The match began, and the entire stadium instantly fell silent.
All of the spectators stared intently at the big screen, anxiously watching the semi-finals of the two pinnacle matches.
Jérôme raised his wand, and tiny bolts of lightning quickly began to condense at the tip of his wand. He then pointed his wand at the spot where Amy was standing.
Crack!
A clap of thunder erupted, and a bolt of silver lightning appeared above Amy, hurtling toward her.
"It really is lightning!" Amy looked up and took a step to the side.
The lightning struck the ground where she had been standing, leaving a bowl-sized crater and a patch of charred black on the hard stone floor.
"She dodged it so easily!"
"Lightning magic is one of the fastest magic spells, and she managed to dodge it by walking? Is she just too lucky? "
"That's not luck. If I'm not mistaken, she's still using melee magic. Her reaction speed and reflexes are both extreme, and she managed to get out of the lightning spell's range in an extremely short amount of time."
Jérôme's first attack had failed, and the atmosphere in the stadium began to liven up.
"Huh?" A hint of surprise also appeared on Jérôme's face. Even though Lightning Strike was only an elementary magic spell, it was very popular among lightning magic casters due to its extremely fast casting speed.
It was very difficult for a person to predict or evade a lightning magic caster's attack for the first time, and they could only choose to take the attack head-on or use magic to counter it.
However, Amy was able to dodge the lightning strike, which was a technique that only knights could use.
However, this didn't affect his movements in the slightest. He pointed his wand again, and another bolt of lightning fell.
However, Amy once again dodged the lightning strike by stepping to the side.
Claps of thunder continued to ring out, and Amy seemed to have activated a secret technique — Repeated Horizontal Jumps. She was able to dodge all of the lightning strikes within a small area, and not a single one was able to hit her.
"Eh? It doesn't seem fast enough. It's not as fast as Ah Zi's. " Amy blinked and stared at Jérôme with her magic caster's staff in hand. She grinned, revealing her neat, white teeth. "In that case, it's my turn."
Jérôme felt as if he was being targeted by a cheetah. He was on high alert, but he didn't panic or feel annoyed by the fact that his lightning bolt had missed. He narrowed his eyes at Amy, who had turned into a red blur and was rushing toward him. He quickly chanted an incantation and pointed straight ahead.
Sizzle!
The sound of electricity crackling could be heard as a ring-shaped electric net appeared in front of Jérôme. Silver lightning crisscrossed to form a net, tightly surrounding him.
Amy's charging figure abruptly stopped in front of the electric net. The tip of her magic caster's staff emitted a red glow, and she abruptly smashed it toward the electric net.
Boom!
Red sparks exploded at the point where the mage's staff came into contact with the electric net.
In the blink of an eye, Amy stumbled back a few steps, and her magic caster's staff almost slipped out of her hand.
The audience, who had been anticipating another miraculous strike from Amy, instantly erupted into an uproar. Amy's unstoppable melee magic had finally encountered an electric net that she couldn't break through.
A smile also appeared on Richard's face as he looked at Jérôme with a satisfied nod. This young magic caster was indeed not bad. If he could break through to the 8th-tier, he would definitely become one of the few lightning magic instructors in the Magus Tower.
Crassus' expression was still as calm as ever, as if he didn't think that Amy would lose.
"It's a little numb." Amy swung her slightly reddened right hand as she looked at the electric net around Jérôme. It was much sturdier than she had imagined, and it was also much more powerful than the defensive measures that the magic casters had used before.
"You're not injured?" Jérôme was also quite surprised to see that Amy's hand was only slightly reddened. However, he didn't stop his incantation, and pointed his wand at Amy again.
"I'll dodge!"
Amy immediately dodged to the side.
Boom!
A resounding boom erupted above her head as a ball of lightning about the size of a human head exploded, transforming into bolts of lightning that fell toward her, encompassing a radius of ten meters.
"Ice Shield!"
Amy raised her magic caster's staff above her head, and a thick and heavy ice shield appeared above her head.
The bolts of lightning fell like rain onto the ice shield, creating a series of craters on its surface.
Amidst the rumbling of thunder, Amy gritted her teeth as she supported herself with her magic caster's staff.
Everyone held their breaths as they silently prayed that Amy would be able to survive this spell.
However, Lightning Explosion was one of the most powerful intermediate magic spells, after all. Jérôme's attack wasn't something that could be blocked by a simple ice shield.
The ice shield was reduced to shards of ice by a single bolt of lightning, and the remaining bolts of lightning fell toward Amy.
Her tiny figure appeared to be particularly helpless.
The difference in power between intermediate magic casters and advanced magic casters was completely apparent now that speed couldn't make up for it.
However, Amy, who was holding her magic caster's staff, raised her head to look at the lightning bolts, and her eyes sparkled.
The referee on the sidelines sighed softly. The outcome had been decided, and he took a step forward, preparing to end this duel.
"She hasn't admitted defeat yet." Crassus' voice sounded, and the referee instinctively stopped in his tracks.
"No!"
Many of the audience members instinctively closed their eyes.
"This!" Jérôme was also shocked, and he instinctively reached out his hand to stop her.
He didn't expect Amy to not dodge, and he also didn't expect the referee to not end the duel. Lightning Explosion was one of the most destructive intermediate magic spells. Even an intermediate knight would be injured by it, let alone a little girl.
The spell that had already been released was naturally no longer under his control.
Five bolts of lightning fell onto Amy's body in front of everyone's eyes.
The expected scene of her turning into ashes didn't happen. The lightning bolts fell on her body, piercing three small holes in her little cloak, and then seemed to be absorbed by her.
There seemed to be a hint of enlightenment in Amy's bright eyes, and a smile blossomed on her adorable face.
A powerful aura emanated from her body, making her appear even more powerful.
"She actually broke through to the 7th-tier!"
Brent stood up abruptly with a look of disbelief on his face.
"She … she became an advanced magic caster after being struck by five bolts of lightning?"
"She made a breakthrough in battle?! That's insane!!! "
The audience members, who had thought that Amy was destined to lose, were also in an uproar and disbelief.
The referee heaved a sigh of relief, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat.
Jérôme was also a little dumbstruck as he looked at the unscathed Amy.
Since when did Lightning Explosion become so weak? And it even had the effect of helping people make breakthroughs?
If one could really make a breakthrough after being struck by a Lightning Explosion, he even wanted to try it on himself.
"Thank you, Big Brother. I understood what Master said after just one strike." Amy looked at Jérôme with a smile.
Jérôme didn't want to say anything, and he hurled three consecutive Lightning Explosions at Amy.
However, as soon as the lightning balls appeared, Amy had already disappeared on the spot. In the next instant, she appeared in a corner of the battlefield several dozen meters away, and frost appeared on the ground as her feet landed.
"Ice Escape!" Jérôme's pupils contracted. He didn't think that she would have already mastered an advanced ice-type escape technique after just making a breakthrough.
"Master Julian said that I can control everything within the range of my domain," Amy murmured as she waved her hand, and an Italian cannon made entirely out of ice appeared before her.
"Wow, it really works!" Amy's eyes lit up, and she released a bunch of Ice Fire Lotuses from her magic caster's staff. As she stuffed them into the cannon, she murmured to herself, "I can't break the lightning net, so I'll just have to try it."
Several dozen Ice Fire Lotuses were stuffed into the cannon, and Amy stood on her tiptoes to insert the thin end of her magic caster's staff into the cannon. She then aimed the cannon at Jérôme, who was preparing to unleash an advanced spell.
"Fire!"
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