Chapter 227 Another Surprise

The third-year students in the physical combat class were all cheering as the earth pillar brought Pearl back up, that was the easiest fight in the competition so far and it didn't look like anyone was going to top that.

"You had to make it look that easy," Tammy said after Pearl had gotten close to her.

"It really was that easy," Pearl said. "Hi, Presley." She said taking notice of Presley.

"Hi Pearl, the ruthless side of you was entertaining to watch," Presley said.

"That wasn't ruthless, he said he would like to keep the fight short and I helped him achieve that in the least of harmful ways," Pearl said.

"What do you mean by the least of harmful ways?" Presley said with a little chuckle.

"You know those water balls."

"Yeah," Presley said.

"They could have been really sharp blades," Pearl said.

"Really sharp blades?"

"Yeah?" Pearl nodded her head slowly.

"Alright let's just hope this next fight lasts longer than the last one." Lieutenant Kate said.

The image selection process began as an image of a boy stopped in the first box and the image of Presley stopped in the other one.

"I guess I'm fighting next," Presley said, turning to Tammy with a smile.

"Yeah, we can see that," Tammy said.

"The next fight will be between Rui Oman and Presley Harper." Lieutenant Kate said.

"That's my cue, wish me, luck ladies," Presley said as he made his way to the earth pillar that was rising in front of him.

"Good luck," Pearl said.

Presley stepped on the earth pillar which brought him down at the same time Rui was being brought down.

Rui was a blonde-haired student who seemed to have a very tiny body that may make many people underestimate but Presley knew best not to underestimate any of his opponents.

The countdown began as Presley stretched his hands while Rui got his hands ready to summon his soul weapon.

As soon as the countdown was over two slightly long blades appeared in Rui's hands and he quickly threw them toward Presley.

The blades had long chains attached to them which Rui was holding onto before he had thrown them.

"Chain swords," Monica said.

The first blade was heading directly for Presley's face but he was able to avoid it by stretching himself back. That stretch also helped him to avoid the other blade coming at him from the side.

That wasn't the end of the attacks as Rui pulled back his blades and with the help of the chains attached to them, extended them towards Presley again.

This time Presley was ready for it as he covered his hands with two ice blades with which he was using to block Rui's blades.

The fight had turned into a sword duel as both students were showing great skills of swordsmanship but Presley seemed to be getting the better of him and if it weren't because Rui was far away from him, he would have knocked him down by now.

The clanging was still going on as Rui pulled back one of his blades and quickly thrust it forward.

The attack was too quick for Presley to block which was why she bent himself backward allowing the sword to zoom over him.

"It's great how he does that thing under pressure without falling," Pearl said but Tammy acted like she didn't hear her as she kept her gaze on the screen.

The blade and chain were over Presley now and looking at the chain an idea had popped into his mind.

He fell to the ground in the process of blocking Rui's other blade with his ice blade and had quickly broken the blades covering his other hand and grabbed the chain over him before he fell to the ground.

The chain began to freeze from the point where he was holding it to the point where Rui was holding and pulling it, everything had shattered.

Rui tried to use his other blade to slash him down but he used the ice blade in his other hand to block the attack before grabbing onto the chain and repeating what he had done on the first chain on it.

Presley was panting heavily as he could finally get some breathing space now.

He thought the fight was going to be weaponless now until he looked up and saw Rui holding a long spear and he was pointing it at him.

"He has two soul weapons." Ace said.

"Yeah," Monica said.

"I haven't seen that before," Ella said.

"You haven't?" Luis asked.

"Yeah. Have you?"

"Yeah, Tammy has two soul weapons."

"She does."

Presley let out a deep sigh as he got up from the floor, summoned his curvy sword with rough edges, and then formed a similar sword to his soul weapon with his ice ability on his left hand.

"Let's go." He said as he locked eyes with Rui.

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"So you're telling me that the warehouse at that lonely road is where they have their base," Michael said.

"Yeah," Dylan said.

Michael said, turning to Nicole who was standing at the door while he sat on Ace's bed with Dylan.

"You want to go check it out?" Nicole asked.

"Of course, we have to go check it out," Michael said standing up from the bed. "And you're coming with us." He added pointing at Dylan.

He began to adjust the settings on his watch as Nicole walked up to him and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Alright, here we go." He said as he tapped the teleport button and quickly grabbed Dylan's arm.

The three got covered by white light and when the light was gone, they were no longer there.

The white light appeared in front of the warehouse and cleared up to reveal the three.

"Why did you build that warehouse?" Nicole asked, looking at the large warehouse.

"I don't really know, I thought people might need it but it turns out they didn't," Michael said heading to the entrance as Nicole and Dylan followed behind.

The door was locked with a padlock but forming a wind blade with his hand, he was able to slice through the padlock.

He opened the door to see that the room was completely empty.

Dylan was surprised by how they had moved everything, the ring, the betting booth, the counter filled with drinks.

"I can't see all the things you told me about Dylan," Michael said, looking around.

"They were here the last time I came here," Dylan said.

"They must have moved it," Nicole said. "Let's check what's behind that door." She added nodding towards the door Michael had failed to take notice maybe because it was the same color as that side of the wall, black.

"Yeah," Michael said heading towards the door.

On reaching the door Michael could see that it was also locked with a padlock.

He tried cutting the padlock with his wind blade but it didn't seem to be going through the padlock.

After trying for the second time with no result he decided to try something else.

"What's wrong?" Nicole asked a

"That padlock is made of a very strong metal," Michael said walking a little distance away from the door

"What metal?" Nicole asked.

"I don't know but I'm guessing titanium."

He got into position, formed a large wind blade, and sent it towards the door without knowing that he had just made a big mistake.

The wind blade bounced off the door and was heading back at him with full force.

Michael saw his life flash before his eyes as he knew what that wind blade would do to him if it touched him.

Out of instinct he raised his hands and blasted the blade back, turning it back to normal wind in the process.

The wind hit the door again, bounced off, and returned to him with an astonishing blow that sent him flying and crashing into the wall on the other side.

"Owwwwww." The CEO groaned.

"Michael," Nicole said quickly rushing to him. "What happened, what was that?" She asked, holding up his head on her body.

"That padlock is protected with shadow enchantment?" He said with a groan pointing towards the door.

"What's shadow enchantment?"

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