The Author's POV

Chapter 81

I am not outstanding

If we exclude the fact that I practiced a five-star manual, nothing about me was outstanding.

Not my stats

Not my physique

Not my skills

Compared to Kevin who had a system aiding him all the times, or the other main characters who had every resource they could ask for, I had nothing.

...I wasn't blessed by the 'plot armour' like the protagonists were

Everything I got was through shedding blood sweat and tears. I gained everything that I got by either putting my life on the line to get it or by sacrificing something important.

I had to make due with what I had.

When facing an opponent like Alex who had a lot more combat experience than I had, and moreover set a handicap to myself, I had to fight using everything that I had available at my disposal.

Thus I chose to fight a mental battle.

Since I knew that despite being weaker than me, Alex had more experience than me, I chose to beat him mentally.

Everything started with our first clash. Right when I broke his nose using the scabbard of my sword.

That's when the mental beatdown started...

By winning the very first clash, I had already started setting the tone of the battle.

The confidence he had since the beginning of the fight had now diminished, and what replaced it was both shock and anger.

It was always pride.

Having read many novels with arrogant young masters, I knew that for prideful individuals like him, just a small loss was enough to influence their actions.

...and I was right.

From that point on his attacks started becoming more predictable and his emotions started to influence his decisions.

I than preceded to block his every attack.

With every thrust or stab of his spear, one of my rings would continuously block his every attack.

The more he attacked the more he realised he couldn't do anything. He was helpless...

Once again, his confidence took another hit and self doubt started to set into his mind.

Frustration, annoyance, rage, impatience

As those emotions started to set into his mind, with every minute the fight continued, he became sloppier.

His weak mentality led to his loss.

The opening I created with my rings could've easily been spotted if he had thought about it carefully.

With him being someone who had fought many battles before, he should've easily spotted it.

However, because of how unstable his mental state was, he ignored that scenario and went for the win.

He fell for such an obvious trap and I capitalised on it.

Staring at Alex who was on the ground passed out, beneath my feet, a strange feeling surged from within me.

'So this is how it feels to win, huh?'

I wasn't outstanding

didn't need

need the plot armour to

to take all

do was polish what I had, and make due with

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

boisterous cheers from the crowd resounded throughout the whole

"Fuuuuuu..."

breath, I basked in

dislike this

on the floor for a couple of seconds

the winner of the duel

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

again, cheers resounded across the stadium as everyone

"Ren"

"Ren"

"Ren"

my parents cheering with the crowd. Even my father, who was usually

5:46 minutes, Ren Dover managed to defeat Alex Cloudburm. A

screens of the arena,

completely indifferent to everything. Almost as if what had

cameras back to me,

defence that created massive

on the big screens, I left the arena and headed back towards

the arena, my mother appeared on the pathway

"Ren!"

me tightly. Because she was running so fast, the moment she hugged me, it felt

"okhhh..."

okay? Are you

from her hug, my mother patted my

hug hurt more than

"I'm fine"

flexed my arms

"That's good..."

in relief, my mother looked at me curiously before

did you get so

to her question,

created and that I took advantage of my knowledge

had already come up with

what kind of place I

fell

is the best academy in the human domain, but you suddenly went from G rank to F rank in less than 3 months! That's not something that can be

said makes

to a whole year to increase a rank. Me suddenly jumping a rank

"Where's Nola?"

to be ignorant about her question and shift the

father

avoiding the question, my mother played along with it. To

come clean and explain to her about what I went through to get as strong as I was now. But it still wasn't the time yet. Especially with everything that was going on with

them

Maybe one day...

...

city, Northern district, 5:00

of a luxurious room, two individuals sat facing each other. Sitting on one of the sofas, Martin with his head held down, recounted the events of

"...and that's what happened"

wasn't out of choice. it was out of the innate fear he had towards the man that was sitting

"So Alex failed, huh"

hair and light gray goat tee tapped on the arm rest of

-Tap! -Tap! -Tap!

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