"You Monster! How dare you humiliate me!" Halland'a twin battle axes flared up with a bright green glow. "Alitno!"
Halland charged forward once more but this time he went faster, he looked like a bullet train. Halland smashed into Lucifer that sent a shockwave of force out. Thankfully there was a barrier around the stage that protected everyone on the outside. The others who's on the stage however had to face the force head on.
Luckily, one of the warriors on stage had a shield artifact that shielded them from the force.
I looked over to where Halland and Lucifer was and the two of them were exchanging stage shattering blows. Halland swung both of his axes with reckless abandonment whilst Lucifer casually blocked each blow with the back of his hand.
It would've been a spectacle to watch if Lucifer had decided to move but Halland as hard as he tried, couldn't push him back even if his swings would've sent anyone that wasn't Lucifer, flying out of the stage already.
{"You have raw power, I give you that but that's it, it's only raw power. The reason you're not pushing me back is because I have more raw power than you. Swinging your weapon without any purpose but to overpower your opponent is useless against someone who is much more powerful than you. Let me show you."}
Enraged by Lucifer's words, Halland swung harder and even more random. Lucifer who had only used his backhand to block, timed the swing to where he could grab the handle of the battle axes in which caused Halland to jolt forward. But with Lucifer's strength alone, he held Halland in place.
"What the fuck?!" Halland shouted as he tried to move his battle axes but Lucifer wouldn't let him even budge a little.
{"To even have a chance of beating me, you need to work with those guys behind you. Here, I'll help you regroup back with them. Hold on tight."}
Lucifer holding both of the battle axes lifted both the axe and Halland up, spun around once and sent Halland hurling back towards the others.
"Ah!" Halland shouted as he was caught by one of the Haymper siblings.
{"Remember to work together!"} Lucifer shouted as he watched the warriors quarrelled with each other.
Most of the words thrown around was from the others, reprimanding Halland on his impulsiveness. Special A team did most of the heated word exchanges, especially from a tall blond headed woman who especially scolded Halland on his recklessness.
From the expressions on her face, and the words she used, she seemed to be very close to Halland. I'm suspecting they're either a family member, like sister or cousin or she could be his lover.
"Cousins, if that's what you're wondering." Marlos said as he chuckled to himself. "Rista can become a bit hot tempered whenever Halland does something that causes her embarrassment…"
"I see…"
Once the quarrelling stopped, the Special A team made their move next.
"If you want to see teamwork we are the ones to show you, Demon!" Rista declared with a war cry.
{"Ah! You guys are adventurers. Only adventurers would call us by our actually species. Others like that guy over there would only label us as monsters. Very well, I have high hopes for you adventurers or should I say the Special A Team? Why would do you call yourselves that?"}
"We are the Kaysers. Special A Team is only what the palace call's us since we're affiliated with them."
{"I see, we'll then, the Kaysers. Come! Show me what you've got!"}
Rista aimed her artifact that looked like a rifle at Lucifer and fired it. A flash of light exploded from her artifact and a split second later, an explosion appeared in front of Lucifer. A thin layer of purple surrounded him, and protected him from the explosion but as soon as one explosion appeared, many more soon followed.
{"Oh? A duplication spell?-"}
Before Lucifer could say another word, one of the men from the group had already snuck up behind Lucifer with a blade in his hand and tried to stab Lucifer in the back.
The blade struck its target but ultimately failed because Lucifer wasn't even there anymore, Lucifer had disappeared right before the blade could enter his backside.
{"Nice try."}
Lucifer reappeared behind the man and struck once with the side of Lucifer's palm on the man's neck, knocking him unconscious.
Rista fired her artifact once more but this time at the air above the middle of the stage. Colourful explosions exploded like fireworks and small orbs fell down. The small orbs touched the ground and imploded. Small chunks of the ground disappeared around Lucifer.
Lucifer raised an eyebrow as the craters filled up with a reddish liquid.
{"Oh? What are you guys up to?"}
The reddish liquid shot out from the crater like tentacles and wrapped around Lucifer.
{"This seems erotic…"}
The tentacles held Lucifer down as the other female on the Kaysers Team, charged forward. Her artifact looked like a sledgehammer as she held the artifact above her head before bringing it down onto Lucifer.
To everyone's surprise, the artifact landed a hit.
{"Good job girl."} Lucifer had a smile on his face. {"But sometimes I hate being called a devil. Don't hate me girl for what I'm about to do."}
Lucifer's eyes started to glow and all the tentacles that held him in place, glowed the same colour as his eyes. The tentacles then unwrapped itself from Lucifer and in an act of reversal, the tentacles caught the girl with the sledgehammer.
