Chapter 350 Puppet
Puppet
As the Black Hand was about to strike Alyssa's unconscious body, Elsa appeared in the middle and flicked her finger. A light blue fire emerged, destroying all traces of Black Energy without harming Lishia.
She then turned to Alyssa, who was lying there unconscious, and touched her hand.
"She pushed herself too far," Elsa muttered.
Apart from the high-ranking Hunters, everyone else was unaware of what had happened. Those who did know only saw Alyssa as someone who had tried to do something beyond her abilities.
"It's a wonder she can bring out so much mana from that body," Elsa said, sensing an absolute wreck of mana inside Alyssa's body.
However, this was all an illusion created by the A Rank artifact Alyssa was wearing. Since it was Alyssa's own body that the mask copied, it served as a perfect disguise, concealing her healed body both externally and internally.
"The winner is Lishia Halcyon, as Alyssa Astaria cannot continue," Elsa announced as the match concluded.
"Yeah, I knew it. How could she handle magic like that?" one of the students exclaimed.
"She's just a crazy b**ch."
"I knew she wasn't much compared to other Top Rankers."
Elsa heard what the students were saying, but she simply carried Alyssa to the Medic Team, knowing the situation could worsen.
"Get her to the Medical Ward immediately," Elsa instructed the Medics.
"Place her in Level 4 Emergency," Elsa said, and the Medics promptly took Alyssa from her arms.
'Why go this far? Sigh,' Elsa pondered.
She had witnessed everything: the moment Alyssa's mana burst from her body. Elsa was aware that Alyssa's body was in bad shape, and it was nearly impossible to mend due to the nature of the injury. Still, Elsa had assumed Alyssa would see her limits and wouldn't go past them.
"What happened? Why did the spell break?" Lucas inquired. "She couldn't muster the mana needed for that spell," Helena responded.
"What was the first lesson you learned after completing your awakening?" Helena asked, directing her question to the twins.
Helena was somewhat familiar with the lessons given to the children of the Greville family, especially because their bloodline influenced and enabled them to manipulate mana.
"Taking in more mana than needed is as harmful as pushing out more mana than we're capable of," Lucas replied.
This was the first lesson both of them had received during their official training.
"Correct. That's what happens when someone, who has already injured their mana meridians, tries to push more mana than their body can handle," Helena said, glancing at the stage.
"That's why, as a Hunter or a Mage, you should never rush to increase your Mana Core's rank," Helena advised, turning her attention back to the twins.
"Waiting is better than limiting your potential by your own actions," Helena told the twins.
Both Lucas and Livia nodded in acknowledgment of Helena's advice.
Helena smiled, recognizing that the twins were impressively level-headed for their age.
'Is it because they grew up in a different environment?' Helena mused.
Ordinary people didn't have to worry about absorbing more mana than they could handle, as it was impossible for their bodies to contain such vast amounts to begin with.
But due to the Greville bloodline, they could forcefully exceed the limitations of their mana core. However, the subsequent damage would be severe.
Hence, before commencing their training, the twins, just like Amelia and Asher, were educated about the risks associated with their unique bloodline ability.
Those risks decreased as one ranked up and their mana cores became denser and stronger. However, in the initial stages of their mana core, the mana meridians of an Awakened Human were fragile enough to sustain damage.
A strong mana core who
The stage was restored swiftly since Elsa's flame only affected Lishia's spell and nothing else. Such mastery over an element was what qualified her to instruct at World Academy and be acknowledged as a 3 Star Professor.
Silvus, who had been observing the duel, concluded that despite Alyssa's evident talent, she would never grow stronger.
'The gap will only widen,' Silvus reflected.
For now, she was indeed formidable enough to be a ranker, but he foresaw that in the near future, she would reach her limits.
But this also made Silvus realized that in the future who among the mages held the most potential. 'They should do fine here,' Silvus said to himself as he thought of his Grandkids.
He had hidden it carefully but both Jacob and Jennifer were quite talented themselves. Especially Jennifer, who had learned many things from Silvus himself.
In his Room, Asher looked at the match with no change in his eyes.
After all, he was the one that planned everything and even gave Alyssa the strange medicine that messed her mana up.
Or it seemed like it did.
Mana Fluctuations, was something that Asher learned when he was creating his own Doping technique, and in his previous life, he also came across a drug that could replicate that.
He needed it to suppress is his mana meridians that were overloaded with mana and that drug did just that by breaking the mana in the body.
For someone with a damaged meridian taking this drug was extremely painful, but if they didn't the most that would happen was that they would remain unconscious for day or two.
"Well, that was quite a match, but the next match is something you don't want to miss!" Gazil said taking everyone's attention back.
"The winner of the previous duel Rank 5 Lishia Halcyon VS Rank 4 Matthew!!" Gazil announced.
"The match will start in half and hour and winner will then compete against Rank 2 Kevin Whiteheart!!" Gazil said as the crowd cheered loudly.
A lot of first years got excited as Matthew was someone that got popular among those that didn't have the big background and status.
It was rare for such a talent to appear that could compete within those that have all the resources in the World.
The Guild Recruiters looked at Matthew and he was one of the students that they had their eyes on but couldn't recruit.
World Association had already made a contract with Matthew before he even joined the World Academy and that meant that he could join any other other faction other than World Association.
Matthew who was in his room a minute ago received a message from Leonard Tarvian.
"Try to defeat her as quickly as possible," Matthew read the message.
"He is telling me to go all out in this match," Matthew muttered.
Matthew didn't what Leonard Tarvian wanted by doing all this, but he didn't wanted to ask any questions.
"Let's just quickly get this over with," Matthew said to himself.
Leonard was the Son of Osbert Tarvian, and Matthew knew how much power they had in the World. It was better to obey him than create problems that could affect his entire life.
Leonard's order meant that he wanted Matthew to fight with all he had in the next fight and not saving his energy for the match after it when he won.
"Well, Rank 3 doesn't seem bad," Matthew said looking at ceiling.
At this time, the Second Year Matches started and until the three of them were being held, Lishia Halcyon was gathering her mana with Kiara Everett by her side.