Alan Pov
"OW!"
^Bam^
"Ugh Wai-" ^Bam^
^Brrr^
'Couldn't he let it slide?!'
my face feels like thousands of bees all stinging the already stung places, my arms felt like their are... not there anymore moreover is my breathing somehow uneven and harsh. My head feels like binging an entire martial arts novel in one night plus understanding its damn power system and who the hell that idiot was from 300 hundred chapters ago.
"Hey don't whine so much!!"
Edward with his surprising deep voice sounds now like a crying child that did something bad and doesn't wants to be scolded... which is somehow true but why me too?!
Kim Yong is glancing at me as I were is lab rat that is doing something interesting, as he picked up his scythe made out of simple mana steel that is soaked in shadow mana, which... makes it terrifying to watch him heading towards my location with that.
"H-Hey Kim Yong please think about it for a moment?!"
He raised his damn scythe, simply ignoring my pleading voice and is swinging it down.
^Clang^
"C-Clang!?"
My eyes that I definitely not close because Kim Yong looked scary, are now slowly open as I see blue flames in the air as well as the source of it, the blue spear blocked the scythe furthermore is trying to melt it.
These efforts however are in vain, the scythe with its dark aura simply pushed the blue flames back... which is of course not normal except that would be an ego weapon.
'What is Kim Yong gaining from this?'
Kim Yong doesn't draw his weapon back but continues to push even more. My astonishment as well as shock should be visible on my face, as my mouth is wide open at the sight happening in front of me.
"Interesting"
the only words spoken by Kim Yong through that silent exchange between him and the spear... where the spear is slowly losing while it can do nothing than be corrupted by Kim Yong his D-Rank scythe.
"Ehhh... Brother I.. think that is enough or the weapon will eh.... disappear?"
Edward my savior, is stuttering a bit while saying this moreover is he creating distance between me and that demon corrupting my hard created weapon.
Kim Yong stopped applying more pressure at the exact moment I felt Casein taking my vision to inquire what is happening.
"so you really have some souls reside in you"
My eyes felt like coming out of the eye sockets because how shocked I am... and frightened.
Kim Yong sharing it like it is the most normal thing to say that some people have souls....
"WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SOULS?!"
My watch on my wrist vibrated again, indicating the start for the next fight, my fight.
Edward is looking with an awe struck expression at me and I could see a small sparkle coming from his eyes.
"Wha-" ^BAM^ ^Boom^
"Alan you should go to your fight now or they will disqualify you"
'You don't need to say that to me twice!!'
I fled out of that room with my fastest speed I can muster while remembering how easy he punched Edward in the wall of the training room, sending shivers up my spine as well as cold sweat starting to form.
"Hello and welcome back after the one hour break to fix the walls destroyed in the last match."
a weird silence spread through the entire arena as well as through me... seeing a S rank copy guy being kicked in a wall was weird to watch.
"We will now introduce the two fighter for this round!"
the commentator in addition to being the announcer, is surely catching glimpses of the VIP room containing the Zinsopter duo since you know what happened.
The silence in the arena makes it more unbearable for me as well as for Rica I suppose, as I am seeing her anxiously fidgeting with her fingers.
"The first fighter with his dominating victory against his last opponent, showcasing the might of the phoenix race, Alan Burner!!"
'Let's st-'
"switch with me as soon as the fight starts or give me the control over your body for awhile after the fight starts"
I leaped on the stage and scared shitless by his appearance or what I perceived. A huge golden phoenix of about one hundred metres tall emerged in my vision, observing someting above Rica her head.
'Wha-'
"And the other fighter once called the best archer her generation, defeated her last opponent the next coming of the sword saint with her brilliant elemental and spirit magic, Rica Blossamfield!!"
"WHOOOA RICAAA WE LOVE YOU!!"
'what the hell you are a grown ass man cheerleading with... okay nevermind'
I am seeing Rica with an annoyed expression appearing on the stage, staring at me similiar to me doing something wrong that will anger.
"Alan you did nothing wrong. It is the opposite actually"
Casein again started speaking in riddles or some kind of foreign languages were you aren't telling the person the reason but let him guess it!
"Speak in our language so that I can understand it!"
I complained in my head however he started grinning at something above Rica her head, which are probably her spirits now that I think about it.
'but what spirit is old enough to even have seen that old man himself?'
"Lets Begin. Fight!"
I wanted to take a stance but my body is petrified by the raw aura she gave off, my knees turned heavy moreover a spear emerged in his hand out of light.
'Wait why did I think that she is an He?!'
"Soul swap is a terrifying technique mainly the spiritualist or the spiritual supreme race of ****** can do"
'AAAHH what do you mea-'
"Sleep a bit Alan you seem tired"
My consciousness no my soul is getting swapped with his soul as I lose the control over my body... and all falls dark.
Alan summoned a sword out of his space similiar to a Kampilan, mainly difference that the hilt is not a dragon head but a phoenix head along with the blade literally burning like it was in the smithy before in a red-orange hue.
Rica planted her foot in the ground and pushed the spear with all her might forward. Alan is planting his foot firmly on the ground as he pushes his sword forward, twisting it slightly to let the tip slightly graze it and clash with the oval shaped tip a bit beneath it.
^Boom^
the light spear is separated in two pieces and a mace purely made out of darkness appeared in her right hand, smashing the sword away from him.
