While the French team's conspiracy was quietly unfolding, Asterion, Rose, Cedric, and Luna seemed very relaxed at this moment, unlike many other teams in the King's Game. It wasn't that they lacked the competitive spirit against the other teams, but when you have the advantage, you just have to wait for things to work in your favor.
Which was exactly what was happening at this moment. Asterion was merely waiting for the first phase to end so that Luna could sit on the throne while he, Rose, and Cedric would protect her.
Suddenly, one of Asterion's observers transmitted the image of a team walking through a swampy path on the road leading to the highest mountain where the throne was located. Recognizing their appearance, he identified the team as the German team.
Recalling the appearance of Germany in the civil war, a cold smile appeared on Asterion's lips.
"I've located the German team," Asterion said, catching everyone's attention, especially Rose, who looked extremely bored.
"Where?" She stood up and asked with a wide smile on her lips. Her incredibly blue eyes sparkled for a moment.
"Ten kilometers to the north," Asterion replied without showing any signs of getting up. Although he wanted to vent on some punching bags, it was decided to save magical energy and protect the other team members, so only one of the two would attack at a time.
"Me or you?" Rose asked, cracking her knuckles. She stretched comfortably.
"I'll let you go first." Asterion closed his eyes again, returning his attention to the observers. He wanted to see if other teams were nearby; if there were, he would also attack, leaving Cedric to protect their team's queen.
Rose nodded, and just as she was about to leave, she heard Asterion's voice behind her.
"Don't go easy; Germany will be eliminated from the King's Game." His cold and indifferent voice made Rose's lips curl into a crazy smile full of excitement.
"Yes, my lord!" she said playfully, reinforcing her leg with magical energy.
But instead of heading directly to the German team, she went towards a relatively high mountain.
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Crossing the swamp, the German team didn't know they had already become prey to be hunted.
The captain of the German team, Hans Weiss, the younger brother of the German Minister of Magic, Joseph Weiss, was a handsome and cheerful young man with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was tall and broad-shouldered, looking like the kind of guy most girls wanted to date.
"Captain, there are no enemy teams within a 2-kilometer radius," said a girl with brown hair and green eyes. She used her innate wind-related technique to check for people around her team.
"Thank you for your hard work, Greta," Hans smiled gently at the girl and refocused on the path ahead of him. Although he smiled, his eyes were incredibly serious.
His innate technique was purely supportive, enhancing his senses to an incredible level. His ancestor could even see a few seconds ahead in time with their innate technique. Although he was far from reaching that level, he was still extremely sensitive to danger and gazes. At this moment, his senses tingled at the back of his neck like never before.
He was being targeted by someone incredibly powerful. Hans just prayed to God that it was anyone but Asterion Black. His brother had already told him about the grudges between England and Germany. He knew that if Asterion Black found him, he would suffer cruelly at the opponent's hands.
Suddenly, Hans abruptly stopped in his tracks, sweat running down his handsome face, a chill running through his body, and his hairs standing on end in the face of imminent danger.
Hans looked up and saw only a blue and black malice emanating from a mountain peak several kilometers away. Focusing the magical energy in his eyes, Hans perfectly saw the mountain peak. His face turned pale, seeing those incredibly blue eyes looking directly at him.
"RUN! EVERYONE, SPREAD OUT NOW!!!" Hans shouted before reinforcing his body to the maximum and darting in a random direction.
The members of the German team were shocked by their captain's sudden roar, but no one questioned his orders. All three members shot off in different directions.
Atop the mountain, seeing the ants fleeing, the manic smile on Rose's face grew. She crouched and reinforced her body with magic, her eyes sharpening as she aimed first at the weakest member of the German team.
Boom!!!!
Rose's body shot down from the mountain, the entire peak sinking behind her as the sound of the kinetic wave spread throughout the arena.
Karl never doubted his captain's orders for a moment. He ran as fast as he could, not conserving his magical energy at this moment. His body shot forward at inhuman speeds, crossing a distance of 100 meters in mere 3 seconds. Then, he heard a deafening sound echo in the sky.
