—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

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!

true to his predictions, the fight began to lean in

on the attack,

back on his chair and looked at

I tell you, he was

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

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

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

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

constantly move them towards where Alex was attacking, repeatedly blocking his every

-Clank! -Clank!

of Alex's spear clashing against my

booing

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

ear to the other,

decided to hide my main sword art, I decided to use this time to get

what better way than

like a rat and

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, I would instantly create a new one. This endless

"Huu."

Alex stopped whatever he

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

Alex distancing himself from me, I immediately taunted.

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

matter how much power I put into my attacks he always blocks them with his strange rings. Especially when he

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

the imprints of his soles appeared all over the floor of

attack patterns

noticed that whenever he attacked he would leave imprints

only been attacking from the front. His footprints would only be left whenever he

he now realized that because of that his

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

a serious

he suddenly switched attack patterns and made them harder

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

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

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

was surprised by his sudden actions, it was all futile on his end. It didn't

didn't need to predict in the first

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

the rings revolving around me moved and surrounded Alex, restricting

"Ah! Fuck!"

Alex could only helplessly stop trying to move in

"Dammit fight me already!!"

to release

my fighting style, I knew it was time

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

the rings together, with two rings at the bottom and one at the top,

my hand, the triangle started rotating in

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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