BXBX NOVEL Chapter 438: Do You Know How To Swim? [Part 2]
It was as if the women he met in his life were hard counters for his ability, or so he thought a few months ago.
"Confractus!" Ethan raised his wand and the countless Icicles that were flying in his direction shattered.
Illumina was talking to him telepathically and dictating several spells that he could use to fight against those who used Ice Magic.
Since ice was made up of water, as long as he timed it right, he would be able to shatter it at will.
Leah arched an eyebrow after seeing Ethan destroy the icicles that she had aimed at him.
However, she still couldn\'t detect any magical fluctuations in his body.
"Vocare Lupum Glaciem!" The beautiful lady pointed her wand in front of her.
A moment later, over a dozen wolves made up of ice emerged and charged in Ethan\'s direction.
"Magna Confractus!" Ethan pointed his wand toward the wolves who were only a few meters away from him.
All the wolves closed in on the young man, about to lunge. Suddenly, right before they could make their move, they all swiftly disintegrated into chunks of ice.
"You think using that spell will save you from me?" Leah asked.
"There\'s only one way to find out, Mother," Ethan replied with a smile. "Give me your worst."
"Don\'t regret those words, boy," Leah said icily. "Everyone who has said that to me in the past learned their lesson the hard way."
What Lily\'s mother didn\'t know was that Ethan\'s three helpers were laughing at her.
\'Did you hear that?\' Sebastian asked with a smirk. \'Isn\'t that what happened to those who looked down on our boy in the past?\'
\'If she wasn\'t Lily\'s mother, I would have already taken hold of Ethan\'s body and spanked her for her insolence.\'
\'I\'m very tempted to slap this girl,\' Illumina commented. \'Come, Ethan. Use Partial Resonance! I will make sure that she learns her lesson the hard way.\'
The three powerful beings were making a ruckus inside his head, making the young man sigh in his heart.
He was also tempted to use Partial Resonance and summon Illumina. But he feared that if he did that, the Mermaid Princess would go all out and slap Lily\'s mother silly.
If she didn\'t use her hands personally, she might use the Giant Water Hands, which Ethan had learned in his fight against the Witch who specialized in water magic in one of Fortis Dud\'s trials.
For the time being, he decided to not use his Partial Resonance and simply shatter all the spells that Leah would throw in his direction.
Not all Wizards could do what Ethan was doing.
He was only able to do it because his control over Water Magic had increased significantly after completing the trials in the underground maze.
Ethan even thought that the trial was also a training ground for Fortis Dud\'s successor, the inheritor of his Will and Legacy.
The young man didn\'t receive any Legacies, but he didn\'t come out empty-handed either.
The Golden Egg in his possession was quite mysterious, and he believed that the Founder of the Academy wasn\'t joking when he said that the moment it hatched, his Ancient Wendigo wouldn\'t hold a candle against it.
"Gelida Regnum!" Leah pointed her wand toward the sky, and a blue beam of light emerged from the tip of her wand.
A moment later, this beam of light exploded when it reached a hundred meters above her head, immediately summoning a blizzard that blocked everyone\'s vision.
"Mother Leah is now serious," Lyall muttered. "She intends to end the duel now."
Conall nodded, agreeing with his sister\'s words.
Lily clenched her fists tightly out of anxiety.
\'If only I had managed to kiss him earlier,\' Lily gritted her teeth as she stared intently at the blizzard in front of her.
She knew that Ethan was drained of his magic, so when she saw that he was able to cast some spells, she thought that he was pushing himself to the limits again.
Lily was already prepared to take care of Ethan if he suffered from the backlash of tapping too deeply into his body\'s reserves, which would harm him at a later time.
Luna and Lilian were also worried about their lover because they also knew his current situation.
Emma, who seemed to realize that her Master wasn\'t in peak condition, started to feel anxious as well.
But just as these girls who loved and supported Ethan unconditionally were worrying about him, the young man in question was concentrating on a spell that he would use to reverse his current situation.
Within that frozen world, a voice filled with determination reached Leah\'s ears.
"Grand Aria."
Immediately, she found herself staring at what seemed to be a raging sea, with thunderclouds hovering above her.
A moment later, the blizzard she had summoned resumed and tried to freeze the raging sea under her.
However, just as the surface of the sea was about to be frozen, giant waves broke it apart, and lightning bolts started to rain down from the skies, accompanied by the roar of thunder.
The moment she saw this, she remembered the story that Conall had shared with them.
He said that in his fight against Ethan, both of them disappeared for a few seconds in the arena before reappearing again.
"A Domain," Leah\'s gaze sharpened. "He sucked me inside a Domain."