The next moment, a relatively tall figure with white hair appeared in front of him, the ground around them shattered and a crater formed about 5 meters wide.
"You can't run away, little mice~," Rose said, opening and closing her hand, her smile growing more excited as she looked at the semi-grade 2 wizard.
Karl felt sweat dripping down his face as he saw the young woman. He finally understood why his captain had ordered them to flee as quickly as possible. They had the misfortune of encountering the Hogwarts team!
"I'll give you a chance, attack with your strongest spell." Rose placed her hand behind her back and spoke casually, completely unconcerned with the enemy in front of her.
The blatant contempt didn't make Karl furious; he felt it was natural for the young woman to behave that way. He was an ant that could be crushed at any moment, and she was an elephant.
Drawing his wand, Karl pointed and flicked his wrist, shouting the most powerful spell he knew.
"Bombarda Maxima!!!!"
He didn't hold back his magical energy, pouring everything he had left into the spell. His wand protested under the enormous strain, causing a large crack to appear along its length, but the spell was successfully cast.
A red light shot out from the tip of his wand, illuminating the surroundings with a blinding glow.
Boom!!!
A deafening noise reverberated through the area, uprooting trees with the force of the explosion!
Karl, still pointing his wand forward, was breathing heavily, his chest rising and falling rapidly. He had never used all his magical energy in his life; his legs felt like jelly, and he doubted he could stand much longer.
As the smoke cleared, Karl's eyes widened in shock and horror. In front of him, Rose Potter still had her hands behind her back, smiling maliciously at him.
"That was a good attack, little mouse~," Rose said, slowly approaching Karl. With each step closer, the more terrified the member of the German team became.
Karl backed away in fear but tripped and fell to the ground, eyes wide with shock.
Suddenly, Karl's four limbs broke simultaneously. He looked at his broken limbs in horror and let out a painful roar.
"ARRGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Annoyed by the irritating sound, Rose lifted her leg and kicked Karl's head, rendering him unconscious.
Seeing the unconscious boy, Rose whispered to herself, "I used more magical energy than necessary. Manipulating space with the magical energy limit of a grade 2 wizard is quite draining."
"No matter, three more to go!" Looking towards the swamp, Rose's smile grew.
"I'm coming, little mice!"
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Hiding within the root of a tree, Greta Fischer, the vice-champion of the German team, took the opportunity to catch her breath and focused on using her innate ability to scan her surroundings. After checking everything within a two-kilometer radius, Greta let out a disappointed sigh upon not detecting any of her teammates nearby.
It had been about half an hour since they had all split up after Hans's shout. Greta wanted to see if anyone was close to her so she could regroup with her team. Wandering alone during the elimination phase was asking to be surrounded and attacked by a group.
"Are you tired?" Hearing a concerned and pitying voice beside her, Greta responded instinctively.
"I'm fine, and you?" Suddenly, she froze, her body going rigid. She was alone—who had she just spoken to?
Mechanically turning her head, Greta's eyes widened in horror as she saw the girl with white hair. She understood why her captain had ordered everyone to flee; the chances of her team confronting a special-grade witch head-on and winning were practically nonexistent.
It was almost a consensus that all teams would devise a plan to exhaust the magical energy of both special-grade witches before attacking them with full force.
"I'm fine, thanks for your concern," Rose replied with a gentle smile on her face, her blue eyes looking at the brown-haired girl with green eyes.
Taking a deep breath and calming herself, Greta asked calmly, "My teammates?"
"Two are incapacitated, and it's just you and your captain left," Rose replied nonchalantly. For some reason, the fear in the girl's eyes made her a bit excited.
She definitely felt she had been spending too much time with Asterion; her cousin's sadism had rubbed off on her. Not that it was his fault—when she fought, she let herself go completely, becoming almost a lunatic for a good fight.
Greta began to move away slightly as Rose spoke.
"Want to run again?" Rose asked, noticing her movements almost immediately.
Greta did not respond and drew her wand, a plan forming in the young woman's mind. She didn't believe that Rose had used her magical energy while fighting Karl and Lena, which meant the girl in front of her wasn't at full strength.
