amount of water was shot out.

The huge amount of water shot all the knives that were coming back to where they came from, and then -

"Hey, what's that......?"

The water was shot at Rikal, who was shocked and opened his mouth.

"Gghhhh!"

He was blown away with a scream.

"Winner! Norman Eslund!”

The referee decided this by looking at the unconscious Rikal.

"What? Did Norman win......?"

"Yeah, right..... ?"

"What was that magic?"

"Didn't Norman just unleash that much magic with no chanting?"

You can hear the confused voices of the audience.

It seems that the audience, who couldn't see Crocell, thought that I had unleashed the magic.

"I'm so sorry! I couldn't stand the thought of Master Norman getting hurt! It's really not good, isn't it......? I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one who has a problem with this. I'm not qualified to be by Norman's side!"

Crocell turned around and apologized to me with tears in her eyes.

"Crocell, I don't really mind."

I followed up in a hurry.　

In fact, I was relieved when I saw Rikal fall.

And so, my first duel turned out to be a victory in an unexpected way.