My Angel system

212 Smart Move

The fight between Luis and Ciara had taken on a whole new look now that he had successfully broken her bow, leaving her with nothing to defend herself apart from her water ability.

She was trying her best to knock the Angel out with her water ability as fast as she could as she didn't want the fight to turn into close combat.

Luis wanted to turn the fight into close combat as it was the only way he could win without using his abilities but that didn't mean he was going to miss this opportunity to level up his water ability.

He avoided most of the water blasts and then used his water control to reduce the impact of the heavy blasts on him, the blasts still pushed him back a little after reducing their impact but it was worth it.

[ 50/50 water ability points ]

[ Water ability is now level 5 ]

'She doesn't really care if she's going to run out of water points and that means I can level up to level six.' Luis thought as he got his hands ready and blocked the attack.

This attack was larger than the others and had pushed him back with great force and even knocked him off his feet.

He had failed to control the water blast but that wasn't the reason why he had a surprised expression on his face now.

'After that water blast, I didn't receive a single water ability point.' The Angel thought looking at his hands as he sat up on the floor.

"I can't believe that didn't knock you out." Ciara walked close to him, her breathing showed that she was quite exhausted after using her water ability like that.

"You're going to have to fight me closely if you want to win," Luis said looking at the bow she was holding which suggested she was already prepared for that.

She didn't wait for the Angel to get up as she rushed towards him and slashed the bow down at him but he was quick enough to roll out of the way on time.

'I've been waiting for this moment.' Luis thought as he directed a sliding kick towards her leg from his position.

He expected her to fall but her stamina seemed to be stronger than he thought as she only staggered backward a little before regaining her balance.

She rushed in again with her bow, Luis had nothing to defend himself as his bow was at the other side of the arena but he was doing quite well blocking and parrying away her strikes.

Ciara was being the aggressor just like she had been throughout the fight and Luis was still defending as usual.

"He's doing really well, I'm surprised she hasn't knocked him out up till now," Pearl said.

"Well, she wasted her water points, if she had used them well this fight would have been over by now," Tammy said.

"Tell me about it," Pearl said, looking at her hands.

'This fight is taking really long and I still need to find Dylan.' Luis thought as he watched the bow coming down on him.

He grabbed the bow before it could hit him and snapped it into two.

Ciara was shocked by how fast he had done that but she didn't have enough time to think about it as a kick was quickly sent to her chest and she was sent flying.

There were loud gasps among the students as they had just witnessed the student who didn't seem like he wasn't going to attack do something they never thought he was going to do.

"He has been holding back all this while," Monica said in realization.

"I knew close combat wasn't a good option for me." Ciara groaned as she slowly got up from the floor clutching onto her chest.

"Well, you wasted your advantages over me," Luis said.

He sped towards her and everybody expected him to attack with a fury of attacks as Ciara got ready to attack but all that was needed to knock her out was a little smack on the head which she was in no way expecting.

"That was quite a long fight but the right person emerges victorious." Lieutenant Kate said after Ciara had dropped to the floor.

"That was really smart," Kelvin said.

"What?" General Freelyn asked.

"Wearing her out and then showing his full strength when she least expected it," Kelvin said.

"Yeah." General Freelyn said with a stern look on his face as he turned back to the arena his gaze directed towards Luis.

"I couldn't beat him, so it's no surprise you couldn't," Luke muttered to himself as he recalled his last experience with Luis when the first-year beat Zach and him and Dan combined.

"What?" Dan asked.

"Nothing," Luke said, waving his head.

Luis received a little bit of applause from the students who found his moves to be smart and those who thought he had been tricky just grumbled to themselves.

"Nice move," Orah said as soon as the Angel had gotten close to them.

"I can't believe you were holding back all that while," Monica said.

"What did you expect me to do? She had ranged attacks." Luis said.

"Yeah but just so you know, holding back at the beginning of some fights might cost you the fight," Silvia said.

"You got hit by most of her attacks and yet you knocked her out with a few of your attacks," Ella said.

"Yeah," Luis said, scratching the back of his head.

[ 60/120 HP ]

[ 60/100 Energy ]

Getting hit by those attacks had not come at no cost as he had lost half of his HP and a good amount of energy while getting hit and trying to avoid some of those attacks.

Luis noticed that there was one more person in their group who had refused to talk to him after his victory as he seemed to be in a bad mood and had separated himself from them a little.

"How did his fight with Ace go?" Luis nodded in his direction.

"Judging by his mood, I think you already know the answer to that question," Orah said.

"He tried but the wind ability user was just too much for him to handle," Monica said.

"Oh," Luis said.

'Don't pretend like you weren't rooting for Ace to win.' Lena said.

'Yeah, but they don't have to know that.'

There was a moment of silence between them as everyone turned to watch the fight which was between two spear users.

Luis used the opportunity to try and sneak out and go find Dylan unaware that someone had her eyes on him.

"Where are you going?" Ella asked, grabbing his hands before he had gone far.

"I'm going to look for Dylan," Luis said.

"And what are you going to do to him when you find him?" Ella asked.

"His answers to my question will decide what I will do to him," Luis said as he loosened her grip from his hand and continued walking towards the door.

'That look in his eyes.' Jasmine said.

'What?'

'Can't you see he's still angry about what happened and may do something terrible to Dylan?'

'He deserves whatever he wants to do to him but… I should probably follow him.'

Ella caught up to him before he could walk out through the gate.

"Can I follow you?" She asked.

"Fine," Luis replied with a reluctant tone after a while.

Luis opened the gate and had almost badged into Nova who was about to open the gate at that time.

"Oh, hi Luis," Nova said, stepping back a little. "Where are you heading to?" She asked with a smile.

"We want to go get something we forgot in the classroom," Luis said.

"Ok," Nova said, walking past him and entering the arena.

The three continued their walk into the academy and after they had gone a little distance the gate opened again and Nova walked out.