Crafty back and forth

After the defeat of Jason both Kage and Jason are taken to the resting room to have their injuries treated. With the sixth match now over, the shuffleboard starts to shuffle the last four fighters left.

"The next match is Seth vs. Aurora! This means the last match is Kai vs.Unknown! Make sure to stay tuned for these exciting last matches of the day."

While everyone starts to get prepared for the next match, someone awakens in the resting room. Elias awakens after being knocked out for almost half an hour.

"Where am I?"

"You're in the resting room, my dear Elias. You took a pretty bad loss, but don't worry, we aren't even close to being done."

Elias looks to his left and sees Mr.Srout sitting next to his bed.

"Mr.Strout? So I lost to Paul again."

"Yes, but it's ok, my dear Elias, because we will continue to get stronger together."

Elias sits up in his bed with an infuriated expression on his face.

"That damn Paul! I'll make sure next time I see you, I'll destroy you!"

"Yes, my dear Elias, that's it! Turn your anger into power!"

Mr.Strout walks to the door of the room and opens it.

"Come now Elias the second round is almost over."

A few minutes after this conversation, it was time for the next match.

"From the right corner, we have Aurora!"

When her name is called, Aurora walks out of the right exit of the stadium.

"Now from the left corner, we have Seth!"

When Seth walks out of the left exit of the field, he instantly takes note of Aurora.

"Aurora the number one of class four. You were the one to beat me in the class one battle royale and forced me to be put in class six, where I don't belong, but don't worry, today I will show everyone how that loss was a mistake."

Seth looks to the stands and sees his father, Ronald, sitting in VIP seats. As Mr.Zane counts down Seth looks at Aurora.

"Soon you'll see Father. How much stronger I'm getting and how strong I'll become!"

On the other side, Aurora starts to assess the situation.

"Seth the number one of class six. I beat him before without having to expend too much energy, but after watching his battle in the first round, I can tell he's leveled up a lot. The most dangerous thing he has in his arsenal is his ability to freeze bones from the inside out. From my observations, the opponent doesn't usually realize their bones are frozen until it's too late. I got to be careful of that move."

"Fight!"

The second the fight starts, Seth stomps the ground and sends multiple shards at Aurora. Aurora uses the accelerate technique to start dodging the shards, but every time she dodges a shard, the shards freeze the ground in front of her. After dodging eight shards, Aurora notices something.

"He's made an ice wall between us!"

"Seth has made a wall of ice between him and Aurora; what could he possibly be planning?" Mr.Brown says.

With the ice wall in front of her, Aurora starts to scan the field.

"OK, that ice wall is about ten feet tall, and from what I can sense with my sense technique, I can hear and feel how the wind passage has changed, so I'm guessing the width is about six feet. Which means that based on his skillset, if he were to jump over it, it would take half a second, but I don't think he's going to go for that or something more straightforward like making a hole through the ice wall. He has something up his sleeve, and I'm ready for him."

Aurora starts to walk back and forth in front of the ice wall while pushing all her senses to the maximum with the sense technique.

"Wait!"

To Aurora's surprise, Seth starts to phase through the ice wall.

"Surprised!"

On the north side of the stadium, Paul remembers his battle against Seth.

"He used that same move against me in our battle. It seems he made it more effective by making his movements quicker, so it's less predictable."

After completely phasing through the ice wall, Seth uses his ice manipulation to expand huge icicles from the ice wall. The huge icicles stretch to Aurora.

"So was this really your entire plan? With your powers, I know there's more!"

Aurora uses her right hand to block one of the icicles.

"Ha! That's a direct hit!"

As Seth celebrates, the icicle Aurora blocked with her hand completely disintegrates.

"Your strategies won't work on me."

In her left hand, a thick black rope appears. Aurora takes the rope and throws it at great speed towards Seth. The rope wraps around Seth's torso and arms, restraining him.

"Ha! Do you really think this is enough to hold me down? You really are a fake upper class. I thought you were supposed to be smart."

Seth starts to freeze the ropes, but at the same time, Aurora starts touching all the icicles that missed her with her right hand. Each icicle disintegrates after being touched by Aurora.

