The match between Carrum and Joyner Wellington had been short but full of exciting moments. With overwhelming power, Carrum completely suppressed Joyner to the extent that he was not able to retaliate at all. Still, even though Joyner could not find the chance to attack Carrum, Carrum was still a long way from being a total threat to Joyner.
With the powerful evasive capabilities granted by the Obscure Shadow ability, Joyner was still able to remain unscathed, even after facing Carrum's powerful destructive attacks for a few minutes.
Right now, it was not clear who had the upper hand between Joyner and Carrum, as both of them were following their own pace. Everybody knew that the Obscure Shadow ability was very powerful and could let Joyner ignore any attacks aimed at him. But what nobody knew was what kind of costs were associated with this ability.
It was not clear how long Joyner could keep on ignoring Carrum's attacks. For all the audience knew, Joyner may e
Nobody had expected Joyner Wellington to lose, nor was it expected that he would lose in such an absolute and miserable fashion.When Joyner had been defeated, he had not even known how it had happened. Joyner did not even have the time to react before it was all over.With Joyner collapsed on the stage, the match had effectively ended and everybody was stunned.There was no movement from the audience at all as the venue of the final round fell into silence.But just when it seemed like this was how things were going to end, suddenly, something even more unexpected and outrageous happened.Carrum, who had just defeated Joyner, had been standing solemnly on the stage a hundred meters away from Joyner and he had not made any other moves after that. But suddenly, as if Carrum had been overcome by a wave of madness, eerie dark green flames as black as night suddenly erupted from all over his body.Like a person who had been possessed by the devi
On the floating platform where the rulers, as well as the council members, were seated.Everybody present here looked at Carrum's retreating figure as he made his way back to the participants' viewing stage. As they all looked at him, there was an unexplainable look in each of their eyes, and everybody had their own thoughts about Carrum.There was silence on the platform for a brief moment, but eventually, the first person to speak was the Enlightened Old Immortal."Sigh!""It's a shame that such a promising young man had succumbed to the temptation of the shades. Right now, his future is lost and there is no hope of saving him anymore.""Indeed, it is such a pity..." Councilman Taylor agreed."This is as much a failure on our part for not protecting our people well as it is his for giving in to temptation," he said.Councilwoman Alyss, who had been quiet for the most part throughout the entire ceremony, suddenly scoffed as she said.
On the stage...Arran and Brianna stood across from each other. They both stared at the other with different feelings in their hearts.Right now, both Arran and Brianna were overwhelmed with feelings. Of the two of them, Brianna was the one who was feeling the most pressure.A sense of trepidation overcame Brianna as she registered the kind of situation she was in.Looking at Arran, who was standing on the stage calmly like he always did, the pressure that Brianna felt in her heart seemed to increase even more.Feeling her body tremble lightly, Brianna did not know what she should do.As Brianna was standing motionless on the stage, she suddenly heard Arran speak.Arran asked her, "How are you feeling... nervous?"Brianna was surprised when Arran suddenly talked to her like that.Thinking about his question, Brianna had to admit that she was really nervous at the moment. It was pretty obvious from the fact that it seemed
Brianna took out her Ice Crystal Dagger and held it tightly in her hand as she got ready to fight. Looking at Arran, who was standing opposite her, Brianna took in a deep breath to calm down.In the next moment, Brianna shot towards Arran like a rocket.Knowing that she was weaker than Arran, Brianna wanted to get the upper hand by attacking first. This way, she wouldn't be in a passive position in this fight.The two of them had not been standing far away from each other. Brianna was able to close the distance between them in a single heartbeat.Clang!There was the sound of metal clashing against each other as Arran and Brianna clashed. immediately, the battle between the both of them became heated.Brianna was boldly waving her Ice Crystal Dagger around as she attacked Arran.Sticking close to Arran, Brianna displayed excellent skills with her dagger. With every stab of Brianna's dagger, she aimed for Arran's blind spots. Her metho
Arran was frozen solid into a large block of ice. This was a very shocking development! the audience could not believe that this was the outcome of the clash between Arran and Brianna.It should be known that ever since Arran participated in this tournament, this was actually the first time that anybody had seen him suffer any damage.In all of Arran's previous fights, he had always seemed so relaxed and laid back and his battles had been done with ease. No matter what sort of abilities of skill Arran's previous opponents had used, he had always seemed to take it all in stride... never being forced to a corner or go all out.Even in the previous elimination rounds of the chosen ceremony, Arran had not really suffered much damage before.The closest Arran had come to use his full power was when he had been facing the undead skeleton during the third elimination round. That time was the only time that Arran had ever been made to go all out and even then, Ar
Shooting towards Arran. Brianna's heart was apprehensive. When Brianna had first seen Arran extending his wings in the sky, she had thought he was going to take off and avoid battling head-on with her. This was the one situation that Brianna wanted to see in the least.Still, it wouldn't have mattered all that much.At the end of the day, Brianna would still have been able to engage Arran, only it would have been much more troublesome to do so. Also, with the little time she had to use her transformation, Brianna wouldn't have been able to deal substantial damage to Arran at all.In the first place, Brianna was not expecting to win this battle with Arran. Her only aim was that she should be able to cause enough trouble for him... you know, get a few good hits in so that it wouldn't look like she had done anything at all.Some might consider Brianna's actions to be extremely foolish. If she already knew that she was no match for Arran, why then did she ins
Following Brianna's detonation of the ice tornado, a fierce storm brewed on the stage.Arran and Brianna were both swallowed by the storm and their figures were consumed entirely.Through the thick blanket of ice and snow that rampaged on the stage, neither Arran's nor Brianna's figures could be seen.By now, thirty seconds had already passed, and the deadline of Brianna's transformation had come.This fight had only lasted for only thirty seconds.So far, this wasn't the shortest match since the entire tournament began, but as far as general standards went, this match carried the most impact... much more than even Carrum's match with Joyner Wellington had.The ice storm on the stage lasted for a few minutes before finally dying down.As the powerful winds of the stage gradually fell silent and things gained a semblance of normalcy, gradually two figures could be faintly seen through the slowly calming storm.One of these figur
The long-awaited battle between Arran and Carrum had finally arrived. The two of them had been looking forward to this ever since their last fight had ended.This was especially so for Arran.Now standing before him was the opponent who he had wanted to face for so long now.Arran could feel a budding anticipation growing in him even as he faced Carrum. Along with this was the feeling that he would be able to get some answers regarding the disappearance of his parents.On the snow-covered stage, Arran and Carrum were standing apart from each other with a distance of 100 meters separation between them.On earth, 100 meters was not a long-distance at all. At full sprint, a top athlete could run a hundred-meter distance in under ten seconds.This was basically the limit of human mortals.For the Aeth who generally had more physical capabilities than humans, a hundred meters would only take seven seconds at most. But for combatants at Arr