Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better!-Chapter 82: Anticlimactic Conclusion

Meanwhile, back in the arena, Diluc merely smiles as three beasts and two young men gradually reach the range of his magic, the look on his face that of someone who feels a bit of pity towards an opponent about to be blown quite a distance away.

"Explode"

Seeing that the fastest among them, Reginald’s contracted beast, the Twin-headed Mountain Lion, about to reach his place, Diluc mutters as the magic circle in front of his extended fist starts collapsing on itself, seemingly being absorbed by the magic as well as it got compressed by the ball of fire elemental mana until it can no longer be seen.

After the magic circle completely collapses, a thunderous explosion erupted from the arena, the massive amount of fire elemental mana compressed within such small space making it so that the explosion generated blows not only the towering Mountain Lion, but everyone behind it as well, sweeping even the mages behind them still trying their best to complete the magic they are previously casting as they maintain the magic circle processing the mana in the air.

With the wave of explosion flooding the entire Orion Arena, even the audience felt the tremor despite the protective barrier erected the moment that the duel started, making them wonder just what sort of things the participants of this duel experienced within the barrier, overriding even the curiosity of how the emperor-like young man perform such feat in their mind.

As they wait for the dust to settle, even Aria herself felt like she is not capable of doing such a thing even if she was given the same talent as him in terms of mana quality, making her more and more interested in just how this young man comes up with all sorts of ridiculous methods to control mana.

’His imagination is really great, and along with the dragon tongue, he can practically create all sorts of magic never seen before…’ she thought to herself, still thinking that he was also using the same type of magic as her, something that is really valid given that there’s already virtually nothing that can rival dragon tongue in terms of its efficiency and power, not only in terms of magic spells but also martial arts techniques.

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Somewhere away from them, the two elven beauties’ worry is still directed towards the emperor-like young man, however, the reason for that is no longer the opponents that he has, instead, they are now more worried since the spell he casts appears to be something that might affect even him, and given just how much punch it packs, they are concerned whether he can come out of it unscathed.

With the thoughts of all the observers hanging on the edge as they wait for the dust to settle, Diluc, still obscured by all the mess he created by that explosion, realizes one mistake that he made with this already done duel, and that is the fact that he feels quite angry that he forgot to control himself, showing such speed that is practically impossible for a mage.

’I should cover it with this…’ as he thought of this issue, there is a good thing that comes into his mind, and that is the fact that he merely moves in a predictable path when he speeds up previously, something that he can cover up with another elemental mana that he has.

After outweighing the pros and cons of revealing either he has a multi-elemental affinity or he is someone who treads the twin path of power as he heard it from other people, Diluc decided that it would be so much better to do the former since it is not so rare as the latter option.

’It can only make me more exceptional, not a subject of terror for my enemies here, at the very least’ he added in his mind as he waved his hands, a light green glow appearing right above him as obscure sigils and signs made purely of mana starts forming itself around a circle, before generating a gust of wind that completely blows away the entirety of the dust covering the entire arena.

After seeing what just happened, all of the audience felt speechless, and that is despite the fact that they do not really know a single thing about this monster who just easily dispatched one of the greatest geniuses within the nobles of the Flammenherz Kingdom, of course, this title is something only applicable to all freshmen since the higher years before them are people of completely different league compared to them.

Standing all alone in the middle of the arena is someone that these freshmen never expected, Diluc, with is uniform appearing to not even sustain a single damage on them, his towering figure starting to appear more like a towering mountain that they need to surpass, making most of the freshmen realize that there are truly a lot of geniuses within the world.

’Dual elemental mage!’ as they witnessed the light green glow coming out of the magic circle that this emperor-like young man conjured, a signature appearance of all sorts of wind elemental magic, the people couldn’t help but get more surprised as the young man seems to be more talented than they initially thought.

As these people feel surprised by this, two ladies, to be exact, the princess of the Elven Kingdom and the principal of the academy, couldn’t help but feel even more astonished than anyone else especially since they know of the fact that the young man is a martial artist as well, and compounded with the fact that he’s also someone who possesses dual elemental affinity, he’s just getting more and more monstrous, as well as mysterious in their eyes.

Now doubting whether this is the bottom of his abilities, these two ladies are starting to think of ways for them to uncover the things that he is possibly hiding, unaware of the fact that this little curiosity of theirs will bring them towards a spiral of adventure that will broaden their horizon to a degree that they couldn’t even begin to imagine as they are now.

Meanwhile, the group of young nobles who got caught in the explosion of the simple method of compressing mana to the limits, are already knocked unconscious, their bodies, despite sustaining some superficial yet still obvious damage, including the fact that nearly all of their exposed hairs got burnt into crisp, doesn’t really receive that serious of a damage given the protection of the uniform’s enchantment, something that Diluc takes advantage of as well to come out without even a single damage to himself.

"That should deter your elders for quite some time, shouldn’t it?" looking at the group of young men now being carried in a cocoon conjured by wind elemental mana by the staff of the academy, Diluc said with a smile on his face as he looks at the direction of the female receptionist that is still watching the match, smiling mockingly at her as if taunting her to go down as well, and yet, there’s nothing that she can do given the difference of identity between the two of them, the fact that academy staffs cannot attack a student without valid reason still deeply etched in her mind.