"Welcome to my rose garden," said Princess Amelia.

  "'Garden of Roses'? So that's the name of her area magic, turning the entire arena into a rose garden. It does look beautiful but of course this magic is not to beautify the arena," I thought.

  Princess Amelia prepared to launch another attack with her whip. Then she swung her whip at me. When I intended to dodge, from under my feet rose stems appeared that wrapped around my legs so that I couldn't dodge. When the whip swung by Princess Amelia almost hit me, I changed the direction of her whip using my sword. The whip hit the arena floor beside me.

  "He can change the direction of the whip?," thought Princess Amelia who was a little surprised.

  Then I tried to cut the rose stems wrapped around my legs with my sword, but the rose stems wouldn't be cut.

  "Irene is right, these rose stems won't be cut using this sword. If so...," I thought.

  - Enhance Weapon : Sharp -

  I increased the sharpness of the weapon I was using. Then I tried to cut the rose stem that was wrapped around me and finally managed to cut it. After successfully cutting the rose stem that was wrapped around my leg, I saw a wound on the part of my leg that was wrapped around the rose stem. The wound was like a stab wound from a thorn which meant there was a thorn on the rose stem that was wrapped around me earlier. I activated healing magic and healed the wound on my leg secretly so that no one else would know.

  "Looks like I have to be careful with the rose stem that suddenly appeared to wrap around me again," I thought.

  "I didn't think you could cut the rose stem, the rose stem should have a thickness that is difficult to cut. If so....," said Princess Amelia.

  - Magic Boost 2x -

  - ?Power Boost 2x -

  Princess Amelia increased her magic power with a boost. Then Princess Amelia prepared to attack again with her whip. And suddenly a rose stem appeared that tried to wrap around me again but this time my reaction was faster and managed to avoid the wrapping of the rose stem. But when I dodged, rose stems appeared from under my feet again and it continued every time I dodged another rose stem.

  When I was busy dodging the rose stems, Princess Amelia swung her whip. As if she knew where I was going to dodge when I dodged the rose stems, she immediately pointed her whip at me and the whip almost hit me. But I managed to block the whip attack by deflecting the direction of the attack again. Even though I managed to deflect the whip, the rose stems that tried to wrap around me from under my feet would not stop. They kept trying to wrap around me again. No matter how many times I dodged or tried to cut the rose stems, the rose stems reappeared and tried to wrap around me again.

  "So this is what Irene meant, the roses in this arena will not allow the opponent to attack Princess Amelia because these roses will try to make it difficult for their opponent with rose stems that try to wrap around their opponent continuously. Fighting someone who can use area magic is indeed troublesome, they can manipulate the entire area within the range of their magic. If so, it seems like I have to use magic too," I thought.

  - Flame Magic - Apply Magic Weapon : Flame Sword -

  The students who were watching the match were surprised, because this was the first time I had used magic in a daily match. Although I had used a fire sword when fighting senior Vyn, it was not in an daily match. After changing my sword into a fire sword, I stuck my fire sword into the arena floor.

  - ?Burning Floor -

  I spread fire magic to the arena floor around me. As a result, the roses around me were burned by my fire magic and disappeared just like that. And now I can be relieved because there will be no more rose stems around that will wrap around me. After that I launched a fire slash from a fairly long distance towards Princess Amelia. However, the roses around Princess Amelia moved and formed a wall to block my fire slash. My fire slash then hit the rose wall and failed to hit Princess Amelia.

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  ?However, the rose wall also burned and was destroyed. Seeing that moment, I immediately shot quickly towards Princess Amelia and prepared to slash her with my fire sword. However, Princess Amelia managed to block my fire sword with her rapier which had previously turned into a whip, our weapons clashed. But this weapon battle did not last long because I managed to push Princess Amelia back from this weapon battle. Princess Amelia was pushed back but I immediately tried to slash her again. But Princess Amelia also tried to block it with her rapier but because her strength was weaker than mine, after trying to block my sword for a while she was pushed back.

