The Author's POV

Chapter 80

—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.

no

that 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!

to his predictions, the fight began to lean in Alex's direction as soon as he released his

on the

relief, Martin leaned back

did I tell you,

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

resulting in me having to switch focus so that I

was more like Alex viciously attacking me with everything he

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

move them towards where Alex

-Clank! -Clank!

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

crowd's booing

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

one ear to the other,

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

better way

a rat and fight you

currently going nowhere, Alex screamed

"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

"Huu."

Alex stopped whatever he was doing

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

Alex distancing himself from me, I immediately taunted.

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

how much power I put into my attacks he always

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

his soles appeared all over the floor of the

my attack patterns

better look at the surroundings, Alex noticed that whenever he attacked he

at the arena was that he had only been attacking from the front. His footprints would only

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

much more narrow, making

was a

if he suddenly switched attack patterns and made

his spear,

as predictable, as it had no set pattern. A stark contrast to before when he would

knew that just brute-forcing his

it was all futile on his end. It didn't matter if he made it hard for me

to predict in

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

revolving around me moved and surrounded

"Ah! Fuck!"

the rings around him, Alex could only helplessly stop trying to move in

"Dammit fight me already!!"

time to

becoming increasingly frustrated by my fighting style, I knew

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

movement, jumbling up the rings together, with two rings at the bottom and

the triangle started rotating

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

That was on purpose.

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