"He might be stronger than Noah" muttered Jack when he saw Luke sitting on a boulder with blood-stained hands.
"That kid is ruthless. He didn't make any unnecessary movements and his attacks were precise," Zephyr said, assessing Luke from afar.
He was floating in the air, and beside him stood Mabel with a smile on her face.
"Yes, that's correct. He fought as if he was in a life-or-death situation. He crushed his opponents in every department. First, he acted smug which made his opponents rush without thinking and then he shattered their morals. A true predator," Mabel replied, summarizing everything.
Meanwhile, Noah and his team were sitting on the branches of a tree watching two team's fight.
"How long are we going to do this? I'm getting bored. This game isn't even about the last team surviving. All we need are their wristbands," Zatch grumbled in annoyance.
They had been hiding for half an hour now, while others were fighting and having fun. Zatch was getting bored. He couldn't take it anymore.
"Wait a bit more. We'll start after one of the teams gets defeated," said Noah while looking at Zatch.
A few minutes later, team A was on the verge of winning while the team B was knocked out except their damage dealer.
"Tch, I give up. Just take the wristband!" said the damage dealer while throwing his wristband to the short guy standing in the middle of team A.
Seeing this, Noah gave Zatch the green signal.
"Finally," Zatch shouted when he saw the signal. He jumped from the tree without thinking twice. Leaves fell with him, and dust rose as he hit the ground.
"Who's that?" asked one of the members of team A. They all took a step back in shock at the sudden appearance of Zatch.
"Me? I am just a passerby," said Zatch in a nonchalant tone as he disappeared.
"Where did he go?" the short guy asked the sniper who had been watching the whole situation from afar.
"I don't know. He's not in my range," the sniper replied while trying to find Zatch's location.
"How can you not locate me? I am standing right beside you. How will you become a good sniper like this? tsk tsk..," Zatch said as he appeared beside the sniper and put his hand around the sniper's shoulders.
"Where did you appea...,"
The sniper said in a surprised tone before Zatch choked him to the point of passing out. He fell on the ground with a cracking sound.
"Oopsie, I think I put a little too much force," Zatch said as he again disappeared from his position again. This time he appeared before the short guy and punched him in his guts.
The guy couldn't handle the force and was sent flying.
'This is so much fun. I love it. Punching someone and seeing them bleed, feels so good.' Zatch thought as he appeared behind the short guy again and hooked him in the face.
A psychotic smile appeared on his face as he kept zapping across the battlefield.
'That hurts so much. This fucking demon,' the short guy thought while trying to fight back.
He was in the top fifty. He was supposed to be one of the best awakeners in all of the human domain. People outside of Avalon looked at him with awe as they licked his boots.
But now he was getting beaten as if there was no tomorrow.
He tried to resist Zatch's beating but ended up passing out in a few hits, giving Zatch both the wristbands.
While all this was happening, Noah jumped from the tree and attacked the last remaining member of the team.
With just one chop, Noah knocked out the last member of A team.
"Phew, that was fun," Zatch said, dusting the dirt off his clothes while walking towards Noah.
"There is no time to joke. Get ready. We made a huge commotion. A lot of teams will come running here," replied Noah.
And just as he predicted, two teams came running in their direction.
The teams consisted of two males and one female each.
"Oh, hey Noah!! Ready to lose?" a loud voice said from the opposite direction of the incoming teams.
It was Hannah. Her team and her were heading towards Noah.
"What should we do now? We are surrounded by three teams," Roy asked in a worried tone. He was sweating bullets.
He was impressed by Zatch and Noah's performance but fighting three teams all at once would be a brainless thing to do especially when one of them was led by third rank herself.
"We're going to fight. Just take care of the snipers," replied Noah while nodding in Zatch's direction.
Zatch understood what he needed to do and disappeared from his position once more. He appeared before the two teams and pulled out his katana.
This was the first time he was going to use his weapon in battle, and he was more than ready to do it.
On the other hand, Noah looked at Hannah with an arrogant look on his face.
Hannah was full of annoyance as she saw the look on Noah's face.
"I'll remove that smug look from your face," she said as she prepared her longsword.
The two members of her party were melee, fighter and tanker respectively. While Hannah was a damage dealer.
Having all three positions made their team extremely dangerous since they covered each other's weakness and Noah was completely aware of it.
'This one is going to be a bit tricky, I guess I need to put in some effort to win this round,' he thought while looking at the group of three.
"I call upon you,
The harbinger of Light,
Tetris,
Give me your light,
Become the torch that guides my path," enchanted Noah as a majestic whitish-golden sword appeared before him.
It shined so brightly that it blinded everyone for a second. A golden eagle was present on the pommel of the sword.
'What is this light?' Hannah thought with a surprised expression.
Seeing her reaction, Noah smirked and thought, 'Let the fun begin,'
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What is Zatch's unique ability according to you guys?