Chapter 94 – (RE) Ranked (1)

In the middle of the large open field.
Laysha and Ayoung were facing each other to prepare for the ranking match.

“Please take care of me.”

“Huh. Me too.”

Leysha raised her rapier and took a stance.
Ah-young dyed her eyes green.

“Who do you think will win?”

Chloe, who was looking at them with me, asked.

“… Maybe Laysha will win.”

“Is that so…?”

Chloe looked at me with surprised eyes and said, as if my answer was unexpected.

“Huh.”

Ah-young grew stronger at a tremendous speed.
She was an F-class student just a few months ago, but now she can hunt C+-class monsters by herself.
However, she was not at the level of defeating Laysha.

Although she was Ayoung who had already reached the level of awakening in spiritism, there was a big difference between her and Laysha.
While Ayoung was trembling around the F-class glass world, Laysha was attacking the higher-grade glass world.

There is a huge difference in points and stats between the two.
No matter what skill or ability you use, stats are the basis.

So the chances of Ayoung winning are extremely low.

The time seconds that appeared as holograms in the center of the arena began to diminish.

5, 4, 3.

As her number dwindled, Laysha braced herself to run in front of her, and Ayeong raised her natural mana accumulated in her body.

She couldn’t really root for anyone.
She just looked at the arena in silence.

2…

One.

Start!

The word “Start” Came to mind and the hologram disappeared.

“Pie, Wendy!”

Several spheres of fire swirled around Ayoung.
At the same time, the wind raged, making the orb of fire grow even more.

Strength, stamina, agility, endurance.
Compared to Lay Xia, A-Young, who lacks everything, loses her win rate the longer she waits.
It was intended to quickly end her battle by consuming a large amount of her mana at once.

“Sigh…!”

However, there was no way that Laysha would not know that fact.

Based on her high agility stat, she dodged the sphere of fire filled with wind that flew in to devour her.

However, there were not one or two spheres of fire.

13 pieces.
She was unable to dodge all 13 fireballs.

In order to land her effective blows on her Ayoung, I had to run at her inevitably and simultaneously dodge her.

It was impossible to completely avoid the fireball, which did not just fly in a straight line, but whose trajectory changed minutely.

Win.

A sharp sound pierced the air.
If someone you don’t know sees it, they’ll laugh at me for just cutting a knife in the air, but there was a real purpose.

Two roses bloomed on the trail of her sword.
As the petals of those roses were blown away by the wind and scattered into the air, they came together to form the shape of a sword.

The two swords made of rose leaves cut the fireball along the trajectory of Laysha’s swing.

It was her own magical countermeasures that she hadn’t awakened her aura yet.

He swung his rapier 3 times and completely extinguished the 4 fireballs that were impossible to evade.

There were no obstacles now.
Ley Sha approached A-Young at high speed, holding her rapier and leaping her two rose swords in the air.

“Grune!”

If he stays like this, Ayeong will surely be defeated.
A-Young called out to her land spirit, Grun, and a thick earthen wall formed between her and Leisha.

Awakening level 1 spiritual magic.
There was no flaw in any of the thickness, width, and height of the earthen walls.
It is also a wall that contains mana.
It won’t break easily.

Laysha, who quickly rolled her eyes to estimate the size of the earthen wall, rushed straight into it, probably deciding that it would be inefficient to turn or go over it.

A confrontation between a spirit sorcerer and a swordsman.
Of course, Ayoung, who should not give her distance, quickly increased her distance from Laysha and raised mana for her next elemental magic.

Just before reaching the dirt wall, Laysha rotated her body and swung her sword.
Adding rotational power to her acceleration, her sword attack became more powerful and she cut through the dirt wall.

Caang!

There was a loud crashing sound that could hardly have been thought to be the sound of a sword cutting through a dirt wall.
However, it was impossible to completely cut through the mana-filled earthen wall with an ordinary sword.

Leisha swung her sword once more at the shallow cut in the dirt wall, and following her first strike, her rose sword slashed through the dirt wall.

The second sword attack of the rose sword followed immediately.
The two attacks completely destroyed the earthen wall.

“It is over.”

With this, the match was completely decided.

When I checked A-Young’s stats window, I saw that her attack and defense had drained 30% of her natural mana.
In contrast, Laysha was still intact.

However, Ah-yeong did not give up and fought until the end.
Using her Wendy’s elemental magic, she lowered her Leisha’s agility and raised her own agility.

As a result, she was able to evade her rapier, which was rushing towards her.

“Not yet…!”

However, Laysha’s attacks did not stop there.
She persistently aimed at her openings and steadily gnawed at Ah-young’s physical strength and mental strength.

Numerous spirit magic and sword strikes came and went.

“Haha…”

Of course, Ayoung was the first to get tired.
She had lower stamina compared to Laysha’s.

However, her gaze was still fixed on Laysha.
You’ll never want to give up

“Pie…!”

As Ayoung shouted the name of Pi, the fire spirit, flames engulfed her body.

“Quit…”

Intense flames on a different level from fireballs.
Deciding that she was in danger, Laysha let out a small drool and stepped back from her.

“What is that…? Suddenly, the energy I felt from Ah-young became intense.”

Chloe looked at Ah-young, who was engulfed in flames, in surprise.
Ah-yeong’s special move that she has never shown anyone.

It was Jeong Ryeong Hyun-hyun.

“It’s like Ahyeong’s special move. It’s the first time I’ve seen it, too.”

In fact, it’s the first time I’ve actually seen it, but I can explain it in detail.
It was a skill she had seen a few times in the game.

But I didn’t bother to explain.
It would be better to see it for yourself than to give a lengthy and painful explanation.

