12 Advice not needed

Novis was looking at the mass of people in the hall, many of them were watching the fight around the arenas. You could tell apart the contestants from the audience because the contestants had a white sticker across with a number on them. Similar to marathon runners. Some of the contestants were even off to the side practising with wooden or blunt swords.

"Look at all the people playing, Some of them are even younger than me," Novis said while staring at what looked like a ten year old swinging his sword.

A match had just finished and two numbers were called out over the speaker. Then two people who were watching the match climbed into the capsules starting a brand new game against each other. The system they had was quick and efficient and wasted no time.

Novis looked around and was surprised to see a lot of adults at a VGW tournament for kids. The adults were even more nervous than the kids.

"Hey, Arthur don't you think all of this is incredible?"

"Yes, there are so many children here. I can see it in there eyes. These children have the same passion to improve their sword skills as I did. With this, it gives me hope to believe that swordsmanship will always exist in one way or another."

Novis started to look around moving his head side by side as if he was looking for someone. "Hey, I wonder if Lucas joined this event, I can't see him anywhere."

Novis kept bumping into people as he was walking around. "There are too many people, there's no way I could find him even if he was here."

Arthur wasn't paying attention to what Novis was doing but was watching one of the matches take place in a ring nearby.

"The person in red is in trouble, he's looking for a chance to counter when he should be using speed against his opponent," Arthur said.

Novis went over the ring to look at the game, Each character had a different coloured sash, one wearing red the other wearing blue. This was implemented in case the contestants picked the same character.

Novis could see what Arthur was talking about, the person in red was only blocking. As if he was waiting for the perfect opportunity to counter. The character in blue was using a powerhouse character, it focused mainly on attack power. These type of characters were slow so it was best to counter them with speed.

"Red is going to lose if he keeps waiting for a counter, he needs to use his speed." Novis was simply just repeating what Arthur had said.

A woman who was also watching the match had overhead Novis.

"Did you just say my son was going to lose!" She went and grabbed Novis by his shirt.

"I was just talking to myself, I'm sorry."

As the two were arguing Red ended up losing, he never got a chance to counterattack.

The women started to shake Novis harder. "See you jinxed my son, how is he meant to get noticed now!"

Security had quickly come over to try to calm down the situation but the mother was screaming saying her son deserved a second chance.

Just then, a man in a suit appeared, he had blonde hair that was split parting and was wearing glasses.

The venue security went over to the man and bowed down to him.

"Sorry, the situation has gotten a little out of hand Mr Lally."

Mr lally put his hands on the security guards shoulder and lifted him back to a normal standing position. "Don't worry about it, I will handle this, can you tell me what happened?"

"The mother is demanding a rematch, saying that this boy had swayed the results of the match due to his words."

"What did he say?"

The mother then interrupted the security guard. "He said my boy was going to lose! that he was stupid."

Novis was getting annoyed he didn't mind getting punished but not for something he didn't do or say. "That's a lie, I said if he needed to stop looking for a counter and use his speed."

Mr Lally then went up to one of the capsules. He stood there for a moment and pressed a few buttons. Then the two holograms. The same two characters that were fighting were doing it again. It was a replay the match that had just happened.

As Mr Lally was watching the match he had come to the same conclusion as Novis, that the red sash needed to stop looking for a counter and focus on speed. Mr Lally thought it was unusual for a kid to have that much insight from just watching a game, only pros or top tier players like himself could do something like that.

Mr Lally then walked up to the mother. "It looks like to me what the boy said was correct. If the boy had taken his advice then perhaps he would have won. Even though in this type of event the contestant can hear the crowd on the outside, if this boy tried to intentionally give bad advice I still doubt your son would have heard him over all the cheers and screaming. Maybe even your outburst at the side of the arena had put him off."

The woman knew the man standing in front of her held a high position at the tournament, if he didn't agree to the rematch then there was nothing she could do. She also didn't want to offend a pro player. The pro Comunity all knew each other well and it might spoil her son's chances in the future.

After the commotion was over the woman and her son had rushed away from the scene to avoid any further embarrassment. Mr Lally then went and approached Novis.

"Are you part of the tournament as well?"

"No, I just came here to watch."

My Lally thought it was a shame, he wanted to see the boy display his skills in the arena. He had a hunch that something was special about this kid.

"Do you mind coming with me?" Mr lally asked.