Frilian: This Demon Isn't So Cold

Carlos and Frilian stood at a distance, surrounded by a [barrier magic] set up by Vlame. However, this was not used to defend against the demons, but to prevent the aftershocks of the battle from spreading too far.

"Who do you think will win, Master?" Vlame asked softly, looking at the two people inside the barrier who were observing each other.

"I can tell at a glance that it's my senior brother. Could it be that elf?" Sylvia had boundless confidence in Carlos and spoke up before Celia could answer.

"Carlos." Celia didn't seem to mind Sylvia's rudeness and answered quite calmly.

"Why?" Vlame had originally thought Carlos would win, but that was before he restricted his magic power and [flight magic]. Now, the outcome of this battle was once again uncertain for her.

Celia casually replied, "You'll find out soon enough."

Because the battle inside the barrier has already begun.

"High-speed movement magic! That's what made me lose!" Sylvia's eyes lit up as she watched their fight.

In the arena, Carlos flashed behind Frillian in an instant.

"So fast." Frillie's heart skipped a beat. She dared not be careless in the slightest and immediately waved her wand behind her. In the next instant, a beam of light flashed past Carlos.

Then, a trickle of blood slowly flowed down his face, caused by Frilian's magic.

Despite it being a long-awaited, fair and square head-on confrontation, the opponent's reaction speed still exceeded Carlos's expectations.

pity……

"Your magic is powerful, but it's too slow." Despite suffering some minor injuries, Carlos still felt like explaining during the battle. "It's just that we were too close just now, which gave you the opportunity to hit me."

"You'd better think about how to defeat me before your magic runs out."

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—" Before the words were finished, Frilian's attacks came one after another, while Carlos kept running away from the beams of light.

The next second, Frillie waved her wand behind her again.

"Are you going to use the same trick a second time?" she asked, puzzled, after casting the spell.

This time, Carlos, who perfectly dodged the attack, chuckled lightly: "Who knows?"

Frillie's vigilance rose. She knew that the other party must have a reason for doing this, but she just couldn't see it right now.

"I've heard about the magic you're using right now, but it must consume a lot of magic power, right? If this keeps up, I'll be the one to win."

She tried to distract Carlos with words, and the current situation hardly resembled a battle between mages.

"Is that so?" Carlos maintained his smile.

An attack identical to the magic the opponent had just used came from all directions towards Frilian. Frilian retaliated, and the sound of explosions caused by the collision of magic echoed in the air.

The sounds of "boom-boom" were incessant.

The dissipated magic wandered in the air, which had a certain impact on magic detection.

But this will only make novice mages flustered; it has little impact on a mage like her who has already ingrained the ability to detect magical power into her very being.

Frilian was aware that she was slightly lacking in this area, but she thought it wouldn't matter much in a 1v1 fight.

"Again?" Just then, Frilian frowned, because Carlos's figure in front of her disappeared again, while at the same time, the opponent's unique magical energy fluctuations came from behind her.

Despite the situation, she wouldn't let her guard down; a saturation attack spell arrived in an instant.

"I say, shouldn't we end this mutual probing now?" Frilian didn't want to drag the battle into a war of attrition, which would be at a great disadvantage for her, because she believed that her opponent definitely had much more experience in this area than she did.

Frillie turned around, but did not see the opponent she had expected.

"not good!"

She knew she had been tricked, even though she didn't know exactly what had happened.

"Bang--!"

Beside her, a huge amount of magic power that had been hidden suddenly erupted. Frilian didn't even have time to construct a defensive spell. She could only barely use magic power to protect her body before being blasted into the ground by an attack composed purely of magic power.

"Battles between mages aren't what you imagine. No matter how much magic power you have, or how skilled you are at manipulating magic, it's meaningless if you can't use it." Carlos smiled slightly as he stood there, having firmly pinned Frilian's hands, which were trying to climb out of the pit, behind her back. Her wand had also fallen to the distance due to the impact. "The battle is over, Frilian."

During the match, Carlos also discovered another weakness of Frilian, but he didn't have time to use it before the battle was over.

To avoid injuring his opponent, Carlos deliberately suppressed the release of his magic power. Otherwise, even if Frilian had been protected by magic power, she would have been directly destroyed by this move, leaving no corpse behind.

Having just escaped from the ground, Frilian's hands were restricted. She turned to look at Carlos, who was still binding her on the back, her eyes filled with coldness.

"Haven't you already lost?" Seeing this look, Carlos felt a sudden sense of doubt.

No! Something's wrong!

His heart skipped a beat, and a sense of crisis arose for no reason. The magic power that had been scattered instantly contracted, forming a barrier of dense magic power around his body.

"call out--!"

A powerful repulsive force erupted from Frilian's body, but it wasn't directed in all directions; it was aimed solely at Carlos!

His figure instantly rose from the ground to the sky, only stopping when he touched the edge of the barrier. This was not because Carlos used [Flight Magic], but because he had just been pushed here by the powerful repulsive force emanating from Frilian!

"That's not fair! My master has already won!" Sylvia, who was outside the barrier, was indignant about Frilian's actions.

"Quiet." Celia looked up at the sky, a smile playing on her lips.

She was very interested in the fighting style Carlos had just used, especially the magic used to deceive the magic detector.

Although she had already noticed the many limitations involved, the method was extremely well concealed, which was devastating to those magicians who blindly believed in the results of magical exploration, making it quite suitable for a first-time kill.

"Seriously, do we have to keep fighting?" Carlos sighed, the compressed magic around him slowly releasing. He briefly savored the magic that Frillian had just used... before his body plummeted downwards.

He still didn't use [flight magic], intending to use the reaction force of the magic to offset the impact of his fall.

It sounds difficult, but it's actually not easy to do at all. Carlos values ​​his life quite a bit, so if anything goes wrong, he's already planning to use [Flight Magic] to save his life.

Then, a powerful surge of magic struck the ground, and at the perfect moment, Carlos made a successful landing, narrowly avoiding a crash.

"I lost." Just as Carlos was about to reveal more magic, he suddenly heard Frilline say this. "If you hadn't held back just now, I would be dead."

If she lacked self-awareness, she wouldn't be alive today.

Frillie didn't use that time to pick up the wand that had fallen to the ground. She stood there and asked Carlos:

"What kind of magic was that just now?"

"【The magic of creating a false aura】, you were fooled by me because you trusted the results of magic detection too much."

"That's not what I'm asking. Although it surprised me too, I won't fall for it twice after seeing it once. What I really want to ask about is the attack that followed." Frillian recalled the attack. "It was too fast. There was no time to defend. If you hadn't held back, I'd probably be dead by now."

Even though she had just escaped death, her tone remained unchanged.

"You should have noticed by now, it's just a simple release of the magic power within the body."

Since Celie and the others already knew about this move, Carlos would use it as a common tactic, making it perfect for use against Frilian.

Of course, it's not compressed, otherwise it would be difficult to stop.

"Even if the power is only average, as long as the opponent has no time to defend, it can still kill the enemy in one blow."

"I knew it..." Frillian tried it in her hand, and a beam of pure magic was released instantly, carving a deep trench in the muddy ground. "It is indeed a pretty good attack method, it can hardly be called magic anymore."

Since there are no spells or techniques involved, the power depends entirely on the mage's control over their own magical energy.

"I'm also very curious about the last spell you used," Carlos reminded her with a smile. "Do you remember our agreement?"