Night Time/ Red Team's Room

"For the next week, we will share mealtimes and nighttimes as I drill the expectations of a witch into you. First, as per the rules, we will retire at exactly 9 o'clock! Then we wake at four! Keep in mind that a filthy room houses a filthy soul. Always keep it clean." Professor Finnelan orders the students as she is standing in the middle of the room. Sucy sweeping of the dusts and the cobwebs on the ceiling and Lotte placing down books and a lantern on the study table.

"Why did I get roped in?" Professor Ursula asked.

"Because you answered back at the staff members and covering Akko's trails with me. I guess that is the reason for you and me to get roped in." Mahiko said as he brings a pail of water as his black staff morphs into a mop and starts moping at the floor, while ignoring Professor Ursula's light glare at him.

"Professor Ursula, I didn't know that's how you thought about me. You really sounded like a teacher. Thank You!" Akko said to the blunette professor while giving her a smile, catching the professor by surprise.

"Excuse me Miss Kagari, but I am a teacher." Professor Ursula acted professionally for a second to Akko until Professor Finnelan's voice broke it.

"You two! Move your hands, not your mouths!" The strict professor order the two of them to get back to work.

"Hai/OK." Both girls said at the same time then looked at each other before giggling at their antics.

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Third Person POV

“I didn’t know that we have Defense Magic as a compulsory course.” Akko said as she sat on a bleacher next to Lotte, who is sitting next to Sucy on the third row of the bleachers. Amanda, Constanze and Jasminka are just a row in front of them while Diana, Hannah and Barbara are just on the same row as Akko’s team. Mahiko, who is still wearing his facial disguise, on the other hand, is at the very back of the bleacher, much to his dismay. Everyone is outside of the school building, wearing the indoor witch uniform while Professor Nelson, Professor Finnelan, Professor Ursula and Headmistress Holbrooke are standing in front of the students who are adjusting themselves on the bleachers.

“Me neither Akko, they must have established the course just recently by the school’s staff members.” Lotte replied back to Akko as they watched some students sitting on the bleachers. Once everyone sat down, Headmistress Holbrooke took their attention towards her.

“Greetings everyone!” Headmistress Holbrooke greeted them first before she started explaining the situation.

“As some of you may be wondering why you are all here, the staff of Luna Nova has decided to establish a new obligatory course subject for every student in Luna Nova.” She explained, with all of the students listening to her explanation, with some of them quietly groaning.

“This is an obligatory course subject for a reason, seeing as witches and wizards may face dangerous beings like cockatrice, dark orcs, dragons, mandrake, and definitely dark wizards and witches.” Professor Finnelan said, making some of the students shiver when they heard those creatures, especially dark wizards.

“In this new course, it will be a combination of physical education like broom flying with basic white magic albeit advanced and focusing on protecting yourself and disarming the opponent. It is a way to compensate for some of you who have little to no experience of magic outside of the school.” Professor Nelson continued, making the students lean in for more information.

“Before, there were a few students who excel in such magics that they are specially tutored by the professors themselves as an extracurricular activity. Now, everyone is getting an opportunity to train themselves to become stronger and learn how to defend themselves. The schedule for this subject may vary depending on the student’s capabilities, ranging 2 to 3 hours, twice a week.” Professor Nelson continues on what they will expect from the Magic Duel subject.

“Professor Finnelan, Professor Nelson or I will be handling this subject. There are some professors who may fill in the subject if we fail to supervise the class during our designated schedule.” Professor Ursula further explained, now all of the students are intrigued, some are whispering and talking to their teammates about the new obligatory course, especially Akko who is already being giddy about it.

“Did you hear that Lotte? I will now be able to use more spells. Maybe some spells will make me stronger and become closer to becoming as cool as Shiny Chariot.” Akko grinned as she imagines the things she can do and is practically daydreaming, while Lotte just awkwardly chuckles at her thoughts and Sucy just ignores it and listens to the professors.

