Ancient Pasts - Tbate

A Homey Visit

Cathan Leywin Pov

Claire walked towards us, giving me an apologetic look. She was about to stop the spar when Theodore walked past her and approached Doradrea as she was stretching.

"Move it," he growled.

"Aww... no fair," Doradrea grumbled as she slumped her shoulders, disappointed.

Claire just sighed in disappointment. "All right, but Cathan is injured, so this will only go on for a minute. Let me activate the barrier this time, so we don't have any more cracked walls."

Azrael, who was watching Sylvie, asked if I'd be okay as I just nodded in response.

I may be injured, but I was excited since I'd wanted to duel against Theodore as well. I figured fighting against deviants might help me learn a thing or two from them.

"Anything you want to say before we start?" Theodore asked while he cracked his neck.

"Sure. Can I call you Theo if I win? It's only fair for me to give you a nickname since you already gave me one, right?" I shot him a smirk while I stretched my still aching body.

I could see veins popping on his head as everyone's face twisted into a horrified expression. Arthur and Azrael were watching me with amusement.

"You sure are full of yourself, twerp. Fine, but if I win, you're going to be my little minion for the rest of your school life." He had a confident smile as the rest of the DC members all got situated around the arena.

"Remember, this duel will last one minute or until someone lands the first hit. That's final!" Claire barked as she unsheathed her sword and stabbed it in the ground.

The both of us nodded in consent before Claire signaled for the duel to begin. Theodore immediately took off, charging at me like a crazy bull.

I augmented my body using wind attribute mana to skirt around the arena, keeping my distance. Theodore's gravity magic wasn't something to take lightly since his powers had simultaneous offensive and defensive abilities.

Ice spread through the ground and latched onto Theodore's leg, which gave me a moment to use my mist spell. Theodore realized what I was doing a little too late.

"Shit!" He cursed.

I created five spears of ice, but to Theodore, it looked like there were far more. With a single command, the ice spears launched forward. Theodore amplified the gravity around us.

Everyone that was spectating, and even Theodore expected the ice spears to fall to the ground, but they kept moving towards him, and now they even started rotating.

His eyes widened when he realized I used sound magic to keep the spears floating. These ice spears, despite their weakness, should be strong enough to knock out an A-class beast.

That was an idea I got from Arthur thought of Kai using sound magic to control the metal strings. I couldn't use wind magic because of the cold temperature, but I could use sound magic.

Theodore broke two of the spears using his fist. When he tried to break the fourth and fifth, his arms got chained to the ground. He realized I used the broken spears to create these chains.

The spears hit his mana barrier, his mana barrier was able to tank these weak spears, but if I used my ice and sound magic to their full strength, even his corpse wouldn't have survived.

"STOP!"

Claire got in between the two of us as she made sure Theodore was okay. By that time, Theodore had already dusted the ice off of his uniform. He's a solid orange augmenter. He should be fine.