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Tournament Day 2
Status: Beginning
Participants left: 250,000,000
Task: Survive round 3,4,5,6 and qualify for tomorrow
Player status: You Player Anton are still a participant.
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Anton got this message as he entered the watching room, his group was already there even Eddie and Lena. The first fight of the day started the moment Anton entered the room, and he knew one of the players that were fighting, it was a woman with long brown hair. It was Anna.
"Hey that girl is strong, isn't she?"
Eddie said that and the rest nodded, and Anton opened his mouth.
"That is Anna, she was my companion in the first half"
Ben and Luca looked at Anton and wanted to say something but Lena was faster than them.
"Ah, a companion are you sure about that, your eyes say something else"
Ben and Luca joined Lena and started to tease Anton, whose face was all red now.
"No, no guys it isn't like that, we are just companions"
Before Luca and Ben could continue teasing Anton a message popped up, Anna had won her fight overwhelmingly, and now it was the time for the first of the three musketeers to fight.
"Guys you remember the challenge right"
"Yes of course"
"Yeah so don't lose"
Ben said that and teleported away to the arena, even though it was his third time standing in the arena, Ben still couldn't comprehend the atmosphere in the Colosseum. Ben thought that this is how the football players feel when they play in a world cup finale.
When Ben finished thinking a man he knew came already flying at him, and this man was no other than Tom the brother of Luca's girlfriend. As Luca saw him his eyes lit up because if he was here so must be his sister. Now back to the fight going on, Ben couldn't defend against the punch and got thrown back, but that wasn't a big problem he immediately used a healing skill and activated his holy body armor. The crowd freaked out at this view, they had never seen Ben use that and Tom also activated his skills, the skill he activated made it so that his arms transform into metal.
"Hah now I can finally let my anger out on you, stupid kid"
"Huh, what do you mean kid? I am as old as you Tom and it is clear that you are the stupid one"
They both exchanged a few gentle words and went over to exchange blows. Tom punched and defended with the metal arms Ben used a sword engulfed in hot flames, so hot that they started to melt down his sword, Tom saw that, and a smile formed on his face. If this fight would go for a long time it would be his win.
They both landed strong blows on each other, and Tom managed to hit Ben several times in the stomach and face, if Ben hadn't had his body armor he would have lost long ago, but it was the same for Tom, every time Ben's sword hits his metal arms pieces of metal start falling off. and he had been pierced with the word in his right leg.
It was a beautiful fight, maybe the best they had seen until now. But his friends couldn't be happy about that because it seemed that Ben was going to lose he just lost his sword, and now tried to engage in a fist fight but that isn't his specialty, it is Tom's.
"Hah you're just big talk and nothing behind it"
Tom mocked him and Ben couldn't say anything back, his body hurt his legs didn't want to move but he still had hope, and hope that his skill would finally activate, his sponsor told him that the skill only activates itself if you are in danger of dying. So he decided to provoke Tom.
"Hey, idiot do you want to know something?"
Tom was a little bit startled by Ben, he thought that Ben would give up but this was now all the better for him, he could beat him to a cripple and he would get to see Luca's crying face.
"Oh yes I would love to but I will beat you up first"
Tom dashed forwards and started to beat Ben up, Ben didn't defend himself he only activated body protection.
Anton, Luca, Eddie, and Lena were scared for Ben they saw what was going on and were furious, especially Luca.
"Hey that, no one has beat someone up that badly till now"
"You are wrong Luca they tried to but the other player gave up before that could have happened so Ben must have a reason for not giving up"
"But Anton you know how much of an idiot he is, and he would never give up in a fight even if it meant dying"
Luca was screaming at Anton who also seemed worried but not as much as them, Eddie and Lena tried to calm Luca down but they also were completely worried, Lena even said.
"Can't we just say that it is over for him"
But Eddie ruined her dreams quickly.
"No, we can't do that, I am sorry"
Then an explosion happened and the whole arena was covered in dust, and a protective wall was activated for the people in the arena watching the fight. When the dust cleared, a flying figure could be seen, it had white wings on its back and a ring out of light was flowing about the player's head, and without a doubt, this was Ben.
Tom was thrown to the back of the arena luckily he activated the metal transformation on his whole body as soon as he saw light coming out of Ben's body. Without the metal, on his whole body, he would have died a hundred percent because even with the metal he still had a small hole in his stomach, and not only that his metal was melted away.
The whole Colosseum was shocked by what was going on, Ben was flying in the air, and Tom was lying on the ground. Ben raised his hand in the direction of Tom and before anyone could have done something light shoot out and in a matter of 0.01 seconds hit Tom.
