The one hour break for the participants to recover themselves ended and they returned back to the centre of the arena.
During the break the 10 smaller stages in the arena had been fused to form a bigger stage.
"Step forward and choose your tokens," Vale who was hovering in the air instructed the students.
All the 10 of the participants approached the transparent crystal bowl placed on a stone pillar in the centre of the arena and picked up the tokens.
The tokens were wooden tokens and nothing was written on it. The students looked at the tokens in confusion.
Vale waved his hands and the tokens sparkled with light revealing numbers engraved on the tokens.
The students looked at their tokens and then the other students to find out their opponents. Meanwhile, the same information was displayed on the projections hovering in the arena.
Tim and Trevon got first number.
Lucas and Kevin got Second number.
Luna and Lomaro got third number.
Iris and Ronan got fourth number.
Alicia and Leo got the fifth number.
"The order of the battle will be as per the token numbers," declared Vale. "Tim vs Trevon."
The first battle as expected did not have any suspense. Tim relying on his overwhelming lightning element effortlessly plummeted down Trevon. Though Trevon was aware that defeating Tim was almost an impossible task, he had wanted to atleast give a good fight so as to impress the instructors but Tim was very brutal in dealing with Trevor.
The Clove descendant dealt a heavy injury to Trevon. The audience, especially the commoners who could relate themselves to Treveon had expression of disgust and anger on their faces witnessing the heavy handness of Tim.
Tim paid no heed to such things and swayed away in arrogance from the stage.
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"Lucas vs Kevin," announced Vale.
Kevin jumped on the stage while Lucas calmly climbed it and stoof opposite Kevin facing him.
Kim bowed slightly, "Please enlighten me."
Lucas frowned a bit seeing Kevin's unatural behaviour. To see a descendant of high tier family behaving in humble manner in front of a commoner was not something, one could witness normally.
Lucas did not bow back in response. He nodded, "Please proceed."
Kevin was a boy with a well built physique. He had broad shoulders with heavy muscles for his age.
A golden mace appeared in his hand. The mace was a D Rank weapon and it seemed quite heavy but Kevin wielded it effortlessly.
Raising the mace with both his hands above his head he moved. His body erupted with spiritual energy. His speed was extremely fast much faster than he had been moving in the magical forest. This made the audience realise that the boy had not been using all his powers till now.
But now facing an opponent like Lucas, who had not used a shred of spiritual energy, he gave his all.
In moments, he was in front of Lucas swinging his mace from above targeting Lucas' head.
But for Lucas, Kevin was as slow as a snail. Inches before the mace was to strike his head, he casually side stepped, the mace missing his head by a naarow margin.
The momentum of Kevin's attack carried the mace forward and it struck the surface of the stage producing a huge shockwave which spread in all directions.
Kevin did not faltered a bit at his missed attack and turned around while swinging the mace trying to strike Lucas.
Lucas again casually avoided the mace by taking a step backwards.
Since both Lucas and Kevin were using weapons, Kevin expected to fight at close range. But Lucas did completely opposite. He did not stop after taking his step back and he took a small leap back backwards creating some distance between themselves.
Kevin sensing a crisis moved quickly towards Lucas and tried close the distance. But Lucas gave no such opportunity. He pointed his sword forward and made a casual slash.
A beam of spiritual energy shot forward from his sword.
Having no other option, Kevin halted his movement and he also swinged his mace horizontally employing a battle technique. A semi circle shield of spiritual energy formed around his body.
Lucas' strike struck the shield. Cracks developed on the shield and though it held for some moments, it ultimately disintegrated.
Fortunately for Kevin, Lucas' sword strike had also dissipated along with the shield.
It could be said that in this exchange both of them stood equal.
Kevin looked ahead to resume his purpose of closing the distance but failed to find Lucas in front of him. Before he could look around to find Lucas, Kevin felt a cold metallic sensation on his neck.
He tilted his head to find Lucas standing next to him, the sword hanging on his neck.
"You loose," said Lucas with a smile.
Kevin felt a shock, "How?"
Lucas simply smiled but did not say anything. He removed the sword from Kevin's neck and walked away from the stage leaving Kevin in shock and bewilderment.
Along with Kevin, the entire audience was also in state of shock. They witnessed a flash of light and next moment, Lucas stood next to Kevin.
Only the people with high cultivation were the only ones able to perceive the movement technique employed by Lucas. Even so they were more in awe of the talent Lucas had shown. Even more so, they were sure that Lucas was holding himself completely back.
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In the VIP room which was occupied by Felix and Fexon.
"Big brother, this kid is very impressive," said Felix with a glint in his eyes. "He appears to be someone who could probably go against that bastard."
No doubt he was referring to none other than Amden.
"Yes. After the competition look for him and recruit him at any cost. He must become a follower of Tim in the academy. With Tim and this boy together we could crush Amden in the academy itself," said Fexon.