Ben Pov
"Welcome back to the number one school Nexus tournament, you all will now see which participants will fight against each other!"
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1st Trash of Titan vs Ben Asylk Astrol
2nd Rica Blossamfield vs Alan Burner
3rd Nadine Lanouette vs Leopold Hartstein
4th Kazuo Seno vs Kim Yong
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"The first fight will be going into the history books as one of the most anticipated fight in the whole tournament!
Who from these two geniuses will gain the chance to fight the destroyer in the finals?!"
"WHOOAAA!!"
My ears captured the cheers of all the people and the devilish smiles of some people knowing it doesn't matter who wins they will get valuable information about Nexus top rankers.
'Calm down, focus yourself like you did when you were fighting Yggdra'
Although it was a strange feeling when fighting Yggdra, it felt right and my concentration was at its peak, the dark hallway to the opening was before me. I walked up not knowing how I should feel or how I should win this.
"on the left side we have the rising star of the second years, the Lightning giant, the boy with no face!"
I heard them cheering for him, it felt weird however at the same time it felt correct yet the strange feeling that something will force me to use that one skill I got from the past fragment.
[Ancient Astral] a skill powerful enough for him to jump to C Rank or higher if he can withstand it with his body and soul, it also holds the soul of the prisoned human which would boost his rank even higher or take control if needed.
"Haaa why can't Kim Yong do everything on his own like a god or something and let me find that damn cure"
I am venting my anger by questioning Kim Yongs incompetence, which worked a lot to calm me down.
"Thank you Alan for such a great calming technique"
I blurted out and leap through the air on the arena, not even making a sound with the perfect landing I did.
"And on the right side we have the Astral Hero, one of the chosen ones, the space splitter Ben Asylk Astrol!"
my calm mind wasn't shook in the slightest by his announcement, all my attention is on the boy with no face who now has a mask that has a smile from a devil on it.
'I shouldn't use my art to early in the battle but I need to go all out at the start'
[Skill: vulnerability of creations has been activated]
as my eyes vision expanded to see his weak spots... my heart almost bursted and I feel something hot flowing down my lower lip.
[Skill was blocked by an unknwon force of Evil]
'How can a Demon hide in the body of a human and smile so leisurely at me?!!'
The referee said something but I didn't listen as my eyes are filled with cosmic energy, enhancing my vision moreover making me able to see how mana.... and demonic energy flows.
He disappeared from my vision but not his disgusting trail of demonic energy fused with mana, which hides that disgusting red looking energy.
"I WILL TEAR YOUR THROAT OFF YOUR NECK!!"
He appeared behind me coated in lightning, a slash of immense pressure descended... but it doesn't matter what he does.
^Crack^
The barrier shattered behind that demon as I see the pieces of his broken sword blocking my vision despite that was that annoying face of a devil easy to track.
[All in one]
^Crack^ ^crack^ ^crack^
multiple weapons of him got destroyed by the first move of my art, the barrier behind him had a visible huge crack in it... but that wasn't enough power.
"You really are out to kill me hehehe"
my body froze after hearing that voice again... that voice that cursed her... that voice that haunted me for multiple years... that voice that let some weird memories in my mind where I killed myself and again and again and again and... AGAIN!
"I don't care anymore I will kill you if it is the last thing I do!!"
My body is being driven by pure anger as well as anxious, my body is pushing its foot of the ground, emerging above him furthermore using my art again... the shock on his face like sweet caramel on pancakes.
"frontal lightning assault"
His voice bombarded my head like million needles at the same time hammered in it, slash that cut the damn space is slowly meeting his lightning attack taking the form of a.. CLOWN?!
^Crack^ ^Crack^ ^Crack^ ^BOOM^
Red lightning come into existence as soon as the clown took shape and blocked my slash moreover injuring my right arm.
"Is that all a demon can do?!"
I propelled myself forward at the same time am I seeing his grin turning even wider defying human elasticity as the smell of demonic energy increased for a second.
