“Solar Creation.”
The moment Magnus Solvar’s voice echoed across the battlefield, the artificial sun above the arena fully stabilized.
And the world changed.
Crimson-gold light swallowed the combat zone entirely while gravitational pressure crashed downward hard enough to shatter entire sections of the reinforced arena without direct contact.
Molten stone slowly floated upward toward the miniature star while heat beyond comprehension spread through the battlefield in expanding waves.
Several spectators instinctively collapsed to one knee despite the barriers.
Others simply stared upward in horror.
Because the thing hanging above the arena no longer looked like magic.
It looked alive.
Noctis immediately felt his body getting dragged toward the newborn sun.
Even his shadows twisted violently beneath the gravitational pull flooding the battlefield while the temperature kept climbing higher and higher every second.
And somehow…
He smiled.
His heart was beating faster now.
Not from fear alone.
Excitement.
Pure excitement.
But beneath it, for the first time since arriving in this world, another feeling mixed into his thoughts.
Fear.
Not fear of death.
Fear of being overwhelmed.
Interesting.
No.
Magnificent.
Meanwhile, Raizen reacted instantly.
Violet plasma exploded around the blond swordsman before compressing into a massive spherical barrier surrounding his body completely.
The plasma shield distorted violently beneath the pressure radiating from Solar Creation while unstable arcs of energy exploded continuously across its surface.
Even then…
The barrier still started melting.
Inside the battlefield, Noctis made a completely different choice.
Darkness swallowed his body before he vanished directly into Magnus Solvar’s shadow.
The gravitational pull weakened immediately.
Smart.
The crowd erupted instantly.
“He hid inside the shadow?!”
“What kind of adaptation is that?!”
“That’s insane!”
Meanwhile, Magnus laughed loudly at the center of the apocalypse he had created.
Crimson-gold mana continued erupting around his gigantic frame while the miniature sun above the battlefield slowly kept growing larger.
“HAHAHAHA!
COME ON THEN!”
The arena trembled harder.
Even the divine barriers surrounding the stadium started glowing under the pressure now while professors continuously reinforced the formations stabilizing the battlefield.
One of them stared upward with pale eyes.
“…That thing is still growing.”
Another answered quietly beside him.
“If Lord Aetherion wasn’t here… we’d already be dead.”
And honestly…
Nobody disagreed.
Inside the arena, Raizen slowly lowered his plasma shield while violet energy crackled violently around both swords.
Sweat already ran down portions of his face from the overwhelming heat filling the battlefield, but despite that…
He was smiling too.
Finally.
An opponent worthy of him.
Then Raizen moved.
Violet plasma erupted beneath his feet while the blond swordsman accelerated across the battlefield so quickly that most spectators completely lost sight of him.
Ionized air exploded behind his movements while molten scars carved themselves through the arena floor from speed alone.
The plasma user appeared directly beneath the artificial sun.
And attacked.
Both plasma swords merged into a single gigantic energy blade before Raizen unleashed an enormous upward slash directly into Solar Creation itself.
The collision shook the entire stadium.
Violet plasma exploded across the surface of the miniature sun while gravitational distortions spread violently through the battlefield.
For the first time since the attack appeared…
The artificial star destabilized slightly.
The crowd exploded.
“He damaged it?!”
“That thing can be damaged?!”
Meanwhile, darkness erupted behind Magnus again.
Noctis emerged silently from the warrior’s shadow with his scythe already descending toward the giant’s back.
Abyssal mana flooded the weapon completely while shadows spread outward across the battlefield like living creatures.
Magnus reacted instantly.
The solar hammer collided against the scythe hard enough to split the arena floor beneath them.
The impact detonated across the battlefield while crimson-gold flames and darkness exploded outward simultaneously.
Noctis slid backward several meters afterward, his boots carving trenches through molten stone while Magnus barely moved at all.
Monster.
No.
Titan.
And above them…
Solar Creation continued burning.
The collision between Magnus Solvar and Noctis had barely ended when the battlefield exploded once again.
Solar mana flooded the arena in violent waves while the artificial sun hanging above them continued growing slowly, its gravitational pull becoming heavier every second.
Entire sections of molten stone rose from the shattered battlefield toward the burning sphere while the temperature inside the arena climbed to completely absurd levels.
And yet…
All three S Ranks were smiling.
Raizen moved first again. Enjoying the story? Read on at g.com.
Violet plasma erupted around the blond swordsman before he accelerated across the battlefield at impossible speed.
This time, however, he moved even faster than before.
Several spectators completely lost sight of him while ionized shockwaves exploded throughout the arena from movement alone.
