After that the participants from the other arena felt a huge blow to their minds. Some of the grew a desire to fight harder while some grew too scared to even continue fighting and ending up walking off the stage.
This cleared many cowards off the battlefield!
In the third arena another large scale battle was happening.
Raven was fighting against Jack and their battle effected the whole arena because each were area of attack users.
Raven slammed her foot on the ground creating dozens of large pillars they aimed to impale Jack but with a horizontal slash of his sword all the pillars broke. Activating his cloud element he set the rocks ablaze and sent the back at her with another horizontal slash.
This sent hundreds of rocks flying at her and other unintended fighters. To the others the rocks caused heavy damage and even knocked some out. As for Raven she lifted her spiked mace and with precision began to bash the rocks into tiny fragments.
Jack jumped into the air while creating more and more clouds around his sword until they were triple the length of his blade. He went soaring towards Raven with a downward slash as he imbued hell flames into the clouds dying them red.
She reacted to the incoming attack by putting her mace in front of her and drawing the earth element into it.
As his attack was about to land she slashed upward with her mace bringing a large chunk of the arena with it, like watching a strong geyser exploding.
The attacks clashed causing the clouds to burst out and rocks to fly everywhere. However the two only had minor injuries. Although they had to stop since only 8 other participants remained.
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Finally the last arena was finished so the remaining participants went back to the waiting arena. Ray was sitting in the waiting arena. None of the other participants dared to walk over to him since he etched fear into their soul.
But one kid didn't have the same fear as he walked over to him.
Suddenly he started talking. "That move was really cool, thanks for not taking me out. I was hoping to get first but now that I've seen your strength, so I'll settle for second. Oh, I almost forgot my name is Stuart Solaris I'm in the 3rd branch and they say I'm the first born on the branch head. My mother always.."
"Stop I can't listen anymore!" Ray said abruptly stopping the kid from talking.
"Oh sorry, I have a tendency to start rambling. My father says that It makes me creative since I can always find something to talk about but I don't think know if it's creativity or inability to control my words. Most of the time my mind races faster then my mind but that helps with my elemental ability..." Stuart said starting again.
"Your doing it again." Ray said cutting him off. "So what did you come to talk to me about."
"Yeah I wanted to be your friend after this, your powerful and I want to train with you. since I have a lot of energy and I think..."
"uhm uhm, excuse me boy but I need to talk with my brother." Raven said as she appeared behind Stuart and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Oh my gods, your the Beautiful Mountain raven. I Am amazed I was hoping I would be..."
"Be quiet and move away." Raven interrupted and said coldly.
Stuart did as she said without a word and went to talk to some other poor participant.
"So brother, you did good in this fight. However let me make this clear, you are not a god and even if you are on that road you can still die traveling especially with such a boastful and wasteful move." She said like a riddle.
Recover your energy because you are likely to face that powerful swordsman." she said then walked away.
Ray sat down then started to meditate and gather energy.
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The next round has finally began two participant went to each arena. The first six were:
A hammer wielder who uses [Ice] element vs A spear wielder who uses [Smoke] element.
A archer who uses [tree] element vs a martial artist who uses [Metal] element.
A solely elementalist who uses [lightning] element vs Stuart who uses the rare [space] element.
Each match was incredible. In one arena it was a guy that wielded the hammer and a girl that wielded the spear.
the [Ice] elemental slammed his hammer down creating a blast of large ice spikes growing and rushing towards the [Smoke] user who unleashed a insane amount of smoke covering the whole arena.
She used the smoke to quickly and silently appear behind the [Ice] user and release a flurry of thrusts which ended up leaving him immobilized.
At the same time, two guys were fighting, it was the [tree] element archer and the [metal] martial artist.
The archer immediately started rapid firing arrows around and at the martial artist. He reacted by shoving his fists into the ground and when he pulled them out they were covered in metal, but that wasn't his only move.
He punched his left hand up into the air and a giant metal fist broke out of the ground below the archer's feet. He jumped out of the way but the fist opened and the thumb sent him flying into the ground.
Something happened as he was hit, giant trees burst from the arrows shot. The roots wrapped up the martial artist and as he tried to break out from the snake like roots, the archer stood up.
He started shooting and in the second it took for the martial artist to break one root, three more arrows hit him and created more and thicker roots.
They completely wrapped around the martial artist and immobilized him!
At the same time, the elementalist and Stuart were battling it out. The lighting elementalist created three balls of lightning in a triangle and shot a bolt through the middle. It's strength was boosted after going through and in only a second it reached Stuart.
Suddenly the attack disappeared!
everyone watching was stunned as the attack appeared behind the elementalist. It struck him in the back causing him immense pain. He looked up due to the pain then he looked back at Stuart worried about another attack but he was stunned.
Stuart was gone!
The elementalist looked around the arena confused and scared.
Just then Stuart appeared behind him and delivered a heavy punch to the left side of his face. The elementalist moved his arm to defend but before it connected the fists disappeared into a fold of space and appeared through another fold on the other side.
Stuart's punch sent him flying towards Stuart, who sent another punch with his other hand. The two clean hits knocked the elementalist out.
In a matter of moments the elementalist was rendered unconscious.