The Battle Royal Exam finally begins, and quickly the strongest quirked students takes the lead.
On this Exam, Izuku was strictly requested to use the Witcher Signs, and avoid as possible the Dark Schneider's magic, or he could lose points.
At least, Izuku now resemble more akin to the Geralt's character of Witcher's games, since he begin to use real Geralt's spells, like the Aard Sweep, Quen Exploding Shiled, or Igni Pyromaniac to fight against the foes. But still, he likes to use Dark Schneider's magi, as he feels more confortable.
Fighting over two different magic styles will be a tought test to Izuku handle, while the story will slowy deriving to the real battle against Anthrax minions, that would occur once the current arc ends, which will be a slightly modified Semester Exam, Summer Training and Provisional License arc blended together. (Hoping that would not be so extensive, since the real fight was not begin yet!)
Game Rules...
Aizawa, once recovered from the embarrassment delivered by the younger vampire, swiftly use his phony mad ego to impose against their own troublemaker students.
"I don't actually care if Midoriya-kun was right about this exam resembles the PUBG game, or everything else...", as the older vampire pretends that don't wanted to give credit to the younger one, "Since this is not a game at all, let's explain the rules..."
For many Aizawa's students, it was another moment to sigh, just before their teacher recover the usual cruel self. It only takes less than ten seconds, but Aizawa explains briefly:
"The exam settings are plain simple: Both of my twenty students will be sent randomly scattered the battle field, and the prime objective are simple… Defeat all students to win...", and makes a slight pause to fix the sentence, "However, it won't be plainly fair… Then some obstacles are placed, and a minimum cap to pass..."
Some students quickly complains about the battle royal style, like the tape quirked user, "Excuse me, Sensei… This is not a fair kind of exam… basically, we are fighting against other, just to give a broken winner..."
Unsurprising, Aizawa use the cancellation quirk to disable the student's ones, before gave to them a disdainful answer, "If you wait before make stupid questions...", and use their vampiric telekinesis to freeze the annoying student, and bite him to drain a little blood, as punishment, "Instead a pure driven Battle-Royal game, the whole field had sentry weapons and bobby traps, which their destruction or deactivation will give some kind of points, additional to the number of points given when a student are knock off the field… Also some Pro Heroes will join the whole exam to help or fight against the students at will…"
"That's insane!", mumble some random student, just to the reddish Aizawa's eyes pierce the culprit.
"In order to defeat a student, it's will be just of the Sports Festival, or the Hero Battle Simulations… You need to catch, and immobilize him… Injury him, or cause several damage are forbidden, and the violators will be declassified without complains!", and finally explain how the classifications are made, "Basically… The score are the sum of the following parts… For each defeated students, in average are worth 100 points… All robotic sentinels will give you between 10 to 50 points… And fight against a Pro Hero disguised as Villain can give you 0… or 1000 points…", just to turn upside down, "However, forget all the numbers… The real score are variable, taking account several factors… The only certain is the fact that the winner will be the one who will defeat the highest number of foes!... And being the last one alive on the field..."
"Since when a final semester exam is like Samurai Warriors ?!", giggles Uraraka, who appears to be silent until now, and makes fun with her favorite game.
Aizawa signals to proceed the exam itself, avoiding to answer any further annoying question, while each student are placed inside a black van that drives around the field, in order to scatter them around the battlefield.
# Final Semester Exam: A kind of Samurai Warriors, Frotnite and PUBG blended battle royal…
START!
When the signal buzzes, every student, Midoriya was no exception, jump straight out the vans, and begins quickly to make the initial work. When a player starts a battle royal on the middle of a battlefield, the first minute should be dedicated to scan the nearest environment to find tools, enemies or everything useful.
Unlike the old first person shooters, where the the first one who get the majority of weapons and ammo, and plays the leadership, will won, instead in a world riddle with quirks, the ones who plays nicely with their superpowers would gain the advantage.
Midoriya, as a vampire and mage, knew that his magic powers are the main strategy and assets on this game.
Izuku remembers that on previously day, Aizawa and Sakura-sensei warns him to avoid the Dark Schneider's magic, and pursue the Sakura's ones or the Witcher magic. The real idea was pursue the the green-haired vampire to cast more inoffensive magic spells in order to be more discrete, and ensure that any counter-villainy law enforcement would end with the villain been arrested alive, and not cursed by demons from Hell, or vaporized at an atomic scale.
"This not means that you cannot use Dark Schneider's signature magic, however during your career as a Pro Hero, you should at best restrict such destructive magic to handle supernatural threats...", as Izuku sighs when his magic teacher on Yuuei classroom scolds him with a menacing aura, while pinches his right freckled check.
"Eeeeeh... ?!", Izuku tries to complain.