“ATTENTION!!” Professor Finnelan shouted, gaining everyone’s attention after the explanation then continued once she got their attention.

“Remember this! This is a defense magic subject primarily focused on defending yourself against malevolent beings and opponents. Do not aimlessly and purposefully try to fight other students, creatures or No-mage people just because you know how to fight using magic. Never, by all means, never attempt to use such practices outside or inside of school unless it is necessary. NECESSARY!!! When we hear or see you performing such things without our consent or doing this out of your own agenda, The headmistress and I will personally see you out from the magic dueling program and have a talk with your guardians or your parents about the actions that you made! ARE WE CLEAR?!”

“YES PROFESSOR!!!” They all shouted, in reply to what Professor Finnelan explained to them.

“Good, if some of you have questions, you may ask them before we give a demonstration by one of the professors here.” Professor Finnelan said towards the students, some are thinking of a question they want to ask while the others remain silent, content with the explanation. One purplette student “Avery” raised her hand, which Professor Finnelan motions her to ask her question.

“May I ask, since the school forbade us from performing magic duels inside and outside of school out of personal agenda or asserting dominance. What about those who want to duel for the reason as practice or having extra free time and may want to compensate for the lack of practical performance and/or absence in Defense Magic?” Headmistress thinks for a bit until answering Avery’s question.

“If it were for academic purposes then I do not see why we should forbid such actions. I would put Professor Nelson, Professor Finnelan, Professor Ursula or other professors who handle the subject course to be the proctors in such cases. However, if something were to happen during the said “Practice Duel” with one of you having some intentions behind it, the punishment that Professor Finnelan explained will be carried out without prejudice. Does this answer your question Miss Avery?” She asks which Avery nods and returns to sit down on the bleachers.

“Professor? How advanced are we talking about in terms of the magic that we will be using during the in class subject and during defense magic practice?” Another student raised her hand, an auburn haired student with green eyes named “Rita”.

“Advanced enough for you to properly defend yourself against malevolent beings. If you wish to improve a particular magic spell that you find inadequate, you may request one of the teachers that are handling this subject for a private tutor before or after the subject class.” Professor Nelson answered for her, to which Rita nodded at her reply and sat back down.

“Professor? What would happen to us if we were to encounter malevolent beings during school years such as the examples that you said and we were forced to defend ourselves from it, do we receive special treatment from it?” A glasses-wearing student with a bluish gray, bob cut named “Gaëlle” asked the professors with her hand raised, making them think for a bit with the Headmistress answering her question.

“Hmmm, a very good question Miss Gaëlle. If it were to be such cases that you do run into malevolent beings outside of the school and you were forced to defend yourself with little to no option, then it is the school’s obligation to provide the said student who encountered such beings some form of special treatment. However, few scenarios must be accounted for; If you are the one who went to seek such malevolent beings and not the other way around or everything that happened that made you encounter an enemy is false. Then you are to proceed to the punishment that Professor Finnelan explained.”

“And there is also a reason why we have such strict rules regarding the Defense Magic course subject. Seeing as we are utilizing magic to defend and fight ourselves against such enemies, many people, either witches, wizards or no-mages may see us as incompetent or dangerous if we were to aimlessly or purposefully doing such acts without reason other than personal agenda. If such things happen, the school will face charges, you will face consequences and your guardians will be mingled into the situation because of the action that the person caused. Are we clear on the strict rules and regulations?” Professor Finnelan asked them, with all of the students nodding at the professor’s questions.

“Any more questions?” Professor Finnelan asked, waiting if there are any more students who will raise their hands to ask questions about the new subject. After waiting a minute, the professors concluded that there are no more questions. 

“Alright then, since there are no more questions asked. We will proceed to show you a demonstration of a basic defense magic spell that every witch must learn.” She said as she motions Professor Nelson to move forward as she returns to her position, in between Professor Ursula and Headmistress Holbrooke.

