Zenkai picked up the stick and took off his hood I've never mentioned this but Zenkai had long black hair that is tied up to a ponytail and bangs that pass his chin, he made it this way to hide parts of his face.
"Nice hair let me give you a cut" the bandit dashed toward Zenkai with his sword facing forward and tried to strike him, Zenkai lifts his stick and stops the blade but it gets cut through he moves out the way and starts floating. The rest of the bandits back up as they see Zenkai in the air
"Holy shit he's one of those devils"
The one Zenkai was fighting looked at them
"Yeah he is a devil….but so am I"
The guy jumped super high in the air and came down again to strike Zenkai missing once again
"Stand still you bastard"
He started simultaneously letting out sword strikes but Zenkai kept moving his hand and dodged all of them and grabbed his hand
"Fimos God of the earth: Earthbound"
Vines grew out of the ground and grabbed hold of the bandit, Zenkai let go of his arm and backed up
"So earth abilities huh?" The man said smiling that's perfect against me he then let out a burst of flames that covered his whole body and started burning the vines"
"Ryujin God of the Ocean: Water prison"
While the man was talking Zenkai put a water bubble over him and took out his flames
"Don't worry you'll still breath and I'll be able to hear you talk"
"Wait this isn't fair are you a dual power wielder"
"You could say that," Zenkai said walking to the rest of the bandits. They picked up their guns and let out a rapid-fire but he ended up behind them and knocked them out. He picked up the old man and put him back on his cart
"Oh and that water bubble thing it'll disappear after a while so sit still.
"Can you take me to Jadia please?" Zenkai asked the old man as he lowered his head
"I wasn't heading to Jadia but I'll help you because you helped me"
"Thank you"
"I may be old but I still have to take care of my business," he said as he hopped off the cart and went behind a tree. Zenkai hopped off the cart and looked around he saw a beautiful field with healthy green grass and many trees near it he saw kids running and laughing and felt a cool breeze pass through his hair he closes his eyes and took in the smell then he smelt something delicious he opened his eyes and from a distance, he saw a family at a barbecue as he took a step toward them the old man called for him.
"Hey, I'm done let's go"
Zenkai stopped and went back to the cart and they continued on their path two days lasted until they finally made it out of the country.
"Thank you, stay safe on your way back"
"I will, thank you young man what is your name?"
Zenkai thought for a moment about what he should say, it's been a couple of months since the incident so he along with Darling were probably marked dead.
"My name is Kiseki"
The old man bowed "thank you for your help once again Kiseki I'll forever be in your debt.
Zenkai walked away and entered a beautiful town he walked around and the streets were active many people were talking and kids ran around and then he saw a long line full of men so he walked toward it and asked what it was for
"The beautiful Hikari of this castle is supposed to marry the strongest person here"
"This Hikari does she live in the same castle the king lived in?"
"The king's been dead for a while and the prince ran away and there's no one other to take the throne so Hikari was set for the throne and whoever she marries will become this country's new king, would you like to sign up? here sign this"
The man gave a clipboard to Zenkai and told him to sign his name. He looked at it and saw 25 names already on it but he thought this was the only way for him to get into the castle so he wrote Kiseki on the clipboard and gave it back.
"Thank you uh Kiseki you'll be called up when it's your turn to fight but for now enter that giant colosseum and go through the participant's door and sit in there until it's time. Zenkai did as he was told and walked to the colosseum and entered the room the guy said, in there he saw so many people all big-bodied and they looked at him who was skinny and not many muscles on his body one of them walked up to him and touched his shoulder
"I think you are lost kid turn back around and sit to watch the fight should be up the stairs"
Zenkai grabbed the guys hand and took it off himself "no I'm in the right room but if none of you guys wanna end up in a hospital I suggest you leave now and not waste my time"
The room broke into laughter as they watched Zenkai sit down and bandage up his hands he then got up and walked out of the room "I'll be back" as he took a sharp turn he bumped into a very beautiful young girl with long Black hair and hazel eyes, she fell over and he reached out and helped her up
"Sorry I didn't see you there," she said with a beautiful smile Zenkai had never seen such perfection, such beauty, but he didn't let it phase him and also apologized "it was also my fault" nice to meet you I am Kiseki he said as she got back on her feet
"My name is Hikari, but as much as I would love to continue this conversation I have to get going" she walked past Zenkai and walked to the highest spot in the colosseum to watch the fight. Zenkai returned to the room because he wasted too much time talking to that girl he couldn't do what he wanted and looked at the tv in front of him and a man appeared on it and spoke "this fight will be an FFA or free for all last man standing wins keeping it simple and quick royalty doesn't have all day you know" he said laughing then the tv turned off and everyone walked out the room and onto the stage, everyone got on opposite sides making a circle Hikari looked down and noticed Zenkai there and smiled her father came next to her and asked which one she wanted to win.
"The one with the longest hair"
Her dad looked around and noticed Zenkai and he touched his daughter's shoulder "he is good looking but he doesn't look like he matches everyone else strength"
"That's true father, but we will see"
Someone with a speaker spoke
"Welcome to today's challenge as you all know our king was killed two years ago by his horrible son a disgrace to our people but he ran away from this country like a coward many people tried to go after him but with the power he was blessed with it became impossible but we got a recent rumor going around that our cursed prince… has died"
The crowd started chatting with each other and the area started flooding with noise but the guy made everyone quiet
"All I want to say is the prince of a million enemies has been slain"
The crowd started cheering and the fighters started jumping up and down
"Let the new king be chosen today and the strongest here will make Jadia great again, BEGIN"