"THAT'S LUNAR REAPER!"
"Who?"
"The guy with broken abilities whose fight went viral!"
"No way, does that mean that Chained Trickster and Lunar Reaper are the same person?!"
"No wonder he is so strong!"
Finn's face reveal caused an uproar in the audience, and everyone started chanting his name, overshadowing WhiteTiger's fans.
"TRICKSTER!"
"LUNAR REAPER!"
"TRICKSTER!"
"LUNAR REAPER!"
Finn found it funny how these people changed their opinion of him so quickly.
When they saw him for the first time, they hated him. After that, they started to fear him, and now they have begun idolizing him.
But he was still in a fight, and WhiteTiger didn't care about the audience. He was only there for an entertaining fight, so he dropped the dust that remained after Finn's mask and rushed at him.
Finn wanted to use his Shadow jump again, but it had a one-minute cooldown, so he decided to use his sword and fight head-on.
WhiteTiger and Finn clashed.
Finn slashed and slashed, but no matter how many times he tried to make WhiteTiger bleed, he couldn't get through his tough skin.
'How big is his endurance stat?!'
He needed to stall for time and wait for the cooldown, so he kept striking WhiteTiger, who was easily blocking Finn's strikes with his fists.
Finn slashed towards WhiteTiger's neck, but his strike was blocked by WhiteTiger's palm, and he was quickly counterattacked with a fist flying towards his face.
SWOOSH
He barely dodged it by ducking down and using his sword to slash from below towards WhiteTiger's chest.
SWISH
WhiteTiger stepped back, easily dodging the strike, and used his right leg to do a roundhouse kick, aiming for Finn's head.
BANG
Finn used his indestructible sword to block it, but he went flying in the air and almost fell out of the arena, but he was luckily stopped by hitting a stone pillar.
After he quickly got up, he saw WhiteTiger rushing towards him.
So Finn swiftly used the pillars and rubble that were in the arena to hide behind them and slowly go towards the center because he couldn't risk being on the edge of the arena.
With his high agility, which was a lot higher than WhiteTiger's, he easily got to the middle of the arena again, where he felt a little safer.
Meanwhile, WhiteTiger finally reached Finn and tried to grab him, but as soon as he put his arms around him, he disappeared.
Already expecting a strike from behind, he quickly turned around while punching the air behind him.
WHOOSH
Unfortunately for him, Finn wasn't that stupid to teleport to the same location twice in a row, so he hit only the air behind him.
And before he could even recover, he felt something slice his Achilles' heel.
Finn used teleportation to appear behind a pillar and then used his clothes' bonus and Vital hit to deliver a deadly strike that was boosted by 460%.
WhiteTiger had a high level of endurance, but if he were to be stabbed 4.6 times into his Achilles' heel, even he would feel the damage.
Feeling his muscles get torn, he fell on his knee but his smile only got wider.
Finn was surprised because he used his dagger Diabolus, which made the pain from its cut get multiplied by 4 times, and with some simple math, he deduced that WhiteTiger must be feeling more than 16 times the normal pain.
But he didn't stop smiling. Instead, his smile only widened, which meant that his pain tolerance must have been highly trained from real life.
"Finally, a worthy opponent! If you are going all out, I will also not hold back anymore!"
WhiteTiger stood up, balancing his body on his healthy leg, and his body started to slowly change.
White fur with black dots grew out of his skin, his nails turned into claws, and his face started to resemble a cat.
He even had cat ears on the top of his head.
The audience was shocked to see that the player WhiteTiger was lucky enough to choose a name and then find a White tiger transformation skill, but Finn knew that it wasn't a White tiger that he was transforming into.
In Finn's previous life, everyone had always thought that it was a White tiger, but there was a time when WhiteTiger drank so much that he accidentally revealed that it was actually a Canadian snow lynx that he was transforming into.
But he thought that a tiger sounded cooler, so he continued saying that it was a White tiger.
Not that it mattered since the skill itself was really strong and could still boost his strength, reflexes and agility by a large amount.
If Finn was surviving the fight so far because of his speed, he would now not only lose in terms of speed but everything else as well.
The transformation itself took only seconds, so before Finn even sheathed his dagger and pulled out his sword, it was already over.
WhiteTiger still had one of his feet unusable, but with one jump using his healthy foot, he closed the distance between him and Finn in an instant.
Finn tried to defend himself, but as soon as WhiteTiger used his claws to attack him, he found out that his chances of winning turned even slimmer than they were before.
CLANG CLANG CLANG
'I didn't know he had… this skill… this early!'
He kept deflecting WhiteTiger's swipes while complaining in his head.
Of course, he couldn't deflect or block all of them, and soon the damage piled up, making him bleed from wounds that were all over his body.
