The final act of the Battle Royal Exam that ends with Izuku blowing all apart.
I hope that on next year, the chapters will reach the main fight against Anthrax.
The Exam's Final Fighting...
Aizawa could only stare and smirk when witness his troublesome vampire student standing against one of most powerful human Pro Hero, All Might, along the current first years strongest human students, Todoroki and Katsuki, where he was also the teacher that lectures them.
Aizawa Shouta, also known as, Eraser Head was worried with the accidental discovery of the Mutant Witcher Signs that enhance the damage of a relatively benign magic spell, turning them potentialy lethal. Even with this danger, Aizawa hopes that Midoriya would try to finish the whole fight without abuse the dangerous Dark Schneider's Chaos Magic.
Midoriya at the meantime, while still trying to hide the excitation and stamina rush when he discovered the Witcher Mutant Signs almost by accident, he remembers from the last fights during the whole semester the chain linkage between the Yrden Sign and the quirk blockage effects.
"During all semester, even during the disasterous mission on North Korea, I notice that when I cast the Yrden Supercharged Glyphs magic skill, it always disables or causes malfunction on several several quirks. I think that probably should exist room to improve such Sign to use against quirks more efficiency...", Izuku mumbles while scans the environment in order to counter any attack from his colleges, or All Might itself.
Izuku notices a red hue glowing from his peripheral vision, prompting to dodge a sudden explosion that leaves a debris cloud that appears to be aligned on the previous afterglow.
"Very interesting, the Witcher Senses…", the vampire's own instincts proved be right, "However, this don't mean that...", since the debris cloud around the ruins is the perfect setting for a particular human friend counter-attack mercilessy.
"What's your next damn trick, Deku ?!", suddenly the quirk explosive boy appears, and almost takes down the green haired vampire by surprise.
Izuku reacts and casts the Yrden Magic Trap in order to slow down the explosive quirk user's activation. To prevent unexpected surprises, the vampire delivers a strong punch against the explosive boy, to take down of action, while he swears curses about the instability of the Witcher Senses activation when needed.
"As expected from Kacchan…",Izuku grins when grabs his childhood friend, and takes down against the ground.
Suddenly, the young vampire flinches when fells an instant freezing, followed by an heavy fall of shreds of ice, "Damn it!", partially blocked by a well known magic barrier.
Todoroki smirks with some disappointed, once notice the slight golden glowing barrier and encircles the green-haired vampire.
The vampire quickly notice that the alchemical potion enhanced by the Fleshgod Apocalypse ritualistic spell was not onlyincreasing the Witcher Signs damage, but also the critical hits rate. The major limitation was the increasing instability, that makes worse when activate two different kinds of Witcher Signs. Fortunately, when Todoroki launch several ice shreds against him, Izuku just needed to combine the Quen Intensity with the Quen Discharge to stop the first quirk attack, and shield against physical damage, before the Quen Sign fades away.
The real limitation is the time that the Quen sign holds without fading, rarely lasting more than 15 seconds. It was enough to prevent surprise attacks, but is too little to confront strong quirk users, specially with long range attacks, or had more endurance, like Todoroki.
However Izuku couldn't avoid the next foe's move that starts with an unexpected yell, "New Hampshire Smash!", making no time to the the vampire react, even he couldn't blink his eyes, neither had time to react agaisnt a strong punch and related gust that shatters the ground in pieces of shrapnel, and thrown him away by the oposite direction of the initial punch.
"What's you pretending for ?", spoke Izuku before notice the person who attack unexpectily, which was All Might. The famous Number One Pro Hero was attacking him from his back.
The vampire decides to take measures in order to not be catch off guard again, and decides to take a risc and increases the Yrden Sign Intensity at absurd levels, while burn the remains of the magic energy from the alchemical potion at fullest. The young vampire pretends to use the Yrden Supercharged Glyphs combo with the Yrden Magic Trap spell.
However, Izuku notice that the Yrden sign energy release at this moment was strange in terms of structure, hinting that unlocks a second mutant sign, since some core features was changing from the expected ones.
