I do!
The other day arrived very quickly again, the final tournament started on this day, the semi finals would be held in the morning, and in the afternoon it would be the turn of the finals. The two matches took place simultaneously in two different arenas. The hyena man was in front of Nicola laughing wildly and preparing his spells against him. Just waiting for the referee to announce the start of the match.
Nicola had his own plans for how to react to this opponent, the only way to face a madman is to make him feel that his opponent is crazier than he is. The referee started the game and the hyena laughed wildly, shooting fireballs and lightning arrows in all directions like an elemental rain.
Nicola didn't take long to act either. He would attack the madman with his own combat tactics.
'Sin Fox Song Style, third energy form, Laugh'
At that moment two shadow clones appeared in the arena and started laughing at the opponent as they moved around the attacks. Nicola's main body didn't laugh, which indicated his location. But he didn't need to hide, just break his opponent's ego. With the ego broken, he would win the battle easily.
"What are you laughing at? Hahahahahahaha. It's not funny, you're funny! I'll kill you and laugh over your corpse! Hahahahahaha" The hyena man laughed even more madly, increasing his elemental attacks in the area trying to hit the three.
Nicola, who had activated his sin of pride, was stopped receiving the opponent's attacks released his second ability to thwart the enemy.
'Sin Fox Song Style, second energy form, Ragtime'
Hundreds of elemental needles fell on the field and completely stopped the hyena man's attack, now he was no longer laughing and he didn't even have a chaotic battlefield anymore. In his eyes it looked like desperation, he had never faced an opponent who didn't mind his madness in the fight. So the tactic employed by Nicola was effective, as the hyena was left unresponsive.
To end the fight, Nicola released his Middle Imperial aura on the field, which made the opponent gave up very quickly and almost urinate in his pants, in addition to being crazy, hyenas were cowards, if a predator showed no fear of their insanity they would readily give up and they would run away from there. "I quit!" The hyena man declared. And so some more bet money fell into Nicola's hands. Less than before, but good enough.
Nicola turned to face the Raiju woman who was also ending her fight against a black centaur who possessed the power to emit thunder as he rode across the field. On the man's horse chest was a deep square and scorched mark where he had been hit by the hammer and sent flying off the battlefield.
The Viking woman returned her gaze to where Nicola was nodding her head, she had already laid eyes on him for some time and knew he was a worthy opponent and was looking forward to it.
"I, Brianna of House Raiju, wish to fight the opponent Nicola right now. I hope you can cooperate with my request." The woman spoke out loud for everyone to hear and waiting for an answer from Nicola. Usually the finalists would recover from the previous battle before entering the finals to avoid being harmed by injuries from the other fights. But Brianna had an immense will to fight and didn't want to wait to fight Nicola.
The elders of the Raiju clan already imagined this could happen and didn't care much as they thought Nicola would refuse and the battle would have to wait anyway, but they all choked on Nicola's words.
"I do!" He said as he jumped into the arena she was in.
"I would like to know your real identity, you are a worthy opponent. I saw that you didn't need to work very hard to get here, after all the previous opponents were just barbarians who lacked any brains. But you didn't use one more move than necessary to reach your goal, everything here is like a children's game for you." Brianna asked Nicola to show her his true identity. Even the audience was curious to find out who was this person they had never heard of.