*reader's discretions alert, can be quite sensitive in several aspects, and contain gore and bloody scenes that might cause discomfort to some parties.
Maria stared at his opponent without taking any move, he is interested to know what kind of moves will that arrogant boy take. Suddenly a black mist took over the place of the fire wall, totally covered the area around Maria. . As the mist took over Maria's surroundings, some weird visions starts appearing in front of Maria...
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Waiting area.
"Is this a fear curse? Hah! Amateur." said Sky, in a disdainful tone.
"Mhmm... Amateur indeed. What a stupid move." said Chris, who had finally stopped playing that bottle tower game and joined Sky in watching the match of Maria.
While at the other side of the waiting area, the three identical boys are glaring fiercely at the duo as they heard all those dissing.
"Timmy, you are up next, right? Teach that guy what's the meaning of respect as well as showing him the true strength of Royal Guards." said the man who is hidden in the shade at the corner...
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On the field. Maria is staring at the vision of a group of people that are mocking and insulting at a boy who is wearing a flower dress.
"You are an alien, an alien creature like you should never exist in the world." said a man as he brutally kicked the poor boy's belly.
"Yes, I wonder did your mother ever regret giving birth to a rubbish like you." said a lady who ruthlessly ripped off the boy's dress, exposing his clean and smooth flesh to the public.
Shocked by that sudden move of the lady, the boy hastily picks up the torn pieces of his dress and anxiously covered his own body with it.
"Hahaha! Look! He is embarrassed! Come on! No one is interested in your body! You are not even a girl!" A teenage girl exclaimed as she clings to her boyfriend who spits at the poor boy.
Maria who had been witnessing all these awful scenes felt slightly enraged and decided to help that poor boy despite knowing that everything he saw is just an illusion. However, just as he took the first step, he switched place with the boy and became the mocking target of those awful people, while a hanging noose slowly appeared in his vision...
"Miss Maria had been trapped in that mist for more than five minutes! Will she be alright?" the Emcee Cat exclaimed.
"Hey! I guess you should start with the count down, I doubt if he would be able to survive this trap of mine." said Tommy, in a nearly shouting voice.
"Heh?... Ah... Right! Let's start the one-minute countdown!" said the Emcee Cat after a short moment of blank out.
"Haha... It's not necessary." Maria's voice came out from the black mist along with his sarcastic sneer.
Then, without any warning, the black mist 'bursted' by a magnificent blast of fire that engulfed the whole field in less than a second. Maria majestically walked out from the mist and fire with a spectacular flaming glaive in his right hand.
"Ha-ah~ What an immature hallucination trap you were using, seriously, Little Tommy Boy, you really know nothing about me, don't you?" said Maria in a casual tone as he exited the mist while glaring hard at his opponent.
A little bit surprised by Maria, Tommy blanked out a bit before realizing that he might in a big trouble at this moment and need to take precautionary moves fast, however, Maria doesn't seem to be planning to give him any chance for that, before Tommy can even react, Maria shifted to his side and whispered at his ear.
"Now now, can you please tell me that, how fun it is to use a curse magic on anyone."
Maria whispered before raised his weapon and slashed directly through his opponent's right shoulder, right chest, and abdomen. The boy silently collapsed onto the ground as blood spurted out from that brutal cut by Maria.
"Ah... This is..." the Emcee Cat is a bit astonished by that crazy slash of Maria and is a bit speechless.
"Don't worry, that wound might look deadly but he would not die because of that for now, I hold back a bit to make sure I wouldn't kill him in one hit." said Maria with a rather stern tone.
"Ah..."
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The Emcee Cat as well as the referees on the field are a bit lost as they are uncertain what result should be given for that match, it indeed gives a vibe that Maria was trying to kill his opponent on the field, but the reaction on the audiences that keep cheering for Maria said otherwise, they had no choice but to consult the higher authorities of the organizer. After a short briefing, they decided to let the doctors and healers of the tournament to decide whether or not Maria was trying to kill Tommy on the field by examining if the wound on Tommy really would not cause death as Maria had mentioned.
After some detailed checkings and discussions from the doctors and healers (excluding Ben who is too lazy to join them), they found out that the slash from Maria might look brutal but it perfectly dodged most of the important organs of his opponent, thus no life danger aside from the excessive blood loss. With that clarification of the healers and the pressure from the audience, the Emcee Cat announced the winner for the match.
"As the result of discussion between different parties, I am here to announce, Miss Maria from Team Kneel Before Me is the winner of this match!"
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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