
Not long after Alicia left, Firia came back and sat down beside Alex.
“Alex, how do I look?” firia said with a smile.
“Pretty good,” Alex didn't say much because he just said it with one nod.
"Ehe... So when are we going to practice together? You promised me, "even so, Firia is happy about it.
“One hour every day after class, what do you think?” answer Alex.
"A little hour?" he's pouting.
“I have to go see my teacher,” he calls his teacher an absolute excuse.
"Good!"
He can't keep nagging Alex when he calls his teacher, the Dean.
Alicia and her opponent arrived on stage, she looked a little nervous but could keep her presence well. As both were ready, the referee again announced his fighter, "Alicia Versus Sigma".
Alicia who was called without honorifics had made Alex surprised.
“He did not call Alicia with ‘Putri’?” Alex asked Firia.
"Academy is a special place, the dean made a policy to treat nobles and commoners equally. Even His Majesty has agreed to it. Even His Majesty, the Crown Prince was called by his name when he was still a disciple here."
Alex just wants to know why.
So, he simply nodded and did not reply to anything.
Sigma was a 1st rank earth mage aged 17 while Alicia was a 1st rank ice mage aged 16. From the looks of it, Alicia was in an aggrieved position.
“Princess,” she bowed to Alicia politely.
“Please do a good and fair match,” Alicia replied with a smile on her face.
"Game begins!"
"Earth below, listen to my orders. Get up and attack my enemies. EARTH SPIKES!"
"Ice, listen to my orders. Freeze the water and protect me. ICE SHIELD!"
The earth surge attacked Alicia, while she made her ice shield. The earth spikes almost pierced through Alicia's shield, many holes formed as the spikes and shields were finally destroyed.
"Ice, listen to my orders. Freeze the water and attack my enemies. ICE SPEAR!"
"Earth below, listen to my orders. Get up and protect me. EARTH WALLS!"
Now it was Alicia's turn to attack him. Unfortunately, the moment the ice spear hit the earth wall, it instantly broke apart.
"Daughter, please surrender. Although ice was a rare element, he could not win the earth element in any way," pleased with its strength, he said proudly.
Alicia was angry at his words. Though she wants to keep this a secret until she meets Alex on stage and surprises him, he decided to use this move because he had to keep winning if he wanted it to happen even if he could not surprise him anymore.
“Air in the air, lower your body temperature, and freeze my enemies.”
He chanted his magic and the air around him suddenly became colder. Realizing this, the referee immediately arrived in front of Sigma while arresting him and fleeing out of the arena.
After he finished his chant, he froze half the arena. In other words, he froze everything within a radius of 10 meters, including the Sigma earth wall. If the referee does not save Sigma, he will also be frozen.
Seeing Alicia's miracle, everyone took a cold breath. Some teachers and students realized something strange, they had never heard of this chant. If not for insufficient Mana, this magic would have the same power as a mid-level magic spell.
The person who realizes it will not want to say,
“What magic is this?”
"I've never heard of this miracle."
“This magic, is this a mid-level magic spell?”
Hearing the many comments, everyone shuddered.
"16 years old, a rare element ice mage, using her own unique singing and her singing even has the power of a mid-level magic spell?"
"Genius!"
The commotion slowly became a cheer.
"Alicia won!"
The referee announced after a slight calm.
Alicia gasped in the arena. Hearing the cheers, he looked at Alex with a big smile.
'Beautiful' was the only thought present when they saw Alicia's pure wide smile. The smile Alicia gave just now, was like a snow lotus, pure and untouchable. Makes everyone want to protect her and smile.
He leaves the arena and when Alicia returns, he jumps happily towards Alex.
"How, Alex?" he grins
“Mmm, it's a good fight,” Alex nodded.
“Alicia, what magic was that?” ask Firia directly.
After a week, their relationship continues to grow despite fighting each other for Alex. They're friends.maybe.
"Alex taught me," he smiled happily with a gesture of peace hand, he looked very proud of it.
"What's? Alex?" Firia glanced at Alex, she was surprised to hear Alicia's reply.
“Alex taught me the meaning behind the song, and he taught me about the concept of Ice.”
“The meaning behind the song? Ice concept?” he kept asking as he grew curious, he glanced at Alex then returned to Alicia.
“The song we know today has a meaning and about the concept of ice. In fact, the ice itself is frozen water. Another parameter for measuring why water freezes is called 'temperature'. When the temperature drops to a certain temperature, the temperature begins to freeze. We don't understand because we just use the song blindly. That's why combining that knowledge produced my new magic."
"What?"
Firia was surprised by that statement.
He glanced at Alex then turned to Alicia and repeated the process a few times, "Since Alex taught you all that, then Alex can do the same?"
"Of course, Alex made a new spell right after my sister and I taught him the basics about magic," he forgot to keep this secret because he got carried away until he flew to cloud nine.
"..."
Speechless due to that sudden reality, he looked at Alex like a wolf, preying on the fat big sheep.
'True, fiery goddess, ' he thought.
When Alicia saw this, she immediately realized that she had made a mistake. He regretted bragging to Firia.
"What are you doing! Don't you dare seduce her!"
Alicia became angry. In fact, he was not angry because of Firia. He was angry at himself especially since he couldn't stop his mouth from babbling about all that.
"Hehe.but Alex has promised to teach me, I have to pay for it" Firia said with a sly smile.
