In the arena, without any audience (for the moment), Azzy and Snivy got ready for the battle as the blindfolded man stood on the side.
Acting as the official proctor, Aaron spoke to both of them about the rules, "According to your agreement, both of you are allowed to use any method and any type of item to win this battle.
However, since this is a private challenge and you aren't students, the academy is not liable to pay for any damages that occurred in the surroundings. It will have to be settled by you two.
The battle will end when either Mr. Gary will get hit at atleast once on his body or when 60 minutes are up. In the former case, it will be Snivy's win, and in the latter case, it will be Mr. Gary's win.
Other than that, the battle can also end when one admits defeat. If a challenger will attack the other even after that, it can be considered an act of assault and the academy can press charges against the accused.
Lastly, if Mr. Gary wins this battle, he will be the new combat instructor for class 10-B. And if Ms. Snivy wins this battle, Mr. Gary will apologize to the students and hand over his resignation. Ms. Snivy will also take up his job until the end of this semester.
Is there anything else you would like to add?"
Azzy shook his head and Snivy followed the same.
Aaron nodded and moved away before announcing, "You have 60 seconds to prepare yourselves. Get ready."
Snivy immediately summoned her Arcana, the metal hammer, while Azzy slowly rose into the air with hands folded behind his back. The woman followed the suit.
As the 60 seconds are up, Aaron blew a whistle, signaling the start of their battle.
Snivy flew forward like an aircraft but in Azzy's eyes, her speed is very slow. He doesn't even need to activate the Eyes of God soul skill to capture her movements. Everything was clear to him.
Azzy calmly flew to the side to evade the crash and then started dodging her attacks.
For the next 30 minutes, he didn't even lift a finger against her and just entirely focused on dodging.
Due to heavy swinging continuously for the past half hour an hour, signs of tiredness appeared on Snivy's face as her body is full of sweat but she didn't take any rest and continued her assault.
Azzy, meanwhile, looked perfectly alright as he did before the match. There were absolutely no changes in him.
As the bells rang all over the academy, the students rushed out of their classrooms and made their way to the arena.
By the time they reached the stands, they saw Azzy looking fresh and calm while Snivy was sweating like hell and looked quite frustrated.
Seeing the arena slowly filling with the students and a few teachers too, Azzy spoke out loud, "Snivy, if you want to take a break, you can. At this rate, you will collapse before the time runs out."
"You…" Snivy felt like her opponent is mocking her and her rage increased further.
Raising the 10ft large hammer, she poured her soul energy into it. The hammer's size started increasing all the way up to 35ft.
"Soul skill: Hammer Tornado"
Landing on the ground, she spun around with her left leg as the center like a ballerina, although at a fast pace in one spot.
The wind violently swirled around her, eventually creating a strong tornado.
"Go…" Snivy frees her hammer, which is now spinning on its own while the tornado moves to its target.
Azzy narrowed his eyes as he observed the giant tornado coming at him. "Hmm… I should destroy it but without showing off my power. There's still a lot of time. So, it's not the time. Her soul skill might not hurt her but those stones swallowed by the tornado are a different case."
An idea popped up in Azzy's mind and he quickly made his move by flying away from the 500ft (~150m) tornado.
Some of the tenth-grade students who bore a grudge against Azzy rejoiced in their hearts, hoping for Azzy to be swallowed by this massive tornado and get heavily injured as the distance between the tornado and Azzy was reducing over time.
As Azzy flew higher, the tornado strangely lifted from the ground with the hammer as its eye, making it look unnatural to the spectators. But then again, it is not a natural tornado. So, no complaints over there.
However, the tornado never managed to reach Azzy. He was always slightly away from it while flying left and right in random directions.
Eventually, he dived toward his opponent who was focused on recovering her soul power and taking a bit of rest.
"Is he a fool or something?" Snivy mumbled as she saw Azzy flying toward her with a flexible tornado behind him. "Why did he think my tornado would even harm me?"
As she clenched her fist to give a solid punch to Azzy's body upon reaching her, Azzy made a sharp turn to the right when he was about a few meters away and flew higher while increasing his speed quickly.
The tornado was atleast fifty meters wide at its top. Hence, Snivy was in its range.
The wind did nothing to her but all the sand particles, stones, and rocks that are flying along with the wind struck her.
They didn't do any damage to her but still, she was forced to protect her eyes from the dust for a while.
And when her vision became clear, she saw Azzy already appear like a dot in the sky before he unleashed a meteor shower through a skill card, aiming at the tornado.
However, this skill card is only a 3-star one. The so-called giant stones didn't destroy the tornado. Instead, they increased the power of tornado by riding along with the revolving wind.
At first, people thought that Azzy was failed but then, as more and more giant stones were added to the tornado, its speed considerably dropped due to the heavyweight.
"Okay, let's change the plan."
Azzy wanted to use his meteor shower to add to the tornado and then bring it to his opponent and injure her with them but as he saw how the tornado was affected by the extra weight, a new idea popped up and he didn't hesitate to take out all of his meteor shower cards from 1-star to 3-star level.
And within a few minutes, people couldn't even see the wind properly. All they saw were large stones stacked upon one on each other revolving at a slow pace.
Snivy's face darkened as she was watching the situation. She felt a bit humiliated by getting her soul skill defeated in such a way.
Meanwhile, the students of Class 10-B started cheering Azzy's name. They felt like it was a genius move.
The tornado's power might be restricted to peak-rank-6 due to the fact that the academy is located in a level-3 region but Azzy only used low-level skill cards to nullify it effectively.
Seeing the tornado's speed drop down to just 20 kmph, Snivy thought that it is useless and quickly dismissed it by calling her Arcana.
The hammer broke through the rocks and returned to her hand and the rocks fell to the ground.
*Dum* Dum* Dum* Dum*
One after another, they struck the ground, generating vibrations across the arena. The students felt like a low-magnitude earthquake hit them and shifted their focus to Azzy, wondering what is going to do next.
To their disappointment, he didn't start any attack. Instead, he slowly descended to 20ft altitude and looked down at Snivy while putting his hands behind his back once again, "22 minutes are left, Snivy. I'm looking forward to your next attack."
"You…" Snivy tightly gripped the handle of her hammer. The latter spoke to her telepathically, "Snivy, let's go with our trump card."
"But, the hidden skill will not be useful in the current situation," replied Snivy immediately. She had that thought long ago but didn't apply it until now as her soul realm was already restricted to 6-star when she is in the 7-star realm. What is the use of going temporarily into the 8-star realm? It will change nothing.
However, her platinum-grade Arcana spirit seems to have a different opinion about their strongest skill. "I'm not talking about the merge, Snivy. I'm talking about the Arcana transformation skill card you received from your former organization."
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