Ch-6

Wait what? My team with 4 members and Zarek's team with 5 members?! I turned back to ask Zarek about what was going on, but he had already held Caelia by her neck, and was about to kill her.

"What are you doing Zarek?" shouted Asralyn.

"Is something wrong with you Zarek?" screamed Laimas.

I kept on standing there. I had understood what was happening. Zarek had joined a different team yesterday, and became its leader. And that team just so happened to be our team. This was not a coincidence. He purposely went into that team. He had betrayed us. I didn't know why he was doing this but, I was furious. My power was leaking out.

A few days before-

Zarek speaking to himself, "Damnit. Why I am not the leader. I am way stronger than that Edgar or Asralyn. This humiliation. I will pay them back for this. I will destroy every last one of them, for taking me lightly."

The day before-

In a dark hallway, there were 3 people. 1 of them was lying unconscious, with one of his arms ripped out. Flood was flowing out of his hand, and his conditions was very bad. There were also thorns all over his body. There was also a man, who was threatening another. That man was Zarek. He was threatening someone.

Random voice, "Why are you doing this? Are you afraid that you can't beat us tomorrow, huh?"

"No, it's not that. I can defeat you all just by myself. What I want, is to join your team, and as its leader. Now that you have 1 less member, you need another. So, why don't you take me."

"O, okay. You can join my team, and become its leader. Just leave me."

To the Present-

"Ha! I wanted to actually defeat Edgar first, as he became the leader instead of me. Do you know who I am? I am the strongest in the world. No one ever can defeat me. And now, I am going to show you to all of this, FIRST HAND. Firstly, Caelia's han…"

"Caelia forfeits the match."

Everyone looked towards me. I had just made our team's number go down from 4 to 3. But, no had an angry look on their face, but a pleased one.

Now Zarek couldn't do anything to Caelia. There was already some fire coming out of my fists. I couldn't control myself.

Zarek looked displeased. He wanted to torture Caelia, but I had stopped him. Asralyn attacked Zarek with her

-Quadruple Canon.

Zarek brushed it off without much problem. I knew he was strong, and I would have to use all of powers to beat him. Mo and Me said to not use my full powers, and that there would be way more powerful people than him, in the later phases. But I couldn't leave him be. I was going to wreck him. He not only betrayed us, but also was ready to kill one of his older comrades. Did he even consider us as comrades? I thought I had prepared myself for all of this when I had left home for the test, but it looks like I was wrong.

"Asralyn and Laimas, I want you to take care of the 4 guys behind you. I will take care of Zarek."

"But Edgar, Zarek is too strong for you" replied Asralyn. "I will take him and you help Laimas to take care of the other 4."

"Listen to me you both, I can handle him on my own. This is my responsibility as the team leader"

They both shrugged, but followed my orders.

"Oh, so you think you can take me on alone, huh?"

"Yes, I do. And I will defeat you, right here and now."

"You are very funny. Asralyn did have a chance, as she could control 10 of those canons or whatever."

"You are the funny one. She can control 15 of them. So, yes you are no match for her. Instead, why don't you fight someone in your own league."

His face became serious. He now knew that defeating Asralyn was tough. Dealing with 5 more of those canons was very difficult of course. And then, our fight started.

I leapt forward, with my sword out. He summoned his hammer, and attacked. He was more powerful than me. I knew I had to use my fire element. I used

-Fiery strike

He also attacked with

-Thorn punch

The attacks were of equal power. Zarek was surprised to see my using fire. I attacked again

-Fiery Tornado

He used

-Nature Balance.

My attack was torn apart. The fire and the wind were separated and became useless.

"Nature Balance disables all the mixed elemental attacks until they are in 50-50 ratio."

He then absorbed his weapon. I did too. We were both radiating a lot of power. He then came right next to me. His speed was great, but not something that I couldn't handle. I also turned, and both gave a punch to each other. The punches connected and we both went flying and hit the opposite ends of the arena. I quickly stood up, and so did Zarek. I switched up with my spear and threw it right at him. He managed to dodge it quite easily. I, then, teleported to it, and hit Zarek. He had expected this, and rendered my attack useless.

