End of the tournament

 In the end, I decided to splurge once again and wasted one hundred fifty points on this parasitic core from the Mage's shop. During later experiments, I learned that creating a new tier-one spell was not only an interesting job that could create all sorts of magic, but it was also quite cheap, with only ten spell points required to finalize and learn a newly crafted spell.

With the incoming duel in mind, I created two utility spells. 

The firewall was as simple as the name implied. It was just a single layer of fire, appearing in front of me and slowly expanding forward for up to five meters. With only shockwave and the second rank spells offering any kind of utility, I required something that would allow me to mess with the potential battlefield a bit.