^Crack^ ^Spurt^
"Oh how tragic for a hero to lose an arm at the beginning of the fight-"
My right arm is in the air, cleanly cut off however what surprised me even more was that he can use my space cut mainly 50% of it or even less.
'So that is what Kim Yong and Alan meant by not fullfilling the requirements to copy it all'
I watched him getting closer to me and combining the two moves, lightning started to coat his sword as well as spatial mana that is ready to perform an attack of equal strength to my slash.
He forgot to read one thing about me, which will be his downfall.
"Dimensional thunderbolt slash"
"All in One"
^BOOOM^ ^CRACK^ ^Bang^
something all people in the arena hell even the strongest people present as well as watching didn't expect, the normal people didn't even had a chance to enjoy that beautiful clash because of how petrified they all are by their own powerless selves... as the second barrier broke in to innumerable pieces shooting.
that is even the smallest problem in the moment as at the same time through the clash of an invisible space splitting slash and a red lightning space splitting slash caused a small black hole to appear as well as the space around the arena to be teared open in small fissures, that leaked an ominous energy on the humans in the arena, that lead to the creation of hallucinations and deform peoples body parts.
"LOOK WHAT YOU CAUSED HERO?!"
My eyes are fixed on that demon spitting blood and laughing like a crazy psychopath, I hear the screams of the people... their fear and powerlessness are ringing in my head like a broken recorder.
"Shut up you Devil!"
My right arm is craching in my side at a fast pace, making me unable to react to it as I crash in the wall of the arena.
"Here I give you a gift for playing with me so much"
I saw my arm completely corrupted pushing itself against my right shoulder, pain is spreading through my body and I can't stand up
"Pfft"
and now I am even spitting blood to congratulate that devils win over me, my head turning dizzy furthermore turning heavier the more seconds are passing.
'I hope you like the gift I have prepared for you'
a new or should I say old energy resurfaced in my body, fusing with my mana and exterminating the corruption in my body despite that am I still falling unconscious... no I have these two skills to copy Violett her enlightement state.
[Skill: Swordspath Vision has been activated]
[Skill: Gifted Dual swordsman has been activated]
'The last skill to complete that combination is a bit embarrassing but no one will be even watching right now the match-'
[Skill: Hestia's transformation]
'-so I can kill him without being noticed'
my consciousness fades as I feel my body changing as well as rising to stand on my feet.
Kim Yong Pov
'This fight is pretty much following the main plot despite so much changes'
In my training room right beneath the Zinsopter duo, is Edward literally barking in my ears since their fight started as well as Alan, who is hiding here until their fight is over.
"Look Edward! He is transforming to a girl and I feel astral mana leaking from his body!"
"HELL YEAH!!! That fight is the best I am watching in this boring tournament!!"
"Hey look at this cool fissures in the sky getting closed by Jette and Muzio with mana!!"
"You forget the Astral Queen that heals everyone and closes the most of them while also erasing the energy like it never existed!"
I still have my eyes closed but the dragon eyes activated to read the flow of the mana and what is mana really made of... so in short I can see these two jumping and screeching like little girls behind me moreover can I watch the fight which gave me much inside why Aether so strong is and mana stated to be the second strongest of the deviation from all primordial energies is.
'Mana can take in any kind of element or attribute existing in the vast universe despite that is it still limited by one key factor that makes it weaker than the darkness energy by a bit-'
my body is channeling under my control the chaorkness energy up to my eyes, slowly letting them fuse with the dragon eyes.
"-and that is an umlimited source of energy"
I muttered under my breath as all sources of darkness energy are entering my vision as well as the mana sources... which left me for a short moment in a daze.
"The mana in the arena is right now almost nonexistent while the darkness energy is limitless in the ground ready to be unleashed"
I mumbled along with other things as my eyes catch shadows forming in the arena through forcefully manipulating darkness with demonic energy and not shadow mana.
"The Demon with his dark army of Knights against the beauty of the Astral Heroine"
A silent chuckle escaped my mouth by Alan demanding that their clash now will be named like that with Edward.
'It is actually not such a bad name for the fight right now.'