I had not expected something. It was the difference in amount of power in our moves. With his nature balance, he made my attacks weaker, and that made his attack to prevail. After 10 more minutes of fighting, I started to bleed in various places in my body. I was getting weaker. I knew I had to use my secret move. Mo and Me also gave me the go to use it, as they knew I was losing.

Several months before, while I was training-

"Do you know, you have another power, which is highly compatible with you. Although, you won't be able to learn or increase its powers in this short amount of time" Mo said.

"What is it?"

"Dark power."

"Dark?"

"Yes, Dark power. One of the most difficult power to use. Light is the most difficult to control, but Dark is the most difficult to use. Using it uses up a lot of power. We can learn it, but you won't be able to use it freely. You can only use this, if you are in a bad situation, but only as a supplement to your fire. The time limit to use it will also be only around 2 minutes. Any more than that, and you won't be able to handle it. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I do"

Present-

"Dark Power!"

The flames coming out of my sword, turned to black. They were also in a 50-50 ratio and so, could not be broken by nature balance. I attacked-

-Black Fiery Strike

It was multiple times stronger than a normal attack. Zarek somehow managed to dodge it. He understood that I was stronger than him, when I used the dark power. What he did not know was, that this difference in power was only for 2 mins. He used the power of the soul. I did too. We were now on completely different power levels. He was way stronger than me. I could tell by the flow of his power. Asralyn and Laimas, defeating the other 4, joined in on the fight too. They both absorbed their weapons too. Laimas also used the power of the soul. Asralyn didn't need to. She had summoned all of her 15 canons and was very serious.

We all attacked at the same time-

-Black Fiery Strike

-White Light 13 Canons

-Rock hurler devastation

Zarek counter attacked too-

-Power of the almighty, Natural Disaster

It was a huge bang. The ground was torn apart, and there were dust particles everywhere. The white light from Asralyn's attack blinded us all. When the light, smoke and dust cleared out, we could see that Zarek was still barely standing. He was glaring at us. He was looking at us disgustingly, like we had done a crime.

Me and Laimas were badly injured too, but Asralyn was just fine. She was just on a whole other level. My dark power wore out quite faster than 2 minutes, maybe because I had used all of my power behind that attack.

Zarek wanted to say something. We could barely hear it, but when we did, we understood why he hated us. He fell down, still barely conscious. He said it again,

"You rich people will never acknowledge the poor, even if they are much better than you. You use your numbers, powers and money against us, to push us down, so that you can still stay at the top…." And he fainted.

We felt sorry for him. In front of us, one of our comrades was lying on the ground, unconscious. And this was because we couldn't acknowledge him and make him our team leader. And then the results came out.

Congratulations team Edgar. All of you have completed the Phase 1 of the Ranking Competition. You are all now in the top 1250 ranks.

We were happy that we had passed, but were unhappy because we couldn't help and understand our team mate, when he needed it. The rankings were announced for the people of the ranks 1251-20000. Actually, only 1246 people had passed the phase one. So, the rankings were given on the basis of 1247-20000. Zarek was given the rank of 1247. We knew he deserved much more. He was stronger than both me and Laimas. He might have been as strong as Asralyn or even stronger.

In the past (before the invasion of the pink planet.)-

And now, the finals between Zarek and the mayor's son will take place in this prestigious competition. There will be 20 mathematical questions asked, and who ever answers the most correctly wins. Zarek had answered 19 out of the 20 correctly, whereas the mayor's son had answered only 17 correctly. Zarek knew that he had won. But then, when the results came out, his name was not there. He was disqualified because of cheating. He had not done anything wrong, but he was disqualified. His father was very poor and kept spending all his money on educating his son, but after he got the news that his son had been disqualified for cheating, he threw his son out of the house. His father did not have any money, and worked as a labour. When he felt that all hope was gone, and he was going to spend all his life, being a poor and struggling man, he got these powers. He had decided to change the society and make everyone else acknowledge him. Even though he was poor, he would become the strongest.

Present-

In the hospital-

"So, I lost again, huh." Most of Zarek's wounds were healed. He felt very disappointed, but he knew that he couldn't stop now. He stood up, and gave a smile. "At least, this time it was fair and square." He then left the hospital, to go somewhere, and become stronger, to achieve his dreams.

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