False Hero

Landing on the ground softly, Grey Grey muffled his groan as he landed on the ground. Holding his injured arm Grey looked around to get a better perspective on the situation.

Looking at the sword in Walk's hand, Grey thought 'that guy -------Walk he is holding a sword, so it's safe to assume that he is a swordsman. I am not that aware of his ability in using magic, so for now I can only bet in his swordsmanship.'

He shifted his attention towards March, 'He is not using any weapon, so it's safe to assume that he is a mage. well then----'

Condensing mana in his hand, Grey shot an icicle shard towards one of the walls. Upon impact, the icicle shattered which in turn attracted the frog's attention, in a split second the frog jumped towards the place where Grey aimed his icicle shard.

March cast a basic fireball in his hand, he was trying to aim it at the frog just like Grey did earlier. But the sound of ignition of the fire attracted the frog's attention. 

The frog turned its huge round eyeballs toward March, even though the sound made by fire was faint, it was enough to be sensed by the frog's fireball. 

{Author: Even it was blind, the frog's man organ of sensing surrounding was its eyes. Unlike a human eye, which is used to perceive the surrounding through the reflection of light, the toad perceived its surroundings by the reflection of sound, and the toad's eyes were the organ that helped it to perceive the sound of the surroundings.}

As March's eye met the toad's eye, a panic occurred in him which made him hastily take a step forward as he prepared to attack the toad with his fireball. 

He shot his fireball which traveled towards the toad, but before it could even hit the toad, the toad jumped away. March's eyes were fixed at the toad as it dodged the fireball and proceeded to jump from one wall to another then towards March.

Even though he was able to see the toad coming towards his way, he was frozen in one place, get didn't know what he is supposed to do. It was as if his brain has stopped working. 

The toad crashed onto the ground, the place from where he heard the earlier sound, but there was no one there. 

Grey had March in his arms, he placed March down as he gestured him to stay quiet. 

Now that the three of them were gathered at the center of the small arena. Grey cast a small icicle shard as he aimed it at one of the walls, away from them.  As the toad jumped away, Grey simultaneously opened his mouth "You both are now most probably familiar with the ability of this toad and also must be aware of the fact that this monster is pretty terrifying, so I will fill you up on other information."

"I nearly died bro---" March grabbed Grey's hand as he spoke "Thanks for saving me, you were like my prince charming. I nearly thought I died!!"

squinting his eyes, Grey looked at March as he asked "Bro, are you gay? I mean it's fine----"

"No no no no, I am not ----" 

before he could say anything further, Grey kicked him away as the frog was coming their way. The toad landed between them, as March was kicked away by Grey. He wanted to groan in pain, but he kept his hand over his mouth to not make any noise.

Before the toad could detect them, Walk threw his sword away to distract the toad. Following the metallic noise of the sword, the toad jumped away, crashing onto the sword.

The three of them again gathered at the center of the arena, as Grey threw an icicle shard at the different part of the arena to keep distracting the toad.

"You could have been more gentle with the kick, you know." 

"Well, it's at least better than toad kicking the fuck out of you." 

With a brief pause, March said "Well, yeah that makes sense.", looking at Walk, March asked, "You threw your sword away, how are you going to fight?"

"I am well versed in fighting with bare hands."

Grey looked at Walk as he said "But that's a frog, not a bear that you are going to fight it with bare hands."

"Wait ---- who fights bear with their bare hand," asked March with a confused look on his face. 

"That's not the point -----"

"By the way, I forgot the mention that there is a timer in this test, so I would recommend that you three should hurry up."

Grey looked at Professor Ronia with an irritated look as he said " Professor that's a detail that you should have said earlier!!"

The two other boys had other concerns, the looked at the professor with a concerned look. 

Toad leaped towards the stand where the professor was seated, before the toad could squash the professor, March closed his eyes quickly as he made a sound "Eek!"

As his eyes were closed, he heard a loud 'Thud'

Hesitant, he opened his slowly. He was ready to see the squashed body of the professor, but what he saw was a frog levitating in mid-air.

Not exactly in mid-air, the frog was over on a semi-blue transparent surface. Looking at the professor who was safe, he softly whispered "Mana field.". 

{Author: Mana field is a high-level spell where users can create an invisible wall to protect themselves or others. The durability of the wall depends on the skill of the user.}

Grey didn't have any change in expression, as he was aware of the mana field, from the very second he entered the room. 

The professor who was still seated in her place, placed one leg above another as she gave devious smile. She was amused by the fact that there was no change in Grey's expression as if he wasn't bothered by the least about the danger that was about to fall on the professor.

'Does he not care about others? or does he already knows about the mana field? even if it's either of them, it's truly interesting, Grey....'

Thought professor Ronia as he looked at Grey. 

Grey looked at March and Walk as he spoke "So anyway, we don't have much time so just follow my lead. and take this ---"

Grey condensed icicle sword using mana as he handed it down to Walk. 

"But it would be fragile---"

"No, my icicle sword can be as good as a real sword, since I reinforced them using my seal marking."

Grey didn't whisper this time and that action instantly attracted the toad's attention. Handing down the icicle sword to walk, Grey walked towards the toad who was about to leap towards Grey. 

"Watch out!!" exclaimed March, as the toad leaped towards Grey. 

Upon certain distance, Grey swung his fist back before swinging it towards the toad. With a great impact, Grey punched the toad knocking it back. 

The rolled once, before getting back to its feet. Grey sprinted towards the toad as he shouted, "March!! attack by back with the best spell you got!!"

"But---"

"Just do it!! and Walk you will get one shot, attack the frog when I see you too, make sure that it's the finishing blow"

As Grey was sprinting towards the toad, the toad noticed Grey's footstep. Reacting to Grey's footstep it leaped forward towards Grey with immense speed.

As it was going to hit Grey, Grey shouted "March, now!!!" 

March gathered mana in his hand as he was preparing to cast a fire lance. The fire gathered around his hand, taking a shape of lance.

Aiming it at Grey's back, March shot the fire lance.

Grey was sprinting on the centre of the ring as a fire lance was coming at his back and the toad from the front. Both at incredibly high speed.

Walk looked at Grey as both of it neared Grey while Grey was sprinting forward.

Walk eyes widened as he saw that both fire lance and toad was about to hit Grey. But as he watched, his face twisted in to a more shocked one as Grey was no where to be seen in the place where he was there before. 

To Walk's eye it was as if Grey disappeared in an instant. 

Frog was able to sense the fire lance that was coming its way but it was too late ----- to late for the toad to turn away, even if it tried there was no way it could since it was in mid air. 

With the first contact between the fire lance and the toad was followed by a explosion. The toad collapsed to the ground.

Its skin didn't have any sign of damage, but the sound of the explosion was enough to make its all other senses go haywire.

Walk watched this from aside, and in that very instance he heard the voice of Grey as he said, "now!!"