As the three beauties talked and made sarcastic and cruel comments from several people, I focused on the environment around me, I am looking for my opponent and analyzing the club members how easy it is to differentiate them from the public I could compare the aura and energy of the members at the same stages of cultivation.
It's the first time he's compared such an eclectic group after having advanced to the gray core. After analyzing several targets, I noticed some characteristics in the aura behavior of warriors with the same elemental type, before I knew it existed, but now I am able to see them with my own eyes.
Perhaps this is something incessant to analyze, I have to compare the activity of the warriors' auras with the affinity of fire and wind elements, both with gray and green core. Plus, it's a shame I doubt I have time to do that now, as there's a group of three idiots coming towards us and one of them appears to be my opponent.
Our level may not be too different since he's in the middle stage of the gray core while I'm still going to the edge of the early stage, but the biggest difference between us and age, he looks like an old man.
As far as I know he's only a few years older than me, but he's pretty wrecked. Warriors can have various scars or even deformities caused during combat but it is very rare to see someone who has the characteristics of aging such as wrinkles and discoloration on the face, like this idiot does.
Someone must have done this to him or he is suffering the aftereffect of some elemental art or terrible aura. I've never practiced this kind of art, but to some people who don't mind deforming their body in search of strengthening, more than a warrior who practices an art that strengthens a part of the body even if it causes deformation or mutations in the body. your body.
I don't particularly intend to adopt this type of art, I believe that this type of art should have more negative effects than body deformation, and more reliable ways to strengthen your combat power.
"Good night, Raven. Ready to deliver my elemental orb?
"Rafael, do you really think you have a chance of winning today?"
"Of course, I have full confidence in Viktor he has improved a lot since his last fight. Is this the rookie on your team?"
"Yes, this is Ulric and he's going to beat up Viktor today, have you prepared the woods and the gold coins? If you want, you can give me everything and I'll let you avoid public humiliation and the healers' bill."
"Very funny, since you stopped rushing to lose today, Raven we can start the fight now. The first fight of the night doesn't always attract a lot of audience, so it will be less embarrassing for you to lose in front of fewer people."
Rafael's group headed towards the arena, and before we started heading to the arena, the captain pulled my arm and gave me some advice.
"Put out the brood of that idiot who had the balls to stare at my breasts like a pervert, ten that you don't brazenly break the rules I can protect you. I won't have that nasty worm walking out of the arena today, got it?"
"OK. I will do my best."
Looks like Viktor really deserves the perverted pervert moniker, I haven't noticed before, but from Captain Raven's reaction he must have gotten his eyes locked on Captain Raven's bust.
When I went to the arena I studied my opponent's core, he was in the middle stage of the gray core, but I noticed his aura was still a little weak, it seems he didn't have a very solid advance or used some sternum stimulant during advance. I've always avoided any kind of elixir that helps in cultivation because they always leave their aftereffects in the core and it's very difficult and expensive to repair or strengthen the weakened or damaged core.
Viktor has an elemental wind element seed, and his body looks quite tough and dense. He must have spent a lot of time strengthening his body, as he entered the arena the audience started to crowd around the arena, before I noticed a green core warrior jumped on stage and started screaming at the audience.
"Good evening, everyone! The first fight of the night is about to start, we have a new fighter today, on the right-side Ulric Fenris, the new member of the night owls he hasn't even completed a year as an adventurer."
"He is still in the first stage of the gray core; his opponent will be Viktor Tral from the Biting Winds group who is in the middle stage of the gray core a veteran adventurer."
"Looks like the newbie will have difficulties today! Bets are open to proportion and from one to two!"
The betting opening before the match is short, it only took five minutes for the bets to be placed and in the end, only a fifth of the bets were on my winning option, it looks like the public thinks I will lose today.
With the referee's command the fight started and Viktor advanced towards me immediately, he used his momentum to spin and kick my head, but before he could get his kick in, I stepped forward and stopped his blow.
I barely hit him as I moved to the opposite side of Viktor's attempted kick instead, only to notice that his body is oddly hard. The hardness I felt was far more reminiscent of metal than a toughened body should have.
I used my aura mostly to strengthen my legs and kept spinning around Viktor throwing several blows to keep him defensive and no room to use his legs. During the swing exchanges I fended off his fists a few times, and when I blocked his fists, I felt they were just as hard as metal, it didn't show much strength in them or speed, but they were as hard as the rest of his body.
I hit his shoulder, chest, kidneys and back but not one of my blows did any real damage to him, but I'm not using my full strength, I'm probing his body. He must be using some art or elixir to spice up his body and maybe that's the reason for his aging face, as he's covered in clothes and bandages, I don't know if the rest of his skin has also aged.
Because of my superior skill and that my speed and strength is slightly superior to his, I'm dominated the fight rhyme and it infuriated my opponent who started insulting me, trying to break my concentration or make me lose my temper.
But this strategy only seems to negatively affect Viktor himself who is getting increasingly angry with my silence and lack of reaction, his movements have become more violent and with an emphasis on giving strong blows. This allowed me to hit him a lot more times, but the small amount of damage that is stacking on his body is equal to the damage that is stacking on my fists.
An endurance fight is not a good choice because of Viktor's skin and hardened flesh, I decided to make a different move. I hooked Viktor's arm and flung him to the ground, that was a blow Captain Raven punched the inside of my head during training.
With my opponent on the ground, I hit him in the lung with all my strength several times, I managed to hit him four times and I felt I managed to break his ribs, but I also got hurt, I must have dislocated some fingers and broke the skin of my two fists.
I don't know what this pervert did to his own body, but I managed to make his body hard enough to bruise the wrists of any gray-core warrior who fights him. This type of strengthening only works well under the rules that do not allow weapons here, a magical animal or beast would be able to tear through its skin and flesh without much difficulty.
He must have made this change to his body to be able to win the fights more easily, and as far as I can tell it's not a violation of the rules, I have to admit that this is a creative and effective strategy, but I wouldn't do that with my body just to win a few fights.
When he tried to get up, I fiercely attacked Viktor, in the next few minutes I hit him using all my strength no matter how much it would hurt my wrists, as well as frightening him more than once around the ring.
The fight was very one-sided, I used my aura to strengthen my body to the maximum and ended up using Viktor as a weapon to damage the arena, which was quite resistant. After I ran out of breath, I walked away from Viktor who is passed out and moaning in pain on the floor, blood pouring out of his mouth, eyes and ears.
My fists and elbows I used to punch Viktor are raw, but I can still hear them without too much trouble or money the worst part yet and the pain, with the adrenaline decreasing the pain in my wrists is building, I barely noticed when the judge announced my victory and went straight to the tent where the healers were ready to heal my body.
Of course, Viktor was placed on a stretcher and carried to the tent to be treated by the healers.