The 1st and 2nd years tournament

Alan Pov:

I met Mi Sang Hee and the other girls at the entrance after an realisation and my talk with the boy without a face.

'You really think that tournament isn't manipulated?

What do yo-

Shush you really are more dumb than I thought.

The tournament had placed me and Kim Yong to meet in the finals but before that.....

You all need to give me your techniques and skills.

Do you really think that it will be so easy to beat-

Of course I think that! what are you talking about?

to even match my abilities you need to go all out, I only need to slowly copy your art after I put some of your friends down a never ending spiral of despair.'

I try to calm Mi Sang Hee down, my mind is on the conversation I had with the copy Godof arts aka. The bot with no face.

'What did happen to him?'

Mi Sang Hee is slowly calming down however that nagging feeling I missed something important in our conversation, is making me go insane.

'What did I miss?'

The fear of the unknown

The biggest fear humans have, it doesn't matter which universe we are talking about, at the same time is to not know everything could be a bliss like in my old world.

The fear of not being enough

My biggest fear by a long shot, it started as Kim Yong and every other character I created was stronger than I thought, not as strong as I thought like in other novels and that all because of one person.

Kim Yong changed the plot of my story along with the other transmigrator by a huge margin

However that doesn't mean I am not satisfied with that development.

"Alan, is everything okay?"

A sharp yet beautiful voice is tearing me out of my thoughts as everyone is already heading inside.

Taking half of my vision with her beauty is Mi Sang Hee with her obsidian colored eyes and hair, her expression appearing to me like a blurry image.

I smile and am nodding my head whilst following the other inside

'Hopefully my worries are unreasonable and don't happen'

I decide to put all my attention to my group.

The feeling of something forgotten slowly catching up to me is growing.

"Hey Alan do you think I can beat Kim Yong in a one vs one?"

I am watching Nadine asking that question, hoping a serious answer from my mouth

while we are walking to the waiting area for the participants.

My face feels like a strangers face as I answer with the most honest reply I could muster right now

"I don't think you could beat him even if he mainly can use fifty percent of his power.

Kim Yong was training a lot with Edward yesterday too and let me say his Mana control is a lot better than his old control over it."

Nadine is biting her lips as well as clenching her fist so hard blood I dripping on the ground.

Their faces all seem like a blurry image to me as the beat of my heart slowly overtakes my hearing.

"Alan calm down"

A golden image of me is emerging, putting a hand on my chest.

"You are getting influenced by your past again.

The phoenix fire us taking these emotions and amplifies them by people with phoenix blood or genes in them."

My heart beat slowly fades back to the background

while I now can hear their laughter as well as their competitive barking.

Their faces still appear to me blurry as my body strangely feels heavy

"Don't try to think and let yourself fall in it."

The golden image of me is smiling as my eyes catch their shocked expressions on their faces

If this were their faces and not the real faces Casein always tells me about.

A pool of red fiery liquid is splashing in my face, coiling around me like a snake.

After that everything went blank in my mind and I find myself on the huge arena ground

With a single huge stage in the center as crowds of people are cheering from the seats.

The stage is a huge square of Mana cores mixed with concrete and titanium, taking on a grey color with huge waves of Mana leaking from it.

The crowds of people are cheering as we all stand around it

My year on the East side and the second years on the West side, with each one person as a representative at the front ahead of everyone.

"Casein what happened while I was knocked out?"

I am asking him in my mind whilst the crowd is calming down at the appearance of the old copy man Hudson Zinsopter.

A gold spitting image of me is appearing on my right side of my vision with a frown on his face.

"You really are lucky that you have me-"

He is sighing as he stressed to the representative of the second years, the copy God of arts.

"He planted in you an emotional seed as well as a low bloodline with the help of an Illusion art."

"What?!"

My eyes are glued now on him as it felt like he is mocking me.

Casein is blocking my vision with his hand

"You have a lot left to learn after that tournament"

Is Casein saying as a golden fire is igniting in my eyes, letting me see the situation clearly.

"That is cheat-"

"No it isn't.

And that wasn't the reason I shared my power with you, look closely at all details"

He is ordering me to do that so I watch how the violet traces of Mana fly in the air and watch all our first years

Everytime it should hit one of us first years, it dispersed in nothing.

"Huh?!"

"Kim Yong is protecting you all along with his brother Edward"

Casein is saying that with a light smile on his face.

"Welcome to today's tournament of Nexus that will decide which year is worth to be called the golden generation-"

"Whoooaaaa"

Cheering people voices are entering my ears as a small circle appeared beneath me.

"However do to the huge numbers of first years and second years, we will let them all fight in chamber cubes at the same time.

