"Are you ready?" Chao asked Xisheng, who was moving his hands, exercising them. Yitian noticed that it was a nice habit. At least his hands won't be hurting.
"Let's go," Xisheng said, and Chao made their match happen.
Wei and Shuai were transported in the middle of the arena and Shuai immediately jumped away, getting further. As soon as the limit of non-combat was finished, they expected them to start fighting right away.
But they stood there, not moving. None of them wanted to take the first step. They weren't sure if it would be a damning step or winning one.
"You have ten seconds to start or both of you will lose," Chao said. Normally that wasn't the rule, but after thirty seconds of inactivity in official tournaments, you would be disqualified.
Shuai changed his weapon to a cannon and took even more steps back, but Wei who fought against Yitian previously knew how far the cannon could shoot him.
