X-Loves: From Another World
Chapter 25: The Girl

BRUKK. The fighting witch from the south corner managed to defeat her opponent despite her great difficulty. He seemed to be bored after a great fight with him.

“Good. The winner of this match is Budi Hirata from Saranjana National Magic Academy!!!”

The spectators cheered. Some of them seemed to give spirit to the man of Southeast Borneo. Not surprisingly, he became the only representative from the region who escaped to the next stage after defeating the fighter from the Tapanuli National Magic Academy, Ricardo Lumbantoruan. Unfortunately his partner Illya Halim had to be eliminated in the fourth match earlier after being defeated by a witch from the same magic academy, Rebecca Coal. By the way, he's the one who's going to be Anna's opponent in the next match.

“Already 6 games done yes, and all of them fought very tough,” said Licia.

After the fight between Dwi and Henrick in the third fight, Rebecca of Tapanuli managed to defeat Illya from Saranjana. As for the fifth match, Nikita Innes managed to become Jailolo's representative after defeating his academic partner, Tama Aprilliana. While in the latest match, Budi Hirata became the only Saranjana representative who advanced to the last 8 stage after defeating Ricardo Lumbantoruan.

“Saranjanas. I think I once heard that name deh, Dwi,” said Anna remembered something from the name of the magic academy of one of the participants.

“Lah, that's the name of the city that had become a legend a century ago. People used to call it ‘city supernatural’,” said Dwi.

“Ah, yes. I just remembered. Uh wait, then..”.

Hearing that from the mouth of a Dwi made Anna remember something. Maybe a thing that could be their clue about the existence of this world.

“Do we not be thrown into a world where Saranjana and other magical cities exist?” anna was curious.

“Eh?”

Dwi only showed a confused expression, unable to say anything after the girl said such a thing. Curious, Anna tried to ask Aldy.

“Eh, Brother Aldy,”

“Hmm?”

“Kakak comes from Siak right? Before moving to Jailolo, you must have passed through Borneo, right? Did you also have time to see Saranjana City as well?” ask Anna.

“Aa.. No,” replied Aldy.

“Eh..”

“Emang why did you ask that?” ask Aldy back.

“I just want to know what form Saranjana City is like here. Whether grand, traditional, or what it looks like,” Anna said.

Aldy scratched his sweaty hair and answered.

“Actually I have never seen the city directly, but yes he said not much different from Jailolo. There are only 3 to 5 storey buildings like here. When compared with the capital Mangkasara yes still far,” explained Aldy.

“Oh.. so...”.

Based on the explanation from Aldy, there is a difference in the condition of Saranjana City between what is often told by people in the real world where Anna and Dwi came from with what is in this parallel world. Well, even though it seems like he has to see it directly in order to really be able to confirm it clearly. But before thinking further, the referee called two participants to fight in the seventh match.

“To Johannes Gultom of Kawanua Region Magic Academy and Alita Chaniago of Jailolo National Magic Academy, please prepare immediately,”

“Eh, now it's Alita's turn,” said Licia.

Both Anna and Dwi, both of them immediately looked towards the field upon hearing his name. Yup, Alita Chaniago, a distant friend of Licia Salampessy from the western region of the archipelago will soon fight against the male witch from Kawanua. Usually, Pagaruyung girl looks clumsy everyday. He rarely interacts with other students. Moreover, with new people, he would usually be very awkward, just like when he first met Anna in the cafeteria. He was also never seen practicing using his magic.

But because his name is included in the participants of this national magic competition tournament, it means that his magic ability cannot be underestimated. This was a good time to look at his true fighting abilities.

Alita walked into the middle of the arena while occasionally holding onto her long skirt. Now he faces Johannes who is already on site. Alita then saluted her opponent with a smile. But apparently it makes his opponent even underestimate him.

“Huff... Chaniago, yes? You must be a nomad from Pagaruyung region right?” johannes asked in an intimidating tone.

“Iyo, Uda,” replied Alita in a pretty slow voice.