The new mutant magic barrier was about the triple radius of the standard Yrden Magic Trap, while inside the magic field changes from the expected fainted golden domain, to a more reddish hue. Izuku decides to increase the barrier, before All Might hit him again.
Once All Might penetrate the Yrden domain, his body glows purple, and releases a dark miasma that evades from him, that appears to slow them, while the miasma are quickly absorbed by the magic barrier structure.
In about a third part of a second, All Might physical strength, and his quirk suffers a brutal collapse, slow him down enough to Izuku slides and evades without great rush.
"Yrden Extreme Cursing Field!", Izuku christianizes the new Witcher Sign skill, as he thought that was unlock some secret skill that was forgone from the Ancient Magic Grimoires.
All Might, much due to his superior muscular constitution, don't evade or flee away from such forbidable adversary, and he could deliver a strong punch against Izuku. Even when the vampire cast the Aard Piercing Cold to counter the physical attack, he was thrown away several meters from the punch impact, and the magic barrier collapses swiftly. The Number One Pro Hero still suffers damage from the frostbite, but he was able to stage a smile when faced a strong magic sorcerer:
"Young Midoriya, as I expected, you have raw potential, but this don't means that you should overpower everything!"
"Very few humans deserve to face the real strenght from a vampire!", Izuku retribues their respect.
At the same time, Izuku's Magic Arts teacher also known as Sakura, takes note on the new Mutant Witcher Sign effects.
"That's cute and funny this strange Yrden derived magic spell... Neither Midoriya's Grimoire or my own research notes had any Mutant Signs derived from Aether Magic..."
Aizawa ears the Sakura's mumble, while pretends to not take attention, "I need to update the Midoriya's profile file before the beginning of the second semester..."
Blowing everything on the Last Step...
Once the stand off between All Might and Izuku ends with a tactical draw, the strongest boys decide to attack the vampire off-guard again with their quirks. When they attack him, Izuku just deflects all attacks back using the Yrden Extreme Cursing Field that weakens the quirks forehand.
"Tsch!", Katsuki recovers from the first strike, but with a mad face, "Damn it! Deku had too much defenses… I need to trick him, to blow him!", and orders to one of his rivals, "Half-and-Half! Did you had a damning suck plan a way to blast the weakling vampire ?!"
Todoroki was stunned with the Yrden Extreme Cursing Field effects that not only disable all quirks around Midoriya in a similar way that his class teacher and Pro Hero Eraser Head, but also weaken his stamina proportionally when he tries to use the blocked quirk.
"Katsuki is trying to break Midoriya's magic barriers, however I can...", spoke Yaoyozoru, who was the last girl in action trying to approach the vampire during the whole confusion.
Yaoyozoru was first trying to find the best way to use her Creation quirk to craft a tool to help the boys fight against the vampire. Instead she almost wails when Katsuki blast her away, just because the explosive blond thoughts that she was blocking their path.
To made the things worst, the dual quirked boy decide to grab her, while she was stunned due to Katsuki explosion, and use as a shield against Izuku, while he use the ice quirk to throw ice shreds.
Izuku, who was still recovering from the All Might's punch, decide to counter the vicious Todoroki quirk attacks with a moderate ice magic spell, "Soaring Dragon from Northern Realms!…", but he couldn't notice at that moment that Yaoyozoru was in front of Todoroki, "Under your Ancestor's Bloodlines Pact… Release your Wrath!...", and she receives the damage instead, "Raging Ice Bullets!… TANKARD!"
The young girl suffers frosting pain, and collapses due to the icicles impact, losing the consciousness. Todoroki, much due to his mistake, simple leave her on the site and decide to launch a full fire and ice attack against Izuku, and Katsuki simply follow him by the opposite side.
Izuku was in shock when notices that Yaoyozoru was hurt by his own mistake, but also notices that Todoroki and Katsuki not only leave her in the middle of fighting, but also use her as a shield, and don't help her when she's wurt..
The medical teams also retracts to rescue the girl, much due to the damage and rubble from the false buildings collapse during the fighting, increased with the damage delivered by fire and ice quirks.
