The moment she had aimed her sword to slice through Noah's abdomen, Victoria had already begun to form the circuit of her spell.
The time taken for her to do the same had decreased by a lot compared to the last time, when she had used the same spell against Kael.
Over the days after her defeat at the hands of Kael, Victoria had rigorously practiced all her spells, resulting in the time taken to cast them being vastly reduced.
Now she had become capable of multitasking while being in live combat, something that she had struggled with a bit during her previous fight.
"You sure are full of surprises."
"Hm?"
Victoria had at least expected Noah to be down for a few seconds, but the latter emerged from the smoke, though his clothes had some burn marks on them.
"That attack required me to use quite a bit of mana from my core, and even then my barrier was destroyed. Maybe I should have expected something like that from the vice president of the academy."
