As always Arran was unaware of the commotion that his actions had caused. He was wholly focused on maneuvering his way through this storm.
Actually, there were no ulterior motives to Arran's actions that made him do things the way he did them. While others were speculating about Arran's reasons for doing things in such a controversial way... coming up with various absurd ideas like how Arran just wanted to show off, and how he was not taking this competition seriously and was only looking for a thrill in the midst of danger... all Arran ever thought about that motivated him to take the drastic actions that he did was simply to clear this first round in the quickest way possible and securing an advantage.
Arran knew very well his own capabilities very well and he knew that he was not the strongest person here. While he may not be the weakest, it was a fact that Arran's chances of winning all four elimination rounds were very slim, and if he were to run into a slightly s
Seeing such a long-ass giant tentacle break through the surface of the ocean and heading towards Arran sent a wave of shock through everybody paying attention to Arran.There was an uproar in the hall and on the broadcast channel as all sorts of gasps and exclamations came out from the audience."What!! What the hell is that?""Ahh! I can't believe what I'm seeing, it's so terrifying!""My gosh, that handsome Kingsman is about to be eaten!"Other than the surprise that everybody else was feeling, Lucas was also looking at this scene, and at first, he was also shocked by this sudden development, but after the shock had passed he immediately came to his sense and realized what was happening.As soon as he realized the severity of the issue, Lucas burst into wild unrestrained laughter as he pointed at Arran who was being shown on the screen."Hahaha, look at that. The heavens agree with me. What did I say previously? That he would not be
Time was still moving forward and nobody would wait for either Arran or the audience to sort out their thoughts.Just as the tentacle finally retreated into the ocean, in the next moment the surface of the ocean erupted and two tentacles flew out of it once again.The speed at which the tentacles traveled was so fast that by the time they had breached the ocean until Arran noticed, they had already reached him and he was only left with a small window to reacts.Thankfully Arran had never let his guard down for even an instant and he was able to just barely evade the attack.As, soon as Arran evaded the attack made by the two tentacles he immediately started moving again as he flew forward in the sky. This turned out to be the correct move because unlike before, the monster hidden in the ocean did not wait until its two tentacles were retracted before it immediately used another two tentacles to attack Arran once again.If Arran had still stayed in
The storm was still raging wildly and the ocean was disturbed by turbulent waves and earth-shattering winds. Lightning flashed and its white brilliance illuminated the gloomy darkness for a short moment to reveal the hideous face of the night.To the far reached and corners where the storm stretched, not a single soul could be seen outside as everything that had breath had found some crevice to hide or had burrowed deep into the depths of the ocean to hide and wait out the storm.Occasionally there would be the shadows of massive creatures revealed by the brief flashes of lightning in the sky that could be seen prowling the ocean waters looking for the unfortunate few that had not been able to find shelter from the storm in time, patrolling the oceans like overlords in their own territory.These overlords did not seem to mind the storm at all and they even treated it as a call to wake up from their slumber and feed.In one part of the ocean, there was a d
It was a race between both parties with one trying his hardest to fly upwards and out of the encirclement in time and the other trying to prevent its prey from escaping.The Charybdis was mightily enraged by Arran's earlier attack on it and it doubled its effort to close the dome as soon as possible. The amount of damage that it had suffered from Arran's attack was naturally minimal and it did not actually hurt it. Instead, it was the momentary pain and feeling of numbness in its tentacle that had slowed its attack that had truly enraged the Charybdis.Even if the Charybdis had only slowed down for a split second due to the lightning attack, that was enough time for Arran to reduce the distance between himself and the top of the dome by quite a lot.Arran after seeing that his attack was effective against the Charybdis, he was delighted but he did not hesitate to use this tiny window of opportunity to close the distance.Before Arran had only been relying
Iaido.On Earth, this was a very famous term among the martial arts practitioners.Originating from Japan, Iaido is an art of Japanese sword fighting that focused on the awareness of one's state and its environment with the purpose of quickly drawing the sword from the scabbard to hit and slay your opponents before sheathing the sword back into the scabbard.In layman's terms, Iaido is a sword drawing technique focusing on one's awareness of his surroundings as well as swiftly drawing the sword to slay your enemies.In its case, the main part of Iaido that Arran focused on was the swiftness of the move.This technique that Arran was preparing to perform right now was a move that needed Arran to pull all of his focus and intent into gathering his power onto his sword. This needed a high level of focus on his surroundings and himself and it was only when Arran's power had been gathered to a limit that he would be able to deliver a swift strike to his
There was silence both in the venue of the chosen ceremony and on the live stream broadcast platform.Nobody had expected things to turn out the way they did with Arran.For a minute there it seemed like Arran's journey in this ceremony was coming to an end but nobody expected for Arran to pull off such a reversal.It was like when you were having a test in class but there was this particular question you did not know the answer to. You felt like you knew the answer to the question but you just couldn't remember it and since it was almost already time to turn in your paper you decide to forget about it and instead review your other answers.Then suddenly, as if you received inspiration from somewhere, you finally remember the answer to the question. With the limited amount of time left you will be in a hurry to fill in your answer so that you can turn in a full paper.That thrill you feel when you are writing in a hurry... where your heart would be
"Now now, that's enough both of you. There's no need to start tearing into each other over something you have no control of. So the World Essence Pulse Bracer has already chosen its guardian beforehand, what's the big deal?" This was Councilwoman Henrietta speaking."Instead of beating yourself up over this, I'm more inclined to figure out just what it is about this young Kingsman that makes him so special. I feel like he is becoming more and more mysterious and I just want to dig into him and figure him out don't you think?The rest of the council members who heard what Councilwoman Henrietta said shivered slightly.They remembered the kind of woman she was and they started to feel very sorry for Arran. The council members knew that he was about to meet a hurricane dressed in pretty clothes.But apart from that, the council members also realized that Councilwoman Henrietta was right.Since the world essence pulse bracer had already made its choice
Seeing Lucas collapsing on the ground like that, nobody paid him any mind at all.For somebody who was not able to deal with the consequences of his own actions, people only saw him as being an immature and spoiled brat and nobody cared if he would suffer at the hands of his big sister later or not. All people knew was that at this moment, Lucas had lost all his face and he had embarrassed not only himself but also his sister and family.Nobody would ever take him seriously ever again.The episode with Lucas was only a minor distraction and soon everybody had forgotten about him and his bet. Even Eris and Charmy who had been in conflict with him did not bother to even bring up their earlier squabble.Right now, the focus of everybody was on Arran and they were very much interested in finding out what the second elimination round was.It should be noted that the storm had already subsided and the other participants were already resuming their journe