[Total amount of participants today: 30]
Sun was surprised by this number. That's even less than 50% of the remaining players from yesterday.
"They must've wounded themselves pretty bad.", Sun thought.
"Attention, please!", the moderator came on a high-up stage again.
The loud chatters inside the arena became quieter and soon everyone looked up to the stage.
The moderator made a short artificial break before continuing.
"The last and final NFT will be 1 vs 1. All kinds of weapons, skills or boosts are allowed. There is just one rule: Don't kill or cripple your opponent."
"We live in a peaceful era. Disobeying the rules will result in severe punishment.", he added.
After his pointless motivational speech, the screen beneath the moderator's stage lit up and the names of the participants were shown.
The algorithm sorted the names randomly and after a few more seconds were today's fight list done.
Sun looked up and search his name for a bit.
[Sun Reed vs Rodwick Slaw]
"Hmm, where did I saw this again? This is quite familiar..."
Just as he was thinking, the arena's terrain changed and it looks like he was transported to another dimension or so. This was quite similar compared to the first elimination round. A strong wind blew him in the face when the protection circle disappeared.
It was unexpectedly cold.
"Well, this is the last round after all. There needs to be a difference ..."
*Clank*
The sound of metal hitting the ground hauled in the wind.
Sun looked to that direction and saw a dark silhouette of a person.
"That dude is f*cking huge.", was the first thing he thought of seeing the guy.
*Clank*
As the person walked closer to Sun, he could see that the metal sound came from the chains of a giant ax.
By now, that mysterious guy's face was clear aswell.
"Brah, he looks like a misdesigned game character."
"Sun Reed. Are you the one who hurt my brother?", the guy smashed his ax on the ground when he started to talk - with an unusually high pitch.
"Pffff... Ah! I remember Slaw. I knew I saw it somewhere.", Sun smacked his forehead.
"That ugly bastard I faced during my first match."
*Grrrr*
Hearing these unpleasing words from his opponent's mouth, Rodwick felt enraged. He pulled out his ax and started to run towards Sun.
Hearing the animal-like sound growl, Sun thought: "What are you? An animal?"
[Activate: Lucifer]
Sun quickly flew into the air and equipped his pistols.
Charging them with his own mana, he then condensed the force to the size of a bullet and shot.
*Peng*
A cloud of smoke covered the vision. Soon, a flash of muscles dashed out of it. Unharmed.
"Hm, looks like he got some kind of mobility and tank abilities.
Ah... Why can't my Lucifer have some OP abilities like a space-time bomb..."
Lucifer Form enhances his physical status and grants magic neutralization, but the downside to that is, that there is not an active offensive skill. So, Sun can only rely on weapons for now until he reaches higher cultivation.
The Humanoid Soul Origins are exceptionally great, but it the full potential of it can only be achieved with higher cultivation. Compared to a certain video game, you could say that those using Humanoid Soul Origins are "late-game champions".
"Well, it looks like he's immune to my simple attacks. Judging from his speed and strengths, I would guess he's at least Master 1"
"Oh well, I've just recently achieved Intermediate Rank. This is going to be a hassle. Maybe I should make a bomb or something since my firepower is too weak."
Sun thought about dozens of possibilities. During his train of thoughts, his eyes darted to the earth.
"This ground ... could it be potassium nitrate?"
Sun smirked as he thought of a great idea.
Since this world of Esperia is commonly familiar with magic and would rather not use science tech, there are only a handful of knowledgeable people in this field. The wide mass, even nobels included, would rarely know about science.
"Come on, Rodwick. You sound like a gorilla on steroids. Catch me is you can you f*cker!"
The spectators on the other side of the screen could all see the matches.
"This guy is too much..."
"Wtf, haha. He's funny"
"Dude, that's a way to put it ..."
The spectators are going crazy only to see Sun Reed's funny little show.
The match turned from a fight to a comedian show.
*Grrr*
"Don't growl on me. Talk to me since you're human."
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"Geez. What happened to his attitude? This is a completely different him!", Rose was slightly surprised to see him like this but somehow expected it too.
"He's slightly to resemble my sister back then in her younger days."
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Sun flew about 10 minutes away from his starting point.
"This is it. The perfect place for a sulfur-oxidation."
After a few minutes of preparation, he extracted sulfur. Then he used condensed mana to heat up some branches he found.
"Potassium nitrate + charcoal + sulfur = gunpowder"
Sun was sure this was his ultimate weapon against Rodwick.
Although gunpowder isn't that effective against body enhancing cultivators like Rodwick, it should do the trick since he's only Master 1.
"I found you little rat. Now you can't escape anymore. I got you cornered."
"Do you feel it?", Sun asked.
"Feel what?!"
"The dense air."
"What do you mean?"
"Game over Rodwick."
Sun soared into the sky and shot down a large mana-ball.
*BOOOM*
The mana-ball hit the ground and triggered the freshly made gunpowder underneath it. The gunpowder exploded and triggered the dense air around the area to inflame.
Sun gasified his mana, in order to make the explosion more lethal.
[Victor: Sun Reed]
"What the f*ck did I just watch?"
"How did Rodwick lose?"
"What kind of explosion was that?!?!"
"DUDEEEEEEEE, this is f*cking sorcery..."
The spectators were furious as they did not comprehend Sun's procedures in beating Rodwick Slaw.
"What a mysterious guy. Using something outdated like gunpowder. I like it.", a mysterious guy in the VIP room whispered to himself after the conclusion of Sun Reed's match.