“Verteidigen” A white magic sphere formed around Professor Nelson. “This is a simple magic defense spell, it forms a barrier around the user that can protect against magical or physical attacks. The strength of this shield depends on the amount of magic you pour on this shield and the skill of the caster. All witches and wizards must know this spell.” She explains.

(Like this except the barrier is white)

“Students who are able to perform such a spell, you may stand up and line yourselves up on the left side of the field. Those who are still having trouble performing the magic spell, you may line yourselves up on the other side of the field. Clear?! Start moving!” Professor Nelson motions the students to start moving, most of the students are on the left side of the school field while only few students are on the right side, in which Akko is there.

“Now we know those who are having trouble with the spell and those who are able to perform the spell, Professor Nelson and I will be supervising those on the left side while Professor Ursula will be supervising those on the right side.” Professor Finnelan said as they now move to their designated groups.

Ursula’s POV

“Alright then students, may I see how you perform the defense spell that Professor Nelson demonstrated. I wish to see how well you performed the spell and what flaws are happening when you are performing it.” I instructed them the procedures, the students nod and start forming a horizontal line in front of me, a few meters away from each other to prevent accidents from happening.

“Repeat after me, Verteidigen.” I raised my wand in front of me at chest level as I performed the spell, the other students followed my lead.

“Verteidigen” They said as the barrier formed around the students. I noticed that some of their barriers are incomplete. Some only cover their upper torso, some only on the front, some are able to form a barrier but it is so weak the sphere is flickering. I looked at Akko as she only formed the barrier protecting her front.

“Alright then, you all have the necessary skills to perform the spell. However, I noticed that some of you lack the necessary amount of magic input into the spell. So, I will be teaching you all how to input the right amount of magic energy into the spell.” I said with the students nodding at her words. I looked over to Akko and I saw her being giddy about the subject. I smiled at everyone, mostly towards Akko, hoping that she would improve her magic.

Third Person POV

“Now, since everyone here is able to perform the spell. I am expecting that these shields will hold up pretty well against some attacks. For now, I would like to see how you all perform the magic spell. Understood?” Professor Nelson asked the students which they nod back at her. After the students formed a horizontal line with a considerable distance between them, they raised their wands at chest level and performed the magic spell. Mahiko simply raised his staff above his head as he performed the magic spell effortlessly.

“Hmmm. Alright then. All of you are able to perform them excellently, therefore I will be calling you all one by one and see how well your shields hold up on both physical and magical attack. The physical attack is a simple stone boulder as big as a Headmistress Holbrooke. The magical attack is a heat blast spell, Murowa in case some of you forgot, not too powerful enough to hurt the caster but not too weak to be simply underestimated. Are we clear?” Professor Nelson asked them as they nod back as they understood her perfectly. They all stood in their places, waiting for their names to be called.

One by one, they are being called as they perform the defense magic spell and the professor’s evaluating the strength of the shield. Professor Nelson is the one performing the physical attack as she levitates a big boulder as big as Headmistress Holbrooke and launches at the shield. Professor Finnelan is the one performing the magical attack as a strong Heat Blast spell hits their shield, the blast is big enough to be equivalent to a german stick grenade but not strong enough to hurt the caster itself. Some students held up their barriers against both attacks with no damages. However, some of them already have damages from either the physical, the magical attacks or from both.

“Lotte Jansson!” Professor Finnelan called her name, the said witch student came in front. Lotte then performed the magic defense spell. Both professors checked the barrier itself for a few seconds before they started attacking it with both spells. The physical attack made the shield dented with a few cracks but held on well, the heat blast made the shield crack bigger yet still hold on perfectly.

“Good job Ms. Jansson. Sucy Manbavaran!” Sucy is next to be called, the same routine as the previous students before her. The physical attack did little damage to the barrier with noticeable cracks. The magic attack made the crack a little bigger but the shield held on pretty well.