Then dozens of plasma afterimages appeared simultaneously around Magnus.
Fast.
Too fast.
Even several professors visibly failed to follow the attack pattern properly.
Raizen’s swords descended from every direction at once, each slash carrying enough thermal energy to carve through reinforced magical steel like paper.
Plasma explosions flooded the battlefield continuously while molten scars spread across Magnus’s solar armor faster and faster every second.
The giant warrior laughed loudly through the assault.
“HAHAHAHA!
THAT’S MORE LIKE IT!”
Solar fire exploded outward from his body immediately afterward.
The battlefield detonated.
Crimson-gold flames swallowed entire sections of the arena while the pressure generated by Magnus’s mana alone violently disrupted several of Raizen’s plasma afterimages.
The blond noble narrowly escaped getting caught inside the explosion by accelerating sideways through another burst of violet light.
At the same moment, darkness erupted beneath Magnus’s feet.
Noctis attacked again.
Shadow tendrils exploded upward from the battlefield before abyssal slashes tore toward Magnus from multiple blind spots simultaneously.
A shadow clone materialized beside the solar warrior without warning while both versions of Noctis launched synchronized strikes together.
The reactions from the crowd became increasingly panicked now.
“How are they still getting stronger?!”
“This can’t be first-year level!”
“The barriers are cracking again!”
And they were right.
Several divine barriers surrounding the arena had started trembling violently beneath the pressure generated by the fight.
Golden cracks spread slowly across portions of the protective formations while professors continuously poured mana into the stabilizing spells surrounding the stadium.
One of them stared toward the battlefield with visible disbelief.
“…What exactly are we supposed to teach them?”
Another answered quietly.
“We don’t.”
Meanwhile, inside the arena, Magnus finally stopped laughing.
Not because he was angry.
Because he was focused now.
The giant warrior slammed one hand against the arena floor while solar mana erupted outward in violent waves.
Instantly, enormous pillars of crimson-gold fire exploded upward throughout the battlefield, forcing both Raizen and Noctis backward simultaneously.
Then Magnus moved.
And for the first time since the fight began…
The massive warrior accelerated.
The crowd froze.
Despite his size, Magnus crossed the battlefield almost instantly before swinging his colossal hammer directly toward Noctis.
Solar fire spiraled around the weapon while the pressure generated by the attack alone shattered the arena floor beneath its path.
Noctis barely blocked in time.
The collision nearly tore his arms apart.
Darkness exploded around him while his body got launched violently through the battlefield, crashing through multiple molten structures before finally stabilizing himself with his scythe dragged across the ground.
Pain.
Real pain.
And somehow…
Noctis smiled wider.
Interesting.
No.
Perfect.
At the opposite side of the battlefield, Raizen suddenly raised both plasma swords outward while violet energy started condensing violently around the blades.
The surrounding temperature instantly spiked higher as unstable plasma currents flooded the arena.
Even Magnus noticed immediately.
“Oh?”
Raizen’s smile sharpened afterward.
“Try surviving this.”
Violet light swallowed the battlefield.
“Plasma Ray.”
A colossal beam of compressed plasma erupted forward instantly, crossing the arena like divine judgment itself.
The attack completely consumed everything in its path while the battlefield beneath it vaporized so violently that even the reinforced magical arena disappeared beneath molten destruction.
The beam slammed directly into Magnus.
And the entire stadium shook.
Several barriers shattered simultaneously.
Even Aetherion’s divine protections trembled beneath the impact.
For a brief moment, the entire arena disappeared beneath overwhelming violet light.
Then Solar Creation reacted.
The miniature sun above the battlefield pulsed violently before gravitational pressure exploded outward across the arena again.
The plasma beam immediately destabilized while enormous gravitational distortions spread through the battlefield, twisting the attack itself apart.
And then Noctis’s shadow clone disappeared.
Not destroyed by Magnus.
Not cut apart.
Simply crushed out of existence by the artificial sun’s gravitational field.
For the first time since the battle began, Noctis genuinely felt the difference in scale between them and ordinary people.
This wasn’t a tournament anymore.
This was a war between disasters.
The entire arena had disappeared beneath chaos.
Solar fire flooded the battlefield in violent waves while unstable plasma storms exploded continuously across the combat zone.
Darkness spread through the shattered arena like an abyss swallowing reality itself.
The reinforced floor no longer existed anymore.
Entire sections of the battlefield floated through the air beneath the gravitational pull generated by Solar Creation while molten debris orbited the miniature sun hanging above the arena like dying satellites trapped around a collapsing star. Read the latest chapters at g.com.
And somehow…
The three S Ranks were still fighting inside that apocalypse.
