Chapter 544 - Continuing Winter? (3)

I stared at the fire tornado about to drill into the ceiling when the door was opened. The water hissed around the tornado, its mass body increasing from the mass amount of mana I poured. It was clear which element was winning the fight, the pool completely emptied. The stone tiles were close to melting, the white colour turning into greys. This was worse than I thought it would be. The whirlpool beside the tsunami chose to pour out to the rest of the mansion, avoiding getting mixed with the other water spell.

Luke couldn't close his mouth, watching the opposite forces clashing with each other. While Charles seemed to not believe the scene in front of him, blinking frequently. On the other hand, Alex took turns at looking at me and the disaster multiple times. I bȧrėly had any mana left to fix this mess, maintaining the barrier surrounding this room. Although I was glad that they were speechless, I hoped they could clean the mess for me.

"The ceiling is beginning to crack," Charles noticed..

"Can you take care of the tsunami while I get rid of the fire tornado?" Luke turned to Alex.

"I can take care of the whirlpool," Charles took the leftover role.

This was the perfect timing to escape from the room. I silently started to sneak towards the door before Luke glared at me to stay. I had to sprint outside the room if I wanted to survive. Maybe today would be the day I would be successful in escaping from the mansion, the disaster being a perfect distraction. I began to dash towards the door, only being stopped when someone grabbed my wrist to hold me back.

"I don't have time to confine you to your room," Luke wanted me to be within his line of sight.

"Or you can let me go," I suggested.

"You almost destroyed the entire mansion by trying to hide this from us," he wasn't letting me go.

While holding my wrist, he muttered various spells, splitting the fire tornado. My eyes widened as I watched the smaller tornados get swallowed up by a black hole, removing each of them from its existence. I never thought of using dark space to get rid of the fire tornado, a harder concept to grasp. It had to do with the complexity of matter, something containing many different formulas.

Black hole consumed a huge amount of mana, much more than the basic elements. A normal citizen in the first district couldn't use it while most students at our school could use it once a year. With the ȧssumption that they never used their mana to save it for that one spell. I wondered how much mana Luke truly possessed, flawlessly getting rid of everything without a struggle. He had the luxury to watch me while moving onto helping Alex with the tsunami.

Turning to watch Alex, I was impressed by the creative method he used. The tsunami was slowly disappearing, getting eaten by the heat wall pushing against it to evaporate the water. It was much safer than using fire-based spells, the wall collapsing to vanish as soon as mana wasn't fueling it anymore. Maybe I panicked too much, missing out on the better spells they came up with. I had to start focusing on myself now.

I tried to pull Luke's fingers off my wrist, wondering why his fingers were so strong, not moving from its spot. Instead, his grip tightened as he continued to evaporate the water coming from the tsunami. I sighed since I didn't know how to teleport to another spot without him. Meanwhile, Charles was almost done with getting rid of the whirlpool, choosing to freeze it to make it stop increasing in size. Once the entire thing was frozen, he squeezed his hand into a fist to crush everything, making it seem like it was vanishing from splitting into extremely tiny pieces.

Since I was too focused on watching my spells disappearing, I couldn't hear more people entering the mansion. Both Belle and Lucius noticed the burnt ceiling, trashed pool and close to crumbling walls. Rarely seeing them inside the mansion, I forgot that they were the owners. I mostly slept when they returned from their classes at university, too tired from studying during the day.

"What happened here?" Lucius returned early today.

"Rika created a fire tornado, tsunami and whirlpool at the same time since she wanted to create a waterpark," Alex answered after he managed to make the tsunami disappear.

"So that's why the floors were wet," Belle found an explanation.

"I didn't destroy this mansion like the other one," I recalled the time I almost killed the juggler.

"But I might destroy this place like the other one, so you should let me return to school!" I brilliantly thought.

"Let's go to your room Rika," Luke began to pull me.

"You know the anti-mana setting is hidden beside the door," Belle reminded Luke.

Luke nodded his head while continuing to drag me out. This was exactly why they should have let me out of the stuffy mansion once in a while. If I had practiced in a wide and open space, an area not far from here, there would have been no damages. Looking out of the windows in my bedroom, I couldn't see any other property outside the mansion gates, the distance spanning in miles.