Sekke and his team soon returned to the stage and immediately the black bulls surrounded him.
"That was awesome, Sekke-kun...but didn't you finish that fight way too soon," said Vanessa.
"The condition of the battlefield was totally in our favor. There was no point in delaying the outcome," replied Sekke with a shrug.
He knew that his team crushed their opponents way too soon, but the terrain was in their favor, and taking the opponents by surprise and not revealing much of the cards that they had from the beginning was better.
Mimosa and Asta soon came near him. Asta then looked at Sekke with a smirk on his face.
"Looks like we will be fighting in the next round Sekke."
"We sure will be. Prepared to lose?"
"Ha! Like hell I am gonna lose to you, bastard. You will be the one who will be pummeled to the ground after our battle," said Asta.
"Seems like you are telling the future the other way around," replied Sekke as the two of them continued to glare at each other.
Soon they broke their eye contact as they noticed Magna and his team coming back as well.
"Se-Sekke-san, that was a great battle. I was impressed by your attacks," said Mimosa as she finally found herself alone with Sekke.
"Hm? Really, then that's great. The dark lord lives to impress after all," said Sekke with a smile on his face.
Mimosa smiled as well and was about to say something but felt someone coming towards them.
She looked toward the person who was approaching them and saw her brother Kirsch and immediately got annoyed.
She was about to say something to him but the guy simply ignored her and stood directly in front of Sekke.
Sekke was confused by his action and just looked at the narcissist.
"Sekke was it?"
"Yes?"
Kirsch nodded his head and then immediately went on one of his knees and held Sekke's hand.
All the people who were around them blinked their eyes in surprise but soon all of them freaked out and moved away from the two of them.
"Although not as beautiful as me, you were not lagging behind...Sekke-kun, I am in love...I am in love with you huge and magnifi-"
"Stay away from me you creep!!!" yelled Sekke as he immediately punched Kirsch away with full force sending him flying.
Sekke immediately looked at his hand which was held by Kirsch with disgust and then looked towards Noelle.
"Noelle clean my hand of all that filth!!" and held a shaky hand in front of Noelle.
Even Noelle was looking at Sekke's hand with disgust and immediately formed a water ball for Sekke to clean his hands.
Sekke immediately started scrubbing his hands inside the water ball and once he was done he looked back towards Kirsch who was now back on his feet.
Kirsch who had a nosebleed because of Sekke's punch, looked even more like a pervert to Sekke as he started to back off.
"Sekke-kun, show me. Show me the hugeness and magnificence of your mana. Show it to me once again!!!" said Kirsch once again with a blush on his cheeks.
"...Mimosa, shall I kill him?" asked Sekke as he looked at Mimosa.
"...I would have done that long ago, but it will cause a lot of problems so please don't," said Mimosa as she looked towards her brother in disgust.
Kirsch was soon subdued as he was causing too much ruckus and the next match was started.
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Stage-1 Match-3
Winners- Leopold, Finral, Hamon
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'...They finished even faster than us...' thought Sekke as his appreciation for Finral went up.
"...Finral, is amazing in his own way..." said Sekke when suddenly a portal appeared beside him and Finral came out of it along with his team.
"...Um, thank you Sekke-kun," said Finral feeling a bit shy at the sudden praise.
He felt happy that his junior was really appreciative of him.
"Sekke-kun"
Hearing his name, Sekke turned around and saw Anna.
"Anna? What happened?" asked Sekke.
"It's my turn now, so please watch me," said Anna in a determined tone. She wanted to show Sekke that she was strong and that he can rely on her whenever he needed.
Unknown to her thought Sekke smiled and nodded his head.
"Sure, I will watch you. Best of luck," said Sekke hearing which, Anna smiled and nodded her head.
She then went to meet her team and Sekke widened his eyes when he saw the team she belonged to.
'She replaced the place of cannon me...' thought Sekke as he saw Anna talk with Langris and the girl from Aqua Deer.
Sekke looked toward the field to see the match as he thought that this fight was going to be exciting.
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Stage-1 Match-4
Winners- Langris, Anna, Fragil
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'...This match was even faster than Finral's. That Langris guy, sure is dangerous, he single-handedly defeated the opposing side immediately....though he made Anna hella pissed because of that.' thought Sekke as he looked towards Anna who was looking at Langris with an "expressionless-pissed" expression on her face.
'This fu*king noble! And after I told Sekke-kin to watch me?! I will burn him to cinders!!!' thought Anna.
Langris simply ignored Anna and walked towards Finral to mock him.
Seeing that he was unrelated to their discussion Sekke decided to focus back on the field since as of now, his priority was to win. He was checking out all the candidates, making a mental note of their strengths and weaknesses.
A large number of scenarios were going through his head with various scenarios that could happen during their battle and how he would get out of those scenarios in the coolest ways possible. He is the dark lord, so according to him, it was unacceptable if he didn't look cool while dealing with his foes.
Vritra wanted to know of the strategies that were going through his host's head but Sekke had not allowed the dragon to look at his thought which made the dragon king even more curious.
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Stage-1 Match-5
Winners- Nils, Ruben, X(Rill)
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'He surely is a captain level, it will be difficult to deal with him...' thought Sekke as he looked at Rill with determination.
And just like that the next round started as well.
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Stage-1 Match-6
Winners- Klaus, Luck, Puli
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'Well, it is Luck we are talking about, no way in hell, he is gonna lose at this level.' thought Sekke with a smile on his face. Luck was his go-to soar buddy after all.
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Stage-1 Match-7
Winners- Ben, Brad, Eric
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And the final match of the first stage took place soon after that.
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Stage-1 Match-8
Winners- En, Yuno, Noelle
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Once their match was over Sekke had tears in his eyes making all the people around him look at him in confusion.
Sekke looked back at them and pointed towards Noelle.
"I raised that girl you know."