Chapter 43: Magic is a Tool
Jethro and Kekius weren’t the only ones to be stunned by the extraordinary mismatch. The rest of the students reacted with raised brows, chuckles and murmurs. Most of them had no idea who Oand Wexley was, but it hardly mattered. Watching a nobody about to face Eryn Fenlor was cause enough for morbid amusement.
They all knew how this would end: a nobody versus a legend was destined to be brutal.
The laughter and murmurs intensified as the cylindrical energy field materialized, depositing Oand and Eryn into the arena. And they were all directed at Oand, who stood rigid with nerves, white-knuckling his Glimmerpond Toad— Froggy —like a lifeline.
Across from him stood Eryn Fenlor, radiating regal superiority as his lips curled into a lazy smirk. On his shoulder was his burning orange mechbeast, a Paragon Phoenix, while at his feet sat his Pyronic Beaver.
Neither mechbeast was a laughing matter.
Both had heat related powers with the Paragon Phoenix being the stronger of the two. It was a Platinum Rank beast, though a Grade D. Its metallic skin was coated with sunlight fire that never hurt its master, and its eyes burned with ancient intelligence the color of gold.
The Phoenix has an arsenal of abilities that spanned through solar, plasma, light, including an overpowered ability that allowed it to self-kill obliterating everything in its path, only to be reborn from ashes.
The Pyronic Beaver was less grand but terrifying in its own way. At Gold Rank (Grade E), it controlled liquid fire in ways a Titanic Liongolem or a Cyclops Magmabear couldn’t.
It specialized more on the earth-based powers of magma, creating lava moats and napalm rocks. Its hammer-tail could create superheated steam geysers when they stuck the ground, while the coat created by its Vincintine skin could summon ember storms when shaken.
Oand visibly shrank. There was objectively nothing he could do in a fight like this.
From the stands, Jethro watched grimly, tension plastered on his face. ’What the hell is this professor thinking? This isn’t like Durn versus me. Oand has no chance!’
"Commence!" commanded Professor Xan just after the wall shield had risen again, securing the participants inside.