Elena looked at Alyssa's face and frowned when she saw the scar on her face.
"Who is she?" Amelia asked, and the three of them were confused by her sudden arrival.
"It seems that even the girls have gathered, but someone is already on the leaderboard!" Gazil said.
"It's... Alyssa standing on the special zone!" Gazil stuttered when he read Alyssa's name for some reason.
"Look at that scar..."
"She's not even on the leaderboard"
"What's going on?"
People started chattering as they were confused by Alyssa's arrival.
"I was hoping this wouldn't happen," the old man at the office spoke as he saw Alyssa on the screen.
"Why did the Astaria Family's head allow her participation?" A sigh left his mouth.
Meanwhile, in the boys' final location before Alyssa arrived at the special zone,
Asher dashed towards Sam, who thrust his spear towards him in an attempt to waste time and make sure he was not eliminated. He knew that his chances of winning were zero so he wanted to at least maintain his pride as a member of an Elite family.
"I can't lose this pathetically," Sam thought in his mind.
But Asher was done playing around. He countered with his sword, breaking Sam's stance and kicked him in the guts. Sam fell to the ground, holding his stomach and coughing blood.
But Asher did not stop there; he kicked him in the head, knocking him out as his face was buried in the mud. Asher looked at Matthew, almost wanting to surrender rather than be beaten like that.
"And Sam Allister was defeated by Asher Greville!!!" Gazil spoke as the audience cheered,
At the final location, Alyssa met the gazes of all three of them.
"Forget about winning this if you don't want to get hurt," she spoke.
"I don't even know who you are, but it seems you are quite arrogant," Eva spoke.
She waved her hand as multiple translucent barriers went towards Alyssa.
"Should have stayed out of here; now you can go back," Eva spoke.
Alyssa raised her finger and brought it down, breaking all the barriers that Eva had summoned.
"What?" Eva was shocked to see all her barriers break one by one.
Even Amelia and Elena, who knew about Eva's abilities, were shocked.
"Another advance element user!" Gazil spoke with a surprised voice.
"Who is this girl?" Sylvie said as she tried to remember.
"Pink hair... Ahh, she is the daughter of the Astaria family!" Verina replied after remembering.
"She is that girl? Why is she participating in a public tournament?" Sylvie said with a frown on her face.
"Who is she?" Livia asked.
"Oh, we'll tell you about that another day," Sylvie dodged the topic, making Lucas curious about her identity.
"Some kind of space element?" Elena muttered.
"Doesn't matter, I will win this," Elena said as she summoned multiple fireballs.
"Let's see how you dodge these," she spoke as many balls of fire went towards Alyssa.
"I will win," Alyssa muttered and raised her trembling finger, distorting the direction of the spells.
Amelia was still watching Alyssa, and she did not want to jump in carelessly. Both Elena and Eva were doing the same. They did not want to focus completely on Alyssa, leaving Amelia free to attack them.
*Ding*
Alyssa received +2 extra tokens for staying on the special zone. She would keep receiving 2 tokens every 10 seconds. This was also a problem for the other three competitors.
They did not know that Alyssa had not received any tokens until that point. They assumed that if she were this capable, she would have gathered a similar number of tokens to them.
"Oh, Elena!" a girl's voice exclaimed, and Elena turned to see her cousin Ria approaching.
"Who is that girl?" Elena asked when she noticed Alyssa.
"I don't know, but her element is space-related. Be careful," Eva warned Ria.
Eva knew Ria as she would often come to meet Elena in their Academy in Desmar.
"Space?" Ria looked back at Alyssa.
Seeing Ria and Elena, Alyssa's anger increased.
"These damn Rothschilds," she muttered to herself.
She could feel that the effect of the potion was fading, and her body was slowly showing symptoms again.
Another 10 seconds passed, and Alyssa received another 2 tokens, but now Elena and Eva were ready to attack her. Ria's arrival meant that they had another person to hold Amelia if she tried to attack them.
