Rowan looked at the ancient elven king that was standing in front of him. He didn't understand what it just said but it seems that the last round was a pressure test. He just needed to walk to the elven king and touch him as he withstand the pressure released from the elven king.
Rowan kept his gaze on the ancient elven king but he didn't feel any pressure coming from him at all. He took a step towards the elven king and then felt it. The pressure was so sudden that it forced him to his knees in an instant. He now understood how tough this task is.
Rowan looked at the elven king again and this time he noticed that the elven king had a dark aura around him. The dark aura enveloped the surroundings and threatened to swallow anything that it came into contact with.
Rowan that this pressure is nothing but an illusion and yet the sharingan failed to see through it. He was too aware of the pressure to shrug it off as just an illusion. He forced his body to stand up and took another step towards the elven king.
The pressure doubled and he keep feel his knees inching closer to the ground but he forced his body straight again. Another step followed to which his one knee nearly touched the ground but he managed to stabilize himself again.
Rowan thought of all the abilities the sharingan has but technically had only two. The eye of insight and the eye of hypnotism. Insight didn't work since he couldn't see through the illusion created by the pressure that the ancient elven king gave off.
Hypnotism would not work on the elven king so that was useless too…or was it. Rowan had a realisation of great truth and deactivated his sharingan. He placed his hands together and created a shadowclone next to him. The clone's eyes turned red as he looked at Rowan.
He couldn't hypnotise the ancient elven king but the same could not be said about himself. Rowan got hypnotised by his clone and the pressure disappeared. Instead of a dark aura, all he could see was flower petals emanating from the elven king.
There was nothing more to say. The ancient elven king was surprised to see the boy touch him and felt somewhat unfulfilled. He immediately came up with a plan that, although shameless, would cause him to show the boy what he was made off.
"Two minutes. The second test of this round is to survive my attacks for two minutes. Of course I will only be using my body so let's get started," the ancient elven king had a huge smile on his face that looked like a kid that just solved his first puzzle.
Rowan looked at the ancient elven king and immediately distanced himself. He placed his hands together and created fifty shadowclones. There was barely any space for proper movement but it will hopefully keep the elven king busy for two minutes.
The ancient elven king crouched down and got into a fighting stance. The ground underneath him cracked as he shot forward. He punched the first shadowclone so hard that the impact caused five of the clones behind him to turn into puffs of smoke.
The clones began moving to the ancient elven king and all you could see was red eyes everywhere. The first clone to reach the ancient elven king got smashed in the face and those behind him dodged out of the way and attacked from the side.
The ancient elven king easily punched them too but was hit from the back by a clone but it barely had an effect. The elven king kicked the clone and moved through the crowd. The ancient elven king didn't even have to touch a clone. It would just punch toward a clone and it would turn to smoke.
The clones were reaching their limit in numbers so Rowan needed to do something. The clones behind him began gathering chakra in their palms. Rowan waited for them to gather enough energy and looked at the ancient elven king.
The ancient elven king had his back turned towards Rowan and he took his chance. He jumped up and placed his feet on the palms of the clones. "Uchiha Stream," the clones muttered softly as Rowan shot towards the ancient elven king.
He quickly formed the hand signs in mid-flight since he didn't want to alert the ancient elven king too early. Monkey, Dragon, Rat, Bird, Ox, Snake, Dog, Tiger, Monkey. Lightning chakra gathered in his hand and sounded like a flock of birds.
The ancient elven king sensed an incoming threat but it was too late and Rowan was already upon him. "Chidori!" Rowan screamed as he aimed the ball of lightning at the elven king. The elven king twisted his body but he was still grazed on the arm.
The place that the lightning grazed was scorched and he could feel a slight pain coming from it despite being energy. Rowan's body, following the laws of inertia, kept moving forward before being caught by three clones and brought to a stop. He got his bearings back and looked at the ancient elven king.
Rowan had no idea how much time had passed but the ancient elven king hadn't say anything so he took a battle stance. The ancient elven king started laughing. His laughter echoed throughout the arena which made it slightly tremble.
The ancient elven king finally stopped laughing and said, "Thirty seconds left." Rowan looked on as the elven king took out a white sword and pointing it at him. "You're the first since the ancient dragon king and the ancient dwarven king to make me this excited."
Rowan was surprised to see the ancient elven king take out a sword and immediately distanced himself even farther as the rest of his clones came between them. The clones all took out swords and looked at the ancient elven king.
The ancient elven king started laughing again as he ran towards the clones. The laughter sounded like thorns as they pricked Rowan's ears. How long could thirty seconds actually be.