—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.

no

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

It just wasn't possible!

to his predictions, the fight began to lean in Alex's direction as soon as

on the attack,

back on his chair and

tell you, he was

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

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

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

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

the rings around me, I would constantly move them towards where Alex was

-Clank! -Clank!

the sounds of Alex's spear clashing against

crowd's booing followed

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

if everything went from one ear to the other, I kept

sword art, I decided to use this time to

way

hiding like a rat and fight

going nowhere, Alex screamed as he fiercely stabbed the spear

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

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

"Huu."

stopped whatever he was

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

himself from me, I immediately taunted. However, this time,

on his spear increased. He was trying his best to calm

much 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,

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

of his soles appeared all

my attack

Alex noticed that whenever he

was that he had only been attacking from the front. His footprints would only be left whenever he propelled his body

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

just charging from the front, his attack range became much more narrow, making

was a

switched attack patterns

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

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

his

by his sudden actions, it was all futile on his end. It didn't matter if he made it hard for me to predict his

to predict in the

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

the rings revolving around

"Ah! Fuck!"

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

"Dammit fight me already!!"

time to release the

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

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

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

of my hand, the triangle started rotating in front of me

was a

That was on purpose.

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255