The crowd turns rowdy knowing the new privileged acolyte managed to defeat 4 opponents continuously and now enter to fight the fifth one. Ery however just concentrated to calm his spirit core, preparing to fight the next opponent.
The screen display in front of his eyes shows the na of his next opponent.
[Rank 78 - Trish (84)]
It was apparent the test ranking showed that this acolyte actually had a higher real rank than her test rank. Therefore, no wonder many people lined up trying to challenge her.
However, unlike those privileged acolytes, Ery had heard her na before and knew her prowess.
In the first week, Ery ca to the Magus Academy. In fact, Trish was sowhat a renowned na among the regular acolytes at that point in ti.
During the ti he was painfully trying to reach rank 2 acolyte, Trish was already a household na with her rank 5 cultivation. Her na was shown on the last day ranking only under the Dragon Boy Zach, as the second most talented regular acolyte.
She was one of those acolytes, who improved themselves and climbed step by step from regular class to elite class, before eventually reaching the privileged class. And until now, she was still proving herself.
Ery could sense she was still in the fourth pillar of rank 9 - a sight that could be counted as rare among the privileged class' acolytes. It was no surprise that her test result was not that high.
Now, the genius girl hailing from a middle realm stood in front of Ery. The two of them finally standing in the sa arena.
The young girl with short black hair and shiny bronze skin didn't have any weapon with her. The only thing that barely resembled a weapon were the two bracelets on her arms. Ery couldn't help but be taken back, when he noticed this.
Oblivious to Ery's surprise, Trish looked at him and nodded with respect, hence Ery quickly did the sa. For so reason, Ery always felt this kind of people who respected their opponents were not soone to be underestimated.
Hence, as soon as the referee announced that the match began, Ery imdiately activated all his buffs and raised his vigilance to the maximum to allow him to imdiately cast spells when needed.
It was clear he planned to hold nothing back in this fight.
His opponent Trish, on the other hand, was seen moving her body and arms around in a circular motion. A mont later, a body of water materialized and was floating between her two arms.
Seeing that, Ery couldn't help but comnt, "A water elental acolyte?"
Ery rarely saw a pure water elent combatant among the top ranking, as the elent was known to not be that suitable for combat. At the sa ti, this also made him wonder what kind of ability Trish had, that allowed her to enter the privileged class.
The girl started taking so kind of martial art stance, while the body of water was moving around her body in beautiful and srizing motions. It almost looked like an ethereal dance of water.
Before Ery knew it, he saw the body of water rapidly enlarge within his vision; Trish had pushed it forward. The water churned violently, as it swiftly flowed through the air, heading towards him.
Amused, Ery quickly moved out of the way while casting [Whiplash], a tier 1 water spell that looked really similar to what Trish just sent to him.
Splash! Loud sound of water splashing was heard, as the two bodies of water clashed with each other.
However, unlike what Ery expected, his body of water was entirely obliterated, while hers remained the sa. In fact, it suddenly swerved halfway after it destroyed his spell, heading his way again.
Seeing that Trish's attack was quickly approaching, Ery quickly cast [Blink]. His figure disappeared and reappeared a few ters away. Now that there was so distance between them, this ti he decided to cast [Steam Lance] - a more powerful, pierce-type water spell, sending a spear-shaped water body to the incoming attack.
It didn't take long for the two bodies of water to et and collide with each other.
Splash! Similar sound rang in the air, Ery observed how his [Steam Lance] got completely obliterated by Trish's attack, just like its predecessor. It was evident that even his tier two water spell empowered by his enhanced nature core was not enough to stop Trish's attack. The body of water kept charging towards him at full speed, as if nothing had happened to it.
This ti, Ery decided not to dodge and instead shot towards his opponent.
Realizing Ery's intention, Trish imdiately did another movent with her body and this ti, another body of water was created in front of her body and completely shielded it.
Even though he saw she used so kind of defensive asure, Ery did not stop his charge. On the contrary, he accelerated even further.
He could not believe such a transparent water barrier would be able to withstand his punch that contained an entire 168 battle power. Still, just to be on the safe side, he cast [Granite Skin] on himself, before he drew his fist back and launched it forward with all his might.
BAM!!!
The water barrier imdiately shattered apart into patches of water when Ery's punch connected, its protective prowess was not as durable as he previously thought.
Now that she had nothing to protect her, Trish quickly ran behind her, and of course Ery imdiately tried to catch up to her.
After taking just two steps, Ery suddenly felt that sothing was wrong and his hunch was proven right, when he saw his opponent was smiling at him.
"I got you!!"
Ery suddenly discovered his body turned as stiff as a rock. His eyes moved around to search for the culprit and he finally found it. The water barrier he had previously shattered that splashed all over his body didn't go away. Instead it stuck to him, making him feel very heavy.
At the sa ti, due to this unexpected interference, the body of water that had been chasing him since the start of the match had finally managed to land on his body.
SPLASH!
Because of his granit skin, Ery didn't feel much pain when the water hit him, but his whole body was very wet. What's more, it also made his body feel even more heavy.
"What the hell is this!?"
"Heavy water!" Trish said, before she did another movent and sent three more bodies of water to him.
[Blink]
Ery imdiately activated his escape card to run away from those waters. Fortunately, [Blink] was a special movent spell that did not need any muscle power. If that wasn't the case, then he would basically be dood, as he was having a hard ti even lifting his arm.
When Ery's figure reappeared quite a distance away from her,
"Darkness, Water and Earth elents, triple elents, impressive!" Said the girl, as she created several more bodies of water, which had already coalesced and turned into a huge wave of water.
Ery knew that if those hit his body again, the situation would be even more troubleso.
The wave of water swiftly headed towards him, Ery was about to cast another [Blink], when he realized he couldn't get his feet off the floor. Looking down, he just realized the entire floor was soaked by that water and it was awfully sticky.
Trish looked at Ery with a smile and said,
"I am sorry, but I can't allow you to advance any further."
Following those words was a rushing wave of water crashing down on Ery.
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