"Next up—we're facing the Royal Adult."
Zora gazed at Team C, where Kirsch was, and pondered, 'Fortunately, even though the actual environment changed, many of the pre-set trap magic are still useful. As long as the plan is good enough, there shouldn't be a problem.'
'We can win.'
"Hey, when the venue changed just now, you wavered, didn't you?" Asta looked at Zora with sharp eyes, "Does that mean you set other trap magic?"
In the first round of the battle just now, he was lucky to react in time and discover the trap magic on the ground, otherwise he would have almost fallen into the trap magic. Even so, it still had a significant impact on him.
Zora slightly raised his head to look at Asta, 'He can sense the farting bug in my hand, and the pre-set trap magic on the ground was almost completely dodged. This guy, even though he has no magic, his perception is quite outstanding.'
'Is it that 'Ki' he talked about?'
Thinking of this, Zora calmly said, "That's right~ Actually, there are still quite a few trap magic I set on the field."
"I learned through intelligence gathering that a selection assessment would be held here, so I set things up all over the venue yesterday."
Compared to Zora's calmness and frankness, Asta loudly said, "You said you set it up yesterday? Sure enough, you bastard are playing tricks!"
"Tricks?"
"Oh, oh~ You're an idiot, aren't you? Isn't getting information in advance part of your strength? Does the rule say that preparing a day in advance is not allowed? Or… does the enemy need your permission to prepare traps in advance?"
"Then tell us, your teammates, the locations of the traps! Let's cooperate well."
Even with Ki and the Transparent World, Asta couldn't precisely find every single trap. Zora's traps included magic traps and physical traps. After a day of spreading out and inherently being "traps," their concealment was extremely high.
Zora rejected Asta's suggestion without hesitation: "No way, if I tell you, the enemy will notice too. I'm going to fight in my own way."
"Ah, ah, ah~ Then I'm going to fight in my own way too, you bastard!"
"Use your one-track mind to come up with a battle plan? Don't be ridiculous."
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"Then, starting with Team B versus Team C, the first match of the second round begins!"
As Magic Emperor Julius's voice fell, the two teams in the battle arena prepared for battle. Kirsch moved first, his purple grimoire flipping rapidly.
"Cherry Blossom Magic, Blustery Flower Snow of Demonic Cherry Blossoms."
In an instant, pink cherry blossoms swept across the entire battleground. Hills, wetlands, and forests were filled with beautiful cherry blossoms, a silent, gently flowing pink ocean.
"Alright, you just stay in my beautiful magic and repent for your impure self!"
Kirsch passed judgment on the other team, full of confidence.
Very few people could break through this grand magic cast by a Royal Adult, let alone an opponent who was merely a commoner.
On a hill wrapped in the sea of cherry blossoms, Zora observed the environment and said lightly, "Don't move around randomly now. Just wait quietly for them to fall into the traps."
Nancy looked at Zora giving orders and Asta, who was holding a long sword in a battle stance, clearly not intending to listen to him, and muttered to herself, "These two… they really haven't stopped from beginning to end."
"There's no way they can cooperate well, right?"
"The opponent just now wasn't strong, which led to an easy victory in the last battle. As for now, judging from the large-scale magic covering the field, the Royal Adult is indeed worthy of the name."
"We need to prepare for it in advance."
As he was thinking, a black and red light flashed like lightning before his eyes.
Nancy and Zora looked back, their pupils constricted, "This aura is…"
Black and red streams of light flickered. Asta, with his hands stacked on his black greatsword, his face changed dramatically. Black wings grew from his right back, dark black colors covered half of his body, and even a unique horn grew on his head!
Before the two could say anything more, Asta's figure had already swept past them, leaving only a calm remark: "I'm going!"
The dark figure charged into the pink sea of cherry blossoms, swinging his sword in a rotating motion, stirring up a whirlwind. A black storm churned wildly in the cherry blossom sea, and under the touch of Anti-Magic, the entire flower sea withered and scattered.
Zora's pre-designed trap magic was also erased in this process.
When the last cluster of cherry blossoms dissipated by Anti-Magic, Asta returned to his original position, black streams of light overflowing from his sword like a surge of energy.
"What the hell did you do?" Zora asked, suppressing his anger, "My trap magic is all gone because of you!"
"Heh heh heh, well, isn't this difficult now? Let's fight together now and think of a battle plan!"
Yuno and Bai En on the viewing platform watched the battlefield, listening to the continuous voices around them, "Amazing, he blew away all that magic!"
"What happened? That shorty actually…?"
"Aren't you surprised?" Yuno suddenly asked Bai En.
"You're the same, aren't you?"
"I've already seen Asta in this state before, when we were training at the yul Tim Volcano. I was a little surprised then, but not as calm as you."
Bai En laughed: "If he had stayed at his previous level, becoming the Wizard King would be impossible, wouldn't it? Progress is good, and you must be more than what you see now, right?"
"If you really only had the level you showed in the last battle, you wouldn't be able to beat me."
Yuno replied, "If we meet in the semifinals, I'll show you. I've prepared something specifically for you and Asta."
"Is that so? Well, I'm really looking forward to it."
The Sky Elf dancing with the wind spirit in the air caught Yuno's attention, "Is she… also an elf?"
"Sky Elf."
Bai En replied in the same cool and aloof manner as before: "When we get to the semifinals, I'll show you her abilities."
Yuno: "…"
"Hmph, Yuno won't lose!" The wind spirit Bell spoke up for her host.
"Abba Abba!"
Xiao Tong also yelled, as if responding to the wind spirit for Bai En.
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"You're very cunning, so you must be able to come up with a countermeasure, right? Now, let's consider a battle plan fair and square. Oh… by the way, that move from just now will take some time before it can be used again, so you don't need to factor that in."
Asta's words made Zora extremely annoyed. He gritted his teeth and glared coldly at Asta, his words even more merciless: "You really are a stinky brat, still happy here, is your brain broken?"
Nancy quietly interjected, "Asta… in that state just now, you should have been able to easily shatter the enemy's magic crystal, right?"
"Why go to such great lengths to destroy the enemy's magic?"
"This… it's completely meaningless, isn't it?"
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