“Good job Ms. Manbavaran, two students left. Diana Cavendish!” Diana is the next one to perform. Her performance is as usual, excellent with no damages on her shield from both the physical and the magical attack.

“Excellent performance Ms. Cavendish. Last one, Mahiko Reinkarnasyon!” After the name, Mahiko walked in front of them as he raises his staff and the shield is casted around him. After a few seconds of examination, the physical attack did no damage on the shield, the same can be said from the magical attack.

“Excellent performance Mr. Reinkarnasyon, now everyone has their evaluations settled, you may return to the bleachers and wait for the other students after their session with Professor Ursula.” Professor Finnelan announced as Professor Nelson motions the students to return to the bleachers. After a few minutes of waiting, the students from Professor Ursula’s went back to the bleachers, Akko went back to her team with an exhausted look on her face.

“Uuuugghhhh… I had it hard on my part.” Akko said with a tired voice with Lotte wiping her forehead with a towel while chuckling awkwardly.

“It is hard on our part as well, Akko. All of those attacks are pretty hard to go by.” Lotte said while patting Akko’s shoulders while Sucy is drinking her mushroom juice for refreshment. Mahiko sat beside Sucy and gave Akko and Lotte some water.

“Congrats on the performance Mahiko, you did really well on the defense test.” Lotte congratulated him with the tall student scratching the back of his head.

“Thanks. You and Sucy did pretty well. Akko also did well on your defense magic.” He said to them as Akko gave a proud smile.

“With a few more practices, you all may pass the subject with flying colors. Unless you all decide you like to fight somebody senselessly that is.” He said, making Akko shake her head from his words.

“No way in hell I am going to lose my chance at becoming the greatest witch like Shiny Chariot because of something like this. Nuh uh. I am going to be a good student like I should be.” Akko said, confident that she will not lose this chance and will not fail this subject.

“100 bucks says that Akko will be out of the course in 2 weeks.” Sucy said towards the other team friend of theirs while having her hand stretch out as if asking for money. Akko is about to berate Sucy for thinking so low of her while Lotte and Mahiko try to calm the two of them down.

“ATTENTION!!!” Professor Finnelan shouted again, gaining everyone’s attention.

“After the evaluation from the two professors, some of you have improved and some of you have troubles. So the next two days, this subject will be focused on improving your defense spell until it can withstand physical and magical attacks. If nothing changes from your previous results, you will be deducted points and will have make-up classes with one of the professors during your free time. Am I clear?” She asks them, with all of them agreeing with what Professor Finnelan said.

“In the first 3 months, we will be focusing on different magic defense spells and improving them over time. After that, the second 3 months will be focusing on different magic offense spells with the same principle as the defense spells: learning and improving. Understood.” Professor Nelson asked them which they all replied that they understood her.

“Alright then. Since class is over, you may continue your-” Before Professor Nelson could dismiss the students, one hand was raised up from the group of people. The hand belonged to none other than Diana. Professor Finnelan looked at her for a bit and motions her to stand up and say her part.

“Professors. Since Headmistress Holbrooke is here as well, May I ask from the request from the four of you?” She asked them, with the professors looking at each other for a bit before looking back at Diana.

“What is your request Ms. Cavendish?” Headmistress Holbrooke asked her, which cleared her throat for a bit before telling her requests.

“May I request that I show a demonstration to the students on how a magic duel is performed between witches?” Diana requested, making all of them look at her. The professors looked at Diana with a questioning expression while the students whispered amongst themselves.

“May I ask why you would make such a request?” Professor Ursula asks her about her reasons.