"You want to pay with your body? No way, if you want to pay for it, you can pay for it with money. Now go," Alicia tried to separate them but it didn't seem to work.
"But I don't have any money right now. First grade students can't go out unless there's a special event from the academy, so I can't get my money, meaning I only have my own body," she continued.
"You can pay later. For now, you should keep your distance from her," Alicia was furious with her actions, 'She's my fiance. How dare you seduce my future husband in front of me! Bit*h' of course he can't say it out loud. Unbeknownst to him, he had already received an engagement between them.
Fortunately, their seats were a bit far from the audience, so the attention of the audience was still on the arena, not them.
“Daughter, Miss Firia, it's my turn. So sorry,” he said while fleeing.
"Hmph," seeing that Alex had run away from them, they looked at each other and snorted at the same time. Things like this always happen when they fight, and Alex always escapes from those situations.
Alex's opponent is Mira, a quiet girl in class. When he saw Alex was his opponent, he gave up.
The fight continued and in the semifinal it was decided Firia would fight Alicia while Alex would fight Joshua.
Alicia won from Firia, Alicia smiled happily after she defeated her. While Firia angrily left the stage, “You can win just because of Alex, hmph.”
Before Alicia gets her praise or before Firia gets any consolation from Alex, the man they fought for has arrived on stage without anyone noticing.
It's time for Alex to fight Joshua again. Rematch a week ago could be an exciting game that everyone is waiting for. Now, the match will start soon.
"Hmph, you can win before just because I underestimated you. But you're still trash to me!"
Joshua uttered so much nonsense while Alex remained silent.
"Game begins!"
"Earth below, listen to my orders. Wake up and attack my enemies. EARTH GOLEMS!" four golems attacked Alex and he still dodged the golem easily.
"Earth, obey my orders. The earth becomes a bolt, one bolt becomes another bolt, rises, and stabs my enemy. EARTH NAIL!"
More than a hundred earth nails surrounded Alex and attacked him.
This shocked everyone in the arena. Alicia had used mid-level magic today, and now it was Joshua who did the same.
"Dead!"
Alex was surrounded by ground bolts and was still blocked by the golems. He's looking for a way out. When the bolt reached him, he jumped into the air. The bolt smashed the golem.
Alex was still in the air and Joshua uttered his spell once again.
"Earth, obey my orders. The earth becomes a bolt, one bolt becomes another bolt, rises, and stabs my enemy. EARTH NAIL'S! DIE!"
Now, Alex has no way out. The Dean was angry and ready to move at any time, "Learnest!"
"Wait, Dean Marco. This is a student fight. We parents just have to sit here and watch over them" Taiga said.
“Taiga, what do you teach your students? Did you teach him to kill his classmates!” the Dean shouted at him.
“The sword and magic have no eyes. Wounds and injuries are normal in a fight.”
But when everyone thought Alex was done. He raised his hand and compressed the air with his Mana and burned it slightly. He threw one on the ground to make an explosion. The explosion detonates his earth nail and Alex does not forget to throw another earth nail towards Joshua.
When Joshua saw the blast ball coming towards him, he wanted to escape. The ball exploded not far from him and the referee tried to save Joshua, he made a shield with his magic.
The shockwave keeps Joshua away from the arena. Even the referee's hands were slightly charred.
"Bad!" Taiga was the one who was angry this time.
"Wait, Master Taiga! This is a fight between students. We parents just need to sit here and watch them," the dean stopped Taiga with exactly the words he had spoken to the dean a few seconds ago.
“Marco, what do you teach your students? Did you teach him to kill his classmates!”
"The "sword and magic have no eyes. Wounds and injuries are normal when fighting each other, don't you agree Taiga?"
Taiga was angry to hear it because that was all he said to the dean. And now it's back to him. As he distracts Taiga, he doesn't know there are any other plans for Alex here.
"You ruthlessly hurt your classmate, do you want to kill him?! You are disqualified" said the referee.
Of course the referee had already been bought by Taiga, so he supported Joshua.
"..."
Alex looked at him coldly. He knew this referee must be after him.
“Everyone has witnessed what's happening now, so I'm sure they can decide for themselves. After all, I'm not interested in this kind of competition,” Alex said those threatening words and left the stage.
After all he never wanted to be number 1, the reason he kept winning was because his teacher told him to, he had no intention of attracting attention so he rejected his teacher. But the dean kept nagging him to win, so he said he would do his best for his teacher.
Ever since the referee disqualified him, he had his reasons for his teacher now. So, he happily left the arena.
As Alex happily leaves the arena, Alicia and Firia are angered by the referee. They condemned the referee for being unfair and the dean was busy watching Taiga, so he did not hear the referee disqualify Alex. If he finds out, he'll skin this referee alive.
When Alex returns, Alicia and Firia complain.
"Why do you take for granted what the referee said, Alex?"
"Yes, what qualifications does he have to disqualify you? Joshua wanted to kill you, but the referee didn't even help you. But when Joshua was slightly injured, he disqualified you? That doesn't make sense."
"Since when have you two not been hostile to each other?"
Alex's concern isn't his disqualification. Instead, she was confused by Alicia and Firia because these two girls usually opposed each other's words.
"We..."
Alicia and Firia looked at each other and did not know what to answer.
“Do not change the topic. We're talking about you now!”
Alicia was angry that Alex had just given up.
"Yes, we're talking about you right now!"
Firia followed Alicia's words to give her more support.