Chapter 9

Mr. Cado immediately started to dash with extreme speed towards me with his sword pointing towards me. While he was running, I noticed that there was a sphere of light forming at the tip of his sword.

'Fuck that's his Blast Charge,' I immediately moved to the sides and as expected, when Mr. Cado stopped, the sphere of light grew and turned into a laser beam.

BOOM!

While I looked at Mr. Cado with shock, he immediately casted some sort of magic on his sword and it started to glow, then he closed his eyes then after a couple of milliseconds opened his eyes and his body started to glow now as well.

'Defense Enhance and Weapon Enhance... This is going to be quite complicated,'

Draw II!

The wind blade from Draw II popped out and with tremendous speed flew towards Mr. Cado. Mr. Cado easily blocked it, but within the precious time from him being distracted from the wind blade, I was able to make my move.

Fiery Blade!

While fire engulfed my sword, I started charging towards Mr. Cado and immediately used my only offensive skill.

Sansurrashu!

Klang! Klang! Klang!

I thought that I would be able to get him like Davis, but I guess I was too naive, Mr. Cado blocks it, but in the end his sword ends up catching on fire.

"Tch, you're good kid. Alright let's do it like this. I was not allowed to bring my true weapon as it is a bit special you see and you would have no chance to beat me. But I do have a final technique that would obliterate a silver rank monster as soon as it hits. So if you can survive it via dodging, blocking, or whatever, then you pass the test,"

"Alright then. Come!" I knew that the skill he was talking about was the Hammer of Justice and if possible I would dodge it, but if I can't then I would have to use the wind tornado that I have been saving up to try to block it.

"Good! Courage is one of the most important thing that an adventurer should I have. Without it, you could be an Adamantite Adventurer, but you would be worth nothing! Well here I come! Hammer of Justice!"

A hammer above his head started forming and it started growing until it was about the size of the stage itself. There really isn't a way out.

"Unfortunately, I still have not mastered this technique yet so-"

Puchi!

I sent out the wind tornado like how Yasuo sent out his tornado. Due to the impact, Mr. Cado lost his control over the hammer. Using that chance, I immediately dashed towards him in order to finish him off.

Sansurrushu!

Puchi!

-100

Just like that Mr. Cado was sent off the stage.

Like last time, a notification started ringing in my head.

The stage will now automatically remove you in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. You will now be removed from the stage.

I was sent off the stage with Mr. Cado looking at me with mostly shock and a bit of anger. On the side was the Elf looking at me with worry.

"Kid, you sneak attacked me. You did something that all warriors would despise. What do you have to say to that?" Mr. Cado asked seriously.

Due to his seriousness, I answered him with a serious face as well.

"While you did imply that I should take the hit and try to block it, you never said that I cannot sneak attack you. Furthermore, you said when you started the match to think of this match as a life or death match. In a life or death match, I would not want to wait for my opponent to finish charging up their signature move. I would kill them if it took a long time to charge the skill!"

Mr. Cado started to glare at me and I increasingly started to become scared.

'Shit, is he going to fail me for this?'

After a while of this increasing tension, Mr. Cado started laughing.

"Hahahahaha! Kid, you are interesting. Yes, your answer was correct. While I did emphasize that you should block it, the choice of attacking me while I was charging it was also valid and an exceptional decision as well since that was now the matter of choosing your life over your morals which I think is important. While your morals are important and are the foundation to your life, without your life what are morals even good for? Therefore, if you are in a perilous situation, it is best to forget about everything and try to live! Congratulations, you are now a gold rank adventurer. I hope that you can contribute greatly to the cause!"

"Thank you!" I bowed and left the arena. However, before I could take a step, I heard Mr. Cado talking about me.

"That SSS tier kid, he is quite the funny one. Brave, but cunning. Passionate, but rational. It could be said that he is angelic, but at the same time demonic hahaha!"

"What are you talking about Mr. Cado?" The elf asked.

"Nothing nothing, just talking to myself a little. Little girl, when am I going to get my platinum rank? I already won a platinum adventurer!"

"You did, but that was outside of the guild arena so it doesn't count. Furthermore, you still haven't finished the amount of quests necessary to reach the platinum rank!"

"Oh yeah that's right. HAHAHAHA!"

"*Sigh* just because you're a SS tier doesn't mean that we'll give you special treatment you know!''

''I know, I know,"

As I was hearing them talk, I became even more scared.

"Oi, oi, oi, that old man beat a platinum rank before. The guild really wants to screw me over!"

After that, I started walking gloomily out of the hallway.