Tournament part 4

The needles were aimed at Darvin and fired. They rushed through the air fast but Darvin was ready for this, on top of his armour he accumulated and blasted in the direction of the needles that were fired at him turning all of them to mana. The needles restocked and were aimed at him this time and this time in thousands ready to stab him. Darvin made his swords as well and fired them at Bishop and also some to intercept the fire arrows. They did just that and protected him from the attacks. Bishop too was left unscathed.

"Since we are on par, I don't have to worry," Darvin said and instantly the sky darkened, Darvin had just activated his storm rune ready to smite Bishop.

The rune though was toned down to avoid any other casualties. The storm had several ice shards hiding the presence of wind magic, the storm was targeted at Bishop, and the ice shards hit Bishop destroying his armour and cutting parts of his skin accompanied with some wind blades, Bishop tried using an explosion but the flames only made the whole thing worse. the storm was hurting him making his already aching body ache more, he tried using will but the storm was too powerful and big to dissipate.

A feeling of hopelessness began to creep into his heart.

'Even when I am a fourth tier, I still can't beat him, what am doing wrong?' Bishop thought to himself.

The answer to this was easy, they were both dual attributed and despite having a higher tier, Darvin had better battle experience from hunting in the woods with Darvin and also training with Darvin. The body refining technique was also also an addition to this since his body improved a lot allowing his body to retain more mana.

Back to Bishop, he was still struggling in the eye of the storm, hopelessness and bitterness were creeping into him, and then from the top of his armour a dark red aura formed, it began at Darvins magic, the storm was still strong but in addition it now had Bishop's aura. the storm began burning leading to Darvin losing control of the storm and the storm getting out of control.

At the mage tower lounge, I was getting glares from all the other tower masters.

"You put him against Darvin knowing he was a fourth tier," Alstor said in disgust.

"Your nobles and your useless tricks like this, wasn't it enough that the kid was already dual attributed," Ilas said.

"Let's just give the kid a chance and see if he'll win, but for you Ivy, you have to take responsibility after this," Leon said.

The storm was still raging and Darvin had no way of controlling it.

'Guess I'll have to use this,' Darvin thought. 

While in seclusion, he had gained a great trick among many and he now had the opportunity to test it out.

In his hand mana began to accumulate filled with his will and then he added a command to it.

"Devour," Darvin said in a small voice.

Darvin fired the ball of mana at the storm, it got into the storm easily and mana from the storm began to drain into the orb of mana, the more mana it got the stronger the orb absorbed mana devouring it all and adding to it. In a few seconds, the whole storm had disappeared and at that point, Darvin released his will from the orb and the mana scattered. Bishop fell to the ground out of exhaustion and pain.

The crowd went wild and even from the stands, there were mini light explosions took place celebrating his victory.

"WE HAVE A WINNER, DARVIIINN!" Leon shouted at the top of his voice, " NEXT UP ALDIN RANDALL!!!!"

Aldin walked out in his armour and Darvin was leaving high-fived when they passed each other.

Bishop was carried away and a new kid was brought in, he was dressed in armour and had a sword at hand. When Aldin looked at him face frowned.

"Fight!" Leon shouted. the boy immediately pounced at him aiming to hit him, when he was close enough Aldin punched him sending him flying up in the sky. Aldin used ice on the bottom of his feet to fly up and meet him in the air. When he got there with a lightning-filled hand he smacked down the kid, when he got to the ground he was unconscious and hurt, the battle had ended in two moves. And Aldin was bored, the whole audience was silent out of shock, Aldin flew up using ice magic towards Leon.

"Can't I get an opponent who is in the fourth tier like Darvin?"Aldin asked.

"Let me go ask first," Leon said flying towards the tower masters lounge.

"Aldin is requesting an opponent in the fourth tier," Leon said.

Ilas was about to speak but Oris beat her to it,

"I will offer him one of mine, I can't trust any of you with your tricks," Oris said. "Ivor will be taking on Aldin."

Ivor was one of Oris' disciples, a wind-attributed mage, he had also recently advanced to the fourth tier but much earlier than Bishop, he was a18 years of age. He had yet to develop his aura but had a fairly good understanding of will and was a skilled warrior.

A few minutes later Ivor walked out in a set of green light armour and a whip in hand. Aldin came down with a huge smile on his face. They bowed to each other as a sign of respect.

"Fight," Leon announced full of dread. 

Ivor having seen Aldins previous battle fired several blades of wind at him and drew closer.

When the blades got close enough they lost their mana and faded away into non-existence. 

Ivor non the less got to Aldin and axe kicked him and kicked him on his side.

Aldin was able to stop them from landing. Akdin gripped Ivor's keg and whacked him to the ground.

In his other hand he made an ice pole and aimed to hit Ivor who blocked it with his own. When they got into contact the surface began to freeze, and the frost spread. And almost got to his arms before he jumped away. Aldin fired shards of ice at him. Using his staff he was able to block the attacks.

There was now an opening which Aldin used by making the rod he had on hand flexible and whipping it at Ivor who had no way of blocking it and took on the pain.

Ivor moved back in a quick jump to recover a bit Aldin jumped over to Ivor wanting to attack.

Ivor used his staff to strike at Aldin who held it, on his side, he conjured a will-filled air sphere which he fired at Aldin. Aldin failed to react in time and was pushed back and fell to the ground.

As he stood up he was met by Ivor who had his staff at hand and was aiming to strike Aldin with the staff, he swang it from the top, and Aldin caught it in his hands and pulled it back together with the holder, Ivor was pulled with it and with a flying spin Aldin kicked him to the side and forcing him to let go of his staff.

Aldin threw the staff away and began walking to Ivor.

Ivor by now had already stood up, when Aldin got close Ivor tried to tackle him and pummel him but Aldin did not badge and instead took hold of Ivo and lifted him into the air before crashing to the ground. Water from the air also started to converge on Ivor freezing together to hold him in place. Ivor used his will to stop and free himself before using the wind to push himself up. He now looked down at Aldin in anger. The air around him began to cackle and his will filled the mana in the air packing his lightning with will. The bolts of lighting fired at Aldin landing on him heavily. But he had his also counter it, they whereof even strength cancelling each other. Ivor was sweating while Aldin was all smiles.

Back at the tower masters lounge, Leon had been summoned again.

"How may I help you?" Leon asked. This time it was Oris who had summoned him.

"I wanted to know who you left to teach those two, they seem abnormal," Oris said.

"They taught themselves after they finished the entire curriculum," Loeon said.

"And how did they learn how to use will?" Oris asked again.

"I just explained to them what it was, everything else they taught themselves," Leon said.

"And do you have any idea why the have such strong wills?" Oris asked.

"I only know that Aldin has survived two attempted assassinations and in both, he had to kill at a very young age."Leon said