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 to be

the plot

didn't need to take all the

do was polish what I had,

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

from the crowd resounded throughout

"Fuuuuuu..."

breath, I basked in

don't dislike this

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

the winner of the duel is Ren

-Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

across the stadium as everyone

"Ren"

"Ren"

"Ren"

my parents cheering with the crowd. Even my

odds, after having fought for 5:46 minutes, Ren Dover managed to defeat Alex Cloudburm. A renowned ranked prospect brought by

face was shown on the big screens of

if what had happened had nothing to do with

back to me,

Ren created an impenetrable defence that

speaking and replayed highlights of the match on the big screens, I left the arena and headed back towards the changing

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

"Ren!"

the moment she hugged me, it felt as if all the air had been knocked out of me and I took two

"okhhh..."

okay? Are you hurt

mother patted my

hurt more than whatever

"I'm fine"

my arms and reassured

"That's good..."

mother looked at me curiously

you

question, my

I created and that I took advantage of my knowledge as the author to take a couple of

had already come up with a good

you forget what

fell into

Lock 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 achieved in such little

said

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

"Where's Nola?"

the end, I could only pretend to be ignorant about her question and shift the topic towards a different

father in the

my mother played along with it. To which I

and explain to her about what I went through to get as strong as I was now. But it

want them to start

Maybe one day...

...

city, Northern district, 5:00

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

"...and that's what happened"

out of choice. it was out of the innate fear he had towards the

"So Alex failed, huh"

light gray

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