"What!!!! That is Ben? How is he so strong?"
Not only Luca was shocked by this, but the whole group was also shocked they couldn't believe their eyes if Ben fought against him like this Anton wasn't sure if he could fight him head-on, he needed to become even stronger. But one thing Anton knew was that Ben was out of the race for the position of leader, he probably overused his mythic powers, and not even the refill drinks in the room could recover that.
But Ben's attack didn't hit Tom, it hit a protection wall that formed before Tom. His attack was so powerful that there were visible marks left on the protective wall. Tom had pissed himself after Ben's attack and he still was in shock so the Tournament system decided the winner. It was Ben, Ben's wings started to disappear and he was about to fall to the ground when suddenly he was teleported to a hospital room, the last thing he saw was Eddie and Lena rushing through the door.
"He will probably be sent to the hospital room so Eddie and Lena, you should go there it is a white portal you will recognize it"
"Ok Anton we will be on our way good luck to you two"
"Thank you, Eddie"
Eddie and Lena hurriedly left the room and only Anton and Luca were there. Luca was still a bit shocked by Ben's powers.
"Anton, did he say something to you about his skills, is that why you could stay so calm?"
"No, but I think everyone hides their skill I mean I guess you and I hide a few too, and I believed in Ben"
"Hmm, I guess you're right about that but why did he have to wait so long to activate it?"
"We can ask him when he comes out of the hospital, let's first focus on our fights"
Luca and Anton talked a bit more before it was Anton's turn, he was up against a little kid probably about 12 years old but Anton didn't underestimate him which was a good idea because the kid could summon monsters. But it was still an overwhelming win for Anton, he didn't hurt the kid too much, but the people in the Colosseum were still booing him when that happened he held his hand up and only one finger was standing up, it was the middle one. With that done he teleported back and Luca congratulated him.
Luca had his fight a few minutes later, it was against another player with water skills so they were evenly matched with their elements but it was another thing with power and skills, Luca was better in these categories, and so the fight was decided very quickly. The fourth and fifth rounds went by quickly and in that time Eddie, Lena, and Ben came back to the room.
"It seems I am out of the race boys"
Ben said that and quickly went to Luca and whispered to him.
"Hey you better win or else we have Anton as our group leader"
Luca laughed a bit at Ben's whispering because Ben and Anton can't stand the other being better than them. But Luca calmed down quickly and asked Ben in an angry tone.
"Why did you get yourself beat up so bad couldn't you have used the skill earlier? I was worried about you"
"You were worried about me. Oh how sweet of you Luca, but didn't I tell you I am fine now and my skill only activates if I am about to die"
"Hah so it is something like a last resort skill"
"Yep it is exactly like that Eddie"
"I want o to have such a skill too, but my sponsor only gives me bad skills"
"Ah Lena trust me, you will get better skills later"
It was not just Lena who was envious of Ben for having such a great skill. Anton was especially envious because he didn't get any skills from his sponsor. A message appeared and stopped them from enjoying this happy moment.
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The sixth round starts now
Participants left: 31.250.000
Important information: Only one million players qualify for the next round, and in this round, the winner of the fight stays in the arena and has to fight the next player who comes in. If you beat ten players in a row you will be qualified for the next round, but once one million players qualified you can't fight anymore, which means whoever fights first qualifies.
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They all stared at the message and looked at the TV but no one was in the arena, it seems everyone understood the risk of being the first to go in. For example, if you go in first a strong player can appear and you are out directly and the system didn't say what would happen if you lose so everyone is cautious of that. So Anton made a decision, that if in five minutes no one is in the arena (Colosseum) he would be the one to go in first.
One minute passed and no one could be seen in the arena, two three and four minutes went by, and there still was no one standing there. But then sparks appeared and a woman Anton knew to the well was standing there.
"Hey Luca you go and fight her"
"Why should I Anton?"
"She is the companion I told you about, I am sure you will learn something if you fight her"
"Are you sure about that?"
Luca knew that she was strong because Anton told them that but if Anton was sure that he would be able to beat her, then there was nothing to worry about or so he thought. Luca pressed the joint button floating before him and was teleported away. At the same moment, the join button flowed before Anton disappeared and all of them looked at the TV.
"Hey Anton and you're sure that he will beat her"
"No, he won't be able to beat her, and when did I say that? I said he will be able to learn something not that he will beat her"
The other group members looked stunned at him, but then focused on the TV again where the fight between Luca and Anna would start any second.