"Yo, not bad."
Leon looked at the thick earth wall. Instead of being annoyed, he actually gave Kevin an extra point in his mind.
But unfortunately...
Leon’s massive fireball was already primed and ready. He looked at the earthen fortress, his eyes full of mockery.
"Did you think my things were that easy to use?"
"Should I call you naive, or just big-hearted?"
"4, 3, 2..." Brandon's voice remained steady.
"Go, Pi—no, 【Pyroblast】!"
Leon suddenly stopped his clumsy chanting.
With a loud shout, Leon swung his right hand forward. That massive 【Pyroblast】, its core flickering with an eerie blue light, went whistling through the air!
At the same time.
He snapped his fingers with his left hand, pointing at the earthen fortress.
"Detonate."
As that single word was lightly uttered.
Crack—!
The fortress that had seemed indestructible, shielding Kevin within, saw its mana structure collapse in an instant!
Because the foundation that formed it—those stones—were essentially created by Leon's mana!
Since it was Leon's mana, when it would explode and how it would explode was naturally up to Leon!
Boom!
The moment Kevin thought he was safe, the earth walls surrounding him suddenly burst!
"What?!"
Kevin didn't even have time to react before he was sent reeling by the blast. His protective shield shattered instantly, leaving him completely exposed and defenseless in the air!
And at that moment.
The whistling 【Pyroblast】 was already right in front of him!
"Holy crap!!"
"What?! What a sneaky bastard!"
"He predicted this long ago?! He actually left a backdoor in his own spell?!"
"Is this guy's mind really so dark at such a young age?!"
"But that requires incredibly high elemental control! To sever an opponent's mana link and detonate the residual mana... This guy is a genius!"
The audience was in an uproar!
And in that split second where the defense collapsed and the crowd was shocked.
The countdown hit its final second.
Leon gave a crooked grin.
"Just die already!"
Boom—!!!
Leon did not hold back.
To ensure the effect, he even deliberately increased his mana output.
He knew very well that the old fogey on the stage, Brandon, would definitely step in to stop this Pyroblast.
After all, letting the Sixth Young Master of the Felton family die on his own turf would be a major disaster.
You old geezer, you played me earlier!
Now, you can taste what it's like to be forced into a corner too!
Leon watched the whistling fireball, his eyes full of defiance.
Catch this!
"It's over!"
Watching the fireball rapidly expand in his pupils, Kevin's mind went blank, leaving only one thought:
I'm dead!
The surrounding crowd turned pale with fright.
If he took this hit squarely, he’d be crippled even if he didn't die!
This was too ruthless! He actually dared!
The opponent was a young master of the Felton family, a powerful house of the Solan Empire!
"President!!"
The attendants nearby were scared out of their wits, hurriedly turning to look at Brandon.
Brandon's originally smiling face finally froze at this moment.
"That brat... his desire for revenge is really strong!"
The old man cursed under his breath.
"No matter."
Facing the terrifying fireball whistling toward them, Master Brandon, standing on the second-floor balcony, merely waved his hand dismissively.
As an old veteran who had lived nearly seventy years, he clearly saw the 'little scheme' within Leon's strike.
The violent elemental fluctuations in that fireball clearly contained the young man's resentment for being toyed with earlier.
"Heh, this kid really refuses to suffer even the slightest loss. He has personality."
But he didn't care too much.
In his eyes, Leon was at best a talented brat who liked to win through trickery and had decent combat instincts, but was ultimately self-taught.
At most, he was at the peak of the 【crowned】 rank. How strong could a kid be when he hadn't even touched the threshold of the 【glorious】 rank?
If it hadn't been for Kevin playing with his opponent and being careless, the boy probably wouldn't have lasted a minute against Kevin.
Brandon thought this, but his movements were not casual.
He raised his staff, which was inlaid with a massive sapphire, and the water elements in the air condensed instantly.
"【Ice Shield】."
A crystal-clear ice shield, emitting a faint cold mist, manifested out of thin air, blocking the path of the terrified Kevin.
Although he looked down on the energy level of Leon's attack, out of a habit of caution developed over many years, Brandon still deliberately outputted twenty percent more mana to make the ice shield a bit thicker.
A bit overkill, perhaps... for a Pyroblast of this level...
Still, being steady is never—holy crap?!
The moment the Pyroblast touched the ice shield, Brandon’s nonchalant old face instantly changed color!
Sizzle—!!!
There was no violent collision as expected.
That purplish-red fireball was like a red-hot iron dropping into butter. With a tooth-aching sound of dissolution, it treated that thickened 【Ice Shield】 as if it were nothing, piercing straight through it as easily as melting wet tissue paper!
"What?!"
Brandon jumped, his scalp tingling.
This is a fireball a 【crowned】 rank could produce?!
Seeing the terrifying fireball about to pass through the ice shield and turn the bewildered Kevin into ash.
"Not good!"
Brandon could no longer maintain his masterly poise. He frantically raised his staff, which was set with a deep-sea mana crystal, and without regard for mana consumption, he directly activated the instant-cast magic built into this 【palace】 rank staff.
"【Frigid Ice Wall】! Arise!"
Rumble!
Just as Kevin felt he was certainly going to die, a massive ice wall as thick as a fortress rose from the ground. it slammed into him, sending him and the earth flying backward, while simultaneously blocking the terrifying fireball.
In the next second.
Boom—!!!
A destructive explosion occurred.
The enhanced Pyroblast slammed hard into the absolute ice wall. Though it failed to blast through this 【palace】 rank defense, the terrifying shockwave shattered the entire ice wall into pieces!
Under the devastation of the high temperature and the shockwave, the massive, thick ice wall was instantly covered in cracks, then collapsed with a roar!
Crash!!
The massive ice wall disintegrated instantly, turning into countless ice spikes as sharp as swords. Carried by the aftershocks of the explosion, they shot out in all directions like a storm of needles!
"Ah! No time to open a shield!"
"Damn it!"
The onlookers instantly fell into chaos, each fending for themselves.
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