Hearing that, Johannes smiled as he pointed at her.

“Haha... I will defeat you with one strike. You will not be able to escape, especially with a uniform like that,”, said Johannes while humbling his opponent who wore a long skirt, but Alita just smiled innocently to hear it.

The referee gave a warning while raising his hand. Johannes immediately put up the horses to prepare to attack. While Alita just fell silent and did not change position. I don't know what he's thinking.

“Available”

“Siap”

“Mulai”

The referee lowered his hand, a sign the match had started. Johannes quickly pulled the position of his right body backwards, then cast a spell to attack Alita swiftly.

“Mantra Copyright, Asta, Lembing Pancaragam”

Johannes created five ‘spear’ of darkness from his hand which instantly shot towards Alita. But unlike a spear in general, it has no end on the other. The front end of the spear is almost the same as a sharp spear in general, while the back is as if bound by the hand of the magic creator.

The five objects shot towards Alita who was standing at that location. Even so, the girl did not shift from her position at all. As a result, the five dark spears pierced his body to penetrate the back.

“ALITAAAA!!” licia shouted witnessing the terrible event.

“Aaaa...”.

The audience was shocked and frightened to see the terrible event, some of them were screaming hysterically. What Johannes did seems to have gone overboard. He seemed to have completely destroyed the body of the poor girl.

Both Licia, Anna, and Dwi, the three were completely shocked to see what had happened to their friend. But it was different with Aldy who was beside them. Again he showed a confident smile despite seeing the terrible event. There was not the slightest worry on his face. The Da class leader seems to have known the tactics that are being used by Alita. And sure enough, the estimate.

“What?”

Johannes flabbergasted. It turned out that what he attacked with the five dark spears was not the body of a human, but…

“Es?”

Exactly it. What Johannes stabbed was just a piece of ice in the form of Alita, not her real body. Where is the original form? That's what the Kawanua guy thought.

But before he thought about it further, the chunk of ice then bloomed like a flower and moved to freeze the black spear that he slashed quickly. Johannes swiftly released his dark magic and jumped before he was frozen by the ice flower.

“This is like Mr. Sebastian's Puspa Bajaya spell. The difference is it is made of ice,” said Dwi.

It is true what the Javanese man said. The magic used by Alita is at first glance similar to the spell Puspa Bajaya, a crystal element magic spell used by Sebastian Pakpahan to freeze the pirates. The resulting effect was also about the same, freezing his opponent who was hit by that magic wave.

Johannes was seen patting his clothes off the dust, while his opponent was now visible to the eye. Alita Chaniago, the Pagaruyung girl was standing and looking at her with an innocent expression, but her right hand was pointed forward. There were also some ice floes floating behind him.

“Cannot be. He can use ice magic?”

Licia was amazed to see it. He did not expect his distant friend to be able to master one of the advanced element magic. It was rare for a junior disciple to be able to master advanced element magic so well.

Anna who saw him was also amazed by his ability. But he still does not know whether the ice he created is pure ice or a combination of magic as is usually done by novice magicians.

“Wait, instead of ice can also be created through a combination of water and wind magic?” ask Anna.

Hearing that, Aldy who was beside her explained it to Anna.

“Indeed, you can create ice by combining water and wind magic. But his abilities won't be the same as pure ice magic. As for the girl, she could actually use that advanced element without combining the two basic elemental magic earlier,”

“Oh so? You can do that too, right, Aldy?” anna asked, looking at the man.

“Well, it could actually be. But I was only able to master it when I was a senior. While he could use it while still sitting in the junior class. Her magic ability is amazing. The first time I saw a talented witch like her,” Aldy praised.

Alita Chaniago, a quiet and shy schoolgirl, was unexpectedly able to master advanced element magic as early as this time, where common magicians usually took about 3 years to master it. No wonder why he could become one of the participants of the most popular magic fighting tournament in the archipelago.

“Advanced element magicians huh? Even so, don't expect me to lose to someone like you,” Johannes said in a loud voice.

They both face each other. The real magic battle has just begun.