But before they could attack her, Amelia decided to attack Alyssa. Amelia moved forward with her dagger in her hand, augmenting her body. She fired a fireball at Alyssa, who diverted it like she did with Elena, but this gave enough time for Amelia to get closer to Alyssa.
"Lance," Alyssa muttered, confusing Amelia, but she suddenly looked to her right side, where an ice lance was coming towards her.
She tried to stop and dodge it, but the lance still grazed her.
Amelia stepped back from Alyssa before she could do another attack at her.
"What?" Elena, Eva, and Ria were all shocked.
"Two advanced elements?" Elena spoke.
"Another advanced element, this new contestant seems quite competent," Gazil spoke.
The crowd, including many people in the VIP rooms, was surprised to see that Alyssa could wield two advanced elements.
"It's a pity, though, that she has the space element," someone in one of the VIP rooms said.
"Well, it doesn't matter; she would never have succeeded considering her past anyway," another person replied.
Now, all four of them had acknowledged that Alyssa was a threat that needed to be taken down.
They had no information about her, and by seeing Alyssa's capabilities until now, she was a real threat to them.
"Elena and Eva, you attack her while I take her in close range," Ria said as she unsheathed her sword.
They had no problem teaming up against Alyssa since her abilities were enough for her to keep her position and gain tokens.
All they needed to do was remove Alyssa from the special zone to ensure that she did not win.
"Okay," Eva said as she summoned many barriers.
Amelia also knew that fighting with others instead of Alyssa would be a waste of time, so she needed to support them in removing Alyssa from the special zone.
"Grant Strength," she augmented herself.
Ria ran towards Alyssa, and Elena and Eva got ready to attack Alyssa while Amelia was also closing her distance to her.
"Why do you always..." Alyssa muttered to herself as her hands trembled.
"Just die, die, die, die!" several voices shouted inside Alyssa's head.
"No!" Alyssa shouted as many ice lances appeared around her.
Alyssa's hair floated upwards, revealing her face and her scar. She was hovering above the ground, looking down on the four of them.
"I will not lose!" She shouted as Amelia felt the gravity around her increase.
"What the hell?!" All four of them were finding it difficult to move around.
Alyssa's nose was bleeding, and her skin had become paler, but she did not stop. More ice lances kept appearing behind her, and the increasing pressure made it difficult for them to move around.
Blue veins were starting to appear around her arms, and blood was dripping from her nose to the ground. It was clear that Alyssa was going beyond her limits for this attack.
"Dammit!" Amelia saw many ice lances appearing in the sky.
She was having difficulty, despite her augmented state.
"Does this bitch want to die?" Ria shouted, but Alyssa still did not stop.
Eva stacked many of her barriers to protect herself, but some of them kept shattering as they were formed due to the increased gravity caused by Alyssa.
"Not like this," Elena did not want to lose.
She channeled all her mana and materialized a big fireball over her hands.
"I will not go down like this!" She shouted as she threw the fireball, and the increased gravity was not enough to change the direction of this spell of Elena.
Alyssa's eyes were losing focus, but she looked at the fireball that Elena threw at her. A surge of anger flooded into her as she remembered her worst memory.
Alyssa conjured another bigger ice lance seeing the coming giant fireball. Multiple dark veins were appearing on her neck region nearing her face. Blood started falling from her eyes.
"Descend," she spoke as all the ice lances fell towards the four of them, and the big ice lance destroyed the fireball.
Amelia saw multiple ice lances coming towards her, but before they could impale her body, she saw the barrier around her activate.
"Dammit!" She cursed as she did not like losing, but she could not do anything against Alyssa.
She looked around, seeing all four of them were now eliminated by Alyssa.
But instead of being happy, Alyssa looked at her arms full of blue veins, and her eyes watered.
"Is this how I lose?" Alyssa spoke to herself.
She used the last of her mana to hover down to the stone platform but did not have enough mana to stand. She fell to her knees as she heard the noise coming from her bracelet, informing her about the tokens she gained from the four of them.
