Strongest Noble's Daughter Uses Water Magic Book 2

Vs the Plant Mage Professor Pt. 2

As soon as I whispered my plan to Mindy, the two of us split up. Mindy was going to spread the plan to our classmates, while I went to distract Terranium however I could, so that she does not catch on to the idea.

"Hey! Over here, professor! " I shouted, preparing my spear. I knew she was not going to attack, but at the very least, I need to get her attention away from Mindy.

It seemed to be working, as some of the vines parted from the dome and came crashing down on... me...

'Oh, I did not think this through...' I thought, bringing my spear up to block a vine. Thankfully, though the vines were tough, they were not thick, thus made it possible for me to defend. Upon seeing more vines come my way, I hastily tilted my spear and sidestepped, having the one I was blocking slide past me, and deflected the rest of the vines away.

"What are you doing? You're not fooling around, are you? Why aren't you using your magic?" I heard Terranium question me, causing me to grimace slightly at those words.

Just then, a vine wrapped itself around me from behind and lifted me in the air, much to my surprise. Before it could do anything else, something cut it, causing me to fall. Before I could hit the ground, though, something else caught me in their arms, helping me land safely on the ground.

"Are you okay, Lady Levi?!" Kyle gasped, he who caught my fall and set me back on the ground.

"Yeah. Thanks for that," I thanked.

"Don't thank us yet," came Taurus's voice, as he caught a tomahawk that returned to him, responsible for chopping off my binds. "Gotta say, though, even if I did know your situation, for someone who was able to give us all that training to be stronger, and found out a new way of casting spells, you sure can be quite hopeless with your magic."

I could only give him a weak smile, unable to retort to those words. Even more so with... one small problem.

"Did Mindy tell you guys the plan?" I asked them.

"Not all of it. But since it was a plan from you, I was going to follow no matter what," Kyle told me.

"All she told me was to help you distract her, nothing else. But like half-blood here said, since she also said you came up with a plan, I'm open to ideas at this point," Taurus added.

I raised a brow at the bull crossbreed's words. "Now, where was this patience and reason earlier? You know, the ones that could've prevented this mess from happening?"

He turned to me, his face slightly red in rage, when I said that. "Okay... So I may have got a bit hot headed there..." he said, holding back the urge to seethe.

I only continued to silently stare at him with a judging expression on my face.

"Sure. You got 'a bit' hot headed," Kyle spoke, clearly having the same exact expression on his own face.

Taurus's face was slowly getting redder at our judging reactions. "Do you really want to talk about this now?!" he questioned.

As he was insinuating, now was far from the time to talk about such thing, as we had a spar to end first. "Help out with the distracting," was all as I said before breaking away from them, charging at Terranium's plant dome once more.

As soon as I charged, more vines shot towards me, in which I deflected away with my spear. Quite like before, the ones I knocked away soon regained themselves and attempted to wrap itself around me once more, when the sound of something cutting through plant reached my ears.

“Don't mess this up, guinea pig,” came Lilith's voice behind me, causing me to shiver at the last two words.

Shaking off that chill, I continued onwards to the structure at full speed, avoiding all the other vines as best as I could. Taking a quick glance behind me, I noticed a few of those plants coming back towards me. Before I could even make an attempt to block or deflect the vines, a bolt of lightning came and shocked them all.

“We got your back, Levi! Go!” came Belle’s voice.

I nodded at the call and picked up the pace to the dome. As I continued my run, I glanced around and saw my classmates rushing to places, with some of them casting various spells on the dome.

‘Mindy must’ve told them in time,’ I had assumed, continuing on at a high pace towards Terranium. ‘In that case, then I should hurry up with my part!’

It did not take me much longer to reach the mound, in which I then jabbed my spear down on the shell between the vines, trying to pry it open. It took some trying, but I managed to open it a c***k, enough to see the inside. One peek at the inside made my eyes widen in shock, as the dome then broke apart, and sent me flying back. Not just me, but everyone around it. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the vines even wrapped itself around some of the attacking students and pinned them down.

“You guys!” I cried out.

Just as I did, the ground near me practically erupted, and Terranium appeared out of a flower once more.

“I thought you were a competent leader. Not only did you help your classmates train, but you even came up with various strategies to help them prepare for the mock exam. You have surpassed every expectation that was placed into you… And yet this is the extent of where you stand…” she spoke. “I had hope you would be different from them. Hoped you would not be blinded by your achievement to do something so stupid. And yet… charging in without making any attempt to use your magic?! Just what were you thinking?! Are you telling me you are satisfied with where you are at now to the point where you will gladly give up your life?!"

I grimaced once more at her harsh words, yet at the same time, I could not help but find something funny about the tone she used, as well as the words she was using in that last part. She was clearly scolding me, as any professor would, especially one in her position, and yet I sensed something else in her tone.