In the first place, seeing Spirit Hyun-hyun for the first time, it feels unnatural for me to explain.

“Is that so.”

Chloe said in a slightly regretful tone and looked at the arena.

There, the flames that swept Ayeong gradually began to fade.

“That look…”

Laysha looked at Ayoung with a nervous tone and said.

Red eyes filled with blazing fire.
Hair made of flame.

Flames bloomed on both of her palms, and Ayoung was slightly floating in the air.

“This is the real beginning.”

Ayoung became a complete half-man, half-spirit.

‘Is the intimacy already at 100?’

Originally, Spirit Manifestation is a technique that allows a spirit to dwell in one’s body.
The higher your intimacy with the spirit, the more you can keep your spirit intact and the stronger the effect of the skill.

When I saw Ayoung now, she perfectly possessed pie.
Probably reached 100 intimacy.

“Then go!”

Ayoung shouted as if she was having fun.
Because Pi possessed her lively personality, it seemed that her personality was also affected.

And I looked around.

I still wanted to hide Ayoung’s spirit magic.

Fortunately, there were no bystanders around, and even if they were found, they could easily be passed over as some sort of magic.

“Yes…!”

At Ayoung’s words, Laysha smiled and answered energetically.
Are they expecting an even fiercer match?

Ayoung shot the flames from her hands towards Laysha.
Leysha repeated her dodge and destroy to block her fireball.

“How about this!”

At the same time as Ayeong shouted, a wall of flame formed around Laysha.
A firewall about 7 meters in diameter.

Leysha saw the flames rising around her and tried to dodge, but her elemental magic completed faster than she could escape her wall of flame.

Walls of flame began to slowly tighten Laysha.

It seemed like a pretty big attack, but Laysha didn’t panic.
After moving to the center of the fire wall and holding her rapier, I closed her eyes for a moment to focus her mind.

Of course, at that moment, a big gap was created, but Ayeong was unable to make an additional attack.
Controlling the flame wall alone is already consuming a lot of mana and focusing all your attention.

Laysha must have been aware of that part as well.

“Whoa…”

The size of the firewall has been reduced by half.
The distance from Laysha was about 1 meter.

Laysha let out a sigh and opened her eyes slowly, perhaps out of breath from the heat.

“Huh…!”

Then, with a shout, Leysha swung her sword.
Compared to before, there is no difference in the sword attack.

But after that it was different.

A single rose bloomed from the trail of Laysha’s sword.
A total of 3 roses.

However, cold sweat was running down Laysha’s brow, perhaps because she worked so hard to make her additional roses bloom.

It could be because of the heat of the firewall.

A total of 3 rose swords cut through the firewall.
But she couldn’t cut it completely.

If she swung her rapier 3 more times, she would be able to completely cut through the fire wall, but she didn’t have enough time for that.
Firewall was holding her down to devour her Leisha even at this moment.

Chloe was looking at the arena with eyes stained with astonishment.
She must think Leisha will be defeated.

‘No. Laysha wins.’

I was sure.

By the time summer vacation was over, she was able to use the Leopold sword, the Flower Bomb Sword.

The roses that Laysha had bloomed began to explode.

Roses made of mana created a mana explosion and broke the firewall.
At the same time, the firewall was destroyed.

“Haa… To get out of there, that’s amazing!”

As she let out her weary, rough sigh, Ayoung looked at Laysha and said.

“Ayoung-nim too, whoa… The same.”

And it wasn’t just A-Young who was tired of her.

The conversation ends there.

Laysha ran towards Ah-young, and Ah-young took a deep breath.

Final collision.

A-Young opened her fiery mouth and tried to spit out her flames, and Leisha thrust her rapier at her A-Young.

“Hmm!?”

Chloe made a sound of surprise.

Unfortunately, there was no final clash.

Ah-young, who had become half-man half-spirit of flame, began to revert to her original form.
The duration of Spirit Manifestation was over.

And on the spot, Ayeong spread her legs and she sat down.

“Are you okay!?”

Leisha set her rapier down on her ground and ran towards Ayoung.

“Ugh… Gwa, it’s okay. It’s a bit dizzy…”

Their voices came from the arena.
After using spirit magic, spirit manifestation, and spirit magic, she was in a state of magical exhaustion.

“I lost… It was a good fight.”

Ayoung said with a bright smile on her face.

“Yes, but I might have lost if I had kept fighting.”

Laysha also replied with a smile.

After the battle between Ayoung and Laysha, they returned to the bleachers.

“Thank you for your effort.”

“Good job.”

Chloe told Laysha and I told Ayoung.

“Yeah, thank you. Now it’s Siu and Chloe’s turn, right? I’ll be looking forward to it.”

Now that they’re done, it’s me and Chloe’s turn.

“Yes.”

We went down to the arena.

“I look forward to.”

Chloe bowed modestly and said.
It was expressionless, but I could feel the anticipation in her voice.

If Chloe wins this match, it was because he agreed to date me for a day.

“Please take care of me too.”

A hologram window appeared and the battle began.

If someone sees Maggie, he can’t take it out or beat it, so he didn’t use Maggie, and he dealt with Chloe using only his skills and abilities.

As a result.

“…”

Haha…”

I have never been attacked by Chloe.
Because her offensive abilities and skills were lacking.

Also, my attack didn’t work on Chloe at all.
Because her defensive abilities and skills were so great.

“Shall we make it a draw…?”

“… Yes.”

With a bitter expression, Chloe nodded her head in response.

In the end, the battle ended without either of us even being able to attack each other, and there were 2 days left until the day of the ranking match.