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

need

the plot armour to constantly

take all the cheat items for

what

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

the entire arena, boisterous cheers from the crowd resounded throughout the

"Fuuuuuu..."

I basked

don't dislike this

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

the winner of the duel

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

again, cheers resounded across the stadium as everyone started chanting my

"Ren"

"Ren"

"Ren"

I looked in the distance and saw my parents cheering with

to defeat Alex Cloudburm. A renowned ranked prospect brought by our very

screens of the arena, everyone saw Martin expresionesly staring at the arena. No

indifferent to everything. Almost as if what had happened

back to me, the

impenetrable defence that created massive headaches for

of the match on the big screens, I

set foot outside of the arena, my mother appeared on the pathway to the changing

"Ren!"

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

"okhhh..."

okay? Are you hurt

patted my body all over to check

honest, her hug hurt more than whatever Alex did throughout the

"I'm fine"

smiling, I flexed my arms and reassured her I was

"That's good..."

relief, my mother looked at me curiously

you get

to her question,

was based on a novel I created and that I took advantage of my knowledge as the author to

had already come up with a good excuse

did you forget what

my mother fell into

from G rank to F rank in less than 3 months! That's

said makes

to a whole year to increase a rank. Me suddenly jumping a rank in as little as three months seems

"Where's Nola?"

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

father in the

was avoiding the question, my mother played along

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

want them to

Maybe one day...

...

city, Northern

Sitting on one of the sofas, Martin with his head held down, recounted the events of

"...and that's what happened"

up. He didn't dare utter another word. This wasn't out of choice. it was out of

"So Alex failed, huh"

smiling, an old man with light gray hair and light gray goat tee tapped

-Tap! -Tap! -Tap!

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