Greta thought that if she fought Rose and further exhausted her magical energy, her captain, Hans, might have a better chance of winning after she was incapacitated like her teammates.
"A commendable choice. Your two companions made the same choice you did. I must say, all the magical schools have chosen their elites well for the International Tournament; everyone I've seen so far is very good," Rose nodded in satisfaction, seeing the young woman choose to fight her instead of fleeing. In her eyes, there was no point in a fight where the opponent didn't even have the mindset to win.
Suddenly, Rose's eyes grew serious. She leaped into the air and spun, dodging earth spikes that had risen from the ground. Using one of the spikes as leverage, she propelled herself back into the air and spun 360 degrees, evading other spikes, but this time made of wood.
Even knowing that her attacks would never harm Rose, Greta couldn't help but widen her eyes in amazement at how Rose avoided all her transfiguration spells so incredibly.
Just how strong are her reflexes to dodge something like that? Greta thought, horrified by the fourteen-year-old's prowess.
"Transfiguration. I must say, I'm surprised," Rose said, sitting on a branch and swinging her legs back and forth with an excited smile, though to Greta, it looked more like the smile of a madwoman.
Taking a deep breath, Greta didn't hold back her magical energy as she reinforced her body and assumed a fighting stance. This made Rose's eyes light up with excitement; all the other German team members had chosen to use spells rather than engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Descending from the branch, Rose landed on the ground and assumed a fighting stance as well. Their eyes met with intense focus.
The wind rustled the tree canopy, and when a leaf fell to the ground, they both moved simultaneously.
The ground beneath them sank, and they appeared in front of each other. Greta lifted her leg and, with a high kick, aimed for Rose's head. The strong winds generated by the attack caused both girls' hair to whip violently.
Rose firmly held onto her opponent's leg despite the powerful kick and punched towards the young woman's stomach.
Suddenly, Rose saw Greta move like a serpent; her body seemed boneless. Her head was trapped between two strong thighs, and she felt her center of gravity shift abruptly.
In an instant, Rose found herself lying on the ground, looking up at the green eyes above her with surprise.
A punch infused with powerful magical energy jolted Rose awake, and she quickly used her own thighs to ensnare the enemy's arm, effectively immobilizing her.
Greta gritted her teeth, and despite the pain, she tried to bite Rose, but the girl returned to the position where the fight had started.
"Was it a spell that made your bones flexible?" Rose asked curiously, gently touching her own face and feeling a slight pain around it.
Greta's thighs, reinforced with magic, still caused her some pain—something even a true special-grade witch had never managed to do. It could be said that this was the first time Rose had felt any pain in a fight.
"Creating new spells has always been something every country does and will continue to do forever; we're not like England, which is stuck in time." Taking a fighting stance, Greta responded, her eyes locked on Rose. There was unmistakable pride in the girl's tone.
But what answered Greta wasn't words, but Rose's innate technique.
"Innate Spell Manipulation – Unlimited – Blue."
As the swirling blue energy vortex formed just above Rose's finger, Greta felt an extremely powerful suction, and her body was pulled toward the white-haired girl.
Firmly gripping Greta's neck, Rose intensified her hold and addressed the German girl's earlier words.
"You're right; we're not very into creating new spells, especially in this century. But compared to that, our research field involving Innate Techniques is the best in the world. Every country has its weaknesses and strengths; that's just how life is." Her voice remained even and nonchalant, while her grip grew tighter, making Greta's vision blur and darkness gradually envelop her consciousness.
"Captain, I fought as hard as I could against this monster; the rest is up to you…" This was Greta's last thought before darkness took over her awareness.
Releasing Greta's unconscious body onto the ground, Rose sighed in relief and stretched comfortably. The German girl had caused more trouble than necessary, even managing to hurt her.
"It seems I can't underestimate ants… I hate to admit it, but Asterion is right; everyone will fight to the death when cornered," Rose murmured, as she lifted her foot and broke all four of the girl's limbs, preventing her from moving or effectively holding a wand.
It might seem a bit cruel—and it was—but a healing potion could mend all the injuries without leaving any lasting effects, so Rose felt she had a clear conscience.
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