Grandeur Fantasia

Chapter 120.1 ~ Tournament Start

AN: Exams... At home... Yeah, that's my life now XDXD! Hope you guys enjoy this chapter~!!! 

Leon stood in one of the Royal Academy's training grounds as he overlooked his students' training.

It has been a bit over a month since the term started for the Royal Academy and the time for the annual tournament was getting closer and closer.

Leon had already selected the seven representatives from his class who will compete in the tournament.

The main participants are made up of the best students in his class who have the greatest magical potential and skill. Amaterasu, Altria, Cecily, Julius, and Kierk will become the core players of their class's team. Silverius will be a substitute and strategist who will be forming plans for the tournament and help his teammates. Tina will become a supporter who will be enchanting her team's equipment.

During the tournament, the Royal Academy will provide the participants with their equipment. They are all standard equipment, but they are permitted, and encouraged, to enchant it to increase the strength of their equipment. This gave students who are more talented in magic item enchantment a time to shine and show their abilities to numerous influential people.

Given that Tina was the best in enchanting magical items in her whole grade and Leon knew just how talented she was in this regard, she was chosen immediately.

It was currently afterschool and Leon had already reserved this whole training ground for his team to practice. Tina was also present even though she wouldn't be participating in any battle. But rather than focusing on practicing magic, she was more focused on observing her teammates so she could enchant their equipment to their likings. She had learned from Leon that having equipment that perfectly fits their fighting style and strength would be much better than having equipment that's merely powerful. So, she's now diligently observing and learning about her teammates so she could make their equipment fit them perfectly.

Crimson sakura petals flew about around Amaterasu as she activated her Divine Fox Art. She was currently fighting against Cecily, who has the greatest offensive power in the team. Although she only has an affinity to one element, her latent magic potential, talent, and mana were incredible, making her able to rain down numerous highly destructive fire spells continuously upon her opponents.

Meanwhile, Amaterasu was a highly adaptable and versatile magic-user due to her Divine Fox Art. She has a myriad of spells, starting from her offensive Divine Fox Strike Arts, supportive Divine Fox Blessings, and defensive Divine Fox Protection. In a team battle, she would be the perfect middle guard since she has numerous ranged offensive spells and powerful defensive and supportive spells. However, in an individual battle, she would slightly be at a disadvantage, especially against an opponent with high offensive power like Cecily. However, that would only be before she was taught by Leon.

Right after he saw her fighting style, Leon immediately pointed out this exact weakness of hers and helped her overcome it. He helped her increase her stamina, magic control, physical strength, and speed, and taught her battle strategies. Now, she could fight on par with even Cecily by utilizing her speed, accuracy with her spells, and her spell arsenal.

But even then, Cecily was also no easy opponent after she was taught by Leon. Cecily's main weakness was her lack of defensive spell and static movements since she needed to concentrate while chanting her spell. But now, she could run as she cast her spells with short incantations and learned various defensive spells such as <<Flame Wall>>. Furthermore, with how much improvement she made with her magic control, she could use small fireballs that required very little amount of mana and instant cast time to deflect her opponent's spell, making her a highly dangerous opponent.