On the battle platform, the two hundred people stood still like the battle was about to get serious with the space on the battle platform they were able to stand hundred people facing each other at a standstill it was like the two hundred people had chosen their opponent.
Unlike before that they were all fighting each other two people attack a person then, just for the number of people on the battle platform to reduce but now it was different from before the battle platform was not as crowded so if two people should gang up on a person they could be attacked unknowingly sending them out of the battle platform.
After the shout that brought Oliver back to reality everywhere in the battle arena was in complete silence and everyone in the battle arena was waiting on what will happen next, they knew that the interesting part of the battle of the day was about to start.
Before they could observe the two hundred people that were facing each other to battle, they saw a young boy that was about seventeen of age, he was not that tall, wearing a dark blue robe, the robe was plane with no design on it the young boy was not that attractive among the people in the battle platform.
But what singled him out was that as everyone was at a standstill, with everyone observing their opponent thinking off how they would attack and how to get their opponent down quickly he was the first to move and was ready to attack his opponent.
The crowd focused on the young boy moving slowly toward his opponent like he was sure he would be able to get his opponent down without risking his life.
With everyone watching they felt like with the way the young boy was acting he was confident in himself and he knew that at this early stage of the tournament, it will not cause him too much effort with the way he was walking towards his opponent everyone felt like the victory of the battle was his.
Oliver watch the young boy and was shocked by the way the young boy was handling himself he could feel the confidence the young man had in himself not only that he would be able to win over his opponent but that anyone on the battle platform with him will be unable to defeat him, worst case they will end up in a tie.
"so he is at the ninth level of the Qi essence realm similar to those around him and the person that he is about to fight is also in the same realm and level with him, then where is his confidence coming from" Oliver was confused, when he observed the people that were on the battle platform he found out that most of them are in the same Dao realm and some were even in the same level, so how come was the young man overconfident about winning.
The young boy that was walking toward his opponent was slow but steady keeping the same pace he walk with from the beginning like his movement was following some special rhythm about twenty feet away from his opponent, his opponent was forming different hand seals forming a barrier between him and the young boy that was heading towards him.
Everyone saw a fiery bird, which was released by the boy that form a barrier to protect himself from the young boy, the bird cried out angrily and rushed toward the young boy spitting flames ready to set the young boy on fire.
"aw….." shout of joy rang throughout the battle arena everyone was boiling with excitement the spectators felt that the young boy was too confident in himself when they saw the fiery bird that was from the other boy, they knew that no one will come to the battle tournament without proper preparation.
They felt there is a lot of tricks up the sleeve of the contestants in the thousand battle tournament that they won't show in the early stage and the majority of them have not even used most of their trump cards yet, the lesser the people on the stage the more the contestants will show their strength.
"This guardian creature to get me down"
"Good, good" For the first time they heard the young man wearing a dark blue robe talk and from how he sounded it was like he did not even consider the fiery bird a threat.
Many people in the crowd turned deaf ears to the young boy they felt he was too confident earlier and there was no turning back so he was trying to act tough in the presence of everyone so they won't see his fear and regret.
The fiery bird get close to the young boy opened its mouth and started spraying fire on the young boy the battle between the two young youths was tough and the reaming one hundred and ninety-eight people had to wait and was watching them. Only the heat coming from the fire of the bird was enough to make some of them jump off the battle platform to keep their life intact from being too close to them, not thinking about taking it head on most of them started comparing themselves with the boy that was controlling the fiery bird most of them came up with the conclusion that they were not as strong as the boy only the attack from the bird will get them out of the battle platform and they might end up getting injured seriously.
The fire was released on the young boy in a dark blue robe, he was completely covered by the fire no one on the battle platform was able to see what was happening to him, with the fire covering him.
Everyone was shocked by the pressure the fire brought to the stage they were all wondering why the young boy in dark blue did nothing to stop the attack or try to dodge it, they felt he was overwhelmed by the power of the flame which will lead to his shameful defeat.