I was up next. After seeing Thea's performance I wanted to show off too. I didn't know anything about my opponents ability which made it even more exciting. Turns out the others had explained their abilities to each other whilst I was talking to Hestia.
I entered the arena and summoned my knives. They were artifacts that Athena had me create using the pen to learn how to do it and so I could personalize them to be perfect for me. They couldn't break, couldn't get a blunt edge, could store blood when cutting someone and I could summon them like my pen or like how Thor summons Mjolnir.
The battle began and I immediately attacked, throwing one of my knives at him to see how he would react. He didn't need to since it seemed to hit an invisible wall and it just fell to the floor.
I summoned the knife back just in time to block an invisible punch. Since I couldn't see it with my normal eyes I switched to elemental vision, sadly I still didn't see anything. \
Not knowing what to do I conjure/ make my wings appear.
AN: How should I call it when he makes them appear. I really don't know the word.
I take to the sky and start throwing a knife at him, make it fly back to me and then throw one of them to another spot, hoping to find a weak point.
I dodge multiple punches but he gets me a few times because he gets lucky. Seeing that my distance strategy isn't working I descend again.
I had developed 2 theories about the nature of his ability, either he was a kinetic meaning he has control over something or he could use astral projection in which case I knew this was going to be tough.
Sadly, I could rule out him being a kinetic because if he were I'd be able to see movement in the elemental particles.
I decided to stop keeping my distance and started hacking at the barrier.
Hack and dodge, that was my routine for 10 whole minutes and I still couldn't get through.
"I really hoped that I wouldn't have to do this'' I said. I unsummon one of my blades, make a fist and start focusing all of my strength and the elemental particles around me onto it.
The only mage in the group, a girl by the name of Sahar sees this and jumps up in surprise. "That's impossible, how can he control them to that extent?" Everyone looked at her weirdly but they also noticed I was about to do something so they turned around to follow the fight again.
The guy in front of me seemed arrogant when he saw I wanted to punch through his projection and stopped attacking me, waiting for it to happen.
When I was done I punched, a sound akin to glass shattering could be heard and the backlash sends the guy flying into the wall so hard he's immediately knocked into the wall. The sound of multiple bones snapping could be heard and he was bleeding all over.
I might have overdone it a little.
I walked up to him subtly let my blade store some of his blood for my ingestion and then quickly started the healing process. His wounds were so severe I had to take out the pen and make one of the most complex healing arrays I knew.
After a minute his wounds had healed and he opened his eyes. They were shining whit respect for me whilst I apologized.
This guy was named Gordon.
We returned to the others and when they saw Gordon fully healed they were relieved. Thea came up to me with another girl, it was Sahar.
"Why didn't you say you could use magic?" they asked in unison.
I totally forgot that controlling elemental particles was considered using magic. Because I'm totally an honest guy I said: "I can't just go around telling everything about myself now can I?" Ah, truly the path of honesty was meant for me.
The fights went on and except for me every guy got wrecked, that wasn't surprising because girls/women tend to have stronger powers than men.
Why, you ask? DNA, a male's DNA, consists of both an X and a Y chromosome whilst a female has double X chromosomes. These double chromosomes stabilize the gene that gives humans power much better than a combination of the X and the Y chromosome. The more stable that gene is, the more powerful that power will be.
There have of course been cases of powers that are stronger in men because they are stabilized better by the combination but they are few and far between so the common rule is, beware females, they deadly.
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