—Start!

-Booom!

As soon as the referee announced the start of the match, like a missile, Alex shot in my direction. A shockwave resounded across the arena as his figure disappeared from where he was standing.

-Dash

Moments before Alex shot in my direction, tensing my calves I moved backward and quickly drew a circle in the air.

-Swoooosh

Just as the tip of Alex's spear was about to reach me, motioning with my fingers upwards, the ring I created moved right in front of the spear.

-Clank!

"Wh-at!?"

Caught off guard, Alex's arms which were still holding onto the spear tightly, flung in the air as the spear clashed against the ring disrupting its momentum.

His body became wide open.

Capitalizing on the opening, without skipping a beat, using the scabbard of the sword I hit him in the face and the sound of something breaking resounded across the arena.

-Kacha!

"Kuuuuaahhh!"

Taking ten steps back, Alex opened his eyes wide open as his hands held onto his nose.

-Drip! -Drip!

Soon red droplets fell onto the pavement of the arena. Taking a moment to process what had happened, Alex looked at the ground for a moment before screaming with bloodshot eyes.

"H-how dare you!"

-Vuam!

Soon, a thick pressure started emanating from his body, surrounding the whole arena.

Noticing the changes happening around me, I rubbed my chin and stared at Alex. The red hue surrounding his body had become thicker and stronger than before.

He was finally starting to take me seriously.

Licking my lips lightly, raising my hand I provocatively beckoned at him

"Come"

...

In the stands, watching the spectacle unfold before their eyes, Ronald and Samantha Dover were pleasantly surprised by their son's performance.

Although the match had only just started, from the way things were going, Ren seemed to be having the upper hand.

"Oh my god, since when did Ren become so strong?"

Covering her mouth to hide her shock, Samantha looked at her husband who although seemed to have had no significant change in expression was too shocked as his hands shook as soon as Ren hit Alex in the face.

"...He's definitely become stronger"

"Hmph, he just got lucky"

Martin, who was a few rows behind them, snorted.

However, although he said that, his face was grim. Sitting up on his chair, his eyes remained glued to the arena.

underestimated his opponent. There's no way such mistake would

to join him,

It just wasn't possible!

lean in Alex's direction as soon as he

on, Alex was on the attack, whilst Ren was on the

relief, Martin leaned back on his

you,

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

spearmanship was truly domineering and vicious. With each swing, he would directly aim for my heart and head resulting in me having to switch focus so that I could constantly defend myself from his attacks. Using the spear's

rather than a duel, this was more like Alex viciously attacking

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

move them towards where Alex was attacking,

-Clank! -Clank!

Alex's spear clashing against my rings repeatedly reverberated across

crowd's booing

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

from one ear to the other, I

was struggling, I really wasn't. Since I decided to hide my main sword art, I decided to use this time to get familiar with my second sword art.

better way than through real

hiding like a rat

screamed as he

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

with more power and with greater speeds, I continuously matched his tempo and redirected the rings around me accordingly. Whenever I noticed that a ring was about to break, I would instantly create a new one. This

"Huu."

breath, Alex stopped whatever he was doing

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

immediately taunted. However, this

trying

into my attacks he always blocks them with his strange rings. Especially when he stacks

could help him, he soon took a look at the ground

of his soles appeared all over the floor of

my attack patterns too

Alex noticed that whenever he attacked he would leave imprints of his foot on

was that he had only been attacking from the

now realized that because of that

from the front, his attack range became much more narrow, making it easier for the opponent to

a serious

patterns

his thoughts reached that far, gripping onto his spear, Alex

His movements weren't as predictable, as it had no set pattern. A stark contrast to before when he would

brute-forcing his way through

actions, it was all futile on his end.

to predict in

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

with my hands, the rings revolving around me moved and surrounded

"Ah! Fuck!"

only helplessly stop trying to move in a zig-zag pattern, and charge

"Dammit fight me already!!"

to

Alex becoming increasingly frustrated by my fighting style, I knew it was time to end

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

one swift and fast movement, jumbling up the rings together, with two rings at the bottom and one at

a movement of my hand, the triangle started rotating in front

the shield looked huge and impenetrable, the was a

That was on purpose.

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