In the Ar Dynasty, the idiot kings met in their council chambers with their respective deputies and army commanders with their academy's principal and head of combat studies department.
"Brothers, I think we need to ambush that little brat and show him who we are but these nations might make a united front if we do things recklessly so I purpose we work with the Academy students to use some of our forbidden weapons" the king of Aegis pleas without realising that his fellow leaders were planning on doing things right as they do not know what consequences they may face if they were to do things the unhonourable way.
"I suggest you stop with that plan, Ahmad. Besides we have strong students within the Academy, I'm sure he'll be unable to take on 5 or 10, he never stated the amount of student he'd fight so using our forbidden weapons is a no-go, I don't want to face the wrath those weapons possess." the King of Nile, Mohammed countered knowing that Ahmad's ill intentions could backfire if they don't take Lulutho's words into consideration.
"Yeah right, that damn brat vaguely made his challenge, he acts as if he's blessed by one of the four deities" the king of Nistu, Achraf responsed with a smug expression as his mind was focused on making things difficult to win and ultimately erasing Lulutho from existance.
The Academy's combat studies head stepped in and issues a list of names and the students abilities plus their skills,"Your Majesties, I have here a list of names that fit the exact outcome you all are looking for, especially the ones capable of execution so please place your trust in me in training those you pick" he proceeded whilst handing the lists out.
To their shock, they began to devise a plan and a venue capable of making the outcome go their way and they would conclude their meeting after 3 hours of scheming.
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Back at the Khosari Kingdom, Father decided to take me to an underground area he kept training in. I was a bit disappointed but because I possessed the ability to use Alchemy without transmutation circles help me develop Magic Manipulation, something I wouldn't realise until—
"Since you proposed the challenge, I suppose I should train you until you are ready for the day of the bout. I should remind that I'm nothing like Banele and the Ar Dynasty monarchs, leave an opening and I'll punish you. Are you ready?" Father stated with a face similar to anger and frustration but looking at the situation, I remained calm and assumed a Muay Thai stance.
Father took a wooden spear and threw at me,"Won't need it." I said as kicked it away and regain the stance again. Without hesitation, I leaped in front of him with an overhead kick trying to crack his foundation.
A bit shocked by the speed I was moving, Father tried to regain power by using enhancement magic which I rendered useless by changing position and throwing a clean blow to the cheek and followed with an array of combos using kicks and reinforced the last kick with Wind Magic.
"I guess I took your words into consideration but I didn't think I'd need to use 45% of what I've got to put you down" I said unscathed, and at that moment I said, Father began to launch his own combinations that landed clean and tried to finish with "Purgatory Slash" a high level Fire Magic blade slash.
Using flash step, I managed to avoid the attack and began coating my limbs with mana as I noticed that he made barriers around himself to taking any clean shots and slowly started unleash powerful strikes trying to cripple his defence and have him eat a kick to the face.
"Using magic to one-up your 14 year old son is crazy, that said I accept your challenge." I said with a smirk whilst breaking down the defence and with a second thought, I used launched a intermediate level Earth magic spell—Natural Selection—and columns of earth started attacking Father which gave me a moment to replace myself a clone and begin deconstructing every metal in the area to alchemize a spikeless iron maiden.
Not realising that I'd escaped from his line of sight, Father used a combination of fire, water, earth and wind magic to obliterate everything in his path as my clone was still putting up a good fight but the moment I finished the Iron Maiden, Natural Selection stopped and the next second all in the 5m radius of the elemental bomb got obliterated.
Father thinking I was done, waited for the smoke to clear but he took a step forward which caused the Iron Maiden to react and without much thought into what would happen, the very next second Father was entrapped into the Iron Maiden.
"I guess this means I win, although this was just to stop this training from draining my energy even further" I said opening a small latch the maiden had,"You really wanted to go all out so I had no choice but to end it this way cause it seems you forget that there's no reincarnation spell" I continued opening up the maiden.
"I was doing this for your own good, the Ar Dynasty will do anything to kill you and its because of that fact I had to go all out." Father replied trying make see the world through his eyes, funny enough I understood what he was talking about. I mean I got reincarnated here so I did feel sorry for him but then again I challenge those idiot kings so its my responsibility that I see this through.
"Understandable but be careful not to be this reckless with the twins, Your Majesty." I said deconstructing the maiden and then turning to leave,"One more thing, since I won, I'm free to roam around at my own will now, you're the kingdom's strongest fighter so beating you means whoever enters my radar with malicious intent can be dealt with easily or detained if you care so much about them." I continued then left the area.
After healing both our wounds from the duel, Father and I met with our royal army's commander and without a second thought I decided its best to not say anything as the army commander,Xolani,would see me as his early retirement plan since I stupidly mentioned that I was acting as crown prince hinting to the fact that I plan on giving that position to Ntsika as he seems more like Father in the regard of taking up the mantle. I suffer from ADD(Attention Deficit Disorder) so it would impossible for me to concentrate in many diplomatic meetings so I thought I should take up the position of being the commander instead but seeing him now rather than when I return from my intiation into manhood is way too early, there's no guarantee if I'll even live after the Ar Dynasty showdown.
"Your Majesty, the Ar Dynasty has sent out a letter regarding the venue of the showdown and the names of those who will be going against Your Highness" Xolani looking rather concerned as he saw that nothing on the list provided information of us to draw a plan.
Pressed about the situation, I decided to say something, "No worries, I'll just have to isolate myself into learning more offensive magic."and would leave after as I felt no stress in facing them but having to learn more about Light Magic as the only spell I can use is the basic one—Purification— but because it was 5 months left until the battle so the only thing I can do was read to understand the spells.
