Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Eon's POV: ]

"You look happy."

She surely looked pretty in her bigger form, but with the weapons that she carried, she also seemed more dangerous than her usual delicate, and cheerful self.

Additionally, the look she had on her face right now was a dangerous one.

'The crimsondust…'

Even though she was a fairy, she was a complete battle focused mage.

She could use magic and also possessed a ton of enhancement and fighting skills that made her a complete battlemage.

And she was pretty different from the other battlemages like Rein or Miss Lina as she used all kinds of means in her battles going as far as using her bare hands as well as weapons.

"Hehe, of course I look happy. We finally get to fight for real~."

She had a smirk on her face as she prepared and moved her finger across the edge of her blade.

She held a sword without a sheath, on her back was a long speat, and she had placed a mace on the ground.

On top of that, she was wearing an outfit similar to what Carla usually wears, but even that was a little different from hers.

"It's good to see this side of yours. It unexpectedly suits you."

"Hehe, no way. Don't try to flatter me just yet~. I'm not going to go easy on you~."

She was excited and happy right now. Just that smirk she had and the energy she was exuding was a new thing for me as well.

'This quite literally was the first time we would be fighting in an official setting like this one.'

Practice duels were one thing, we usually only got to teach one another through those deals and fights.

Ever since we started the academy, we never really had the chance to fight against one another in true sense, but now that we were facing one another, and that too before all these students and teachers and judges, she couldn't help but get excited.

'She's one of the few that works better in the face of the audience.'

Much like a performer.

The cheers and the public attention was something that made her spirit fired up. And in this setting, she was now fully fired up.

{ "You can start anytime you want." }

The clothes she was wearing were made from a special Mana material. And on top of that, it was enhanced with materials that were usually used to make strong armors.

The armour itself was strong, but the overall clothing was a comfortable one that made it possible for one to move as freely as they wanted.

And that was exactly what her overall playstyle was all about.

"Let's start then, shall we?"

She was also wearing fortified advanced gloves, so she was going to use her strong fiesta in the fight as well.

'I have to be prepared for many things.'

The only weapon I had were my bow and arrows.

I could not use magic and the skills that I could use were also pretty limited.

'Most of the new skills I have are easy to recognize. So all I have is the {Cascade of ark} as the enhancement skill and {Light steps} as the movement skill.'

Mostly, I only have the techniques that I know, and in this fight there is no way I will be using the new techniques that Sir divine mage and I have developed over the past few months.

Those things are too dangerous for friendly fights like these. So, that aside, though I will be limited to simple things.

"I'll be going first then~! Thanks~!"

The bow I was using was not one of my favourites, but still, it was something I had enchanted myself.

But the vessel holding my arrows was surely something that I held more than a few hundred arrows in a special manner.

'It would be better to use my silver quiver in this fight but that would bring too much attention so this much was enough for now.'

Anyway…

-Swish!

-Clank!

She had moved right after announcing that she would attack first and moved right before my face.

She was fast, much faster than I had expected so the moment she was right before me, I had to use the enchanted arrow in my hand to deflect her attack and step back.

-Swish!

-Dhum!

Distance was a very important thing for an archer since mostly, they were a long range back-of-the-line support unit.

Not many archers were proficient with the close range fights, but of course I was one of those few.

-Swiiiiiiish!

First, the moment her initial attack failed, I used my {Light steps} to create greater distance between us and used three arrows as my first attack.

-Clank! Clank! Clank!

The arrows did not move in a straight line like they usually would but were curved and twisted so that they moved in an unpredictable manner– and yet she detected the incoming attacks and blocked the arrows with her sword.

-Shrrrrr…!

However, she did not expect the kind of weight the arrows would carry so when she blocked them, she was thrown back all the way, and ended up almost losing her footing.

-Swiiiiiiiiiish!

And that was another chance for me so four more arrows were shot at her consecutively.

-Swish!

However this time, she knew the kind of strength these simple arrows carried so she dodged them and used her sword to redirect their trajectories in a way that they first hit the ground instead of just getting redirected somewhere else.

She knew there was a chance that the arrows that I fired might come back at her, and she did not want to get hit in the back while facing me.

So, she avoided the attack, let go of her sword and took out the spear from her back.

-Swiiiiiiiiiish…!

Instead of using it as a long range weapon, she directly threw it at me with a precise aim… her eyes were locked at me and the battle skills that she possessed were surely activated at that moment.

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{Skills: Competitiveness, Opponent suppression, Stardust, Fairy battle magic, Strength enhancement, Speed enhancement, Battle foresight, Realm jump, Combat assist.}

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Her skills were pretty great. The {Combat assistance} gave her a kind of sixth sense that made her act on her own in crucial times and helped her make better decisions in the battle.

Her passive competitiveness stemmed from her innate skill that not only acted as a buff skill, it also helped her grow faster while following her competitive spirit.

She had tried it before so she knew her skill to suppress enemies during battle did not work on me, so she was not trying to waste energy with that skill anymore and was purely using all her enhancement magic and skills to buff her own self.

'Her {Battle foresight} was a very rare (Indigo) ranked skill that was formidable in any battle, however, just like that skill, I had Lucy to help me during battle with her superior calculative abilities and assistance engine.'

-Clank! Clank! Clank!

The problem now was her Stardust, the racial inherent ability that she possessed.

-Swiiiiiiiiiiish!

Her Crimsondust was a unique form of stardust that, instead of decreasing over time with use like it happens with most other feries, increased as the fight went on and she continued using it.

'This stardust increased her strength, magic power, and stamina, and in addition to that, it made her skills even stronger.

'It was different from Carla's natural battle instincts as well.'

She not only got stronger as the battle went on in real time, her powers increased as well. And this very ability made her one of the worst opponents one might want to face off in a battle of time.

-Swiiiiiiiiish!

-Swish. Swish. Swish.

Even with my higher stats and better techniques would become useless in the face of pure strength so, I wanted to avoid prolonging the battle as much as possible… but sadly, she was a good fighter.

-Clank!

She blocked my arrows, she used the entire arena to her advantage and used her experience as someone who can fly to move through the area that not even someone experienced like me possibly could.

-Swiiiiiish!

I was surely the stronger one between us, but with the limitations and the conditions that I was in, it was not easy to deal with her with her strengths increasing with each passing moment.

-Swish. Swish. Swish.

Well, she was having fun as well.

-Clank!

Using the sword was a simple battle style, using one weapon like most of us do was actually.'

But being able to use various kinds of weapons with such proficiency was not an easy thing.

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiish…!

She had real life combat experience and she was a few of us who had come close to death and survived in situations that were life threatening.

'Her life had not been an easy one.'

I can clearly feel the experience she had accumulated over all these years.

-Clank!

She was a good fighter. And the nature of her abilities made her even more dangerous for a pure archer like me in this fight.

'{Light steps}.'

I was going to win this battle in the end, that was inevitable.

But before I do that, now that she was having that much fun… it wasn't a bad idea to show her something better.

Something even more fun.

"How would you like to bring up the level, Tia?"

If I wanted to finish this fight quickly, then I had to fight faster.

Shoot my arrows faster.

Infuse more strength in it.

And move faster than her stardust could react.

"Hun?"

-Bang!

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish…!

-Swish!

And that was only possible in the unique mental realm that only few fortunate are able to enter.

The realm, that is generally known as the ZONE.