Academy twins P10

Vincent Reinheart had heard everything his father and half-brother had said, and he sighed due to it. "Father… couldn't you be more secretive about what you say? At least lower your voice. If he hears you and decides to report you…" Vincent looked over at the Royal family member, still quiet and seated with his eyes fixed on the upcoming fight. "Nevermind… he's too zoned in to even hear us." After this, Vincent stopped talking after receiving a glare from his father's wife—or stepmother, if thought about in this way.

Leopold crossed his arms, agreeing with what Vincent had said, so all four of them grew quiet and awaited the match's start. So as everyone's eyes looked down on the battlefield, people had high expectations for both Kurai and Vron, since after a match like that, it's only natural they'd want to assume that the last match might be even more eventful.

Once again, after both contestants had reached the minimum range of space between them which was required to start the match, Vron was left a little confused since Kurai had begun to move back farther than the minimum separate space needed.

"H-hey, are you leaving?" Vron asked, really dumbfounded. Kurai, hearing this, shrugged, saying out loud that she didn't need to close the gap to the minimum distance, and instead could reach the maximum distance for the fight to start instead.

Vron looked over at Estros, and Estros looked off to the side, beginning to whistle as if he was purposely acting dumb. So shaking his head, Vron understood that this was allowed, and running through his head was the reason why she had backed up so much.

"Does she also have a bow-like ability hidden away… or is she a more mage type of fighter?" he wondered, hearing Estros beginning to state the start of the match. "Begin!" he yelled sharply. Once the beginning was officially announced, Vron took no chances, not underestimating Kurai for a single moment, so he had begun closing the distance between them as fast as he could, running very, very fast.

While Vron ran towards her, Kurai, not having many options or abilities, pointed her hand towards Vron and seemingly instantly summoned a purple circular zone around herself. Within this zone, Skeleton Knights had been summoned instantly to the naked eye.

Vron stopped in his tracks for a moment seeing the Skeleton knights; afterwards, behind that skeleton knight, six more appeared. "I have exactly three hundred skeleton grunts and seven skeleton knights. If I condense the three hundred into three skeletons, I'll have three more skeleton knights." Kurai then began condensing them all into the three skeleton knights, adding up to 10.

Meanwhile, Vron, who had been approaching, had stopped since he's never seen a monster in person, apart from slimes. Book knowledge though, is a different story. "Skeleton Knights aren't anything too hard to beat. Although that's coming from people who've fought them in dungeons and in their natural locations. The problem here is… these aren't natural Skeleton Knights, and since they're being controlled, this means that they technically have very amazing intelligence, not theirs, but hers." Vron thought about how to approach this in the most efficient way when he came up to the conclusion of simply using magic to rip right through them.

Kurai, however, wasn't done, not after just having ten Skeleton knights present. "Now what'll I get if I condense these ten?" she wondered not yet testing the idea, and instead simply commanding the Knights to attack Vron who had begun his charge once again.

Seeing a smirk on Kurai's face, Vron would soon wipe it off of her face by easily destroying the Skeleton knights. "Multi-elemental spears," he said, forcing three types of elemental spears to form by the masses behind himself.

The pure elemental spears which had formed were of three elements: Earth, fire, and wind. With a sudden hand gesture, all the spears destroyed the skeletal bodies of the Knights quickly, leaving Vron wary of the purple magic zone which he was about to step in if he further wanted to continue his approach towards Kurai.

"I don't sense a trap of any kind. Furthermore, the weird writing all around the magic circle looks similar to a summoning circle, so the chances of a trap being integrated are smaller." He told himself in his head as he stepped foot in the purple zone, not seeing anything happen.

"Thanks for having me here," Vron told Kurai after stepping into her magic circle. Now with roughly only 20-30 feet of distance, Vron continued straight on his path towards Kurai. Halfway through his approach, Kurai smiled, muttering something for Vron alone to hear.

"Glad to have ya here." With the delay in response, Vron felt something off about what she had just said, and just then from the corner of his sight, he could see the sunlight reflecting from something shiny. "A sword!?" Vron rotated, countering the incoming sword, then seeing it happen again, this time also behind himself.

Seeing this, he jumped up into the air since he hadn't had enough time to counter it and give his back to the attacker he had just countered. "She had more Skeleton Knights?" Vron thought aloud. After having jumped into the air, he could see five skeleton knights right where he had been. "If I didn't jump, I would've died right there." In the middle of the air, Vron used elemental spears once again, clearing this area. Right before landing and seeing the five he had just killed come right back already in the middle of an attack motion.

"She has more hidden away, or she can re-use the Skeleton Knights, and this magic circle is the summoning range…" Vron realized that the quick victory he had wanted wasn't going to come; instead, it'd most likely be a battle of endurance. How long could he keep this up? How long could she keep this up?

Vron's issue is that wherever he tries to go, he's being attacked; this also meant Kurai would prevent him from leaving the circle and getting too close to her, all this by utilizing her range and re-using of the Skeleton Knights.