Oh please no… I watched as the tentacles wrapped itself around her arms and legs.
But thankfully before anything could happen, the tentacles were cut down. The last two members on the team made their move as one cuts down the tentacles with his artifact that looked like a sickle whilst the other attacked Lucifer with his fists.
The guy with the fists made his attempts in landing a hit with his barrage of punches but it was futile as Lucifer dodged them all like if he was in the matrix.
The guy who had cut down the tentacles, joined in with his teammate as he swung his artifact around, in line with the other guy's fists. Not only that but the girl with the sledgehammer joined in, her eyes burning with rage.
The three of them distracted Lucifer with their continuous moves as I watched Rista. She was lining up her artifact with Lucifer's movements.
"Arden do it now!" Rista called out to her teammate.
The guy with the fists let's out a loud war cry as he increased his punches. The other two stopped their attacks and started their retreats. The punches Arden made were so fierce that some of them landed.
Lucifer grinned as he tried his best to block them.
{"Good! Very good!"}
Rista's artifact flashed with an explosion of light once more and a long beam of light shot out, directly towards the two that's currently locked in a boxing match.
"Arden move now!" Rista called out to her teammate but for some reason he didn't listen to her. Instead, he went harder with his punches.
"I'm landing my hits!" Arden shouted with a wide grin.
{"You stupid idiot!"} Lucifer stopped smiling as he instantly grabbed both of Arden's fists and leaped to the side with Arden. The beam shot passed the both of them and clashed with the barrier before fizzling out.
When I turned my head to where Lucifer and Arden was, Arden was lying unconscious on the ground as Lucifer got up and walked towards the remaining trio left in the team of Kaysers.
The three of them tried to get into formation but Lucifer had finally made his first offical move against the Kaysers after being on the defensive basically the whole fight.
{"It looks like my father is using his weakest move…"} Lucilia chuckled to herself.
"His weakest move?" I asked slightly confused.
{"He's only using 5% of his power so there's only a limited options of moves he could use. The move his about to use is called flash step. It's a movement based attack that allows him to evade any on coming attacks but that's only the side benefit of the move, the real objective is in the move itself. Watch."}
As soon as Lucillia finished describing what her father was about to do, Lucifer disappeared and reappeared behind the trio. In a flash, less than a second, all three remaining members of Kaysers fell to the ground.
{"Flash step is a simple but effective move. It has the ability to cause a dizzy spell. If the user of the move is proficient like my father, then those affected will instantly faint."}
All five members of team Kaysers or Special A team laid on the ground, scattered around the stage, unconscious.
"Special A team is out! That's 20,000 coins added to the pot!" Marlos announced with a smile. "60,000 coins still left to gain by the monster!"
Halland fuming with rage after watching his cousin and her team fall, leaped forward with his twin axes in hand but as soon as he was close to Lucifer, he dropped to the ground instantly.
Lucifer without even breaking his image, moved so fast with flash step, it's as if he hadn't left from his spot. Everyone's jaw dropped as they just witnessed how fast Lucifer was.
"Eh… Halland is out! 20,000 coins has now been added to the pot! 40,000 coins remaining which means only two teams left! The Beasts Master Corp and the Haymper siblings!"
The crowd in the arena was eerily silent as they were either in shock or in awe at what the 'monster' had achieved. I for one had never heard of Halland or even the Special A Team/Kaysers in my previous life but from how surprised everyone in the arena was, I'm guessing they had made their achievements known and Lucifer had just crushed their reputation in less than half an hour of display.
It was with this amazing display coupled with the fact that Lucifer looked perfectly fine even after all the action he just had, both the Haymper siblings and Beasts Master Corp raised their hands in surrender.
"You guy's conceding?" Asked Marlos and they nodded. "The Haymper siblings and the Beasts Master Corp has conceded the match! The monster wins! That's 70,000 coins in total will be rewarded to the new recruits!"
A loud cheer erupted from behind me and I turned around to see who they were since everyone in front of me wasn't cheering and to my surprise it was all the new recruits, them and my students of course. All of the new recruits stood near the entrance of the door way because the arena was basically full with every seat already taken.
Marlos gestured to Grayson who stood with the new recruits and Grayson nodded in acknowledgement and started to usher the new recruits down the steps.
I looked to Marlos and he only gave me a wink.