Chapter 82: Crystal's Move

Arriving at another arena, Crystal parted with the others and entered the stage.

Felix and the two stood near the edge of the audience seats as they knew the battle wouldn't take long for them to sit.

As Crystal walked onto the stage, she studied her opponent and realized he was the same as her teammate's previous opponents.

Weak and loud, that is.

The rowdy man was smiling eerily eyeing all over her, but she didn't care about that and just held out her long sword.

Seeing that both the fighters were ready, the referee started the match. Find joy in m-vlemp _yr.

"Let the battle begin!"

A few seconds passed but the man stood in his place with a smirk and didn't move at all, a bit unsuitable to the craze he was showing before.

Standing on the stage with his weapon over his shoulder, the man licked his lips and muttered.

"Hmm what a waste of such a good body....", his expression looked one of regret as he thought of something else.

Taking a few steps forward, the man didn't attack and instead tried saying something to Crystal.

"Hey woman, how about you just surrender and then I show you around some corners of the black market later?", there was a crooked grin on his face looking at her as there were not many women in the underworld and especially not anyone participating in the arena battles.

Crystal stood straight in her position without the slightest change of emotions in her eyes.

Seeing the woman not responding, the man widened his smile and moved forward, only a few meters away from her.

The three standing near the edge of the arena looked at each other in doubt and whispered.

"Is she not going to attack?" Felix asked.

"Maybe she's waiting for him to get near...", Bellard replied confused.

Falcon was looking over with furrowed brows, as he knew that from the way Crystal was standing, she wasn't going to use her long sword.

"What's she doing?"

The audience watched in confusion as the man on the stage walked over dramatically while rubbing his neck.

"It seems you're waiting for me, huh.", the man teased almost nearing two meters from her.

"Woman, come on let's go have some fu-", the man stopped talking and froze just when he was about to get within the two-meter distance from her.

His eyes abruptly widened in shock and there was an expression of struggle on his face.

Suddenly, the man stepped back but then slipped and fell on the floor with a thud.

There was silence in the whole arena as the audience took in the sight of a strong man falling unconscious without even getting hit.

Felix looked at her and said.

"Uhh nice battle there, Crystal."

Bellard too gave her a compliment with an impressed face.

"Yeah, it was unbelievable."

Crystal just nodded to them and replied.

"Nothing, he was just weak."

The three men gave wry smiles at each other and shrugged at it.

Falcon moved forward and told them.

"We've seen each other's fight now, so how about we go our ways and settle the remaining battles on our own?", he asked as they would be just moving around the arena if they went to see all the matches.

The other three nodded at that and agreed as that would be a lot exhausting, and instead decided to move on their own.

After a small talk, they separated and went about to their designated arena to continue their battles.

But there was still some time left before any of their battles would start as they had an hour-long break after each of their battles. So they moved around the arena randomly taking in the fighting sights and chattering of the crowds.

Felix moved alone looking at several of the arena matches here and there while slowly making his towards the place of his next battle.

"Hey, it's you that Phantom right?"

Suddenly, a man stood in front of Felix and blocked his way.

The man had curly brown hair and had tan skin. He was standing there with an excited face and moved forward even though he didn't get a reply.

"Our last match was really fun, I still can't believe I got defeated by you even though I was giving it my all.", the man stood near Felix who raised his eyebrows.

"Hmmm? I'm sorry I don't remember who you are..."

The man froze all of a sudden with a strange look on his face, his face turned slightly red but he coughed to hide his embarrassment.

"Ahem Ahem, well let me introduce myself then, I am Warren, the one you battled with yesterday."

Felix narrowed his eyes and remembered a guy using a sword who had shown nice swordsman skills in yesterday's last battle,e but had gotten defeated the moment when he used his Agility burst skill.

"Oh, I remember you now. The famous guy right? With the crowd cheering your name the whole fight until you lost that is.", Felix said somewhat humorously.

Warren scratched the back of his head and just shrugged at it.

"So what do you want from me?", Felix asked as he had a battle to do a few minutes later.

Making sure he was sounding polite, Warren asked the man what he wanted.

"Umm Phantom, I want to challenge you to a battle today!"