Born OP

Part Three

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.

Chapter 86: Men of Ice

The regular people (those with low rank like F rank and E rank and such) felt that Anthony was god in human skin.

The way he stood with the sun bathing him with a radiant glow, the spell basically wipping out almost every single demon in the Mortal rank, the spell that spanned the entire Academy Domain. (Even if they are low ranked they can still see further ahead than a person without mana, but not the entire Academy Domain).

His classmates had different reactions to a display of such power, the top twenty were more flabbergasted, Anthony's subodinate all wore smiles of admiration and defeat.

They were Anthony's subordinate didn't mean they didn't at least want to surpass him once in rank, but it seems they are still as delusional as ever, as even they didn't possess such an attack method.

Even some low level professors who were fighting some Grandmaster and Paragon level demons were shocked as they witnessed the impossibility of their lives.

Of course those above the Paragon rank didn't witness this as they were too busy fighting for their lives, they couldn't direct their attention to another place as this was a battlefield, one mistake and it's over for you.

Anthony had basically elevated the pressure on almost everyone with one attack spell.

The students who no longer had enemies to fight immediately started evacuating those who couldn't fight, those with healing abilities healed those they could.

Anthony floated down as his feet touched the ground majestically, the knee length long coat that rested on his shoulder without his arms in the sleeves flapped to the winds waves.

Anthony drew the katana hanging on his waist as aura instantly enveloped the katana.

Every demon wanted to get a piece of Anthony for his earlier attack, but they couldn't, they still had the people attacking them waiting, even fighting them with renewed vigor and those their demon opponents died joined to help.

A Master ranked demon immediately rushed at Anthony with anger flashing it's eyes as it just wasted the only life saving talisman it had on something it didn't like, and it would take him a long time to find another one of that level or even save up to purchase it.

The demon arrived a few meters away from Anthony with chaotic aura surrounding it's sword and the ice element also being interwoven with it.

The demon slashed out with a deadly technique from the get go without testing the waters as there was no water to test.

[Ice Demon Technique: Dark Frost Slash]

Anthony felt the chill coming from the attack and smiled and readied his own attack.

[Endless Technique: Katana Series: Frozen Slash]

Ice seeped into his katana as he met the demon's ice technique with his own ice technique.

**BOOOOMMM****BRRRR***CHILLL***

As the two swords met, a disastrous explosion occurred sending chills and ice at everything without mercy.

Everything within a ten kilometres radius was either destroyed from impact or frozen out of life.

The ten kilometres radius temperature suddenly dropped as the two attackers refused to bulge from the attack point.

Anthony and the demon stood there looking into each others eyes with different emotions.

Anthony of amusement, the demon of wrath.

The impact of the earlier attack didn't even bother either of the two, their feet planted firmly into the ground as they remained unmoving.

The demon shifted the balance in it's ankles and retrieved it's sword then spun around as it attacked again with chaotic aura still covering it's sword.

Anthony shifted his center of gravity and went for a block with ease.

Then Anthony slashed at the demon's neck, which the demon also blocked without any problems.

They both suddenly disappear from their place as they both increased their speed and they kept exchanging sword attacks without a pause in attack or defence.

Only flickers of light could be seen wherever and whenever they collided.

Of course demons and people in the Master rank could follow their movements with their eyes, that's if they even have time for that as they had their own opponents to face.

[Ice Demon Technique: Slash Of Sacrilege]

The demon slashed out a thousand times at Anthony with speed that seemed to break the sound barrier.

[Endless Technique: Katana series: Freezing Cuts]

Anthony sped up and also met the demon's attack with ice of his own.

****Clangggg***Clangggg**Brrrrr****

Anthony also slashed out a thousand times as he parried all the attacks the demon sent his way.

As Anthony was about to reply with his own technique, his Sense Dome rippled.

Anthony instantly ducked and he dodged a slash at his neck from a sneaky demon in the peak mortal rank that seemed good at hiding.

As Anthony dodged, his Katana instantly morphed and changed into a dagger which he plunged into the demon's head.

The dagger changed into a spear as Anthony released a technique at the Master ranked demon with utmost fluidity like he wasn't switching weapons in the span of a second.

[Endless Technique: Spear Series: Thousand Ice thrust]

Anthony thrust his spear a thousand times with ice and aura coated on the spear at the demon without any delay in his movements.

The demon was shocked by the sudden change in weapon, but was still able to follow up with it's own attack.

[Ice Demon Technique: Rime Parries]

****Clinkkkk****Clanggg***Booomm***

Everywhere was once again covered in thin ice as they were both proficient in their ice techniques and control.

The corpse of the mortal rank demon that ambushed Anthony earlier froze over and shattered as a result of destruction unleashed by these two.

Dust and smokes didn't dare to rise up in the environment created by these two for fear of being frozen over.

"Human boy you seem good with the Ice technique" the demon said with a smile.

"Well I'm learning quite a lot from you if I might say" Anthony replied casually with a smile.

"You would have made a great addition to our forces, too bad none of you are going to survive after today" the demon said again.

Anthony laughed at the demon and replied.

"Looking at the amount of minions you people just lost, I don't think so, besides I would send you to join your fallen comrade soon, this fight has become boring, you are running out of chaos due to fighting other people earlier and fighting me, you talking to me is just a way to delay your inevitable end, as you can feel death looming over you"