Student To King: The Transportation To A New World

Chapter 20: Her Farewell

"Ace..." The Fallen Luna muttered.

"Luna," Ace whispered her name as he looked at her current state.

All he could see was a ragged puppet unable to move, controlled by an unknown force. However, thanks to her previous power, her tomes fired several dark javelins at the evasive Ace, who was constantly dodging each attack. Each step brought Ace closer to the fallen Luna.

"Don't worry, I'll try to make this quick," Ace replied.

"AAAaaah..!" Seeing the fallen Luna struggling to fire her spells made Ace angry. He believed that Luna's will was still clinging to her body, despite a lack of power from Vumor or Luna's resistance. Ace didn't know the answer.

After closing in within a sword's reach, Ace used the offensive art [Quick Strike] to thrust his sword quickly in an attempt to catch the fallen Luna off guard. However, her tome jumped in and formed a magical barrier around her.

Darklin jumped from Ace's shoulder and breathed out a large dark fireball where Luna's other tome absorbed the attack, retaliating Darklin back with the same spell as if it was hers, to begin with. Despite the counter-attack, it was futile, as Darklin was resistant to his elemental affinities.

Distracted with Darklin, Ace took the opportunity to use a revised dashing edge in an attempt to break through Luna's barrier.

"[Offensive Art: Dashing Edge: Eightfold]!"

At great speed, Ace dashed from one end to the other, slashing away at Luna's barrier in an attempt to break through for an opening, but the fallen Luna stood her ground, letting Ace chip away at her shield until the right moment.

When Darklin saw what she was doing, he wanted to stop her and fired a hail of flames towards her. The fallen Luna designated one of her tomes to block Darklin's flames while using the other tomes to strengthen her defense against Ace's attack.

At Ace's last dashing edge, he gathered his mana and imbued it into his weapons for a devastating blow. Rather than aiming for Luna, he aimed for the tome in hopes of weakening her combat capability.

"...sEekINg... lIgHt..." The fallen Luna muttered. The moment Ace heard her words, instead of firing from the tomes themselves, a light elemental projectile came out of her palms and followed Ace in pursuit.

"...?!" Ace gasped. He stopped his attack on the tome midway and propelled himself the other way, using a burst of flames coming out of his feet. He ran, grabbed one of the Paladin's shields, and braced himself for the seeking spell.

Clink! Clang! CLANG! CLANG!

Ace went on the offensive once more, joining Darklin's side, and successfully blocking Luna's spell with the shield.

"We'll focus on one of the tomes together, Darklin. Even if I break her barrier, her tomes would just get in the way."

"I do not think it will be that easy," Darklin replied.

Luna did not give them time to plan during combat. She fired a high-pressure water blast directly at Ace, who attempted to hold his guard with his shield in hand.

"Tch...! I know...! We'll have to do something about them. If we can get one, we'll win for sure. Hold her attention to me!" Ace said.

With a quick nod from Darklin, he flew out of Ace's guard and charged a Dark Nova spell towards the channelling Luna. She noticed the coordinated attack and, holding her hand, she let out an electro spell towards Ace from her tome. From the other tome, she let out a barrage of wind slices in an attempt to stop Darklin from firing his spell.

Dodging the wind slices, Darklin eventually gathered enough magic to fire a Dark Nova spell towards Luna, causing her to use one of her tomes to absorb the spell once again.