The fight between Nadine and Beatrice ended with Nadines overwhelming win.
She used her treant and dragon to fortify her roots and shoot them all at Beatrice who fought against them for three minutes before she lost, without even touching Nadine.
The fight between Violett and Shakira ended even faster than Kim Yongs match, with an instant KO, through a punch coated in Aura, breaking her Mana barrier.
In a dark room with only a tablet in it, that is glowing and showing in its light a boy with his orange hair and sky like blue eyes staring at the replay of the fight of Beatrice Romabo crying at the end of their fight.
"She trained the hardest from all of us, well from our group as Kim Yong and Ben Asylk Astrol trained like literal training addicts"
His deep yet clean voice echoes through the room, his face showing a frown as his sky blue eyes are wet, watching her hard work being crushed in few minutes with a not even serious Nadine beating her.
"Is Talent and bloodline really the deciding factor for a fight?
Can't people who work hard be rewarded for the efforts they put in?
Why are talented people or lucky people always getting all the attention whilst we, the hardworking ones will be forgotten and only walk in their shadows?"
The boy with sweat trickling down his beautiful face, showing an angry expression as he is looking at his upcoming fight.
[Leopold Hartstein vs John LIonsworth]
'I will beat you and prove that hardwork and endurance can beat talent'
The boy with his orange hair stood up and put the tablet down, showing his height of 187 cm and his broad shoulders as his muscles are pulsating, heading out of the dark room which it up and showed a training room with seven destroyed training dummies of the D Rank range.
A boy with blonde hair and brown eyes is watching in the waiting room the announcement of his upcoming fight at the bar eating a bit of sushi with wasabi.
'Leopold is an interesting enemy'
The boy stood up and headed towards the door with a smile as he will have an exciting fight.
"Let's see Leopold what tricks you learned to beat me now"
He mumbled it under his breath as he closed the door behind him.
"Beatrice what did he mean with that statement now?"
Nadine asked on the couch Beatrice with black hair covering most of her face and her smaragd like eyes showing at first a bit of confusion but after a bit of time she realised that they don't know the rivalry between them.
"Oh, yeah their rivalry goes back to the day they were four years old as both tried to compete who learns the way of the Imperial body art the fastest.
Then after their awakening with the age of ten, they fought everytime they met but John always won against him... even though their fights got even closer where the winner was hard to decide."
'and Leopold at some point gave up competing against John to win, his beautiful seyes even lost the burning flame in them'
she didn't say that out loud as she even herself knew that she loves him however she felt that she was unworthy of loving him because of her low talent.
She even tried to motivate Leopold but was always met with his dead stare in her eyes and her mind stopped for a second looking at these eyes devoid of any emotion other than acceptance to an undeniable truth... until Alan and Kim Yong arrived.
Three days before the tournament started
"Hey Leopold do you want to go out and eat with me at uncle Rogers shop?"
Beatrice asked with her emerald eyes looking up in his sky blue like eyes that had a determined view in them, looking at her with a smile.
"Yeah lets go out and eat there, by the way who do you want to beat in the tournament?"
Leopold asked her as he bend his back a bit looking her straight in the eyes with a few centimetres between them, letting her feel his breath.
She ignored the temptation and answers with a light blushed face.
"I would like to beat Violett since she is really strong and has a pure heart that hates no one weak beneath her-"
Leopold smiled as a thought crossed his mind
'How predictable yet so cute that she is so simple minded.
Well I am not even a bit better with my obsession to beat John'
"you want to fight probably John to finally show him that hard work can win against talent"
Beatrice said with a smile so radiant that Leopold twisted his body a bit and headed with a slight blush out of the door, Beatrice running after him.
"Here are our two fighter, at the right side of the stage is the bear of Hartstein, The shield of a titan, The warhammer slaughterer Leopold Hartstein!"
The crowd cheered a bit after calming down seeing the other youth simultaneously walking on the stage.
"At the left side we have the Most prideful Lion, the Genius of Mana manipulation, The harmonious magic swordsman John Lionsworth!"
The crowd didn't cheer or made any noise as all their attention was on the two youths releasing their bloodlust at each other, causing it to clash in the air.
John with his brown eyes glowing in a slight golden hue and Leopolds sky blue eyes glowing in a slight brown hue stare at each other, taking their battle stance, John with his templar sword and Leopold for his hammer.
Elena Isa is looking at both of them with a calm face however her lips curved up a bit as she wings her arm down, signaling the fight to start.
Nothing more was said and they both charge at each other with an image of an Lion and a bear appearing behind them.
^Clang^
A loud metallic sound is vibrating through the air, the sword and hammer trying to push each other away to gain a small opening, a sword of golden fire is appearing above John and is shooting towards Leopolds face
^Boom^
The explosion was by no mean weak nonetheless their power struggle is still at a stalemate, as Leopold casted an helmet of earth on his head to block the sword of golden fire.
"Crafty bastard"
John felt his muscles slowly losing strength, looking at Leopolds gaze he decided to stop playing around, golden flames and air is circling around his body, creating a armore out of golden fire.
'Shit I forgot that he can use it that way!'
Leopold created an armor of earth and activated a skill further increasing the durability and robustness of his armor
[Skill: Blessing of the Earth Mother has been activated]
His earth armor and Johns fire armor clashed with their weapons at the center of it, pushging both of them away.
[Skill: Armor of the Gladiator has been activated]
Johns armor changed his normal fire armor to an armor of a gladiator with a lion helmet as it exuded a strong pressure from it.