“My reason for asking for a request for a magic duel demo is for the students to see how a witch performs such defense and offense spells against another witch, wizard or creature. This will give them a glimpse of how one should perform different defensive and offensive spells, how they should be used and what makes them different from other spells that have been taught before. This will also give them insight on what they should do to prevent these kinds of situations in order to minimize harm done to oneself and ending the fight as quickly as possible.” She gave her reason, which many students nod, wanting to see the famous Diana Cavendish perform different magic spells. The professors and the headmistress talk amongst themselves for a bit until Headmistress Holbrooke looks back at Diana.

“Very well Ms. Cavendish. We may allow you to perform a demonstration in front of the students. The proctor for this demonstration will be Professor Finnelan.” She said as Diana nodded at her before walking down the bleachers until she stood in the middle of the field, in front of the students and to the professors and the headmistress.

“You may choose from our professors right here for the demonstration Ms. Cavendish.” The headmistress motions her to pick which of the professors she will be performing with on the demo.

“I like to recommend Professor Ursula. She looks active on the magical parts, as well as physically active as well. Maybe Professor Finnelan for her experience and-"

“Headmistress, sorry for cutting you off, but I was wondering if I may choose amongst the students as my partner for this demonstration.” Diana asks her as she respectfully cuts her off from continuing.

“Oh? Well yes. Yes you may choose among the students who you wish to be your partner. Though I suggest you pick wisely on who you are going to choose as your partner.” Headmistress Holbrooke said as Diana nodded and looked through the different faces of the students sitting on the bleachers. Some of them are whispering to themselves about not wanting to be a part of the demo and wanting to be in it.

“Mahiko Reinkarnasyon.” Diana spoke, making the tall wizard look at her with confusion for a second until realizing what will be happening.

“Do you mind if you will be my dueling partner for this demonstration?” She asks him, a few seconds pass as Akko and the Green Team encourages him to participate, Lotte tries to calm both sides down while Sucy looks at Mahiko, curious on Mahiko’s capabilities.

After a minute of waiting and encouragement, Mahiko nodded as he stood up from his chair. He grabbed his staff and started walking down from the bleachers towards the field where Diana is standing, already feeling nervous inside from the whole event. Once he is standing on the field, in front of Diana, both Red Team and Green Team are cheering for Mahiko and the Blue Team and other students are cheering for Diana.

"Thank you for participating in the duel Mahiko." She said as he just nodded back at her.

"Pleasure is all mine Lady Diana." He bowed a little to show respect to her. "So…. In this duel, should we be supposed to go all out or hold back? We are just merely demonstrating how a magic duel is done." He asks her.

"A mix of both Mahiko, restrain as much as you can while showing off some of your skills to the students. If we are to show them what a duel looks like, we should show them how it looks from two witches/wizards who have exceptional skills." She said as Mahiko nodded. Professor Finnelan now stood a few meters away from the two.

"I am your proctor to this duel, each of you will perform every spell in your arsenal to counter and defeat the opposing side. The victor will be determined if one of you either yields or is unable to continue. I will interfere if I find the duel has gone too far, am I clear?" She asks the both of them, which they nod in agreement to her terms.

"Wands ready?!" Professor Finnelan said, her right hand raised up to the air as both of them took their stances. 

Diana assumes a fencing stance, her wand pointing at Mahiko, one foot forward and the other foot behind it, her other hand on her waist. Mahiko morphs his staff down to a 12 inch black wand of the same shape, the C-shape crown pointing at Diana, already glowing purple, his left hand is behind back, one foot forward and the other foot close behind the front foot.

"I have been wanting to know more about your skills in magic Mahiko, I hope you don't disappoint me with it."

"I can assure you Lady Diana, I will not disappoint."

"BEGIN!" With a downward movement of the professor's hand, the duel begins.

Mahiko is the first to attack, with a flick of his wand in a circular motion, he casts a barrage of flaming arrow spells non-verbally towards Diana as she manages to block them all off with her magic defense spell non-verbally as well. Mahiko continues to push Diana back with his rain of flaming arrow spells with Diana blocking them all.

