Chapter 221 Ivy Song [2] - Mana Domain

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-VIP dormitory-

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The silence was prevalent within the sealed room.

The lights were dimmed, yet the two individuals within had no problem seeing through the minute darkness.

At a glance, they would both seem like normal students, yet, to the eyes of the knowledgeable, this scene was terrifying.

These two were so powerful that they would flatten the entire academy in the wake of their battle...

Yet, at the moment, all they did was sit a few meters from one another while staring into each other's eyes with a certain glint in their eyes.

The atmosphere within the room was so thick a normal person would doubt whether or not they would even have to ability to breathe within such a room.

"How did you know I was going to come here?" Silas asked, his eyes blazing like two emerald suns.

"I'm surprised you brought me to your room on our first date." Completely ignoring him, Ivy chuckled to herself.

"Again, not a date."

"It is to me..."

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Suddenly, the tension in the room thickened several folds as Ivy dropped the happy facade... If one could even call it that.

Her expression turned weirdly serious. Without a second thought, Silas surrounded her with dozens of spells. As if having been engraved into the air itself, Runes shone with brilliance.

A mirage of colors illuminated the room as each element made its presence known.

Yet, the words that came out of Ivy's mouth were words that he would have never expected to hear in a million years.

"Why does Gilea refer to you as...

The destroyer of worlds?"

Silas felt his stomach drop, and in the next instant, he disappeared from where he was standing.

This time, even Ivy's eyes widened. The next second, she felt herself slam into a wall as an axe's cold blade was placed onto her throat.

She could see her own face reflected on the metallic plate, but she quickly moved her eyes once more to look into Silas'.

'I couldn't see him...' She thought with narrowing eyes. She had thought that she was, at the very least, significantly stronger than Silas, but now...

Now she couldn't be sure.

Without skipping a beat, the pink tulip on their head shone with brilliance as a sudden surge of power reverberated through her body.

Suddenly her foot turned into a blur, while her hand turned into a fist that slammed against the axe's blade next to her neck.

Having suddenly felt the surge of power coming off Ivy, Silas knitted his brows. He spun to the side, barely averting the incredibly quick foot that would have launched him through every room in the building before shooting him into the sky.

In that very instant, his axe became a blur as it tore through the air clockwise, flying 360 degrees and being launched toward Ivy's neck.

Suddenly, Silas saw her hand before his face.

'Shit!' Knowing exactly what would happen, Silas sent as much mana to his mystic eyes as possible.

The scenery before him quickly changed. If before, he could see the flow of mana in all its forms and life forces in his current state; it felt like he could see...

Everything.

Suddenly, a feeling of electricity coursed through his very being, and in the next instance, he disappeared.

Ivy's arm, which had turned into several green vine-like tendrils and roots, shot toward where Silas was previously, but the moment he disappeared, the roots and vines hit nothing but air.

Ivy's eyes widened, but she didn't have enough time to understand what just happened since it felt like a boulder had slammed into the side of her torso, almost punching the air out of her lungs.

Almost...

After all, she didn't have lungs.

The green tendrils moved through the air like whips and spears, yet despite their speed, Silas avoided them as if he already knew their exact path.

However, the same could not be said for the rest of the furniture.

His entire home looked like a hurricane had hit it. Everything in the room was destroyed, from the table to the kitchen counter.

As Silas was doing the attacks, he ruminated on something.

'She's holding back...' Silas thought while looking around him

To him, it was like time had frozen...

Yet, simultaneously, he could see almost a hundred different futures before him.

He could see every possible outcome... Well, almost all possible outcomes with the information on him.

This wasn't future sight. It was the personification of his mind. Every instance. Every moment. Every fiber of a second that passed was a moment where Silas' mind was working to its full potential. The only thing his eyes were doing was allowing him to visualize the process of his thoughts more suitably.

One would think that was enough, but his eyes went even further than that.

Even minuscule feature of mana and life force energy was visible to his eyes.

