Discord: discord .gg /eHuxNeZfyS [Come chat with me]
pat.reon: Keanu_Eugene [Read ahead & support me]
You.tube: @KeanuEugene [Giving away all my writing knowledge]
CHAPTER START---
'Sharp,' Oberon thinks while leaping backward, seeing the massive slash Fulmer's sword strike left in the road. Before the moment could pass, his gaze shifts back to Fulmer, seeing the man take a low combat stance and prepare for a horizontal swing.
Behind them, Gildarts and Avsala trade blows, entrenched in their own battle, shaking the area with each clash.
'She's keeping up with Gildarts,' Oberon acknowledges this sight, for the first time seeing Gildarts have to put effort into anything. But he's not surprised after the briefing they all had in Era.
He casts everything else out of his mind and focuses entirely on Fulmer, even as far behind him, Fairy Tail members battle enemy Wizards. He raises his hand to fire a Light Shot at the man.
But Fulmer instantly disappears, not teleporting, simply moving at absurd speed to appear in front of Oberon and slash horizontally, from left hip to the boy's shoulder. Oberon's eyes widen as he raises his arms to block with his forearms.
The blade crashes against his Cosmic Barrier, slashing the flesh on his arms before the Barrier is reinforced, blunting the strike to knock Oberon into the air. He's pushed high above the base, and Fulmer narrows his eyes at the boy.
'That right arm of his,' Fulmer thinks, focusing on the Fairy Glitter Emblem. 'We wanted to avoid Fairy Tail after that Magic became public, maybe removing that arm would stop it…'
The man tightens his grip on his sword and rolls his left arm, ready to raise his shield at a moment's notice. Within a second Oberon unleashes a rain of golden light beams at him.
Fulmer narrows his eyes at the boy, instantly understanding that Oberon is trying to blind him and disappear. 'I can't sense him because of some trick, so I won't let him leave my sight!' Fulmer leaps into the air, then instantly accelerates forward.
He raises his tower shield, keeping it just below his eyes while flowing Magic Energy into it, activating the enchantment. A large Magic Circle appears in front of the shield, and the Light Magic attacks crash into it.
Fulmer is knocked back and bombarded with the attacks, halting his momentum before he flies to the side and avoids more shots. He keeps track of Oberon in his peripheral vision while changing his plan, now aware that for reasons unknown the Reflect Magic enchantment wouldn't work on Oberon's Magic.
So instead, he changes the active enchantment to simple reinforcement, then turns on a sharp angle and charges Oberon. While both flying above the battlefield, Oberon raises his hand and unleashes a rain of Light Magic Beams, but Fulmer rampages through them.
He shatters them with his blade and bashes them with his shield, then places the shield in front of him and instantly accelerates forward.
Oberon thrusts both arms forward, reinforcing his Cosmic Barrier and creating another Gravity Barrier in front of himself, which Fulmer bashes into. He feels his Barrier strain, but before it can break, he's sent tumbling through the air above the base.
Fulmer flies to pursue him, but Oberon flips and waves his hand upward, reversing gravity on the man to throw him skyward. But Fulmer slashes forward, launching a dozen Magic Energy slashes at Oberon, then he throws his sword with all his might.
Oberon avoids all the slashes and flies higher to avoid the blade, but Fulmer disappears from the reverse gravity zone, appearing below him by the blade, grabbing it, then throwing it above.
All of this happens within a blink, and Oberon only realizes what happened when Fulmer's blade soars up to him, directly in front of his face.
Fulmer appears beside it and, in one fluid motion, grabs the handle and brings it down onto Oberon.
Oberon reacts quickly and punches forward, reinforcing his Cosmic Barrier around his fist while making his strike heavy with Gravity Magic, and their clash sends a shockwave through the air. Oberon is sent tumbling backward, with a cut on his knuckles and broken fingers beneath the skin, while Fulmer shakes away the numbness in his right arm.
"Ah, you're strong," Oberon says as he flexes his already healing fingers.
Fulmer frowns and flies higher, matched by Oberon to keep their battle as even as possible. He carefully observes the boy while repositioning, changing his plan with each new piece of information. "You can heal," he says, pointing the blade at Oberon's forearms.
"What about it?"
"We had no information about that Healing Magic," Fulmer says.
"Most people can't get through my defenses to make it necessary, so it rarely comes up."
"Your Barrier is annoying, so I'm not surprised."
"Says the guy with a tower shield…"
Fulmer narrows his eyes at Oberon. "I'm a knight, we use sword and shield."
"I'm unarmed," Oberon says.
Fulmer laughs. "Nice try, but taking chances in a battle of Magic is suicide. You may be a child, but you are a S-Class Wizard of Fairy Tail. And the fact that even with all my specially made Magic Items you're still alive, is proof enough that I need every advantage I can get."
"So those are Magic Items…that's what I was trying to figure out."
Fulmer takes a combat stance in the air, ready to charge. "Extreme Speed and Super Power Magics are the talent of a knight from the Pergrande Kingdom, but beyond its glorified prison walls, much more is needed."
"I figured 'The deserter' would have stopped using them by now."
"I still love my home, which is why I need the power to change it. I am still a knight of the Pergrande Kingdom's Capital Circle."