  I did this over and over again. Princess Amelia's rose rapier was very strong because it didn't burn at all when it collided with my fire sword. But Princess Amelia's 'Garden of Rose' was slowly destroyed by fire because every time I slashed my fire sword towards Princess Amelia, the roses around Princess Amelia also burned.

  "The way to eliminate the effect of area magic is to destroy the elements in the area, it seems that using fire magic is a good choice to destroy 'Garden of Rose'. I might be able to defeat her if I don't use magic but it seems like it will take a long time because of this area magic," I thought.

  After being pushed back continuously due to trying to block my slashes, Princess Amelia felt annoyed.

  "I'm sick of being pushed back like this, feel my attacks," said Princess Amelia.

  - ?Blooming Rose Slash-

  Princess Amelia launched a slash from her rose rapier. But I also prepared to counter her slash.

  - ?Flame Sword Art : Great Flame Slash -

  I launched a large flame slash and my flame slash destroyed Princess Amelia's 'Blooming Rose Slash'. After destroying Princess Amelia's slash, my flame slash headed towards Princess Amelia. However, Princess Amelia used the remaining roses from 'Garden of Rose' ?as a barrier wall, just like she did earlier. But my flame slash was so strong that the rose wall couldn't hold it and immediately burned when hit by my flame slash. My flame slash finally hit Princess Amelia and slammed her into the arena wall behind her.

  *BOOMMM

  A loud bang was heard. The students watching the match were shocked.

  I watched the arena wall that was hit by Princess Amelia. The arena wall was emitting smoke dust.

  "It seems like I went too far against Princess Amelia, even though she's a woman. I'll apologize to her later," I thought.

  After thinking like that, from behind the smoke a shadow of a person appeared. The shadow walked forward to get out of the smoke. Until finally the shadow came out of the smoke. And the figure of Princess Amelia was seen coming out of the smoke. She had suffered quite a lot of injuries and there were several burns on her body. There was also a burn on her cheek.

  But even though she had suffered quite a lot of injuries like that, Princess Amelia was still able to walk casually when she came out of the smoke. But seeing her condition made me want to apologize sooner. After coming out of the smoke, Princess Amelia saw the injuries she had. She also touched the burn on her cheek. After checking the wounds on her body, she looked around the arena. She saw the roses she had created burned by my fire attack.

  "Unforgivable," said Princess Amelia softly.

  Her voice was very soft but I could hear her voice.

  "Absolutely unforgivable," said Princess Amelia again.

  This time her voice was quite clear.

  "You hurt my body and even burned my body too and what's more you damaged my roses and even destroyed the entire rose garden that I made. I will not forgive you, Rid Archie!," said Princess Amelia.

  "I heard from Charles that the reason she was called the rose princess was because she really liked roses but I didn't think she would be this angry when I burned all her artificial roses. Even though they were just artificial roses made from magic," I thought.

  - All Ability Boost 5x -

  Princess Amelia increased all her abilities with a boost of 5 times.

  "Because of what you did, I will give you a gift, Rid. I will make you 'have fun' in the hell I made," said Princess Amelia.

  Princess Amelia pointed both of her hands to the arena floor.

  - ?Rose Magic : ?Hell of Roses -

  The arena floor was suddenly filled with many roses again. The roses that were previously burned also grew back into new roses. But the color of the roses that are currently there is different from the previous roses, these roses are red like the color of blood. I feel an uncomfortable feeling when I am around the roses.

  "New area magic? But this seems different from the previous area magic. And again I feel an uncomfortable feeling in this arena. Princess Amelia's aura also suddenly changed. This is similar to when I fought Javier," I thought.

  I tried to burn the roses around me with my sword. The roses were burned and destroyed but immediately the roses grew back. But there was something different, the roses that I burned before had bloomed but the roses that grew again had not bloomed.

  "I suggest you stay away from the roses that have not grown, Rid.....because I don't know what your fate will be when the roses bloom," said Princess Amelia.

  After Princess Amelia said that, the roses began to bloom. And when they were about to bloom, the roses emitted light and suddenly exploded with a fairly large explosion.

  Seeing the roses explode around me, Princess Amelia smiled.

  -To be continued