waking up to knocking on the door, I take a quick glance to see the still sleeping jojo and hera, wonder how long they will sleep for. picking them up and putting them in my robe inner pockets, I head for the door. once I open the door a bit qui pushes open the door. "nyx" almost in tears
"what's wrong" I ask.
"yesterday the guy we saw walking towards us lei long put 100 platinum coins to find out your name and where your staying stay" I don't think its a good idea for all of us to walk together just in case we are attacked in star city.
shaking my head, I feel stupid for forgetting to put on my mask. " it will be all right" petting her head, I quickly get my robe on and change the color to green and then i change my mask color to red. see I'm different. I then head downstairs to eat breakfast with qui after breakfast our group went to sign up for the tournament, we didn't have much to do after signing up so we walked to the blacksmith.
" your finest long sword would you please" I said in a good mood.c
" here you go sir, that would he 2 platinum" giving him the rest of my money I suggest we go to am auction house and sell our things.
we were walking and relaxing for most of the day. until we stumbled on an auction house.
"how may I help you sir" the auction lady stares at us while saying.
"we are here to sell demonic cores" luk takes a demonic core out.
"how many would you like to sell" she asks.
"30 rank 1 demonic cores" they slowly appeared on the table.
the lady takes its away and shortly returns with a tray of 3 platinum coins.
after we leave with new funds. head back to the inn for food and drinks. when I got into my room I felt something move in my inner pockets, their awake, taking then out of my inner pocket, I see jojo black eyes stare at me, he turned more pale blue but on the same time.its a white. looking like freshly laid ice. he was slowly growing bigger, he didn't stop till he was 2m long and 30cm thick. petting him as he was to big to carry around anymore. I look at hera she look at me with golden eyes filled with familiarity. she turned more white if that was possible, she slowly grew to 1.8m but she was growing wider not like a snake but more dragon like. I guess that she might become a real dragon sooner or later. smiling I let them end take out beast meat to feed them.
waking up the next morning to two large jojo and hera I pet them and tell them to stay here. I summon a pile of beast meat before walking out the room towards breakfast. after breakfast we make our way to where the tournament is being held. as we got to main square we see a bunch of people standing around. waiting with excitement. with a quick glance I see a few people who give m a bad vibe, they must be the real power.
"welcome everyone to the lei family tournament" beaming a smile as he looks around the crowd. " since their eas 400 plus people who wanted to take part we will start right away with the steps. follow me, he leads the huge group of people to a Coliseum. stopping about 100 feet before it. he then flys up in the air and says" we are 100 steps from the Coliseum, each step will increase in pressure, only the first 100 people join us for the 2nd round". with that brings out a bell and rings it starting the test.
the first person took a step and was blasted away. "this will be harder then it looks, I said to the trio before taking a step. I felt a little weight as kind to mage/knight Aurora. walking casually to the tenth step, I felt an increase of pressure, hmm so wveet 10 steps has an increase, feeling no different I kept walking with the same pace.
by the 40th step people started getting blasted away left and right as I walk causal though it keeping my position in the middle of the group. once I hit 79th step I felt resistance guester then before, pushing me back. it came out of nowhere but I gritted my teeth and forced myself forward. ot felt like walking towards a tornado, trying not to lose my balance and fall. I firmly plant my foot on the 90th step.
looking left and right I see I made it to the front of the pack, the few people i had a bad vibe were all on the 80th step a few on the 69th step and them the trio were about to cross the 80th step. I started to circulate my qi ar a faster rate and forced myself to the 91st step, the 92nd step pushes me back slightly but I forge ahead. 93rd step made me grunt in pain but I force myself to step, the 94th step almost made me cough up blood but I force it down. the 95th step made me slide back to the 93rd step by force, focusing on my qi circulation I feel on close to a break though. walking back slowly to the 95th step, I take a other tothe 96, the feeling on a breakthrough is close, the 97th step I feel it's so close I can touch it, 98th step I'm at my breaking point but the feeling of a breakthrough is at its peak. 99th step there was a loud boom in body I break from low 6th rank knight into mid 6 rank. using the force of the breakthrough i take the 100 step and arrive at doorway to Coliseum. I quickly sit down and start circulating my qi ti stabilize my foundation.