But instead of celebrating, she clenched her fist as her pink hair covered her face. She looked up and saw another participant approaching.
*Clap* *Clap*
"What a splendid performance," Venessa Baker spoke.
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After Sam Allister was eliminated, Asher turned towards Matthew, who took a step back as Asher's cold gaze landed on him.However, knowing he could not escape, Matthew charged forward with his sword in his hand.
His strength increased as he used the mana circulation technique that he received from the World Association.
*Clang*
"Why," Matthew thought in his head.
Every attack he made was easily countered by Asher.
"I was the one who should have won," he muttered.
Matthew had thought this tournament would be the place where he would show the world that the elite families were nothing without the tremendous amount of resources they spent on their children.
He wanted to prove that his talent alone was enough to overcome the barrier, but Asher was not someone he could even fathom competing with.
Asher indifferently kept countering but decided to end it. Matthew saw Asher slashing down with his sword, and the force behind the attack made Matthew's sword cut into the ground.
Before he could remove his hand from the hilt to guard himself, Asher kicked him in the face, immediately activating the barrier.
Asher looked in another direction towards the forest.
"Tsk," he got annoyed that the test conductors had activated the barrier before he could mess Matthew up more.
Asher looked behind to see Damian, who was cracking his knuckles.
"You wanna start?" Asher asked Damian, knowing what he wanted.
"Of course, I wanted to test the gap between us," Damian spoke.
Asher did not reply. He just quietly stared at Damian before he sighed and dropped his sword.
"You are still a fool," Asher thought in his mind as he remembered a certain event from the past.
Damian saw Asher dropping his sword as he got ready for hand-to-hand combat.
"Hehe, don't go easy on me," Damian dashed as he swung his fist at Asher.
Asher simply blocked his fist, but Damian's strength and endurance were a bit lower than Asher's.
Damian saw Asher doing an overhand right, but Damian ducked as he tried to do a jab at Asher's stomach. Damian thought he could connect his jab, but Asher knee kicked him, making him lose his balance.
"Argh, *spit*," Damian spat out blood.
Despite knowing that he would lose to Asher, Damian was smiling. His goal was not to win, and Asher knew what Damian wanted to show by this brawl.
"Asher Greville has confirmed his spot for 1st position, but it seems Damian Seymour is now challenging him," Gazil spoke.
This duel was happening before Alyssa's arrival, but it was pretty much clear for everyone who would win now.
"Another monster in the Greville family, the future high council will get affected by this," a man in one of the VIP rooms spoke.
Many people became more cautious about the growing power of the Greville family.
Damian took a deep breath as his eyes focused on Asher. He dashed towards Asher but stopped his punch and did a roundhouse kick on him. Asher blocked the kick as he grabbed Damian's leg.
"Too slow," Asher grabbed Damian's leg and threw him towards the stone platform.
Damian landed on the ground as he looked at Asher who was coming at him.
"Strong," he muttered as he got up.
Damian changed his stance and started to punch him, but Asher was dodging every strike that Damian sent his way. Asher instead of dodging the last punch tilted his body to the right and sent an uppercut on Damian.
Damian felt the punch and lost his balance, but Asher grabbed his head and lowered it as he kneed him in the face.
Asher kept kicking Damian in the face, but after five solid knee hits, Damian stopped the last one with all his strength. He pushed Asher's body and tried to grapple him, but Asher shook his grip off.
"Huff, huff, huff," Damian looked messed up, but fortunately, all the screens shifted to show Alyssa's fight after she showed her space element.
Damian barely opened his left eye and looked at the blurry figure of Asher.
"It seems I am still too weak," Damian muttered as he fell to the ground, and the barrier activated, giving Asher all his tokens.
Asher's indifferent face looked at Damian, who was now unconscious.
"Only if you were not obsessed over her, but who am I to say this," Asher muttered quietly to himself.
Meanwhile, in the girls' tournament, Venessa was watching Alyssa fight the others.
