Ivan vs Ralph

The whole arena was silent as the spectators patiently waited to see how this fight would turn out, the undead General looked strong and it was common knowledge that under beings were difficult to deal with.

Ivan and Ralph stared at each other, both having a serious expression on their faces as they waited for the referee to announce the start of the fight.

Seeing that both sides were ready, the referee took to the sky before saying.

"Begin!" 

Immediately after the voice of the referee sounded, the three swords around Ivan shot out at a stunning speed.

Swoosh!! 

Sounds of the wind being split through could be heard as the three swords tore through the air toward Ralph, Ivan remained standing in his place and did not attack along with the swords.

Peng! Peng! Peng!

But before the swords could reach Ralph, the undead General made its move.

Turning into a black blur on the stage, it flashed over to the three swords at an even greater speed and slapped them away before they could reach Ralph; it returned to Ralph's side immediately after blocking the attacks successfully.

Ivan raised an eyebrow at the sight of his swords being slapped away, a hint of surprise flashed past his eyes as he stared at the old man in black robe.

Those red eyes that gave off nothing but chills like staring into a bottomless abyss stares back at Ivan before suddenly disappearing.

Ralph had gone on the offense!

Ivan's face did not change expression even when the undead General suddenly disappeared, its speed might be fast but not so fast that a True king Nexulyte like himself would not be able to keep up.

With a fluid movement of his legs, Ivan jumped into the air and did a backflip while landing over ten meters away from his previous location.

At the same time…

BOOM!!!

A sound of a loud explosion rang out on the stage as a huge wave of broken concrete was sent flying everywhere ten meters away from Ivan, a huge crater of over five meters could be seen and in the middle of the crater was the under General who was standing like a statue while looking in Ivan's direction.

Swoosh! Swoosh!! Swoosh!!!

A second later after the explosion, three swords suddenly arrived around the undead General in the middle of the crater and stabbed at it viciously, one stabbing at its head, another at its chest and the last one pointed at its waist.

Wooosh!!

The undead General was still shockingly quick to react to these sudden attacks, immediately flipping its big black robe and blowing away the sword that was going for its head before sending a punch toward the one coming for its chest. A slight shift of its body allowed in to prevent its waist from being split in two.

All this time took only as little as two seconds but the undead General was able to avoid the attacks. Just when it had successfully evaded all strikes, it suddenly looked to the side and its red eyes exploded into a dazzling shine of red light as if an explosion had gone off behind its eye sockets.

The direction that the undead General was looking at with such intense stare was where Ralph was standing and the reason for such a reaction was because Ivan had suddenly lunged at Ralph while it was distracted.

It hadn't expected Ivan to go for Ralph so soon. After all, to deal with a summoned being, one would need to take care of the summoner.

Disregarding the three swords that were coming back for it, the undead General disappeared again with another explosion and creating an even wider crater.

It turned into a black shadow that flickered across the stage at a breakneck speed and chased after Ivan, it crossed a distance of over a hundred meters in just a second and caught up to Ivan.

Ivan smirked secretly when he saw the black shadow that had arrived near him, he suddenly stopped his advancement toward Ralph and made a sharp turn to face the undead General with the sword in his hand stabbing out.

The shine in the eyes of the undead General intensified upon seeing Ivan's sudden action, so the attempt on Ralph was a faint!

But it was too late to stop or dodge, it could only cross its pale arms in front of itself to block Ivan's sword.

Ting!!

The sound of Ivan's sword hitting something hard echoed throughout the arena upon their collision, the force had generated a strong shockwave that caused the ground under their feet to shatter and sent concrete flying around them. Yet…

'Just how hard is this thing?' Ivan thought to himself while gritting his teeth, he knew just how sharp his sword was yet it was unable to stab through the arms of this old man in black robe.

They came to a stand still with Ivan trying to force his sword forward while the undead General tried to push him back with its arms, it was an undead after all so it could not feel pain.

'An ordinary sword user would have been helpless against this thing, unfortunately I'm its opponent' Ivan thought and suddenly gripped the handle of his sword tightly and poured Nexus into it, causing the blade of the sword to light up!

Shink!!!!

After engulfing his sword in Nexus energy, he only had to apply a bit of force and the sword easily pierced through the crossed arms of the undead General and into its chest.

At the same time.

Shink! Shink! Shink!!

The other three swords arrived behind it and stabbed ruthlessly into its back, red smoke immediately began to rise from its body; this was a sign that it was bleeding.

Even at this, the face of the undead General remained expressionless as it balled its hands into fists and sent a double punch toward Ivan.

Ivan immediately let go of his swords and made them disappear while at the same time jumping back to avoid the punch from the old man, he did not jump too far though.

He landed just half a meter away from the old man before charging forward again and giving it a hard punch to the face.

Bang!!

The sound of the punch was loud and clear as the undead General was sent flying away like a broken doll and crashed into the barrier surrounding the stage.

'Such hard skin' Ivan thought to himself while staring at the undead General that had fallen to the ground after hitting the barrier, it had immediately jumped back to its feet the next moment but suddenly stopped when it wanted to attack Ivan.

It turned its head in Ralph's direction as its body suddenly started to scatter into Nexus energy, it was being recalled.

Ivan was confused and turned to look at Ralph only to see him panting heavily while bending over, his face was covered in sweat and his tracksuit was almost soaked in it.

It was obvious that keeping the undead General for so long had taken a heavy toll on him, he had expanded too much energy.

Ivan did not use any more cards and slowly walked over to Ralph's position and supported him up.

"You really have an issue with going easy unless told to do so, don't you?" Ralph said with a helpless smile. He was the one who had wanted to fight seriously but this dense friend of his had trashed his undead General all around like a punching bag, of course he would have to use more energy to keep it around.

"You did great" Ivan replied shortly but Ralph could feel how honest he was with those words, he only chuckled softly in response while adjusting his glasses.

The referee landed beside them at this point, ready to announce the results and also check up on the trainees.

'As expected of a True king rank Nexulyte, even an undead General can barely face him. But if they had been on the same rank, the match might have ended differently' The referee analyzed inwardly, he was only thinking this because he was unaware that Ivan had over a hundred ways to defeat the undead General and Ralph had he wanted to; but Ivan wasn't planning to reveal his true strength and definitely not on his friends.

The referee inspected Ralph's condition and nodded after seeing that he was only exhausted and did not have any injuries or things to worry about, he stood straight and was about to announce the winner when Ivan's voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

"I surrender" 

His voice wasn't loud but it had traveled across the entire arena and everyone had heard him clearly.

Referee "..." 

Trainees "..." 

Elora who was secretly watching "..." 

Silence.