The first battle was so much better than normal cultivators fight so the audiences couldn't hold themselves and clapped their hands, some even stood up.
The young man didn't have any major injuries so he was allowed back after his injuries treated and the staff member gave the baby back to him. The judge continued with other contestants.
For 3 hours, four matches was proceeded and finished. One of the match was Max vs an official specialized in using Water element, the battle was the shortest match because when the official created a water prison to lock Max, he just jumped out of the prison and directly used powerful Art to blast the official far away from the platform. The official received multi injuries, 6 broken ribs and a pretty serious brain damage. Thankfully, the doctors saved him and the injuries were in their range of helping and treating.
The reason why for Max to be so serious and fierce because of 2 women in the house, his mom and his sister.
*Flash back*
"Listen here son. If you can not win this tournament, you are not allowed to leave the Fang house until you reach rank 6. Mean that no woman, no playing outside and showing off your body outside."
After rescuing Angus and top naked events, Max reputations increased greatly thanks to his admires, mostly were young innocent girls. In order to show off more, he usually went out with his friends and show his muscles to the girls near the "only-woman"district.
The threat from his mom was very harmful for his reputation so he focus more on training for the tournament. But what boosted his desire to win was from his sister.
"If you win and give the money to me, I will introduce you to Sis Mila from the Dancing and Art school in the girl district"
He knew who Mila was, the school beauty and best dancer in the school. Her gratefulness and gentle personality with some wife material made her one of best women to marry and be her companion. The most important aspect was that he had a crush on her when he saw her the first time.
And at that moment, he turned from a gentleman to a beast. He swore to himself that no one would stop him from winning and even if his father joined, he would go all out and defeated him.
*End of Flash Back*
Max was breathing very hard like a mad beast, as if he was waited for his next prey.
Angus didn't know what triggered Max but he hoped that Max wouldn't be his next opponent on 2nd round.
The staff cleaned the platform then the judge called number 11 and 12.
Angus and his opponents jumped onto the platform after the judge called them. His opponent was the girl who always looked the mirror and told herself like you would win, you were more beautiful than anyone else...
She still held the mirror and mumbled under her breath. The judge waited for girl to ready but Leon used the stone to tell him that to start the match so he announced the match to begin.
Angus didn't wait for her to put down the mirror and attacked her. His first move was to try check if she intended to fake and tried to lure him or she was just pure idiot.
When his attack almost near her, she looked at him and gently caught his fist like he was nothing. Angus was stunned as he put 200{K} into his punch but it was stopped like that.
He knew how hard that punch was because he trained with 200kg each day and his muscles density increase to 210.
(Muscle density: 200 ➡︎ 210)
"You should not be rude to us, we are just weak girl after all"
"We? Weak?"
She then used her left hand and punched Angus, it was a very strong punch and her body frame was so much smaller than him, she may had used Ki but this punch from her was raw strength, no Ki.
He didn't give up and attacked her again with many punches and leg attacks but all of them were useless against her. She just either caught his attacks or let it hit her and she only attacked him with raw strength, no Ki.
"Hum, I watched enough anime to know what kind of Mystic Art she is using"
After many failed attempts to attack, he figured out how she did it. He attacked her again and she easily caught his attack then she attacked him like last time.
Her small fist hit him in the stomach but he didn't felt anything and she was surprised to see her attack didn't harm him.
"I knew it, absorb and release type Art. This happened in many action anime"
He also knew the weakness of the Art. This time he hugged her and lifted her up.
"What is that boy doing to that girl? Are their lovers?"
"I think so, look at the way he faked her attacks by taking it like they were very strong attacks"
"Our son got a lover already? He is only 8 and he didn't tell anyone"
"Honey, big man like him is very matured at this age, he is a cultivator after all"
Angus's parents also saw his fight with the girl.
He couldn't hear anything as the barrier stopped noise from coming into the platform when the battle started.
When he lifted her up, she was panicked and confused why the boy did this but she soon found out after she got wrestled down to the floor by Angus.
The whole stadium was quiet and shocked to see the 1m7 tall boy who was Angus, mercilessly threw the lady to the floor. But it wasn't long until she stood up and looked at Angus like he was a dead man.
She didn't received any major injuries from the attack but she was now more pissed and crazy.
She lifted her mirror and a 3D image of her appeared beside her. Both of them looked alike and the Ki from them were the same.
He couldn't even tell who the real one when she hid her mirror away then both of them attacked him from both side. With their rank 5 strength and their attacks weren't like each other, he was having a hard time fighting her. One of them used the absorb and release art while other used martial art to pressure him.
He soon found out that if he attacked one of them and she absorbed the attack, the other one released the same amount of damages. This was the first time he met such bizarre and weird cultivator.
"Release mode"
He didn't find any more weakness but he could overwhelm her with speed and strength. After he went full power, the lady and her clone were in much harder situations because if one of them in absorb mode, the other couldn't be the same mode. Angus kept attacked the one with no absorb mode.
On the VIP seat, Leon asked his wife's father who was the librarian about the girl with the mirror.
"Isn't she one of the officials who succeeded with Half Mind?"
"Indeed, her Half Mind cultivation is the highest stage. An intelligent other mind and with the Double Mirror in her hand, she can create another her using Half Mind and the mirror but she is also one of the weirdest"
"Why?"
"After Half Mind, she fell love with herself. Two minds in one body, loving each other. That is really mess up"
On the platform, Angus was more powerful than her and her clone. This time her clone image was more blurred so he knew who was the real one but she had one more secret move.
She raised her mirror at him and what appeared before him wasn't her anymore but himself who was holding the mirror.
"Now taste your own fists"
His clone attacked him with the same speed and power but the clone found out that Angus wasn't even sweat.
"You copy me of my power but it was just the same after I increased my strength to a new level"
Angus attacked the clone with 400{K} and the clone was knocked out when the clone hit the barrier then the clone faded away until the lady appeared.
The judge came to check the contestants.
"Contestant number 12 win"
The audiences clapped their hands while his mom stood up and called him, his dad told that Angus was his to other people who sat near him. Angus saw his parents so he said Hi to them by waving his hand at them.
He experienced his first fight against a official and it was already hard, 2nd round must be very hard.