“Attention, since the repairs have been made, the match in this arena will be restarted, please continue, Nora,” said the supervisor Alan.

  “Yes, leader,” said supervisor Nora.

  “Finally the match in the other arena can be resumed,” I said.

  “For the next participant, please step forward, participant Emily Watterson,” said supervisor Nora.

  “Watterson? Is she the daughter of the Marquess of Chania, Jasper Watterson?,” said Charles.

  “How come you memorized the names of all the nobles?,” I asked.

  “Well, as a member of the royal family it is recommended to memorize the nobles who are tasked with helping the kingdom to govern other areas, my mother knows all the heads of the noble families from Duke to Viscount,” said Charles.

  “Being a member of the royal family seems troublesome,” I said.

  “Well, that’s how it is,” said Charles.

  “Chania is in the San Angela region, so the Watterson family serves under the orders of my father who is a Duke,” said Enzo.

  "I'm surrounded by people with high status, I'm insecure. I hope Noa comes back from his recovery soon," I said.

  "Hahaha, take it easy Rid," Enzo said.

  "And for her opponent, please step forward, participant Chloe Estella San Fulgen," said the supervisor Nora.

  "Wow, Princess Chloe, step forward,"

  "Stay strong, Princess Chloe, I support you," said another participant who was starting to get excited.

  "S-so excited," said Chloe who was suddenly nervous.

  "Chloe, be enthusiastic, don't lose," said Charles.

  "Y-yes, brother," said Chloe.

  "Be enthusiastic, Chloe, you can do it," said Enzo.

  "Yes, you can do it Chloe," I said

  "T-thank you for your support, Rid,"

  "Why are you so nervous Chloe, weren't you enthusiastic while waiting for your turn to come," said Chlarles.

  "I-I was enthusiastic earlier, but when my turn came, I suddenly felt nervous, especially since so many people were cheering," said Chloe.

  ”Relax Chloe, they’re just cheering for you to win,” Charles said.

  ”I-I don’t like being supported by many people I don’t know, o-okay then I’ll go to the arena first,” Chloe said as she walked to the arena.

  ”Cheer up Chloe,” Charles said.

  ”Chloe if you’re in a pinch use the magic & mana manipulation that I taught you earlier,” I said.

  ”T-that’s impossible, Rid. I couldn’t even do it when I tried it earlier,” Chloe said who suddenly stopped.

  ”Well just try it first, you were just practicing. Now it’s a real match, who knows you might be able to use it when you feel in a pinch,” I said.

  ”O-okay, I’ll try it later,” Chloe said who continued walking.

  ”Will Chloe be okay, Charles?” I said.

  ”Relax Rid, even though she looks nervous like that but she’ll definitely be able to compete well, besides I’m her older sister, I’ve known Chloe for a long time,” Charles said.

  Chloe finally arrived at the arena.

  "I didn't expect to fight, princess. This is a rare opportunity. Then please help me and let's have a fair fight, princess," said Emily.

  "Y-yes, me too, p-please help me," said Chloe.

  "Is it true that Chloe will be okay, Charles?," said I who was watching.

  "There will be nothing, Rid. Maybe," said Charles.

  "Is participant Emily ready?," said supervisor Nora.

  "Ready," said Emily.

  "Is participant Chloe ready," said supervisor Nora again.

  "S-ready," said Chloe.

  "Alright, then let's start the match, The match begins!!!!," said supervisor Nora.

  -

  "Come on Princess Chloe, fight,"

  "Defeat her, Princess Chloe," said another participant

  "W-why are they so excited, it's just making me nervous," said Chloe.

  "Hahah I thought you would be excited because you got cheers, princess," said Emily.

  “If the cheers came from a lot of people I knew, I might be okay with it. But getting cheers from a lot of people I don’t know makes me nervous,” Chloe said.

  “I see, if the princess keeps getting nervous because of their cheers and loses to me, don’t blame me,” Emily said.

  “Oh, don’t worry, I’ll fight to win anyway,” Chloe said.

  Fire Magic, Create Magic Weapon, Fire Arrow

  Chloe immediately created fire arrows from her magic, and started shooting them at Emily.

  Double Fire Arrow

  The two fire arrows were aimed at Emily, but Emily started raising and pointing her magic wand forward.

  Earth Magic, Earth Wall

  A wall made of earth appeared in front of Emily and immediately blocked Chloe's two fire arrows. The two fire arrows were destroyed after hitting the earth wall,

  "Sorry princess, but your fire magic won't work against earth magic," Emily said.

  "......," Chloe was silent.

  "Arrows against wands huh, this could be a long-range fight," I said.

  "Emily is an earth magic user, Chloe will have trouble if she uses her fire magic too much, she has to use other magic," Charles said.

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  "Can Chloe use other elemental magic?" I asked.

  "Yes, but probably only low-level magic. Because Chloe always practices using her fire magic, she doesn't practice her other magic so it doesn't develop," Charles said.

