Rising of the Weakest Mage

Vol 2/Ch 17 - Allen vs The Blue Rose

The last day for Allen's training with Rose had finally arrived. The next day, he would be having his duel against Nathaniel Rivertide.

The three weeks of his training and being in class flew by very quickly. Although it felt short, Allen feels like he has learned a lot in these past few weeks.

He's learned how to better use his mana, so that way he doesn't run out as quickly as before. He doesn't have a lot of mana to use, so this is very important. He's also learned different ways to fight with his sword, as Rose has her own sword techniques. Running fifty laps every day has also improved his physical endurance. So now, he has improved with endurance both mentally and physically.

But since the final day had arrived, it was time for Allen to face Rose one more time in a practice duel before his duel with Nathaniel Rivertide.

"You ready?," Rose said while drawing her rapier from its sheath.

"Of course," Allen responded as he also in turn drew his sword.

"Then let the duel begin!," she said and immediately began to rush towards Allen.

No breathing room, huh?, Allen rolled his eyes as he prepared himself for Rose's first attack.

In the past three weeks Rose has been training Allen; every single training day she does a practice duel with Allen to improve his dueling techniques. Allen is about evenly matched to Rose when it comes to the sword, the only key difference is Rose has been practicing and using her sword a few years longer than Allen, and has dueled several difficult opponents using her blade.

During the past three weeks Allen has been practice dueling against Rose, he has never managed to beat her - not even once. Rose has primarily dueled with him using just her sword for the first week, then transitioned to using her sword and her magic starting the second week.

Apart from the endurance training and the practice duels, Rose also has had Allen train dodging and blocking magic-based attacks. She would repetitively launch magic at him, in which he had to either dodge it, or cut through it. Most of the time Allen had managed to dodge or cut through it, but there were a few times where he got hit by her magic and flew backwards landing on the training room floor a few times.

Now that their final duel has finally started, Allen was ready to try to win this one. After all, if he can't beat Rose, how would he be able to beat Nathaniel?

With Rose charging straight at him, he took the few seconds he had in that moment to analyze his situation. While she was charging in, he could tell that she would be easily able to block if he striked first, and then she would most likely counterattack. His best option was most likely a dodge, but she was probably expecting something like that. He could also try to block her first attack, but due to the nature of her rapier, she can fire a flurry of attacks in which if he blocked the first one he would simply get hit by the next few that came in.

Just as she was about to land a strike on him, he veered to the left of her whilst blocking her attack. He pushed her sword back with enough force to prevent her from quickly turning her sword around and striking him.

"Oh? Nice," Rose said, surprised. She probably wasn't expecting Allen to take several movements at once.

Rose was about to quickly turn around and strike him, but before that could happen Allen put a little distance between them. Realizing this, Rose proceeded to rush in again, giving Allen no time to fully prepare for her next attack.

Just as she was about to strike, Allen managed to turn the situation around and put her on the defensive, even for a moment. Instead of trying to defend, he proceeded to strike at her as she came in. It was a bit of a gamble, but it worked out. Rose proceeded to quickly switch from offensive to defensive as she blocked his attack. Right as his attack was defended, Allen proceeded to quickly begin to strike at her several times. Rose then quickly defended each one.