Jayden shrugged as he got into the arena. Charlotte had a serious face on. Her weapon was a war hammer. Kinda unusual for a girl. She was quite tall for an average girl height and had muscles but they weren't the very bulgy type. More like the 'I work out but not too much' type.
Arnos sat cross legged in his seat even though it was quite uncomfortable. He was thinking of what Jayden would do first.
The match began and Charlotte threw her hammer straight at Jayden. Jayden lifted his two blades and got pushed back pretty far. Then the hammer flew back to Charlotte. It was like the hammer was loyal or something.
Arnos couldn't understand why Jayden was being so reckless. The match continued with Jayden doing careless moves and not using any of his skills. Charlotte thought she was gaining the upper hand.
'Why is he doing tha- ! Wait. He's! What a cruel person. He's toying with her, he's not even trying!' Arnos gritted his teeth and tried to not go down there and punch the guy's face.
Charlotte of course knew after awhile that Jayden wasn't being serious. This made her very unhappy, many men disrespected her just because she was a girl. She lifted her hammer in the air and the air grew chilly. Clouds swirled together and suddenly a bolt of lightning struck Charlotte.
Yeah her own skill struck herself. Many people thought this girl was stupid but took it back when her eyes glinted with a neon yellow. She rushed at Jayden swinging and bashing her hammer against him. He defended himself and it seemed like he was being more serious.
Unfortunately he got pushed further and further back.
"Sigh, you're more tough then you seem. I didn't want to waste my skills on you so.. Too late." Jayden said.
His eyes grew dark and he stood still. He lightly swung his sword. Charlotte stood there motionless, dazed at what just happened. She clutched her stomach, where some blood was starting to form. She coughed out some blood.
Jayden had a surprised look on his face. He didn't bother anymore and collided against Charlotte. Some how Jayden was pushing Charlotte back and not the other way around. He then swiftly did a flip and sliced both his blades.
Blood leaked out her arms and blood spewed from her mouth. She was in pain but she didn't want to lose. Jayden looked like he was enjoying this and kept playing her.
A shocked expression appeared on Jayden's face.
'Oh no. I gotta wrap it up now. Dark Eye is about to wear off.'
He turned dead serious and in five seconds. Some how Charlotte was on the ground, unconscious.
The medics rushed in and the announcer spoke.
"Well then. I guess we have our finalists!!! Great matches!
Jayden Carth and Silent User! The Finale will be held at 12:30pm. Everyone can take a 40 minute break!"
The spectators left while murmuring to one another.
"Who do you think will win?"
"Silent User obviously."
"Nah definitely Jayden dude."
"I'm mean they're both very strong."
Arnos slipped out, he wasn't sure how the battle would turn out. He needed to try his best. He went to get some food.
On the way there he saw a familiar face but ignored it. They weren't really friends anyways. They only talked once.
A girl with a mask sneakily followed behind a hooded man. She thought she was being sneaky until she got caught. Instead she was invited to sit down with him.
"Raine. Why were you following me?"
"No reason. You haven't had breakfast yet?"
"Yes I haven't as you can see. I see you've gotten better."
"Yeah they really healed me up."
"Soooo, what do you want?" Arnos asked as he finished up the last of his meal.
"Can you beat Jayden?"
"Pfftttt. That's your question? Why?"
"Because I lost face for my guild. And for all the assassins. So can you beat him?"
"For you? Ha I'm going to try beat him for the sake of my dignity-"
"Your what?"
"Uh nothing. Why should I help you?"
"What. You want to lose?"
"No of course not-"
"Alright then it's settles. Thanks, I owe you."
Then she disappeared,
'What a weird girl..'
'What should I do now? I've finished eating. Maybe I should go check out some magic artifacts.'
Arnos walked around the town like it was the back of his hand. He arrived at a shop that he hadn't seen before. He went inside and started scanning the aisles. He looked at the different categories and sections.
