Physics The Greatest Magic
Chapter 94 - Consuming Dark Flames

"Regnum Glacies." 

Without even bothering to fake chant, John cast the spell, and at that moment. 

*Crackle* *crackle* *crackle* 

Crackling sounds resounded as the floor began to freeze, walls made of ice began to rise as John felt magic being poured out of him as if the seal of a cap had been broken. 

Without bothering to dodge, she just watched and waited for me to finish my spell 

After the walls had risen around 15 meters, it started to close off on the roof. 

It didn't take long for it to be completed. 

Ice kingdom, a spell John had thought of after the tournament. Within those 2 days he practiced in secret, and it wasn't that hard to learn it. 

All he did was simply mix 'Ice wall' with glacio and this was the result. 

They were inside of his 'ice kingdom' the inside was freezing, and the ice had strange contorted shapes. 

Without dropping her guard, she waited for John to attack. She didn't even question how he had managed to create all of that without chanting, and John was grateful. 

"Ready..." 

He gathered wind under his legs and propelled himself straight at her; John cast levite to make himself lighter and moved at the speed of a canon. 

John went straight at her, with both daggers ready to strike at any moment. 

In less than a second, he had reached her, and right when he was about to swing his dagger, she took a step to the side and completely evaded him. 

But John knew she'd do that. 

Without wasting any more time, John rotated his body mid-air and propelled himself at her again.

Right before John reached her, he had frozen her legs so she shouldn't be able to dodge. 

As John swung his dagger, she bent over backwards and dodged it, while at the same time, kicking him straight in the face as she somehow freed her legs. 

 But John didn't stop there. Before she could create distance between them, he imitated the black-haired guy's move. Spikes began to rise from the ground and they were all directed at her. 

However, none of them hit. She had managed to dodge them all by leaping away and tilting her body in the last second. 

"Then... positumque loculum glacies." Translation: Ice coffin. 

As she stood a few feet away from John, he decided to try out a new move he had recently learned. He wasn't able to use it on the exam as it was too risky, but it should be effective on her.

Walls rose from the ground around her, they were around 10 feet tall. 

Without trying to dodge it, she waited to see what was going to happen. 

The roof and the walls closed off with her trapped inside. In that instant, spikes extended from the inside of the small room John had trapped her in and were directed at her. 

John couldn't see what happened, and couldn't hear any screaming, so he was about to retract the spell when all of the sudden, the spell broke apart, or rather... in an instant, tt was cut to pieces. 

John was dumbfounded. Without casting a single spell, she had cut the ice walls like butter. 

As she stood in the middle of the broken spell, waiting for John's next attack, he knew that he had chosen the right person. 

That was also when John noticed her daggers, they were engulfed in a dark flame. 

'What is that?' John wondered.

"Tired?" She asked. 

"Nope, not at all," John replied. 

John was panting heavily. Casting all of those spells and reinforcing his body really took a toll on him, 'Ice kingdom' was mana heavy. 

'I'll pour everything into this last attack.' John decided.

He propelled himself up using velox and while he was barely under the roof, John cast 'Gravitas'. 

"Gravitas x 10..." 

She stared at her body, as if she realized that there was an increased amount of pressure over her, but didn't look like it was fazing her that much. 

'How about...' Thought John.

"x 20..." He muttered while slowly descending from the air. 

The ice beneath her started to crack, yet she still stayed standing as she stared at him. 

"x 30..." John muttered as he slowly ascended. 

'Any more than this and I'll run out of juice.' John realized.

Again she didn't fall but John could tell that she couldn't move. She most likely wouldn't be able to evade this next attack. 

John couldn't waste any more time, Gravitas was sucking out all the magic out of him.

"Mag...num... Flamea Glacies..." 

The ice which began to gather underneath John started to glow. Its size increased and its shape changed. 

Unlike magnum Glacies which was a giant version of a normal Glacies. 

Magnum Flamea, was not only forming out to be a giant version of the normal Ice spear, but its shape was changing. 

The end product was something John had never expected. 