"Apart of some exceptions, fighting against quirked humans don't need to use spells capable to burn or explode them alive...", and Izuku could sigh if his teacher don't bite him.
"What a vampire should endure when all teachers are also vampires… Honestly!… Ouch!...", Izuku flinches when his own teacher's fangs pierces on own neck.
Cheaters are not allowed.
Izuku snaps to reality when he focus on the initial spot, a slightly damaged log cabin on the top of an hill, and a small stream flowing downside. The green vampire delivered a kick against the wooden door, that cracks and tears apart, much due to the extreme muscular strength.
Apart of some knick-knackery scattered on the floor, the small teenager sighs when picks a metal rod and line fishing, along some scrap tools. Survival games was not the Izuku's favorite, and he knew that any scrap found barely had any real propose during the exam.
A few moments later, Izuku reads some messages delivered by a special purpose smartphone application (using some old devices with custom security firmware) that at least two students was out, making Izuku sighs.
"Probably it's Bakugou… ahem, Kacchan… or Todoroki playing hard...", while displays a mad face due to the silliness of such exam model.
Izuku suddenly feels that his boots was sticker with some gluing substance, when he scream annoyed, "Damn it! That's purple balls… Don't mean that Mineta was nearby ?!"
He barely had time to react, when the infamous pervert thrown several gluing balls from several points, while notice that the his target was jumping almost randomly, and taking care to not been seen from Izuku's point of view, which was shielded by smalls trees and bushes from the forest patch. After all, he's repeating the same pattern on the Quirk Assessment test.
The green haired vampire once more focused to detect the actual position of their foe, ear a slight movement of the bushes at an certain point, while notices the little grape headed boy freeze when notice that his trap catch someone that never wanted, "Mi… Midoriya ?!"
"Even my teachers don't wanted to use it...", Izuku use his left hand to cast a magic spell derived from Dark Schneider's powers, and use a low profile one to avoid trouble, "Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!", that forms a sword of magic ash that tears downs to form a decaying miasma, "I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", that splits into a smaller one to destroy the annoying sticker ball that entraps him, and a bigger one to destroy the barrage of new sticker balls, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
Mineta could only avoid to scream, once he put both hands on his mouth, "That's not possible!"
Izuku squirms to the left, while raise halfly his right hand, and casts the Aard Witcher Sign at Alternate Mode, which requires to drain his own vitality and overcharges the elemental magic energy, and then the young vampire delivers a strong telekinesis blast that tears everything on their path, by a full angle of 360 degrees. The Aard Sweep hits badly Mineta and throws several meters away, along the debris from bushes and branches.
Mineta barely had time to recover his senses, since Izuku place the capture stripe, and kicks the grape boy out of competition. And the young vampire don't ever had time to think, since a disguised Pro Hero appear almost from nowhere, not only to catch Mineta and other captured students out of site, but also to confront Izuku.
"From all of those...", Izuku backflips, "It's the Pro Hero Ectoplasm!", as the their adversary changes is posture to battle.
"So your name is Midoriya Izuku, right ?", the Pro Hero bows to deliver some respect, while use his quirk to create several replicas of himself, "And by the way… take this", and calls one of his sidekicks to remove the captured Mineta out of the Exam site.
"Midoriya… I remember that you shouldn't use Dark Schneider's Magic unless you run out of options...", Izuku reads a written message from the smartphone delivered earlier, written by Eraserhead himself.
Even with such warnings, Izuku quickly cast another Witcher Sign, forming the Quen Shield, which was the Quen Sign on Alternate Mode. Ectoplasm was a little surprise to witness the slight tainted green and golden sphere that was protecting the younger vampire and mage, from the attacks of the quirked clones crafted from the ectoplasm substance that once was released from the main body.
Izuku mind was on full concentration mood, and notice that part of the damage delivered by each Ectoplasm's clones regenerates a little vitality and stamina. If the rampage continues, the magic shield quickly begins to crack. When it happens, the shockwave released by the Quen implosion could knock-out Izuku against the ground, or any tree around the site.
"And the worst part is I need about a minute to recover my vitality magic until I can cast another spell!"
Since Izuku was confronting Ectoplasm on a forest area, he decided to run along the bushes and trees to deceive his adversary, until he was capable to counter-attack. The vampire don't like such dumb strategy, as he notice that punching against the ectoplasmatic clones will tear down, but appears to generate a few seconds later.
"That's not so easy...", Ectoplasm menages to spoke some menacing words at a fairy long distance.
"A cheap imitation of real undead creatures and ghosts!", Izuku tries to use his own alchemical knowledge to understand the real composition of the Ectoplasm's clones, "I'm very bad on real alchemy, or to deduce the elemental domains of my foes..."