Light Magic here isn't quite different from what I expected but everything has Holy Magic elements in it so the requirements for these spells consisted of being faithful or pure and having a strong will and sense of honour, now I have one requirement already but a strong will and sense of honour definitely comes from being able to see war as the end-of-days or having a near death experience whilst thinking about your loved ones in which I have no experience in that, regardless of whether or not I'm reincarnated, so it inevitable that knowing how to use the spells would take time but I had time to think carefully and study more to see what other requirement is needed as I, for some reason, can automatically use any elemental magic if I can picture and understand two requirements required in being able to use it. Any other magic type needs training which is how i acquired healing magic alongside Purification and is also why I plan on leaving Khosari for a while in order to learn more.
Somehow I became a magic nerd with the same level of yearn for battle, being in an otherworld is quite interesting but to get back to the training, I looked into other types that could somehow support me and to my surprise, I found a Chemical magic book although this book seem to contain text that I can read, meaning whoever wrote this was also an otherworlder but the text was in Japanese.
"Old me really knew learning the language early would be beneficial, really grateful for Japanese professional wrestling" I said to myself as i opened the book.
"the book you're about to read is a dangerous one, its a book according to my findings of creating magic and enchancing the magic spells you currently utilise".
Without hesitation, I walked out the royal library with the book and made my way to my room and locked it to continue reading.
"If you are able to read this, it means you're either an otherworlder or a descendant of the Kubo clan of the Hana Empire. My name is Kubo Jinta, I'm the first emperor of the Hana Empire and write this as one of many books that can reveal the secrets of this world. This book caters to the creation of magic and how the highlight of this book—Chemical Magic— is the ultimate type of magic needing nothing but your understanding of Chemistry and sense of safety in which I would understand that the reader of this book is able to have both.
Now if you want to learn about Chemical Magic quickly, you can move to pg.50-150 but if you want to learn more about the revelation of this world, continue on from this page look for 4 more books and which one talks about the reason why this world will come to be a battlefield for the worlds above and below."
Without wanting to waste time I turned to the 50th page and learnt new spells : Nuclear Explosion, Energy Absorption, Absolute Zero, Acid Rain(helped me acquire Poison Magic by breaking down the acid) and an ace for when nothing works, Blood Manipulation.
the others explain themselves but Blood Manipulation is different as I can't control or draw an opponent's blood easily but with the bleeding part, I can change the chemicals of their blood so they either bleed out, have physical failure or simply explode from too many chemicals produced from their blood.
This was perfect for me and I had to perfect two out of the five which were Absolute Zero and Energy Absorption as aces up my sleeve, also managed to upgrade the flames of Fire Magic to black flames.
Obviously this would drain my mana everyday since I had trained for a month straight after reading the book for 14 days and somehow throughout that training, Aya had managed to control the elements around without needing a spell then tried ambushing me to no avail as her attacks forced to use Energy Absorption countless times.
Unlike Father's idea of a training from hell, my little sister somehow managed to help increase my mana by draining it everyday, I wouldn't be surprised if she managed to make herself one with mana and create a mana zone for herself. Although it would just generally be her using the mana instead of controlling it as the mana here seems hard to what I'm actually referencing but hey, dreams are possible!!
Another month would pass and this time around, with 2 months left until the day.
My parents urged me to join the strategy meeting to counter whatever diabolical schemes the Ar Dynasty have in mind and annoyed out of my mind, I agreed and within a minute I simply couldn't stand it anymore!!
"As you all know the Ar Dynasty won't let us enter their territory without expecting a surprise or two so I need two of the army's strongest plus 6 assassins" Father said, looking at the conglomeration sitting in front of him," I know i sound stupid having two visible guards and 6 invisible ones but trust me, that's enough power to remove any obstacles and have my son save his energy for the bout" he continued.
Xolani stood up and handed copies of the letter he received then continued from where Father left off, "His Highness will need to save his energy as the following names:Ishmad Sar(17, M), Mika Hadid(16,F), Faraan Dridi(15,M), Ali Hassan(18,M), Yasmine Saidi(14, F). Those are their Academy's top prodigies in combat and magic, this means His Highness Lulutho would need to focus on that 5 as they may as well equal a captain level soldier in their army which if history recalls, can be to much for us to fight so i hope we could try to make a breakthrough with today's proceedings and have little to no intentions of His Highness into the plan" he concluded .
The meeting took a while with me slipping away but using a clone and made it out to catch my siblings training.
"Big brother, you arrived in time!" Aya shouted, "Take that" Ntsikayomzi tried shouting but due to his voice being small as mine, probably smaller but without the laziness in it, he launched a fireball attack towards Aya in which she deflected.
"Ntsika, you'll need to fight your sister seriously, at some point I'll leave this kingdom and you would have to fight for the throne against her cause the Kingdom may deemed you as a weak heir."
"But brother—"
"Kid, look at the situation, that's a battle hungry person, she'd definitely be able to take your strongest attacks. Do that or fight any jerk that tries to disturb your peace when you're in the Academy."
Our conversation went quick but then I started explaining the situation in a way that an 8 year old would understand and both realising how this could mean immediate danger, began to focus more to training themselves and trying to reach my level but they would ultimately end up hurting themselves and I would soon get a scolding from Mother.
Soon, the month of the showdown arrived and with their stallions ready, the soldiers were on opposite ends of the carriage that would be surprisingly driven by buffalos and so on to the Ar Dynasty we went.