^Boom^
the shockwaves aren't impressive as they aren't even strong enough to pierce through the first barrier however what fascinated everyone is the pure finesse of their techniques.
The sword traveled through the air with a whistling sound at breakneck speed. The Mace out of the darkness is crossing its path to the girl her throat, at the same time a leg coated in darkness is swiftly aiming at his leg.
^Whoosh^
Alan hops over the leg and swinging his sword down one more time at the wide open back of his opponent now.
^Boom^
a spear of light with the end of its hilt stopped the sword resulting in more shockwaves to be send out. The Mace is heading to Alan his head as the spear is nearing his side of his stomach. Alan unleashed his golden fire wings blocking the mace and uses the force of the collision to push him out of the spears range.
^Boom^
the shockwave now send gusts of turbulent air in the surrondings normally making some people hold onto their children or seats to not get swept away but now no one did it, fascinated by how flawless their moves are.
'something is wrong with both of them'
Merlin is a special case under the spiritualist that can perceive the person souls color and brightness of it, showing him what kind of nature and affinty they have through the color or colors moreover the showing him the experience of the souls with the brightness of these colors.
Right now he doesn't see their emerald and blood red souls shining brighter than the sun but a gray and a golden soul fighting with the shine in the soul having similiarities to the darkness of the Abyss.
He isn't astonished that his daughter can do that since he taught her how to do soul swap with a spirit, that boy surprised him the most for firstly to even be able to utilize the soul in him and second to do soul swap with it too.
^Boom^
an shockwave sending some people sitting almost flying swept through the arena, the light spear and the sword still clashed fiercely causing such currents of air however the black mace is nearing Alan his head.
^clang^ ^Boom^
the small clash between a spear and a mace right in front of Alan and Rica their faces. is producing enough power to create cracks in the first barrier.
"Idrif send me in your spirit domain an-"
"No sorry master but that would risk my life if I do that"
Both Alan and Rica aren't pushed back but decide to fight with one weapon they have in common, the spears whistling through the air and the sparks along with the clash of the golden flames and light, fascinate yet frightened them as the first barrier broke... without any kind of explosion happening.
Merlin viewing it together with the other title wielder next to him, couldn't help but feel panic the moment his fire spirit, an higher rank fire spirit of the SS- rank feared her erasion if it let him see it.
"What kind of spirits or souls are clashing down there for even idrif to feel fear and...."
his mumbling continued at the same time did both figures vanish for a short second from the arena entirely along with their presence as well, it was like they were erased from existence.
^Bam^
"Ouch hey you fu-"
The black snake got hit by an head from another person, thinking it was Richard he turned around only to see Merlin limping and trembling on the ground behind him, as foam come out of his mouth.
"Are you oka- VALERIA GOLDEN HERE IS A PATIENT THAT NEEDS YOUR SERVICE!!"
Cole, The black snake shouted through the VIP watching room for important people and Valeria could have also understand him if he only spoke a bit louder since she already saw that Merlin was acting weird.
^BOOM^
The second barrier has cracks appearing on it as the result of the overflowing mana following their clash, that mana doesn't seem to from their world and they both manipulated it perfectly to change in to golden fire and light.
"Light point strike"
"Fire thorn strike"
Alan and Rica threir voices are echoing through the arena and two images out of that otherworldy mana for a split second, a ying yang symbol appeared as well as a rose with thorns.
^BOOM^
This clash of golden and white hue, flames and light as well as spear against spear with both tips colliding perfectly. The power of their clash made the stage tremble, on the second barrier are visible cracks emerging furthermore are both as the clash reached its peak creation of power.
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
Are the both original owner of their bodies regaining control and need to deal with the power of the second explosion... or else they could possibly be knocked out without knowing how.
"CA-" "KA-" ^BOOM^
A bit stronger explosion happened however the two other souls creating that clash seem to have controlled the mana so good that it doesn't leave the clash point... which made the only to who are suffering Alan and Rica as they crash into the barrier with enough force to knock one out.
"You a**hole leaving me in such a dumb situation for me to regain control!"
Alan cursed at the huge golden Phoenix next to him with an hostile view now of Casein his actions.
"Kaiser do you want to f*cking kill me?!"
Rica is looking at the Panda with a disgusted face feeling that her stomach would revolt if she stands up to fast now.
Alan summons the drake armor and his blood red fire wings on his back, flying in the sky moreover unleashing thousand of new forged blades of some kind golden fire which feels like it has holiness in it.
Rica used spirit fusion with Skylif and summons her bow from her storage ring, swiftly knocking on the string of the bow an arrow with all her mana and Skylif mana.
the thousand of weapons in the sky and the one arrow without even a second delay crashed into one another, although both attacks were so powerful and collided almost instantly... the match was decide before it even happen.
^BOOM^
the explosion was weaker than the other two moreover caused a lot less damage to the barrier because the arrow won the fight of strength and collided with the barrier directly. However to everyones surprise Rica had a greatsword on her neck.
"The winner is Alan Burner"
Everyone was perplexed how that happen and mainly clapped for his unordinary way of winning in that tournament.
"Haaaa can please something for once get not be overly complicated and hard?"
Kim Yong clearly excited over Alan his victory is in his training room sweating buckets and with a displease expression on his face.