The earth Armor is looking like a tanks armor with spiky shoulder plates, a big chestplate with high density of earth, Legs covered in a thick yet mobile armor with a few openings and a helmet with a slit looking like a path moving upwards and splitting in two separate paths, all in a more brown color.
The fire armor is looking like a gladiators armor with a lion looking like helmet, a robust chestplate, robust yet thin shoulder plates, two wrist protector leaving his upper and lower arm mostly exposed, a complete set of leg amor with a spike on his knee protectors perfect for stepping them in someones chest.
These two armors don't waste a second to charge at each other, releasing both the maximum magic output they can muster.
^Boom^
The explosion caused dust to be flung in the air yet it is instantly balsted away by the exchange of clashes of the warhammer and the tneplar sword.
^Clang^ ^Clang^ ^Clang^
The clash between their two different class of weapons is grabbing all the peoples attention as no arts are used only pure mastery over their weapons and experience in a real fight for glory.
^Clang^ ^clang^ ^Clang^ ^swoosh^ ^swoosh^ ^Clang^ ^Boom^
after crossing three times their weapons, John dodged Leopolds black warhammer by a step to the right and is swinging his sword up to slash in his helmet slit, Leopold dodged with twisting his head to the to the left, puehing his warhammer up clashing with the coated sword.
Both are sliding back without having suffered any injuries from their clash right now, but people with heightened senses could feel that the two of them used 1/8 of their Mana already, which is decreasing at a even faster pace now.
[Skill: Earths Guardian has been activated]
[Skill: Fire Spirits possession has been activated]
Both activated a skill changing their form, Leopold to an even more impressive earth armor and reaching two meters in height as well as John to an armor with bat looking like wings sprouting out of his back and red fur covering his entire body like an extra shield to his armor.
that isn't enough for the two of them so they both also used their arts, not even for a second having the thought that someone could copy it.
[Lion Series: 1st move destructive claw of fire]
[Guardian series: 1st move Earth mothers smash]
These two dashed towards each other, looking at each otehrs eyes, not even thinking of dodging as they are almost clashing, a beautiful claw of a Lion slashed down and a enlarged hammer covered in water, wood and earth Mana is smashing down.
^Boom^
The fight was not more exciting or thrilling than the fight between Alan and Zonagh yet no one dared to look away from the explosion that send out various gust of air.
The dust settled and both aren't in the center of the arena but both being pushed back, The fire armor showing clear signs of ebing obliterated into innumerable pieces, on the other side the Earth armor is looking fine with not even a scratch in it.
"Pfft" ^Thud^
John fell down on his ass, not able to withstand the damage while standing, spitting blood as his body transforms to a being no one thought of seeing here, a werelion in its full glory form.
[Passive Skill: Werelion transformation has been triggered]
'Fricking exciting to think I need to show my Passive skill so early in the tournament'
The passive skill of Werelion only activates when Fire spirits possession has been breached and his condition fell lower than fifty percent of his health.
His Werelion form emitted enough pressure to make Leopold bend his kness a bit and starting to break out in cold sweat
'What the fricking hell is this terrifying Lion and human mix doing here?!'
Leopold asked in his mind as a claw covered in golden fire is clashing with his warhammer flinging it out of his hands, The Werelion with his golden mane and his red vertical eyes obstructed all his vision.
^Bam^
"Pfft!"
Leopold spit out a mouthful of blood as the Werelion appeared next to him, already conjured a claw of destructive golden fire around his left claw whilst holding with his right claw Leopold in one place.
'I can't lose so pathetically against him after Alan even beat someone unbeatable to him!'
Leopold activated his stigma as the claw of the Werelion nearly closed the distance between his chest.
[Stigma: Son of the Guardian Hero Egor]
The Claws of destruction are pushed away by the sheer force the stigma emitted, sneding the Werelion crashing in the barriers ceiling, causing the werelion to cough up a lot of blood.
Leopolds body increased in height by two meters and his fist is coated in a the purest earth Mana seen only the world tree releasing, pushing his fist up while jumping up to meet the Werelion head on.
The Werelion also coated his claws in destructive golden fire moreover creates a fire shield at his feet furthermore jumped from it to increase his falling speed.
[Lion Series: 1st move destructive claw of fire]
[Guardian series: 1st move Earth mothers smash]
All of their Mana was pushed in this attack, deciding the winner once and for all and as their fist and claws met.
^BOOOOM^
The explosion is causing an earthquake to happen in the arena, cracking the barrier and forcing Elena Isa is to use her skill [Domain of the glacial kingdom] to block the fragments of their clash to fly at the viewers sitting in the row.
Showing a beautiful castle of ice and multiple huge Ice balls blocking everything with Ice minions and yetis out of Ice helping to block it as well as freezing both their energies to save them ASAP... was the view inside the domain.
On the outside no one knew who would come out victorious in this clash as all waited excited who would come out on top of these two youths.
After eight minutes the Ice wall shaped like a sphere fall showing the winner.
The arena was silent as they watched him raising his hand in the air even though he is bleeding all over his body while a blond hair individual lies on the ground knocked out.
"The The The The THE WINNER OF THIS MATCH IS THE SHIELD OF A TITAN LEOPOLD HARTSTEIN!!!!"
Leopold is after hearing the announcement falling to the ground, losing all his power in his body.
'I finally beat him... I finally beat him Beatrice' ^Thud^
He fell on John both knocked out yet smiling for different reasons.