Chapter 47: Chapter 47: (Tournament - Part 4)
"This brat…!!" He reacted angrily, but the one wearing the white mask stopped him.
"Don't make a move until the battle officially starts. We can't be disqualified now." The white masked said.
The red masked made some rumbling noises, but still obliged.
"The standoff is pretty intense, let's see how this fight turns out! Three," We tensed up when the countdown started, "Two," I backed away, far from my team, as I let them fight those guys, "One! Go!"
I sent two fireballs at the red masked, whishing around my teammates, and the guy blocked them by hitting them with his own fireballs.
Alice took the yellow masked girl, Scarlet, the blue masked girl, and Randy, the white masked boy.
Seeing that they've already taken their opponent, I decided to make this battle quick.
I dashed towards red masked, appearing in front of him in a flash.
Shocked, the guy then whipped out a sword but it was too late!
Lightning coursed through my palms as I hit him in the stomach with it, sending countless electrical arcs throughout his body!
He was almost fried to death but I held back; I might get disqualified even if killing is allowed.
The gap between our strength was too much, I didn't even have to use magic to knock him out. But I figured that it would look cooler if I used lightning magic.
"Unexpectedly, the toddler defeated Lars without breaking any sweat! I gotta say, I'd kill to have a child like that! Whoever his parents are, they must be extremely lucky!" The proctor said.
*Boom* *Boom* *Boom*
I turned around to see how my team's fights were going, and immediately, I noticed that Randy was losing… even with bombs, he was still losing.
The white masked seems to be deflecting any bombs thrown at him and redirecting them towards Alice or Scarlet. And Randy, being the bomb fanatic that he is, sent more bombs… for f*ck sake, I should've chosen my teammates more carefully!
[Yeah, you were too arrogant] Tutorial Bot quipped.
'Shut up!'
Randy chose the wrong opponent, and now he is paying for the price. He doesn't know any martial arts, and the white masked seems to know a lot about martial arts, considering the fact that he redirected bombs without them exploding on him.
Then, as I was contemplating whether I should help Randy or not, the white masked dealt his finishing blow on the brown haired teen. Now, Randy was also unconscious.
I sighed, and said, "Do I really need to do this myself?"
The white masked slowly circled around me as he said, "Let's take this moment to chat for a bit."
I replied, "What are you going to talk to me about?" I was cautious as to see whether he would make a move on me.
"You see, I've always wondered why he took such an interest into you, yet you are this naïve and weak." He said, laughing a bit.
I narrowed my eyes, "Hmm, why do you think so?" At the moment, I am rather interested in the person this guy is talking about.
"You think I don't know how you look at everyone here? You look down on them, like they are beneath your feet. That is not just arrogance, that is also ignorance and naivety! Let me teach you a little lesson, Auguste…"
He disappeared from my vision, and I felt a kick to my head that sent me flying.
"Gah!!"
I crashed into the walls of the stage, and shook my head as I slowly rose up.
As soon as I stood up, I felt a hand around my neck, and I heard him say, "You underestimate this world too much," as he stared into my eyes with only the deepest of abyss can be seen.
Then I was smashed to the ground multiple times, but I managed to kick him away and form a barrier around me!
*Crack!*
No less than a second, I saw his fist smash into my barrier and my barrier cracked!
I put my hands together and giant earth spikes rose from the ground to kill him, but he destroyed all of them with a single swing of his arm.
"You think these things will kill me!? You're much stupid than I thought!" He yelled at me.
I was shaking, backing myself to the wall. I haven't felt this fear for a year now, and this sure brings back that time with the ogre.
[Don't worry, even though this guy's as strong as that ogre, this time, it's different. You are much stronger than a year ago, and if you use your powers correctly, you can beat him. Do not confront him with your physical strength alone, be smart, Auguste! Calm yourself first, you're panicking too much!]
Breathing rapidly, I nodded, steadied my breathing cycles for a moment and calmed down.
I kept reinforcing my barrier as the guy tried smashing it with his bare fists. He didn't even use any weapons to create a crack on my barrier, which is almost impossible to do for normal D-Class Disciples. But there is something strange in this guy. I only sensed a foundation establishment cultivator's mana in him, yet he has this kind of strength? This is the ogre situation again!
While shelled inside my barrier, I observed him, and saw that he had pale white skin. That is weird.
"Come out of your shell, you pathetic brat!" He yelled, thinking that it would anger me.
But he didn't realize that I was close to figuring out what he is.
Since the start, I've been getting weird vibes from him but I just ignored it, thinking that it was nothing important. But now, I realized, I was getting weird vibes from him because he is already dead!
I am currently fighting against an undead right now, which means only holy spells would work on him. I don't have that at the moment, but they do have another weakness according to the monster encyclopedia; fire. Fire is their other weakness! Only strong fires though since this one is strong.
Right now, I am cornered. I cannot get out but I could use my earth magic to dig a small tunnel underground that leads to him and blast my fire magic through it!
Seeing that he was too distracted trying to get to me, I snapped my fingers from behind me and I dug a small tunnel leading to him. I covered the hole with my palm, and blasted an ungodly amount of flames through the small tunnel.
Then, too busy to even notice my surprise attack, the ground under him erupted into a pillar of fire, burning him.
It took a moment for him but he finally said, "AAAHH! YOU PATHETICALLY WORTHLESS BRAT!!! I'LL MURDER YOU FOR THIS!!"
I smirked as I saw his skin slowly melt, and as the flame steadily burned out, along with his screams of pain, my smirk slowly turned into horror as I saw a completely skinless skeleton in front of me, still moving!
Without any intelligence, the skeleton continued bashing my barrier, this time, stronger than before!
*BAM!* *BAM* *BAM*
"What the hell is going on…?" I said, completely confused as to what's happening.
[This level of necromancy… Auguste, you have to run away! I also thought that fire would kill this thing, but this is the kind of necromancy that only strengthens the corpse with fire! That ungodly amount of fire you unleashed earlier just strengthened this thing to impossible levels! It can even contend with an elder!]
I only said one thing after hearing that.
"Sh*t."
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Miko_Sayaki I'll probably post another chapter later, around 1 AM or so. It's 9:34 PM right now, so around 3 and a half hours.
Or until I am finished writing the two chapters I've been putting off.
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