"DANTE!" dante turned his head to see his teammates calling out to him, running to reach him, as he just stood there with a very confused expression, then he returned his gaze back at lance, who just grinned like a maniac.
"huh? Guy-."
"…Odin's judgment" lance casted finish, as the sky above the base started to glow pure white. A bright lightning struck out and broke through the layers of the base to finally reach the battle arena, with everything fading out in a very bright light.
BOOM!
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Dante's P.O.V
'huh what was that? What happened?' I looked up my head to see two sets of black eyes looking back at me with an expression of fear and terror written within them. The man seems to be wearing a general hat with a dragon sign in the middle of it in a golden color, along black robe jacket, and with a black inner, accompanied with a set of combat jeans. The man's right hand was pointed up towards the lightning, as the sparkles and current could still be seen moving around his form, as he held down lance who seemed unconscious but was seen to be on his left shoulders… but still, the man kept on staring at me with that same expression of terror… but then suddenly took his gaze up to the camera at one of the corners of the walls.
"this match… is over, all representatives back to your room…" the man called out with a very deep voice, as he ordered my friends to leave, as I was about to leave with them. He took my hand and held on to me with a very serious tone in his voice. "you and lance will be taken to the treatment room… so remain here."
"okay… sir?"
"the name… is Kain Arthur… but just Arthur is fine…" the man said with a relax but stoic expression on his face, as he started to lower lance on the ground and proceeded to leave the arena… though that arm he used to stop the attack was seen to have burnt just up to the fingers, but not really serious though, which is quite impressive, considering the amount of mana I felt from the attack. "that friends of us really need to be more careful next time, that spear he hold is a very powerful weapon when in the hands of a very experienced and power user… so blocking that final attack was no problem, at least to me, but something of that magnitude to be able to break though the main defenses of the base is very power… if I hadn't show up, you both would have die instantly."
"h-huh but, how-." I was caught off, as the man closed his eyes and opened it to stare at the spear beside the unconscious lance,
"what do you expect from a sacred arm… those things are basically designed to destroy armies and conquer whole nations… though it is only power when it has the right user, even though he was just an amateur at best, that final move could have ended you both lives in an instant." The man explained while making his way towards the exit, but he then turned his gaze back at me with a certain intensity… like that of trying to study a specimen… and that was me. "and trust me… I'm not ready to lose another life again… not on my watch."
"hmm… thank you, mister Arthur for saving us… I really appreciate it, on behalf on both me and lance." I called out to the man and then bowed my body in form of respect and right on cue, a squad of medical officials came rushing in and that was towards me and lance.
"he he that's… general Arthur to you, kid, have a nice day." The man called out with an even more relax tone and expression, accompanied with a smug, as he walked into the middle of all the medical officials that bowed upon noticing him.
"apologies general for not noticing your presence immediately!" the head of the squad called out and bowed his body towards him, but the man just smiled and nodded his head towards them.
"it's fine, just attend to the youngsters would ya." He spoke out finally exiting the arena, and the moment he left, I started to get very dizzy as if… I've been trying to resist a particular force for a while, until.
"gah!" I coughed out a huge sum of blood and collapsed to the ground, blacking out totally.
--back at the main—
Third person's P.O.V
"damn, I have to admit, some of those other reps are really at the top of their game huh." Luca pointed out with his arms positioned behind his head, as he, mark, rin and trinity, walked down the passage to the main assembly, as they were also accompanied by some of the other reps behind them. "most of them had different moves and strategies that was really hard to figure out."
"and not to mention the power levels some had, and the unique elemental display." Rin said out in a very impressed tone, as she just crossed her arms. "I mean, reverting glass back into sand with no need of high heat and an enormous amount of pressure is madly too impressive, and being able to control the flow and movement the very pure essence of the environments mana is quite impressive too…"
"can't agree anymore, I have to also confess, that gun user is really skilled, he only used a single bullet to finish the whole match, should I say, it was the shortest match in the whole assessment… that is, about 16 seconds, truly impressive." Mark recalled and touched his chin with a grin, as he rose his head back to the sky and said with sparkles in his eyes. "strong opponents, talk about being lucky huh?"
"erm yeah I don't think I'm on the same page, beside we're already at the finally assessment and this time no doubt I'm sure we'll be the main targets… giving the facts that we're at the top of the boards… above the 1st reps…" luca mentioned and yawn with a tried expression on his face. "and trust me, I don't want any sort of bounty on my head, we already have to e careful around the 1st reps, due to the defeat, I'm very certain that revenge is a very big play in their motives."
Rin and the rest came to a sudden stop, as trinity and rin had the worst worried expression on their faces.
"to be honest… I just hope that dante is totally alright… out of all of us fight, he took it hard the most." Rin said out with a slow sigh released from her mouth, but soon all of them continued to go on their way to the main assembly. "though... that man that stopped the attack… just who is he… is he also an escort or maybe a general?"
"honestly I'm not sure… though he got to be at least a general… because not just everyone can stop that huge attack from a sacred no less… the mana from it was so much that it was able to penetrate all 65 layer of the base's defense barrier… so yeah, let's assume that he is a general at the very least." Luca pointed out, as he still had his arms behind his head.
"or maybe an admiral… or probably a commander?" mark commented and tried to crack it, as he then turns his sight towards a very quiet trinity who had been quiet from the very beginning. "do you have any thoughts about the situation trinity, you need to relax, okay, dante will be alright."
"sigh, I'm just very worried okay… you see… during his battle with lance… I felt it… I felt the seal." Trinity spoke with a grim voice, as she began to recall the very moment the seal started to get overwhelmed by the damaged dante was taking from lance. "I know he was able to still fight back... but the very thought of him going up against some like lance just felt a little bit… overwhelming, knowing that lance was a dual technique user, was go at aurora technique to an impressive standard and not to mention that he also held a very powerful sacred arm that totally surpassed mona's own… so I just can't help to worry for dante, about the stress and fatigue that must really be on him right now… I just hope he is okay now."
"it's fine trinity, we're all worried about him alright, so let's just move to the next assessment okay, im sure he is okay, its dante after all." Luca said and managed to calm down her nerves, as they all finally reached the assembly ground with the general already making the announcements.
"congratulations representative and I must say that this year applicates are all far above my expectations, and it was an honor to conclude the battle assessment, so for now, I leave my superior to handle the final assessment…" the general moved from where he was, as that dame man with the same hat approached the stage with a serious gaze but had a little smug on his features. "I present to you, the leader and supreme general of the entire dragon guild… sir Kain Arthur."
The leader came up to the stage and spoke out in a very strict tone.
"it's time for the final assessment and this one is gonna be far different from the former ones… due to the amount of talents and strength we have this very year, we're gonna be doing a rescue simulation… and these are not just any rescue simulation, this year, you guys are going up against the hamjis… and yourselves… and note that they are about 60 of you… so I say this now…
That only 5 personals, or better yet a whole team will be getting acceptable this year, so, may the best team win."