‹Zao Gu is in control›
"As you can all see I have changed the arena as I said I would the arena is now instead of just a plain area a forest like area with a big open place in which the fight will be held you will ofcourse be able to step into the forest but in the forest there are some traps which could even hurt an advanced cultivation warrior."
I went to sit down and prepare for the next match.
‹Tao Zing's POV›
"You are the next Tao Zing." the sect leader said with a very loud voice.
"Yes sect leader sir."
As I walked towards the arena he stopped me to show me that he wanted to say something.
"I would like you to resign after your first fight ooh yes use the technique I gave you yesterday well."
"no problem sect leader, I will sir."
"Off you go, go fight that ugly son of a bitch, make sure to not kill him or at least if you do make sure it seems accidental." the sect leader said with his usual smile looking upon me like I was one of his children.
When I got onto the battlefield I realised the sect leader wasn't kidding, his face looked like a mix of a troll and a goblin but then even uglier. In comparison to the sect leader he was an ant flying around dog poop while the sect leader was the moon shining its brilliant light upon the earth in the brilliant night.
But his aura didn't feel exceptional I did feel some great force trying to force me to say the words: I resign or I concede. I had opened my mouth multiple times but realised what I wanted to say and stopped, the sect leader had given me orders and I will do whatever I can to complete them even if it meant killing my family and myself.
The only flaw the sect leader has is his left eye it is not there, it must have been destroyed in the past or been gauged out by someone, usually it is covered up by illusions but today it was not, he was not scared of people commenting upon his eye he was scared people would fear what they would see in his eye socket.
"the match between Tao Zing 1st level cultivation disciple and Mu Rong of the 2nd layer 1st level one with sword let it begin."
As the sect leader said that I saw Mu Rong pulling out a blade as she did I could feel a tremendous amount of sword aura coming out of the sword, it was a grand amount for her rank of sword cultivation it felt like she was at least a layer higher than she said. But I haven't gone through all of the things I have gone through the previous months just to give up. As I thought of this that ugly bastard attacked well I thought she was ugly but as she grabbed her sword everything in het changed how she looked and everything else she turned into a real beauty. Not as perfect as the sect leader but she was pretty beyond belief.
As I was thinking of that she had already gotten within 5M of me so I thought of godly techniques: Erebus, descent into the shadow. Just like the blink of Odin you could hear it being said throughout the arena and beyond in an ethereal voice. (Erebus is the god who is the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.)
When the sentence had been said I got sucked into the floor and became a shadow I noticed how any and all shadows had become blue and above it it said if you want to leave before the 5 minutes are up you can go into a shadow and say, leave and you will be exited out of the ground, some of the shadows around me where those of trees and bushes but the first thing that really caught my attention was that even Mu Rong's shadow had lit up so that meant I could also pop up behind her.
Then I quickly recalled what the sect leader had said about this technique.
He had told us this technique has an unusually long cooldown to use again unlike other techniques this technique doesn't require Qi, well none of the godly techniques required Qi or any other form of strain on your body. this was what made the technique the best, the only weird thing was that when you wanted to learn it you would have to have gotten a book with the title that said the name of the technique on it then a screen, a blue screen would appear it ha. showed the text saying.
‹Would you like to learn this technique y/n.›
It was quite weird but the leader dismissed it as nothing so we just ignored it and moved on.
The only special thing the teacher had told us we could do in this shadow place was casting other godly techniques like the blink of Odin or the illusion hellfire of aed. (Aed is the Celtic god whose name literally means fire he is also the god of the underworld (there will be multiple fire godly techniques))
So as I remembered This I went towards her and as I was below her I cast illusion hellfire of Aed. the ethereal voice repeated it but no sound came out of my mouth. when this happens the flame appeared below her foot as it touched her it put her into the illusion of the hellfire, these illusion might have lasted for only a minute or might have lasted a 1000 years in her head it showed her her worst nightmares she could feel everything the pain of reliving the things she didn't want to relive and things she was just genuinely scared of. all of that happens in only 2 seconds sadly I could not do it again if it was necessary on her because after using it one somebody it will be unable to be used on that person again for the next hour.
As I looked at her I could see true fear in her eyes, not the fear a mere mortal could create she looked dead inside as she fell knock out I came out of the shadow and conceded.