343 End of the Third Day - II
In the VIP Section,
"This is not the place to discuss such things," Alexander reminded his wife.
"But what about Alan?" she said, raising her voice.
"He can handle it," Alexander replied, shutting her down.
He was irritated, and the last thing he wanted was attention on them.
However, seeing Alyssa humiliate Alan like that made it hard for him to control his anger.
He already regretted not taking 'care' of Alyssa properly and educating her about a few things before disowning her.
But just like others, in Alexander's eyes, Alyssa was going to die sooner or later because of the state of her body, even if she stopped using Space Magic.
Being crippled, she was forced to use Gravity magic to move herself around.
Because of that, it was even more annoying to see Alan lose like that, as they hadn't expected Alyssa to be this strong.
Unlike the Elite Families, the public watching the tournament weren't happy with Alyssa's victory. People were commenting and making posts about how they disliked that a person from the Garcia Family was given such an opportunity to even attend World Academy.
Alexander had carefully made people associate Alyssa only with the Garcia Family, making sure on several occasions to clarify that Alyssa didn't belong to the Astaria family.
At first, he lost his composure as the image of Asher beating Alan brutally came to mind when he saw Alyssa repeatedly thrust the Ice Pillar at Alan.
Fortunately for him, he didn't know what Alyssa had actually done to Alan's wrist and other bones.
"Go back for now," said Alexander as he looked at his wife and the portal behind them.
His wife wanted to retaliate, but seeing Alexander's cold face made her a bit scared, and she stood up to leave.
"Now, for the next match, we have Rank 8 Eva Williams Vs Rank 9 Damian Seymour!"
This was the last match to decide the Final Bracket of the First Year Students.
And the final match was between Damian Seymour and Eva Williams.
From the cheering alone, many people were rooting for Eva, and even the odds were in Eva's favor.
"It's a tough match," David said, looking at Damian.
He was sitting with Arthur, and both of them were discussing who would win this duel.
Despite being from a well-known family, Damian never felt pressured by David to live up to certain expectations.
On the other hand, Nate looked irritated, noticing that Damian was still using a shield. Nate had watched Damian and David practice a few times and knew that Damian's talent lay in close combat, just like their father. However, Damian chose to use a shield instead.
On the stage, Eva remained calm, contemplating ways to defeat Damian.
In contrast, Damian was smiling as he descended the stage. The smirk on Damian's face irritated Eva slightly. She narrowed her eyes, recalling the times Damian had mocked them.
"This guy," Amelia said, looking at the screen and shaking her head.
She was aware of Damian's bad habit of taunting others, something she had warned him about numerous times.
The referee signaled them to take their positions and raised his hand to start the countdown.
"Start!"
As soon as the command was given, multiple translucent barriers appeared in front of Eva. She manipulated them to encircle Damian.
Damian, meanwhile, brandished a shield and a hammer. Both his shield and hammer were artifacts. He also wore a ring that increased the rate at which he could release his aura.
Both Eva and Damian were defensively oriented as a Mage and Hunter, respectively, making it challenging to predict the victor.
But Eva had the ability to form barriers from pure mana, and it was a special ability just like the one Amelia had.
In front of a hunter below her Rank, if they didn't had any powerful techniques there was no way of breaking Eva's barrier until she ran out of mana.
And mana wasn't a problem for her and even handling so many barriers and manipulating them was something that Eva excelled at.
Reece was watching her Sister's match from the VIP Room, and he smiled seeing that Eva was being more proactive and taking risks.
She didn't bother creating a shield near herself, and went aggressive first to push back Damian.
"Why isn't he using Close Combat Martial Art like his father?" Xarax said.
"I thought so too," Dalton added.
Both of them remembered David Seymour, as he was a powerful ally of the Greville Family, and also one of the best close combat hunter they have seen.
But seeing Damian not use, his Family's Combat Art confused them.
Alfred just smiled as he found it funny that none of the Seymour Children wanted to learn Close Combat Techniques that made the Seymour family famous.
