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.

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

resources on to convince him to join him, was currently

It just wasn't possible!

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

on the attack, whilst Ren was on the

in relief, Martin leaned back on his

you, he

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

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 constantly cut, smacked,

a duel, this was more like

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

me, I would constantly move them towards where Alex was attacking,

-Clank! -Clank!

against my rings repeatedly reverberated across

crowd's booing followed

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

if everything went from one ear to the other, I kept

Since I decided to hide my main sword art, I

what better way than

rat and

screamed as

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

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

"Huu."

whatever he was doing and clenched his

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

himself from me, I immediately

dried lips, Alex's grip on his spear increased. He was trying his best

attacks he always blocks them with his strange rings.

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

imprints of his soles appeared all over

my attack

that whenever he attacked he would leave

managed to notice as he looked at the arena was that he had only been attacking from the front. His footprints

now realized that because of that his attacks had become

much more narrow, making

was a

he suddenly switched attack patterns

that far, gripping onto his spear, Alex

forward. His movements weren't as predictable, as it had no set pattern. A stark contrast to before

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

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

predict in the first

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

rings revolving around me moved and surrounded Alex,

"Ah! Fuck!"

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

"Dammit fight me already!!"

time to

by my fighting style, I knew it

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

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

triangle started rotating

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

That was on purpose.

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