—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

to join him, was currently losing Ren. Someone evaluated as a ranked talent couldn't possibly beat Alex who

It just wasn't possible!

to his predictions, the fight began to lean in

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

Martin leaned back on his chair and

I tell you, he

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

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

was more like

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

them towards where Alex

-Clank! -Clank!

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

crowd's booing

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

if everything went from one ear to the other, I

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

better way than through real

hiding like a rat and fight you

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

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

noticed that a ring was about to break, I would instantly

"Huu."

he was doing and

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

I immediately taunted. However, this time, he

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

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. Especially when he stacks them together.

him, he soon took a look at

with the imprints of his soles appeared all over

attack patterns too

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

managed to notice as he looked at the arena was that he had only been attacking

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

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

was a

attack patterns and made

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

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

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

end. It didn't matter if he made it hard for me

didn't need to predict in the first

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

the rings revolving around me moved and surrounded Alex, restricting

"Ah! Fuck!"

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

"Dammit fight me already!!"

to

style, I knew it was time to end the

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

two rings at

started rotating in front of me creating a large defensive

if one looked closely, although the shield looked huge and impenetrable, the was a small gap in the middle of it.

That was on purpose.

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