Damian who was on the stage covered his shield with his aura, as the cube made of Eva's barrier clashed with his shield, as Damian felt the mana around him.
Due to the fact that most of Eva's attack were not that visible, he was sensing any change of mana around him and reacting to it.
It was the best counter to Eva's attack, but Eva didn't stop at this.
She created to barriers around Damian, and narrowed it down stop Damian from dodging to his sides.
Immediately seeing those barrier emerge, Damian rotated his body and swung his hammer to one of the sides, making crack on the armor.
He had also reached D Rank, so he was powerful enough to break the barrier.
But Eva smiled, as she lowered her finger and a barrier formed above Damian, as it came crashing down on him.
Damian immediately raised his shield upward as he was forced to bend his knee a bit due to the pressure behind that barrier.
"Can't move now," Eva spoke as shifted the barrier to the side.
But before she could struck Damian, he looked at Eva as he lifted shield a bit.
Damian's physical strength was the highest in the First Year, not including Asher but he could fight Asher in a spar who was a C Rank Hunter, which showed how high his strength was.
The force that Eva applied wasn't enough to stop him.
As Eva tried to change the structure of the spell, it gave Damian the opening to make his move.
He pushed the Shield upward with a burst of his aura, shattering the barrier and the moment he was freed from the pressure he charged at Eva.
His hammer came towards Eva, who hurriedly made small octagon shapes around her, that absorbed the impact of Damian's strike.
But Damian didn't stop as he rotated his body to strike multiple times.
His strength surprised many people, as he was swinging a hammer that was quite big, and looked heavy.
But people were amazed the Eva's small barriers could hold on the barrage of attack that Damian was doing.
Bam!
Bam!
Loud noises of the hammer striking the Barriers were being heard.
"Not too bad," Arthur commented.
David smiled as he saw that Damian had improved from the last time he had trained with him, but the stalemate between him and Eva was still not broken.
Damian smiled as he attacked Eva, but Eva gritted her teeth as it was hard to manage these barriers and the ones she was creating.
Just focusing on defense would waste too much time, and Eva wanted to keep the upper hand in this fight.
But Damian didn't care if Eva was creating another barriers or another spell, if he could break the defense she would be forced to stop.
Cracks on the barriers appeared as the octagons absorbed Damian's attacks but at the same Damian could feel some mana gathering above him.
And he noticed a small globe of wind that gathering everything in one place.
"You sure have a lot of mana to do all this," Damian said as he noticed many small barriers in the air and behind them were Arrows made of wind.
And the globe of wind element above his body started to descend on him, with Eva lowering her hand and the arrows of wind slammed down as they pierced the stage.
Each arrow digged through the stage and Damian dodged everyone of them.
It was a powerful Tier 3 spell, that could pierce through heavy armors of even C Rank.
Damian's speed despite carrying a shield and hammer was enough to dodge but the globe of wind was making it harder for him to move.
It was like a vacuum that attracting the air around him, and even Damian could feel the force of attraction coming from the globe.
It was not a simple spell, but Damian didn't have enough time to think of a counter to Eva's spell.
He needed to break her defences first before he could think about anything else, so he thought of a wild idea to rush towards Eva while disregarding the Wind Arrows.
*Dash*
Eva was bit surprised seeing Damian who was backstepping suddenly coming towards her.
"What a idiot," Eva said as she increased the speed behind the arrows.
Small Barriers appeared around her, but they started spinning at a high speed, this was another one of Eva's spells that utilized her barrier magic.
But it was enough to counter attack Damian who was rushing towards her.
The idea was to force Damian to use the shield for the arrows and damage him with the blade like barrier that could pierce through his aura.
But Damian ignored the Arrows completely shocking Eva as he took an arrow on his hand and ignored it, while focusing his eyes on the blades.
"What is he doing?" Everyone were confused by Damian's charge.
But Damian smiled as he reached a certain distance and flung his shield towards Eva's direction blocking her vision.
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