Unstoppable Momentum

"WHOA!! The stage is changing!!"

Standing with Asta and the rest, Grim watched as the battlefield transformed itself into a completely different landscape. But while everyone was amazed at this sudden change, Grim honestly couldn't give less of a shit. To him every location was a battlefield.

"Now then!" The wizard king called out. "LET THE SECOND ROUND BEGIN!!"

Bursting forth with spirit and enthusiasm, the magic knights of the clover kingdom all went to their respective areas and readied themselves for the second round.

To start things off, it was Asta's team against Mimosa's brother's team. While some people were looking forward to it, Grim already saw the match as a done deal. He'd already fought against Kirsch Vermillion and Sol Marron in the past and had a good grasp of their power. As for Magna... well he didn't really factor into this fight if Grim was being completely honest.

As for Asta's team, besides Asta he hadn't fought against Mimosa or that fake Xerx guy. But from what he had seen, it shouldn't be that hard to win if they're smart.

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*Whistling*

Whistling to himself, Grim watched as Asta entered his Black Form and performed a maneuver he called [Black Hurricane] to completely blow away all of Kirsch's cherry blossoms.

"What the!!"

"He got rid of all that magic!"

At the sight of this technique, Grim couldn't help but feel his eyes go wide as he jumped to his feet.

'H-He's stronger than he was when he was in the witches forest! Dammit Asta!! If you show me something like that how do you expect me to hold back!'

Trembling with excitement, Grim didn't even realise the smile on his face was widening and all his teeth were showing.

'DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!! I WANNA CRUSH HIM SO FUCKING BAD!!!'

While Grim was mumbling to himself, the battle between Asta's team and Kirsch's ended in a one sided slaughter as Asta's team dominated the match.

"Would the next team please make their way to the battl-

*FWOOSH!!*

Unable to hold back any longer, Grim blew past the announcer and arrived on the battle arena oozing with battle intent.

'FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!'

"Um... Is he okay?" David asked still standing on the viewing platform.

"I-

"Oi David, Selena." Before she could answer, Grim voice reverted through the air and slammed into their figures. "Get your asses down here now!"

*WOOSH!!*

Feeling like he was standing right in front of them, the two magic knights were hit by his savage aura and were overcome by some weird primal instinct that caused them to unintentionally sweat.

Seeing Grim in that state, Luck couldn't help but laugh and feel excited. The other Black Bulls on the other hand felt sorry for Grim's next opponent.

"Who is it anyway?" Vanessa asked.

"Huh? Shouldn't the matchups be on the board over ther-

Freezing in place, Noelle felt like she had just been punched in the gut as she stopped breathing once she saw the names of Grim's next opponents.

While 2 of the names on the board didn't mean anything to her, the name that she saw at the top was all to familiar to her.

Nebra Silva

Seeing that name and remembering what Grim did to her last time, Noelle could only whisper the words. "Oh no."

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"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Like a beast let off his leash, Grim gleefully tore through his opponents like paper doing his best to recapture the ultimate pleasure he felt by crushing those he deemed lower than himself. As of this moment the competition no longer existed in his eyes. Only his enemies did.

*BANG!!*

*BANG!!*

*BANG!!*

Relying on nothing by his [Breath of the Beast] enhanced physique and [Stone Skin], Grim's fists tore through the air as he rocked one of his opponents with a brutal display of continuous 1-2 combo punches to the face until his fists were dripping with their fresh blood.

Weirdly enough though, this display of brutality was quite tame compared to what he did in round one. Unlike round one where he tormented his opponents to the point that it became somewhat difficult to watch, Grim moved on as soon as he grew bored.

Even the wizard king was surprised by this turn of events. While he couldn't exactly condone Grim's actions, as long as he wasn't trying to kill anyone there was nothing he could do. Not to mention that Grim was the current Golden Boy in the eyes of the common people. If he acted rashly and interrupted Grim, it may be seen as him using his position to protect a noble while denying a person of common birth the opportunity to shine.

In fact, this was the reason he didn't say anything to Grim despite what he saw in round one. The last thing this kingdom needed at the moment was a class war.

*Sigh*

'How much of this did you anticipate?'

Looking at Grim's smiling figure, Julius was truly at a loss for words. To think that a boy who had recently turned 16 would be capable of causing him some trouble... It was quite amusing.

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Breathing heavily while still grinning like a madman, Grim approached Nebra and her teammate who was protecting the crystal.

"Nebra~" He said in a melodic tone that didn't suit the way he was smiling.

*Shiver*

Shuddering at the way he said her name, Nebra instinctively held her trembling arm and took a step backwards while a look of despair slowly crawled onto her face.

"Oi you." He called out to the magic knight standing besides her. "Why are you still here?"

"Huh? To protect the crystal of course!" The magic knight said before getting into a defensive stance.

"Is that so..." Grim smiled. "Well you don't need to do that anymore. Right Nebra?"

Hit by his glare, the eldest daughter of house Silva felt a lump in her throat as she couldn't help by nod her head.

"Lady Silva-

"LEAVE!" She suddenly yelled at the magic knight while trying to sound confident while holding back her tears.

"You heard the lady." Grim smiled while staring at the magic knight. "Leave you insect."

"What! How dare yo-

"JOHNATHAN!!" Nebra screamed at him before he could finish his sentence. "Go take out the enemy crystal. I-I can deal with him." She stammered.

"Lady Silva..." Looking at the smiling Grim and the confident Nebra. Johnathan nodded. "I understand."

"The crystal's in that direction." Grim smiled while pointing to the distance.

Looking in direction that he was pointing to, a look of determination settled on Johnathan's face. After seeing the first round he knew that he was not Grim's opponent. But if he could destroy his opponent's crystal while Lady Silva stalled for time, then they would win and they no longer have to face this walking disaster.

It was only a shame that the direction he was heading in wasn't where the crystal was.

You see, after having the landscape be remodelled, the wizard king added in some small ponds to the surrounding ruins. Seeing this, Grim basically threw the crystal into one of these ponds and used Selena's water magic to coat the crystal in high density layers of water so it would look like the pond was completely empty to the naked eye while the reality of the situation was that the crystal was in a watery disguise.

Now the direction Johnathan was heading in was actually the location of Selena and David. He thought that the two of them might want to have some fun while he played with Miss Silva over here.

"Now then." He said while looking at Nebra like she was prey. "Lets take our time and have some fun."