Chapter CXXXVII - Beyond A Year (part 2)
After cleaning the arena, we closed the gymnasium and finally went to our dorms to rest. Tomorrow is a day off, and everyone deserves a rest.
As for me, I quickly flew to the training grounds.
I arrived in less than two minutes, which is fairly fast considering how far this place is. At this point, I'm already as fast as a commercial airplane.
Hell, I could get even faster. Won't be trying that, though.
Under the bright moonlight, I sat on my favourite spot above the cliff. I closed my eyes and started meditating immediately.
I haven't used my fire magic in a whole year, and it should be any time now that the fire magic is ready to use. The battle arena was merely yesterday, so it has been exactly one year since the last time I used my fire magic.
The wind at night is extremely cold, plus it's almost winter, so it's actually the coldest it can be today. But as I was preparing the fire magic, my body warmed up as the air around me became heated up.
I imagined the same technique that I did back when I was trying to form the King tier flame, but I kept on failing.
The purity to get into the Emperor tier is over three times purer than when I was tiering up into the King tier. Which means, it is even more difficult to gather the pure magic energy now than back then.
But, this is all within expectations…
I just have to keep on going… even harder…
I kept on piling up pure magic energy on my fist. Little by little, bits by bits. It took me thirty minutes to gather all of them into my fist, and it made me quite exhausted just from gathering them.
Luckily the evening air is pretty cold, so it stopped me from sweating heavily. I formed a grin and quickly took a deep breath.
"Let's see what a year worth of wait has given me…"
I said with a grin, and I stared at my hand that was glowing rather brightly blue. It was so powerful, that if I were to use this energy to punch a mountain, I think I might split the mountain.
But obviously, I won't be doing that. Because it will only be a waste of pure energy.
I began opening up my palms, and in my head, I'm imagining a flame to burst appear on my palms.
With a thought, I lit up the flames.
VWOOM!!!
A majestic dark purple flame quickly sparks and burns my entire palm. Though it is a different colour, the flames look fairly small, but I can already tell the difference from just seeing it.
The flames… are very… very different.
"Dark purple? That's so gothic..."
A wider grin formed on my face as I gaze at my victory in my fist.
Looks like a year of wait really is worth it…
Plus, it's dark purple…
My favorite color!
I stood up and made the flames disappear from my hand. Then I took a deep breath and opened my palm again, imagining a firebomb.
VWOOMMM!!!!!
A small dark purple firebomb the size of a ping pong ball quickly formed on my hand. Though it is small, it unleashes quite the extreme pressure and effect.
GRRRZZZ!!!!!!!
The ground around me began to shake and crumble heavily as small rocks got lifted from the ground. The heat from the firebomb was able to heat up the entire ten meters radius. If I move this thing closer to the ground, it will surely melt the ground.
This pressure is immense… and it all came from just a simple firebomb at the size of a ping pong ball…
Emperor tier fire magic is really fearsome, indeed… but to be fair, anything Emperor tier is fearsome and powerful. Plus the fact that it is a firebomb and not a simple fireball makes it even more dangerous.
… Now, then…
Let's see its firepower.
I turned towards the open sky right next to me. There wasn't anything below the sky except for the sea of trees, so if anything happens, only the trees will disappear.
Sorry, moonlight… You will have to disappear for a little bit.
I lifted my hand and pointed the little firebomb towards the sky.
With a grin, I fired away.
VWOOOSSSHHH!!!!!!
The firebomb flew as fast as a bullet. Seeing that the speed of the firing also increased made me wonder how powerful the explosion will be.
It didn't explode for the next twenty seconds, which makes me a little worried whether or not the firebomb is a dud. I enchanted my eyes to see, but then I immediately regretted it.
The skies turned insanely bright as a nuclear explosion occurred in the sky.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's an actual god damn nuclear bomb…
The whole sky cries loudly as it is covered by a large dark cloud of mushroom, while the forest under it gets completely devastated from the force of the explosion.
VWOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!
The shockwave it caused is still going, continuously destroying the trees that were rather close to the blast radius, despite the source being hundreds of meters in the air.
