After Roland destroyed the "Magic Missile" beam with his katana, he quickly cast the "Strike Lightning".
The snow-white lightning bolt flew swiftly towards Evan. Roland's counterattack was instantaneous, but Evan wasn't about to miss such a blow.
Whoosh.
He reacted easily and dodged the lightning and dashed toward Roland. At the same moment, he cast the "Ice Veil".
Ice quickly appeared on the crimson sprout of "Bloody Perversity" and covered the tip of the spear. Evan's "Ice Veil" was in the first stage of "Awareness," and this spell was also modified through the "Transforming of Spells".
Evan replaced the three Compression Runes with Explosion Runes, which greatly increased the power of the spell itself. Of course, he had to spend more mana than usual for this enhancement, but it was definitely worth it.
Whoosh.
Evan got to Roland and swung his spear. Roland was focused and watched his opponent's every move closely. It was no problem for him to block and strike back quickly.
Bam.
The tip of the spear met the razor-sharp blade of the katana. In the next moment, however, something strange began to happen to Roland's weapon. He dared not continue their exchange of blows and quickly bounced back.
Roland looked at his katana with surprise,
Part of the blade, namely where Evan's blow had hit, was completely in ice and it was slowly spreading all over the weapon. On the one hand, there was nothing surprising about that, since his katana was covered in a layer of water and Evan's spear in a layer of ice.
It seemed as if the ice had simply frozen the water, but it wasn't really that simple. The water and ice on the two young men's weapons were impregnated with mana, and had differences from ordinary water and ice.
Roland was certain that Evan's ice could do nothing to his water. In the young man`s opinion, his spell was much stronger than Evan's, and so the ice on his spear should not have frozen the water coating on his katana.
For example, if a tree encounters fire, it is logical to assume that the flames will engulf the tree and leave nothing but ash. But on the other hand, if the bark of the tree is very strong and the flame is not strong enough, it can simply go out without hurting the tree.
That was the outcome Roland had hoped for. He was discouraged by the situation, for if his water was frozen by Evan's ice, it could only mean one thing.
Gilbert thought to himself.
He thought that Roland was extremely depressed and disappointed that he was weaker than the other man in some way. Tonight's fight was a great blow to him. Gilbert thought that Evan's superiority, would break Roland's confidence in himself.
It was only logical, when an overconfident person meets a harsh reality, he often breaks down, and quite possibly will never again have the confidence he had before.
Whoosh.
Nevertheless, even Gilbert was badly aware of how boundless and incomprehensible Roland's self-confidence was.