Ashley truly felt that she had misjudged him.
Were all the people on the border this talented?
Seeing that the guy before her was dressed rather human-like, with tasteful clothing to match, she had thought he was at least some kind of humanoid creature. Yet he turned out to be even more repressed than the previous naked runner.
Now she understood why he wore pure white pants. The moment he leaked, everyone in the room would see it!
This was even more perverse than running naked through the whole venue.
Ashley clamped her legs tightly together, bit her lip, and curled slightly like a shrimp. Only then did she barely manage to wrest herself free from that urge to urinate.
She looked unwillingly at Liszt, only to see that his expression remained unchanged. He was still graceful and composed, and that left her puzzled.
Why could Liszt endure it when they had both been hit by the same magic?
She could not understand.
Was her willpower inferior to Liszt's?
Or was Liszt's talent for magic even more refined and exquisite than hers?
Why?
Why should it be?
Ashley would never accept it.
No matter the reason, Ashley would not accept it. Her pride as a genius mage would not allow her to concede defeat.
She slowly straightened her back and took a deep breath.
I will endure it.
As long as she endured the ten-minute test, the Scales of Order would not judge this guy to have received full marks.
She told herself.
Whatever tricks you have, bring them on.
"Candidate Ashley, can you really hold out?"
Liszt calmly pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses. A graceful smile rested on his lips, and his tone carried human concern. "Can you really go ten minutes without peeing?"
"If not, this humble person can let you go first by a few drops."
Such humility, such gentleness, such respect for women, such noble consideration—
This was the Perfect Noble Spirit Liszt had pursued his entire life. This was the Gentleman's Soul carried by countless distinguished ancestors of the Moon Family over its centuries of existence, and now, at last, it had been passed down to Liszt.
Surely, the spirits of his ancestors in heaven would also feel gratified for Liszt.
Damn it, you're the candidate!
I'm the examiner!
This bastard is actually defying the natural order!
In other duels, people said, "I'll let you have a few moves first." Yet this repressed glasses-wearer was saying, "I'll let you have a few drops first." It was humiliation taken to the absolute extreme.
Ashley looked at Liszt as though she wanted to kill him. Grinding her teeth, she said viciously, "Border barbarian, use whatever tricks you have."
I will hold it in.
Liszt let out a faintly helpless sigh and said calmly, "Then this humble person shall offend you."
"Examiner Ashley, honored ancestors, please bear witness—"
Liszt declared loudly, "Please bear witness to my resolve!"
Nezha Stirring the Sea Style, third move.
He raised his staff, and pale blue water elements gathered around him. The water vapor in the surroundings suddenly surged upward.
Brother Ansu had once told Liszt that Nezha was a young hero who stirred the seas into chaos. At this moment, Liszt felt that he himself was that valiant hero, churning the sea and conquering the tides.
Water Element Gathering Mid-tier Magic Attack Magic Mana Points consumed: Four Forms a tidal vortex that can draw in surrounding water currents and ultimately create a massive water projectile. If too few water elements can be gathered, activation fails.
There was no water around here.
With an ordinary amount of urine, it would not be drawn in by Water Element Gathering.
But they had a full six bottles of holy water inside their bodies. Water Surge had now doubled that amount, bringing it to a full twelve bottles—just enough to meet the threshold for Water Element Gathering.
Even so, it should still have been impossible.
Ashley understood even less. Water Element Gathering was offensive magic. It could not be directly cast on an enemy like Blessing Magic such as Water Surge or detection magic such as Water Surface Fluctuation.
The human body's magic resistance was low against beneficial enhancement magic, but the opposite was true for offensive magic.
Use Water Element Gathering to suck the urine out of Ashley's body?
That was simply impossible. Anyone who came up with such a move clearly had a completely inadequate understanding of magic.
Was that Ansu actually a magical idiot?
Incidentally, Water Surge could not affect liquids inside the human body—that is, bodily fluids. It could not double the blood inside one's body or fill one's brain with water or anything like that.
According to druids, total bodily fluids accounted for eighty percent of a person's weight. Bodily fluids were divided into extracellular fluid and intracellular fluid, both protected by magic resistance.
However, organs such as the excretory passage, reproductive passage, mouth, and nose were in direct contact with the outside world. The liquids within them did not count as internal bodily fluids. Saliva, mucus, urine, and so on were not bodily fluids, and their magic resistance was very weak.
Ansu had chosen Water Surge precisely because he had noticed that.
But why was he using Water Element Gathering?
Why choose this offensive water magic?
Ashley could not understand. She could not understand it at all—
But in the next instant, her pupils shook violently, as if enlightenment had suddenly struck her.
Realizing that possibility, her shoulders trembled slightly.
She had fallen into a mistaken line of thinking.
Following the thought process of a border-born brain, if Blessing Magic was used on the enemy, then who should Attack Magic be used on?
The answer was himself.
Liszt—the demonic glasses-wearer, that perverse and terrifying man—had given up his magical resistance and cast Water Element Gathering on his own body. He wanted to suck the urine from his bladder out and create a—
Massive attack urine bomb!!
And the target of that urine bomb was Ashley.
Her pupils trembled violently. Ashley could not imagine that outcome. Just thinking about it made goosebumps rise all over her body.
This would be an even more ultimate humiliation than leaking urine. When that massive urine bomb smashed into her face before everyone's eyes, all dignity and all pride would vanish. She could not imagine how bleak that future would be.
Ashley realized another terrifying fact: it was because she had cast Water Surge on Liszt that he had enough urine to use Water Element Gathering.
It was her imitation and counterattack that had made Liszt's urine bomb possible.
Were her actions and reactions also part of the calculations of that "Brother Ansu" Liszt had mentioned?
What a perversely brilliant mind!
Couldn't you use that brain for something proper?!
Ashley bit her lip hard as cold sweat trickled down from her forehead.
This time, could I imitate him and counterattack?
No.
She could not do it.
She lacked both the courage and the resolve.
The resolve to abandon herself like that.
She could not do it. She could not be like Liszt—
Because casting Water Element Gathering on herself would be the same as directly peeing herself!
Peeing herself would be social death, and being hit by a urine bomb would also be social death. No matter which choice she made, Ashley had absolutely no chance of turning things around.
There was only one way now: before Liszt's urine bomb formed,
She had to admit defeat.
Let Liszt—the border barbarian—receive full marks.
Ashley clenched her fists, her nails digging deeply into her skin.
But her pride would not allow it. It would not allow her to submit to an inferior!
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This chapter also explained the questions some readers had about the previous chapter: if it could be used on urine inside the body, why not use it on blood or brain fluid?
In biology, the excretory passage, mouth, and nose are directly connected to the outside world and do not count as being inside the body. Urine is not a bodily fluid either, while blood and the like are bodily fluids.
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