The Reincarnators
chapter 23: the tournament

Several days had passed and the day that the eight participants had gathered in the arena in the middle of the capital where they would not only be watched by the participants of the academy but also the king and queen and the residents of the hexion kingdom.

"your teacher is here" said theodor, who saw his teacher Leon sitting in the pew and decided to sit down with him.

"theodor you're not sitting with your wife, are you, ?" asked Leon who was looking at his disciple who chose to sit on the spectator bench rather than the bench reserved exclusively for nobles.

"i decided to sit down with the teacher, after all what the bansawan always talked about was politics and about how great their family was, I was pretty sick of it that I moved here, anyway," duke theodor said, "then what about the teacher, what is the reason for the teacher to come here, ?" asked theodor who was curious about his teacher who showed interest until he came to the stadium to see the hexion academy student fight.

"i just want to see how far my students have progressed in these 2 months" said Leon who received a nod from the duke, previously he got word if kazuto and his team consisting of himself and ren pendradrum managed to get first place in the previous test, even though their opponent was a 5-man team including his own daughter who was on a different team, it was certainly something that caught his attention that he decided to take a look at this tournament, unlike the tournament in the past where he gave it to his wife to attend because he wanted to give face to the king and queen who were present there.

"it looks like it's already started" said Leon who looked towards the stadium where the jury had been preparing to announce the fight.

"alright, the hexion academy's magic tournament will begin, go ahead for the first participant ren pendradrum and the second participant silvie shielton to advance to the arena," said the referee who called the two participants to advance.

"all right I'm ready" said ren who immediately advanced to the field for his fight, by hitting his fist.

"do I sit here, ?" asked a woman wearing a witch hat in a hexion school uniform, she had short blond hair that slightly exceeded her shoulders with her green eyes.

"please," said Kazuto who let her sit beside him.

"who do you think will win this match, ?" tanyanya sat next to Kazuto.

"i don't know, nor do I know the person my friend was fighting, wasn't he your partner during the previous test, was I right, ?" kazuto asked him.

"yes, he is the son of the viscount shielton, he has the ability to create a magic protector that he can form as he pleases that can not only be used for defense but also to attack" he said that explained the ability of the opponent.

"so so," said kazuto, 'versus ren seems quite troublesome,' thought kazuto who saw the fight between ren and silvie begin.

"that ability is said to be the only ability that can withstand the black winds of the winddum family in this kingdom" he said.

"black wind yes winddum," muttered kazuto who recalled his lesson with lousse.

flashbacks.

"next I will teach you about the other noble families" said Lousse.

"another noble family," said kazuto.

"is there any way to fight it, ?" ask kazuto.

"the only way to fight them is to dodge their attacks, or defeat them before they activate magic, or with more powerful magic" explains Lousse.

end flashback.

"if winddum is going to be my opponent, I should avoid every attack," muttered kazuto who saw ren take out his gautlet and try to destroy the barrier protector surrounding the silvie.

"hah," cried ren who hit the silvie barrier's protector, but still ren's attack could not penetrate the shield.

"please give up, barrier strike" said silvie who changed the shape of his barrier and used it to hit ren many times.

"arrgghh," cried ren akbat was hit hard by the barrier, "still not come again," said ren who again attacked the silvie barrier, "cih, damn this barrier is really disturbing," said Ren who retreated then gathered his magic in a single point that was his right fist and intended to destroy the barrier with pure power, "accept this," said ren who made his right hand glow white due to the gathering of magic in 1 point, "regular strike," said ren who darted and poured almost all his magic to destroy the silvie barrier, which was not the case, and when that silvie himself moved the focus from his barrier forward to resist ren's attack.

"haaaaaaa," they shouted both ren who attacked and silvie who resisted the attack caused an explosion due to the attack of the two of them, and after the explosion, *crack* the silvie barrier protector cracked even though he had moved the focus from his defense towards ren's attack.

"good," said Ren who was getting excited, while silvie herself had a difficult expression on her face, despite having focused her defense on ren's attack but it could still be tampered with this way, then when he changed the shape of his barrier with a sharp shape, intending to attack ren with it.

"barrier spike strike," said silvie who manipulated his barrier form and charged towards ren, but ren instantly kept his distance and dodged any attacks that arrived at him.

"this attack was too slow," said ren with his face forming a smile clearly trying to insult silvie, and so on ren continued to dodge any attacks that continued to be unleashed by the silvie shield.

"stop there," cried silvie who had finally lost his patience with ren who kept dodging his attacks, and did not realize that his back was completely exposed which was his plan.

"because of you," cried ren who was behind the silvie that was not protected by any shield, because previously the barrier that protected the silvie's dorsal part involuntarily moved and was used by him to attack ren, "regulus strike," cried ren who had already gathered magic in his right hand and had prepared to attack the part that had been exposed by the silvie.

"barriers," said silvie who pointed his right hand towards ren and when it was around ren was created and made his attack hit the barrier that blocked him and slightly injured ren due to the shock wave of his reflected attack he who cannot move from the attack.

"fuck off let me go," cried ren who was banging on the barrier trapping him, but in contrast to before, the barrier did not have the slightest crack.

"it takes more magic to create a new barrier, therefore as much as possible I try to buy time by pretending to attack you to restore a bit of my magic so that I can create a new, stronger barrier," he said he raised his right hand and pointed it towards ren even though his own tsngan was trembling due to his depleted magic, "barrier spike," he said that at that time sharp thorns emerged from the barrier and hit the body part ren.

"arrrgghhh," cried ren who was in pain with a pointed thorn that hit all parts of his body, but when he saw that silivie was still not finished and prepared his magic "lightning bolt," he said he raised his right hand and out a bolt of lightning that pointed towards the silvie-made barrier and since ren was within the barrier he could not go anywhere so he was hit by the attack until he was unconscious selves.

"that's enough, the winner is silvie shielton," said the jury that decided silvie as the winner, then when that silvie deactivates the barrier and removes the ren when it is immediately taken by the officer to be treated while the silvie himself returns to the bench of the participant.