[Third Person's PoV]
Cid was seen walking between an alleyway in the middle of the night thinking of fun he just had with Beta and then Alexia.
"What are you doing in these alleys?! Did you see the whole thing?" a random guy says drawing out his sword preparing to attack.
"Did you see what happened in the church?!" He asked, sounding paranoid.
Cid just looked at it him confusing before realizing what he's talking about, "Ah, you must be talking about the murder of Archbishop Drake"
Cid's eyes glowed slightly purple and saw Alpha standing in front of the statue of the hero Olivier.
"Hero Olivier…" Alpha said without taking her eyes off the statue, "All we wish for is to know the truth. What were you doing in the sacramental grounds? The more we unravel the dark mysterious of history, the more intertwined the lies and true become"
Alpha turns to the corpse on the right, "And you Archbishop Drake, what is it that you were hiding? Just who killed you? Were you cast away out of fear that people would be looking into the rumors about you.
There's no way you can answer of course, unless Master himself demands you to answer him"
"Arise" Cid said freaking out the guy in front of him,
He pointed his sword at Cid, "I must kill you to silence you, you know to much, it's your fault in the first place for knowing things you shouldn't have"
But Cid didn't pay him any attention, he just looked at the Archbishop's corpse through Alpha's shadow, its shadow came to life and kneeled before Alpha, taking her by surprise.
She sighed with a smile when she saw the shadow soldier before her, "I see, so master is watching over me, thank you"
Alpha then turned her attention towards a large white door with grandiose decorations. "Now we wait, until the gates of the sacramental grounds open tomorrow… but for now I'll just have to ask you some questions"
Alpha said, addressing the Archbishop shadow soldier next to her.
Cid's eyes stopped glowing and saw the guy that was in front of him start running in his direction with his sword in a swinging motion.
But Cid didn't do anything and just watched with a small grin.
The next moment the sound of someone snapping their fingers was heard which was followed up by the guy's head exploding.
"It's fancy seeing you here Master!" Epsilon said with a happy expression.
Epsilon went on her tiptoes and kissed Cid, which Cid responded in kind.
"I see you have gotten better with your sound magic." Cid said, breaking off the kiss and looking at the guy's exploded head next to them.
Epsilon sighed when she heard that, "Yeah but now killing them became so easy that it take away the fun of it"
Epsilon then shook her head, "Anyways my lord I still have bad guys to hunt and kill, I'll see you later"
She kissed Cid one more time before jumping towards the rooftops and running away.
…
The next day…
Cid was standing by the railing by the colosseum watching the start of the Goddess Trials,
A fat nearly balding man game to the center of the stage of stage and started speaking,
"Finally, the day of the Goddess Trial is here! As Archbishop Drake had to go on a leave on urgent business. I, Nelson, will be taking over the duties of this opening ceremony…"
While Nelson continued on talking, Alexia was narrowing her eyes in his direction, looking at him from her seat with the other special guest. Natsume, also known as Beta, was to Alexia's right. While Rose was to her left.
'This Nelson guy, he's suspicious, I don't like him. After having a fantastic time with Cid, I decided to check out and investigate the disappearance of the Archbishop but he turned me away at any chance he could.' Alexia thought to herself and put a hand on her chin pondering over the matter.
'Someone must have wanted to make sure the Archbishop wouldn't spill anything, and if there's another thing I don't like…' Alexia's eyes turned towards Natsume who was standing up waving at everyone that was cheering for her.
Alexia's face scowled slightly towards her direction, 'It's this shady woman right next to me! She might be a genius novelist or whatever, but it's obvious she's trying to suck up to people. And she's showing off her cleavage on purpose!!!'
As Natsume was about to sit back down on her seat she turned towards Alexia and looked at her with a condescending expression.
'This bitch should just go die in a ditch somewhere, she's using her position as a princess and a school friend to get close to my man.
This cheap bitch even had the decency to get saved by my husband when she was kidnapped and came looking for us to be with him.
I'm his princess, it should be me that show be saved and carried away in his strong arms. Luckily I had the chance to be embraced by them, which this bitch won't have the pleasure of ever experiencing.' Natsume thought to herself arrogantly.
Alexia when she noticed Natsume's expression became irritated, she gritted her teeth. They both looked at each other and one could practically see the sparks flying between them
While that was going on Rose was simply enjoying her drink sipping it through a straw, 'This is quite good'
Meanwhile Cid was watching Alexia's and Beta interaction with each other while chuckling to himself.
Cid returned his gaze towards the Archbishop, he had his arms spread out and announced, "This dome of light won't allow any interference until one of the parties is unable to fight. So the fights cannot be stopped until someone falls to the ground"
"Now then…" he continued,
"Our first challenger on this glorious occasion is a traveler from Begalta, the country of swords!, ANNAROSE!!"
As Annarose can unto the battle stage the silhouette of a warrior in armor appear,
"That is… the memory of the warrior Bolga!! Our very first challenger successfully summoned someone! Things are heating up already" Nelson continued to narrate.
Annarose and Bolga didn't say anything and just continued looking at each other before they both shot themselves towards each other with their sword in hand ready to clash…
[Cid's Pov]
So fucking boring… Their fights aren't even interesting, the only 'good' fight was when Annarose went up and it was mediocre at best.
Even the girls on the special guest seats looked bored, Beta and Alexia are only entertaining themselves by giving each other the stinkeyes, while Rose is just enjoying the food.
Good thing my turn is near, Rose still went ahead and added my name in the event.
