Before they went to prepare for the contest, Cecil immediately regretted agreeing to it."Tsk, this is just a pointless waste of time..." Cecil mumbled.
"What"s that Cecil?" Kaiser asked.
"Why can"t you just respect my wishes and not do this? I don"t want to marry her and from the looks of it, she doesn"t want to marry me as well!"
Kaiser turned to look at Katya and saw the suppressed reluctance in her eyes and nodded. Augustus, however, didn"t want to hear any of it and said, "You"re the one who suggested this contest and now you want to back out? Then shall I take this as my daughter"s win?"
"What?"
"Or maybe, you"re just too scared to lose?"
"Scared? Me? Can"t you take a good look at your daughter for once, old guy? She doesn"t even want to be here! Besides, even if she wanted to, I wouldn"t be willing! She"s just not my type!"
Katya was startled when she heard this and she opened her mouth in shock, "What?!"
"I said, you"re just not my type!"
"I"m not your type?!"
"...yup," Cecil looked at the girl for a moment before turning his eyes away.
Coincidentally, his gaze turned towards the direction of his two wives. Katya turned to look at the two women and noticed that they possessed something that she was rather lacking in, b.r.e.a.s.t.s.
The two women had huge knockers. The one who had stood up and had suggested the contest had the bigger one out of the two, but the mature looking one had sizeable ones as well. Katya immediately grew incensed and she yelled out.
"Just because I don"t have big b.r.e.a.s.t.s doesn"t mean that I"m any less than them!"
"Hah?"
"Huh?"
"Wuh?"
The other people inside the hall turned to look at Cecil"s wives to try and compare them with the Goldenia family"s girl. This caused Lucia and Serilla to cover their chests in embarra.s.sment before immediately eyeing Cecil furiously.
The others in the room began nodding in understanding after making the comparison. This only caused Katya to turn even more furious and further embarra.s.sed Lucia and Serilla, who in turn grew even more furious.
Cecil had a funny look on his face when he sensed the piercing glares of his wives and the girl in front of him. He scratched his head in confusion before saying, "Did I say something wrong?"
Katya turned around furiously and walked out of the hall. The other people inside the grand hall only sighed and thought, "Phew, like father, like son, right?"
Hearing the mumbling, Anastasia blushed while Kaiser only chuckled in contentment, "Haha, that"s ma boy."
******
Once the contest was set to take place, everyone made their way towards the field in front of the family"s dojo. Since they were going to be using only magic in this contest, a wider battlefield would be much more appropriate.
Cecil switched his clothes from his casuals to his regular combat gear. After hitting their husband a few times, Lucia and Serilla were now constantly reminding him that no matter what beat the girl quickly and end it.
The three had heard something fascinating from Luca earlier as well. The Goldenia family"s magic spells were much different than the normal "spells" that everyone in the Silvaria Kingdom was used to. The Goldenia"s were actually able to use elemental magic to their surprise.
Cecil didn��t want to be underhanded so he decided to check on his opponent"s body condition with his Mana Eyes once the fight started.
Katya took a while to get ready because they had to retrieve her clothes from the city. They didn"t have spatial rings like them so it was understandable. During this waiting period, the family"s disciples cleaned up the field and prepared a seating area for the spectators while Lucia began setting up magic boundaries around the field.
This naturally raised a few brows from the Goldenia family. The speed and ease the woman used the spells were astounding. They couldn"t help but frown knowing that the woman was perhaps a better mage than their Katya.
Cecil was already on the field stretching his body. Since he wasn"t allowed to use any of his martial arts, weapons, and skills, people were a little skeptical as to why he needed to stretch his body.
The use of energy waves were banned so Cecil could only use Mana Bolts. His family thought it was a little unfair because the contest"s conditions had placed a huge handicap on him. Of course, this was because they hadn"t seen him use any magic spells.
They only remembered him using that spell on the large piece of earth that he molded into a building but they also remembered that there was a large complex and intricate magic formation that was used in order to invoke the spell.
Cecil himself said that it required him a few hours to set up so using spells in that magnitude was obviously not going to happen in this contest.
After half an hour had pa.s.sed, Katya had returned to the estate dressed in her battle uniform. Honestly, it was very stylish in Cecil"s opinion. He let the girl stretch and warm up for a bit before asking if she was ready.
"I"m ready, let"s go."
"Mhm."
In Katya"s mind, win or lose, it didn"t matter. If her opponent won, then she wouldn"t have to marry or live with him. If she won, then she could immediately say that her wish wasn"t to marry Cecil. Either way, her father wasn"t going to get what he wanted.
However, it wasn"t like she was going to purposefully throw the match. She felt a little incensed at the young man standing nonchalantly before her. Katya just felt a little indignant for some reason. She couldn"t understand why, but all she knew was that she was angry at the man in front of her.
"You ready?" Cecil called out.
"Hmph, are you ready to be pummeled?"
