Chapter 72: Did he?
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When his punch lifted Baler off his feet, Caius was in awe. He hadn’t even thought he had hit that hard. He had been so charged up that he didn’t notice how much of the muscles in his arms unleashed the latent strength within them. Subconsciously, he’d put the lessons he learned over the weekend training with his father into action, and the result was blood spewing from Baler’s mouth.
"Ack!" Baler said and felt his feet lose contact with the ground. He saw the surprised look on Caius’ face turn into a look of delight as he drew back his fist to punch him a second time.
"No!" Baler said but it was muffled slightly by his busted jaw. His icy-blue eyes were wide but through this attack, he had managed to keep his fingers in the seal position they had been in before Caius landed the blow and hurried to complete his spell casting.
He thrust his hand forward and a spell circle appeared to conjure a wall of ice.
Caius smirked. He had expected that and was ready.
~Fireball~
The spell circle appeared against his knuckles and turned into a ball of fire just in time to make contact with the wall and shatter it.
"Hngh!" Baler groaned not only in pain at his jaw but also in a brief moment of worry that his defense was so easily broken through. Fortunately, he had learned from his earlier mistakes.
Already, he had seen Caius was capable of breaking through icy walls and platforms so, while this was worrying, this was not all that shocking and he had a plan.
He controlled his spell circle and made multiple walls of ice appear revealing that the defensive spell he cast had been a bit of a misdirect. It was not the usual one he and even his sister Aylin had cast so far, especially during the Study of Magical Beast Class last week.