Chapter 123: Tournament 4

“Come!” the buff guy roared, before his massive figure sprinted towards Anastasia. He cocked his massive arm back, and punched his fist right at her. Anastasia didn’t dodge or run back, instead she clasped onto the massive fist, and used it to lift her lithe body of the ground, before kicking at his face.

Bang! the armored guy was thrown backwards, and before he could print himself, Anastasia sprinted towards him and knocked him harder, sending him crashing into the stadium walls once more.

This time however, Anastasia didn’t leave him like that. Even after he had got embedded in the, she still sped forward and hit him through the hole he created, before blurring back and doing the same over and over again, until there were numerous afterimages of her doing the same thing, only then did she stop.

“Anastasia Necron wins!” Instructor Lee’s cheering voice reverberated through the arena.

After that, the matches continued, all until the round of thirty two was completed. The round of sixteen began immediately after, and by default, Damon was first once again.

Levi did the same entrance he did earlier. Lightning enveloped his body as he leapt and landed in the middle of the field, scorching the earth. Damon wasn’t one to be left behind, and did a similar grand entrance.

He flipped mid air, and landed with both arms in his pockets.

“Today we have the lightning monarch, Vs the fallen prince, let’s see who will rise over the other. Begin!” Instructor Lee yelled.

Like a streak of lightning, Levi zoomed towards Damon, while Damon also burst into a series of afterimages and launched at Damon. The two met in the middle, their fists clashing, sending a pressurized air pocket blowing outwards, one that blew both of their hairs and clothes.

The two pressed forward, before a rapid exchange of kicks and punches ensued, with none gaining advantage over the other. Both disengaged, jumping backwards, and as I’d in sync, both of their swords appeared in their hands at the same time.

Crakakakaka!

Levi smirked as a purple crackle of lightning enveloped his sword, before appearing all over his body.

Crackle!

He vanished and appeared before Damon, his sword falling from above, making a beeline for Damon’s head, but Damon moved with unbelievable speed, sharply tilting his head to one side, blocking the overhead slash with his own sword, before his sword snaked around Levi’s own, and towards his neck.

Levi tilted his head back with the agility befitting of lightning, before he parried Damon’s sword, used his sword that was resting on Damon’s as a pivot point, he kicked towards Damon’s face, but Damon blocked with his forearm.

But it still pushed him skidding backwards. Damon skidded a few meters before stopping, before he raised his hand, which was slightly numb from the lightning cracking around Levi’s leg, at the moment of impact.

Raising his head to look back at Levi, he saw the smirk tugging at the lips of the purple eyed youth. Rolling his eyes, Damon flicked his sword and dashed back at Levi.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The two clashed multiple times in a second, in a series of close combat swordplay, with Levi holding the edge due to the fact that his ability sometimes stunned Damon, and also because Damon had to dodge bolts of lightning most of the times.

WHUM!

A pressurized pocket of air exploded outwards as Damon brought his sword down on Levi. Levi raised his sword, blocking the Damon’s overhead slash, but his knees buckled, and the ground beneath his feet shattered, under the oppressive force.

The two stood hung like that as if in suspended animation, with Damon hanging mid air as his sword rested upon Levi’s, and Levi, standing on the cratered ground.

The crowd was also extremely hyped. This was the hottest and first high paced fight ever since the tournament began. All the other fights were either one sided, or just one combatant playing with the other, and once they actually got serious, would eliminate the other.

-“Who do you think would win?”

-“I don’t know, they’re moving so fast I can’t determine who’s on the back foot.”

-“Yeah, I can barely catch glimpses of their figures.”

-“The top brass are truly in a different league than ours aren’t they?” one of the second years commented.

Down in the arena, the fight resumed, with Damon adapting to Levi’s superior speed, and the fight tilting to his favor.

BOOOM….. Crakakakaka!

Damon doged a whip of lightning which Levi duo wielded simultaneously with his sword. Each strike against the ground, scorched the earth black, and Damon did his beast to avoid each and every one.

“Summer blaze!” Damon retaliated with a searing crimson arc which Levi used his lightning coated sword to tank, nullifying the arc with a much larger surge of lightning. But damon wasn’t done yet, he swung his sword in an overhead slash.

“Fall.” A furious shockwave blasted at Levi, and flung him through the air, and he didn’t stop until he got embedded into the stadium walls which were about a hundred meters away.

Damon sprinted towards Levi, trying to enact the same thing Anastasia did to the armored guy. But Levi was no third rate extra. A surge of lightning blasted out of the hole and into the sky at the same moment Damon reached the hole.

“It seems I can’t escape having to you my ability against him.” Damon muttered as he bent his neck to gaze up at the lightning shrouded figure who was not quite flying, but was slowly descending from the sky.

’I hadn’t thought I’d had to use it against anyone before I encounter Rose.’ Damon had thought he wouldn’t need his reflections to beat Levi. But turns out he was underestimating the guy a little too much.

Damon sighed as another him appeared beside him, and rushed at Levi, whose features were indistinguishable from the lightning shrouding his body.

But the Damon who rushed at Levi eyes’s widened, because Levi was already at his side, standing shoulder to shoulder with him, but facing the opposite direction. Before he could react, He felt his body become extremely light. It was only through the perspective of this other self that he saw what truly happened. Levi had backhanded him so fast that he couldn’t perceive it.

In less than a second, Damon made a hole of his own in the walls of the stadium. Just as he oriented himself, he saw a flash of lightning clouding his view, before he exploded into motes of light.

“Shit!” the real Damon cursed as Levi suddenly appeared beside him also.

Bang! He hit Damon across the face, sending him flying, then just as Damon flipped mid air and tried to land on his feet, Levi appeared behind Damon and hit him once more sending him flying once more. The same thing carried out for the next few seconds, with Levi looking like he was in many places at once, and Damon looking like he was a ball being bounced around by the Levis.

While all these was happening, back at the stands, a certain vermilion haired girl, approached a certain grey eyes girl.

“Who do you think would win?” The redhead asked.

“Damon.” The grey eyed girl replied almost instantly.

“Oh, do tell why you think so.” The redhead said.

“He isn’t using his ability yet.” The grey eyed girl replied with certainty.

The redhead smiled knowingly. “I do not blame you. If it was my brother down there, even I would believe he would win, no matter how badly he’s being pummeled.” She shook her head sighing.

Meanwhile, amidst all this, a second Damon suddenly appeared in the arena, before his figure shimmered slightly, visible only to Damon himself, before it shimmered once more, showing Damon with multiple bruises and scorched skin.

Levi flickered to his fading afterimage, getting ready to hit Damon once more, only for Damon to twist his body and grasp hold Levi’s fist firmly in his palm.

“Had enough fun yet?” Damon smirked. “I guess it’s my turn then.”

One moment, Levi’s fist was being hold in Damon’s grasp, the next, he felt himself being embedded into the earth. Levi spat out blood, mixed with saliva.

Before he could even process the pain, a barrage of punches rained down on him. Even the lightning shrouding his body eventually faded. He couldn’t for the love of all things figure out how Damon suddenly became stronger. He knew the boy could clone himself, but he always thought the clones were weaker than the original. He never thought the opposite to be the case.

Still, he would rather die than to go out like this. The moment the thought took root however, his eyes widened. A crimson arc was headed straight for him, the malevolent colour a stark contrast to the pearly white smile of the person who unleashed it.

’Is this it?’ Levi thought weakly. But alas, just as he thought his life was over, a broad hand suddenly appeared in the path of the crimson arc slapping it to oblivion.

“Damon Darkfell wins.” That was the last thing Levi heard before going unconscious.

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