(Mahiko is McGonagall and Diana is Snape)

"Murowa" Diana casted the heat blast spell, her turn to turn offensive as she fired spell after spell at Mahiko.

"Murowa" She performed the spell again, each heat blast spell equivalent to a german stick grenade. Diana kept firing this spell at him, trying to push back Mahiko as the wizard slowly walked forward to her. He dodges the spell by leaning left or right and blocking them effortlessly by a non-verbal defense magic. The spells that went past him hit the ground, causing big explosions and a few small craters forming from the spells.

Changing to another strategy, the tip of her wand glows orange as she swings both of her arms sideways, her other arm under her wand hand, creating a stream of black flames heading towards Mahiko’s direction. The flame itself is hot as some of the grass below the stream is already turning brown and burnt. The people watching it are also feeling the heat from the black flamethrower spell that Diana casted, even the caster herself is slightly sweating from the spell.

Mahiko immediately forms a barrier to protect himself from the flames with both of his hands raised in front of him. The attack hits the shield head on, seemingly passing around the shield as Diana keeps up the black flamethrower spell. Seeing the damage from the flamethrower spell, he puts his wand hand down while keeping his other hand in front of him and casted a wind blast spell to nullify the flamethrower spell from Diana.

After the exchange of pyrotechnic spells, both shot a non-verbal lightning spell at each other, with the two spells hitting the other causing a power struggle between the two. Diana's blue lighting beam clashing to Mahiko's purple lightning beam, the clash causing sparks of lighting to hit some parts of the field. Diana puts both hands on her wand, pushing forward slowly, trying to make Mahiko push backwards but fails to do so as the tall wizard is doing fine, one hand on the wand while his other hand stretches out next to his wand in case he wants more push onto the power struggle.

(Mahiko is Dumbledore and Diana is Voldemort)

The students are at awe at seeing how this duel is turning out, the brightness of the power struggle between two students causes some of them to block their eyes from it. The professors and the headmistress were impressed by the display of the magical skills that both Diana and Mahiko possessed. 

Diana tries pushing Mahiko back as she gets closer to him while the latter is still in his place as the power struggle continues. Mahiko sees a large slab of stone just from a considerable distance on Diana’s right side while still keeping the lighting clash. Wanting to end the struggle, he flings the clash up in the air, throwing Diana off guard as he throws the slab of stone at Diana with his other hand via telekinesis.

(Mahiko is Percival and Diana is Tina)

Diana manages to duck down and dodge from the stone that threw to her, the professors also dodged the stone slab, which broke in contact with the field behind them. 

“Bedøve” Diana shot a stunning spell at him, wanting to end the duel quickly. She fired spell after spell at him while running at different places to catch him off guard. Mahiko dodges some of them and blocks them with the defense spell, he keeps the routine up until he predicts where Diana will be landing, thus firing a lightning shock spell in that direction. 

Diana stops casting spells, halts herself from the lightning’s pathway and jumps away from the direction only for another lightning shock spell to be asted towards her, forcing Diana to block the spell. With a forward swing of his left hand, he sends a shockwave spell at Diana, which succeeded in making her fling backwards as the ground moves like a wave-like pattern when it attacked her.

“You are good at this Mahiko.” Diana said with a small smile as she stood up but staggered a little while returning in her fencing stance. Mahiko moved a little as they both circled each other, calculating and waiting for one of them to strike.

“Thank you Lady Diana, you are excellent at this.” He replied back at her, while giving her a small smile despite being covered by the mask. “You must have done this before, seeing as you are trying to move at different places to catch me off guard while trying to end this fight as quickly as possible.”

“Indeed I have Mahiko. Good observation there, I suggest you keep your focus on the fight.” With a riposte of her wand, she pushes him back via telekinesis until he is submerged from the pond behind him. Spinning her wand, the water swirls around Mahiko until she ensnares him in a water bubble cage, wanting to make him pass out inside of the water cage, her other hand is stretched out next to her wand, supporting it further.

