—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.

his opponent. There's no

Alex, a talent that he had spent countless resources on to convince him to join him, was currently losing Ren.

It just wasn't possible!

lean in

on the attack, whilst Ren was

Martin leaned back on

I tell you, he

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

head resulting in me having to switch focus

than a duel, this was more

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

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

-Clank! -Clank!

the sounds of Alex's spear clashing against my

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 than through real

rat and fight

Alex screamed as he fiercely stabbed the spear in

"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 endless cycle repeated a couple of times

"Huu."

breath, Alex stopped whatever he was doing and clenched his

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

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

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

matter how 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

him, he soon took a look at

with the imprints of his soles appeared all

my attack

that whenever he

arena was that he had only been attacking

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

attack range became much

was a

he suddenly switched attack patterns and

far, gripping onto his spear,

he zigzagged as he steadily charged forward. His movements weren't as predictable, as it had no set pattern. A stark contrast to before when he would directly lunge in my

he knew that just brute-forcing his way through wasn't going to give him the

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

predict in the

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

rings revolving around me moved and surrounded Alex, restricting his

"Ah! Fuck!"

around him, Alex could only helplessly stop trying to move

"Dammit fight me already!!"

to release the

my fighting style, I knew

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

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

triangle started rotating in

although the shield looked huge and impenetrable, the was a small gap

That was on purpose.

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