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 to

the plot armour to

need to take all

to do was polish what I had, and make due with

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

cheers from the crowd resounded throughout the whole

"Fuuuuuu..."

deep breath, I basked

don't dislike

the stage, the host looked at Alex who was passed out on the floor for a couple of seconds before looking at the

of the duel

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

resounded across the stadium

"Ren"

"Ren"

"Ren"

the barrage of cheers, I looked in the distance and saw my parents cheering with the crowd. Even my father, who was usually stoic, was

to defeat Alex Cloudburm. A renowned ranked prospect brought by

the big screens of the arena, everyone saw Martin expresionesly staring at the arena. No one knew his

looked completely indifferent to everything. Almost as if what had happened had

to

that created massive headaches for his

of the match on the big screens, I

set foot outside of the arena, my

"Ren!"

my mother lunged in my direction and hugged me tightly. Because she was running so fast, the moment she hugged me, it felt as if all the air had been knocked out of me

"okhhh..."

Are you hurt

hug, my mother patted my body all over to check for any

hurt more than whatever Alex did throughout the

"I'm fine"

arms and reassured her I

"That's good..."

in relief, my mother looked at me curiously

when did you get

question, my mouth

and that

I had already come up with a good excuse

did you forget what kind of

fell into

the human domain, but you suddenly went from G rank to

she said

usually took people half to a whole year to increase a rank. Me suddenly jumping a rank

"Where's Nola?"

could only pretend to be ignorant about her question and shift the topic towards a

with you father in the

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

strong as I was now. But it still wasn't the time yet. Especially with everything that

wouldn't want them to

Maybe one day...

...

Northern

one of the sofas, Martin with

"...and that's what happened"

Martin shut up. He didn't dare utter another word. This wasn't out of choice. it was out of the innate fear he had

"So Alex failed, huh"

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

-Tap! -Tap! -Tap!

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