Chapter 78: Error
Riven ran through the forest. After a few minutes, he spotted Mathias fighting Noel. Mathias was fast with the way he used his magic—he was an earth user, and his casting speed was very quick. He shot out boulders at a very impressive rate.
But Noel was no ordinary candidate. He was faster, cutting down the rocks as they came. Mathias had not noticed it, but Noel was slowly getting faster with his sword. He was gradually building up an opening to attack Mathias and win.
’I have to make the switch at the right moment,’ he thought. He already knew that the blonde boy would be coming this way, so he waited.
"Aren’t you going to help me?" Mathias yelled while still chucking rocks at Noel.
"I can’t now, my opponent has arrived," Riven said. And right at that moment, a spear shot from the sky toward his head. He swatted the spear to the side and retreated backward rather than charge in.
This movement choice confused the blonde boy more, but he didn’t care. He jumped down from the tree and charged in. Grabbing his spear from the ground, he sent in a flurry of attacks as fast as he could.
Riven blocked all the attacks the moment they came. He moved without any sort of pressure on him.
’Hmm, maybe we don’t need to actually switch. I’m sure they can hold for two minutes, right?’ Riven thought. And with that thought alone, he broke into a smile and stopped retreating, suddenly attacking. He used a flame arc.
The blonde boy had not been expecting the sudden attack. He had figured that Riven didn’t use any sort of magic since he hadn’t used it all through.