The whole crowd exploded in multiple chatters, they literally turned the martial arena into a huge marketplace.
They just almost couldn't believe what they had heard, what arrogance, asking the ranked 20th to explain how he wanted to die, this was the height of it.
First insulting and provoking the outer court disciplinary Hall vice Hall master by killing his precious deciple in front of him and now this, wanting to kill the ranked 20th in the outer court. The world had definitely gone crazy.
But Vin didn't mind this though as he took slow steps towards the center of the stage. Standing right in front of Victor who was glaring at him with such hatred he continued.
"The audacity you have to harbor killing intent towards me and even acting on it by making an attempt on my life. What gave you the guts Insect?!!"
He expression looked calm but everyone could see it, no they could feel it, the air was vibrating around Vin.
This wasn't caused by his aura but by suppressed killing intent. At that moment a strange thought passed through their minds.
If even the air would vibrate from a suppressed killing intent, what would happen when it was released.
"Go on Victor, didn't you say you were going to challenge me to a death match, what are you waiting for, initiate it already" Vin said with a cold smile.
It felt like a spark had exploded in everyone's mind when they heard those words.
Not minding that Victor had attempted to kill his fellow deciple, he was also the one that had initiated the death match first. What the hell was going on.
Frankly although on the surface he was glaringly hateful at Vin, deep inside he also felt a little fear, especially as he faced Vin as an opponent.
It was only now he realized how terrifying he was, and that killing intent, he felt almost suppressed by it but he held himself to stay still.
He couldn't back down from this challenge at this point, they were way past that in their grudges, the bullet had already been shot and it couldn't be taken back, so right here right now, only one of them would live and that would be him.
Once he had arrived at this conclusion he released his tensed nerves and the breath he hadn't known her had been holding returning to his usual arrogant expression.
When Vin saw this he smiled, this would make it more interesting to break him completely before killing him.
"It seems you've come to a rather frightening illusive conclusion in you mind" he chuckled lightly.
"Hmph, who the hell do you think you are lowly being, I couldn't be bothered to argue needlessly to you, so I might as well give you the opportunity, why don't you initiate the death challenge" Victor spoke for the first time, but his words were also equally arrogant.
He made it seem handing the opportunity to initiate the challenge to his opponent was an honor to Vin, but Vin didn't mind it anyway.
In his mind he had already concluded, regardless of who initiated the match, Victor Stoneworth was going to due by his hands today.
"Elder Ling?!!" he called out as he glanced at the Hall master, "You don't have to worry about anything, no one is going to interfere in your battle, so you can rest assured" Elder Ling said, he didn't bother saying anything else since he knew it was pointless.
"That would be good then" he said as he placed his attention back to Victor, he dripped a drop of his blood on his sect token, as he raised it up he declared loudly "I, Eremiel Vin Celestra, challenge you to a death match"
"And I Victor Stoneworth accept your challenge" Victor said as he imitated the same action.
"Booooooom!!!!!"
A loud booming sound rang out as two large beam of red light clashed midair before impacting the barrier around the stage and immediately the barrier changed from its usual transparency to giving off a bright red glow, though the stage was still visible.
It seemed to be like a chain reaction as every pair of eyes in the entire martial arena snapped towards their stage. That red glow it was giving, they knew what it meant.
Two people were currently about to engage in a battle to the death, and one of them was in the top twenty for that matter.
Even though he was the 20th ranker, it didn't mean he was weak in anyway, so who had that guts to challenge him.
When they saw who it was, some of them were confused as they didn't recognize him, not everyone had bordered to attend the elimination round after all.
While the ones that recognized him were quite surprised as they remembered what had transpired the first time he appeared on the elimination stage.
They didn't think he would be challenging someone to a death match on his second battle in the sect.
And soon the information about him had spread around the arena, as the people who didn't know him asked those who did.
Huge chatters rose about as everyone seemed excited as this new development, finally they were going to see something different. Instead of the usual domination of the strong rankers.
Coming back to the martial stage, the two combatants were glaring at each other from one end of the stage to the other, sparks lighting up between them, as they waited for the magic word.
"BEGIN!!!!"
Crack!!!
The ground cracked under their feet as they prepared themselves and then.
"Heaven sun finger" Victor said as he pointed his finger towards Vin and immediately a huge golden finger image appeared on thin air and pushed towards Vin.
Vin in response didn't even bother to draw his sword as he felt there was one need, he merely pointed out his fingers and muttered "Sword one" immediately a visible sword qi pierced through the air as it met the finger image in the air.
"Booooooom!!!"
Booming sounds rang out as as they exploded canceling each other out.
But Victor wasn't discouraged "Heaven sun palm" he said as he pushed his palm in the air, a huge golden palm image appeared and rushed outwards.
"Tears of Asura" Vin countered flicking his fingers, a wailing sound that seamed as if ghosts were weeping mellowed out as a hundred redish black tear drops formed in mid air before bulleting their way towards the golden palm.
"Booooooom!!!!!!"
This caused another round of booming sounds as they both canceled each other out again.
"Heaven sun fist" Victor said as he pushed his fist out this time and a huge fist image appeared , but this time Vin tool a rather different approach.
Instead of countering with a skill he rushed out a punched the fist image until it combusted.
"Now that warm-ups over, shall we start the real battle?!" Vin laughed manically as he cracked the bones on his neck and flexed his muscles.
By now Victor had realized that close combat was also one of Vin's strong suite, fortunately he also excelled at close combat.
"Heaven sun battle Armor" he called out, a bright golden armor appeared on him brimming with intense power, the armor created a wave of pulsating energy around him.
As Vin watched the wave of energy coming towards him, he grined "Now that's what I'm talking about" he said as he finally released his own berserk aura filled with intense killing intent and beastly wildness.
"Pushing me to the extent of using my ultimate skill should be your greatest honor"
"Is that so?. Are those your last words"
The two auras clashed at that moment causing so much intense fluctuations that it seemed the stage was going blow off soon.
The clash of auras was also a type of battle, one of endurance, anyone that lost his momentum first would be giving way for the other to lead the battle.
Just as the battle of auras had drawn to its climax, no one who did it but....
"SNAP!!!!!"
Someone had snapped their fingers and it seemed that was the breaking point they need as.....
"CRACK!!!"
"BANG!!!!!!!"
The ground cracked and caved in under their feet as they both shot toward the other like bullet leaving a slingshot.
Victor shot a jab at Vin but he had blocked it as he counter attacked with an uppercut to the chin but he dogged it.
They both kept trading blows and raining heavy punches at each other, the fight kept getting intense as it got prolonged and it didn't take very long for them to look battered and bloodied all over.
But it seemed like they didn't notice as they kept raining blows, well this was a battle to the death after all.
Due to how intense the battle was getting, even the other contestants decided to stop their battle and observe, they wanted to see the outcome for themselves.
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