Being inside the water bubble cage for 15 seconds, Mahiko spread his arms out until he clapped, causing the entire water bubble to explode and made him land on the pond again, free from the cage and being soaking wet. Droplets of water landed on the field, some hitting Diana’s eyes, making her dazed for a bit as she rubbed them. Taking advantage of Diana’s dazed state, he stretched his left hand out as a large tendril of water sprouted out from the pond, heading towards Diana’s direction, the tendril hitting her square on the stomach, making her back hit the floor and making her soaking wet. Mahiko teleports towards her via teleportation magic, pinning her down by holding her collar on the ground and his wand pointed at her.

“Do you yield, Lady Diana?” He asks while Diana is still pinned on the ground.

“............ I yield.” Diana said, with her arms raised while letting her wand hit the floor. The students are in shock that Diana Cavendish, the star student of Luna Nova, will yield that easily against someone like him. The professors and the headmistress are surprised by the sudden surrender.

“Very well. Miss Cavendish has been eliminated. The victor goes to-”

“No.” Mahiko cuts her off as he stands up and unpins Diana from the ground.

“What do you mean?” Professor Finnelan asked as she was about to announce Mahiko as the victor of the duel. Mahiko claps his hands together as the wand glows purple, until the entire scenery changes to black and white. The people were alerted by the sudden change, everything pieced out like a slide puzzle until the scene changes back but this time Diana is no longer on the ground.

“Nice Illusions Lady Diana, it fooled everyone, except for me since I am a very observant person.” He jumped back from his previous position as he looked at Diana, who was slightly sweating.

“Good thing Mahiko, but I am far from over.” She said as swings her wand, using Object Control Magic, every debris that lay on the ground from the broken stone slabs, broken branches and others started forming a mini tornado. The mini tornado of debris slowly grows larger until it grows as big as the Jennifer Memorial Tree. Seeing the incoming attack growing larger and larger, he swings both of his hands upwards, making a blast of magical energy at the debris tornado, breaking it in an instant.

Diana, however, is not done yet as she made the other fallen debris from the previous one float. She moves her wand arm in a circular motion with the debris following the pattern until a spear made out of the broken debris is formed as she throws the spear towards Mahiko.

The wizard quickly shot multiple non-verbal flaming arrow spells at the incoming debris spear, successfully breaking it into pieces and causing a smoke screen that covers his visions.

“Nebulus” Diana casted a spell, the smoke screen from before expanded further, clouding the professors, headmistress and the students field of vision.

The duel continues on as the students and the school staff can only see sparks flying, lightning bolts being shot, flame spells being casted to different directions.

This continued until Mahiko decided to let everyone see what was happening as he moved both hands in a circular pattern and thrust his hands out.

“Ventus” He muttered as the smokescreen dissipated, letting everyone see what was happening as opposed to what happened earlier. Before he could mutter another spell, Diana beat him to it.

“Come, my indestructible guardians! In the name of Cavendish! Brandish your swords and strike down those of evil heart! Fineltina la Serana!” Different swords of shapes and sizes appeared above her head, all of them coated with magic glowing yellow.

“I hope that you survive this Mahiko, this might be my last attack.” She said while her forehead is sweating as she still has her attack in a halt.

“It might be so.” Mahiko morphs the wand back into a staff, holds it with both hands and places it infront of him, guarding himself for the incoming attack from Diana. The students are already anticipating the attack, seeing who will be the last person to yield and the person who will be declared as the victor of this Magic Duel Demo.

“ENOUGH!!!” Professor Finnelan announced while having her arm raised up. “The demo has gone too far as seen from the damage that the spells they casted.” She said while the fields show some damages, craters, burnt leaves, broken debris, wet spots from the ruined pond.

“And for that reason, I will declare the match as a draw!” She announced, the audience clapped their hands from the performance, but the others whined that they didn’t see who won from the demo.

