The girl opposite was only a Low Rank 1 Warrior, and from a relatively weak organisation, however she posed a large threat to B1 who was completely inexperienced.
Quickly the girl leapt towards B1, moving in a slight zagging pattern to avoid potential arrows.
B1 squinted as her eyes trailed slightly in front of the girl, her skinny trembling arms lifted up the bow and pulled the bowstring back quickly. A strong metal arrow mounted lightly on the tips of her fingers.
The girl showed panic on her face when she saw the arrow, but she didn't stop moving forward, her pace quickened, preventing B1 from tracking her figure.
It was B1's turn to panic this time. The girl was less than a metre away, a tiny distance for warriors.
So with an echoing twang B1 realised the arrow. She watched it fly towards the girl as B1 quickly retreated backwards.
However to her despair the girl twisted her body strangely, the arrow only ripping the cloth around her breasts before she crouched down and swung heavily towards B1.
B1 was the thin sword floating lightly towards her head, and a smell of death appeared before her. And just as the sword was about to pierce her throat her small foot hit against a protruding stone left over from one of the previous battles.
B1's body fell backwards with the inertia, the sword swinging above her head removing half of her hair as she fell!
But B1 didn't hesitate, as soon as she landed she pulled a metal arrow out of her quiver and pierced it deep into the leg of the girl in front of her.
The Girl shrieked in pain and fell to the ground clutching her leg. The battle was over.
Samuel watched amazed as the events unfurled, he was originally ready to greet another soul into the tomb. But just as B1 was going to die the sword that would've sliced her head, missed due to sheer luck!
Of course this is due to the Minor Daughter of Luck effect.
At the same time B1 was panting as she went down from the stage. This battle actually taught her a lot, not only did she get to experience proper combat for the first time, she participated in a life and death struggle and won!
For the next couple of battles she used her knowledge to win, sometimes through luck, sometimes through skill.
A32 breezed through it, his only competition in the previous years left.
So soon the results came out. A32 surprisingly placed first and was awarded with the Golden Nectar Fruit. B1 placed 15th, not bad, not great.
As for the rest of the spots, they mostly belonged to Rank E organisations. It seems that the Sea Life Organisation hadn't had any good descendants ready for this competition, their participant only placed 8th.
Soon A32 left holding a slightly shrivelled golden fruit, 50 Spiritual Crystals and a large purple spear.
The spear is a Pseudo-Artifact awarded this time.
A32 quickly went into retreat to practice when he returned, he wanted to eat the Golden Nectar fruit.
Samuel watched his entire transformation.
As soon as A32 ate the fruit, the interior liquid exploded in his mouth. Although a small amount, the power it contained was terrifying.
It spread throughout his body immediately, his skin glowed slightly golden as loud clunking noises echoed from his body. A32's height also increased, his face more refined. He grew from an alright looking 178cm to a handsome man at 181cm.
More importantly his pressure increased. He was originally in the Middle Rank 1, but his strength began to grow, reaching infinitely close to High Rank 1. Samuel can tell he just needs an opportunity to break through to High Rank 1.
After his strength rose, Samuel noticed a faint golden liquid began to pour through A32's veins, his body froze in place as the gold began to solidify across his skin before seemingly phasing through his skin and entering his body.
After it pushed out constant lumps of impurities through the pores in his skin.
Then A32's transformation was finished.
He stood up and went to have a shower, meanwhile Samuel stopped watching and focused instead on A32s new status.
[Dog of War: A32
First Generation Dog of War
Spiritual Root: 1 Inch
Rank: Middle Rank 1
LifeSpan: 19/100
Aura:
Talent: Bloodline Supremacy, Blessing Of Youth, Minor Golden Body
Summary: Born with the benefits of a talented youth and an Artificial Golden Body. Potential is limited due to the 1 Inch Spiritual root but he is destined to develop quicker than others while he is young and be stronger than others when he grows up.]
[Minor Golden Body (Talent): Artificially created Golden Body. A32 received the Golden body by virtue of eating a Golden Nectar Fruit, unfortunately due to the poor purity of the Golden Nectar Fruit he only received a Minor Golden Body. The minor Golden Body provides A32 with double the defensive bonus when he activates it and a 50% bonus to passive defence.]
''Woah! Incredible. Permanent 50% boost to defence and an active double defensive bonus, definitely worthy of being the reward for a youth tournament!''
Samuel was amazed when he read the reward. But at the same time he was slightly fearful, after all if such a good talent came from one of lower quality Golden Nectar Fruits, how strong is the fully ripe fruit?
Not to mention that there are definitely hundreds of people with this talent who came out of FieldView city alone! Samuels original pride in his Dogs of War seemed to slightly fall right now.
After all, the Dogs of Wars Talents are only mediocre but the descendants of powerful organisations definitely have access to many spiritual fruits just like this!
Luckily these fruits are incredibly rare, otherwise he would definitely want to cry himself to sleep.