"Woah, a feisty one, eh?"
"Hmph, I"m going to make you eat your words! Just so you know, you"re not my type as well!"
"Hahaha, let"s get this started then."
"Do your worst! Just so you know, I"m not holding back!"
"Good, otherwise this wouldn"t be much of a challenge~"
"Why you—Accelero Levitas—Phasellus Potentia!"
Hearing those unfamiliar words, Cecil noticed that a red and light green aura was being drawn to Katya"s body. This intrigued Cecil because he knew that the aura was the ambient mana lingering around in the air.
Cecil immediately activated his Mana Eyes and upon seeing his pupils change from black to gold, it immediately startled Katya who was closely observing him. In the next instant, she felt as if her body was being invaded by Cecil"s eyes. It was like he was peering deep into her heart and soul.
"W-what"re you doing?!"
"Hm?"
"Pervert, take this! Genero—Terra Fortis Adser, Eructo!"
"Huh?"
Cecil immediately sensed the surrounding earth under him begin to churn. He immediately jumped away and when he turned back to look, the earth where he was standing at earlier had erupted into a small forest of earthen spikes.
"W-what the h.e.l.l?"
"Genero—Lux Fortis Sphera, Eructo!"
In the next instant, Cecil"s vision immediately burst into a total whiteness. He was blinded and his ears were ringing. Katya"s magic resembled that of a flash bang and this rendered Cecil a little bit helpless at the moment.
Katya already knew that she would be affected by her spell as well so she had put up a dark barrier around herself beforehand.
If Cecil saw this, he would be totally astounded because his opponent had just used Earth, Light, and Dark magic in quick succession. The only indicator of her even casting a spell was when she had yelled out the weird incantation and when the mana had gathered to form her spell.
It wasn"t like Alterna"s spell system. There was no magic formation involved in her invocation and casting.
"Genero—Aero Fortis Sagitta, Vis!"
"Oh, s.h.i.t!"
Cecil was still blinded and he couldn"t hear anything due to the ringing in his ears, but he felt mana quickly gathering before he felt a wind blow across his skin. He immediately twisted his body and evaded Katya"s spell.
Luca who was on the sidelines was amazed. Earlier, when the Goldenia family was helping him out, Katya hadn"t done anything and only the other members of group had been firing off spells using their odd incantations.
Now he understood that the Goldenias had been keeping a trump card hidden away under their sleeves. This girl was actually pushing Cecil back. It could be attributed to the fact that he was caught off guard, but his opponent had banked on that chance and followed it up nicely by chaining and using the correct spell in her a.r.s.enal to push Cecil around the battlefield.
It took a while before Cecil"s hearing and vision returned to normal. During this entire time, he had been constantly running around the battle field whilst dodging the spells Katya threw at him. The girl was happily playing around with her blinded prey, but before long she began to grow annoyed since not one of her spells had hit him.
He was blinded and his listening was impaired so how could she not have landed a single spell on the man? She started setting up defenses around herself before she gathered a large amount of mana and yelled, "Stay still dammit! Caelus Sera!"
"Ugh, what?!"
Cecil felt his body stop in place after Katya invoked her spell. He felt as if his body was being shackled by invisible chains. He activated Hyper Sensitivity and started observing his body and his surroundings.
"d.a.m.n, this girl can manipulate s.p.a.ce?!"
With his eyes, Cecil saw that the mana all around him had solidified in place, putting him inside an invisible cage.
"Dammit, I"m starting to like this girl!"
Cecil growled and activated his Transformation Spell from his pact with Silver. His hair grew and his body started transforming.
"Huh?" Katya exclaimed in shock when she saw Cecil"s change. Before she could do anything, her opponent had suddenly disappeared before she felt one of her spells being broken through from behind her.
"Eh?"
She saw the transformed Cecil moving his "claws" straight at her neck before her opponent suddenly stopped and disappeared again. He appeared once again in front of Katya, a distance away, and said, "Oops, I"m sorry. I forgot that I wasn"t allowed to use any physical attacks..."
Katya was a little bit confused. She knew that she had just lost earlier, but upon hearing Cecil"s words, she grew infuriated.
"Y-you... You"re mocking me!!!"
"What?"
"Genero Multis—Ignis Valis Guran, Vibro Fortis Sagitta, Terra Valis Cures!"
When Katya began casting her spells, Cecil immediately activated his Mana Eyes and watched her closely while at the same time activating Hyper Sensitivity and writing down his own spell formations using both his hands.
He was multi-tasking but took priority in observing Katya"s way of invoking spells.
"Hmm, that"s interesting!"
"Ah wait... this might be a little bad..." Cecil mumbled when he saw the multiple large fireb.a.l.l.s, lightning arrows, and earth lances...
"TAKE THIS—VIS!"
At her last word, the spells hovering in the air immediately bombarded Cecil in the next instant.