"Young Shouto… How you dare to abuse your classmate like that ?!", All Might recovers his attention to surroundings at this moment, but was shocked with the bad behavior of some boys, specially Todoroki and Katsuki.
"Why Midoriya switch to another kind of magic ?!", Aizawa blinks his eyes when the lasting girl was defeated by the Tankard spell, which was an Ancient Magic Spell recorded by the Dark Schneider's Grimoire.
The green haired vampire mood was swinging dangerously due to the fight against All Might, and the terrible duo composed by the ice-and-fire quirk user, along the infamous explosive blond boy. Izuku was a little disgusted due to the way that Yaoyozoru was defeated by the two males, hinting that she was been antagonized by them.
"Humans… Always fighting for their own pleasures…", Izuku snaps with all events unfolding, "If you think that you can betray the trust and teamwork like that…"
The two boys yells with great defiance, before unleashing all his quirks powers with their best techniques against the vampire:
"Stun Grenade!", Katsuki flares a blinding explosion, while Todoroki releases a ring of fire and a wall of ice against Izuku, "Cocytus Collapse!"
"I'm done with this joke!", Izuku quickly discharge all active Witcher Signs, and stare against his foes, ignoring that All Might was trying to stop both of them, "Lassen Sie uns dieses Stück Scheiße beenden!".
Aizawa blinks when his unfriendly student swears straight in German, but quickly notices that the things will not end nicely, "Midoriya!… Please, don't..."
Izuku raise his stretched right arm, and start to conjure a magic spell akin to the Dark Schneider's ones, "Gabriel… Hummer… Michael… Mensch… Luzifer… Kinderzimmer… Heimkehr… Ancient Sages of Lucifer, Capital Lords of Deathly Curses!...", crafting a dark miasma cloud that forms an ominous vortex floating about four meters above Izuku, and starts collapsing due to their own strong black magic energy.
During the collapse, the exterior parts crafts a wicked web of dark lightning with red and purple hue that once materialized, it pierce around the ground like a swarm of arrows.
"Ancient Kings from the Sacred Underworld, Preying within their Infinite Wisdom, I will Became the Offering Supreme Sacrifice to Link the Kingdom of Heavens to the Empire of Hell!...", while at this incantation stage, the central vortex collapse swiftly to a dark star, "Under your Pact of Evil Ills, I Summon the Shadowy Star of Death!..."
Before the three targets could ever think to counter such terrible magic spell, the entire cursing web shatters when the dark star collapses with a powerful explosion that obliterates everything at full circle, catching them totally off-guard., while Izuku yells madly, "BETHLEHEM!"
When the three adversaries face this dark sphere star , they barely had time to dodge, and ended engulfed by the terrible black magic spell. With the explosive barrier impact, they suffer an excruciating pain, and quickly knocks out all of them, as like their souls been ripped apart or been draining away.
The Bethlehem black magic spell not only nullify all quirks, but also reduce all stamina to zero instantaneously. Also the previous quirks attacks was shattered apart or deflected back when the black sphere composed by dark energy pass trough it.
Quickly Izuku casts the Witcher Sign Somne in order to slow down the Bethlehem spell, and stop the potential lethal effects on the poor humans.
Once everything settles down, and Izuku releases all magic energy, he notices that All Might, Todoroki and Katsuki ended fainted and unconscious, but alive.
"MIDORIYA!...", Izuku flinches when Aizawa yells on the smartphone, "That's one serious offense! Casting a dangerous magic spell against students will delivery to you a severe penalty… Not only losing 5000 points for each stunned student, but also the first rank position… Honestly ?! Why you blow away at the last minute ?!"
"I'm sorry…I'm sorry...", Izuku flinches again, and bows 100 times, until resumes, "I fell to enraged when the stupid Todoroki use Yaoyozoru as a cowardly shield, stunned by Katsuki, and ..."
"Enough! Apologies will be delivered later… For now… the exam will end without a winner!… Both of you still need to learn ..."
Sakura sighed when everything ends so nicely, specially when the rescue teams sends the wounded Pro Heroes and students to the infirmary, and the immediate conclusion of this silliest exam on Yuuei history is that ended with a general disqualification.
