The piece of wood that was left behind after using the substitution jutsu was completely obliterated with everything around it. Rowan tilted his body forward and he fell from the hydra's healing head. He waited till he was next to the neck of the hydra before slashing out towards it.
Wind Style: Half Moon Slash. Rowan already knew that the crescent moon slash would have close to no effect and used the second one instead. The Kusanagi Sword cut through the neck of the healing head and the seven heads turned to six.
Rowan kicked the body of the hydra to move away from it. The tail of the hydra slapped at the place that Rowan just was but it was too late. Rowan looked at the hydra that couldn't heal itself and smiled. His eyes turned red and he ran towards the hydra.
The hydra suddenly opened one of it's mouths and shot a fireball towards Rowan. He saw it coming and dodged it with just a bit of effort but a tail was in his vision before he could react. He twisted his body as much as possible as he dodged the tail too.
However, the air current around the tail caused him to move slightly backward. He looked at a ball of acid came towards his face and ducked. The tail of the hydra appeared again and smashed him into the spider webs and he got stuck.
The hydra began creating another massive ball of mixed energy. Rowan couldn't believe the speed that the hydra just displayed. The worst part was the fact that he couldn't move his body that was attached to the spider webs.
The hydra finished making another ball of energy and shot it towards Rowan. 'At least I can finally use this technique,' he thought as he spread chakra to every part of his body. The ball was now really close to him and was about to smash into him.
Eight Trigrams: Body Blow technique. Although the technique had a special name, it was technically just a standing Rotation. Chakra poured out of every part of Rowan's body as it cut through the webs that stuck onto him. He fell down and missed the ball of energy by a hair's length.
Rowan fell onto the ground and sighed but then a ball of lightning headed his way. He rolled out of the way and looked at the hydra. It was way too fast for Rowan's liking. He had to think of a way to get close to the hydra.
Rowan placed his hands together and created ten clones. All of them, including Rowan, ran around the hydra in different ways to confuse it. The hydra wasn't as dumb as he thought though, despite being the puppet that it was.
The hydra targeted one clone at a time and bombarded it with multiple attacks. After losing the fourth clone, Rowan and the rest of them moved to the hydra. They managed to get close to it fairly quickly but the hydra was even prepared for that.
The hydra spun around and smashed it's tail into the multiple Rowans. All of them turned into puffs of smoke except for one that flew towards spider webs. As Rowan got closer to the webs, he saw a ball of fire coming at him with terrible speed.
Rowan got stuck onto the webs again but this time he waited for the fireball to reach him before using the body blow technique. He managed to reduce most of the power behind the fireball as he escaped the spider webs.
Rowan searched for strategies in his brain but he was coming up short. He finally decided on a strategy and hoped it would work. He placed his hands together and created eight shadowclones of which six of them had swords.
The two clones without swords stood behind Rowan as they gathered wind chakra into their palms. Monkey, Dragon, Rat, Bird, Ox, Snake, Tiger, Monkey. Lightning formed on his head as she stared at the hydra in the distance.
The six clones began running to the hydra at normal speed since they waited for Rowan to strike first. The two clones behind him finished gathering chakra into their respective palms. Eight Trigrams: Air Palm. Rowan jumped and placed his feet on the palms of the clones.
Rowan successfully recreated one of the signature techniques that he liked from a show that he felt was inferior. "Uchiha Stream!" the two clones screamed as Rowan shot forward from their hands. He reached the hydra in an instant before smashing his hand into it.
"Chidori!" Rowan could feel his hand easily penetrate the wooden scales of the hydra and entering it's inner body. He poured the lightning chakra into the hydra and jumped from it's body. The hydra was too late to react and the lightning chakra ran rampant in it's body.
The hydra was not paralyzed but the energy inside of it was busy trying to fight the lightning chakra back and thus it went into a paralyzed state. The six clones took this chance to enter the range of the hydra's six heads and slashed out.
Since they didn't possess the Kusanagi Sword, they had to go a step further with the technique they used. Wind Style: Full Moon Slash. Six projectiles went towards six heads and each of them sliced through their respective necks with no problems.
Rowan looked at the headless hydra as the eight shadowclones turned into puffs of smoke and sent him the remaining chakra in each of their bodies. He was really bothered by the fact that he could barely keep up with the hydra's movements.
Rowan desired to have a fully grown sharingan more than anything right now. He didn't wait long before he heard the voice. Only this time, the voice came from a person walking out of the arena gate. "I finally found a worthy successor but he isn't even an elf."
Rowan looked at the man in front of him and could feel the surroundings surrender to him and whispering his name. It was the ancient elven king or rather, the remaining essence of the ancient elven king that took shape and it only let out one sentence.
"Tenth round begin."