Chapter 197: Battle Of Attrition

After they enveloped themselves with their own elemental armors, Prince Aragorn and his opponent, Arod, immediately charged toward one another. While they were advancing, both of them chanted a seishin spell at the same time.

While Prince Aragorn was charging toward his opponent, the elven prince chanted, "Ye who represents purity, cleanse thy master's nemesis, pierce through anything that in thy owner's path, Ice Spear!"

The moment he started chatting, blue seishin essences immediately started gathering around him.

These blue seishin essences that he was able to gather immediately started to transmute into vapors of water. Right before he finished saying his chant, those vapors of water started to condense into ice.

Meanwhile, Arod chanted as he charged toward Prince Aragorn a seishin spell as well. He chanted, "Oh ye who represents the breath of the world, make thy master elusive, Wind Blade!"

In the side of the elven prince's opponent, green seishin essences immediately started to gather around the moment he began saying his chant. Little by little the green seishin essence that he was able to gather turned into particles of wind. 

At the end of his chant, those particles of winds suddenly formed into blades made up of wind particles. With this in his hand, he immediately rushed his advance toward the elven prince.

Unlike last time, Prince Aragorn decided to not launch Ice Spear seishin this time. He decided to hold it so that he can use it against his opponent in close-quarter combat. He wanted to try something new so he hesitated to use it as a long-range attack.

The moment they reached each other, Prince Aragorn and Arod clashed using the elemental weapons they conjured using their own seishin spells.

After seeing the clashed between the representatives of their own classes, all the other students from each class cheered on their own representative.

Prince Aragorn and Arod clashed using their own seishin spells. All the other students from their own class cheered on them. They decided to use the elemental weapons that they had conjured in their close-quarter combat to test their skill in that regard.

In the first part of the match, the fight between Prince Aragorn and Arod could be seen that there evenly matched. No one was sure who was winning between the two representatives of their classes.

After a few minutes of exchanging a few slashes and pierces, the advantage started to go on Arod's way. He managed to gain the upper hand because his speed was boosted by his Wind Blade seishin spell.

Along with this advantage. the age difference between these two representatives had given Arod an upper hand in terms of stamina. Slowly, the battle of attrition was started to be seen in Arod's favor.

When he felt that he was starting to feel exhausted, the elven prince thought to himself, 'I am starting to become slower! If this continued, then-!'

The moment Prince Aragorn started to realize that his opponent was starting to get the upper hand, he decided to plan a strategy to turn the table against his enemy. He didn't want any slight chance of failing, after all.

A moment later, a bright idea came to the elven prince's mind. He thought, 'Since the two of us are seishin practitioners of the Entry Captain rank, I have the upper hand since I have four elemental affinities. It seems like I am still inexperienced in close-quarter combat. Now, I must turn the tide of the battle to my side.'

After thinking of a plan, Prince Aragorn immediately decided to end the close-quarter combat between him and the second-grader, Arod. Without a moment of hesitation, he immediately backed down away from his opponent. 

Arod was shocked after he saw the elven prince backing away from him. When he saw the move that Prince Aragorn did, he thought to himself, 'I think he has a plan in mind! I must not fall into his trap!'

With those thoughts in his mind, Arod decided to not pursue the elven prince. He decided to not risk it. Without him knowing, doing this course of action was him falling to the trap of the elven prince.

After Arod decided not to pursue him as he backed down, the expression in the face of Prince Aragorn suddenly changed into something a little happy. Arod did something that was a part of his plan, after all.

A moment later, the elven prince decided to throw his Ice Spear seishin spell toward his opponent. The only thing that Arod can do in that situation was to evade it.

Fortunately, he managed to do that because of the great enhancement to his speed and mobility that was given to him by the Wind Guard seishin spell and the Wind Blade seishin spell that he conjured.

He thought to himself, 'That was a close one! This junior is really smart! It seems like I fell into his trap!'

After evading Arod avoided his sneak attack, Prince Aragorn decided to insta-cast a seishin spell against the representative of the second graders.

Without hesitating for a moment, the elven shouted, "Ice Prison!"

Suddenly, some portion of the elven prince's inner seishin essences came out of him. In the next instance, all of those inner seishin essences turned into vapors of water. A moment later, all of those formed into numerous spikes of ice.

To Arod's surprise, numerous spikes of ice started to rain down upon him. He was just able to evade the Ice Spear seishin spell that Prince Aragorn threw at him earlier.

To avoid getting imprison by these spikes of ice, Arod evaded them as hard as he can. While he was dodging those projectiles from the sky, he did not notice that Prince Aragorn started chanting a seishin spell. After all, he was very busy avoiding getting imprison by the elven prince's Ice Prison seishin spell.

The elven prince chanted, "Ye who represents purity, cleanse thy master's nemesis, swallow everyone in your master's way, Serpent Wave!"