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.

opponent. There's no way such mistake

that he had spent countless resources on to convince him to join him,

It just wasn't possible!

to lean in Alex's direction as soon as he released his full

on the attack,

leaned back on his chair and looked at

I tell you,

...

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

would directly aim for my heart and head resulting in me having to switch focus so that I

than a duel, this was more

-Swooosh! -Swooosh!

constantly move them towards where Alex was attacking, repeatedly blocking his

-Clank! -Clank!

the sounds of Alex's spear clashing against my rings

booing followed

"Do something!"

"Fight back!"

"This is so boring"

went from one ear to the other, I kept

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

better way

like a rat

going nowhere, Alex screamed as he

"Just do something! Dammit!"

-Clank! -Clank!

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."

stopped whatever he was doing

"What's wrong? Tired already?"

himself from me, I immediately taunted. However,

trying his best

bastard is like a turtle. No matter how much power I put into my attacks he always blocks them with his strange rings. Especially

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

with the imprints of his soles appeared all over the floor

attack patterns too

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

been attacking from the front. His footprints would only be left

his speed, but he now realized that because of that his

became much more narrow, making it easier for the

a serious

attack patterns and made them harder

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

he zigzagged as he steadily charged forward. His movements weren't as predictable, as it had no set pattern.

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

end.

need to predict in the first

-Swooosh! -Swooosh! -Swoooosh!

the rings revolving around me

"Ah! Fuck!"

him, Alex could only helplessly stop trying

"Dammit fight me already!!"

to release the

my fighting style, I knew it was

-Swooosh -Swooosh -Swooosh

fast movement, jumbling up the rings together, with two rings at

hand, the triangle started rotating in front of me

shield looked huge and impenetrable, the was a small gap

That was on purpose.

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