Endless Horde: Through the Eyes of a Godking

[Notice! Skill: 『Dispel』 learned.]

Yes, Cedric tried using Dispel through clapping and it worked. Typically, he needs a medium like a wand, orb, or a staff to cast a spell. Additionally, one needs to chant an aria to do so. Of course, there are ways to bypass those requirements; such as having perfect control over mana, Ki in Cedric's case, or having a complete understanding of the spell.

『Dispel』 is Magic and usually needs mana to cast. However, there are ways to work around it, otherwise, how could Cedric cast it when he doesn't even have an ounce of mana in his body?

Cedric, being the genius that he is, discovered this and found a rather unorthodox way to do so. He does feel a little bad for making Anton his test subject but hey, it worked! Luck played a huge role but it still worked.

And with Cedric's memory and absurdly fast learning curve, he will master this in no time.

'Sorry, Dude. I didn't mean it, but you asked for it.' Cedric sighed inwardly as he saw his opponent being carried away to the infirmary.

'Still, he's a bit impressive. I reckon that he raised his strength from Tier 3 Lv.7 to Tier 4 Lv.5 when he decided to go all out.'

Unfortunately for Anton however, Cedric's 『Dispel』 was the perfect counter for him. Well, who could've thought that Anton would go all out and use his strongest skill at the very start of the match?

Cedric did see it coming, but at the same time, his using Dispel had a 50% chance of failing so the fight could've ended a bit differently. However, he succeeded so...lucky?

'I still don't know why he's hiding that much but meh...I don't particularly care. It's my business anyway.'

He's also aware of the stares he's receiving from his fellow freshmen but he decided to ignore them. This isn't the first time, nor would be the last. It's annoying but he could only get used to it.

Since he already defeated Anton, he could move on to his next match. He barely used any energy to defeat Anton, and even if he did, he already recovered it by now.

He's still good to go so he decided to accept the next challenge, this one coming from Isabella herself.

**

From the audience, Isabella sat in a lone corner, watching as her batchmates competed with each other. She accepted challenges earlier and defeated everyone who thought they could replace her.

However, for the most part, Isabella wasn't really concerned about the rest. Her focus is on the sole person she challenged, and that's Cedric.

If she told anybody that she lost some sleep because of this man...a man, they'd most likely react as if the world was ending.

Really? The ever-so-distant and frigid 'Frozen Princess' lost sleep because of a man? How could anybody believe it? However, it's the truth but not in the way others think...

She just doesn't get it...how he's so strong. He's Tier 3 just like them. Sure, he might have some fortunate encounters and so on, but in a place that's deemed as a hub of geniuses, who didn't? Everyone's entitled to their secrets of course, but Isabella was just bothered by Cedric's...existence.

She could feel it...almost certain of it, that he hadn't even displayed half of his true abilities. Cedric was far...far stronger than he lets on. However, just like what was mentioned earlier, he's only at Tier 3, how is that possible?

How did he train? Was his luck truly that good? How was he able to squeeze out so much strength and still remain at Tier 3? It doesn't make sense to her.

More importantly, what really sets Cedric apart from other geniuses she met is that this guy remained...reasonable, despite his overwhelming strength.

What she means is that Cedric, at the very least, was still humble. She could name at least 10 people who wouldn't hesitate to throw their weight around if they had that kind of strength. But Cedric didn't do so. Instead, he resolutely pushed on.

In the class she shared with him, Cedric excelled. Their instructor, Michael, had nothing but praise for his performance. Isabella could even tell that Cedric had nothing to learn in that class anymore since he already learned everything on his own.

Yet, he still attends the class, he still participates in activities and more importantly, he keeps on finding ways to improve himself despite being this powerful already.

The best/worst part about this? It's working. Isabella could tell that much.

Comparing herself to Cedric makes her feel...inadequate. Isabella doesn't understand why he pushes himself so hard. He's an enigma and he makes her uncomfortable.

...add the fact that he also acts as if she doesn't ever see her, makes her feel even more uncomfortable.

As a Spellcaster, Isabella recognized what he did to Anton earlier, and wasn't that just an eye-opener? Great, now the guy turns out to be so excellent that he can cast magic despite not having mana.

And the fact that she caught Cedric looking surprised by what he did just makes it even worse.

'Just how far ahead is he?' She frustratingly asked inwardly.

[Beep!]

Isabella woke up from her stupor and received a message urging her to come up the stage. To her surprise, Cedric accepted her challenge right then and there.

She looked at him and saw that he was just zoning out as he waited for her. Wasn't the normal reaction for him to at least look at her? Isabella refuses to believe that he didn't know where she was, so why wasn't he looking?

Somehow, she felt upset by that.

Huffing to herself, she stood up and marched towards the stage. Her gaze locked on Cedric's frame - who's still not looking at her, by the way.

Even as she arrived in front of him, Cedric was still zoning out. The countdown for the start of the match already started but he's still zoning out.

Irritation crept up to her heart as she saw this. She doesn't know she's so upset by this but she does know that she doesn't like this at all.

Thus, to vent out her frustrations, she conjured several compressed glaciers above her. She didn't hold back because she knew that Cedric could take it. Besides, she wanted this match to happen. She wants to see just how far ahead Cedric is and to do that, she needs to show some sincerity.

'3...2...1! Fight!'

Woosh!

As soon as the countdown ended, Isabella launched her attack. Ice crackled around her and a freezing cloud erupted from her body.

She saw Cedric finally reacting, but instead of looking at her, his attention was on her attack instead.

Due to her focus, Isabella entered a state where time seemed to slow down. She saw, in clear detail, how Cedric's eyes looked at her attack; calmly analyzing it, and seemingly getting bored by how slow it was.

She saw how Cedric merely tilted his head to evade her attack. Not minding the formation of ice exploding behind him at all.

If she wasn't paying attention at all, she would've missed it. But Cedric flicked a finger and launched a small plume of fire towards the ice formation behind him.

To her surprise, she felt the heat contained by that tiny plume of fire and was astonished. With her affinity with Ice, a fire of that size shouldn't even make her feel anything yet when Cedric does it, it's somehow different.

Then, she saw how the massive ice formation behind him melted like snow under the summer's heat as soon as the plume of fire made contact with it.

The fact that he was able to do something like that so effortlessly caused Isabella's worldview to be shaken.

'I spent a decent chunk of my mana to cast that spell, I also did it at my top speed yet he dodged it like it was some randomly thrown pebble and melted it with ordinary fire?'

'Sure, his temperature control is phenomenal, but to do it so effortlessly like that...and only spend a drop of his Ki to do so?'

'What kind of monster am I up against?' Isabella was truly shaken by his display of skill.

Unknowingly, the Frozen Princess started sweating nervously. Her thoughts raced, nearly forgetting that she was in the middle of a fight.

Still, she recovered pretty fast at least, and launched her follow-up attack.

She stomped forward, casting a spell where ice crept up in a cone shape toward Cedric. Yet to her overwhelming surprise, as if predicting her next move, Cedric did the same. The only difference was, instead of Ice, Cedric did it with flames.

The clash of the elements caused a steam cloud to erupt, covering both the participants. With this obstruction, the audience could only groan because they couldn't tell what was happening anymore.