As William hit Greg's shield, a gigantic power broke out between his fist and the golden shield.
The platform started to shake and tiny cracks appeared below Greg's feet, showing just how enormous power is behind that hit.
However, to everyone's surprise, the shield stayed strong and made Greg defend against that insane attack.
"That's definitely a Manifester rank one. But from where and how?"
"Maybe he got it by luck?"
"If I had that shield, I would have beaten everyone already, tch."
People talked about that shield with jealousy, anger, and shock.
William saw that his attacks didn't work against that shield and that made him even more angry.
"Impossible! Impossible! Impossible!!"
With loud shouts, William didn't stop and hit Greg's shield more and more. However, everything was in vain.
Greg looked at the shield in awe and thought, "Amazing. So this is how strong it is. Maybe it's the strongest shield in the same rank."
However, this was just a thought. As William raised again his hand, Greg put down his hand and in an instant, he vanished from his place. The next second, he appeared far from William, about 50 meters away.
William looked at him with an angry face and said, "You are just defending and running away like trash. Stop the sh*t and fight me as a real man would!"
"Like a real man? Sure!"
With a smile, Greg raised his leg and stomped on the ground.
Everyone was ready for something big, but even after a few seconds later nothing happened.
"Huh?"
Greg looked down at the white platform and stomped a few more times, but even after that nothing happened.
Seeing this scene, everybody was confused, but a while later people started to laugh one after another.
"Haha!! Look at him! So funny!"
"H-he said so seriously that he will fight like a man and look at that! Haha!"
"What's the matter? Can't use your powers? Hahaha!!"
Even William looked at Greg like he was looking at a clown.
Greg looked at the platform for a while and thought, "Maybe it's the material, which with my current power I can't crack with Alice's earth element. Then how the hell does other's with the earth system fight here?"
Greg looked up at Chris and asked, "Why can't I use my ability on the platform?"
Hearing the strange question, Chris looked confused and said, "Every power on this platform should work just as everywhere else. Even if it's an area like earth attack, that should work as well."
Listening to this, Greg looked confused and looked around, however just as he looked away, William's huge fist appeared before him.
"What's the matter? Where is that confidence from before?"
Greg saw the incoming attack and his eyes got wide.
Chris saw this and wanted to help Greg, but it was already too late. Because of Greg's question, he didn't pay attention to what William was doing and because of that, he couldn't react in time.
*BANG!*
Just like before, a huge explosion came from William's attack, making a big drift of dust and shockwave all around.
After a few seconds later, when everything turned back to normal, everyone saw that where Greg's body was before, now there is a huge crater.
Noticing this, silence descended.
"D-did Greg now just..."
"T-that was just... I don't know."
"Oh my Lord!"
Seeing this, Chris was angry and he thought, "F**k! Now I'm finished. I made a small mistake and because of this a student is de-"
However, just as Chris could finish his thought, a strange thing happened.
Where William's fist was, a shadow started to get wider and wider.
William knew that he didn't hit Greg, but he didn't know where he disappeared to from his attack. And what is more, this strange shadow appeared out of nowhere.
Just as everyone looked confused, a figure started to come up from the shadow.
"Huh?"
As William, Chris and everyone else looked at this scene dumbfounded, a calm yet angry voice echoed in the arena.
"I had enough from you. Not even you try to cheat, but you even attack others from the back."
Everyone around watched flabbergasted as Greg's figure came up from the shadow. When his body was fully out of the dark, everyone saw that his expression was ice cold.
William looked shocked, but after a second, he punched angrily toward Greg's face.
Seeing the incoming punch, Greg just stepped to the side and let it pass by. After William's arm stopped next to him, he put his palm on top of it and looked at him coldly.
Feeling the danger, William wanted to pull back his arm, however, it was too late.
Like a sudden breeze, William's arm and body started to freeze at a rapid pace. Greg took his hand back and watched William as he was trying to shake the ice off from him.
"Aargh!!! Stop it! I said stop it!!! Aaar-"
William was shouting with horror on his face, however, no matter what, his body froze in seconds. Seeing this scene, everyone looked horrified.
As everyone was looking at Greg like he was some kind of demon, a loud voice came from somewhere, "Greg you bastard! Do you know what you just did?! You just killed William!"
Greg looked toward where the voice came from and saw a guy with shaggy black hair pointing at him angrily.
Chris walked toward Greg and asked loudly, "Greg Hyde! You know the rules. No killing is allowed and you just broke that ru-"
"I did what?", asked Greg calmly.
Hearing this, Chris got angry because of Greg's rude manner and wanted to say something, but Greg just walked next to William's frozen figure and touched it.
In an instant, the ice on William started to evaporate and a while later his body fell unconsciously onto the ground.
Seeing this, Chris kneeled down next to William's body and after confirming he wasn't dead, he looked up at Greg strangely.
However, Greg already turned around and looked at the guy next to the platform.
"So? Will you explain yourself or should I just turn you into an ice sculpture too?", asked Greg calmly...