With every spell Endrick tried to cast, Liang made sure to freeze it over, not only slowing the growth of the plants and sometimes, with enough ice power, he was able to put them into a full hibernation state which rendered them useless before the spell could fully materialize.This gradually turned the battle into more of a hand-to-hand confrontation, which seems to be exactly what Liang had been aiming for, in some ways, the mages of Silent Night seemed very confident in close combat, but against Endrick it didn’t go quite as Liang expected. After cutting off his ability to freely grow plants, Endrick simply switched tactics, as he drew his spirit weapon in its crossbow form and began firing bolts at Liang while steadily increasing the distance between them. For a mage like Liang, though that wasn’t much fun, but ninjas of Silent Night never complained about ranged skirmishes. As he too pulled out several shurikens and hurled them toward the incoming bolts, altering their directi

This was all because the new ground tiles he had installed were being destroyed right before his eyes. Over the past few days, the amount of money he had to pay the mages responsible for restoring the arena to its proper shape had been steep.One of the envoys overseeing the competition had advised him to switch to much higher-grade stone tiles, as not only would it reduce the repairing time but also make it harder for the Tier 6 participating mages to damage them. Yet now, those very tiles that were supposedly built to withstand mid-rank power were still being destroyed.First, Earth Takeda seemed to completely ignore the natural limits of things and somehow manipulated the same dark rock tiles that he had been told that mid-rank mages would struggle to manipulate, and he had done it easily, as if that wasn’t enough, he dug his legs into the ground and dragged a long trench across the stone surface. The sight made him grit his teeth in anger, and he couldn’t help cursing the War Go