The funny thing is I heard her whispering to herself through the shadow soldier I left in her shadows when she was filling out the form.
She said something along the lines of "Hehehe Some people already know strong Cid is but with this his name would reach far and wide and no one would then oppose our union"
It looks like my curse strikes again, I'm too handsome, sighhhhh.
After the last challenger got beaten by the memories of one of the warriors, the announcers called me up to the stage
"Time for the next challenger to step forth! A young man from the spellsword academy of Midgar… CID KAGENOU!!!"
'Show time' I thought to myself as I unleashed a hint of Conqueror's Haki creating an oppressive atmosphere causing almost everyone to start sweating and breathing heavily due to the suffocating feeling.
As I was away from everyone and made sure no one was looking I appeared in the sky wearing my Shadow persona.
"Who… who is that!" shouted someone from the audience while pointing towards me. To them I just appear as a black silhouette with a sword in hand and my long coat fluttering in the wind.
As everyone started to look up I let gravity take control and drop me to the stage.
As the land the ground beneath me cracks and caves in creating a large explosion of dust once again appearing as a silhouette… as a shadow.
I swung my slime made ebony sword clearing the dust letting everyone get a perfect view of me.
"SHADOW!" Alexia shouted standing up from her seat in shock.
Rose also rises from her seat in shock at seeing me but her words get caught by the tip of her tongue.
While Beta also stood up in surprise as I didn't tell any of the girls about this, there are 2 reasons why I didn't say anything.
1, there really was no need, And 2, this is one of the events I want it to go the same as it was told.
I haven't actively gone after a girl since my arrival into this world, my relationships with the other girls just naturally happened but Aurora, Aurora is one woman I'm willing to actively pursue.
The chance of her not appearing when I step in is really low, but not zero. And if something happened and I wasn't able to meet her I would be quite sad at the missed opportunity, so this event needed to go as it was told.
The Nelson guy looked towards my direction in shock, "So you're Shadow!!! Gather the Holy Knights, I don't know what he's after but don't let him escape" he ordered.
Strips of Runes start to fly around me gathering information about me to see who would be worthy would be.
Reading the Runes a smile tugged on my lips.
"That Light!" Beta shouted in surprise,
"Here comes the opponent of Shadow!" Alexia yelled out in anticipation.
A white light shone brightly on stage with Runes shattering spelling something else, something Beta read out loud "Aurora?"
"It can't be!" Nelson shouted nervously, "Did he actually summon her memory?! Was Shadow chosen by her, then?! The Witch of Ruins, Aurora!!!"
(Pic of the woman that has my heart)
As she appeared before me I zoned out the world around me and just focused on, apart from being beautiful she is powerful, although I know I'm going to win it doesn't mean I'm not going to enjoy this fight.
I paid attention to her every single movement, as she is doing the same to me.
A conversation with just the twitches and little movement of our bodies.
And so I say with my body I say, "Ladies first" which caused a tiny smile to form in her otherwise cold face, if it wasn't for my enhanced and superior senses I would have missed it.
She sent a wave of magic through the floor of the arena causing it to break when it reached my destination trying to harm me.
When I simply moved out the way her magic came out from the ground and started compressing itself together creating pure solid construct made of her magic.
These constructs took the form of various weapons which floated in the air aimed towards me.
Aurora sent the magic made weapons flying towards my direction, when they were about to make contact I simply used Rulers Authority to stop them in their tracks.
With a point of my finger I willed her magic made weapons to point towards her direction.
But before I could return her weapons towards her she willed her magic constructs to go berserk and explode.
I swung my blade around me, collecting all the explosion's power and stored it into my sword, where I proceeded to send the explosion's power back towards her with a slash.
Aurora moved back dodging the slash, which only ended up creating a large gash on the ground.
Aurora's grin broadened, as she released a small chuckle.
She summoned more of her magic, her magic remained in its pure form but just made it sharper and pointer.
She sent them flying towards me. I simply deflected with my sword but as I did she constructed a scythe in her hands and made her way towards me.
With a smile on my face I go meet her in the middle where a large explosion of force occurs due to our strengths, which kicked up a dust storm.
She waved her scythe towards me trying to cut me but I deflected it, and sent a slash of my own.
With each second we exchange moves, the more our speed increases to the point that the dust that was once obscuring us was swept away.
Our bodies moved together as if we were dancing a dangerous dance, even if it wasn't of any danger towards me.
Aurora backed away and sent multiple slashes made with her magic towards me, which I just ran towards them and cut them apart with my sword.
When I arrived before her I swung my blade in a straight line. She tried to block it with the blade of her scythe but all it ended up doing was break it.
She jumped back, but instead of creating more constructs she turned her magic into a red liquid form, where she proceeded to send it towards me as a type of long projectile from every direction.
I maneuver myself through the air, dodging it all. I placed my feet on top of it and slid across them using it as a slide to make my way around them.
I used my sword to cut any of those projectiles that came too close. As I cut through them all, I disappeared from her view and cut right through her image, ending the fight.
But before she disappeared I whispered in a way only she could hear, "I'll see you soon", causing her to smile and widen her eyes in surprise and shatter as if she was made out of glass.
I mentally called upon igris who appeared before me. He held out his cape, I walked into the cape disappearing from everyone's eyes and reappearing a few meters away from the Colosseum.
And after a few seconds Igris sank into the shadow and reappeared inside mine, leaving everyone back on the Colosseum with their mouths open in shock at such a display of skill…
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