—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.

There's no

just couldn't believe that Alex, a talent that he had spent countless resources on to convince him to join him, was currently losing Ren. Someone evaluated as a ranked talent couldn't possibly beat Alex who was evaluated at

It just wasn't possible!

lean in Alex's direction as soon as he released his

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

back on his chair

did I tell you, he was

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

to switch focus so that I could constantly defend

duel, this was more like Alex viciously attacking me with everything

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

move them towards where Alex was

-Clank! -Clank!

sounds of Alex's spear clashing against my rings repeatedly reverberated across the

crowd's booing

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

from one ear to

I decided to hide my main sword art, I decided to use this time to get familiar with my second sword art. [Ring of

better way

a rat

currently going nowhere, Alex screamed as he

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

his tempo and redirected the rings around me accordingly. Whenever I noticed that

"Huu."

whatever he was doing and clenched his

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

Alex distancing himself from me, I immediately taunted. However, this

on his spear increased. He was trying his best to calm himself down and come

calm down. Let's think things through. This bastard is like a turtle. No matter how much power I put into my attacks he always blocks them with his strange rings.

that could help him, he

the imprints of his soles appeared all over the floor

attack patterns too

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

the one thing he managed to notice as he looked at the arena was that he had only been attacking from the front. His

he now

attack range became much more narrow, making it easier for the opponent to defend

a

attack patterns and made them harder to

his spear, Alex once

as he steadily charged forward. His movements weren't as predictable, as it had

was obvious that he knew that just brute-forcing his way through wasn't going

on his end. It didn't matter if he made it hard for me to predict

need to predict in the first

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

the rings revolving around me moved and surrounded

"Ah! Fuck!"

rings around him, Alex could only helplessly stop trying to move

"Dammit fight me already!!"

time to

my fighting style, I knew it was time to end

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

movement, jumbling up the rings together, with two rings at the bottom

started rotating in front of me

and impenetrable, the was a small gap

That was on purpose.

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