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

After saying that, Lucas immediately dashed forward, though he knew he didn’t have much strength left and would soon burn himself out; however, at that moment he was simply grasping at whatever power remained to keep fighting.He closed the distance and swung his glaive in a backhand motion with his right hand, but the Earth Takeda calmly brought one of his hammer down, pinning the glaive to the ground. Before he could process what was happening, Lucas had drawn on the last scraps of Qi he had left.As a crude sword made purely of Qi formed in his left hand, and he thrust it forward, seeing a weapon appear out of nowhere, the Earth Takeda quickly reinforced his defence, by summoning rocky earth armour around his bulky body, its surface etched with rough lines.Even so, when the blade pierced him, it had only been able to dig slightly into his flesh, as a glint escaped Lucas eye’s, clearly he had another plan, as he forced the remainder of his mana onto the blade, using it to channel

The whole crowd started cheering loudly after hearing Beatrice’s words, the mages supporting the School of Silent Night were all shouting for the Takedas present to make quick work of her.Meanwhile, the few fanatic mages still supporting the War God Academy began chanting Beatrice’s name loudly, though they had never seen the new puppet before and weren’t aware of what it was capable of, what they knew however was that no matter the odds against them, they would still support the War God Mage Team to the very end.It was actually surprising to many of the foreign mages present to see a group still stubbornly supporting a team they believed would soon lose, regardless of what Beatrice had shown. They were especially surprised because the rest of the Northern academies hadn’t received such treatment, and it was the War God Academy who isn’t even among the northern great 8 academies that was getting such treatments which made many of them start suspecting there must be a lot of foul pl

Thud!A light shockwave rippled outward the instant the Water Takeda dropped from atop the wooden spider puppet, which was still completely frozen in place.Now it was effectively two main bodies against Beatrice, who had only one active puppet left, the Wind Takeda hadn’t moved since his last exchange, and neither had Patches. The puppet simply stood there, motionless, almost as if it were patiently waiting for them to make the first move.“Remember when I gently asked you to surrender earlier? I’ll give you the same option again, so are you surrendering, or do we have to make things difficult for you? Because believe me, as strong as that puppet of yours may be, you should know there’s no way it can take both of us at once,” the Wind Takeda said, settling into a combat stance.Beside him, the Water Takeda casually twirled his weapon, with his left hand holding one end while his right twisted the chain attached to the sickle blade.“Unfortunately, I know a certain stubborn guy who w