Free Web NovelChapter 134: New Relic Wielder
"..."
While no one was looking, Ralph drank a healing potion.
His wound did not close entirely but it stopped most of the bleeding.
For a temporary treatment, it was enough.
"Wouldn’t it better for you to stay down?" Martha asked bored without looking at him.
"Not when my comrades are still fighting." he answered sternly, looking at her back.
"I don’t know if I should praise you or deem you a fool."
Martha got up from her human chair.
"Kill your comrades." she ordered her current slave.
"I won’t let you!"
Ralph created a sphere around the reluctant-moving teacher, which should confiscate him for a while.
"..."
Martha sighed.
"I guess I should rather use my ability on you." she stated.
With a smirk, she shifted her gaze to Ralph.
However, Ralph had his eyes closed.
"Heh, closing your eyes during a fight?"
She dashed towards him, attempting to attack him.
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But nothing but a dull sound was heard as her fist punched the sphere-like barrier around Ralph.
"!"
She looked around.
"Tch... How irritating..."
Around the two was another barrier, entrapping both of them.
"What will you do now?"
"..."
Martha’s only option was to either break the outer barrier or the inner barrier, surrounding Ralph, with force.
But both options would consume some time.
"You got me there." she quickly gave in with a sigh.
She proceeded to sit on the soil and stare at him apathetically.
"It would be too much of a hassle to try to break out of here." she elaborated.
"I would rather sit and watch your comrades dying at the hands of Beatra."
Martha turned her head.
"I wouldn’t be so sure about that." Ralph responded.
He had a smile on his face.
"Are you talking about that girl?"
Ralph was not the only one to notice Lily’s presence.
"I can tell that she is strong in human terms but she won’t stand a chance against Beatra."
"..."
Ralph looked at Beatra.
She may have sounded fine but she still suffered from some injuries inflicted on her by the previous fights. Furthermore, her stamina must have also taken a huge drop. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Thus, Lily, whose magic could barely qualify as an S-rank mage in the academy, could eventually overturn the situation.
In addition, Ralph gave Lily her gift in advance, knowing that it could boost her chance of victory.
"I look forward to it." he muttered.
Beatra did some light stretches to kill her boredom.
Some teachers were still conscious but she did not bother with them as she got tired of them.
"Finally showing yourself, huh?" she huffed.
After some time, Lily revealed herself.
She tried to appear calm but her nervousness was still visible as she approached Beatra.
"..."
The first thing Lily did was to check her surroundings.
On one side was a pile of unconscious teachers, whereas on the other side, the teachers were struggling to stand straight. And behind Beatra was a large sphere.
For now, she could not identify what inside the sphere was, however, she knew that Ralph must have been inside there.
"I sense something strange." Beatra stated.
She, too, walked over to Lily with a wide smirk.
And with each step, her pace fastened.
Her expression was similar to that of a wild beast when she jumped at Lily with a retracted arm.
Lily had to jump to the back but Beatra quickly followed up on her.
"!"
She put her arms up, predicting that a straight punch was coming.
"Ugh!"
But Beatra opted to pull on her hair.
"Hahaha!"
Then, she launched a barrage of punches while laughing maniacally.
Lily could do nothing but try to block those fast punches with her arms.
After a while, Beatra let go of her hair, making Lily bend backward.
"Uff!"
With a kick to the stomach, Lily was pushed further to the back.
Beatra leaped to her again.
She moved fast and in a zigzag-like style.
"..."
Lily summoned flames in her hands.
Following that, she created a firewall in front of her.
"!"
The firewall was thick but still, Beatra jumped right through it.
Beatra sent Lily flying with a punch, looking unfazed by the flames.
"Hm?"
She looked up when she noticed something bright.
In the air were three large fireballs and multiple smaller ones.
Those fireballs were launched at her rapidly.
However, Beatra was fast enough to evade most of the smaller ones.
For the larger ones, she had to fly into the air.
But at that moment, a firebeam was coming her way.
"Tch!"
The fire managed to graze a wing of hers.
Before the fire started to spread further she had to put it off.
"What now?" she muttered annoyed when something was shining beneath her.
From the ground, a fire pillar emerged. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
And again, it only managed to graze her body.
