—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.

must've underestimated his opponent. There's no way such

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 a ranked talent couldn't possibly beat Alex who was

It just wasn't possible!

began to lean in Alex's direction as soon as he

was on the attack, whilst Ren was on

relief, Martin leaned back on his

I tell you, he

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

head resulting in me having to switch focus so that I could constantly

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

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

rings around me, I would constantly move them towards where

-Clank! -Clank!

of Alex's spear clashing against

booing

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

one ear to the other, I kept

main sword art, I decided

what better way than through

like a rat and

screamed as he

"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 before

"Huu."

deep breath, Alex stopped whatever he was doing and

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

from me, I immediately taunted. However,

grip on his spear increased. He was trying his best to calm himself down and come

No matter how much power I put into my attacks he always blocks them with his strange rings.

anything that could help him, he soon took a look at

of his soles appeared all over the floor

attack patterns too

at the surroundings, Alex noticed that whenever he attacked he would leave

only been attacking from the front. His footprints would

maximize his speed, but he now realized that because of

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

was a serious

switched attack patterns and made

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

were quite complex. Like a crab, he zigzagged as he steadily charged forward. His movements weren't as

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

end. It didn't matter if

to predict

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

my hands, the rings revolving around me moved

"Ah! Fuck!"

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

"Dammit fight me already!!"

time to

style, I knew it was time

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

together, with two rings at the bottom and one at

my hand, the triangle started rotating in front

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

That was on purpose.

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