Not that it would matter either way at the moment. "Who said I was giving up my life?"

Terranium raised a questionable brow at my words. Not long after she did, she widened her eyes and looked down... where she saw her shadow had extended out in an odd way. No... Not 'her' shadow.

"You really have to be the craziest girl I've ever known to use yourself as bait. Commoner or not," Dylan stated, a dark magic circle under him, as he used his Shadow Magic to extend his shadow to our professor's.

"A trap?!" she gasped.

"I admit, I may be a little reckless. But at least I know how to put my trust in others, rather than constantly be doubtful about everything," I spoke, as I then dove straight in at her, wrapping my arms around her to keep her arms pinned to her sides, in an attempt to prevent her from casting another spell. "Ethan! Sheera!"

"Ready!" the shrew crossbreed called, standing in Ethan's drawn magic circle.

"Don't blame me if you get caught in it!" the Curse Mage exclaimed. "Drainage Mana!" At his chant, his own dark magic circle appeared under me and Terranium, big enough to completely hold us both. Dylan managed to canceled out his spell and recall his shadow in time to prevent any of his mana from getting drained. His shadow may be... well, a shadow, but since it was affected by magic, there was a chance that Dylan's mana may still get drained. Well, no one- not even Ethan- knew if that was possible with this spell, but better safe than sorry.

An uncomfortable feeling flowed through me as I started to feel my mana forcibly leave my body from the spell, one that was unlike when I tried casting my Water Magic. Terranium, on the other hand...

"You... You went this far to risk yourself...? Just for this?!" she questioned, very affected by the spell.

"I am the class representative here, the leader of this class. What kind of leader would I be... if I don't do this much for my classmates?" I retorted.

She widened her eyes at my words, completely in shock, to my growing confusion. "So you would risk your life for them? No matter what?"

Though speechless at what she had asked, I hardened my gaze at her and answered, "I wouldn't exactly say I would 'risk my life' for them, but at the very least, I won't let fear stop me from doing what's right."

'Especially not when I find death by drowning more fearful than anything else,' I mentally added.

Terranium only stared at me, eyes still wide in shock. What came after, though... That was the most shocking. As her expression changed- as her eyes began to soften somewhat- her body changed as well. What was once flesh was shifting into wood, with even the color of her skin changing. Soon enough, her figure turned into that of a bundle of vines, merged and shaped into that of a human's.

"What the-?! What just happened?!" Shaun asked, no doubt just as puzzled as I was, as were everyone else.

A whistle was heard then, and we turned to see our professor standing right by a bound Mindy, much to our bafflement. The woman was not unarmed, either, as she was held a rapier made of wood in her hand, pointing the pointed part right near his neck, holding the harpy hostage.

"Mindy!" Azalea gasped.

"'You won't fear death', you say... Then what of the death of your comrades?" Terranium began to say. "There are people out there who will use whatever lowly tactics they can think of to get what they want, to do whatever it takes to make others feel pain for their own sick entertainment, be it physically or mentally. Knowing this, can you truly still tell me you won't yield to the likes of them?"

I couldn't help but be all the more confused at her words. Harsh as they were, with some truths held in them- especially going by what I remember from the books and shows I saw in my previous life- the way our professor was saying it all... Even if it was as a lesson of sort, I was extremely taken back by the tone she was using, with the look she had in her eyes.

"Except for one thing, professor!" Felix called then, getting the woman's attention. "Even if such a thing will happen, Levi will come up with a countermeasure for it!"

"And what makes you so sure of that? Because she is your representative?" Terranium questioned.

"That... And she already knew you would have another trick up your sleeve." As soon as he said that, 'Mindy' suddenly managed to slip out of her hold and jump at our professor, much to her surprise. Not only that, but her body deformed and became mud-like, wrapping itself around Terranium and instantly hardened.

"Wha-?! Mud?!"

"Mud Imposter," Felix corrected.

"If you're looking for the real Mindy, she is over there," Lilith spoke, pointing at an empty space not far from our professor.

At least... that was what it seemed, when the air in that space briefly brightened up in a light yellow color, revealing Philia and Mindy there, the raccoon crossbreed who hid them both with her Illusion Magic.

To say she was speechless at this turnaround may be an understatement, as Terranium looked at them in disbelief. "You... thought this far?" she asked me.

"I didn't know who you would target, but I did realize you seem to pay extra close attention to me throughout the spar. This spar may be a lesson for all of us, but you seem more focused on me. Maybe it's because I'm a commoner, made into the representative of this class, which got started off at second rank in our generation, but I wouldn't know for sure. And I figured if you were going to try something- anything at all- you may do something real low to teach me some sick lesson, and target someone who is close to me. In this case, it would have to be the one person who I see as a sister."

Terranium went silent at my explanation, completely at loss for words. After some time of silence, she let out a sigh. "I concede. You've all surpassed my expectations."