  "To deal with certain elemental magic, using its weakness magic is the right choice. Earth magic can be overcome with water magic and electricity magic. But if using its weakness doesn't work, the only way is to use higher level magic. Like just now, Chloe's Fire Arrow couldn't penetrate Emily's Earth Wall, to destroy the Earth Wall it requires an attack with greater damage than Fire Arrow," I said.

  Earth Magic, Earth Shot

  Emily shot an earth bullet from her magic wand. Chloe nimbly avoided it. Chloe ran to the edge of the arena to find a gap to attack Emily. When she found a gap, Chloe shot her fire arrow at Emily.

  Triple Fire Arrow

  3 shots of fire arrows aimed at Emily.

  Earth Wall

  But the fire arrow couldn't penetrate Emily's Earth Wall.

  "That wall is very strong, ordinary fire arrows can't destroy it. Should I strengthen the arrow with Boost or should I make another arrow?," Chloe thought.

  "Chloe doesn't get nervous when she's serious," I said.

  "I told you earlier that nothing will happen," Charles said.

  "I'll try using another arrow," Chloe thought.

  "Fire Magic, Create Magic Weapon,"

  Chloe created an arrow from her magic.

  "Feel this, ~Blast Arrow~,"

  The arrow was aimed at Emily.

  "An arrow that can explode huh? A normal Earth Wall won't be able to withstand that," Emily said.

  Emily prepared to use her magic to block the arrow.

  Earth Magic, Earth Wall: Blast Protection,"

  A very thick earth wall appeared and blocked the arrow. When the arrow hit the earth wall, an explosion occurred.

  *DOUGH

  After the explosion was over, smoke appeared that interfered with vision in the arena but only for a moment because the explosion effect was not too big. After the smoke cleared, Chloe was surprised because the earth wall was not destroyed by her arrow.

  "How come the wall wasn't destroyed by the explosion," Chloe said.

  "As the name suggests, Princess, this ~Blast Protection is used to block explosion-type attacks," Emily said as she canceled her Earth Wall magic.

  "Fire Magic, Create Magic Weapon

  Magic Boost

  Power Boost

  Speed ??Boost

  Chloe started to try to attack Emily again.

  Fire Arrow

  Chloe shot her arrow towards Emily.

  "This time it's a fire arrow equipped with Boost, okay then," Emily said.

  Earth Magic, Earth Wall

  Defense Boost 2x

  Emily created another earth wall to block the fire arrow. And once again Chloe's fire arrow couldn't destroy the arrow wall.

  "Even with Boost, it can't penetrate that wall," Chloe said in surprise.

  "I created a different ~Earth Wall to block your attack, Princess. Earth Wall is usually used to block your Fire Arrow, Earth Wall: Blast Protection to block your Blast Arrow, and Earth Wall added with Defense Boost to block your Fire Arrow which is also equipped with Boost. Indeed, each different Earth Wall, the use of mana is also different, especially Blast Protection requires quite a lot of Mana. But that's no different with you, princess. Your different attacks also use different amounts of mana, right? Moreover, instead of using the arrows provided by the academy, you prefer to make your own arrows, making ordinary arrows already requires a lot of mana. Well, are you going to use a different type of arrow again? I just need to make an Earth Wall that is balanced with your arrows. Your arrows won't be able to hit me, and I just have to defend myself until you run out of mana because you made too many arrows. How about it, princess?," said Emily.

  "..........," Chloe was silent while thinking about how to defeat Emily.

  "Using arrows seems useless, then," Chloe said.

  Chloe ran towards Emily.

  Fire Magic, Create Magic Weapon, Dual Fire Dagger

  Chloe created two fire daggers in her hands and immediately ran towards Emily.

  "Since long-range attacks don't work, now you're trying to attack from close range, huh, princess?," Emily said.

  Earth Shot

  Emily shot her earth magic towards Chloe. But Chloe was able to avoid it.

  Earth Shot

  Earth Shot

  Emily continued to shoot her earth magic but again Chloe was able to avoid it. And when the distance to Emily was close, Chloe began to attack Emily with her daggers.

  Fire Dagger Slash

  A fire slash shot towards Emily. But Emily swiftly blocked the slash.

  Eartu Magic, Earth Wall

  The fire slash failed to hit Emily because it was blocked by Earth Wall. But Chloe quickly moved past the side of the Earth Wall to approach Emily and then attacked Emily.

  "If my long-range attacks can't hit you, I can just use close-range attacks. Besides, archery isn't my only specialty," Chloe said.

  Chloe attacked Emily with both of her daggers, Emily tried to avoid them. Because Chloe's attacks on Emily were very fast and continuous, Emily didn't have time to use her magic and only focused on avoiding Chloe's attacks. Although she managed to avoid most of Chloe's attacks, there were attacks from Chloe's fire daggers that hit Emily. Her hands, cheeks, body and legs began to be scratched.