Raizen burst through the collapsing plasma beam first.
Violet energy exploded around the blond noble while both plasma swords spun violently around his body, ionized arcs crackling across the battlefield with every movement.
His speed had reached a level where most spectators could no longer even perceive his actual body anymore.
They only saw flashes of violet light tearing through the destruction faster and faster every second.
Then Magnus blocked.
The collision between solar mana and plasma detonated like a supernova.
A shockwave erupted across the battlefield hard enough to crack even Aetherion’s divine barriers while molten stone vaporized instantly beneath the impact.
The heat flooding the arena became almost unbearable now, forcing many spectators to shield their eyes despite the magical protections surrounding them.
Meanwhile, darkness exploded upward behind Magnus once more.
Noctis attacked again.
The shadows beneath the battlefield suddenly expanded across the entire arena while abyssal tendrils erupted from every direction simultaneously.
Dozens of black slashes carved through the battlefield alongside Noctis himself, his movements becoming harder and harder to follow as he continuously shifted between shadows across the combat zone.
Magnus laughed loudly through the destruction.
“YES!”
Solar fire erupted around him again while his hammer swung horizontally through the battlefield with enough force to distort the air itself.
Entire sections of darkness exploded apart beneath the attack while several shadow constructs collapsed instantly under the overwhelming heat generated by Solar Creation.
Then the miniature sun pulsed again.
Gravity exploded outward.
The battlefield itself bent beneath the pressure.
Noctis instantly felt his movements slowing while even Raizen’s plasma acceleration faltered briefly beneath the crushing gravitational force flooding the arena.
High above them, Solar Creation had become even larger now.
The thing no longer resembled a spell.
It looked like a celestial body forcibly trapped inside the arena.
Even the spectators had stopped cheering entirely.
They were terrified now.
One professor stared upward toward the burning sun with pale eyes while sweat ran slowly down his face.
“…If Lord Aetherion wasn’t reinforcing reality itself…”
He failed to finish the sentence.
Because he didn’t need to.
Everyone already understood.
Inside the battlefield, Raizen suddenly accelerated again.
This time…
At a speed approaching light itself.
Violet plasma exploded around the swordsman while the arena distorted behind his movements, afterimages flooding the battlefield from every direction simultaneously.
Magnus’s instincts screamed immediately before dozens of plasma slashes carved across his solar armor in the span of a single second.
Blood exploded outward.
The crowd gasped.
For the first time during the battle…
Magnus had been seriously injured.
And instead of anger…
The giant warrior started laughing even harder.
“HAHAHAHA!
THAT’S IT!”
Solar mana erupted from his body violently enough to blow Raizen backward through the battlefield while the artificial sun above them started rotating faster and faster.
The gravitational pressure crushing the arena increased again afterward, forcing even Raizen to slow down slightly beneath the overwhelming pull generated by Solar Creation.
Then Magnus suddenly noticed something.
Noctis had vanished.
Again.
The solar warrior instinctively turned—
Too late.
Darkness erupted directly behind him while Noctis emerged from the shadows with abyssal energy flooding his scythe completely.
Unlike his previous attacks, this strike carried no hesitation at all.
The surrounding darkness condensed so heavily around the blade that even light itself seemed to disappear near the weapon.
Magnus barely managed to raise his hammer before impact.
The collision split the battlefield apart.
Abyssal energy exploded across the arena while crimson-gold flames erupted violently in response.
The force generated by the clash launched both fighters backward simultaneously while cracks spread directly through Solar Creation itself for the first time since the spell appeared.
The crowd froze.
Even Magnus stopped moving briefly.
Because Noctis’s attack had actually damaged the miniature sun.
And then…
All three smiled.
Raizen slowly stood back up while plasma crackled violently around his blades again.
Magnus rested his hammer against one shoulder despite the blood running across portions of his body.
Nearby, darkness continued twisting around Noctis while his breathing had grown visibly heavier now.
All three were injured.
All three were exhausted.
And all three wanted more.
One professor slowly looked toward the battlefield with disbelief still visible in his eyes.
“…Those three are going to become calamities.”
Another answered quietly beside him.
“No.”
His gaze remained locked onto the arena below.
“They already are.”
Inside the battlefield, Magnus slowly pointed his hammer toward the center arena while solar fire intensified around him once more.
“Well then…”
Raizen raised both plasma swords while violet energy erupted skyward.
“Looks like we’re finally done warming up.”
Noctis slowly lifted his scythe afterward while shadows swallowed the shattered battlefield beneath his feet.
“Alright.”
Darkness exploded outward violently.
“Let’s unleash everything.”