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Chapter 35 - Betrayal and Friendship

After the battle with the twins, only 9 participants remain. Here are the list of the remaining participants from each squad.

Hunter: 2

Asier- 2

Lions of Courage- 2

Crimson eye- 3

The battle became much more intense as it reached is Climax. With the remaining members from each Squad coming together and forming a team. At one side, A tall young and handsome man with Blonde hair and skin. He had blue eyes with pink lips. His costume had a Golden lion at the back of its cape which indicates their symbol. He had a long sword around his hip. This man was meditating whiles one of his comrades stood by to guard him as he was the last remaining hope of their squad. As Arthur kept on meditating, he suddenly opened his eyes and stood up ready to battle.

Han Lee: So you are finally awake huh. I guess is about time you begun to move.

Arthur(in a soft and gentle tone): You are right! I should have moved earlier that way we would have kept our loss at a minimum but it isn't too late. I sense some few strong opponents so am going to deal with them as soon as possible.

Arthur teleports and suddenly appears at the location of the Asier Squad members. He quickly takes care of them by using his sword case to dismantle the both of them immediately knocking them out and eliminating them. He then teleport to the other locations swiftly eliminating the remaining members from each squad one by one leaving only 6 participants.

Han Lee is then approached by one of the participants. So you must be the famous Martial Arts Prodigy. is a pleasure to meet you I am Kisame from the Crimson eye squad.

Han: The Crimson eye huh! I heard that squad is quite famous for its Flame attribute members. Well then lets see what you got.

Han suddenly appears behind Kisame within a flash. This quickly throws Kisame off guard slowing his reaction time allowing Han to land a hit in which sends Kisame back.

Kisame: If I hadn't reinforced my body that hit would have broken some of my ribs. Now I see why he's a martial arts genuis. At that moment it felt as if he had become one with the air I couldn't even track his movement until he appeared behind me.

Han: This guy he's strong. he was able to react to my kick within that brief moment by using his elbow to hit to reduce the impact of my kick before it connected. This guy is amazing.

Han and Kisame begin to exchange a barrage of attacks. Han tries to attack Kisame from the front but he's stopped by a wall of fire to which he manages to push through and reach Kisame. As the fight continued is became a one sided battle as Kisame seemed to be on the losing side Until....

Kisame: Did you think that my true ability was just to manipulate fire?

Han: Huh!

Kisame: Unlike Others I can either shoot flame projectiles with my pyrokinesis or Create explosions.

Han tries attacking Kisame but before he could make contact there was a sudden explosion which pushes him back. Kisame scatters his Rin energy at all directions to which Han tries tanking them by enforcing his body with Rin/Ki but as soon as Kisame's Rin came into contact with Han it caused a huge explosion severely damaging him.

Kisame: You might have realised that I don't create explosions through my flames but rather through my Rin energy. My Rin energy is the explosion itself and whatever it comes into contact with explodes.

Han(panting and bleeding): Then I would have to avoid coming into contact with your Rin.

Han starts to move slowly creating after images as he moved around Kisame. Kisame scatters his Rin energy out of frustration thereby dropping his guard and giving space for Han to attack. Art of Heaven and Earth: Palm of destruction. This strike causes severe damage to the insides of an opponent by channeling one's internal energy into his fist and releasing it upon the moment of impact dealing severe damage. Although Kisame took a massive blow the same was with Han. This was because Kisame had reinforced and covered his body with Rin. Therefore upon touching him it generated a huge explosion which severely damaged Han.

Han: Touching even a part of your body generates an explosion. that's some crazy ability. I guess I have no choice then.

Han releases his inner ki and decides to end things as soon as possible and join Arthur. Art of Heaven and Earth: Thousand swords of splitting skies. With this technique Han manifests his Ki/Rin into thousands of blades and launches them at his opponent. The attacks manages to to deal a massive damage to Kisame knocking him out and eliminating him.

Han: That guy's ability was quite troublesome. Due to that I had to use a lot of energy in order to make my attack connect without triggering his explosion. Since is over why don't I go assist Arthur.

As Arthur kept on wondering the field for more opponents to fight against, he came into contact with Laila and Sasuke.

Arthur: So that abnormal Energy I sensed it seems it came from you two. But there's something I have noticed about you two. Even though you look human your energy and soul's is different.

Sasuke: Enough with all that talk and lets get this over with.

Sasuke rushes towards Arthur and attacks him continuosly but Arthur just tanks all of it without moving. Due to this Sasuke increased his energy much further and attacked Arthur with a much greater force but he still took the attack head on without moving an inch. finally Sasuke went deeper into his core and used the power of Erlan. Arthur sensed the massive change in power and decided to attack. This led to a continuous exchange of attacks. The impact from their attacks destroyed the grounds of the Colosseum which was made with the hardest substance on earth and sent strong winds throughout the entire arena. Sasuke launches a huge ball of energy at Arthur to which he hits away and Chokes Sasuke before punching him back to the ground. Sasuke tries to get up but he is stomped to the ground by Arthur who Condenses a his Rin energy into a small ball and releases it head on at Sasuke.

