Unlasting World

I mean… I didn't want to…

But I was forced to. That guy is just too crazy.

Speaking of crazy…

Everyone literally turned crazy when they saw my new look.

My left hand is now covered in black shadow scales while the long spikes coming out from the elbow and along the arm. At the end of my shoulder is a giant jet hole with blue flames coming out of it.

My left wing also looked different. Instead of a dark bird wing, it is now a devil wing decorated by some spikes on it, along with two jet pipe holes placed on the wing with blue flames burning heavily out of it.

Black streaks are forming on my face, dropping from my forehead, passing through my left eye and stopping on my cheek.

The same form as the one I used against Jericho, but with a little bit of addition from the fire magic.

"W-Wow!! What is that!?"

Julius Polaris, the arch-mage of Xyphon kingdom, moved his face closer to the glass so he could see the sudden change in my look much better. He only had one eye, so it makes sense if he needed to see closer.

"... To be honest, I'm not exactly sure. But I know that those are evil powers."

"You mean devil powers?"

"What?"

"What?"

The two looked at each other awkwardly and confused. Then they look back at the arena, where I am slowly approaching the sweating Arfius at the center of the arena.

The dude was already sweating due to the exhaustion of magic energy, but now he looked even worse.

"Y-You... I saw that form before... It wasn't as bad-"

"I must congratulate you for making me use this form… Because if I didn't, I would have been cooked by your lightning."

"Tch!!"

Arfius lifted his hands at quick speed. He had ditched his sword somewhere along the tornado scene when he completely focused on controlling the tornado.

The black cloud above his head slowly grows bigger until it arrives above me, and it starts to grumble out its thunderous sounds again. I know something powerful is coming just from how the hairs on my body are standing.

"If you survive this... You win... Because I have nothing else to offer…"

Arfius lowered his hands, and the arena became blinded by the insanely huge lightning dropping down from the black clouds.

Oh. So that's what it was.

BAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The blinding light then eats me whole as a giant palm of god formed from the lightning, smashing the ground to bits and everything around it. Arfius himself got thrown backwards from his most powerful attack.

The thunderous wind force affected the spectators and threw them into a tantrum. Cold powerful wind quickly turned the spectators into disarray. 

This is Arfius's strongest attack, and this is the first time they had seen it, so it does take them quite aback.

Combined with both the wind and ice magic, that thunder strike was so much more powerful than any other lightning strike created by a Knight tier lightning mage. That strength was rather similar to Prym's who was a King tier lightning mage, and possibly even stronger and had more effect due to the two other magic supporting it.

Arfius… he was still capable of firing such an attack like that, even after all those tornado scenes that must have drained most of his energy…

The smoke from the explosion had some slight electricity coming out of it as the dust on the ground covered everything from being visible. Arfius slowly stood back up while trying to stay conscious. 

Now, he is out of magic energy. That attack should have killed anyone... who is human.

Unfortunately, for him, and possibly for everyone…

I am not a human.

CLAP!

CLAP!!

A clap can be heard from inside the smoke. The clap began to sound louder as the smoke slowly cleared away from the giant crater in the middle of the arena.

Slowly walking up to the edge of the crater, is me.

The sleeves on my right hand all the way to my shoulder are gone, while my right and left hand looked to be quite charred from the burn.

Some parts of my pants are also burned and have some holes on it, but it is still intact. 

It does look exactly like I got caught in an explosion… except the part where I'm not dead.

"Damn! That was painful!"

I lifted both of my arms and showed him the wounds. The burn wounds slowly got enveloped in golden liquid and healed itself almost instantly after just a single second. The burn wounds on other sides of my body are also healed instantly.

Now, it looked like only my clothes got affected from the lightning strike… the very lightning strike that Arfius takes pride in.

Arfius… cannot look more hopeless than before.

"Like you said, I win. But really, you never had a chance to win in the first place. Not as long as I have the healing magic."

Arfius still can't believe the reality in front of him. But when he started to process it, he began to laugh.

"Hahah... Your most powerful ability was never your King tier fire magic, or your weird scary transformation… It's your healing magic."

"Glad you can finally understand that!"

I said as I slowly made my way to him. After saying that, I was already close enough and used the other side of my scythe to smack him on the forehead. 

FTANG!!!

He didn't quite expect that, and got thrown to the right and became unconscious immediately.

He fell asleep… just like that.

Seeing that Arfius had been defeated, the commentator quickly touched the speaking device again and spoke to it… loudly and clearly.

"A-Arfius has been defeated!! The winner and the champion of the first years... Rize Violet!!!"

The crowd turned insane after seeing that ending. To think I can still stand after that, everyone quickly questioned themselves, but dare not to ask me about it.

The whole class E students quickly burst into cheers right after the commentator announced me as the winner. Manda hugged Jericho, who seemed to still be petrified from the battle.

"S-She won... against Arfius... and it's not even a fair battle..."

"Yeah! She won!!"

Meanwhile at the VIP room, both the headmaster and the arch-mage looked quite shocked.

"D-Damn... does having only one eye make you see stuff?"

"N-No... Even with both eyes, I can tell you that we are seeing the same thing."

"T-Tell me... who is she?"

"... Merely an adventurer... Or so I thought."

"Bahahah!!!"

Julius then suddenly bursts into laughter, and the headmaster also followed by chuckling. The people in the VIP room looked quite confused by the two's bromance, but they are still pretty shocked from the battle they just witnessed.

The medic team quickly made their way to Arfius, but I simply stopped them.

I slowly made my way to Arfius and placed my hand on his chest. I casted my healing magic on him, and all his wounds are getting healed.

Luckily his wounds are merely small bruises and burned skin. His biggest reason for collapsing is his lack of energy.

The medic team picked him up and brought him away with a litter, and they headed for the infirmary so they could let Arfius rest.

Now… For the biggest threats of all…