CHAPTER 17 - SECOND ROUND

"Daniel is the winner of the match" the lady announced.

Vasco slowly got off stage as he went to tend to his wounds, he was really unlucky to have faced Daniel in the first round because if he fought any other warriors there he had more than an eighty percent chance of winning.

He was noticed by the heads of the academy and the city lord due to his strength so a special exemption would be made for him.

The first ten warriors were now five, they drew lots again and this time there was a blank lot which was gotten by Daniel

Anita against the boy with hammers, and Lee against the sword user.

Anita's fight was going to be a spectacle, speed vs strength, the boy with a hammer was one of the people who rivaled Vasco in strength.

They were allowed half an hour's break before the fight started, Daniel looked around and nothing Interested him, he just wanted to go back to the academy to read the novels he bought yesterday.

He looked around and saw Micheal, waving he walked to him.

"Your technique has improved tremendously, I don't know if I would be able to defeat you again" Micheal said.

"I haven't really improved, I just fought someone that I naturally countered that was why I easily won the fight.

If I fought someone like you it would have been more difficult than what I faced.

Micheal didn't respond and just smiled at his words.

"Also when did you learn blacksmithing? I thought you only knew sword skills," Daniel asked.

"To be honest even I don't know, I was repairing something in the open, hammering down on metals and nails then a mysterious old man told me to be his disciple, I was obviously confused, the man wasn't looking at me but I could hear his voice in my head, knowing he had that type of divine power I just agreed and followed him because if he wanted to kidnap me no one would be able to stop him" Michael replied.

"Wow so you got a mysterious old man as your teacher, that's awesome," he said.

When Micheal mentioned the mysterious old man, Daniel remembered the man he saw in his vision, that was one of the reasons he was growing stronger right now, he wanted to be as strong or maybe even stronger than the man he saw, but he knew those were for later because he hadn't even awakened.

The thirty minutes passed quickly as Anita and the boy with hammers entered the stage.

Begin….

The boy with hammers, unlike his last fight that he fought barehanded, this time he fought with both weapons, he had seen miracles happened and the weaker person would suddenly win in just this ceremony sk he didn't want to take any chances.

Anita came running at him with blinding speed aiming her short swords at his ribs, he tried using his hammer to deflect the strike but all what he hit was air, he turned around immediately because he knew he was in danger.

Slash…

She had slashed his triceps, he tightened his guard because she was so fast, even if she didn't have serious damage power her attacks were dangerous on the long run.

If she kept slashing and slashing he would eventually get weakened due to excessive blood lost.

But all he needed to win was just was clear hit, that's why she continued running to attack him.

This went on for a minute when finally, his hammer got one of her weapons.

Clang….

The sound of metal hitting against each other echoed.

The crowd was baffled, the speed that Anita moved with was straining them just to focus on her, and each time the hammer struck a large gust of wind was after it.

The fight went on and on until they had fought for more than an hour already with neither giving up, Oreva kept her skills sharper aster she almost got hit while Zack kept his defense tighter to prevent any slash from her.

The fight ended in a draw with the participants going to fight someone else in the finals.

They both came down from the stage exhausted and tired.

The next match was between both sword users Eli and the guy who hid his power, Lee.

They had to wait a moment for the stage to be refurbished, because of the ongoing fights before the stage was literally in rubble.

They removed the floor tiles that were there and leveled the place with sand making it convenient for their fights.

They both entered the sand stage and began their fight,

Eli stood at the other end holding his sword in an attacking position, while Lee stood at the other end with his short knives.

Swish…

They wasted no time talking and just attacked immediately.

Clang.. clang..

Eli's sword and Lee's short knife collided as they attacked each other.

Eli slashed toward his neck which he blocked with one of his knives and sent to other one to his ribs.

Eli took a step back to dodge the incoming knife and sent a left kick to him,

He blocked the kick with his arm catching his leg and sending him flying.

Eli stood back up and looked at Lee, he was really surprised with the outburst of power Lee showed.

Before he was just an average kid in the academy, he didn't show any talents or any sorts of thing that would make him special.

But today they were about to be awakened, he showed his true strength.

Eli knew that the fight that happened with the spear boy couldn't be replicated.

Lee obviously had more experience in fighting, maybe even more than him.

Lee ran and jumped throwing a three-sixty heel kick.

Eli saw an opening, because he was fighting with his sword, if this was just a normal fight without weapons it would have been harder for him.

If Lee was about to land the kick, he would use the back of his sword to hit his shin, he knew how bad that hurt because he had experienced something similar before.

Lee who was about to land the kick saw Eli aiming the back of his sword towards his shin.