“Terrific performance, Lady Diana.” He said as he leaned onto his staff as Diana smiled and dissipated the spell above her head. She wipes the sweat that formed from her forehead.

“You too as well Mahiko, I didn’t expect that you are this good as well.” Diana walked to him and they both shook hands. “Thank you again for being my partner today on this demo Mahiko.”

“You are welcome, Lady Diana. I do hope that we can spar like this in the near future, no holding back.” He said as they both bowed to each other out of respect and walked back to the bleachers to their teams. Diana sat back with her team, already praising her for the good duel. Mahiko sat back to his former seat with Akko already having stars on her eyes, asking him if he could teach her some of the spells that he casted.

“ATTENTION!” Professor Finnelan shouted as the students quieted down and turned their focus back at the professor. “Alright then, after the excellent demonstration from Ms. Cavendish and Mr. Reinkarnasyon, I expect you all to be as skilled as them by the end of the school year. With everyone done with their tasks, you may continue on your next subject. Clear?” She asks while the other professors and the headmistress behind her are still present.

“HAI!!” They shouted back as the bell rings and everyone starts walking down the bleachers and back to their class. Diana, Hannah and Barbara walk towards their classes with the two continue praising Diana while Akko, Lotte, Sucy, Mahiko, Amanda, Constanze and Jasminka walk towards their classes in the other direction. The professors and the headmistress stayed with Professor Ursula using a revitalization spell to make some of the burnt and destroyed plants to heal them back to their healthy selves. The employees starts cleaning some of the messes that the two students did on their demonstration.

Ursula’s POV

“As expected from Diana, her skills are excellent in both defense and offense magic.” Headmistress said as Finnelan, Nelson and I were walking back to the headmistress office for another discussion about the new Defense Magic subject. The two professors and I are holding our evaluation sheets about the students recent performance about the recent magic defense spell performance.

“Indeed, some students do have the potential to improve, it might take a few years for them to come close to the magical skills of Diana. Truly a prodigy.” Professor Nelson praised while they all entered the Headmistress’ office with Headmistress Holbrooke sat at her chair behind the desk.

“Mahiko Reinkarnasyon, Luna Nova’s male student. He manages to execute those spells excellently and with such ease. Even performing spells non-verbally and wandlessly, such a degree of magical skills is truly rare inside of Luna Nova vicinity.” Professor Finnelan said, now praising Mahiko.

“From the demonstration of both Ms. Cavendish and Mr. Reinkarnasyon, It is safe to say that these two will definitely give an inspiration to the other students during the Defense Magic course.”

“Indeed, though I wish to ask Professor Ursula about it.” Holbrooke said, making all three of them turn their attention to me, making me already nervous. “Since you are the one who recommended him here and requested us to teach him here. How do you evaluate his overall performance during the demo?” I got all nervous from the fact that they asked me about it.

“W-W-W-Well, Mr. Reinkarnasyon has great skills like Diana, able to execute spells both wandlessly and non-verbally as Professor Finnelan evaluated. E-E-Even with only using minimal spells unlike Ms. Cavendish, however both of them perform such advanced magic spells at such an early school year. Both are thinking strategically on how they should knock out their opponents as quickly as possible, performing sleeping and stunning spells, blinding the opponents perception, as well as using powerful spells as last resorts. That is all I can evaluate about them today.” I explained to them which they nod at my report.

“Alright then. Since we have our results and evaluations on our student’s performance on our new Defense Magic Subject, we can expect great things on our students' progress. Let us hope that it all goes well.” Headmistress Holbrooke said as the other professors and I nod at her as we started going over some documents and such to this new subject course.

‘I do hope that this doesn’t make him feel uncomfortable when he becomes the center of attention in Defense Magic Subject.’ I thought about Mahiko’s well-being as I focused back on the discussion with Professor Finnelan, Professor Nelson and Headmistress Holbrooke.

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Original Publish: April 13, 2022