My Joker System: From Low Mana Trash to the Mightiest Wizard!-Chapter 113: Incinerated

"Liora Whitemane annihilates her opponent with a decisive Licht Step to Piercing Light combo!!" Akari roared, her cutesy demeanor slowly fading despite her team’s desperate efforts to stop her.

The rising pop star was blowing her cover, but she was starting not to care anymore.

The idea that she hadn’t been hired but had volunteered herself for the position quickly became plausible.

Clearly, Akari Aster was a fan of wizardry battles, and quite an insanely passionate one at that.

Liora’s victory was dominant, and as much as people wanted to discuss her and reassess her chances of placing in the top sixteen despite being a freshman, the tournament had to continue.

In the next batch of battles, Donner Rakurai was the main star.

He also destroyed his opponent within seconds with a flashy and ferocious lightning spell combo.

The sheer destructiveness of his magic, combined with the inherent speed of lightning-elemental spells, allowed him to win the initial frontal clash, which quickly led to him overwhelming his opponent.

Felix Dargon, Vyse, and the other notable youngsters expected to end up in the top eight were also able to dispose of their opponents in a similar fashion.

This begged the question: did Liora Whitemane actually have what it took to fight toe to toe with them?

For one, her Seed of Luminosity gave her the third-highest elemental boost among all of them, offering a one-hundred percent increase in light magic.

She was definitely up there in terms of talent.

It was just that her demeanor and attitude toward battle were still being assessed, which was why she hadn’t yet been declared an official Magna Prospect.

It was becoming increasingly clear that she was not weak-hearted, though.

In fact, she was even a bit too vicious and efficient for her age, ending the battle as early as she could and not even giving her opponent a chance to fight back.

This was the attitude of a veteran who understood that it was kill or be killed out there.

Naturally, the higher-ups of the empire, gathered in the luxurious hall inside Gaora City Hall, were extremely pleased.

They showered Headmistress Isolde and Deputy Headmaster Korvus with generous praise, saying they had done well to make such a fine seed bud.

The old man began to appreciate even more that Liora had been able to return.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t even know what they had lost.

...Time passed and the tournament proceeded ever forth.

It was now the second-to-last batch, and the main stars this time were Ennya Kasai and her opponent, Mizu Zhu, a water element user considered the weakest among the sophomore five-star students of the Grand Magic Academy, seeded twenty-first.

This matchup could be considered spicy since water elemental spells had a slight advantage against those who wielded fire.

However, could Mizu stop flames boosted by five hundred percent?

The crowd was about to find out.

In a somewhat sour mood, Ennya ascended the main stage, already burning with flames even though the battle hadn’t started yet.

Her opponent, on the other hand, didn’t seem ready to fight.

Mizu appeared a bit stiff and nervous, despite desperately trying to hide it.

The slightly older student was lost, unsure how to feel.

She feared that she might be defeated by someone a year younger than herself.

What she didn’t realize was that no one actually expected her to win, and she was wasting an underdog moment to shine because of her fear of losing.

This was the kind of mentality the higher-ups of the empire usually checked in talented individuals before deciding whether they could become an official Magna Prospect.

Mizu was exactly what people like Korvus would call a "wasted talent."

Still, although she was setting herself up for defeat, the older five-star wasn’t planning to lose.

She drew out her water elemental wand while Ennya drew her fire elemental staff, their eyes locking as the timer ticked down to zero.

"Begin!"

Immediately after hearing the signal to begin, Mizu fired a swift yet fairly powerful Aqua Serpent at Ennya, hoping to use her spellcasting mastery to her advantage and defeat the younger wizard before she could cast even a single spell.

She planned to overwhelm Ennya with perfectly timed attacks, not giving her a chance to fire even a simple fireball.

After all, any spell boosted by five hundred percent might be too much for Mizu to handle, and she wasn’t willing to take that risk.

Aqua Serpents, Hydro Orbs, Water Tornadoes—the older student kept her spells simple, forcing Ennya to keep dodging.

"Magna Prospect Ennya Kasai is being pushed back! She can’t fire a single spell! Is this the difference a year of training makes?!" exclaimed co-commentator Jhow as the battle between a Magna Prospect and a sophomore five-star student unfolded.

Rising pop star Akari wasn’t impressed, though.

She quickly added depth to the commentary with her analysis:

"But Competitor Mizu won’t be able to keep this up forever. She had to take a risk here, or her mana would simply run out, and Competitor Ennya would defeat her easily. I don’t see the current situation as Competitor Mizu winning. Rather, she’s barely surviving. She can’t keep relying on this conservative style. In my opinion, it’s already starting to backfire."

Indeed, Ennya was slowly becoming accustomed to the three repetitive spells Mizu kept firing, and it was getting easier and easier for her to dodge them just by running around.

Mizu noticed this too, which was why she gritted her teeth and finally made a bold decision.

She summoned a water reflection, then another, until all three of them began casting her ultimate spell.

This gave the smaller girl time to finally fire a spell of her own.

Having repeatedly observed Mizu’s casting motions for the three conservative water spells, Ennya immediately recognized that her opponent was preparing something stronger—so she decided to do the same. And that was bad news for Mizu.

Mizu had been banking on the idea that Ennya, out of frustration, would rush to cast a quick spell, likely just a fireball.

Perhaps with her strongest spell, she could win in a head-on battle.

Unfortunately for the older student wizard, she doomed herself to defeat by focusing too much on the strength of Ennya’s spells.

Instead of adapting like her element, she stayed locked into a single plan.

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From Mizu’s magic circle, a five-meter-tall roaring wave surged forward, followed by two three-meter-tall waves from her water reflections. All three waves raged as they crashed toward Ennya.

But before they could reach the red-haired midget, flames burst from her body. She burned brightly, almost like the sun, the fire expanding outward in every direction.

To the crowd’s horror, Ennya’s flames soon engulfed the entire main stage.

There was nowhere to hide.

The only drawback was the spell’s slightly long casting time.

As the flames weakened and faded, the unconscious body of Mizu was revealed, lying on the reinforced ceramic floor of the main stage.

The crowd finally witnessed the devastating might of Magna Prospect Ennya Kasai’s all-consuming flames, and it became clear why she was hailed as the most talented youngster in the history of the Imperium.

Her master, the former Magna Freyra Solbrand, wore a smug look of pride.

This was her student.

Ennya looked Hal’s way and flashed a peace sign, clearly enjoying his dumbfounded reaction as she descended from the stage.

’How the hell do you even beat that?!’

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