'I don't have a choice, there are too many people watching us if I back down it can affect my father's reputation.' Nux thought
"ok last have dual if you lose live her alone," said Nux
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"Why don't we settle down this in the arena, it's only a few steps away from here."
All of them heard a voice behind their back it was Rio's father Duke Avitus.
his voice was calm but hatred and envy can be seen in his eyes.
the Ainsworth family seized all the glory and honor for themselves. even the new dragon king who was infamous for his ruthlessness was present in some simple things like the engagement of the elder son of Ainsworth?!
It was a big bow towards his pride, he can't tolerate this, and then he saw his son arguing with nux. An evil smirk appeared on his face. it was god given opportunity for Avitus.
"nux, you don't have to do this," said William who was just arrived, he looked toward Avitus with anger. he knows that Avitus was pushing his son for political leverage.
"No, I will fight, I have my reasons," nux said with a smile on his face after he saw Avitus's hatred toward his family he wanted to humiliate Rio so badly that he couldn't sew his face in public ever again.
"ok, last finish this quickly, the engagement ceremony of Tony will start in two hours," said William looking at the stage in front of him.
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"master let me fight instead of you, I will feed that shit to my servants in the beast world," said Deus who was still inside the magic vehicle, observing his master with his sensory skills. how this low life who wasn't even level 50 dares to challenge his master.
'even if master will forgive him, I will not ' thought Deus. at the end of the day, wolves are proud creatures~
"No, it's for my and Ainsworth's family's honour, I have to do this myself," nux said to Deus telepathically with a calm and collected but cold voice.
royal arena.
Rio and Nux were standing on the arena ground. between them was a man in his 50s, he was Duke Ajax Snowwind, and he was a judge of the dual between Nux and Rio.
Rio was holding a sword that look like Wallace's sword from Nux's past life but was made out of adamantine metal which was one of the strongest metals on Easter.
On another hand, Nux was holding an iron sword, which he borrowed from knights when he was coming towards the arena. haha
"is the Ainsworth family having an economic breakdown? "said Rio raising his brows with anger, how this piece of shit has gale to look down at him by using a cheap iron sword in a duel.
" rules are simple who gets knockout first or gives up will lose, and injury that can't be healed by light magic is prohibited, any question?" Ajax said
"no"
"no"
Ajax walked back word and raised his right hand and said with dropping his hand.
"Ok then, Start the dule"
Rio rushed toward nux with the speed of lightning, nux was like setting duck in front of Rio's superior speed, Rio slash down his adamantine sword in Nux's left hand.
but when he was an inch away from his target he stumbled and fell to the ground?!!
' I used too much mana on my speed' thought Rio and he instantly standup and made some space between them, nux was too slow to attack him even after he stumbled.
Rio again rushed towards Nux, this time his attack stance was low and he was targeting for nux's lag so he has a low chance of falling because of loss of mana control.
But when he was a few millimeters away from Nux's lag he again lost his balance and missed his target his sword was now stuck in the ground.
"...."
silence the whole arena felled with people of all races, became silent for a moment. at this point all sets of the arena were full, they want to see a dual between two duke's houses.
' I need to calm down my anger and concentrate my mind on mana control, I can't be reckless because my opponent is too weak, but I loosed my control two times in raw, which never happened in past'
'only level 75 and up can manipulate others mana he's not even level 30, he can't do that so it must be a coincidence' Rio thought with looking at nux who was standing at the same place where he was standing before the duel began.
Rio concentrated his wind mana on his sword, his adamantine sword started glowing green due to wind mana,
he slashed his sword toward nux, and the green arc of wind mana rushed in the direction of nux but it changed its path again and collided on the ground ten meters right to nux?!!
Pov: Nicolaus Avitus (Rio's father)
Nicolaus saw his son miss his target a second time and stuck his sword on the ground.
'what is this foolish son of mine thinking, he's going in isolated training for a month after we're done with this' thought Duke Avitus after seeing his son
he saw Rio condensing his mana on his sword and attacking nux but he missed his target with tan meters, for reference distance between Rio and nux was 20 meters because both of them were using the sword, so 10 meter was too big of length to miss.
'that fuckkker is shaming our house by his trash control, what the fuck is he even doing? It's only a month since I stopped his training and his mana control is became trash, that Ainsworth brat is on level 23 one can't control others' mana when they have a hard time controlling their own mana.' thought Avitus.
He saw Rio rushing toward nux, he was going for close combat that has no chance of missing. he covered his whole body with wind mana and ran in the direction of nux.
nux was standing there he didn't even raise his sword to block Rios's attack.
when Rio was about to attack his solder he banded downward and dodged Rio's attack the first time but it was not the only thing, he slammed the Hilt of his sword to Rio's stomach by using Rio's own momentum against him,
"AHHHHHHHHH'
pain full cry of Rio can be heard in the whole arena. he was on the ground a fourth time. coughing mouth full of blood, rolling and growing in pain, he used complete body enhancement so the injury was not life-threatening.
after a few seconds, Rio stood up again he cleaned the blood from his face.
"Who is that kid he doesn't even know how to run, hahaha," said one of the beast-man who was watching Dule.
"Hy kid doesn't play with weapons you will cut your finger, hahaha" shouted the werewolf girl, from the sectors.
"ooh my, what waste of Adadamantin even toothpick made of it will be more useful full then sword in that kid's hand haha~," said one of a fairy who was on vip sets beside Avitus.
It was the biggest humiliation Rio had in his life. all spectators were laughing at him. he can't let things continue like this, and his opponent has to pay for this, pay for this with his life. he doesn't want to defeat nux now, he wants to kill that fucking asshole.