Every fiber and every cell was visible to his eyes.

He could tell the woman's intentions before she could even understand what she was trying to do.

In these moments, it was as if he knew her better than herself.

'How interesting... I've never seen anyone use nature magic like this... To be fair, I've never seen anyone use nature magic before, but that is beside the point.' Silas snickered to himself. He had too much time on his hands. He had an eternity to understand what he should do next.

'Or, at least that would have been the case if my body was nearly as quick and my mind... I'm moving so slowly. And this is even while using lightning fusion. May god have mercy on me if I ever choose to use this without lightning fusion.' Silas sighed, but he didn't take the prayer too seriously.

It was something he always said back on Earth despite not really being a believer.

Looking around, Silas saw his spells still active and filled with mana. He could have released the spells with a thought, but he held himself back.

Just like the woman before him, he did not want to level the building. Hell, releasing all of those spells at the same time would have been the same as destroying a vast portion of the academy.

'Though, I wonder if those runes can take an all-out attack from me. I can pass through them quite easily due to not being a sapphire core, and even if I was, I could just ask my armor to hide my presence...' Silas thought before continuing.

'However, these are ancient runes we're talking about. These have been upgraded upon hundreds of times throughout the centuries, and were most likely formed by the four original headmasters of the academy. If they were ruby cores like I've theorized, then there's now way these runes would even falter in front of my attacks.' Silas inwardly thought while turning his body to the right to dodge an incoming attack.

'I should probably take this away from here. If this gets significantly bad, I might have to wear my armor.' Silas mused before shooting forward.

Ivy was about to react, but the attack was too quick.

Lightning fusion was a form of fusion that gave him significant strength, speed, and reflexes.

It was the product of the fusion between air and fire. He got his inspiration for the technique from the lightning boars that he fought back in Uladia.

After having conducted several experiments on them and having understood how they created their electricity, not only did Silas understand how to create lightning spells, but he also understood the main functions behind fixing the current problem he was having.

Despite being much faster than anyone on his level, that was where his advantages ended when it came to close-quarters combat.

Unlike Toki users, he could not use the variety of techniques that were available to them, from turning invisible to creating a storm that had the ability to wipe out a town within an instant.

Hell, even Nymira had the ability to create clones of herself.

Lightning fusion allowed him to move with speed that was even faster than his wind fusion. The only thing that made his wind fusion different from his lightning fusion was the fact that it allowed him to move in complete silence.

The other advantage was that it had almost the same level of power as fire fusion, though fire fusion was still much better at creating explosive maneuvers.

If Silas wanted to drop onto a city like a meteor, he would most definitely use fire fusion.

Though, if he wanted to shoot across the skies for long distances, ricochet around a room with blurring speeds, or throw a hundred blurring attacks at a moment's notice, he would definitely use lightning fusion instead.

That was not all, either.

Lightning fusion made his reaction time much faster by speeding up the electrical pulse through his nerves. Of course, he couldn't control the speed of the chemical neurotransmitter coming out of his synapses, but he hoped his evolution blessing would do the rest for him... Or at least he hoped that it would improve over time.

Appearing beside Ivy, Silas' leg turned into a blur before slamming against her side.

In the next instant, she found herself in the sky, far above the barrier.

She could not help but widen her eyes at the speed she was moving at, but she quickly realized why.

After hitting her in the side, Silas grabbed her by the arm and shot through his wall and into the air. He unknowingly shot through several apartments on the way out, but he didn't care.

Now that he was outside, the runes within the house disappeared and reappeared above the two of them.

And with the swip of his hand, he released all the spells at the same time.

Simultaneously, Ivy, who had been holding back in order not to destroy the building they were in, finally flared out the full power of her core.

A pristine ocean-blue energy erupted from her body. Yet, the purity within the energy was almost at the same level as the headmaster's, who was already had a solid emerald core.

Throwing her hands to the side, she muttered two words.

"Mana Domain"