The fighting arena

"Hello, who's here" Will shouted.

An old face rose behind the stall, seeing Will's face his eyes brightened, but after noticing his Will's outfit he regain back his neutral face.

"I need your help" Will said coolly.

The old man glared at him and replied coldly, "What do you want"

Will raised his left hand, showing off the ring which was on his finger, "This ring, can you tell me what type of metal it is made from?" He asked.

The man laughed angrily and replied him fiercely, "What did you take me for kid, you want me to appraise a piece of shit. There aren't anything special about that ring except for it's black color"

With what the man just said, he had finally made a reason. If even the old man who had been appraising rings all his life failed to see through the ring then who else could.

"At least I only have to hide it away from strong mages" he thought.

Will wasn't a fool, he knew that it was this ring that had assisted him in his breakthrough and although he was poor in his past life, he was a die hard fan of fantasy novels.

"This ring is just like the meditating treasures like the star ring, star amulet, etc.

Equipments which starts with star are made using special sun energy which helps mages to cultivate much faster.

It is divided into four stages namely, normal, advanced, super and divine.

Normal star helps mages increase their meditating speed twofold. Advanced increases it by fivefold. As for super, it will never appear in a rural place like Aria settlement. The same goes for divine.

Currently Will's ring could increase his meditating speed twofold.

"And this ring has a connection with that golden cube, I always feels like those times when the golden cube was with me. I just have to continue living a normal life and see what fate has in store for me again" Will thought.

He then started walking towards a big hall , "Well, since I'm here I might as well make some money".

He entered the hall and he saw people shouting to support their man on the ring.

Here was the black market fighting arena where mages come to bet and fight.

Will covered his head with a black cloth, making two holes for his eyes to see. He then went towards the registrar not far from him.

He saw a sinister young man with only his pant on, he was chatting with the registrar.

Will ignored him and faced the registrar, she was a beautiful young woman in her twenties.

"I wanna register for the fighting contest" he said in a deep cold voice.

At first, the registrar ignored him but when she heard his cold voice she quickly got to it and complete the process.

The woman stood up revealing her mature body. She was only wearing a small bra and a bikini, she walked towards Will and gestured with her hand, "Pls sir, I just need you to step on this white circle"

Will looked down and saw that a white circle was drawn on the floor with crystals embedded in it's circumference.

He stepped on it and some information appeared on the register with the woman.

Age - 14

Medium primary mage

Mana quality - Excellent

The woman jaw dropped. Meditating enables mages collect the natural energy and converts it to Mana in their globe.

So the purity of the mage mana will determine how fast and how strong the mage power would be.

Purity level was divided into - low, good and excellent.

Witnessing an excellent mana reserve, the beautiful woman could not help but gulped down her excitement, "Who is he, maybe he came from a powerful family" 

As this was a world where the strong rules and the weak obeys, women often use their body to seek protection and power by selling their body to powerful families.

The woman gave Will a black badge to which No 37 was written clearly on it.

Will then walked into the fighters room getting ready to be called on stage.

Two men were currently fighting on the stage. Finding it boring, Will closed his eyes and sat down cross legged. He was utilizing the little time to meditate.

If one was to check his globe, one would currently find a red lake. His globe wasn't more than the size of a small lake. But it was increasing gradually as the time went by.

A red glow was covering Will as he was cultivating but even he couldn't see it talk less of others.

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Two hours later

No 37 and No 16, get on the stage and fight.

Will mounted the brown stage, at the same time another middle aged man followed.

Will looked around and he saw multitude of crowds roaring at the top of their lungs.

He then looked towards his opponent and he discovered that he was a man in his fifties, he had a burly hair with thick eyebrow, and there was a long scar on his face making him look hideous.

"Hehe kid, you want to challenge me huh" the man laughed revealing his brown teeth.

Although Will was wearing a mask, it doesn't take much to identify him as a young man.

Suddenly the board that was above the fighting stage lit up and displayed a couple of information.

No 37 vs No 12

The black devil vs Scarface

Age: 14 vs 56

Stage: medium primary mage vs late primary mage.

At the same time the information was displayed, the crowd burst out with confusion.

"What!, The black devil is just 14 and he is facing someone who is one already 56"

"He's basically facing death"

"Let us forget about experience, Scarface is one level ahead of him"

"Hmph, I really want to know what this fool looks like under that mask."

Will could hear all sorts of insults the crowd were giving him but he wasn't worried in the slightest. His attention was totally on his opponent, he was trying to look for his opponent weak points.

A man wearing a white shirt and black trouser came on the stage and he signalled both Will and Scarface to get ready for their match.

As this man was the referee, he was one realm above them, he was a secondary mage so that he could avoid cases like accidental death.

