The cheering of the people inside the Colosseum roared throughout the place.
The announcer raised his hand to silence everyone which they did.
"I know you are all excited to see the strength of our new kingdom's guild class S! So let's begin! Of course, the first one I'm gonna call is our challenger and the new class S rank of Ashendar, we all know who he is, he is quite popular after all. Especially to the women. Ladies and gentlemen, let's give him a round of applause, the Chilled knight, Kito Brangwen!"
Kito emerged from one of the passageways and waved his hand to the crowd while scratching his head on the other hand. In response, the people shouted and clapped to cheer him up.
"Go, Kito!" Levy shouted as she stood up.
Kito looked in her direction and smiled before continuing to the center of the arena.
"You can do it, my lad!"
The moment Kito arrived, the announcer raised his hand again and the crowd gradually turned silent.
"And now, to test his strength, the latest proclaimed Class S. He was declared as a Class S adventurer less than 2 years ago, and now, he came back to show his might once more. Ladies and gentlemen, once more, let's give him a round of applause. The Golden Lion of Ashendar! Liam Eadelmarr!"
On the other side of the arena, Liam emerged wearing his full body armor and a greatsword in his back. His straight blonde back-length hair was being swayed by the wind as he walked towards the center of the arena.
The entire place was covered by the roar of the spectators as they screamed his name.
[Human Level 91.]
"Good luck, my lad Liam!"
All the adventurers and including Levy and Roshan stared at Derus.
"Good luck to the two of you, my lads!"
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The cheering of the spectators slowly subsided as the two participants faced each other.
"You are permitted to use powerful attacks, but delivering a fatal blow is extremely prohibited. The battle will end if one of you could no longer stand or decide to admit your defeat. And please don't destroy the Colosseum."
Kito smiled. "How are you these days, Liam?"
Liam did not answer and raised his greatsword using his two hands while looking at Kito.
Kito grabbed his swords. "I see, you are still as snobby as before."
"And you are still as obnoxious as always, Kito. I did not know that you can use swords."
Kito smiled. "I'm still in training. So, please don't laugh at my bad swordsmanship."
The announcer repeatedly shifted his enlarged eyes on both of them and ran towards the exit, and before entering the exit.
"Start!"
Without wasting a moment, the both of them moved at extreme speed. The spectators were greeted by a gigantic yellow laser-like light slashing anything inside the arena.
Kito used his Greater dark magic to escape from the attack by propelling himself up to the sky and immediately surged down while blasting multiple Ice spikes towards his target.
However, what came next was a gigantic wind blade hurling towards him, he created a huge ice wall to block the incoming attack, however, it is not enough to stop it. He jumped out to dodge the attack and landed on the ground.
"You have no plan to hold back aren't you? At least let everything heat up first."
Liam walked towards him while holding his glowing in yellow light greatsword. "If you know that you are against a powerful enemy, holding back is the worst thing you could do."
Kito's mouth opened as he nodded. "That's making a lot of sense especially coming from you."
Ten tentacle-like limbs appeared in Kito's back and as he walked, the floor beneath him turned into ice.
With a blink of an eye, he instantly disappeared from where he was standing and rushed towards his opponent.
Liam answered him by waving his greatsword and a combination of fierce wind and bright light barraged the entire arena.
A dark fog emerged on his feet and instantly contained him inside a huge black ball but he easily get rid of it by swinging his sword reinforced with Greater light magic and waved it again for an attack consisting of a gigantic laser-like attack and wind blade using his Greater wind magic.
Using his speed, Kito dodged the attack and jumped in towards Liam. But, Liam countered it by creating a destructive wind barrier around him.
Liam waved his sword for another barrage of attacks, but before he could, a huge black ice spike that could not be destroyed by his wind barrier appeared below him, pushed his hand out, and contained his sword inside out from his grasp, while at the same time, a black fog appeared on Liam's foot propelling him upward and separating him on his own sword.
Liam flipped to the air and elegantly landed on the ground.
"Disarming your opponent to render them helpless, quite impressive, Kito. So it is your aim since the beginning?" Liam asked while staring at his sword from afar.
