Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better!-Chapter 116: Trying out Skills?

Looking at the bright ball of fire just a few centimeters in front of their friend's hand, both the elven royalties along with said friend's roommate looks at him with a hint of confusion on their gazes, wondering just what the young man is thinking for him to use this kind of spell in a competition as important as this.

Feeling the doubt being directed towards him as he remains on his position, the emperor-like young man sighs to himself as he starts speaking, seemingly pointing out the reason why he decided to use a spell like that.

"If I can suppress those guys with the most basic fire elemental spell, what do you think would happen to the mind of every other person who witnessed it?"

The young man, Diluc, explains with a hint of wisdom apparent on his not too loud voice, the voice, despite lacking in loudness when he spoke of it, still shook his friends deeply the moment these words starts to sink into their brain, making them realize just what is it that this friend of theirs is planning right now.

"Then… that would make them way scared to fight against you, at least, on the surface…"

The elven princess answers with a gaze filled with smarts while looking at the young man, the expression on her beautiful face something that clearly shows being proud, almost as if she is telling him that she just deduced it all too easily.

Hearing her closest friend's words, the young elven duchess couldn't help but nod in agreement as well, the smile on her face something that is fundamentally different from her usual smile, this one seemingly carrying praises of high level towards the elven princess.

Meanwhile, as naïve as he can be, even the timid Michael himself forms a deduction of what could possibly happen once this mysterious roommate of his manages to accomplish this little goal of his to disqualify fellow freshmen in this group using the simplest of fire elemental spells, one of them the fact that most definitely, other freshmen, possibly even some older students, will be wary about offending him.

"You will gather attention from powerful people though… that won't be good right?"

Opening his mouth in order to ask what he thinks is the most important question to inquire about, the timid roommate said as he stares towards the emperor-like young man, his gaze no longer on them once again but rather directed towards the group of freshmen threatening him previously.

"Diluc, you fucking bastard, I'm warning you, don't even try thinking about hurting me, I am the…"

"Heh, you won't dare touch me! I am the sole heir of the …"

"Useless bastard, You think I'm scared of you? My family can easily trample you down!"

Hearing the words coming out of these group's mouths, Diluc couldn't help but find himself smiling after a while of listening to them and their supposedly powerful backgrounds, causing him to hold a little bit of pity to them for some reasons unknown to him.

This feeling of pity, however, is something so miniscule and negligible, something that is not even noticeable when he's feeling far more angered due to their action.

"My father is this my mother is that, man, you know, instead of starting your threat with something that basically means, 'oh I'm so gonna tell on you to my parents~', why don't you actually try stating just what sort of things you achieved by yourself, for yourself?"

Thinking that he already had enough of hearing about all sorts of backing everyone have, he interrupted their conceited speech about the people that is more than likely going to be hostile against him the moment that he decides to eliminate this group.

With the words of threat and insult to him however, the emperor-like young man couldn't help but look at a floating gray screen that only he can see, on it, two skills he acquired from the same dragoness is displayed, skills that will definitely scare anyone else should they be seeing it right now.

[Eternal Flames (Passive)]

[Description: A skill unique to the creatures who had branched off from the union of the Prime Dragon of Light and the Prime Dragon of Destruction, a flame that grants all fire elemental dragons the chance to be reborn from the flames just like the legendary phoenix do, as well as allow them to burn everything around them in the process of this rebirth]

Reading the effects of this passive skill once again, the emperor-like young man thought about it for quite some time before he thinks that he can use the endless flame of life from this skill, [Eternal Flame], in order to reinforce the fireball in his hands, making it so that only the destructive property of the skill is infused on the spell.

'If that is already too over the top, then this one should be the overkill…'

Looking at the other window open on the Dragon Herding System, Diluc then reveals a faint, wry smile on his handsome face that no one managed to see given how bright the fireball he casted is, this smile stemming from him reading through another one of the skills that he received from the youngest dragoness in his group, the fire dragon, Seraphina.

[Eruption (Active)]

[Description: A skill unique to the creatures who had branched off from the Prime Dragon of Destruction, it is a skill so devastating in the hands of the powerful that even other members of the dragon race tend to fear it just from its potency alone. Creates a massive surge of power for the dragon using it to utilize, improving all physical and mental faculty by consistently increasing the circulation of blood and even mana by invigorating them with the heat of the absolute flame controlled by the fire dragons, granting them an extreme strength for a set period of time depending on the dragon's strength, tolerance as well as their mastery of this skill]

'Given my current control of the fire element, I should be able to modify it to a small scale spell, but it might just go out of control since I have not practiced it enough yet…'

Diluc thought to himself before he once again, observes the props magic circle floating just in front of his stretched hand, the magic circle truly looking like it is conducting fire elemental mana that seemingly is there in order to control the fireball, despite the fact that this magic circle is merely something that he is using to cover up the fact that he can directly manipulate mana without the help of magic circles.

'Well, I should probably practice them some more first, especially since it does seem like I gained someone's attention now…'

The young man added to himself as he felt the borderline predatory gaze of someone locking in on him, and he himself is already made aware of the existence of this person, along with their identity.

Taking a peek towards a place in the arena that is quite covered in comparison to where the students watch and sit, Diluc notices the eyes of the petite, white haired, horned principal, the glow on it making him feel like she wants to just dissect and study him for the sake of it, making him shiver for a bit before he recovers.

'Let's give the principal a little more push just in case'

Diluc thought as he decided to end this, the bright, blinding ball of fire in his hand rushing away from it all of a sudden as the magic circle 'controlling' it glows even brighter than before, the projectile rushing towards his target at an unprecedented speed that caught even those instructors surprised, something that only happens once in a full blue moon.

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While it does move that fast when it just left from near him, the fireball gets even faster and faster as it travels further and further away from him, attaining such absurd speed, the very same absurd one that left the eyes of the ones who witnessed it wide and baffled.

Not only was the fireball fast, but it is also unpredictable in all sorts of ways, and one among those freshmen trying to battle it out with his friends previously learnt it in the hard way.

"Fucking bastard!! You're too conceited if you think that puny attack can damage, heck, even affect me in the least, just you wait, you'll face the consequences for attacking me!!"

"Diluc!! You bastard!! I'll definitely get my revenge on you sooner or later!!"

"Wait!! Brother Diluc!! Maybe you want to…"

Shouting at the top of their lungs, the freshmen being targeted by the emperor-like young man throws each of their one final line, with each of them hoping that said line might just buy them some more time, but as much as they want to buy even just a single second more to escape from the pain they are about to experience, it might already be too late for them, with the fireball now just a couple of feet away from them.