Dimensional Descent

Arion looked toward the old Lord Guard, but the latter had already begun to speak again.

"Faelon. Passed the Preliminary Round of the Gathering of Kingdoms on his second bout. Forward."

The Preliminary Round had given everyone three chances to win a single battle. So long as they won one, they could make it to the next round. To say that one had passed on their second bout meant that they had lost one before making it to the next.

The fact that both seemed to have the same record painted the picture that the Ma'at Bubble was at least not forming an unfair pairing and it should be a fair battle.

"You two will be sparring. The winner will be based on a tag system and your weapons, should you need them, will be provided, as they will be blunt. A tag will be based on my count and every battle will last one minute total.

"Now, what weapons, if any, do you need?"

The Half-Spiritual spoke first. "I'll take a saber."

The old Lord Guard looked toward Arion. "I... will take a spear."

"Good."

Soon, the two had their blunt weapons and faced off against one another.

"Begin."

The two shot forward.

A minute sounded like a short time, but in reality, for Seventh Dimensional existences of their caliber, it was enough to exchange several hundred moves and even decide a winner if one was superior enough.

The weapons had a clear heft to them, and every time

a rush, the two unleashed a barrage of assaults, forgetting almost instantly

gaze even

"Time!" Alderian spoke out.

and lashed out, his blunt spear tip

his body, his

on a foot and a knee, glaring upward at

voice boomed, knocking Arion out of

slowly lowered his spear, looking around in confusion as though he had forgotten

it as the blunt tip

back to him and his face

hurriedly bowed in Faelon's direction,

lost myself.

with unhappiness, but eventually

mostly

canons in the military, that was how you ended up with

total of 163 to 148. Faelon wins by

and retreated as Alderian called

in a low, cold voice. The only person who heard him was Aina, and she looked toward him with an odd glint in her eyes as

battles went on, from time to time there would be a few who stepped out of line like Arion did, but it wasn't very frequent. Sometimes it would occur just once every five, sometimes only once

bouts had been fought, the Half-Spirituals had won almost 200 of them, and of those 300, there were 11 humans that had stepped out

was close without fail, usually within 50 tags, and even that upper bound only occurred when the duo was

what was happening after the very first