"Yes my dear viewers. Your eyes don't decieve you. It's son of the king and a model student. Ladies and gentlemen please give an applause to thank prince Charles for showing up to our small tournament!" The announcer hyped the arena up. Everyone were screaming excited about the matchup.
"It will be my honor to fight against you" The guard bowed to show his respect to prince Charles.
"The honor is all mine. It will be my first time i fight against my father's guards" The young prince smiled. Similiary as excited about this as the crowd was.
"Let's not keep the audience waiting ! Start the fight now !" The announced started the last fight of this phase of the tournament.
The guard and the Prince both started throwing different spells at each other. It was pure chaos. Explosion after explosion left the arena full of smoke and dust. Alice could see a blue shine on prince Charles side before a massive beam of light flew through the entire arena. Knocking the guard instantly as he had no time to react.
This was so sudden that the whole arena was silent. Processing what they just saw.
"W-we have a winner !!" Shocked announcer was the first one to come to his senses. "Prince Charles wins this round !!" The crowd erupted into confused cheer.
"You grew way stronger prince" The defeated guard said as he laid against the hole in the wall that the massive beam created.
"It was still a good fight" Charles said while giving him a helping hand. The crowd praised the prince for his sportsmanship.
"We will resume the tournament shortly after repairing the arena" A break has been called because of the arena's state after such intense fights.
Alice was sitting in the waiting room when the prince arrived.
"It seems you are no ordinary fellow after all" Disguised girl said. "This was a splendid display of power" She complimented him.
"You weren't too far behind in magical power compared to that guard" Charles said, complimenting Alice.
"I hope we will meet each other in finals" Alice said.
"Me too" he answered as they shook hands.
[Are you having fun ? Because i know i am ~. My friends here are so jealous of how strong my pupil is]
"Good that at least one of us is" Alice sighed while thinking this in her head.
[Oh ye in the next fight you can only use your physical abilites, one of the nobles here is saying that you don't have the abilities for that and i won't take this slander]
"Aye aye" Alice replied. She decided to get ready for her next fight where she would go against a knight. She saw how skilled he was with his sword and she wasn't looking forward to fighting him in his field.
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"My dear viewers the next match will start soon!" The announcer shouted as the arena was brought back to an usable state. "Please welcome guildmaster's pupil again ! Will they show us more of their proficiency ? Will they be forced to move by their opponent ? Pay attention because you won't want to miss it !" The constant cheers showed that the croud was interested in Alice's skills.
Alice didn't really like the annoying commentary of the announcer but she had to give him credit for knowing how to make the crowd go crazy.
"And our disguised star's opponent will be... the righteous knight !" The knight was almost 7 feet tall. Towerint over Alice. His armor looked like it weighted more than her entire body.
"I wish you luck my smug enemy" The knight spoke "You will need it".
"We will se about that" Alice took an offensive stance surprising everyone. They expected her to fully use magic again just like in her previous round.
"This is going to be interesting !" The announcer sais then added "Start the match !"
Both contestants ran towards each other. The knight swung his sword when Alice got into his range. She dodged it by sliding under it before she jumped on his back and started chocking him out. He grabbed her with 1 hand and threw her body like it was a bag of trash. Alice quickly got back on her feet and tried to get close again. He swung his sword horizontaly. Alice jumped over and used his sword as a support to boost herself even higher. This pushed the knight's sword into the ground making him unable to pick it up in time. He dropped it and took out his fist. He threw a punch at falling Alice but she predicted this would have happened. She enveloped her entire body against his arm and broke it. As the knight was screaming in pain she kicked him in the face sending him to the floor, ending the match.
"Next time at least try to rely on magic you meathead" She said to the knight. Ofcourse still acting in character. As the medics arrived to take him to infirmary the announcer screamed.
"Another win for our up and coming masked star ! It seems magic wasn't the only thing they were capable of. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking of what we will see from them next !" Crowd shared his enthusiasm by chanting for Alice over and over.
[Good job. The noble is pissed right now. I will have to reward you well when this tournament is over]
"I expect so. This is so annoying. Limiting myself on purpose for no reason at all" Alice wasn't a fan of training so much just to limit her abilities.
[You will thank me for that one day. It just isn't today yet]
Alice rolled her eyes and went back to the waiting room as the crowd cheered for her. When she got there prince Charles was clapping to welcome her back.
"That was a great show. I didn't expect you to be as skilled in hand to hand combat as in magic." He added.
"If I was you I would be trying to figure out how to defeat me" Alice tried to say it with a straight face but the constant edgelord cringy dialogue finally got to her and made her laugh "I'm so sorry. It's just so hard to keep the act together"
The prince also started laughing amused by the situation. "Not in a milion years would I expect that"
They spent the time before his fight chatting abour random topics.
Then Charles was called for his next fight.
"Good luck prince Charles" Alice said. Dropping her tough guy persona with him.
"Thank you, also Charles is good enough" He replied while running to the arena.