Suddenly, Leah felt something wet touching her face.
A moment later, everything around her cleared up as the blizzard that she had summoned transformed into a heavy rain, further intensifying the chaotic environment around her.
It was then that she saw her.
A beautiful lady hovered in front of her with her arms crossed over her chest.
It took Leah a few seconds to realize that the being in front of her wasn\'t actually a Human but a Mermaid.
"Do you know how to swim?" Illumina asked, a sneer plastered on her face. "Well, it doesn\'t matter even if you do. Ethan asked me not to slap you with my hands or with my magic, but he never told me to not use my tail!"
A moment later, the Mermaid Princess turned her body and used her tail to slap Leah\'s stomach, sending her crashing towards the raging sea, which rose up to swallow her.
Illumina then dove down to grab the woman\'s body and drag her to the depths of the sea.
Ethan, who saw all of this happen, panted for breath and reminded Illumina not to be too harsh on Lily\'s mother.
After deepening his relationship with Lilian, he could now use his Grand Aria for almost five minutes.
However, dragging Leah into his Domain wasn\'t an easy task.
He already used up the two orbs of Moon Magic that Luna had placed inside his heart.
Fortunately, tomorrow was the night of the full moon, so he would be able to ask the angelic beauty to store her magic inside his body again.
Knowing this, he decided to go all out and allowed the Mermaid Princess to vent her frustrations. Meanwhile, the two beings inside his Sea of Consciousness cheered for her and were even making live commentary on the Mermaid Princess\' subtle acts of vengeance.
Ethan didn\'t know whether he should laugh or cry because Sebastian and his Other Half were having the time of their lives.
\'Ouch, that should hurt,\' Sebastian said. \'Did you see her tug on Leah\'s hair when Ethan closed his eyes for a brief moment?\'
\'I did," Ethan\'s Other Half replied. \'She even pinched her waist a while ago. Illumina probably thought that Ethan wouldn\'t notice when she dragged that woman to the bottom of the sea.\'
\'This girl is really dangerous. I wonder what will happen if Ethan meets her real body.\'
\'God forbid that happens soon. She will eat him up, and before we know it, there will be new mermaid princesses in the sea.\'
\'Damn. I\'m looking forward to that. Do you think it will be added to the side stories?\'
\'Definitely. If the author didn\'t add it, there would be a riot.\'
The two continued their live commentary as all hell broke loose under the sea.
A moment later, the blizzard in the arena disappeared, so everyone was finally able to see what was happening.
Lying in one of the corners was Leah, her entire body drenched with water.
Her hair and even her clothes were in disarray as if someone had wrestled with her on the spot.
Ethan on the other hand, was kneeling at the other side of the arena, panting for breath.
The silhouette of a Mermaid Princess was lightly rubbing his back as if helping him to feel better.
Professor Rinehart then teleported beside the fallen Leah and checked her condition.
She knew that none of them would actually die because the safety locks of the arena were activated.
Even so, he still checked to see if Leah was breathing.
When he confirmed that she was just unconscious, he signaled to everyone watching that the fight was over.
Lily, Lyal, and Conall immediately headed toward Leah to check her condition.
Luna, Lilian, and Emma went to check Ethan\'s condition. Judging by the look on his face, it seem that he had pushed himself past his limit again.
Nicole, on the other hand, watched everything from afar with her hands crossed over her chest.
Similar to Professor Rinehart, she wanted to know how Ethan was able to use magic despite being a Dud.
\'It seems like it will still take a while before I learn your secret,\' Nicole thought with a smile. \'Still, with this, I think Lily\'s mother will no longer get in the way of their relationship.
\'But I\'m sure her father will definitely come to give Ethan a piece of his mind. Now, that is something that I\'m looking forward to seeing.\'
Nicole and Lily weren\'t close enough for the Magical Fencer to know about Lily\'s family background.
However, she could make guesses. If her guess was correct, then Leah\'s husband, Lily\'s father, should be someone very important in Southshire.
\'Well, I\'ll know sooner or later,\' Nicole mused. \'I can wait.\'
Since she was already there, she decided to also go to the arena and check on Ethan\'s condition.
Even with her trained eye, it was truly impossible to see what had happened inside the blizzard.
\'I hope that it\'s nothing too serious,\' Nicole thought. \'We still have a ballroom party to attend.\'
The two of them were personally invited to the Royal Capital by the Grand Archmage of Eastshire in order to receive their awards for helping to defend Otto City from the Dungeon Outbreak.
Because of this, Nicole was looking forward to what kind of surprises she would see in the Royal Palace, where everyone wore a mask not only to cover their faces but their hearts as well.