The entire crowd watching was silent. You could hear a pin drop from the other side of the arena.
Of course, the silence was broken by none other than Darius Adonis himself.
"...that was so hot." Looking at the headless corpse of the once known Tammuz and the tall big lanky rabbit boy, Darius grinned: "Bunny Boy, you won so fast!" Chuckling, he easily lifted the lanky bunny humanoid with red eyes, casually ignoring how the feral beast tried to kill him several times by attacking him. "Now, go to sleep." With a simple word, Darius used his [Absolute Mimicry] and pulled the aspect of a guy he remembered, a beast that could put people to sleep. A small golden dust splashed out of his body, and the Lagomorph simply went to sleep: "There, There... Now, you're next cutie." Darius mimicked a guy he had read once about, the sand guy? Mr. Sandman. That one. "You ready, Mr. Spells?" Grinning at the equally excited and nervous Ajax, Darius simply went to the sidelines while holding the unconscious bunny boy.
Ajax stepped forward, his nerves flaring to the touch of the wind as he sighed- At the same time, a very vicious looking Berbera Commander, Aisha Belka. She was furious that her familia's vice-captain was so easily killed and she wanted revenge. Her entire body vibrated with energy and anger as she looked forward- The moment both of them were on the circle, she dashed forward.
Now, everyone was expecting Ajax to either die here or lose, but if that was one thing Darius knew is that- "Oh Wind-" The moment Ajax started to speak, he lowered his center of gravity before tilting his head to the side, dodging the fist of the enraged Amazonian, which made everyone surprised. Maybe it was luck? "-grant me your wings. Fly!" Now, no one had seen such a spell before, not even the Nine Hells herself, the High Elf Riveria, had seen before. Sure, she knew the words he used to chant the spell he just did, but the words were not from any spell she knew. He used the word "Ahfeir" which can also mean "Wind", but that word started an attack spell using wind to create a blade of wind, which she found curious as he was going to use a long ranged attack on an Amazonian that was so close to him? That was practically suicide!
But then he added the words "Aghei", "Aoni", and "Erok", which mean "Float", "Pull", and "Light". Three words that were used to cast three support spells that, respectively, made things float in water, pulled small and light items to you, and reduced the weight of something. She never thought of doing what the other Elf was doing and she watched in amazement and surprise as the wind swirled around The Demon Ajax and suddenly he was floating above the arena: "Oh earth, holy mother, your child cries for thy arms and love, your child bleeds for your touch, your child begs for your love. Come, come and rescue me holy mother, and take me into your eternal embrace-" These words were not even spell words, they were words of a prayer. Words that those who followed the Yggdrasil Religion would be taught and had to memorize. This was just a prayer...
But when he said: "-so it is. Yggdrasil's Embrace." There was silence in the entire arena- An enormous tree started to grow from the middle of the arena. Every Elf there could recognize the tree for it was a replica of their mother tree, the same tree that was in the center of their lost kingdom. As the tree grew, Ajax sat on one of their branches and pointed at the Amazonian that clutched to the roots so as to not leave the circle and lose, and the tree glowed. There were shouts of amazement, terror, and shock as they saw what had happened. The entire tree had dissappeared, and standing on its place was the formly known Aisha Belka, and in its place, was a single sappling. Ajax softly landed on the ground before the sappling and touched it, making it wither away into nothing.
He turned to look at his captain and did a V sign with his fingers while the entire arena started to shout and scream. What did he just do? Well, he used the most powerful spell he had: Yggdrasil's Embrace was a spell that could target only one being, and thus it would turn the target into this small sappling independently of the targer's resisitance to magic, because it targeted their soul first, then their mind, and then their body. Once they become a small sappling, they are then withered away by Ajax's touch, killing and erasing them from this world.
Darius chuckled as he pulled Ajax into a kiss- It was a surprising thing, but no one truly cared. Well, except the Amazons, who just got a little sad that maybe they had to now compete for the strong Darius' children with a powerful mage -and as he pulled away, Darius took Bunny Boy Silverly and placed him on his lap as he motioned to Agathax that he was next. It seemed that after he became a Lvl 3, his skill [Hidebehind] became even stronger because it took Darius acknowledging him and his presence for the audience to notice that he was also there. It was both a good and bad thing, because Agathax was the perfect assassin, but if his skill keeps growing stronger, maybe not even Darius will see him? "Go and break them, cutie." Agathax only blushed slightly before he stood at the circle- with two members of her family dead now, Ishtar didn't seem very happy.