Luckily for him the Agility/Speed and Strength categories were next to each other. He picked out 2 necklaces but wasn't sure which one to get. They were 1,000 gold each, which was quite pricey. Arnos didn't know that of course.
Speedy Drifter Necklaces: Enhances your agility and movements to be more quick and light feathered.
Capable Ancient Necklace: Enhance strength and magic power to be more strong.
In the end he decided, since speed was his main strength. He went with the Speedy Drifter Necklace. The owner some how recognized him as Silent User and gave him a discount. He seemed to be a fan.
'50% off, what a generous guy.'
He equipped the necklace and asked a nearby bystander for the time. There was 20 minutes left. He went to a nearby forest/park area he guessed and lied down by a tree. The shade was nice and blocked out the sunlight. Some sunlight seeped through the leaves and made him warm.
He fell asleep but made sure to wake up in time. He had a dream about his brother. Way different to the nightmare he had like 3-4 days ago which had stopped accusing.
He was in a bright room. Standing in front of him was his brother. His brother was trying to tell him to get closer. But suddenly the room went pitch black and he woke up.
'What was that about?'
Arnos wasn't quite sure what time it was so he just headed to the arena. It was lot quicker thanks to the necklace. Jayden was already in the arena and waiting for Arnos.
He walked in and everyone started murmuring.
"Well if it isn't Silent Use-"
"WELCOME BACK EVERYONE!!! As you can see our contestants are up here and the prize is in this envelope."
There were so much people in the crowd. It was like other people from other towns came to watch or something.
"I wish both our contestants the best of luck and whoever wins, wins. LET THE MATCH BEGIN!!!"
Jayden's feet could hardly be heard as he ran at Arnos. He threw one blade in the air. Arnos knew what was happening but decided to attack Jayden as he was most vulnerable right now. Jayden grinned mischievously.
Last second as the blade was about to pierce Arnos, he did a right step and avoided the attack. The movement was so quick that Jayden couldn't believe it.
"How has he gotten faster? Or maybe it's..." Jayden's eyes locked onto the necklace hanging slightly out of Arnos's hood.
"An artifact. Interesting. Sadly you're not the only one with one."
Arnos leaped in the air and sent out Triple Slash. Jayden did a somersault to the side and swung his blades at the other slashes. He evaded the attack easily.
Arnos got closer and swung his tralent up and to the side. Easily drawing some blood out of Jayden. He frowned and decided to use his trump card.
Like always his eyes grew red and he charged at Arnos. Arnos used Wall Dash to get away but since Jayden's senses have heightened. He immediately changed his direction and arrived at Arnos's position to be.
Arnos crashed into Jayden and he held up his tralent as Jayden swung both blades down, aiming for his skull. With skillful movements Jayden deflected the tralent off and drew a nasty cut on Arnos. It bled a lot and looked terrible.
Everyone in the stands were holding their breaths. No one knew what was going to happen next and they could only wait.
Arnos's movements suddenly got a lot quicker. BOOM! Jayden went flying and hit the wall. CRACK. The sound was deafening, it sounded like he broke his skull.
He got up with no worry thanks to Dark Eye and continued attacking Arnos. He knew this would happen and fought off. The battle was intense and everything was surprising.
They were both beaten and broken. Arnos bit his lip, he had to use his heal later. He had to be patient.
After battling for almost 14 minutes Jayden started getting weaker. With a last push Jayden used all his strength to surpass Arnos. Arnos was badly hurt.
A miracle happened before everyone's eyes. Slowly Arnos started getting healing as he ran around. Not long after he was completely healed. Jayden stared at him in disbelief and smiled. Then he collapsed from the after effects of the Dark Eye.
The crowd went wild and applauded.
"SILENT USER!"
"SILENT USER!"
"SILENT USER!" They chanted.
He got the envelope and went to visit Donavan. Of course he changed back into normal clothes so people wouldn't recognize him.
He was proud of himself but he knew if he didn't have those artifacts he wouldn't have been the champion.