The part which made it harder for Kurai was the fact that these Knights had no way of using magic since it's not something they can do. This meant that these Skeleton Knights had no magic power or magic defense; they were easy to destroy, but could pack a serious punch if a hit should land.

So roughly around ten minutes into this constant style of repetitive fighting from both sides, the crowd began to think the fighting was turning a little boring, and truth is, almost everyone had thought this, including Yoru, yet she was more worried about who would win, instead of how entertaining the fight was.

Out on the field, however, Kurai watched as Vron kept fighting, analyzing more and more of Skeleton Knights fighting patterns. "Uhmm, this dude thing… is pretty troublesome." Kurai thought aloud, clueless of what else to do. "I can't keep this up, since at this rate, my mana's going to be all used up." Kurai once again thought aloud, noticing her mana was reaching near the mark of sixty percent.

That's just precisely when her thoughts flooded with the idea of once again merging the ten Skeleton Knights into something stronger, regardless if she knew or not what it would become. "Okay, one last push, this way I can make some time for this." Kurai was depending on two factors for this to successfully happen.

One was pushing him out of the magic circle, or close enough to the edges, and the second being a bluff. Making him think that if he approached, he'd walk into a worse trap. These two factors combined would give her enough time to merge and summon whatever was to come.

And so on, Kurai went through with this; she maneuvered Vron near the outskirts of the magic circle. Once doing this, Vron could tell that she was giving up her advantage, "Why is she leading me out of the circle… that's where she had all the advantage." Unlike Koku, who'd lose himself in his thoughts on a normal basis, battle or not, Vron would not be lost in his thoughts, this fact allowed him to think much quicker, less complicatedly, so he came up with the conclusion, that Kurai was reaching the end of her mana, so he smiled and began chanting something aloud.

"Sacred earth, searing cinders and howling skies. Weaponize yourselves, so that my foe be slain." Vron had now, at this time, revealed to everyone his contract to a fire, earth, and wind spirit. This had come as a shock to many, including the full Reinheart family who had been unaware of this.

Yoru, however, noticed something off. The moment Vron had finished his short casting, Kurai did as well, but had just waited for an opportunity of sorts to present itself before acting. Vron, who had finished casting and manifesting much weaker versions of themselves, felt his body become lighter, more defended and throughout his body a burning feeling, which oddly did not hurt, but fueled his strength much more.

"It's finished, if you'll just-" Kurai stopped in the midst of her thoughts seeing Vron dash towards her at rapid speed, it also didn't help that behind Vron three elemental weapons formed, a wind spear, a fire sword, and a stone shield.

Kurai chose to there and then summon the after product of the merging slightly in front of where Vron's path led, meaning he'd have no choice other than to stop his dash and confront it. But just as she summoned it, she heard a voice telepathically communicate with her.

"You've summoned, and I've responded." This voice seemed everything but pleasant to the ears, since whatever it was, sounded close to dead, yet alive. The idea of the voice being remotely alive would quickly die when Kurai had seen a Skeleton in jet black armor be summoned in front of Vron.

Up in the stands, Estros began stroking his chin. "Skeleton paladin… the winner has already been decided, eh?" Estros closed his eyes, half-opening one of them.

Back on the battlefield where Vron had come face to face with the skeleton paladin. Seeing this appear in front of himself he tried cutting straight through it thinking it would work. And as you could imagine, it didn't.

Vron was met with a very powerful parry, the weapon a jet black greatsword. The parry was so strong that Vron lost footing for a very small moment. A moment which the paladin took as the beginning of his offensive lead. The paladin began hammering down at Vron's sword, swing after swing chipping at the weapon, eventually creating cracks to fully appear on Vron's weapon after, give or take, six strikes.

The skeleton paladin raises its black greatsword, with dark and purple mana crackling around it, and as it brought the blade of the great sword down, the Paladin moved his sword to the left, predicting that Vron would try to evade the strike and aim for Kurai.

He was right, but before Vron could hit Kurai, the Paladin's strike cut through Vron's body in the middle, splitting his lower half and upper half of the body. "Spirits!" Vron yelled in a last-ditch effort to try something.

While Vron did this, the Paladin buried the tip of the sword into the ground and picked Vron's upper half of the body. "Child, the young spirits who are fond of you, are frightened. Perhaps in the afterlife, you'll perfect your collaboration in everything with them." The Skeleton Paladin then finished the job by clenching his fist with Vron's head still in it.

After this, the Paladin pulled his sword up out of the ground, placing it on its holder located on the back of the paladin. After this, he turned around to face Kurai and knelt, placing his hand over where his heart would be. "Your orders?" he asked, leaving Kurai dumbfounded.

Within her mind, Kurai was panicking, "Hold up. I created this with ten... skeleton KNIGHTS?" In response to the Paladin, Kurai nervously laughed, creating tension in the air. The Paladin, not being an idiot, understood this, so he suggested to her in an also nervous tone to maybe un-summon him for the time being, and to this, Kurai nodded, not speaking a single word out loud during this little interaction.