Luis didn't try to make up anything and straight up told Ace the truth.
He told him that Dylan knew he wasn't going to participate in the competition and went to take a nap at their dorm room, at least that was part of the truth.
"How long has he been gone?" Monica asked.
"Since the competition began," Luis said.
"Oh," Monica said.
"He should have at least stayed and tried to learn a few things from the fights." Ace said.
"Yeah but I don't think he wants that," Luis said.
He didn't want to give his roommate the full gist of why Dylan had gone back to their dorm room because he didn't want him to worry about it now and he also didn't want Monica to know about it.
"The next fight will be between Fred Treph and Chris Morales." Lieutenant Kate said.
Hearing the first name that was called Luis quickly turned his gaze to the screen.
If he had not been paying full attention to the other fights he was sure going to make sure he would pay attention to this one.
According to the system, Fred's ability improved as his abilities improved and he wanted to see that improvement and how Fred was going to do in this fight.
Chris was a really tall student who seemed a bit muscular and Luis could already tell that this wasn't going to be easy for Fred.
According to the stats shown on the screen, Chris was from the soul weapon class while Fred was from the elemental class.
The countdown began as both of them standing opposite each other got into their fighting poses.
As soon as the countdown was over, Chris summoned his great sword and charged in.
Fred waited patiently until he got close and was about to slash down on him, that was when he summoned his long sword and blocked the attack.
It was clear who was going to wear the other one out there and Fred, being aware, summoned a little blade with his other hand and stabbed it into Chris' thigh.
"Arghhhh!" Chris winced in pain as he staggered backward and fell to the ground.
A smirk appeared on Fred's face as he watched his opponent pushing himself on the floor just to get away from him.
Chris had his hands on the blade stuck to his thigh while moving backward and his hand had gotten covered in blood.
Fred picked up his great sword, stabbed it into the ground, and then began to walk to him slowly.
Chris stopped pushing himself as he pulled the blade out of his thigh and then slowly placed his hand on the wound.
His hand took a blue glow as the wounds began to close up, Fred was shocked by what he was seeing now.
"Healing ability." He gasped.
"I did not see that coming," Ella said.
Fred, who seemed confident when he was walking toward him while he had the blade in his thigh, seemed to have stopped moving but it wasn't because he wanted to, his leg was stuck.
"You didn't think you were the only one who could do soul weapon tricks," Chris said as he got up from the floor.
Fred tried to move but he couldn't and the reason was staring at him.
It was like chains had just sprung out from the ground and wrapped both of his feet to the ground making it impossible for him to move.
Chris had put those there when he was pretending to be hurt.
"It's like some sort of trap," Monica said as the images of what Zoey did to her replayed in her mind.
Fred struggled and struggled to try to break free but his efforts seemed to be futile.
"Don't waste your strength," Chris said as he walked to his great sword and picked it up. "You think a little stab on the thigh on the thigh was going to take me out?"
"It was supposed to," Fred said, still struggling to break.
"Was supposed to," Chris said with a chuckle as he hung his great sword over his shoulder.
"What's funny?"
"I'll show you," Chris said as he quickly swung his great sword and knocked Fred's sword off his hand.
After knocking Fred's sword off his hand and far away from him, he stabbed his own sword into the ground and got closer to him.
"And I thought this was going to be hard." He said as he sent a punch straight to Fred's face forcing him to turn his face to the side.
He didn't even wait for Fred to recover from that punch before sending a knee kick down his guts forcing the Demi-Angel to crouch down clutching his stomach.
'You have crossed the line.'
Chris wanted to knock him down as fast as possible as he attempted to kick him while he was in a squatting position but before he could hit him, his leg stopped mid-air.
"What am I doing trying to hit my lovely boo?" Chris said with a delusional voice as he brought down his leg.
"Lovely boo?" Fred said with a confused voice.
He wasn't the only one who was totally confused by Chris' change of attitude.
"Lovely boo?" Silvia said.
"It's like some kind of mind control," Monica said.
It may have seemed like mind control but Luis knew it wasn't as he was very sure of what it is.
'I should have told them about that.' Luis cursed in his mind.
'Don't beat yourself up, people forget things sometimes.'
'How did he even trigger it?'
"Isn't that like that attraction skill you used that day in that forest?" Ella whispered to Luis.
"Attraction," Orah muttered as he was trying to put the pieces together.
Fred's attraction didn't only stop Chris from kicking but it also made him release him from the trap before grabbing him by his arm.
"What are you doing?" Fred said, hitting his hands off.
"Don't you want to go home?" Chris said, leaning closer to him.
'That guy has a really weak mind.' Luis thought.
Everybody was confused by what was happening inside the arena and Fred, who was the cause of it, couldn't explain it either.
"Get off me," Fred said, pushing him back. "I thought we were supposed to be fighting, not doing whatever you are doing now."
"Fight you?" Chris said as he stood up and got close to him again. "Why would I do that?" He said leaning closer to Fred but this time it was for a kiss.
"Get away from me!" Fred yelled as he blasted him with a water blast that kept pushing him until he had crashed against the wall of the arena.
Chris fell to the ground as soon as the blast had stopped and it didn't look like he was going to get up.
"I don't know exactly what that was but we have a winner." Lieutenant Kate said.
There was a look of shock on everyone's face as they wondered what type of ability would make someone act like that.
Nova was currently in Nicole's office and had been watching the fight from her laptop and right now she was shocked by what she had just seen as she shifted the laptop to reveal her face.
"Another Angel." She said with a gasp.
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Mass release goals...
Normal update: 2 chapters daily
1 magic Castle or 300 power stones= 1 extra chapter
2 magic castles or 500 power stones= 2 extra chapters
3 magic castles or 700 power stones= 3 extra chapters
4 magic castles or 1000 power stones= 4 extra chapters.