Second round

Though the Sue-Hisashi made a move on him and kids, since no one is injured, elder Dao would have let it slide and make the city lord deal with him. now that he tried to kill both of them even after knowing that an expert who is far stronger than him is in the way, elder Dao frowned in displeasure.

Within the moment of hesitation in order to save the two kids elder Dao punches the Sue clan head. Before his whip reached the two kids sue-Hisashi was sent flying like a stone that had been thrown up into the sky and landed heavily on the ground. With this single punch elder Dao almost punched a hole in his stomach. All his ribs were shattered to dust and his internals were squeezed into a paste of blood and flush. Just like that Sue-Hisashi was dead.

Elder Dao used more power than what he should as the situation was too narrow to take his own time to calculate how much energy he should use, in order to throw a punch which could just push the sue clan head back but didn't kill him! If he takes enough time to calculate and land a blow but was late to stop the whip and it reaches the kids, things would have been worse than this.

Those two kids have the part to play in the betterment of the world. Even a monk who was claimed to be illusional existence until now has appeared out of nowhere and helped them and even asked him to take care of the two kids. Wouldn't he be an incompetent mage?

If something would have happened to the kids, he would have been enraged and crushed every Sue clan member into meat paste and made a pond of blood out of their blood. In the world of cultivation, one should learn to stay humble and low profile. If not, one wouldn't know what hit them even after their death.

Seeing that sue-Hisashi is dead, with an embarrassed look elder Dao said, "sorry, I accidentally used 1/1000 of my power". While saying he sounded like a kid who broke the glass jar and was apologising to his mom. Seeing this everyone in the area was dumb founded. Till that moment everyone was thinking, "why wasn't he revealing his cultivation". Now they understand that if he were to reveal even sliver of his cultivation they would be crushed just by his aura.

All in all, everything happened in ten breaths and the city lord just reached the elder Dao. Seeing how the situation turned out from the moment he began to run from the stage to the elder, he went speechless. Seeing the city lord, elder Dao said clean the mess and start the second round as soon as possible. With a quivering voice city, lord said, "yes elder Dao". Seeing that he isn't probing any further into the matter city lord quickly ordered his men to clear the ground and asked the earth elemental mage to create a proper duelling ring as soon as possible.

Within no time they cleaned the ground and sent the wounded to the infirmary and created a new duelling ring. While shiv and john were recuperating as they both fought the five offspring of sue-clan they were exhausted. Though everyone was queried to meet the two kids no one dared to approach them. Shiv and John didn't bother about anything and were getting ready for the duel.

Then city lord approached them and said, "As for the rules the first person in the race should fight the last person and the chain goes on". Hearing that he is the first one to participate in the Duel John got all excited and get on the stage as soon as he heard it. Then and elder from the city lords command stood up and called out the first person in the running race to get on the stage.

After both of them entered the stage elder started to announce the rules of the second round.

The first rule of the second round is if a person got injured in the fight and asked to quit the other party should immediately stop attacking. The second rule is that one should use his or her magic power to fight with the opponent. Remember this isn't a test for physical strength, it is a test for magic power and the control you have on it. One hit will gain you one point and buy the end of time one with more points will win the test. Winner will enter the academy and looser will go home.

After hearing the rules of the second test everyone surrounded the stage to get a clear view of the fight. As the first fight was going to be with the John who just took on four offspring of the sue clan and the one who was first in the race. Under the curious gazes, both of them stood in the defence look and were waiting for the opportunity to strike. Though John was able to match the four off springs of sue-clan who were on chi refinement level eight, it was mostly due to his physical strength and his agility. The same thing won't work now as they have to fight with the magic energy and he has to match a chi refinement level, eight cultivator, with his chi refinement level seven cultivation.

His physical strength was far greater than others as the body was specially forged by a monk, but his magic energy was completely dependent on his talent and the amount of magic energy he can produce by converting the spiritual energy. As he was building up the magic energy the other party launches one after another fire balls. With his agility, he escapes all the attacks one after another while building up his magic power. When the other party gives a break as he runs out of his magic energy John releases a stream of fire from his palms. With this john thought he would easily win but as the other party was waiting for that to happen he releases another stream of fire energy.

As both the fire streams collided it formed a massive fire at the point of collision. Under the furious attack of the opponent, John was being pushed back constantly. Seeing the situation slowly turning down on him John narrowed his eyes and released all of his energy at once. The sudden influx of energy pushed the opponent down the stage. And john won the round. Though he won the round he was too exhausted due to spending all of his magic energy at once. It's a lucky thing that his body absorbs spiritual energy faster than others or he might have just passed out on that spot. With that john won the round and successfully gained an entrance to the Mage Academy.

…an earth element mage quickly repaired the stage and an elder invited the second round participants. This time shiv entered the stage as he was the fortyerth one to complete the race. As the ball rang they started the fight the second one to complete the race was actually wind attribute. Though they were in the fire nation there are going to be all kinds of mages the attribute of the person didn't depend on the parents. With his swift moment using his wind attribute, he was able to move faster than chi refinement level eight cultivators.

Though shiv had cultivated body cultivation technique before that won't help him here as he will give a point to the opponent even if he wasn't get hurt. So to deal with this opponent shiv had to do everything in his disposal. If it was a brutal strength fight he would win it with a single punch.

With swift moments wind cultivator was throwing the wind sharp as a sword. As they were of wind element it was hard to locate them adding his ability of moment he made the situation even hard for Shiv to escape from them. In the first few breaths, Shiv got hit thrice. And no one was seeing any kind of attacks from Shiv. While Shiv was moving and evading, he was slowly building up his magic energy. His plan was to use the number of spirit balls at once to catch the enemy and gain more points in a single go. Then a bell rang indicating that half of the time is over. Sing this he throws a magic ball at the opponent to test the magic ball but contrary to his expectations a small spark which was too slow flew out of his hand. Seeing the tiny spark of energy everyone was dumb founded. Everyone was about to laugh but they held their laugh as they don't want to offend the powerful expert who was sitting quietly near John.

Witnessing the small spark of fire which looked like it would extinguish at any moment shiv was in the verge of tears. John was able to send a stream of fire while all he was able to throw was a small ball of spark. Thinking that if he was unable to get four points before the time ends shiv throws another ball but it was same as before a small ball of fire floating quietly in the air. Frustrated he keeps throwing the balls with in no time almost the entire stage was filled with small sparks of fire. It looked like he would lose at any moment then the sparks slowly made their way to the wind attribute cultivator seeing that if he were to get caught in the hundreds of sparks though he wouldn't get hurt he would lose the game for sure hence he throw a wind slice at the first spark that almost reached him up on coming into contact with the wind element that spark suddenly exploded on his face.

Shocked he wanted to move from there but all the escape routes were blocked. Seeing this he almost choked in his own saliva. At that moment he wanted to escape at any cost so he slowly started to moving between the gaps in the sparks. As he was moving he accidentally stepped on a spark which lost its momentum and fell on the ground earlier….. bhoooom he was sent flying in the air while he got hit by another and sent in another direction and the chain continued for a while before he was sent flying out of the stage. His cloths were ripped apart and smoke rose from his body though he sustained some burnt marks he wasn't in danger.

With that shiv also won the second round and earned an entrance into the academy.