Zane was visibly taken aback by the words of the man.
"Didn't you hear me new guy?, actually how dare you put your ass where Killer Princess sits?. Get down now!" he shouted.
"Ahem, Zane I think you better get down there and prove yourself" Ken whispered and Kieth nodded. He was slightly embarrassed since he was the one who told Zane to climb up Charlotte's throne.
Zane sighed before standing on the ladder's top step. Instead of climbing down like a normal person, Zane jumped down and landed on the stage, a few meters away from the man. He landed smoothly, only bending his knees a little.
"He really is elite!" someone from the crowd said. It was impossible for a normal person to jump from a height of ten meters and land that casually. Only the elites could do such a feat.
Unknown to the crowd, even their Champ and Crusher with a K were surprised at Zane's display. The could also do the same thing, but they wouldn't land that casually. They would need to perform a roll to ease the impact.
"Huh i expected the floor to at least crack" Zane mumbled as he glanced at the still intact ground below him. What he didn't know was that the floor didn't crack because although Zane was strong, he wasn't heavy.
Zane then turned to the man, who was still slightly shocked by his show. "How do i prove myself?" Zane asked casually.
The man snapped out of his daze before shouting "To earn that seat you either have to defeat Killer Princess or beat her record. Since she isn't here you will need to do the latter"
It must be noted that Zane's eyes weren't covered so no one knew he was blind, they only thought he had a really unique eye color.
"Okay" Zane shrugged.
The man nodded before he faced a certain direction "Bring them in!" he shouted. Irritating Zane to no end with his loud voice.
Zane looked in the direction the man was facing and couldn't see anything noteworthy. That meant that whatever the man was looking at was out of Zane's current sight range.
It didn't take long for Zane to see a man walk into the stage "Ohh so i need to defeat this man" he mumbled to himself.
However he was surprised to see another man walk in "Two on one huh?, i guess i can handle that" he said. Then to his surprise, he saw yet another man enter "Three on one?, seriously?"
Zane's eye twitched as more and more people got onto the stage, not long after, the people on the stage numbered fifteen.
Then he almost pulled his hair out when the number reached twenty five. Zane glanced up the thrones to see Kieth watching him with a smile. Zane could swear Kieth mouthed the words 'You got this'.
"Killer Princess's record is twenty people, you must beat twenty one" the man announced loudly, causing cheers to erupt from the crowd.
Everyone was excited to see the new guy fighting, it was always amazing to watch an elite's fight. Some mortals have even managed to increase their own strength by watching the elites.
"I wonder if the new guy is as strong as the Champ" a man in the crowd said to his friend.
"I don't think so, haven't you heard that the Champ can go toe to toe with a Mage?" the friend replied.
Conversations similar to that were happening all around the arena. All of them were wondering if Zane would manage to beat twenty one people on his own. Even Kieth and Kane were wondering the same.
"Champ!" the man said, looking at Kieth. Kieth then stood up from his seat.
"I vow not to interfere in this fight even if his life is in danger" he said and the man nodded.
"Wait what does he mean by that?" Zane asked the man. However the man didn't answer him, instead he began announcing the rules.
"New guy must eliminate everyone here by either throwing him off the stage or knocking them out. Killing is not allowed, if new guy kills someone he will immediately be disqualified and banned from the arena."
"So to summerise. New guy knock out everyone. Everyone, do your very best to kill new guy" the man said, eliciting more cheers.
"Wait they will try to kill me?" Zane asked, shocked.
"BEGIN!" the man shouted and quickly hopped off the stage.
Zane watched in horror as twenty one mortals charged at him. Without wasting time he threw in the air, a sight bomb. Zane didn't even check how much mana he used in that sight bomb, he just told Alex to take care of it as well as not disturb him except for warning him of danger.
The mortals in the front quickly stopped and looked into the air after seeing Zane throw something. Their opponent was an elite so they had to be cautious.
Zane capitalized on the fact that the mortals in front were momentarily distracted. He shot in the direction of one of them and delivered a punch to the side of his head, knocking him out immediately.
Zane had used about 40% of his power in order to avoid accidentally killing anyone. He quickly threw the unconscious man out the stage, were he was caught by the audience.
<<20>>
Sensing a kick from behind, Zane jumped and successfully evaded, while still in the air he kicked yet another man, knocking him out.
As he came back to the ground Zane was met by a fist which successfully landed on his face. This man was able to do so because Zane's hands were occupied, blocking two kicks aimed at his stomach.
Zane bared the pain on his face as he forcefully threw both the men, who's legs were in his grasp, out the stage.
<<18>>
Zane ducked quickly as a leg passed over his head, just like the last time, Zane grabbed the leg and threw it's owner to the audience.
<<17>>
Since Zane was told not to kill anyone, he would try to minimize attacking as much as possible. He didn't want to accidentally kill someone. It wasn't easy to watch your strength when fighting all these people.
Due to the training, Zane had no problem at all fighting against all these mortals. At first he was quite worried because he had forgotten that Old man's students were special. The thought of fighting against 21 Kieths scared the shit out of him.
One by one, Zane grabbed and threw people left and right, tanking a lot of hits in the process. The pain training really showed it's usefulness at this moment.
"Only an elite can take hits like that and not even flinch" Someone from the audience said.
"Yeah but this was expected, do you still think he'll win?" the other asked.
"We will find out soon enough, the fodder is almost finished" the first man said.
<<1>>
Zane finally heaved a sigh, because the attacks had suddenly stopped for some reason. However according to Alex, there was still one person left.
"Drop the shield!" the announcer said and a glass cylinder suddenly dropped to the ground. Isolating Zane inside a circle.
Before Zane could even think of what was happening, he had to quickly sidestep. Looking at the glass behind him, he could see a knife stuck in it.
Zane looked ahead just in time to see a lady charge at him with a sword in hand. The lady slashed at Zane's neck, but Zane quickly performed a backflip, kicking the sword off the lady's hand in the process.
"Nice, that's what i also would have done" Kieth commented from his throne and Ken nodded.
As soon as Zane landed, the lady swept his legs and Zane fell to the ground before quickly rolling out on the way.
A knee landed just were his head was a second ago. The lady followed up by trying to stomp at his new position but Zane did a quick Chinese get up and parried the punch coming from the lady.
"Who are you?" Zane asked as he continued blocking the lady's attacks. This person was far more skilled than anyone here, elites excluded of course. Zane even wondered if she was part of them.
"A student of the person you're trying to replace" the lady said.
"Ohh okay, it was nice playing with you" Zane said.
The lady scoffed as she threw a punch at Zane's midsection. However, Zane just stood there and easily caught the hand of the lady, with his other hand he tapped the side of her neck before she could defend.
The lady immediately passed out. This was a trick he was taught by Bella, apparently a special part of the neck has the nerve responsible for connecting the brain to the body, and Zane severed that connection for a split second.
The glass cylinder raised and the announcer came up the stage "We have a winner ladies and gentlemen!" he shouted.
"Are you guys seriously giving away my throne without me?" A sweet voice sounded from the arena entrance.