  "Ughhhh," said Emily who was in pain from the wounds from Chloe's attacks.

  Even so, Emily still tried to avoid Chloe's attacks that were launched non-stop.

  "Even though Chloe is originally an archer, she is also good at close-range combat. Well, as a long-range fighter, it is a must to learn close-range attacks because we don't know when the enemy will suddenly come to ambush," I said.

  "Yes, that's how it should be, but as members of the royal family, Chloe and I have been trained to use many types of weapons," said Charles.

  "Does that mean you can also use weapons other than swords, Charles?" I asked.

  "Yes, i can, but not as good as I am at using a sword. The weapons we are most skilled at using are used as our main weapons. I use a sword, and Chloe uses a bow," said Charles.

  "Is that so," I said.

  Chloe continued to attack Emily non-stop, and Emily continued to try to avoid Chloe's attacks. Until finally Chloe found an opening and tried to attack Emily with her 2 daggers directly. But Emily was immediately alert and blocked the two daggers with her magic wand. The two of them competed to see who could hold it the strongest. But Chloe was superior, she won the weapon fight and immediately opened Emily's defense and kicked Emily right in her stomach.

  "Guohhhh," said Emily in pain.

  Emily was thrown a few meters back after being kicked by Chloe.

  "Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah," said Chloe who seemed to be getting tired.

  Chloe's attacks had clearly used up a lot of energy, especially since they were done non-stop.

  "Hah, hah, hah, it looks like you can hurt me this time, princess," said Emily who was still lying down after being kicked by Chloe.

  It seemed like she was also exhausted from avoiding Chloe's attacks.

  "But this isn't over yet, princess," Emily started to get up.

  "It looks like this match isn't over yet,"

  "The princess' opponent is still strong enough to continue the fight," said another participant.

  "Attention, because the match in the other arena is over. We will immediately start the next match," said supervisor Nora.

  "The next match is over? I didn't realize, we were too focused on Princess Chloe's match that we didn't see the match in the other arena,"

  "Yeah me too, I was too focused on Princess Chloe," said another participant.

  "The next participant please step forward, participant Jeremy Kunich," said supervisor Nora.

  Jeremy began to advance to the arena.

  "Do you know him, Charles?," I asked.

  "Hmmm I don't know him. He seems like a commoner," said Charles.

  "I don't know him either, as Charles said he seems like a commoner," said Enzo.

  "And for his opponent, please step forward, participant Irene Emerald San Lucia," said the supervisor Nora.

  "What? Now it's Princess Irene's turn?,"

  "No way, the Queen's daughter and the Duke's daughter are fighting at the same time,"

  "I don't know which one I should focus on watching,"

  "Fight, ice princess," said the other participants.

  "Hmmm now it's Princess Irene's turn too, in the other arena Chloe is still competing, and in the other arena Princess Irene's match is about to start. These two matches are hard to miss, it's natural that the other participants are confused about which match to focus on, this is very interesting," I thought.

  "I'll go first, Lea, Lily. I'll finish this quickly," said Princess Irene who started walking to the arena leaving her two assistants.

  "Okay, keep your spirits up Miss," said Leandra.

  "Keep your spirits up Miss, you can do it," said Lily.

  Princess Irene walked to the arena slowly leaving her two assistants.

  "Miss seems very confident, Lea," said Lily.

  "Of course Lily, if the opponent is not from the list that Miss is worried about, it seems like Miss can win easily," said Leandra.

  Princess Irene finally arrived at the arena.

  "I didn't expect my opponent to be the ice princess, whether this is luck or bad luck, on one hand I'm lucky to be able to see the ice princess up close and on the other hand I'm unlucky to be her opponent, what can a commoner like me do," said Jeremy.

  "......," Princess Irene was silent.

  -

  "Irene....," said Charles.

  "Do you know Princess Irene, Charles?," I asked.

  "Of course, she's the Duke's daughter after all," Charles said.

  "I mean are you close to Princess Irene? As a friend or something," I explained.

  "Well, maybe not, but if there's a noble gathering, Irene likes to attend. She just keeps to herself at the gathering, she gives the impression that she doesn't want to be separated. But I often invite her to chat and hang out with the others, but she still doesn't want to," Charles said.

  "She's still not friendly, even though she could soon become-," Enzo said.

  "Enough Enzo," Charles said, holding him back.

  "Information about that can't be disseminated publicly yet," Charles said.

  "Ah yeah, I forgot that Rid was here, Sorry," Enzo said.

  "It's okay, just don't repeat it again next time," Charles said.

  "Okay," Enzo said, nodding.

  I don't know what they were talking about, but I found out after reading their minds.

  "So that's how it is," I thought.

  -

  "Is participant Jeremy ready?," asked supervisor Nora.

  "Ready," said Jeremy

  "Is participant Irene ready?," asked supervisor Nora.

  "Ready," said Princess Irene.

  "Okay then, the match begins!," said supervisor Nora.

  -To be continued