Chapter 16: Battlescars

The team comprised of the six of them, and that meant that everyone was fairly paired up, but Cipher had other plans and instructed the group to form a circle around their new team member. This would be the initiation circle for the newcomer. The metal weapons were distributed, and Silver was the first to choose a duelling sword. The blue-eyed boy knew that nobody really wanted to get in the ring with Ash today. Partly due to her pitiful performance today but also because, despite her lacklustre ability to beat a simple obstacle course, she was still the only person who had ever managed to kill the monstrous Sabre, and that was something everyone had dreaded going into the tournament.