Izuku knew that a full domain on alchemy was beyond of any reasonable scope, and ever a slight alchemical capabilities will require several decades, or centuries, to master.
But reading skills, and analytical capabilities was developing at high pace, and serve perfectly to the current challenge.
Once Izuku feels that he could cast more magic spells, he decide to take a risk, and apply the Aard Sweep once more, in order to destroy about a dozen of Ectoplasm's clones at a single sweeping blow, "Using clones to increase the offensive force is a neat idea..."
The Ectoplasm itself was a little surprise with the sheer physical force, and the mysterious magic emanated by the vampire. And then Izuku, cast the Axii Sign on an Alternate Mode, the Puppet Axii Sign. Straight against a sight more resistant clone. The kind of mind control or illusion magic appear to affect an ectoplasmatic clone, in a way that resemble a little the Shinsou's quirk, as Izuku remembers quickly.
Capturing an enemy and use them to fight against another appears to had a very limited usefulness, since the real Ectoplasm would destroy the rogue clones before losing ground.
Luckily, by Izuku perspective, it was a test and decoy to cast the Yrden Advanced Trap, and Quen Advanced Exploding Shield, ir order to shield himself from the ebarrier explosion against Ectoplasm.
It was the culmination of some months of training, in order to the green-haired vampire learn to use both hand to cast two different kinds of Witcher Signs. If him could master such techniques half a year earlier, Izuku could clean scores of villain robots during the Entrance Exam, using solely the Witcher Signs.
"And one of my big embarrassment!", Izuku almost lost is concentration, a hard requirement to a magic user, when wanders around his thoughts on something else, "Since when I shouldn't use more powerful magic for such assessment event, I mistake the Quen Signs with the Aard Signs!...", where he even imagine the face palms, and the angry eyes from his own magic teacher shouting:
"Izuku-kun… When you was younger, you don't ever dare to make such childish mistakes!..."
Using the Yrden Sign, some Ectoplasm's clones slow down their agility, and abilities. One of them tear apart, as this magic had anti-quirk effects by is own.
By other hand, holding and exploding the magic shield Quen could destroy some annoying clones, while the energy released by such explosion could be partially recycled as a stamina and vitality recharging.
Ectoplasm react the partially destruction of his clones by Izuku's magic with a humming tone, while tries to not disclose some fear and respect of such strange student. It is very unusual a single person capable to use supernatural powers which was either offensive, defensive and supportive.
"And there's you are, the real one!", shout Izuku before cast the Igni Sign at an Alternate Mode, releasing a continuous stream of fire from the stretched right hand and arm, which is called Igni Firestream.
The Pro Hero barely dodge from the fire, while tried to reply, "Who you menage to find the real me ?!"
Izuku avoid to reply at the same instant, just before to force the Igni Sign to a Level 4 tier spell, and cast a more powerful elemental fire spell. With such predicament, Izuku just cast the Igni Pyromaniac that makes the forest around him, at about a ten meter radius, catch fire.
"If you read the ki flow emanated by a living thing, it's easy...", Izuku finally answers, while the fire quickly escalated to burn both the bushes and trees, and also to burn the Ectoplasm's clones.
"I never thought that I would need to use my secret move...", think Ectoplasm, while he open his mouth to activate the quirk, and expel more ectoplasmatic quirk in order to increase is own size. Then Izuku faces a giant version of the Pro Hero, who tried to bite him or enclose him on his trap, "Forced Internment Giant Bites !"
When Izuku faces the sudden move by Ectoplasm, even knowing that was a last resource move by human quirked persons, his mind snaps when remembers the fierce battle against Zorin Blitz, or the clash against Skull Knight. It was the combat instincts of a real vampire sorcerer, that warns him to fight unrestrained when the events goes terrible dire. The Witcher Magic still had the reputation of a weaken magic, by Izuku's standards, and even with the training, it still more a support to more powerful magic spells, than a real asset.
"Times to use a more powerful magic...", Izuku reacts before the giant mouth encircle him, "Zam-zin… Zar-oni… Eni meto!…", where the vampire cast a magic bubble barrier around him, and expands against Ectoplasm, "Old Goddess of Fortunate Warriors!… Lean your powers and protect me from the foes!...", shielding against the gluing ectoplasm, "Holy Explosion!… CHROME ROSE!"
The actual Chrome Rose spell is also a barrier mirror, where the foe's quirk or magic are shielded and reflected against the enemy. On present case, the magic mirror reflect the ectoplasm and fake flesh with a consistence of a contact glue against Ectoplasm. In some cases, Izuku can increase the magic energetic output by a greater amount than the original quirk or magic released by the foe's technique. The shock wave delivered by the reflecting spell also explodes the prosthetic lambs and arms, making Ectoplasm out-of-combat.
