Chapter 359: Angela Versus Kayla
Chapter 359: Angela Versus Kayla
On the bench of Cassau's team, the team members other than one obvious person are surrounding Jewel to see if she's okay after get knocked out by Angela.
"…I'm okay. I just need to rest," Kayla said as she lay on the bench after being eliminated.
"Is it frustrating to lose?" Kayla asked.
"…it is. But it's fine. After all, Angela has been trained by Master the longest," Jewel said.
Just as she said, Roy has trained Angela the longest. After all, she was the first person that he met after returning back to the past.
"Don't say that. She might be the longest to learn magic control, but she got this far because she got what we lack. Talent. You should know from Roy that she's so talented that in the future, she was considered as one of the strongest in the war. Not just because she trained hard, but because she has talent. But now, because of Roy, she can be much stronger than the Angela in his previous life. As for you, you are his beloved disciple. We are all training under him, but you're the only one he accepted as disciple. He must be proud to see you get this far instead," Kayla said.
"…haha. Master is… wait, where is he?" Jewel asked.
They all know that Roy was watching from the rooftop, but now that Jewel looked up, she can't find Roy anymore. He was not there.
Hearing that, Kayla and the others also looked up. Shirley on the other side also looked up seeing that. It's not just Shirley. King Albert, Queen Marie, Sophie, Queen Carmen, Prince Fabio, Lina, and even Kron who was supposed to be the referee are looking up.
Seeing that Roy wasn't there, they know that something happened. But they know that he can handle it by himself for now. If not, he will ask Sonia to get the others to help him.
They are ignoring the commentators as they looked to the rooftop. As for the people watching from the rooftop without buying tickets, they are looking at each other and asked if it was them who were being looked at.
"Something must have happened. Well, it's no wonder since this is a big event that must have gained the cult's attention. Even before, he got hurt because he was careless. I just hope that he won't get hurt again. Well, I'll be going now. Wish me luck," Kayla said as he walked up to the stage.
Seeing that, Kron's attention turned into Kayla.
"Are you sure you're fighting now? Roy isn't here," Kron asked Kayla.
"Wait, he's gone? Where did he go?" Angela asked. She only noticed now that Kayla and the others were looking up looking for Roy.
"There's only one thing now that can distract him from our fight. Well, that doesn't matter. If he has finished his business, he should be watching us from somewhere else. Even if he doesn't, we can show him the proof which one of us is the stronger one," Kayla said.
"And the proof is…"
"The prize reward," Kayla replied calmly.
The two fighters just talked as they stand in the middle of the stage. Even though Kron is there, the two ignored him and just talk.
Steven and Dwight are talking so loudly to make the match more exciting.
"This is really the final match! Who would have thought that it would be like this! Two girls raised in Melk, joined a party together. They became best friends, and now they are separated after entering different college, they reunited and face each other in the final match!" Steven said.
"On one side is Angela. She was the one who defeated the most monsters during Stampede even though she was just intermediate level at that time. The other is Kayla. She was the one who healed the most people during Stampede when she was also just intermediate level. Now, the two should have become much stronger than that time and will show us an amazing match. We still don't know what Kayla hides, but we will see it soon," Dwight said.
The two on the stage are talking for a while, but no one wanted to interrupt them. They patiently waited until the two finished talking even though they can't hear what the two said. Other than Kron.
"The main winner in the end will be Roy. He's the one who taught us both how to get stronger," Kayla said.
"Haha. I guess you're right. He taught us the knowledge from the future so we can grow stronger," Angela said.
"We were the first two people to meet him after returning back to the past. Roy knew you because of your achievement in the future, and saved me while you two were on a quest. We will show everyone how strong we are because of him. Kron, I'm ready," Kayla said to Kron after finished her chat with Angela.
"Me too. Let's get started already," Angela said.
The two no longer need words. They just have to prove to the world their strength. The power they learned from Roy.
Although Roy learned those knowledges not by himself, but from other people in the future, Kayla and Angela only know that everything is because of Roy. That's all they needed to know.
"Well, good that you two are ready. But the stage is not prepared yet. They say that they're going to expand the stage slowly. Probably King Albert do this to delay the match so Roy can watch after his business is done," Kron said.
After looking up in search of the missing Roy, Albert asked the official to make the stage bigger and told them to slightly delay the match until the stage is done. While Angela and Kayla were chatting, some earth mage officials made the stage bigger. This was a preparation because Albert knows that Kayla is an earth mage.