The audience had long since turned silent as they all just watched those two monsters battle it out.
"Stop only defending and attack me like you did before! Entertain me!"
WhiteTiger shouted as he continued scratching Finn's body.
Because WhiteTiger's leg was useless, he couldn't solely focus on attacking, and he also had to keep his balance, so Finn somehow managed to reach the three-minute mark alive, and he used his Shadow jump skill again.
This time WhiteTiger didn't blindly attack and used his boosted senses that he had gotten from his transformation.
Using his sensitive hearing, he heard a drop of blood fall to the ground behind a pillar on his right, so he put his hands on the ground as support and ran there using his three healthy limbs.
'Hmm? Crap!'
When Finn peeked out from behind the pillar, he saw WhiteTiger rushing towards him and almost pissed himself.
Quickly gathering his thoughts, he used his Moonlight strike to unleash an arc that flew towards WhiteTiger.
CLANG
WhiteTiger had to stop his advance and block the strike with his claws, causing the strike to not deal any damage to his body whatsoever.
Finn used this opportunity to quickly jump out of his hiding spot and do a vertical strike aiming for WhiteTiger's head.
CLANG
Unfortunately for him, even if the strike was boosted by Vital hit, it got blocked by WhiteTiger's strong claws, and before he could recover and try to strike again, he got caught in a chokehold.
"HA! Got you now!"
WhiteTiger held Finn's neck with his arms and kept squeezing, making his face turn bluer by the second.
Finn tried to think of a plan, but with his brain being unable to circulate blood, it was difficult for him to have any coherent thoughts.
'I got this far... I can't lose now!'
He decided to try something he wanted to test before the match, but at the time he decided against it because it seemed too dangerous.
Now that he didn't have any other choice, he wanted to at least try it before he fainted.
Finn grabbed his sword with both of his hands, and using his Limit break ability, he stabbed his heart, letting the sword pierce his body and stab WhiteTiger's heart as well.
SPLURT
Because WhiteTiger was holding Finn close to his body, the sword easily managed to stab his heart.
The Limit break ability granted Finn a boost to a single hit, but it had a one-day cooldown, so he planned to use it only when he was sure that the strike would connect, like right now.
"…"
"…"
"…"
The audience and Dina both held their breaths.
They were silently watching the match to not disrupt one of the fighters, but seeing Finn stab his own heart made them feel like their own hearts had stopped beating.
All of them saw how blood started to pour down onto the ground after the sword was inserted into the fighters' chests, and nobody in the audience knew who would be the victor.
"*COUGH*"
WhiteTiger suddenly coughed out a handful of blood and his transformation disappeared.
He then released his grip on Finn and took a step back, making the sword stuck in his chest slide out.
The sword was the only thing that was supporting his body, so when it slid out, he fell to his knees.
WhiteTiger trusted his endurance and knew that if both of them had their hearts stabbed, he would be able to survive for a few seconds longer than Finn, making him victorious, but when he looked up, his eyes opened wide in shock.
"H- Huh?!"
Finn grabbed the hilt of his sword and slowly pulled it out.
His clothes had a small hole in them, but the place where he had stabbed himself was unharmed.
The sword Last Wish was a soul weapon, which meant it could only be wielded by one person, and the person who wielded it wouldn't be damaged by it no matter what.
Finn knew this, but he didn't want to risk this tactic of hurting himself to win because if the sword had malfunctioned, it might have ended up killing him too.
But with no other choice left, he had gambled his life and won everything.
"…That was fun… Let's fight again… in the future…"
WhiteTiger was smart, so he understood that Finn must have won because of a skill that his sword had, and so, accepting his defeat, he coughed out even more blood and fell to the ground dead.
His body then slowly turned into light particles and floated away in the wind.
Finn's body was filled with claw marks, like he had just finished fighting a wild cat.
Now that the adrenaline wore off, he was bleeding so much that he had to use his sword as support to even remain standing.
He was bleeding from so many parts of his body that there was sticky blood slowly accumulating under him, and his clothes that looked as good as new at the beginning of the fight were now torn and bloody.
But Finn ignored the metallic taste in his mouth, and through all the pain he was feeling, he raised his hand into the air.
He then clenched it into a fist as if telling everyone that he had managed to win against all the odds, and the audience, which had been holding its breath until now, burst into cheers.
"WOOOOOOOO!"
"TRICKSTER!"
"LUNAR REAPER!"
They screamed so hard that their throats started to hurt and turn sore, but they didn't care and kept screaming because the fight Finn had just shown them would stay in their memories forever.
Dina also joined in and used the time when Finn was still conscious to announce his victory.
"THE FINAL WINNER OF THE TOURNAMENT IS CHAINED TRICKSTER!!!"