NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 27: Resilience and Luck
Aiden released his fire arrow forward again, moving with the control of his mind. The two people fighting with Aiden were fire and water elemental mages, a man and a woman.
The man ran in a circle with two arrows surrounding him, the other two fire arrows aimed to keep them busy.
Because the fire arrow attacks were quite intense, it was difficult for them to continue defending.
The big man chose to attack Aiden, even though he couldn't move as fast as Aiden.
He unleashed a flurry of fireballs at Aiden, but Aiden zig zagged and managed to avoid them. The fireball attacks actually set fire to the forest around their battle.
Even so, Aiden felt that his energy was starting to weaken. The fire shield that had appeared earlier slowly faded and disappeared. Now, only the fire arrows remained.
"Damn! I need to drink the MP Potion before it's too late," said Aiden.
However, the big man realized that Aiden wanted to drink something, either HP or MP Potion.
That made the fire magic attacks on Aiden even more relentlessly intense, making it difficult for Aiden to get a chance to rest.
"His magic will run out, let's keep attacking him!" the burly man said, obeyed by the woman.
The woman formed an attack in the shape of a great wave of water that swept forward. Aiden squinted, dodging two magic attacks at once aimed at him would be difficult.
Sure enough! Aiden could dodge the fireball attack, but he could hardly dodge the water wave. That caused Aiden's body to be pushed far away and hit a tree in the forest.
"Akh!" complained Aiden, feeling sick.
[Active passive]
[+100% HP Regen]
Green light appeared on Aiden's body, healing the cuts and bruises he had gotten from the water wave attack.
When Aiden tried to get up, he was surprised by the presence of a big man who was none other than the enemy squad leader. He grabbed Aiden and wouldn't let him go.
"You are no match for my strength!" he said.
The man took the gold plate from Aiden's pocket, making Aiden upset and trying to rebel. However, the man choking Aiden didn't seem happy.
He broke Aiden's right arm, then broke both of Aiden's legs. That made Aiden scream in pain with his head up, which was painful.
"AAAAKKH!"
Helen looked toward the fight. She saw with shock that Aiden was being tortured by the enemy squad leader, they also took Aiden's gold plate.
"Thank you for your gold plate, it really helped me," she said.
The burly man threw Aiden's body back into the forest, the throw was so hard that Aiden's body hit a tree and the old tree trunk collapsed, hitting Aiden right on top of him.
Feeling victory in his hands, the man decided to go to Lisa. The muscular man hadn't expected that he would get so much gold plate this time.
"Just get you done, Lisa!" he declared, making a fist.
Lisa was still limp, she could fight but not to the point of being able to kill the big man. She thought, she no longer had any hope of passing the main test.
"Do you think that's enough to take me down?" asked Aiden, speaking in a loud tone.
Aiden's voice was heard by the man and his friend. They turned around in shock, seeing Aiden walking out limping.
Even so, they saw that Aiden's broken bone structure had returned to normal, an amazing feat of regeneration.
The wounds on his body were also shrinking, with sharp eyes focused forward. Before Aiden came to them, he had downed an MP Potion to make sure his MP was safe.
"How can you stay alive?! Who the hell are you?!" the man snapped.
[Magic Element: Flaming Spear]
Aiden imagined a flaming spear appearing in his right hand. After weeks of hard work to imagine it, Aiden finally succeeded in materializing the fire magic spell.
The fire energy emanating from Aiden's hand began to shape the spear and condense it.
Hot flames blazed along the spear, accompanied by a fairly dominant ice energy surrounding the fire spear.
'Thank you for your power, Aurora,' Aiden said.
"First a fire arrow, now a fire spear! How can you use a fire magic manipulation spell?!" snapped the burly man, shocked and panicked.
"It's easy for me to do that," Aiden replied.
Aiden ran forward and swung his spear sideways. Luckily for Aiden, he had learned wushu martial arts with a spear while he was under Liu Feng. That's because Liu Feng really liked spear weapons.
According to him, spears were much more efficient and useful in combat than swords.
The fire spear was aimed sideways, the man and his friend jumped to dodge, but they couldn't avoid the fire magic cut from the swinging spear.
The man's friend was hit by the attack, her body bouncing with a severe wound on her abdomen. In an instant, she teleported back to the academy.
Now, it was down to the last man of the enemy squad. The burly man kept walking backwards, but Aiden kept walking closer to him.
"Look, we can talk this through," the man said.
"If you don't kill me, then I'll consider you and your family as honored guests of my noble family," he replied.
"I will also treat you and your family well."
"So, please let me go. How?" he asked again.
"I'm not interested in what a noble like you has to offer. This is a fight between fellow candidates, not between a noble and a commoner!" said Aiden.
"Hand over all those gold plates, then I'll let you escape and live," Aiden threatened.
The burly man looked to the side, seeing Lisa standing with Helen, her life threatened by Aiden. The man was completely desperate.
"Fine, I'll give it all up."
The burly man threw all the gold plates he had forward. Aiden told him to go and run away, which the man did without hesitation.
Aiden picked up the gold plates and saw that there were 21 gold plates, quite a lot for him.
[Astralis Magical Academy Main Exam]
[Squad: 71]
[Name: Aiden Aswald]
[Number of gold plates: 21] [+13]
He obtained 13 gold plates from the enemy squad, a large enough number to secure his entry as one of the academy students.
'I don't know how many gold plates Ronald and the others collected, but they must have put in a lot of effort,' Aiden explained.
'At least I can secure myself first,' Aiden said.
Aiden turned his head while deactivating the fire spear magic. He saw Lisa walking toward him while being helped by Helen and Lisa's other friend.
"I didn't expect your hidden power to be so terrifying. I remember your talent as only a mid," Lisa said.
"You're overreacting, Lisa. It's just common magic."
"The important thing is that you're safe. It's good to see you again, Lisa."