—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.

opponent. There's no way such mistake

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!

fight began to lean in Alex's direction as

Alex was on the

in relief, Martin leaned back on his

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 myself from his attacks. Using the spear's long reach, he

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

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

around me, I would constantly move them towards

-Clank! -Clank!

against my rings repeatedly

booing

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

everything went from one ear to the other, I kept

struggling, I really wasn't. Since I decided to hide my main sword art, I decided to use this

way than

like a rat

nowhere, Alex screamed as

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

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."

Alex stopped whatever he

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

immediately taunted. However, this time, he ignored

grip on his spear increased. He was trying his

Let's 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. Once he does

help him, he

with the imprints of his soles appeared all over the floor of the

attack

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

had only been attacking

he now realized that because of

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

a

suddenly switched attack patterns and made them

thoughts reached that far, gripping onto his

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

that just brute-forcing his way through wasn't going

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

didn't need to predict in

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

hands, the rings revolving around me moved and

"Ah! Fuck!"

around him, Alex could only helplessly stop trying to

"Dammit fight me already!!"

to release the

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

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

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

movement of my hand, the triangle started rotating in front of me creating a large

huge and impenetrable, the was a small gap in the middle of it. Small enough

That was on purpose.

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