Chapter 71: With a Bang!
Delia’s kick was identical to the one she had landed on Caius to knock him out last week in Mage-Knight Training. As one of the students who had been present then, Aurelius recognized the move but it was too fast for him to dodge...
*Bam!*
... But he still managed to raise an arm to block it before leaping a few steps back with his rope of light still wrapped around Delia’s wrist. However, after a second passed, the adrenaline rush from blocking the attack waned enough for him to feel his arm shake a bit and he realized how much he just might have underestimated Delia’s physicality.
Delia smirked and finally gripped the rope, charging her hands with mana that tingled with an electric flair before she pulled at it until it snapped and melted into nothing. Freeing her wrists.
"Thank you," she told Aurelius, "That shook me out of my funk. I was stuck in that terrible Mage mindset for a second."
Delia took on a fighting stance then, holding up both her fists, moving her shoulders, and floating from side to side like a martial artist ready to duke things out.
"Let’s do this," she said then and a blue spell circle appeared at her feet. It transformed into a surge of water that slid her so fast that she was back within a foot of Aurelius’s face and tossed out punches at his face.
Aurelius raised his arms and blocked more attacks, gritting his teeth at how much weight they carried and how, in a battle of physicality, he was almost certainly sure to lose. He allowed one of her punches to push him back and went sliding a few feet away, using the time before Delia caught up with him again to form a seal that created a spell circle that he slapped into the ground as he went down on one knee.
*Crack!*