"Huff... Huff..."
Lily was breathing raggedly while launching one attack after another from the ground.
"..."
Beatra’s expression turned indifferent as she descended slowly.
Meanwhile, Lily kept attacking.
Her attacks would have been enough to heavily burn C-rank demons and middle-ranked monsters.
And yet, Beatra did not stop in her tracks even though she received every one of them.
It was as if the attacks did not hurt her.
She used a little amount of darkness to put off the flames on her body.
"Are you done?" she asked intimidatingly when stood right in front of Lily.
"..."
Nervously and confused, Lily took some steps back.
Beatra raised her hand.
"!"
But at that moment, different kinds of spells were launched at her.
"Everyone, get up!"
"Don’t you feel any shame for making a student step up for her teachers?"
"Fight!"
The teachers, who were previously struggling to stand, fought back vigorously.
"Run while we’re stalling time for you." one of the teachers said quietly to Lily.
Beatra did not move an inch away.
"I’m already done playing with you."
She sighed.
"Damn demon!"
A teacher was leaping to her.
"Ugh!"
However, Beatra grabbed him by the neck.
"Your shouting is annoying."
And then, she crashed his neck, tearing off his head.
She threw the headless body to the feet of the teacher, who stood before Lily.
"..."
Lily did not show her expression. Instead, she took further steps back.
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Beatra’s eyes twitched for a moment.
Her gaze was directed in the direction of Lily but the remaining teachers stood in her way.
"Ugh... It seems like I have to kill you so that you stop getting on my nerves."
Lily was in the back, perceiving the screams and the sounds of shattering bones, body parts getting torn apart, punches and kicks.
"..."
She only stood there, muttering something.
Her hand was stretched out.
And in that hand, she held a black wand.
The same black wand that she saw inside the small floating sphere before she showed herself in front of Beatra and the others.
From said wand the eerie voice, Lily kept hearing in her head, originated.
It was the price for the winner of the promotion tournament.
The relic ’Birthing Wand’.
"That was the last one." Beatra muttered uninterested after choking the last teacher to death.
The teacher’s body fell to the ground and was stepped on by her as she moved forward.
Her eyes sharpened.
"So that was the reason why I sensed something strange about you."
On Lily’s side were two monsters.
However, those monsters were entirely made out of flames.
One of them was apparently a tiger while the other one was a large snake with the same height as Lily.
"It’s the Birthing Wand, right? With that wand, you can convert your magic into living beings and command them." Beatra stated with a smirk.
"..."
Lily did not answer.
"I know that relic. In the past, I have dealt with some of the previous wielders." she added arrogantly.
"I’m sorry to disappoint you but just like the others, you won’t win against me."
"..."
No responses again.
"You’re quite boring, you know?" Beatra said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Well, I guess it won’t be really fair if only I know about your abilities."
She leaned closer to Lily.
"You see, thanks to my demonic gift, I don’t feel any pain."
"Oh, really?" Lily finally replied.
Lily’s expression was stern.
She pointed her wand at Beatra, who was grinning even wider.
"Then, I suppose that I can’t even give you the agonizing death that you deserve."
Beatra’s mouth opened due to her grinning wider.
"Let’s see you try, brat!"
She tried to reach out to Lily, whose created monsters also began to move.
However, Beatra stopped abruptly.
"..."
Her expression turned indifferent again.
She lowered her hand.
"What’s your name?"
"?"
Lily was confused by her sudden change of behavior.
"Your name."
Her glare intensified.
"Lily Hayth..." Lily replied taken aback.
"I see."
Then, Beatra turned her back on her.
At the same time, the sphere, which entrapped Ralph and Martha, dispersed.
"I will remember you." Beatra stated before she spread her wings and flew away.
"W-wait!"
Lily wanted to stop her but then, she noticed Ralph lying on the ground.
"..."
The other demon, Martha, looked at him for a second before she, too, flew away with Beatra.
"M-Mr. Arma!"
Lily rushed concernedly to the teacher, who was injured. Ralph was unconscious but he was fortunately breathing.
"What just happened...?"
She stared in the direction of the two demons.
"Why are they flying away from here...?"