It looked like a spear, but it had ice stretched out on the sides which gave the expression of wings, the tip of the spear was glowing a blue light which gave John chills, the air around it, because visible as if it was so cold, it was freezing it. 

Without a second thought, John propelled it at her, while using Velox to increase it's speed. 

At the same time, he felt all his strength disappear; John was now out of magic. 

As he slowly fell from the roof to the bottom, John heard her say. 

"Tenebrae perussi flammarum" Translation: Dark Consuming Flames. 

After that, John saw her swing her blade, and flames erupting from it, causing his attack to get split in half and evaporated. 

Before John could see anything else, while midair, he fainted. 

*** 

John opened his eyes and was once again greeted by an unfamiliar roof. 

The moonlight passed through the windows and lit up the room. 

As John moved his body, he noticed that it was sore from the fight. 

"I Lost... I guess that means she won't teach me..." John muttered as he looked around. 

John nearly screamed when he saw her sitting beside the bed. He couldn't tell what sort of face he was making, but he was very surprised. 

"Eh... ah..." 

John didn't know what to say. He had thought that she would have left him there. 

'Could she actually be a lot nicer than she looks...?' John wondered. 

"Did I pass?" John asked. 

As if she had nothing else to do, now that John had woken up, she headed to the door without replying. As she opened it and was about to leave, he heard her say. 

"Lessons start tomorrow at noon." 

After that, she closed the door. 

Meanwhile, John was so happy that he shouted "YES!!" as he punched the air. 

"Now, I'll finally become unstoppable..." 

[Do you want power?] An unknown voice sounded.

*** 

The next day, John went home and got yelled at by Serena, and Ariel as well seemed pretty annoyed at him for ditching them. John explained to them that he felt the aura of the person who had saved them but they just treated him like some sort of idiot. 

"How harsh..." 

As for Eleanor, they brought a cake for her and got her to get out of her room, but by the time John got there, he couldn't see her. John was planning on sneaking into her room today after training' 

'Wait, doesn't that make me sound weird...?' John thought to himself. 

'Ah forget it, I'll worry about that later. Now I'm more excited about what sort of training I'll go through.' John wondered.

"Deprehendre" 

John could still remember what the trace of her magic felt like, so he had no problems catching it now. 

'She's somewhere different today, that's not the field we were at before. Speaking of which, what happened to the ice kingdom I left there? Surely nothing bad.' John wondered. 

John rushed over to where deprehendre detected her and was surprised to see it was another open field. 

"This city sure is open..." John muttered as he approached her. 

"Take off your shirt," She said as she looked at him. 

"Eh?" John replied. 

"Take off your shirt." She repeated. 

'M-My shirt? W-Why?' John questioned in shock.

He did as she asked and took it off. 

John hadn't realised earlier, but his body barely had any bruises. Only a few scratches, also his muscles were starting to get defined and he was starting to get a 6-pack. It made him happy to think that his daily exercises weren't in vain. 

She stared at John's body before she said. 

"1000 Push-ups." 

"What?" John asked. 

"1000 Push-ups" She repeated. 

'Eh? 1000? Moreover, strength training?' John thought. 

Without questioning it, John got in the push-up stance. 

'Believe it or not, I had been doing 100 push-ups every day for the past month.' John reiterated to himself. 

"1... 2..." 

"No magic" She said while watching him. 

"1000 without magic...?" John asked. 

"Is there a problem?" 

"N-No! 1... 2... 3..." 

*** 

"98... 99..... One... H... Hundred..." John muttered before dropping to the ground. 

He hadn't realised how weak he was. John would always keep his body reinforced with magic, and even when he trained, he did it subconsciously. 

"30-second break." 

… 

*** 

"Nine hundred and... ninety-eight... Nine hundred... And ninety-nine... One... Thousand..." John mumbled before collapsing. 

John could barely catch his breath. His arms felt like they were about to drop off at any moment. 

"2 minute rest, then 500 squats." 

"U-Understood...." John muttered while holding in his tears.