Although there were still cases where fighters die on stage. Since the beginning of time death had always been an inevitable event. No matter how much they tried, they can never cheat death. Even strong mages that could live for hundred of thousands years will still have to die someday.

The man raised his hand in the air and shouted, "Ready... Fight!" Immediately after shouting he waved his hand signalling the start of the match.

Scarface laughed, then he suddenly turned his hands into a stony solid state.

"Fuck, what bad luck" Will cursed.

Although the lightning element was the most destructive element, the earth element was it's natural enemy.

Scarface then rushed forward and punched exactly at Will's head.

Victor chuckled, "Although earth is lightning biggest enemy, lets see what happens when the lightning is more powerful than the earth.

He dodged the blow then he caught Scarface hand. He quickly wrapped his other hand with lightning and he delivered 3 consecutive blows to Scarface.

Another commotion broke out within the crowd.

"Oh my goodness, is that the lightning element"

"Wow, now that you talked of it, I have never seen one in my entire life."

"Who is he, he is so young"

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At the same time, somewhere above the arena a man was watching what was happening below. His face was displaying curiosity has he asked his daughter who was beside him, "Hey Blaine, since when do we have a lightning mage in this arena".

If one was to investigate deeply, it would be known that this man was currently in charge of the black market operations in Aris settlement.

"I was also surprised", Came a voice behind him. A young girl came into light as she stood near her father. 

She was a normal 16 years old girl with stunning appearance, dark hair, red lips and a pale skin. 

"The man looked at his daughter and said, "He's young, that means that he had just awakened his power not long ago."

"Yes father, I know what to do" She said to her father before disappearing with the shadows.

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At the registration table.

The beautiful and mature woman who registered will earlier suddenly received a whisper from a dark shadows.

She smiled and also turned into a shadowy figure and disappeared from her position.

Back at the arena

Will swiftly distanced his self from the man after delivering his punches.

Looking at the man, he had his nose swollen with blood dripping from it.

"I will kill you!" Scarface roared angrily as he dashed forward. But this time, his whole body was turned into the stony state, this was the sign that one had broken through to the late primary mage stage.

Late stage was the same as the upper stage. When one reached the late stage of the primary mage, one would be able to circulate the Globe energy, hereby utilizing his/her element round his body.

Scarface whole body was now covered in a stone. Making him look like a golem. 

Each of his steps seems to shake the stage a little.

"Yeah, he has used his finishing move"

"Of course, it won't take long before the black devil gets flung outside the stage"

"He isn't called Aris black king for no reason"

"Only the white angel could defeat him"

"What bad luck did the black devil has, having Scarface as his first opponent."

Meanwhile as the rows of crowds were discussing Will was inspecting Scarface as he was looking for his flaws."

Will unexpectedly chuckled as Scarface approached him.

"The idiot didn't even bother raising his defense" Victor pointed out as he shoot forward and he dodged Scarface attack. Shifting his head to the left, he punched Scarface right cheek

Bang

But what Will expected didn't happen, instead his hand bounced back and he could feel it all his left arm going numb

"Damn it, I underestimated him" Will thought

The ricochet of the attack had destabilize his movement

Boom

Scarface punched him at his lower abdomen causing him to fly back like a loose balloon

"It's over for black devil

"He should just give up, there's no way he can survive that punch

Will stood up surprising the crowd and he could feel his abdomen hurting like hell

"Fuck this, I might as well end it here", he said with much difficulty

"Hehe kid, here comes another one" Scarface said as he darted forward

Victor breath in as he became to release the energy in his globe lake covering his whole body and he also shoot forward facing his opponent head on

The horde of people watching the match abruptly break out in another commotion

"What!, How can he do that. Isn't he suppose to be a middle primarily mage

"This is absolutely mind blowing!

Although the mob was shocked, Scarface was aghast as he saw Will approaching him

One was like a rock giant, stiff and slow while the other was like a god, fast and swift

BOOOOOO

The sound of thunder strike could be heard round the arena as Scarface flung backwards with his arm broken from the impact

Will wasn't in a good state either, he could feel all the fingers in his right hand dislocated

"The black devil wins!" The referee  shouted as he raised Wills hand

"Who the hell named me the black devil" Will cursed

After fighting, he went off the stage and he approached the registration table again

He met a middle aged there, although he was curious as he didn't meet the former beautiful woman, he didn't probe further

After recording the match result, he gave victor 50 silver coins

Will's eyes lit up as he saw the money. William family were so poor that they would get surprised over 10 bronze coins

The currency of this world was divided into bronze, silver and golden coins

A silver consists of 100 bronze while a gold also contains 100 silver hereby 10, 000 bronze coins

He was so excited that he carried the silvers and he ran home happily.