If people know, it might seem as if Albert is favoring Kayla over Angela, but that's wrong.
In fact, making the stage bigger is also favorable for Angela as she has more freedom as well. But for who the winner will be, even Roy doesn't know it.
"The final match, START!"
Kron began the match as loud as he can. Then, he quickly flew away so he won't get caught in the middle of the fight.
As soon as the match started, Angela flew to the sky. She knows that Kayla's earth magic is powerful and she needed to escape from the ground as quickly as possible.
Although Angela's earth magic is more powerful, Kayla's magic control is much better. Combined with the wand that helped her manipulate the earth, it won't be a surprise for Angela if she was defeated in an instant. That's why she escaped to the sky as soon as possible.
But that's also the wrong choice. Kayla took out her wand, and manipulate the earth. She created a huge hand protruding from the ground, and slapped Angela down back to the stage.
But Angela reacted quickly. She couldn't dodge, so she protected herself with ice magic. Instead of making an Ice Shield, she covers her own body with an armor of ice.
Because she also learned to improve her physical ability, she can withstand the impact from the slap with the armor on. But that's not the only reason she used ice armor.
As she falls to the ground, she used wind magic to push her. Not to the sky, but pushing her body with wind horizontally to one direction. That way, instead of receiving impact from the fall, she slides away thanks to the ice armor, and quickly stand back up.
Angela then dispersed remove her Ice Armor from her body, turn them into multiple Ice Spikes small in size, and shoot them all to Kayla. Kayla quickly created an Earth Wall to protect herself.
So far, Kayla hasn't received any damages, but Angela was already hit once by the huge hand slapping her down.
"…what a spectacular way to start the match! I couldn't even follow it with my eyes! What happened? What did they do? How are they so strong!?" Steven shouted.
"I don't understand it much, but from what I can tell, Angela quickly tried to escape to the sky. In which Kayla stopped her with that huge hand. That hand was made so quickly that Angela was unable to dodge it. She falls, slides away, and quickly counter attacked. But Kayla blocked her attack. So far, we still couldn't tell who will win the fight. We cannot keep up with the match, so if we are silent or our commentaries were delayed, we'll apologize in advance," Dwight apologized politely.
Back to the stage, the two started talking again.
"You're always good at reading ahead, aren't you, Kayla?" Angela asked.
"And you always exceed my expectation. I never thought that you will slide away,"
Kayla replied.
Kayla then used her wand to collect rock, and compress it as small as possible. Then, she threw it to the sky.
Angela knows that if she looks away, Kayla will attack her. That's why she stepped back so her vision is wider and she can see the thrown rock and Kayla at the same time. But that's another mistake of her, because Kayla make the thrown rock shine with her light magic. The light is so bright that Angela needs to squint her eyes.
"Oh, no!"
Knowing that she will be in trouble, she looked down and move while only looking at the ground. And that's when Kayla burst the compressed rocks, and manipulate them to make the shape sharp, and fall toward Angela's direction. Some of the rocks still shine, which will distract Angela when she looked up.
But Angela didn't look up. It's because she can still see the rock's shadow on the ground. She waited until the right time to create a thick Earth Wall. Right at the time when some of the rocks are above the Wall, so some rocks got launched toward the audience seat, which then blocked by Light Barrier by the officials.
"That was close! If she used it any later, she would have gotten hit!" Dwight said.
"That wasn't close at all. Angela timed her magic so it will protect her at the right time. If she used Earth Wall sooner the Wall will be destroyed with Kayla's attack. Angela looked at the trajectory and the location of the rocks by looking at the shadow so she can launch the first row of the rocks away and protect herself from the rest."
"Wait, who?" Steven asked.
The one who explained was neither Steven nor Dwight. It was a new voice coming from the speaker which makes the two fighting on the stage paused for a bit, and smiled.
"Hello, everyone. You might not know me, so I'll introduce myself. My name is Roy. Currently, I work as a professor in Cassau university. But that doesn't mean I'm supporting them. I will be neutral and analyze everything on the stage so everyone knows what happened. If you don't believe me, you can ask the guild master for who I am. I am in the same party as Angela and Kayla back then. How could you all forgot about me? I'm so sad. Anyway, because I was the leader of that party, that's right, I'm the leader of that party, I will stay neutral and analyze the match here because I'm the one who know most about their strength. Please enjoy the final," Roy said.
He finally appears to watch the two fight. Those who knows him smiled, except for the two commentators. It was because Roy suddenly appears while his body is covered with blood.