The wind force of the explosion also reached all the way here, nearly pushing me off the cliff by its insane force.
It took a very long time, but the wind finally calmed down. I fixed my posture and stared at the giant mushroom cloud looming on the skies above me.
Whoa… I'm cracked…
I stared at the purplish black mushroom cloud in the skies that is now thundering. The top completely covers the moonlight, which made my area a bit dark.
The deafening sound of the nuclear explosion made my ears quite painful, but it's enough to hear that someone is coming around a kilometre from my position.
Would you look at that… that guy is pretty quick to react.
After what felt like only a few seconds, the headmaster landed on the ground ten meters away from me on the top of the cliff, and his gaze was focused on the mushroom cloud caused by the nuclear explosion in front of us.
"T-That explosion... What was that…?"
His face looked quite terrified indeed...
"Sorry headmaster... That was me."
The headmaster then quickly turned his horrified gaze at me. His expression made him look a hundred years older. Actually, never mind, because to him, a hundred years is just like ten years.
"What tier is your... magic?"
He asked with a really horrified face, but I simply grinned as I answered.
"Emperor tier."
VWOOM!!!!!
I said with a wide grin on my face as I lifted my hand to show him the dark purple fireball.
In an instant, the headmaster looked even older. Oh dear…
"Y-You really did get so powerful very quick..."
"Thanks! Happy to hear that from you."
No one, not even the greatest magician, owns an Emperor tier magic. The arch-mage, Julius Polaris, only owned two King tier magics, and he has been living for nearly fifty years.
This is actually an insane feat, and it's only a matter of time until I get my healing magic to Emperor tier.
The headmaster can only let out a sigh and return to the academy.
"Try not to... show off too much."
"You asked me to be the number one and become the student council, and now you are asking me to hide myself under the bush?"
"You know exactly what I meant!!"
The headmaster barked loudly and flew with light magic back to the academy. I stared at him confusingly as he flew back in a high speed.
His flight is fast… but mine is still faster.
I get what he meant. Me showing off my Emperor tier could cause massive-massive destruction, so the less fire magic I use, the better.
All right, then… now that I have taken care of that…
I lifted my palms again and lit the flames once more. I studied it, and I understood what I have to do now…
Training.
I continued my practice on the skies above the training ground, and I used my shadow magic's wings to help me stay up. Because if I tried to use my fire magic there, it might destroy or melt the mountain, and I don't want that.
I needed the training so I can get used to fire magic again. It has been a whole damn year without me using fire magic at all, and I have forgotten so much of it. Just now my firebomb was in fact lackluster, and I am hoping to relearn everything by tonight with the training.
I tried several attacks with the fire magic as well as augmenting my body. As a result, my flame punches become multiple times stronger and more powerful than what I have ever done in the past.
An Emperor tier is truly insane…
That firebomb was merely the size of the ping pong ball, which is counted as my minimum attack. And the explosion is at least the same size as my King tier firebomb at the size of a car, which is my maximum attack force at one moment.
Which means my maximum output on my King tier is the same as my minimum output on my Emperor tier. Interesting fact indeed…
Firebombs are truly a terrifying and deadly technique. I might have to use simple fireballs from now on, just to minimize the destruction.
I kept on training until midnight, then I returned back to my dorm and slept.
The very next day, the news of me obtaining an Emperor tier spread like wildfire, and the whole academy turned insane.
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Rize Violet's Current Magic Status:
o Fire Magic [^Emperor Tier]
o Healing Magic [King Tier]
o Shadow Magic [^Knight Tier]
o ??? [^??? Tier]
Magic Points: To be undisclosed.
Magic Stability: 97/100.
Emperor Tier Fire Magic:
o Shape: Purple Flames
o Description: At this level, the owner is regarded as beings that are close to gods. Emperor tier Fire magic is very much capable of destroying an entire kingdom by themselves, as well as melting even the strongest material in the world, Nychromium. Since the cost to cast this tier is so low, creating a large-scale attack is just as easy as creating a small Beginner tier attack. No one but gods has ever achieved this level.