MIGHT AS WELL BE OP
Chapter 85: Mana Zone

"Have you decided to stop hiding" Romulus said as he looked at Anthony with an expressionless face.

"I was never hiding, just wanted to watch this like a movie like a certain someone" Anthony said as he glanced at a particular direction with his deep blue eyes as he peered through space.

"Watching these fights from animes and reading them in manhwa and novels are really interesting, but a live version is a different kind of feeling" Anthony said with a smile.

Anthony stood up from the seat he was initially sitting on and the seat disappeared, then he cancelled his concealment skill.

While floating in the sky, he looked down on everyone, then he smirked and released a thick killing intent that sent a chill down the spine of everyone from the Grandmaster rank down to the lowest rank.

Even the Paragon Rankers felt a sense of dread and death coming from Anthony but they could still handle it, but as for the rest they were all trying to release their own aura to escape the pressure.

Anthony's white hair bellowed as he spoke like a god of some sort with his voice echoing

"It seems the demons are presumptuous these days, I shall pass on judgement"

Everyone looked up at Anthony with their eyes glued on him as he spoke.

'How about I abuse this Infinite Mana skill for once, I'm sure nobody would ask how I possessed such mana for my age' Anthony thought with a smile.

An incomprehensible ridiculous amout of mana was immediately released from Anthony's body.

[Fire Magic: Mana Zone: Nova Judgement]

Mana roared furiously as the entire Academy Domain was instantly tinted crimson as Anthony bestowed his judgement upon all demons from Paragon rank downwards.

Only one word echoed in all demons minds; 'DEATH'

Only one word echoed in the minds of the remaining species that fought the demons; 'BEAUTIFUL'

Fire didn't rain down from the skies like Bryan's spell.

The attack immediately materialized infront of every single demon within the Academy domain and instantly blasted and exploded them all without hesitation.

An ear wrecking explosion resounded throughout the Academy as the explosion was detonated at the same time.

The Academy Domain quaked for a second from the sheerness of the attacks, space trembled repeatedly.

****BOOOMM***ARRRRHH***EEEKK***

Screams of the demons being exploded and burnt to death continued echoing as the spell ravaged them all, even their bloods were immediately burned up as it flowed out.

Everything was layed to waste and destruction, buildings collapsed, glasses shattered upon impact.

Ravines were created as everything was in ruin from the attack.

Those watching couldn't understand how a first year student could release an attack that spanned the entire Academy domain.

Such a feat was impossible, there is no single or even a fraction of possibility of it happening, yet they all saw it with their eyes.

The mana required, the control of mana and element required for such feat was simply impossible in the Mortal rank.

Everyone could sense Anthony's mid stage SS aura which he released together with his killing intent, they all saw he was in Mortal rank.

Even though Anthony is at the Peak of the Master rank, such an attack is still impossible for a Master ranker, and even a Paragon.

Such was the beauty of MANA ZONE.

Just like how warriors awaken Aura and use it to enhance themselves and their weapons when fighting, Mages awaken the Mana zone.

But you don't just awaken the Mana zone and aura at the S rank.

The S rank was just one of the basic requirement to be able to awaken this power, the other requirement is talent.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to talent, which shackle a lot of people.

Even people with average talent can still awaken Aura and Mana zone, but just like Mana control, Aura and Mana zone both require extreme control.

You don't just awaken Aura and Mana zone and you are automatically done, you have to continue learning and increasing your control over these two skills just like how you increase your mana and elemental control.

But don't mistake mana and elemental control for Aura and Mana zone control, they are all different concept on their own which require a ridiculous comprehensive ability.

Mana zone allows mages to control mana around them, thereby allowing them to utilize more magic than they could normally wield.

This mana can be channelled into their attacks, to increase its size, damage, range and number, also allowing them to manifest the attack directly infront of you just like how Anthony did with the demons, allowing them to shoot attacks in any direction of their Mana zone with utter ease.

Mana zone also allows mages to have greater reaction time, mana detection, basically things able to be done with mana becomes ridiculous strong.

Some people can manifest a mana zone of one meter as soon as they awaken the skill, some ten meters, it all depends on your talent.

Your Mana control can also boost your attacks inside said Mana zone, making those with good mana control to be more ridiculously powerful.

Of course you can't awaken Mana zone with poor control over mana, how do you want to control the mana in the environment if you haven't even learnt how to control your own mana.

In simple terms, this is a ridiculous powerful skill that shackle a lot of people and the time taken to even increase the size of your Mana zone is another stumbling block.

People spend years training this skill, just like training Aura, you hardly see people training both Aura and Mana zone at same time.

Just a single one of them take people their entire Iives, talkless of of learning both of them at the same time, such requirements wasn't something people could handle.

Of course there are those that overestimate themselves due to arrogance and end up dying as a result of old age or other problems.

So even if you have money to cultivate a pig to the highest level, at the end of the day it's just a pig with a longer lifespan and nothing more, as people at lower rank who worked hard for everything would have more battle prowess, experience and everything.

Even if you have a treasure that enhances talent to an extent, zero times hundred is still zero at the end of the day.

This is why Anthony added Mana zone to his fire spell, not that he need such a skill in the first place, it is just a disguise that he used for his infinite mana skill, releasing such an attack without a Mana zone would be outrageous, if any demon escaped here then his life would be a constant assassination theme party.

But still, even with Mana Zone it is still outrageous for someone at the SS rank to possess a Mana zone so developed to cover the entire Domain, such a feat is impossible, but here Anthony did it with 'Mana zone', which would at least reduce the incoming assassination attempts.

Smokes and dust scattered everywhere as everyone became blinded and didn't see what happened after.

After the smoke cleared out, people looked around and saw the the staggering amount of corpse left behind, some Grandmaster rankers weren't spared by death.

Even some Paragons received scratches from the attack, such a thing punctured their pride as a mere mortal was able to injure them.

Of course not all demons died or got injured, some survived as everyone has a card up their sleeves.

Some used their armours, some tore up some one time use scrolls or talisman to cover themselves with barriers.

But they appeared ragged, as even if they survived and were still battered.

The surviving demons channelled chaos into their space rings and amulets and brought out potions ranging from chaos potions to healing potions as they healed themselves.

"Why didn't you use my flames, we missed such nourishment to strengthen myself and your soul"

Romulus said as he looked at the dead demons, even the surviving ones won't be alive if Anthony used him.

"Well, it's just for aesthetics, I mean the sun is behind me shining with a crimson hue upon everyone and I, me releasing an attack of same color makes the battlefield and I more beautiful, besides there are demons everywhere to consume, it's not like the Demon Domain would magically disappear"

Anthony said with a smile, as the demons have been attacking this world for millions of years, so he still has a lot of them to harvest later on.

Romulus didn't say anything and just kept quiet as indeed Anthony was right.

...

The SEER ROOM

The seer nearly choked on his drink, when he saw Evelyn releasing such a spell that spanned 100 kilometres, now Anthony casted a spell that covered the entire domain.

"How broken are these kids, even the older golden generation aren't this good"

The seer said with a frown as he fell into deep thoughts.

'How was that boy even able to sense me'

The Seer thought as he remembered how Anthony stared at him from across space before he attacked the demons.

"Well the show has been good so far, the demons should increase the intensity of their attacks now the hero has made an entrance"

The Seer continued eating his popcorn with a carefree face.

Of course The Seer was recording this to rewatch later on if he was ever bored.

Such was the life of The Seer.