His opponent was the Lvl 2 Samira, but she didn't feel like a Lvl 2.
Darius narrowed his eyes before they shifted- He didn't know much about fiction or characters that had any sort of special eye power, but he knew about some other things. Like, he had read and heard about legends, and the Gods exist here, so why would he try to do something similar to them? "Huh, weird..." His eyes widened and a slit appeared over them as they transformed into the eyes of a dragon. Darius did know that dragons are supposed to have very good eyes, so why not mimick their eyes? "That's some cool magic-" He clenched his fist for a moment before the magic he saw reflected on the girl Agathax was fighting flexed on his fingertips.
[Uchide no Kozuchi: This spell is a power leveling spell. It increases the Level of the targer by +1. Duration of this spell is 10 × your level (in minutes) = 50 minute. Those affected by this spell receive half the Excallia they would otherwise receive normally. Cannot be used on the caster.]
"Meh, thought it'd be something interesting.." Darius dismissed the spell easily, unaware that what he just did shocked the Goddess Ishtar to her very core. A few Gods were also curiously watching what had just happened, including Soma, who just shook his head and smiled softly.
The battle itself wasn't that interesting in Darius' eyes, but he watched it. Why? Because Agathax was fighting, of course. The boy thought he could hide it, but Darius clearly smelled the huge Love with a capital L the Pallum has for him... Love is weird, and Darius never truly felt romantic love before, but he's willing to give a try maybe. "From the left." He warned the little guy, who just simply vanished- A moment later, he appeared behind the Amazonian woman and a dagger sank into her skull. This tournament turned into a fight to the death so smoothly that Darius couldn't help but grin- fire, rage, and lust burned within his soul as his Fanalis instincts and base urges took over him a little bit. He was getting very excited to fight too, and that excitement was to see blood and guts everywhere.
As Agathax had a flawless fight that ended in a single move, Darius was obviously the last one.
He slowly took Silverly from his lap alongside Ajax too and set them down. He picked Agathax up amd whispered a "You did good." On his ear before setting him down beside the other two - he shamelessly ignored Ikiro. "Now..." He stepped forward, his feet kicked the ground with great strength, enough to push the ground away as he mimicked one of the characters he loved. Toph!
What? He liked Avatar the Last Airbender.
Of course, he only mimicked her powers and experience and not her body. So he got all the years of practicing Earthbending without even the slight bit of training.
[Earthbending: Expressing the Neutral Jing, Earthbending is the ability to control the earth beneath your feet. To be an Earthbender, one must be ready to face their problem head on, like a mountain stands and faces the wind.]
The floor seemed to flip as the arena grew in size to fit him perfectly- not that the arena was small, its just that Darius wanted a larger arena; "This is better!" Slapping both hands together, Darius stood confidently in the arena while staring down the frog face woman: "So, ready to die, frog bitch?"
There were whispers of shock and amazement as he had just used magic without even chanting. Many had not seen what he did before, so the crowd now had a shock as the captain of the Souma Familia just showed a power many mages were extremely envious of. The bitch simply growled before picking up her weapon, a giant battle ax that glowed with a pale light: "I'll fucking kill you!" She rushed forward, her ax raised high.
I'd like to tell you that the fight was phenomenal. That the fight was glorious...
But no.
Darius simply caught her ax with his bare hands and clenched his fist hard- The blade, enchanted with the Durandal enchantment and was meant to never break, shattered into various small shards. The frog bitch's eyes widened for a moment before the shards sank into her eyes with the speed of a bullet, piercing her skull and into her brain. She was dead before she hit the ground.
"...that was it!?" Darius shouted, seeing her limp body fall to the ground: "WHAT THE FUCK!? Bitch, you got me pumped up and ready to go to die to your fucking own weapon!?" Darius kicked the dead corpse with all his strength, making it instantly explode in a shower of blood and gore everywhere: "FUCK!" He kicked the arena next, a crack spread out from where his fist hit throughout the entire arena in a few seconds, even the stands weren't safe as they also got a few cracks. Angry, the Crimson Lion growled as he panced around, looking at the ground as he tried to calm down.
Meanwhile, the entire Souma Familia was fucking on edge- they knew the captain was way too excited to fight, and now probably needed to go to the Dungeon and kill a few monsters to calm down.
"Bring me the fucking prize- I get to chose the person." Darius growled, his eyes had the soft red glow on them: "Bring me the least fucked bitch you got, I want the untouched ones, whoever it is."
Ishtar, having lost, could only comply as it was part of the divine contract that was signed before Uranus. She granted him...
A fox boy?