Aftermath...
Once the dust settles down, Midoriya immediate penalty to his overpowering abuse was more vampire-like that everything expected, since Aizawa, his mother and Sakura bite him and drink more than half of his blood. To make the things a little harder, he couldn't drink any blood for the rest of the day.
Inko Midoriya couldn't do much more for now, but she was disappointed with the ruthlessness of his son when waste a fair good classification, that could ease his redemption from last year's mistakes.
The forced blood deprivation reveals to be a little dangerous, since at the next morning, Izuku was too thirsty, and bites his own mother when she tries to wake up.
Luckily, such reaction was expected by Inko, has she prepared forehand a reinforced blood canister mixed with some sweets and fresh sushi from a supermarket to coat it with lots of fresh blood, hoping that would help Izuku to recover his usual sweet self.
On next and also the final semester week before summer vacations, Aizawa gather all 20 students to the 1-A classroom and made some declarations:
"As you already know. The Battle Royal Exam ends without an official winner, since Midoriya casts a forbidden black magic spell that knocks out the competition..."
Midoriya was now the target of nineteen pairs of eyes, and some of them start to rationalize about the kind of magic used.
"I was a rage burst due to some colleges, in the middle of active Mutant Witcher Signs..."
"Please, don't try to justify such irresponsible act!", Aizawa bears his fangs, "As I could read, the Bethlehem spell, if used correctly at full stoke, would kill your mates!", yelling at the work kill.
"Sorry...", Izuku flinches when Aizawa was mad.
"I think that Endeavor's son deserves this!", Yaoyozoru intervenes with a defiant tone, "Or the stupid blond that always like to make trouble!..."
"Oh ?!", Katsuki reacts madly, "You had balls to defy me!..."
Todoroki itself barely reacts, since he fell the guilt at his dry throat.
Aizawa signals to Izuku join for a little punish, even he was the main issue, before the hot heads creates more trouble. The older vampire swiftly grabs Katsuki and throw against his deck. Before the blond could ever react, Aizawa bites Katsuki's neck when facing upwards, craving the fangs at the fullest.
Todoroki don't react when Izuku's fangs bites him, and compared with his teacher's brutal way to punish his students, it was more contained.
Katsuki fells ill due to the blood drained, and needs to go to the Recovery Girl infirmary afterwards.
The day was not going good, specially when Iida witness two vampires bitting troublesome students, but he was also disappointed with the Izuku's frequent snapping bursts that ends with troubles like this.
Aizawa quickly returns to the main topic, "Apart of this little punishment, let's talk about the summer break..."
Some boys like Kaminari and Mineta start to dwindle in their dirty fantasies when notice the magic keywords. Others maintain the focus to pay attention.
"The Yuuei Board accept a mine suggestion to bring the first years Hero Course to a Summer Camp in order to better train your quirks, and your skills, specially when the law enforcement officers request the help of Pro Heroes to handle villainy acts, terrorism, arson, kidnapping, etc, etc...", and breaks his voice with the Cancellation quirk activated, "All of those things, except supernatural threats, of course… Sorry Midoriya! You should be the Geralt z Rivii, not Dark Schneider!"
"Oh great!", Izuku sighs when read the notice written on an official signed paper, that only confirms the tip spoken by his teacher, "Now I have a second secret identity… The Bloodhound Witcher, the sucessor of Geralt ?!"
The green-haired vampire fells a strange blow in a psychological sense, since he always review the Witcher Magic as a support, not the real way of things.
Once all things settle down, Aizawa informs to Izuku that retain 4000 points on the exam, making halfway on the final classification table. After all, Izuku lost more than 50000 points just to their own mistakes and overpowering his own magic when don't needed.
Both 1-A class students passes the first semester exams, and Izuku lose 3 values from 20 maximum on both disciplines grades as a reminder to not be silly. Either way, he had an average of 14 on their grades, when it could have 17.
And before he could start the next semester, he need to pass the Summer Camp test, that he knew that will be the first time when he could be requested on a civilian duty, and start to carry the name of Geralt as the new Pro Hero to restore the law and order.
To be Continued...