—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 way such mistake would

on to convince him to join him, was currently losing Ren. Someone evaluated as a ranked

It just wasn't possible!

in Alex's direction as soon as he released

the attack, whilst Ren was on the

in relief, Martin leaned back on his chair and looked

did I tell you, he was just

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

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 long reach, he constantly cut, smacked, and stabbed in

duel, this was more like Alex viciously attacking me with

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

them towards where Alex

-Clank! -Clank!

of Alex's spear clashing against my rings repeatedly

crowd's booing followed

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

everything went from one ear to

wasn't. Since I decided to hide my main sword art, I decided to use this time to get familiar

what better way

like a rat and fight you

that things were currently going nowhere, Alex screamed as he fiercely

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

rings around me accordingly. Whenever I noticed that a ring was about to break,

"Huu."

breath, Alex stopped whatever he was doing and

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

Alex distancing himself from me, I immediately

increased. He was trying his best to calm himself down and come up with

power I put into my attacks he always blocks them with his strange rings. Especially when he stacks them together. Once he does that, breaking his defenses becomes impossible! Dammit,

around the arena for anything that could help him, he soon took a look at the ground and finally noticed

soles appeared all

attack patterns

Alex noticed that whenever he attacked he would leave imprints

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

so to maximize his speed, but he now realized that because of that his attacks had become

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

was a

suddenly switched attack patterns and made them harder

his thoughts reached that far, gripping onto his spear,

steadily charged forward. His movements weren't as predictable, as it had no set pattern. A stark contrast to before

was obvious that he knew that just brute-forcing his way

futile on his end. It didn't

need to predict in the

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

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

"Ah! Fuck!"

him, Alex could only helplessly stop trying to move in

"Dammit fight me already!!"

time to

becoming increasingly frustrated by my fighting style,

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

two rings at the bottom and one at the top, I formed a

started rotating in front of me

shield looked huge and impenetrable, the was a small gap in the middle of it. Small enough for a human to fit

That was on purpose.

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