Kito activated his Greater Ice magic and contained the greatsword inside an ice prison leaving Liam in awe.
Even in the middle of shock, Liam spoke. "You know I can still fight even without my sword."
As Kito walked towards him the entire arena slowly turned into ice and unlike earlier, the ice was covering the entire arena.
And upon seeing it, the spectators' eyes widened as their jaws dropped.
"I know." Kito smiled as a black crystal slowly covered his entire body, a combination of his Greater dark and Ice magic. "But, without your sword is always better than you have it. I will never win as long as you have that sword."
Kito raised his sword and 15 tentacle-like limbs appeared on his back and quickly jumped towards Liam.
Liam activated his Greater Light and Greater Wind magic at once and created a wind barrier around him.
Kito activated his Ice magic which was currently covering the entire area. Countless ice spikes emerged from the frozen ground and struck Liam along with multiple black tentacle-like limbs.
Liam managed to block it using his combination of Greater Light and Wind magic and completely destroyed the ice spikes. However, for a person who was heavily relying on his sword as a medium of his magic technique, it was not as dependable as for the person who specialized in magic.
Kito jumped in, but the intensity of the barrier slowly destroyed his crystal armor, even his black tentacle-like limbs could not stand a chance against the destructive wind and light barrier.
"You have made a huge mistake, Kito." Liam coated his fist with Greater wind magic and punched Kito's exposed chest to push him out.
The moment his fist touched Kito, out of nowhere, a black crystal emerged in his hand and crawled on his fist, and slowly crept on him. Liam tried to get rid of it by punching it but the black crystal fell over his foot and pinned him down.
The great shock was visible in Liam's eyes as his face turned to Kito slowly raising his head.
Liam strengthened his barrier and repeatedly used his Greater light magic to get rid of the black crystal covering both of his hands.
"What is happening? There is no way I would lose! Not to the person who cannot even properly use his own swords!"
Kito's black crystal armor slowly crumbled and multiple wounds appeared in his face, neck, and arms due to the barrier. Kito dropped one of his swords and grabbed Liam's neck.
With a smile on his wounded face. "In this kind of situation, the mage always wins."
The terror was visible on Liam's face, as his widened and unleashed a loud scream.
A massive black ball emerged between them and enveloped both of them.
The audience was so stunned that none of them could say a single word. They just look at each other with enlarged eyes.
The huge ball slowly faded and the victor's silhouette slowly emerged as he walked. His adventurer robe was completely destroyed revealing his torso.
Kito raised his arms. "Looks like I won."
The crowds roared upon seeing him as some women squealed.
Kito picked up his sword as the announcer walked towards him while gazing at Liam lying on the frozen ground. Some medics immediately attended Liam who was unconscious.
Kito and the announcer went to the center of the arena.
"And there you have it. The winner of today's ceremonial, Chilled knight, Kito!" The announcer raised Kito's arms as the shouts of the spectators resonated around the whole Colosseum.
"That's my lad! I'm confident that you will win!"
"That's our Kito!"
The announcer raised his hand to silence everyone. "Do you have a message for everyone, Chilled knight?"
Kito smiled. "Message? Let see." He pulled one of his swords and pointed it towards the direction of the adventurers, with a strong expression on his face. "Hurry up climbing up here! I'll be waiting for you! Give me a good battle!"
The entire arena instantly filled with mumbling as the spectators talked with each other with questions in their eyes.
The announcer looked at the direction he pointed his sword to. "Who is the person you're talking to?"
However, Kito did not answer and walked away from the arena, leaving everyone wondering.
While on the other hand, the 3 people inside the compartment of the Colosseum.
One of the people inside looked at the crowd with a puzzling smile on his face. "Quite bold, Kito."
The other man sitting beside him stood up and walked outside and he followed.
"Koisan." The voice of the woman inside the compartment with them resounded while her green hair was sticking out on her chair.
"What, Meian?"
"As I said earlier, you should stop what you are doing along with Killion. While you still can. I don't want to get to the point that I need to personally stop both of you."
Koisan smiled. "You know you can't stop us, Meian."
Koisan walked out of the room leaving Meian slowly exhaling while closing her eyes.