Judging by the figure, I can see that it's a girl I'm fighting. She's quite armored even for a knight, I don't think I can see myself wearing that. It looks heavy and it's kinda intimidating. There's no way she uses Sword God style, she's probably a North God or a Water God style practitioner, I think it's the latter. Water God style users are known for their ability to counter and defend after all.
Well, there's no point in guessing, I might as well just test her out, here we go. I dashed forward, trying to attack first which is typical for Sword God style practitioners. But once I come close, "Ignis!" With that word, I sent off a wave of flame that has a smaller range but a higher temperature than the original spell. If this lands, it should be able to give her some inconvenience with that heavy armor.
She responds by waving her sword, clearing the flame that I've sent but I see that she's preparing herself to send the flame back to me with her sword, as I expected, a Water God style practitioner. But she's too late.
As I finished my spell, I quickly prepared myself for a quick jump, a simple move that is thought of Sword God style. She shouldn't be able to defend this one. I jumped off, and with it, a quick slash that should seal the deal, or at least give me some advantage after this.
CLANK, she's fast, a Water Saint? No that shouldn't be possible she's barely an adult. Except.., no, not a chance. If so, she would have at least given her name, no?.
With a loud boom, her sword clashed with mine and sent me off flying. Shit. I'm rolling on the ground trying to put distanceno attack and then stay low on the ground for some defense in case she comes for an upcoming attack no attack.
No attack huh, I peeked at her for a bit but she seems to still be in her position. Oh, as expected of a Water God style practitioner. I stand and get a good look, there she is standing still. Ok, another one. Unlike before, I move at just a decent speed and start to bombard a few spells in the process.
Recently I managed to get even my earth to spell up to intermediate. Stone Cannon, Ice Smash, Fireball, Ice Smash, and once I got a bit closer Wind Breath. I dunno but the way her helmet is, it should bother her eyes a bit no?.
She budged, with that I let go of my sword and with both of my hands I cast wind spells. The idea is to fire myself towards her like a cannonball, it would be better if I could just leap instead but I don't have the time for that. With that, I roll up my body and put my knees in front of me. I cast Earth Lance centered at the area behind me. Using that momentum, I fire myself towards her like a human bullet. Preparing for impact, I close my eyes due to the intense force I'm in and gonna be in. Ugh, throwing myself to a lump of metal, I definitely hate myself. Well, duh.
BAM, I crash into her, it looks like I hit her but I can sense that I'm changing direction, she'll throw me off somehow. I struggled and ended up falling close to her. "Chance", I send a kick and try to pull her out of balance, but she doesn't budge. Oh, well. With my hand I jumped so that I stood and grabbed her body and her right hand so that I wouldn't get stabbed. Then I pull her off as I'm falling back, nope not budging. I stand with my other leg and try to push her instead, nope not budging. We stand still trying to topple each other off.
She continues to push me down, she keeps trying to pressure me so that I can't cast my spells. Casting spells in this position is tough since I have a hard time casting spells unless my body is relaxed. It's something related to clearing my mind. Still, I need to get this over with fast.
I try to cast a spell without relaxing my body. I put into words "Wind Blow" while grinding my teeth. What resulted is a little push, it didn't even have half the strength it should've had, still it's enough to topple the balance. We both fall with a CLANK, she pulls me down with me on the top of her.
I'm on top of her still grabbing her right hand, which is holding her sword, and her shoulder, her other hand tries to push me but it's not enough. She struggles to free her right hand but in that moment I also grab the knife behind my hips. I unsheathe it quickly but my left hand is not enough to keep her in check.
This is how the situation is, a knife between her helmet and armor, and a sword behind my back. Our other hands are pushing and pulling each other's weapon, damn, this way we might end up getting each other killed. For a moment, I see through her helmet beautiful blue eyes, ugh damn. She senses that I tense down and she also does the same. I let her go and dashed backwards.
She quickly recovered her stance, and of course me too. Damn this is not getting anywhere, it's either I overwhelm her with attack so she can't defend or counter, or I messed up my attack and get countered by her. I'm a bit bruised due to my reckless move, but it doesn't bother me at all since I will just cast healing spells on them. I'm at this point basically heals myself unconsciously . I can win.
Without much pause I sent back myself while casting two stone cannons with both of my hands. She deflects it easily ofcourse, but that was just to keep her busy. Ugh, i should learn a bigger earth spell, i continuously make her busy by sending off icicles and stone cannon, i kick my sword away from her and run towards it. Back to square one, Now I'm back with my sword but with less mana.
