Alec clearly wasn't about to play around with Afolayan now that his speed had increased. Afolayan was dashing at such a terrifying speed that the sound of his aftershock came only after he had already reached his target—yet even with that, he still couldn’t defeat Alec.As he rushed in to continue his attack on Alec again, a smile blossomed on his face, he had been restraining himself against Lucas because he hadn’t wanted to end the fight too quickly, he wanted to enjoy himself for a little more longer, but now that he was fighting Alec, he could finally use his full strength without worrying about the battle ending too easily. Still, he wasn’t the only one who’d been holding back.This time, when he struck, Alec was more prepared, as he raised his katana to block , and as Afolayan stared into his face, he noticed Alec’s eyes glowing with a faint blue hue. In that moment he stared at him Alec tilted his blade slightly, causing Afolayan’s claws to slide down along its edge as he da

The final match between the Northern Royal Team and Ember Citadel finally began, and funny enough, despite the Royal Clan finding a way to bring back Liam to support the bunch of mages they had gathered, he still wasn’t able to help them advance past this stage. As the Ember Citadel mages crushed them in under ten minutes without even losing a single member, while displaying the Southern Kingdom’s ferocity.It was like they were trying to make a statement—that just because Ashmaw Academy was out didn’t mean the other South Academy would fall as well, and like that, the ten teams that had moved on to the next stage were decided.Now all that was left was for the losing teams to fight it out until a winner among them could be chosen, it is supposed to be a full-on royal rumble between all the teams, where the last man standing from any academy would make his team eligible to participate as the academy representing the loser bracket of this stage. And they would then get to fight again

The battle was about to begin as Roderic Vale led his team of mages onto the battle ring. His posture was straight, shoulders relaxed like they were never going to slack. He had the stance of someone who had survived real wars and learned to remain calm within them, with his ash-blond hair tied back loosely at the nape of his neck, with a few stray strands falling over his forehead as he moved, and his eyes were a striking steel-blue.He wore a long dark coat reinforced with silver runic plating, light enough for movement but strong enough to deflect spells. His Spell Gauntlet sat on his left arm, pulsing with faint blue inscriptions, while a runic longsword rested at his left hip and a mana revolver was holstered at his right thigh, completing his tri-style combat persona.Behind him were Serena, Cassian, Talia, and Grayson, once both teams looked settled and ready, the referee slowly levitated into the air and said, “Now, let the match begin.”It was just a few words, but the mo

Immediately after Alec cast the spell, a massive flaming fist shot forward toward Roderic, with Alec trailing just a little behind it, Roderic in response to this attack on him instantly raised his left hand which was covered by a magic gauntlet and fired controlled mana burst balls into the air to meet the Enhanced Flaming Fist. His reaction had been really swift.Bang!A small explosion went off mid-air as both attacks met mid air, and smoke spread out, covering Alec’s figure who was still dropping down, which caused many of the War God Mage Academy supporters in the stands to gasp in shock.While most of them thought Alec must have been injured for being caught in the blast range, Roderic on the ground had his doubts and retreated a few steps back, confusing many of the low-rank mages watching and didn’t understand what was going on.Roderic could have sworn he’d seen Alec bend his body and push himself further into the blast the moment it happened, and he couldn’t understand why

Seeing Pale running toward his side of the battlefield made Cassian a bit worried, as he didn’t know what that meant. He could see Grayson coming up behind, but it didn’t change the fact that Grayson was slower than Pale, and it didn’t help that his weapon of choice just happened to be a massive warhammer which made his speed more slower than normal.At that moment, Cassian was really contemplating which direction he was supposed to point his weapons at, he thought about just focusing on Knight but then again Pale could be trouble if he left him unattended to.“You ready?” Pale asked, turning to look at Knight, who was about to dash out to meet him halfway.“Yea,” Knight replied with a straight face.“Then give me a lift on your way,” Pale said, just as Knight finally dashed out, as their bodies passed each other, Knight pressed his left hand, which is coated in a brown-colored hue—down onto the ground.In response to this motion of his, a small earthen pillar shot up from beneath Pal