The fighting had been ongoing for a while now and Heilis was clearly out of breath, frankly he was in shock and he had lost his rhythm. Karlmine had matched him from the first strike but Heilis had not gone all out so his victory was assured but he had increased his speed, changed attack patterns and used his best skills but every time Karlmine somehow managed to match him it was as if he was rising along with him. To put it in simpler terms Heilis had played almost every card he had but his opponent and not just any opponent but a mortal, a human had managed to defend against everything he threw at him. This was enough to frustrate him enough for him, a seasoned warrior to lose his cool.
"Impossible! He managed to hold back Sir Heilis."
"Who is this human?"
The before cheerful crowd was now beginning to worry with their faces full of anxiety and clouded with disbelief, their warrior and star was failing to defeat a mortal and even worse he seemed to be on the verge of losing.
"You are powerful Heilis son of Geswald clearly among your peers you are exceptional but that is only when we are speaking in terms of your own measly caliber. When it comes to me however be it you___"
He pointed at Heilis with disappointment and arrogance.
"The damsel over there__"
He pointed at one of the ladies who were spectating.
"The infant over there."
He shifted his finger to the suckling elf carried by a lady elf who was also spectating.
"You are all the same after all looking from my point of view you are all at the level of ants."
The elf turned a few shades of red because of rage and leapt without form with just the intent to strike down the human who had just belittled him.
"So weak, so pathetic, so immature."
Karlmine spoke with signs of disappointment in his usually void face. He just sidestepped and the elf veered to the end of the made up arena.
"What did you say to
"I knew that going all out against you would be unfulfilling so I had to try to lower myself to your level because I thought you showed promise but I was clearly mistaken."
"You will pay for this you piece of_____"
"Therefore let me show you that those words just now were not spoken out of spite, disdain or provocation."
Having said that for the first time Karlmine took a stance and firmly gripped his sword. He stared at Heilis with undivided attention then he inhaled as if intending to calm himself down. He took a very deep breath.
THEN____
Like a heat haze in the next instance the sword vanished and what resulted was a huge shockwave that assaulted the elf slamming him to a building a few metres away from the makeshift arena not only that the earth was split by the slashing wave that resulted from Karlmine's sword swing.
"IMPOSSIBLE!"