"In that case," Oberon withdraws a silver key from his Requip Magic dimensional space, and flows Magic Energy into it. "Open, Gate of the Chisel, Caleum!"
Beside him, a massive 10m -33ft- long chisel with a large spherical top and an angular handrail for a humansized handhold appears. Oberon reaches out and grabs it, wielding it like a sword at his side.
"Then let's see if you really are a knight," the boy smiles and charges Fulmer.
Fulmer is taken aback by the sight, but doesn't hesitate to match Oberon's charge, using his Magics to fly forward and clash blades. Caelum is so massive that neither man knows how the clash will end, so Fulmer puts his all into the strike.
And Caelum flies out of Oberon's hand, flipping through the air and landing somewhere below. Fulmer glances down to see it buried in the ground far outside the walls of the base, then rushes Oberon.
"A real knight would never be easily disarmed!" he yells while slashing out at the boy.
Oberon flies backward, narrowly avoiding the strikes and punching Fulmer when he can, but each punch lands on the tower shield. Fulmer's assault is relentless, but halts for a moment as Oberon lands on good hit on the shield, pushing him back and making space between them.
He sees the boy flex his numb hand, bones still shaking from impacting the shield. And Fulmer can't help but notice the Fairy Glitter mark repaired itself along with the skin. "Is the Fairy Glitter Spell not stored in that mark?"
"Do people really think that?" Oberon asks. "This mark just means I have access to the spell and can use it."
Oberon then pulls up the short sleeve on his right arm, showing off the emblazoned black Fairy Tail emblem on his shoulder, flanked by two small wings.
"Is that what I think it is…" Fulmer mutters. "You have access to two of them?!"
Oberon smiles mischievously. "Yeah, and I think I've stalled enough."
"For what?" Fulmer focuses on the Magic Energy of his allies, sensing that the Wizard Saints and Aces are still fighting. "This battle is far from over."
"True, but it took a second to get ready to test you. After all, you're a knight, right? And knights protect the castle, so…"
Fulmer is confused for a moment, assuming Oberon was merely playing tricks on him.
But a moment later, a thunderous boom echoes through the battlefield. Blinding light shines out for an instant, pulling everyone's attention to a hill far beyond the base walls.
Fulmer sees Caelum fully transformed into a massive floating turret, firing a beam of green Magic Energy directly at their fortress guildhall. The attack is two stories wide and moving at high speeds, and due to its unknown properties, he can't afford to let it reach the fortress.
He turns away from Oberon and moves to intercept the attack, knowing the Rune Knights and Fairy Tail Wizards are mostly near the main gate, so his people would be devastated by this hit.
He pushes his speed to its limit and arrives in front of the massive beam, raising his shield and holding his ground. The Magic Energy beam hits the large Magic Circle, and Fulmer feels it like a sledgehammer to the bones.
Each second, a dozen strikes hit his body begging for rest, but he grits his teeth and bears it. And for nearly five seconds he endures, pouring more and more Magic Energy into the shield.
To him what felt like an hour passes, but when the attack faded and he'd successfully stopped it, he turns toward the eerily silent battlefield.
He barely has time to raise his shield again before both Oberon's feet crash into it, hitting his aching body with absurd force and crushing him into the ground.
Oberon skates on him like a surfboard, tearing up the coral landscape while reaching down and grabbing the shield with both hands, forcing his Magic Energy into it. The shield instantly starts cracking as Oberon intentionally pours his Cosmic Magic Energy into it, destabilizing the enchantments and causing the item to glow bright blue.
"Annoying damn shield!" Oberon yells as Fulmer's face shifts to horror, feeling the item become explosive while attached to his arm.
Before he can respond, it shatters and detonates into an explosion the size of a carriage, sending a blastwave outward and melting the ground.
Oberon immediately waves his hand, using Gravity Magic to send a gust of wind through the area, clearing out the dust. He looks down at the empty molten crater, then around, seeing Fulmer getting up from the floor a few hundred feet away.
Beside him is his sword, which he teleported to at the last moment, saving himself. He gets up and reclaims his weapon, then turns toward where Caelum is, seeing the Celestial Spirit disappear.
"Too much Magic Energy, huh?" he says as Oberon lands behind him, then turns to face the boy. "A silver key with that much power. I didn't think any keys had power like that, but you're all gassed out. And I've still got plenty of energy."
"Nah. Caelum has a cooldown time between shots. The more energy I put into a shot, the longer the time. Keeping him out in that state is pointless, that's all."
"All of that just to get rid of my shield," Fulmer points his blade at Oberon. "I don't suppose you'll fight with the same handicap and drop yours."
Oberon laughs. "Didn't you say Wizards should take every advantage they can get? But, how about this…"
Oberon clasps his hands together, then opens them to form a Light Construct Sword between his hands, grabbing it out of the air with his right hand and pointing it at Fulmer.
"Challenging a knight to a battle of swords? Is this arrogance, or simply stupidity?" he asks while taking a combat stance, prepared to accept the challenge.
Oberon does his best to mirror the stance, holding his blade in the same manner. "It's training, that's all…"
CHAPTER END---
Discord: discord .gg /eHuxNeZfyS [Come chat with me]
pat.reon: Keanu_Eugene [Read ahead & support me]
You.tube: @KeanuEugene [Giving away all my writing knowledge]