It will be a 2 vs 2 between the two years fir scout two times then we will randomly draw numbers and do a five people free for all.

One with the best performance will get the chance to step in the roster of the 31 winners that participate in the tournament."

The crowd is cheering even louder now as the circles beneath us teleport us in these Chambers.

"These Chambers are all in the stage, pretty well designed if I can say so."

Casein again is judging humans progress in technology

while I am tilting my head to the right seeing my teammate.

My teammate is Kim Yong that is observing the chamber as well as our rnemies of the second year

One had orange hair and brown eyes, with w-

^Bam^ ^Bam^

Before I can really see all features of our enemies, they both kissed the ground and are knocked out.

In our black chamber with a shadow affinity Mana traveling through the air.

"You really didn't learn anything from my lessons"

"Wha-"

"This is a graveyard and it is enhancing all shadow related affinities while all other affinities are reduced by twenty percent"

Casein is looking at me disappointed whilst the circle is again forming beneath me, before shining brightly and letting me again be blinded by its light.

"The record time are holding the first years with a time of 2 seconds"

??????

My brain was slowly disconnecting from everything as again Casein sighs and is looking at me disappointed.

"Your perception speed is enhanced when something tries to surpress your supreme blood red fire"

'Oh... yeah that also existed'

Kim Yong is infront of me, watching the place where the copy God of arts stood.

My eyes were also glued to that spot for ten seconds as he appeared with a smiling mask.

After twenty minutes everyone was outside and were instantly teleported again in the Chambers, but this time it was a sea with few stones someone could stand on, a small sun at the sky, waves crashing in the stones.

I again tilt my head to my right looking for my partner.

"Oh hey Alan"

Her rose like eyes with that smile on her red lips left me stunned for a second.

"Hey Violett who wa-"

"You arrogant first years, di-huh!"

I didn't listen to her voice as my flames burst out of my body vaporising the entire sea in that chamber.

'Someone again interrupted me in the mid of my sentence'

I then saw that the two second years are knocked out... shouldn't they be stronger than us first years?

I found myself again outside on my spot I had, in the fourth row of the east sides first years.

"Casein are these second years not too weak?"

I observe our numbers that remained as I count a lot more first years than second years.

Casein is shaking his head, leaving me confused, he watches the second years and then our first years.

"It is I think more the problem that the first years are stronger than expected, like a certain person motivated everyone to become stronger"

I knew what he meant but I ignored it and prepared myself on the free for all fight.

After 30 minutes everyone was outside, causing the circle beneath us to appear and blind us.

Opening my eyes while I am feeling four hostile stares at me, seeing four second years nodding to each other with swords in their hands while watching my every move.

"You four give up or the pain and shame you will suffer will be to huge to handle"

I wanted to be nice as they seem like good seniors.... and oh boy I was wrong.

"You dipshit go to hell!"

I watch our surroundings, an ever burning city with all kind of broken parts of the buildings laying around.

Oh the guy who shouted that got a kick in the face, knocking him out.

The others weren't worth talking about them as I used fireballs to knock them out.

"How much stronger are we first years than the second years?"

I questioned while looking up with my eyes closed, not really wanting an answer to it.

"You all are at most two levels higher than them, if we talk about the weakest of you and their stronger ones.

Of course their is one exception."

My expression froze as I am seeing The copy God of arts beating the crap out of Mi Sang Hee.

'This bastard dares to hurt her!'

"Calm down their fight ended and she isn't hurt much, well not physical at least."

The smile on his mask is growing as he spawns on his position as the only one of the second years being able to fight.

"With that the 32 winner are entering the last stage of our event, the tournament between the strongest of the first year and second year!!"

The crowd cheered but I knew why he beat Mi Sang Hee like that, making me clenching my teeth even more.

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1st Trash of Titan vs Mi Sang Hee

2nd Benjamin Santos vs Aidia Page

3rd Tinir Kasar vs Diana Rixa

4th Ben Asylk Astrol vs Yggdra Meraxes

5th Lu Gao vs Chris Hester

6th Hella Lundin vs Rica Blossamfield

7th Dai Jong vs Kevin Diverk

8th Alan Burner vs Zonagh Shakum

9th Nadine Lanouette vs Beatrice Romabo

10th Violett Rosshouse vs Shakira Snyder

11th Leopold Hartstein vs John Lionsworth

12th Roxanne Nolin vs Jordan Summers

13th Braxton Doyle vs Traci Bender

14th Christian Müller vs Kazuo Seno

15th Yon Jin-Ho vs Gaitera Earlth

16th Kim Yong vs Liam Sataroth

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What he said to me came true and it started by Mi Sang Hee, he already emotionally destroyed.

'I will beat you even if it is the last thing I do'