Was Arran considered strong among his peers of the same generation?
The answer is yes...
Arran could be considered strong among his peers of the same generation solely by virtue of the fact that he could participate in this ceremony.
Then let us ask, among those participating in this ceremony, how does Arran's strength compare to the rest of them?
Well, then that is exactly what these people were trying to figure out.
Because the generation of Aku The Demon, Bryon, and the others gathered here was only a generation apart from Arran's generation, these people are all trying to figure out how strong and talented the geniuses of this generation are because some of the most talented people of a particular generation usually had what it takes to compete with geniuses of the previous generation.
We are not talking about being able to catch up with those ordinary geniuses of the previous generation because given time any half-decent genius would be
Let us backtrack a little, right before Arran defeated Paul and Jerry.During the time that Bryon and Aku The Demon as well as the others of their own generation were in conflict with each other, the battle between Arran and Paul and Jerry had not stopped for even a second.At this time Arran was still using psychological warfare against Paul and Jerry and he had just finished explaining to them how he had incited Winston to lose his cool before the battle which ultimately led to his defeat.Why was Arran taking the time to explain all this to his opponents?Well, this was part of the plan.By explaining his previous actions to Paul and Jerry, Arran hoped to reduce their vigilance of him or at the very least shift their focus onto another thing. In this way by the time Arran finally unleashed his finishing move, Paul and Jerry would not be able to react in time.Indeed, just as Arran had planned.After hearing exactly how Arran had ac
By this time most people may be thinking, 'Why does Arran only use this single move? Does he have no other move in his arsenal? Why stick to a single move when you could learn more powerful ones?"Actually, these are very valid concerns because if a person should continue using a single move every time he battles his opponents are bound to become familiar with the move making it easy to discern the flaws in them and taking advantage of those flaws.It was not as if Arran had no other moves in his arsenal.In fact, during the short time in which he had been training, Arran had learned a lot of combat techniques in the academy some of which were more powerful than Iaido. The reason Arran still used Iaido most of the time is because of two reasons.One of the reasons is that Arran had only been training for a short time and although he had learned other more powerful combat techniques, due to the limited amount of time he had, Arran's proficiency in using th
Back to real-time.Paul and Jerry had just been knocked flying away catching everybody in the hall off guard. They did not know what had happened to the two of them while they were distracted and arguing so seeing Paul and Jerry knocked out sent them into shock... especially after just hearing Bryon say that they would win while Arran would lose.This outcome was quite contrary to their expectations and they searched everywhere in the hall to look for answers or at least someone to explain things to them.Fortunately, there was a video replay function on the live broadcast and it was possible to search for particular battle footage and watch it again if you missed it.That was not really needed though because the live broadcast was replaying Arran's battle against Paul and Jerry on the platform as their main highlight and by watching the replay, Bryon and his group were able to understand just how things had ended up with Arran's victory.After und
Paul and Jerry probably did not understand how they had lost after going all out with their attacks.Those attacks that they used at the last moment were their strongest ever and they had used every single amount of strength that they could muster without leaving even a drop left. With those abilities, they were supposed to be the victors but in the end, they still lost.Part of the responsibility for losing to Arran partially fell on their shoulders but the main reason for their loss was because Arran had really taken advantage of every chance he had to secure his victory.Apart from letting Arran mess with their heads, Paul and Jerry had not made too many mistakes in the battle and they could be said to have been more steady than Winston had been. It was too bad that at the end of the day they had still underestimated Arran.Paul and Jerry had been too focused on what Arran had allowed them to see that they had ignored what was hidden in plain sight for
Finally, Arran had a total of four tokens in his hands. With this, he was steadily making progress in clearing the second round.Although Arran still had no idea just how many tokens he needs to gather before he would be able to move onto the next round with four tokens in his hand, Arran knew that it was just a matter of time before he would be able to gather enough token to clear this elimination round. All he needed to do was continue doing what he was doing. He would fight the battles that he was confident in winning while avoiding those battles that he was not confident in.As soon as Arran had the fourth token in his hand he wanted to put it away when suddenly he felt a reaction from the token in his hand.It was not only this token that was having a sudden reaction. The other three tokens in Arran's possession were also reacting strangely at this moment. Although the other three tokens were in his personal storage it was not able to prevent them from sens
As soon as Arran left, just three minutes after, from a corner of the cave, three figures could be seen making their way out of a hidden tunnel that was covered by the dried husks of the plant-type Direbeasts that previously occupied this cave.Just as Arran had discovered, there was indeed another group of participants who had been close to him. What he did not know was that there was not only one participant but instead three and these three participants turned out to be Terrence as well as the sisters Renee and Daphne.The three of them had been together ever since they entered into the mountain and they had hunted Direbeasts together as they searched for the tokens. With their effort, the three of them had been able to collect three tokens which was the same amount as Arran before he had found the fourth one. This was despite the fact that the three of them had not been as lucky... or should we say as unlucky... as Arran was to always come across random Direbeasts
The second round was still underway and by one most of the participants had already figured out what they needed to do to clear the current round of eliminations.Now the focus of the various participants is to hunt for various Direbeast nests so that they could gather the tokens that are distributed in the mountain.Even if nobody knew exactly how many tokens were needed to clear the current round but still the participants had already figured out a pattern to how the tokens were distributed in the mountain. This pattern was one that was actually very obvious that anybody with a little bit of deduction could figure out.As this mountain was one of the special mountain terrains that were completely occupied by Direbeasts, it had formed its own ecological system where different species of Direbeasts coexisted with each other forming its own food chain and basic hierarchy.In this mountain, there was an innumerable number of Direbeasts nests roughly distrib
"Who is the person of interest?" Councilman Killian asked.There was a pause as silence fell in the room.All the council members who had been present on the day when the plans for the chosen ceremony had been discussed... all of them looked at each other in silence.Seeing the odd behavior of their fellow council members, the other three were very puzzled and Councilman Killian asked."Why are you all behaving so oddly? Does this have anything to do with this person of interest that you mentioned?""Tell us, is there anything that we don't know about, or is there something special about this person's identity that would elicit such behavior from you guys?"With the odd way the other council members were behaving, the curiosity of the other three council members increased, and although they did not say anything the expressions of Councilmen Zain and Councilwoman Rema made it clear that they too were very interested in knowing this person.