She had arrived just after Ria Ardel, but she did not rush into the situation and decided to watch them fight.
"Pink hair," Venessa squinted her eyes to see Alyssa.
"Another advanced element?" Venessa was surprised to see Alyssa use ice magic.
She saw Alyssa as she floated above the ground and summoned many ice lances. She saw all of Alyssa's struggles and her winning against all the participants.
*Clap* *Clap*
"What a splendid performance," Venessa Baker spoke.
Alyssa looked up as she glared at Venessa.
*Cough* *Cough*
She coughed, and blood came out of her mouth, covering her pale face and hands.
"You are so strong!" Venessa told Alyssa.
Alyssa thought that Venessa was making fun of her.
'I tried my best then, why? Why? Why?' Alyssa thought as her hands gripped the ground.
"You would have all of their tokens, right?" Venessa spoke.
"I will protect you until the end of this tournament then," Venessa spoke as she proudly put her hands on her chest.
"Huh?" Alyssa looked at Venessa, who took her sword out and stood beside her.
"Why?" She asked, ignoring the pain she was feeling right now.
"Oh, a fortune teller helped me today. He told me to help someone pink, and it would help me in the future," Venessa spoke as she tried to remember the face of the fortune teller, but she couldn't remember it.
"Strange, I met him today, but I don't remember his face!" Venessa tried to remember as she sat beside Alyssa and put her hand on her head.
"Purple... Yeah, his eyes were purple," Venessa clapped her hands and smiled brightly as she looked at Alyssa.
"Ehh? Venessa Baker is doing something... strange?" Gazil tilted his head as all the audience were confused why she was not attacking.
"I don't deserve this..." Alyssa muttered.
She wanted to win but with her own efforts. Having that potion made her think that her body would be able to hold on for a bit more, but she overused her mana due to her lack of experience.
"What is she doing?" the audience got confused.
"Is she her friend?" Many people were discussing the reason Venessa was just sitting beside Alyssa.
"Why is this girl even here?" James spoke as he was angry from Elena's loss while Filia was silent and kept watching.
"It would be better for her to lose," Sylvia sighed, seeing Venessa not eliminating Alyssa.
She was bitter that Alyssa defeated Amelia but she knew that it was Amelia's own fault for being weak.
Livia was sad Amelia had lost, and she wanted Venessa to eliminate Alyssa.
"Oh, I don't know, but my instincts say to believe in the fortune teller," Venessa shrugged her shoulders.
Alyssa did not know how to reply to Venessa. Her whole life growing up, she was alone and discriminated against everywhere she went. Getting help from others was not a concept familiar to her.
"Why is she helping her?" Ria said with a frustrated voice.
"Don't know, maybe they are friends?" Elena replied.
She looked at Alyssa as she tried to remember where she had heard about her.
"Doesn't matter, she defeated us all," Eva said, but her frustration was visible on her face.
But among them all, Amelia was silent. She just watched Alyssa and remembered who she was finally.
"How did I lose to this girl?" Amelia thought in her mind.
She remembered how she thought that she could win this easily and got eliminated by a girl like Alyssa. Her pride did not allow her to accept her defeat.
They all had common thoughts about losing to Alyssa as they could not accept their loss by a girl who could not even stand on her own.
The timer kept decreasing the whole time; Alyssa and Asher were almost confirmed for their 1st spot.
Alyssa looked at Venessa, who just stood there and even defeated three participants who arrived at the final location.
Alyssa raised her hand after her mana recovered a bit. She looked at Venessa who was fighting with another participant.
"Lance," she spoke as an ice lance appeared behind her and attacked another participant.
"Whew, thanks for the assist," Venessa raised her thumb at Alyssa.
"Why is she helping me?" Many doubts arose in the head of Alyssa regarding Venessa, but she did not voice it.
Winning this was her only chance to execute her plans, and if she was indebted to Venessa for it, she didn't mind it.
"I will repay this debt," she thought, looking at Venessa.
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