Arthur begins to walk away and makes his way to Laila. Laila is a bit shocked to see Sasuke being beaten to a pulp like that without being able to touch Arthur.

Arthur: Are you concerned for that bastard? For a beautiful and Gorgeous lady like you being concerned for a bastard and disowned son makes my interest in you dwindle.

Laila: What are you saying?

Arthur: So he never told you huh! The Reason why he can't go back to his family or why he never talks about it. Well let me tell you everything about that shameless bastard. That guy you see over there he ain't a pure blood Zenith. His mother was a wretched Commoner who had a filthy relationship with the leader of the Zenith family. As you know he is the product of a filth and prostitute and this is not the worst part. He even killed his own Mother and brother in cold blood. That was why he was cast out from the Zenith family.

Sasuke begins to have flashes of the past

Zenith Clan Leader: You killed your own mother and brother. You truly are worthless. I should have disowned you a long time ago. From now on never speak of the name Zenith and of you are asked who is your father never mention my name. Now then cast him out.

Sasuke: No father It wasn't me please! Please!.

Everyone at the Zenith Royal palace begun insulting Sasuke and ridiculing him. Sasuke was cast out of the sky capital and later on took the entrance exam and became a Knight.

At this point Sasuke became chained by the memories of his past feeling shameless and useless until...

Laila: So what if he is a murderer. It doesn't matter to me whether he killed his family and got disowned by his father but rather what is important to me is the now Sasuke not the then Sasuke. I always knew that he was carrying a heavy load on his shoulders but I never knew it was something like this. Can't you see he regrets what happened and even if that is not the case how can a father abandon his own son at such age just because he was accused of something he might not have done. To be honest Sasuke is someone I care about a lot therefore I won't just stand there whiles you talk shit about my friend. Cause of you do, I will kill you.

Arthur: Hahahaha hahaha you kill me are you serious. I kind of decided not to harm you since you are a lady but I hate stupid hypocrite bitches like you, you disgust me.

Laila: Bring it on

As Arthur takes a stance to attack Laila, He is stopped by Han.

Han: That's enough Arthur. you have to apologise.

Arthur: I should apologize to a bunch of lowly maggots are you kidding me.

Han: What you just said is not something a man should say to a lady.

Arthur: You see I never actually liked you and even now you still manage to get on my nerves. For someone below me you are quite arrogant enough to lay your hands on me.

Arthur Unsheathes his sword and within a blink of an eye he slashes of Han's hand before he could even react. Arthur tries to stab Han in the heart but he's attacked by a a series of sword attacks which rains from the sky. In one strike Arthur slices through all that and ends Han's technique. In that Brief period, Han manages to push Arthur back significantly by using one of his techniques. This technique causes Arthur to bleed a little.

Han: so even a monster like you can bleed. The technique I used is called Palm of splitting mountains. When used in a human it can cause the insides of a person to explode due to the scattering of the Ki upon contact but for someone like you I bet that you didn't even take a serious damage.

Arthur becomes filled with so much rage as someone like Han was able to make him bleed. He immediately appears in front of Han and begins hitting him at different places by teleporting to the location at which Han will land and hit him. This continued until Han was unable to move.

Arthur: Did you actually think you stood a...(Coughs blood). W.. what's happening to me why am I Bleeding?

Han: so is beginning to take effect huh.

Arthur: what do you mean?

Han: As I told you this technique destroys your insides by spreading the ki throughout your entire body but I forgot to add this part. The more Rin energy you use the more the Ki spreads through your body and destroy you from the inside.

You Bastard screams Arthur as he punches Han's face to the ground continuosly until he fell unconscious. At this point Han became too weak to continue and therefore was eliminated.

Arthur: You bastard did you think an attack like that would be able to stop me.

As Arthur turns to walk away he is punched by Sasuke which sends him backwards. Am not done yet said Sasuke. Arthur being shocked that someone struck his beautiful face lashed at Sasuke. At this point the fight became so intense that no one was able to interfere. At this point, Arthur was the one being completely dominated by Sasuke. Sasuke launches his final blow by using his Heavenly Punishment on his fist thereby increasing is attack power exponentially and punching him in the abodomen which sends Arthur flying. The name of this attack was Fist of Divine Punishment.

After taking that huge damage from the attack the Scattered Ki begun to resonate with Sasuke's Rin greatly speeding up Han's attack. Arthur begins coughing lots of blood profusely. Because of this, One of the last remaining participants tried attacking Arthur as he thought he had become weak but Arthur swiftly Sevres all his limbs immediately disqualifying him.

Arthur: Did you think I would loose to those attacks. As you can see I have finally woken up

Arthur's eye colour quickly changes from blue to pure white.

Arthur: Now the real battle is about to begin.

With only three participants remaining, The Tournament had now reached is Climax.

To be continued

Authors words: Sasuke's final attack is not actually a perfected attack but rather you could say is a beta. The real attack has much more destructive power than what he used.

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