Book 1: Chapter 95: First Round Part I

Book 1: Chapter 95: First Round Part I

Scarlet

The remaining of the five minutes goes by in a flash, and soon enough a loud bell echoes throughout the dome with the vice-headmasters voice following right afterwards, The tournament will now begin.

And almost immediately, I feel someones hand on my shoulder, making me twitch slightly as the loud dome gets even louder. Then a dinging sound echoes from my earpiece, following which a robotic voice says, Will you accept William Browns challenge?

I quickly turn around to find a rather large man of about the same age as me standing next to me with his hand on my shoulder. The man has black hair and a slightly tanned skin color likely marking his region of origin to be closer to the East an ethnicity I think used to be called Asian or something rather than the West that were in. He has on a simple set of silver armor that youd see a gladiator wearing in one of those Guardian Fighting Rings, with a clear metal making up its base and an obvious lack of armor plating around his stomach and legs. And judging by his mana, Id say he should be about the same level as me.

I should mention that your mana capacity capability is Tier B, so you will have more mana than most people at your level, Tar says before I can accept the challenge. Meaning hes probably a little bit above your level.

Oh? Interesting.

Although it doesnt matter much right now.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.

I accept the challenge before immediately feeling my eyes closing, following which I find myself standing in a field of pure stone. Nothing else. Just stone. But only seconds later, I find the guy who challenged me appearing on the other side of the battlefield of stone as well.

After glancing at each other, we both look around for a few seconds. Then a large number 5 appears at the center of the magical reality in between us. And it quickly begins to count down, so I narrow my eyes and widen the gap between my feet and hands slightly to enter a combat stance.

Looks like were jumping right into this then.

I quickly use partial shift on my right arm, transforming it into one of a werewolf with black fur streaked with crimson the color of blood, seemingly startling the guy slightly in the process. But he retains his cool and then uses some sort of skill that appears to turn his fist to stone.

Both the Scarlet Wolf and Titan immediately rush at each other once the timer is gone, one with her forearm transformed into something that looks akin to a werewolf with pitch black fur streaked with bits of blood red, and the other with his forearm transformed entirely to some type of smooth stone. And neither of them appear to be slowing down as they make their approach with their hands raised, the Titans balled into a fist, and the Wolfs spread out with her claws shining in the light of the chamber theyre in.

Whispered conversations rise from all around him, a combination of the weaker students and a very small number of the stronger ones having stayed back without entering a duel just to size everyone up first.

Whys she going for brute force? Shouldnt she rely on magic? Titan should clearly be the stronger one physically here

Anthony just continues watching, knowing better than to judge a persons strength by their size or gender. Even if he still wants to say that Titan should be stronger at a glance, he still knows just how many incredible things the girls done.

And his thoughts are confirmed the moment the two collide and Titan is pushed back, his feet digging into the ground as a brutally shocked look spreads across his face at the realization that he was overpowered in strength.

Seeing this alone shuts up every last whispered conversation about the duel without pause.

But it gets worse from there, as the girl who cant be any older than eighteen or nineteen years old, probably a year younger than Anthony at the least just tilts her head slightly while still pushing the man back, only to smirk and begin closing her claws, digging them into the mans fist as claws of blood begin to form around her already transformed claws, making blood begin to drip out of Titans fist as the claws pierce into the stone.

Anthony ignores the people around him who are beginning to bring out their phones to take video of the battle as he simply taps his feet and watches, just waiting for the two to start using more skills against each other.

And then it happens.

Titans eyes begin to glow with an orange light before the light begins to spread around the rest of his body, soon enveloping his fist as well as he begins to push the girl back ever so slightly, surprising her for a moment.

Then something happens that surprises Anthony.

The girl starts grinning.