Rowan poured chakra into his legs to enhance them and sped off to the nearest puppet, which he stabbed through the head. He sensed something coming from above before moving out of the way. A puppet came from above and kicked the floor where Rowan stood before.
Another puppet used a leg sweep and Rowan dodged it by slightly jumping into the air. One of the puppets used this chance to punch him. Rowan blocked the punch using the Kusanagi Sword and places a paper bomb on the puppet's head before body flickering away.
Another puppet met it's end as the paper bomb exploded but it didn't end there. The puppets were still rushing at Rowan. He poured more chakra into his legs since it costs less than using the body flicker technique even though it's not as effective.
He sliced through the neck of a puppet that was about to punch him before dodging the puppet and stabbing the sword through the neck of the puppet following up behind it. He pushed the puppet away with his foot as he pulled out his sword.
A punch landed on his left cheek which sent him flying. Rowan did a few flips to stabilize himself before heading for the puppet that punched him. He cut the puppet's head in half before kicking the next puppet's head off with his chakra enhanced foot
Wind Style: Crescent Moon Slash. A green crescent moon projectile shot towards three of the puppets before cutting cleanly through their bodies. Rowan dashed to the last puppet and poured wind chakra into the Kusanagi Sword. He held the sword in the air and cut the puppet in half.
Rowan took a deep breath after the exhilarating battle. "Seventh round begin," the voice rang out. Rowan looked at his next opponents. Twenty humanoid puppets and by the looks of it, they were bigger and far stronger than the previous ones.
Rowan checked his chakra levels and he had used around twenty percent of his chakra so far. He knew that drawing out fights was not a good idea but he really wanted to test himself. He was still reluctant to use his sharingan but he poured more wind chakra into the Kusanagi Sword.
Wind Style: Vacuum Blade. A blade of wind with a length of ten metres came from the Kusanagi Sword. Rowan used the body flicker technique to appear in the middle of the puppets before he began spinning. Rotation!
Instead of defensive, Rowan used this technique to slash at the puppets around him. Most of the puppets managed to react quick enough but six of them still got caught up in the new Rotation technique. That left fourteen of them.
Rowan used the body flicker technique to get out of the middle of the puppets. As he moved, a fist appeared and punched him back to the middle. He suddenly remembered why the body flicker technique wasn't used for combat.
Unless they had the sharingan or any other technique that helps them see their surroundings easier, it would be close to impossible to use it in battle since the person wouldn't be able to see what the body is doing as it would be going too fast.
Rowan quickly placed the Kusanagi Sword on the ground before taking out six kunai. He jumped into the air and activated his sharingan. All six kunai managed to find the head of a puppet but that wasn't the final blow.
Attached to the kunai were small paper tags which lit up and exploded. Rowan grabbed the Kusanagi Sword and used this chance to body flicker to two of the puppets and cutting through their necks. He looked at the remaining puppets.
The puppets moved towards Rowan in unison. He didn't back down either and went to meet them. He slashed through the waist of the first puppet and dodged the punch coming towards him from the left by twisting his body and then severing the head of the puppet from the body.
Rowan ducked for a kick that was aimed at his head, pulled out a kunai from his shock and aimed it at the puppet's head. He poured chakra into the kunai to increase it's penetration force and stabbed the puppet in the head.
He could feel something coming from behind, so he spun around and slashed out with the Kusanagi Sword. He cleaved open another puppet's head. Two fists came from both sides of his body and he quickly moved his body slightly backwards.
He slapped two paper bombs on the two puppets respectively before flickering away. Two explosions later and all the puppets were finished off. Rowan quickly collected the seven kunai he used in the fight and put them in their places.
He pulled the Kusanagi Sword from the puppet's head and looked at the gate again. 'Hopefully the twenty puppets don't turn into forty,' Rowan thought as he waited for the next opponents to walk out of the arena gate. He could already feel the energy that his opponent possessed.
He waited but it didn't look like the opponent was going to come out. Rowan focused on the gate and waited. "Eight round begin," as soon as the voice said that, a fireball shot towards Rowan and he dodged it easily thanks to his sharingan.
One puppet walked out of the gate and stood still with it's hands pointing at Rowan. Electricity flowed around the puppet's hands as it muttered words. When it stopped, the electricity shot towards Rowan and he dodged to the side again.
Rowan knew that magi were easy to deal with. You just had to get close to them whilst avoiding terrible magic and slashing through their bodies. The bodies of magi were really weak so Rowan tightened his grip on the Kusanagi Sword since that will be his aim.
The puppet mage began muttering words again and then something happened that Rowan didn't expect. The spider webs, that were like mere decorations till now, started weaving together and a type of net formed around Rowan and the mage.
Rowan had a really bad feeling about this round. He poured some wind chakra into the Kusanagi Sword and rushed off towards the puppet mage.