Elder Song looked astonished at Arslan's Qi purity,
'If only he had a bloodline... how strong could he be?' He thought as he gave the signal with a movement of his right arm for the battle to start.
Jacob tried to convince himself that what he was seeing was just a trick while punching his legs to make them stop trembling. He didn't want to believe that Arslan could be as strong as him... so, he gathered his confidence and decided to make the first move to overcome his fear,
"DON'T THINK THIS TRICK WILL WORK ON ME!!" He messily ran towards Arslan. His legs almost touched risking making him trip over,
"You are still the same trash you were before!" He got closer to Arslan and launched his attack,
"MOUNTAIN SPLITTER!" He raised his hands together above his head while jumping 2 meters high. His eyes pointed at Arslan's, which were like two glowing pearls inside the thick fog encircling him.
"WOOAAH!! Jacob started with the same move he used the last time!!"
"That time Arslan was saved by Elder Song! Will he survive this time?"
The disciples on the bleachers were in an uproar due to the powerful technique Jacob decided to attack with from the start.
BOOOM
The ring got divided into two parts and debris coming from it flew everywhere, reaching Troy and Cindy too. She was biting her lips while wrapping herself in her arms and rubbing one leg with the other one.
The dusty fog formed after the clash left everyone with bated breath, as all of them didn't know if Jacob was successful or not.
A few moments later, the fog dissipated,
"Where did that trash go???" Jacob said as he looked first on his left and then on his right. Not seeing Arslan, he turned to check if he was behind him.
Arslan was there, a few meters away from him. The whirlwind of darkness disappeared, but dark smoke still came out of his body.
"Y-You...!! What did you do? What kind of trick did you come up with this time???" Jacob gritted his teeth and clenched his fists,
"Don't look at me like that!!!" He said as he noticed the glare of superiority Arslan was looking at him with.
Jacob carelessly ran again towards him and began attacking him non-stop with a chain of consecutive punches.
John, who was on the first stair of the bleachers, right above Troy and Cindy, looked in satisfaction at how Arslan reacted, "That fast movement technique of him is amazing." He said with a smile on his face.
The crowd looked at the scene with disbelief,
"What happened?? Did you see guys??"
"N-No! Arslan just disappeared like that and appeared behind Jacob in an instant!"
"Look!! Now, he is avoiding every attack Jacob is launching at him!"
The outer disciples were confused by the sight of a fight that should have been one-sided... and it was... but in the opposite way.
"Grrr..."
"T-Troy...?" Cindy worriedly looked at Troy and noticed how nervous he was.
"That f*cker...! He is just playing with Jacob!" His hands were shivering from the frustration he was feeling at that moment, not being able to crash Arslan as he wanted and seeing how the whole situation was getting out of hand.
"D-Do you think Jacob will lose?" Cindy timidly asked as she slightly turned her head on her left to look at him.
"He has no chance of winning this battle! The strength and speed Arslan has now are beyond Jacob's. I didn't expect him to become middle-stage Earth-level so fast." He said as he looked at Elder Song, realizing that there was nothing he could have done to stop that match, "That elder would never allow me to stop this fight without a clear winner."
Cindy turned her head towards the ring again without saying anything else. Her hands were shivering, due to the worry of what would have happened to Jacob. She was aware of what he did to have Arslan accept his challenge and could only imagine what Arslan's reaction could have been in case of a win.
The fight went on, with Jacob trying to hit Arslan in every way. He attacked him with all his strength, but Arslan's speed was overwhelming for him and Arslan could avoid easily every punch received.
"Do you only know how to avoid attacks?! You are just a coward without a family!!"
As Jacob said those words, Arslan blocked his left fist with his right hand, wrapping it with his darkness to impede Jacob to pull his hand back,
"You know... I've never been fond of violence..." Arslan started talking, looking at him with his crimson eyes.
"Argh!" Jacob tried to free his hand by pulling it back but it seemed to be stuck in Arslan's.
"...It only brings more suffering... but you... you did the only thing you should have never done..." He continued while the darkness around them increased.
Jacob's instinct told him to run away, but he couldn't,
"Let me go!!!!" He said while punching Arslan in his chest with his right fist, but the layer of darkness protecting his body blocked the attack.
"Mh, I bet that my sister said your same words... while you were taking her away." Arslan said, with the same deep voice that made the air tremble before, as he imagined the scene in his head. Nothing could bring him more pain than to imagine her in danger... not even his parents' death.
Arslan charged his left fist and, at that moment, all the darkness surrounding them started circulating around his fist... then it got compressed as much as possible,
"On that day... you dug your own grave." He looked at Jacob straight into his eyes. Jacob realized only at that point how bad the situation he got himself in was. He tried to use all the strength he had in his legs, but not having learnt a technique to strengthen them didn't allow him to escape Arslan's firm grip.
"10 Punches of Destruction... First Punch!"