This wasn't too fancy, like the pure magic archery.

Just a single pure white arrow of light materialized on the bow, and a confident glow took over the hesitation in my eyes.

The arrow that had just materialized on my bow looked quite normal compared to the gathered energy to cast the spell but, this was far more than just some normal arrow and he could feel it.

This was a far greater result than what energy I had gathered, and he, the opponent standing before me, could feel it without much effort.

The power in this single arrow..

The brute force, the unnatural strength, and the presence of countless other spells, the precision in the aim that covered him from all sides, as well as the weak but powerful attacks.

He smiled while thinking about what exciting thing was to happen, but there were many thoughts and scenarios playing in my mind.

I knew this old man was going to attack first and just finish his turn with another attack, and that was the very reason Asta was in an energy gathering position right now.

The two magic circles on the head and ground were a defensive barrier and something special and as soon as this attack will be fired, the barrier was going to trigger and at that very moment; I know whatever attack would come will be blocked.

For some reason, he was taking me too seriously and during the time we were facing each other like this; he gave me no openings, not even the slightest.

p On the other hand, I knew he found many openings in my own defense but, he just stopped the imagination attacks the moment I dodged his first one.

And that one was quick.. like really quick and he just moved his eyes, but I knew what it was instinctively.N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l-B1n.

It was a ferocious attack, and if not for my body acting on reflexes and avoiding the attacks, he could easily kill me without even giving me a chance to think about what the hell had just happened.

But I avoided that one by hair's width. And then he had just stopped.

Life was very important for me to just gamble for some key to some library with some awesome books, not that I could stay there forever, anyway.

That freaking blocked place had some sort of defensive mechanism and by the normal standards, one person could only stay there for an hour per day.

And that was nothing for someone like me who loved to read for hours.

But, well, it was what it was.

I was ready now, the attack was done, and he was just standing there waiting to see what might happen.

And he didn't have to wait for that long as the eyes that were closed all this time opened, and I released the arrow... or arrows.

-Booooooom!

With a low sound explosion, the arrow was released and as soon as it left the bow, the white arrow of light vanished, and in the area around the headmaster, many arrows that seemed to come out of nowhere appeared and.. started bombarding him.

Arrows of water as sharp and fierce as a sea predator moving underwater with its jaws open, arrows of hot steam that had the temperature near enough to almost melt some metals, and the arrows of ice, sharp and one that could pierce and freeze anything in their path.

And that wasn't all.

Water had many properties and when used well, one can do many things with just some normal water spell.

And every single one of those countless-looking spells was aimed at places, not even someone as skilled as grandpa could have dodged.

And even he knew.. dodging when the entire arena was blocked with different spells and similar arrows that were set and ready to be released when he uses blink or something like that.

And these arrows, these spells, there was actually no way to cancel them like the normal magic.

They were special..

Different from a spell where there is a core to the spell that acts as a power source to that spell and distributes the supplied Mana by being the supply chamber of the spell, here, the whole arrow is just a spell.

(Magic arrows)

A spell with no actual form and just like any materialized Mana, these arrows were simple spells with nothing much complicated about them.

And aside from their gorgeous appearance, nothing was eye-catching about them.

But, I knew one thing as the one who made them.

They were powerful spells.

Even though one can't stop them with magic and they could be blocked or countered comparatively easily, the spells that numbered in hundreds and, on top of that, used as not just a straight attack but also as traps, they were crazy amazing.

And this whole thing, arrow release, wasn't meant to be used against the weak who didn't know what the hell was going on.

Or any strong that knew precisely what was going on and counter the thing comparatively easily.

This technique wasn't meant to be a PVP skill at all.

Originally this was a large-scale war weapon that was meant to take lives mercilessly and just from the fact that I have released three hundred of 'my' scripted spells for this one attack that cost me a red potion, one could tell just how powerful this attack was.

An attack meant to be used in large-scale fights, but.. I had shortened it as well as modified it for this person before me.

Now, it was a PVP special technique.

A war attack before an archmage would sound just right but, actually, it wasn't at all.

I knew this wasn't going to even leave a scar on the person before me, but I had to try something, if anything.

And this one seemed perfect as my first attack.

The second would be a throw of Asta, but then by that time, his spells should be over and that would be the time for my strongest attack that I can show at this moment.

I knew the situation and from all the scenarios that I thought and canceled in my mind; I knew he won't even use a single spell to defend against this barrage of arrows.

And what's more, his next two consecutive attacks would be one magical and.. one physical attack.

He was an archmage, an existence who stood atop every normal 'human' being, and his physical strength... it was no joke.

But I have to stop him, and those are probably the strongest attacks that would come my way.

Well, I still had no idea why I was fighting the strongest archmage in the name of a 'test'.

But it wasn't such a bad thing.

It was cool to see someone like him in action, and just like I thought, he didn't use any spells to block that countless hours of my scripted spells.

There hadn't even been two-three seconds after the fight started but, the arrows that were being shot at him at a speed almost unknown to normal eyes on the pavilions just disappeared as soon as they even touched his body.

Or... more like they never even touched him.

In those split seconds, he moved his hands and caught every spell with his bare hands, reminding me of my master once again.

She was just that strong to catch even my special (tier-3) spells, but he caught them just like she used to do, and what more, he just crushed the strong arrow spells with his bare hands.

And these all happened so fast even I lost track of how his hands were moving and just stayed in my position like that.

The red potion was great and the faster effect was even better in this kind of situation.

It took too much concentration in that attack, but it was ok now.

I was ready, and though it might have seemed a slow talk till now, this was all four seconds into that fight.

He just destroyed the spells and not only that, at the end when he felt like the arrows were down, he snapped his fingers.

-Snap!

And.. a shockwave so great that even the barrier he set up himself started wobbling, spread out throughout the surroundings.

The remaining spells coming at him were destroyed, the spells set up as traps were destroyed, and what's more, the ground almost split open from the vibration of the spell.

Thankfully, I reacted quickly and protected my ears with a greater Solnova spell, which naturally couldn't be counted as an 'attack' spell like this shockwave.

And like a devil.. he was smirking while looking at me after causing all this destruction.

'It's coming...'

I knew I wouldn't see this 'physical' attack, and that was precisely the reason I set Asta up before me.

The spells I used weren't actually useless but, they didn't actually do much either.

And as soon as the ear-piercing sound from the pure Mana-powered snap vanished, the headmaster... disappeared from his place.

And this time, even before I could react... he was almost before me, in a punching motion, with the same smirk plastered on his face.