Chapter 103: Arya vs Eric
"This should be fun, hehehe!"
Saying so, Arya extended her hand and opened her palms on which a black flame got ignited and turned into a ball. Arya closed her fist and pitched the ball straight at Eric.
BOOM!
Moving faster than the speed of sound, the ball created a sonic boom loud enough to crush the eardrums of anyone below rank 3; thankfully Arya had made a barrier around, so the spectators-the students, were safe.
It didn't take even a second for the ball to reach Eric and with a loud explosion, a mushroom cloud arose from where Eric was standing.
Eric avoided it by casting an earthen barrier around, just in time to avoid the hit and vanished from his spot with wind elemental energy. Now standing at a corner, Eric cast on himself 'Fire God's Protection'-a King rank spell that burnt every elemental energy with contact except for fire.
From the surrounding magical fluctuations, Eric understood how dangerous the destruction energy ball was and quickly ran away while casting the King rank fire spell on himself.
Arya stood in her place and looked at Eric with a smile and waited for him to make a move. She was in no hurry for anything.
Eric wasn't stupid to stay in place and wait for Arya's attack. Getting covered in a red luster of Fire God's Protection, he dashed towards Arya while making a lightning sword midway and upon reaching her, he slashed his sword at her body.
Arya didn't bother to block him and let him slash at her but to Eric's surprise, he couldn't land a hit on her or reach her at all. Noticing this, he cast a King rank spell 'Nether Fire' which was a combination of Fire and Dark elemental energy and attacked Arya with it.
Arya was covered in reddish-black flames of Nether Fire all over her body. Noticing this, Eric smiled smugly and kept attacking her.
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"OH SHIT! RALPH DID YOU SEE THAT!?" Dennis shouted.
He was currently standing just a few meters away from the barrier and could clearly see his teacher fighting the vice principal. Lith and Ralph were beside him and there were many students and teachers watching this fight as well.
They all were standing on a flat mountain top at an altitude so high that there was no signs of the ground being visible and all one could see around them was a white mist, which were clouds and peaks of other mountains.
"Stop shouting into my ears." Ralph said furrowing his brows to Dennis. Lith nodded his head from the side and agreed with Ralph on this.
"Damn Ralph! Stop with your nagging! See there! There! Teacher! She seems to be in trouble! We should do something!" Dennis pointed at Arya who was covered in a reddish-black flames and was being attacked by Eric constantly with his lightning sword.
"Relax. Teacher won't be defeated so easily." Lith said to Dennis while looking at Arya.
Being taught by his sister who was a King rank and then his mother whom he considered Supreme rank, Lith had a slight understanding of Arya's prowess when she taught them things and thus confidently said such a statement to Dennis.
"If you say so, your highness." Dennis exhaled and shook his head.
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"Arya, I didn't offend you in any form but you just had to piss me off. This will be a good lesson, make sure to learn it well." Eric said while attacking Arya.
Snap!
Eric heard a snap and saw the Nether Fire covering Arya to vanish. Before he could even think about doing his next attack, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen and as he looked down at the source of discomfort, he saw a slender hand which was halfway into his abdomen.
Arya had an affinity to Space and Time and she could naturally will the elemental energy around to do what she wanted them to. She cast a spell 'Infinite Reach' in combination with 'Time Slow' and made the space around her infinitely vast and have the time in it slowed down to very high degree.
Such a thing was not possible to be done by anyone below an Emperor rank or anyone average of the same rank.
Due to such a combination of spells, Eric was not able to harm Arya even a bit as the Nether Fire never reached her, nor did any of his sword attacks.
"Yo! You were saying something about teaching me a lesson?" Arya said with a smile on her face.
Without waiting for Eric to reply, she removed her hand from his abdomen and threw a back kick at him and sent Eric flying.
BAM!
Eric hit the barrier and just as he was about to drink a healing potion, Arya teleported in front of him and threw punches on his face, shattering his teeth, breaking his nose and jaw and disfiguring his face as a whole.
"SHHTOP! SHHTAAPPP! IZSH AANGG DEH VISHE PRISHISHPAAA!" Eric shouted on top of his lungs with a mouth that had no teeth and was partially filled with his blood and traces of shattered teeth.
Arya stopped her actions and gazed down at Eric and said while looking him in the eye
"Tsk. Such a coward. I thought I could have a good fight after such a long time but you turned out to be all bark and no bite. Why did I even bother to remove my limiter?"
She then sighed and said with a bit of sadness, "Sigh, my luck is terrible it seems. My students weren't able to see even a bit of my power. There goes my chance to flex..." and wiped her non-existent tears.
After hearing these words, Eric was fuming in rage. He wanted to get up and kill Arya at this very moment but he found his whole body to be immobile and he was only able to move his head and neck.
After a few seconds of trying to move his body and not being able to, Eric felt despair. He thought about what wrong deeds he did to suffer like this. He felt that he never offended Arya and he was just talking to her as a person higher in hierarchy than herself.
He was the vice principal, the second highest position in the academy and the second highest person in hierarchy who even the principal didn't talk rudely to, and he also was an Emperor rank. Such things led to him having an arrogant attitude and he felt that he could boss around anyone below him.
With such an attitude, he talked to Arya as if she was his subordinate and this was his offense. There was also another misunderstanding-having a wrong perception of the principal.
It wasn't that the principal couldn't talk rudely to him, it was just that Emilia was an Angel who seldom talked rudely to anyone. Even though she may be annoyed by his arrogant attitude and him always trying hard to tarnish her name, her pure and kind hearted nature always made her talk politely to him and never in a rude way.
This made him feel that even the principal had to talk politely to him and thus boosted his arrogance, making him think that if an Emperor rank principal talked to him with respect, everyone below him should do the same. So what if Arya was an Emperor rank? She was still an instructor and thus he had no reasons to be respectful in front of her.
Though such was the case, he had no idea about it and his thinking was clouded by his arrogance. Even after being beaten black and blue, he still tried to play the vice principal card and all he thought right now was what offense did he commit to have such a reaction from an instructor and was very angry at Arya but couldn't do anything to her due to being immobile.
Looking at the disfigured face of Eric and how he was angrily looking at her, Arya clicked her tongue and said
"I don't want to see such a disgusting and cowardly person. You must be having a phylactery somewhere right? I am going to kill you now and when you resurrect, make sure that you learnt the lesson I taught today and know your place..."
Arya stepped on his face once again and bent down, brought herself to his eye level and said seriously
"...trash."
Fuuussshhh!
Arya pressed her leg with more force, used the destruction elemental energy around her foot and turned Eric into ashes and made him disappear.
She snapped her fingers and the barrier around her broke. She took out her black sunglasses from her ring and put them and walked towards her students. After reaching them, she smiled smugly and said proudly
"Isn't your teacher the coolest?"
The three looked at each other and nodded their heads. They said in unison
"Nah."
"No."
"Nope."
"HUH!?"