Chapter 376: Naive
Even though the fight had ended, Arwin’s hands were still tight at his sides. He’d risen to his feet at some point during it and never gotten a chance to sit back down. The whole of his attention had been completely focused on the arena.
There had been several moments where he’d been completely convinced that Art was dead. Nothing he knew about the boy had implied he’d have been able to fight a mage as powerful as the one from Starforge, and that had been before he’d revealed his armor had powerful enchantments on it.
“Damn,” Reya said from beside Arwin. “I think Art was kind of holding back on what he can do. Did he just steal the other guy’s magic?”
“Looks like it,” Arwin said. He’d seen similar magics before during the war, but not often. Copy mages were highly specialized and very rarely had a reason to be on the front lines. They were only called out when the Monster Horde had a caster so powerful that normal mages couldn’t easily get close to them.
After all, the easiest way to deal with someone slinging around impossibly powerful magic was to sling that exact magic back at them. There were a number of variants of copy mages that Arwin had seen in actions, but he hadn’t seen any that worked the way Art’s magic did.
Trapping magic in the cards, huh? That’s pretty interesting. Most of the copy mages I knew were only capable of stealing magic, though. They couldn’t cast anything on their own. So how does this align to Art’s information gathering ability? That’s what I though this cards were for… so I must be missing something. Maybe the information ability was also something he copied?
In the end, it didn’t matter. Art’s team had won the fight handily. And, now that it was over and Arwin could breathe normally again, his attention was given a chance to turn to the reason Art’s team had nearly lost in the first place.
“So that was another Dwarf Smith’s equipment, huh?” Arwin mused. He knew he should have been relieved — this was the smith that Selen had warned him about. His team had been knocked out of the tournament without any major incidents or issues.
It felt too easy.