----Leo----
I looked at who would be my next opponent. They called themselves Mesum, I had no idea who that was so I just shrugged and walked towards Maura's booth.
"Hey, you did great, I didn't understand what was going on but you won, so I don't really care. If you could explain though, I would appreciate it."
After explaining the whole illusion ordeal she nodded in understanding. We talked a little while we were waiting for my next opponent to be ready, apparently, he had been extremely injured during his fight so he was being healed.
When he was fully healed, Maura's booth flew to another field, opening up to let me out, it seemed that they had accomodated for rhe fact that we might want to talk to the ones we've invited, this was nice.
The man standing before me looked like a jerk, sounded like a jerk and acted like a jerk.
He saw that I was only C-ranked, it seemed that he would stay there for a while, yet he acted like there was no one who coukd beat him.
"Ohoho, you brought your girlfriend to watch you get trashed? Bad idea, I guess I'll be able to comfort her when I beat you.
Although, it's not like she's much to look at, yes, she's got a pretty face, but her curves aren't quite on point.
I do like my blondes busty, but I take what I can get."
I yelled ready, trying to stay calm. That's when I heard him say something that made me explode after he yelled ready.
"Even if she doesn't want to, after I win this thing, I will have my way with her."
Red void poured out of me liks a river of blood. The magic elements around me started to vibrate, making the very ground rumble in rage.
My knives turned a crimson red, getting sharper and an eye each. I moved towards the guy faster than I had ever moved.
The person in the flying booth that had come to spectate Mesum looked at the scene in horror. This wasn't a fight, this was torture, I made sure to hurt the most painful spots, while making him unable to surrender.
His face was contorted, pure agony radiating off of it. Then when the referee had decided it was enough, I whispered something to him, afterwards, he fainted and was carted off to the infirmary for the second time in less than an hour.
Maura asked me what he said to me. She saw him whisper but the sounds didn't get caught by the microphones.
When I said his exact sentence, she seemed angry herself. "Thank you for beating him up, if you hadn't done it, I would've probably done it myself."
----Nora----
We had finally fonished our prelims, now we just had to wait for the new D-ranked members to show their worth in the arena's.
The actual tournament doesn't start untill all the new heroes get their rankings, depending on how long they survive.
After this, the actual tournament begins, with the top three of each ranking getting seeded and not having to fight the others of their ranks, waiting untill the tournament progresses to the next ranks.
Apparently, the only way to get into the next rank was to defeat the lowest rank of the next dank, only ten can progress so the last ten of fhe higher rank are at risk of dropping a rank.
I was watching Leo's fight with Em and Rachel. When we saw him take out the guy so fast we were all surprised.
The reason was mostly because of how short the battle was and how proficient he seemed to be in a fight.
"Now, that's just scary, he severely injured the dude, making sure that he probably can't fight anymore for some time, and he did it with one arm.
By the way, what is up with that arm?" Em remarked and asked.
"He went to Atlantis, ran into the dollmaker and had to use a power he has to defeat the army of dolls, I don't really know much about it, only that it awakened my powers in the process."
Rachel was surprised by this. "You do know that awakening an ability by being hit by energy requires an insane amount, capable of powering a few city for a century."
"I didn't, good to know that Leo is even more powerfull than he seems, and you haven't even seem him use his artifact, I haven't even seen it."
We discussed other battles stil ongoing after this, seeing a few powerhouses, there was only one I was interested in though, I wanted to see Strongarm fight, one of the few God-ranked individuals.
----Last----
Ana opened the door for me, her connection with her eyes had been restored and even seemed a lot more solidified.
You may wonder how she sees in front of her if she's blind. She's wearing a necklace with an eye inside of it.
"Did you get enough?"
I showed her the bag, it was filled to the brim with ID's, a device that contained a few secrets that we wanted to access.
"Well then, let's get to work."