Inside the royal family's luxury box the atmosphere was tense, Keiran and Luna were surprised to see three killing intents on the brink of bursting out.
Keiran looked at Arion, Seraphina and Erla who were clenching their hands, as if to control themselves from moving.
' What is that power, it's like he is no longer human.' Keiran mumbled while looking at the man who now looked entirely different.
"What happened ?" Aiden asked Seraphina as if sensing something was wrong with her emotions.
His words brought them out of their reverie as Seraphina moved to pat his head.
"Nothing dear, I just remembered something unpleasant." Turning her gaze towards Arion she continued.
"How will you handle this?"
Arion kept looking towards Victor and answered in a cold voice. " Let's wait for this match to end first, then we will act accordingly."
Seraphina nodded in understanding and turned to look back at the stage where Victor was speaking with Gerald.
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In another private compartment, which though was less luxurious than the one of the royal family sat a man looking at the fight through the display with a cold gaze.
'This idiot used the pill in front of the whole kingdom, although no one saw it they still saw his form.' His eyes regained their composure as he continued thinking.
'I need to take care of him before the royal family gets to him and there is that boy. How is he so strong? Let the idiot take care of the boy first then I will deal with him, I do need any variables.'
Mr. Bove looked through the crowd and saw the previous cheering crowd was now showing shocked and fearful reactions.
The audience were talking about the appearance of the man.
"Hey! What happened to Mr. Noir, wasn't he dying just now? How is he unscathed suddenly?" A man suddenly shouted in a trembling voice.
"Even the doctors with healing skills can not heal themselves that fast?" One of the women sitting there commented.
"Hey, is this some kind of attack on the kingdom?" Another woman added, her voice was etched with fear as she continued." do you see his appearance, he looks even worse than the beasts."
Another woman sitting in the crowd interjected her claims with a trembling voice.
"What are you talking about he looks so hot now, I can not wait for him to ravish me"
Everyone turned to look at the woman with a deadpan expression. They lowered their head to her, her legs were trembling and one of her hands was inside her robes moving in a pattern.
As if feeling their gaze on herself she looked at them and moaned. "What? Do you want to replace my hand with your tongue?"
Her words caused the men in the surrounding to look at each other before they joined her.
The woman scoffed at her "what a whore!!!" when they turned they saw the men who had not joined her were looking at them, their intent were obvious from the lustful look in their eyes.
"Ah whatever, Just hurry up." One of the women hissed and removed her robes while the rest followed her lead with an excited look on their face.
Back On the stage Victor looked at the boy with a smirk on his face.
"Now, time for round two." He laughed like a maniac and charged ahead with his newfound speed.
'Fast' Before Gerald could react Victor was already in front of him. All he saw was a fist before he felt himself smashing into the ground.
"What happened, why aren't you fighting properly?" Victor spoke with a maniac-like grin on his face and kicked Gerald in the stomach.
He looked at the damaged side of his stomach and used ether to cover the wound, 'with this blood should stop leaking. I have lost some blood.'
Dodging an incoming whip, he rolled on the ground while continuing to create some distance.
"All you can do is dodge now, Huh? Bastard, Fight me head on!" Victor exclaimed out loud, in the fit of his anger he used multiple tentacles to assault Gerald from all the directions.
Although he was dodging the attacks, his speed was reducing at an alarming rate along with his stamina.
"Oye Oye!! Isn't that power on the same level as the head of the six families" The audience were shocked to see the sudden boost in his power.
"What did he eat to gain such a power and the boy who is fighting him with just the body strengthening skill, isn't that a low quality skill, whoever wields this skill died soon because it did not have much room for evolution."
The talks spread like a wildfire among the onlookers.
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"Looks like you wont be able to last long." Gerald's decrease in speed was naturally caught by his opponent as he once again charged at the boy.
"Tch." Using the momentum of a flip, Gerald propelled himself in the air while creating some distance in between them.
"Well whatever, I was prepared to die if it meant killing you!" with the sudden exclamation Gerald made his move.
'I still haven't recovered from the previous fight but I have no choice but to use that.'
With a single thought his ether moved in a particular pattern and he fused it with his blood.
'Body strengthening skill, blood infusion, with this my blood will pump at a faster rate and my reaction speed will increase' Looking at his clenched fist Gerald thought 'but there's a downside that i can not keep this up for long or it will damage my veins.'
His body glowed red, while the blood pumped at a tremendous speed causing the veins to pop up and become visible on the surface of his body. His eyes turned bloodshot, making him look more menacing.
"Looks like you got a powerup too, let's see who lives and who dies." Victor hollered and attacked once more.
His attack and tentacles were easily dodge and deflected but Gerald could not attack back.
'I can not win like this.' He suddenly thought, looking at the current state of the battle.
Looking at the man in front of him acting like a maniac, the face of his mother flashed through his eyes as he remembered what he had to go through and what she had to go through in their life.
His eyes turned unfocused and Victor chose to take the opportunity. 'Losing focus in the battle would cause you your life Boy. Haha~ .'
On the other side Gerald felt as if time had slowed down for him and his mind got clearer. A sudden voice woke him up from his thoughts.
"Do your Best my boy~~~, I will always be there to cheer for you~~~" The sweet voice reached his ears and his aura suddenly vanished into thin air, surprising Victor whose tentacle was inches away from the boy's face.
Just as the attack was about to connect Gerald, he tilted his head dodging the attack which cut off a few of his long hair with ease.
Another aura burst out of him but this time the aura was even more stronger and more potent. The aura shocked everyone as they turned their attention towards him. They saw his skin was now pulsating and starting to crack.
"Do you know what is common between humans and beasts?" Gerald's whisper sent shivers down Victor's spine, As if feeling an instinctive alert he jumped back in fear, only to see that his opponent had disappeared from his sight.
"They both can use Ether the same way." the voice sounded again but this time from his back, he turned to s sight which made him freeze in fear.
Gerald's body was leaking ether and blood from the cracks that had spread all over the body. Ignoring the look on his face the boy continued.
"Which means that both humans and beasts can do this." With a sudden exclamation, Gerald closed his eyes and his ether went berserk and his body started glowing. 'I will finally be able to see you, mother!!'
"You Fuc—" Before Victor could complete his sentence the Arena was engulfed in a huge explosion.
*BOOOMMM…*