Izuku snaps, without feeling a bit worried and regretful to abuse the Dark Chaos magic, instead the more inoffensive Witcher Magic. "Damn it! When I fight against Zorin Blitz, this spell was a last resource move to avoid to me been destroyed by her own magic… I thought that Ectoplasm would handle it!...", while haves their hands to the support team who arrives some seconds later and tries to rescue the wounded Hero.
Meanwhile, a screeching voice, who appears to be from Aizawa, speaks aloud from the giving smartphone, "Midoriya!… I told you to not use Dark Schneider's Magic, unless at certain circumstances, that you know… You still abuse a little!… With this infringement, I will penalize 1000 points to your score!..."
"What's a great result !", Izuku sighs before jump to another area, as he only defeat a single student, and already makes an huge fuss on a Pro Hero who was hired to make the student's exam a little harder.
Izuku was worried with such scold, and the prejudice on the final grades. When request the actual exam status, he notice that 5 students was already out of the game, both of them with weakest status. And since the southern village was already on their line-of-sight, Izuku quickly runs at that place, using only his vampirical physical strength.
Meanwhile on the Northern Village
Some of the strongest quirked students, Bakugou Katsuki, Todoroki Shouto and Yaoyorozu Momo decided to cooperate at the beginning, since both of them converge at a small town that resemble the rural United States towns of the Midwest.
But the real motive to the three cooperate was more to clean the robots and electronic traps around the town, gathering the maximum number of points before thinking the next step.
"46 mad robots destroyed!… Pulverized!… Blasted!...", scream Bakugou like a madman.
"51… If you dare...", Todoroki replies.
"WTF ?! You thought that you are better than me ?!"
Yaoyorozu sighs madly, while tried to not lead her rage against such childish foolishness, "Honestly! Both of yours are real heroes, or a band of crooks who fights for the most ridiculous things ?!"
Both boys react badly, pretending to deliver fear against her, by menacing hurt her with their quirks.
"WTF are you thinking you are…", argue Katsuki, with his hand blasting explosions, and releasing black and naughty smoke.
"Since when I'm a stupid child ?!", Shouto snaps badly.
Fortunately, Momo don't flinch, and use her own Creation quirk to craft an hammer covered with rubber, when her arms was wrapped on their back. Using a swift movement, Momo swings the hammer against Katsuki and Shouto, knocking-out easily.
Momo didn't expect to defeat two of the strongest boys so easy, and quickly reacts when Katsuki delivers against her an huge explosion.
Todoroki releases several flames and ice shreds, making the entire situation a whole mess.
"I never though that you are a coward to back-stab me...", Katsuki groans.
And before everyone could reply, Todoroki punches Yaoyorozu face, while Katsuki delivers a leg swing against her. She fights back, and delivers a strong blow against the two boys.
It only takes some seconds to the whole situation ending with a full free-styling wrestling match, mixed with a cheap western movie, where the quirks replaces the guns.
When Momo slides into the saloon, the other thugs storm the place, and begins to tear apart everything, pushing and throwing heavy tables, and destroy the liquors balcony.
Soon it was clear that those three students are fighting over their own inflated egos, and forgetting their real roles. All Might takes position and jumps around the whole battlefield to reach the northern village, hopping that is presence along the fighting students will bring back their senses back.
"No more worries! I'm finally here!", All Might appears straight on the entrance of the wrecked saloon, while displays his comical pose.
"All Might!", shout the troublesome students, before both jump straight against him, "DIE!"
Quickly Toshinori, who was the real All Might's name, fights back, and obliterate the entire saloon with his signature Smash punch, throwing the crazier students back.
"I hope that they recover their senses, now..."
However, All Might's hopes would be drain out, as the three injured students, still able to release from the rubble, and fight back.
"My father is crazy… I'm crazy… I'm just want to prove that I'm the best student, and future candidate to the Number One Pro Hero of Japan… Or even the entire world!", shouts Todoroki, angrily with the average grades on general lectures, specially history or mathematics, along the depression that was hitting him due to his father's wrongdoings.
"Don't be fooled by those idiot!...", shouts Katsuki, releasing explosions everywhere.
"What's I need to stop those clowns...", Momo was also enraged.
All Might sighs, and requests backups, while thoughts, "Honestly! This kind of exam was a joke, and those good students are in panic, living a bad day… What's on Eraser Head's mind when suggest such joking idiocy ?!"
At that moment, only 10 students are fighting, and quickly reducing to the strongest ones. Meanwhile Eraser Head delivers a false impression that any nuisances aren't worth of his attention.
"I need to teach those silly brats, a terrible lesson..."
To be Continued...