People often say that I am extravagant when using spells, and I'm aware of it. I dunno, but people should know that my spells are significantly smaller and weaker than how the spell originally are, I make it just enough to do what I intend to do. And it seems that my mana use for healing spells is more efficient than most people.
Throughout the battle i continue to bombard her with my spells, she's not moving so its easier and i can see her having hard time due to intense amount of attack thrown at her, i even tried to leaped using my wind spell, topple her with my half assed quagmire, even changes between fire and ice to make her uncomfortable. But in the end I lost.
I fell on the ground with her sword on my neck. I should've kept her on the ground when we both fell so that the fight ended up with a draw. Well, it's not like i could go back in time.
It was an intense fight, in the end it ended up in a close range sword fight with me getting less chance to throw spells. She started to move a bit resulting in me being pressured up and losing.
I think I could win if my spells could do any damage to her, but my attack spells just don't have capabilities to do so. I take quite a lot of damage, way more damage but those wounds are quickly healed using my healing spell. I see my sword fell quite a distance from me, I have my dagger but at this point, I wouldn't be able to reverse this situation. Better to quickly admit defeat than to seem unable to accept my loss.
"I lost, as expected from a water-god style user, your defenses are harsh." I say while sighing a bit. My hands are on the air, making a sign of surrendering.
She withdrew her sword from my neck and put it on her scabbard gracefuly. Huh, as expected from that noble house.
"You're not bad," she said while taking her helmet off. I've caught a glimpse of her a few times but she really does have beautiful blonde hair. She then reach her hand to me, I took her hand and stood up.
"I Think we have not properly introduced ourselves. Let me start first then. I belong to the Latreia House, my name is Luna Latreia. Glad to make your acquaintance".
"Ah yeah we haven't, The name is Eli Grimoire. Just as my name suggests, I belong to the House of Grimoire, the pleasure is mine". Latreia and Grimoire we both come from an opposing side of the same country. I could sense that she took a peek on my ears from time to time. Huh, that's weird. Shouldn't she be used with elf race by now? Milis continent is the home of elven race after all.
"Yes, I have heard quite a bit about your healing magic, but experiencing it first hand it really seems convenient." She answered with a glimpse of interest.
"Ah yes, Healing spell seem to always have been my forte since i was a kid so i ended up seeing myself heal myself unconsciously sometime" I'm trying to be as polite as possible, I'm not good at it but the time i spent on milis academy should make my manner passable as a noble. I honestly just want to speak casually like i always do but having a latreian in front of me, Our family are leading the opposing faction for some generations, i can't risk making our relationship any worse.
"Healing spell huh, Grimoire family must be proud to have you" I can see she's smiling without any hostility.
"Indeed they are",I answer her, a bit pridefully. Even Though i just lost to her a second ago.
"Aah that really was a good fight, it seems that you too can't defeat her eh, Eli'', As convenient as it can be a friend of mine speaking loud enough to break our conversation. Illouisiane Chartes, Louis is how people used to call him.
"Hey, I just lost here.. Couldn't you be more nice to me ``I answered with a bit joking tone.
"Haha NO WAY you lost, I'm enjoying myself here". Ugh this guy he really dont have any sense of holding back isn't he. Well can't be helped we basically spent our childhood together. He, just like me, came from milis. We even went to the same school back there.
"Well, it's a good fight. It would be nice if we could do it in the future" She says as she tries to close the conversation.
"Ahh, indeed next time it won't be as easy as this. I look forward to our next duel."I answer her with a polite tone
"Hmm that sounds nice, don't disappoint me. well then a good day for you".
"Indeed good day for you too" , I answer her while looking at her walking away from me. She has a gracious move even for a noble, they're smooth.
As we exchanged our farewell I walked back to the crowd that is my current class on ranoa. The peeps here ranged from 10 to 17 years old, quite far from my perspective since I'm used to Milis Academy. I just transferred yet im in my third year, since I already am able to do some intermediate-level attack spells.
Our class continued to spar, today we are sparring between each class that's how I ended up fighting with Luna. Luna ended up with zero loss, there are also two other guys who have zero loss one that's an exception and another is the same as Luna, an advanced ranked swordsman. Out of 10 fights, I lost twice, to Luna and to other Intermediate sword god style practitioners but it's just by a hairbreadth. And thus, continue my day as a student of Sharia Magic University.