Chapter 55: What an Honour to Fight Against You
The second match was about to begin.
"I have just watched what you have done Mr Umbra, what an honour it is to fight with such a great man, please let us have a good fight."
When Kres said these words, he bowed his head and drew the knives at his waist.
James smiled after these words nodded his head and said "Let's have a good match." and took the sword out of his inventory again.
His aura covered his whole body, it was clear that he wanted to finish this fast, so he put his Dark Step ability back into use and then rushed towards his opponent.
His speed was enormous, he disappeared from the ground, just like Rico had done.
Still, he could sense that something was different.
Every attack he made on Kres was met, every step he took was read in advance and Kres was able to counter-attack.
James realised that after a few of his attacks, he was being pushed backwards, his opponent was managing to outpace him, if only slightly.
Realising what was happening quite early, James suddenly used his ripping ability and charged in with a sudden attack.
Kres met the attack but was almost thrown out of the arena, the impact of the strike knocking her to the edge of the arena.
Both opponents looked at each other. James's face was smiling with excitement, while Kres' face was awkward.
As soon as James recovered himself, he took a deep breath and gathered all the aura in his body to his feet this time, he wanted to increase his speed as much as possible, there was no need to gather aura on his sword.
With a sudden leap forward, he began to attack Kres repeatedly as she tried to retreat from the edge of the arena, and even if Kres could not meet all the attacks, he still managed to survive with only two attacks.
After the constant exchange of attacks, it was clear that Kres was very tired, while James was not tired at all.
James had a strange feeling that his opponent was so tired and nothing had happened to him.
After all, Kres was not even a human, more like a werewolf, his endurance should be more than James...well, logically.
As he was wrapped up in these thoughts, he realised that Kres had started to run at him. Kres' speed was worrying James.
The attacks he was constantly making from the sides were making James quite difficult because he was carrying a single sword. Thinking that he wanted to relieve himself a little, he suddenly turned his head and took out Selene's Blade from his inventory again.
He suddenly threw the knife and it went into Kres' leg at an incredibly high speed.
When James recalled the knife, it was bloody in his hand again.
There was nothing on the ground but Kres's bloodied body, her blades flying aside.
As soon as James realised this, he put his sword to Kres' neck and then said, "Surrender, withdraw from the tournament and I will spare your life."
Kres was not screaming even though he was in immense pain, he was a strong fighter, but he was aware that he could no longer fight. That's why he turned to the referee and said "I withdraw".
As soon as the referee heard this, a whistle sounded in the arena and the bout was declared complete.
When James saw that the fight was over, he put his sword in his inventory and hid Selene's Knife in the small bag around his waist. He then pulled a mid-tier bandage with auto-heal from his inventory and wrapped it around Kres' leg nicely.
"You'll be fine in an hour or two, don't worry," James said suddenly, and Kres nodded, then crawled out of the arena, albeit with difficulty, and went back the way he had come with the paramedics.
James then extended his hand towards the referee and said "Next opponent?". The referee then shook his head in disgust and shouted:
"Umbra of Chaos and Liam of Fairy Alliance to the arena!"
After these words, a huge person came to the arena, unlike where he came from. What was meant by huge was that someone with wings almost 4 metres tall entered the arena.
James' mouth was agape as he looked at the man in front of him, it was strange enough to think that he was a fairy and not a troll.
"P...please don't go too hard on me!"
James shook his head and stayed where he was for a few seconds, his mouth agape at the sound of such a voice coming from the 4-metre-tall giant fairy in front of him.
"No problem, same goes for you?" he said, his surprise written all over his face.
James wasn't the only one surprised, the referee's face turned sour.
"Aaaah...start?" the referee suddenly said and Liam, hearing this, suddenly attacked. James was surprised at how fast his opponent was with that body.
Liam connected his fists in the air and like a meteor, he hit the ground from the air with incredible power. James dodged at the last moment and was thankful he had done so because the place he had dodged was pierced, it was such a hard hit that some pieces of stone flew out of the arena, and the arena was shattered.
James shook his head for a few seconds and then reached into his inventory and pulled out Clarent, he didn't know who else but this fairy would be suitable for Clarent and oddly enough this opponent wasn't aiming for his life either.
It was clear that most of those who had come to the arena only wanted to win.
How could James kill them?
After all, there was no logic to what happened. Of course, James didn't want to take the lives of people who weren't considered monsters just because they wanted to win, but this was called the "arena of death", wasn't it?