“You damn Osterian! Who do you think you are?” Astria was still retreating while throwing spell after spell in my direction.
I dodged most of them, but a few I would block with the blunt side of Alyssium or simply cut the magic when it suited me. Astria’s face grew flushed and a panicked look appeared on her face.
“I’m the one that’s going to teach you a lesson!” I snapped back. “Now who’s the one who won’t sit still and accept their punishment?”
“Y-you! I am the fairy queen. Do you think I’m so easy to defeat as that? I admit I have no clue how you’re cutting through my spells, but that doesn’t mean you can catch me- Ahhhhh!”
I used teleport, appearing right in front of her as she was looking back while running. I attacked instantly, swiping my blade down and striking her. It hit like a blunt instrument, despite the sharp edge, causing her to slam down into the earth below. As she struck the earth, there was a thud, a cloud of smoke forming up from the small crater she made.
“You didn’t cut her.” I pondered out loud.
“If I had cut, she’d definitely have died!” Alysia cried out.
“I think you’re underestimating Astria. She’s not someone to be defeated so easily.” I spoke calmly even as I plummeted down to the earth.
“Die!” Several bolts of lightning and a dark beam shot out from the dust cover below.
I spun, rolling away and avoiding the strikes. “See?”
Astria exploded out of the dust, using all of the speed she had to rush me. Relative to most fairies, she may be slow, but she was still a fairy, and capable of moving quite fast when she put all of her efforts into it. It was a bit surprising that she was going for a physical attack, but I decided to meet it head-on. As she got close enough that I could see her, I noticed that she had her hand hidden behind her back. Just as she reached me, a knife flashed out. She was using all of her speed and energy to stab me with the knife.
Her attack had been perfect too. I was free-falling and meeting her head-on. She had timed it perfectly so that by the time I realized what was happening, I wouldn’t have time to dodge her knife fully. The attack wasn’t for a lethal area, so a normal person would have aimed to do her more damage while taking the scratch of her blade. Most people wouldn’t have realized that the dagger she was wielding was the malacrum dagger that I had stored in what accounted for our treasury. If a normal person was scratched by that blade, it was certain death. She was still as deadly as ever, I could see.
It was too bad that such an attack against me was meaningless. That didn’t mean I wanted to reveal to her that I had such an immunity. I used phase shift, putting myself slightly out of phase with reality. Her blade struck nothing but air, and I struck again, sending her spiraling back down to the ground with a shocked expression on her face. This time, I struck even harder knowing that Alysia had blunted the edge, and she struck the ground with a resounding boom.
I had once believed that Blue Mage was just a transportation mage. As I leveled in it and incorporated more of its spells into my fighting, I was quickly finding that Blue Mage’s true purpose was a defensive mage. The list of spells concentrated on avoiding or blocking attacks. A full-powered Blue Mage would be every bit as difficult to handle as Terra in the defense department. It was a class I was starting to develop, as the possibilities were endless.
{Blue Mage has increased to level 17.}
{You have unlocked the spell, Blur.}
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