Fights kept on going one by one, Thomas won most of his fights until he got unlucky and drew the same number as Henry on the third round.
"Hahah I give up. No point in tiring our ace !"
"Nice Thomas, I'll reward you when we're back in Buton !"
Said the director, other directors looked at him weirdly. He was the only director who had put all his hope on one student after all, the other schools all had 4 to 5 aces, obviously they had one main ace but that didn't mean that all their hope was on him.
Henry didn't care about being lucky or not and kept winning fight after fight, when his opponent wasn't wearing an armor he found a way to use the dagger sneakily and when they wore one he would simply use the same method he used in his first fight against Bri.
Rose switched her weapon at every fight so her opponents couldn't get ready, after the dagger she used a halberd, after the halberd she used a bow and kept on changing.
There was one other contestant that had caught Henry's attention, he was the ace of planet Escuri which was considered to be the best with the Capitole which wasn't present today since they didn't come from the same solar system as the people present.
That contestant's name was Harry, he was quite short, not very handsome and didn't attract much attention but where Escuri's students stood nobody stood in front of him, even the teachers seemed respectful of him.
For all of his fights he had used the same sword but didn't wear an armor even once, he hadn't used his native skill either which meant it could be a passive skill but Henry didn't lower his guard and watched every single of his and Rose's matches closely.
"This guy should be the second strongest of the real tournament, the first should be a guy named Blaze from the Capitole."
Thomas saw Henry looking at Harry and told him what he knew, he got that information very easily because both these guys were already quite famous around the Trish galaxy.
"He must be quite strong, do you know anything about his native skill ?"
"Yeah but it's only rumor I've never seen it obviously, they say he's able to go invisible."
"That's insane..."
Henry was already starting to think of a strategy in case he fell against him later however the one who gave him the most pressure was Rose, he was almost certain that she was going to the final round even if she got drawn against that Harry guy. The annoying thing was that she had a perfect control over any weapon she used, most people are able to control one to two weapons perfectly and are at most average on other weapons but it seemed like every weapon she used was an extension of her arms !
"Thomas do you know anything about Rose's native skill ?"
"Honestly I've never even heard about her before today, her school must have kept her secret for some reason. A beautiful genius like her would have made huge waves on the Uninet."
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"Next match : Henry from Buton against Harry from Escuri."
'I guess I won't be able to jauge Rose's power using this guy.'
Henry walked up the stage and waited for his opponent, he looked over but his opponent's wasn't in his planet's side. He looked at the referee and the referee said
"If both contestants are ready then start the fight !"
FWEEEEET
'Uh ?'
Henry looked around himself but his opponent was nowhere to be seen, as he was confused he heard a step sound behind him and half a second later he heard the air being cut by something.
BOOOM
"Shit ! What happened ?"
Some people in the crowd who didn't know about Harry exclaimed.
Henry had changed his armor to the third form right before Harry's invisible sword fell down on his shoulder, the armor was perfectly fine but he on the other hand had fallen on his knees. The hit was too sudden so all he could do was change his armor but didn't have the time to take a firm stance.
"His native skill is invisibility? Isn't that cheating ?"
"Not really, there are way stronger native skills in this galaxy and in the whole universe. I've heard that some matured native skills were able to destroy planets."
"Those are rumors obviously, don't be stupid the Alliance wouldn't be having a war against the Enemies if we had such strong people."
A heated debate had started amongst the crowd and everybody was betting on who they thought would win, the "rich boy" who relied on his equipment or the lucky boy who was born with such a cheat ability ?
'No doubt that this will be a hard fight.'
Henry stood and looked around himself, he didn't bother changing his armor and stayed in the third form in prevention of a sudden attack once again. He also pulled two daggers from inside the armor ! He had bought a second one awhile ago but never felt the need to use them, now he held a dagger in each hand and took a defensive stance, at the same time he tried as hard as he could to focus on his hearing to be able to react when Harry was somewhere close to him !
"Hahah is this your strategy? You'll just hide inside your tortoise shell ? Aren't you ashamed ?"
A voice resounded somewhere on the left side of Henry but at the end of the sentence the voice was coming from his right side.
'He's moving at the same time that he's speaking so I have to be fast. Next time he speak I'll have to rush on him suddenly !'
"What's up did you lose your tongue~"
When he heard the first word Henry changed to the body tight suit and jumped straight to where the voice was coming and swiped his daggers somewhere low to avoid killing his opponent on a mistake.
"Fuuuuck it hurts you asshole !"
Once again Henry heard the sound of air being cut above his head and changed to the third form, the sword hit him right on the middle of his helmet and made him dizzy !
'Is this guy set on killing ? What the fuck if my reflexes were a little worse I'd be dead !'
Henry finally lost his calm, his opponent was probably immobilized since he had been hit but was able to move again during the time Henry was dizzy. However now Henry could follow his opponent because blood was seeping from the wound and the flow followed him everywhere he went.
"That's an opportunity !"
Yelled Henry's school's director, every other adult looked at him weirdly but didn't say anything, they guessed how hard it must be to have only one good student.
The blood flow was quite slow so it probably wasn't a wound that would slow down his opponent and at the same time it delayed how fast Henry was able to follow his opponent, he was following the blood trail with his eyes when he saw a drop fall right in front of him.
'Now !'
Using his armor's third form he tackled in front of him, his opponent hadn't expected such a move and Henry felt like he grabbed someone. He bought him to the ground and put the dagger's blade against his skin, finally his opponent was visible again. Henry had perfectly tackled him but had put the dagger randomly on his face and had left a bloody injury on his cheek.
"This scar is for trying to kill me, next time I'll kill you. Remember to not fuck with me."
FWEEEEET
"Winner Henry ! Advance to the final round."
After a last look into his opponent's scared eyes Henry stood up and left the stage.