LEI family pov
why did you make tee hen take 100 steps to Coliseum not a battle?" an elder said
"because I don't want to ruin the bets we make in the future, plus their is no fun if they show off their trump cards now." the host said.
watching the first kid get blasted off, he stinkers to himself. the group of elders were watching the steps in their room on a flash projection. they were leisurely chatting about who will win or come in first. they didn't start to watch till some made it to the 80th step. looking back at it, their focus comes to the only person on the 90th step. "how did he make it to the 90th already? an elder asks everyone
" a real talent, but on worried that he won't be able to make it" another else says. as they watch intensely when nyx was making her way closer and closer to the goal. when nyx was on the 99th step and broke though a commotion was raised in the group" a excellent seedling, I want him to be my disciple" and elder said.
"he will be mine if he does well in the combat section"
the one of two female elders look at nyx image closely and smiles. even the she was wearing a mask she couldn't hide her gender from this elder.
nyx pov
after sitting down for an hour I finally walk inside and see 8 40m by 40m areas. so we will fight eh. thinking to myself I walk on a arena and sit down in the middle of it. closing my eyes and wait. a few mins go by and one be one people start to pour in. ab hour late the trio arrives, they make their way to me "find a different arena I said in a cold voice' hoping they will take the hint. they soon look at each other and go to a different arena.
t seeing me sit in a arena they each go to one till every arena had about 6 people. half an hour goes by and an the elder comes shows up. "welcome to the 2nd round, you all shall fight each other till 2 people are left on the ring. you can't kill or cripple each other. begin" he says smiling. soon people pull out their weapons and start to fight.
in my arena I'm still sitting down in the center while rhe ther 5 people walk around in a circle with me as the center. "are you sure you want to do that" I ask in a lazy manner. they look at each other and then charge towards me with weapons in hand.
"cant blame me for not warning you" absolute zero I whisper. with me at the epicenter a torrent of ice explodes freezing the arena and everyone on it. exhaling a frosty breath i look at the human popsicles. I guess there is only me advancing. closing my eyes I think over to myself. I need to act flashy so they can surrender and we can end this faster. I want make a big name for myself and send my name to yu to let him know I'm alive.
closing my eyes I didn't see the amazement in the eyes of the elders or the other arenas. soon they shake their head and start clashing. spears, swords , magic are everywhere. soon each arena has 2 people beside mine.
" congratulations you 15, the 3rd and final round will start tomorrow, be welcome to stay at our guest house and mingle." he walks back to vip room.. turning around to stare at the other 15 people, I quickly leave heading back to the in for a bath and food.
the next morning at the Coliseum all 15 people standing on the arena with 100,000 people in the stands watching us. the lei elder walks out. " since we have an odd number of people I would like everyone to welcome lei long" the guy who I saw walking towards us 2 days ago comes out and stands with us. he looked go be 18 with broad shoulders with long dirty blonde hair. teal Color eyes. wearing a black robe. he is screaming silk pants. "now we I'll draw lots" we each walk up and take a number. I grab number 1, qui grabbed 5, zhang grabbed 15 and luk grabbed 9. looking over to ther other guys I see lei long grab 16. I may face him in the finals. smiling under the mask. "since you all drawn lots it would be as followed. 1vs2, 3vs4, 5vs6, 7vs8, 9vs10, 11vs12, 13vs14 and 15vs 16. once the final 4 are picked we will have a round Robin to find 1st.2nd and 3rd. the later pistons will find out after the first 3. would 1 and 2 step forward"
walking forward I see a guy wearing a light blue clock holding a spear. we get 20m apart and the elder lei says begin.
stepping back I for 30m away from him. getting out of his range of attack. Holden my sword forward I try to see all the openings I have to attack. hmm I run forward at a low angle Holding my blade with one hand, when i reached the 5m distance he says" sweep of the dragon" bring his spear down and Low to my legs, he tries to sweep me off my feet.
seeing such movie for the first time I jump.up and was above his waist height closing rhe distance to 3m he shouts "rise of the dragon" pulling the spear upward from underneath me.
i aim my sword downwards and rotate my body in a 180 degree flip to deflect his spear. once the sword and spear connected i felt his spear was weightless with a quick look he let go of his spear and cameforward with a punch. "iron fist" without time to dodge I quickly raise my arms to block the punch.
like punching a sand back I flew 10m before I landed on the ground. I see him pick up his spear that he discarded given me a grin. clearly a way to get me mad. I smile at him. and disappear from sight. I reappear behind him with my sword pressed against his neck. a thin trace of his blood glides across it and drips off the point of the blade.
"winner number 1" the lei elder announces as the crowd cheered.