"You might be able to freeze those ropes, but did I tell you those ropes weren't normal?"

"Huh?"

Seth looks at the rope wrapped around him and notices that there is gasoline dripping from the rope.

"What!"

A lighter appears in Aurora's hand, and she lights it and instantly throws it onto the rope tied around Seth. When the fire hits the rope, the gasoline explodes, and Seth lights on fire.

"Ahhh!"

"I made that rope with gasoline stored inside."

As Seth burns, something starts to form in Aurora's hand. Seth starts to roll on the ground to put the fire out.

"What the hell!"

From Aurora's left hand, a 20-foot-long sword releases directly at Seth. The sword releases so quickly that Seth has no time to react, and the sword stabs through his right shoulder.

"Shit!"

Seth freezes a part of the sword and breaks it. Seth pulls the sword out of his shoulder and starts holding it in pain.

"Damn, now I'm remembering! Aurora's power is "Hands of Destruction and Creation." Her right hand deconstructs materials, and then her left hand takes the deconstructed material and creates whatever she wants."

Seth freezes his wound and stands back up.

"Well, luckily for me, I have the advantage in this fight!"

The ice wall behind Seth suddenly breaks apart and releases a large amount of cold mist. The mist covers the entire battlefield. As the mist gets closer to her, Aurora assesses the situation.

"Is he trying to use that mist to freeze my bones?"

Aurora's left hand starts to glow.

"Woah, the battlefield has been filled with mist. What's Seth's plan here?" Mr.Brown screams.

When the mist clears, it is revealed that the entire battlefield has been turned into an icy terrain. There are huge towers of ice all across the battlefield and ice particles glowing in the air.

"You know my powers get an amp whenever I'm in extremely cold temperatures, but in places like the Grava Zone, there aren't a lot of places like that, so I got the brilliant idea to drop the temperatures myself! Icy zone!"

Seth starts sliding through the battlefield at great speed. On the other side of the battlefield, Aurora has created a suit that has a heater installed in it.

"This should hopefully keep me warm."

Aurora creates a miragerator in her hand. Aurora clicks the button and instantly disappears from Seth's site.

"Aurora just created a miragerator! An item that can make things and people blend in with their surroundings!" Mr.Brown says.

Seth stops sliding on the ice and turns around.

"Ok, now you are hiding! Fine! You're just proving that you're a fake even more!"

Seth starts sliding around the field to find Aurora.

"Where did you go, you fake upper class!"

On top of one of the towers of ice, Aurora is hidden.

"I can't make too much noise, or he will pick up on me with the sense technique."

Aurora creates a bow and arrows in her left hand.

"Anti-OGI bullets are great, but they are too nosey, so anti-OGI arrows will do."

Aurora stands up and shoots three arrows at his back.

"Fuck!"

When the arrows hit Seth, he looked back to where Aurora was with an angry expression, but she had already left the spot.

"You need to work on your sense technique, Seth, because attacks like these shouldn't be catching you that easily."

"Shut up!"

Seth uses his ice manipulation to make all the ice towers float, and then he makes them all split into small, sharp shards of ice.

"Now sharp hale!"

Seth makes all the shards of ice rain all across the battlefield. The ice shards that fell on the field hit Aurora and destroyed her miragerator, causing her to be visible once again.

"Damn it, I didn't have enough materials to make a strong enough shield. Only if this field had more to it."

With multiple shards of ice stabbed into her body, Aurora lays on her back. Seth walks over to Aurora and looks down at her.

"And look at that the fake upper class down on her back. I guess this should prove that you beating me was a mistake."

A ball of ice starts to form in between Seth's index finger and middle finger.

"Absolute zero"

As Seth charges his attack, Aurora starts to reflect on the battle.

"He didn't even use the attack I was so worried about. That attack in his hand, though, is definitely going to freeze me completely, even with the heater in my suit."

"You know, only if that power of yours had more offensive power, maybe you could have a better chance at bearing the new and improved me."

While hearing Seth's taunting, Aurora looks closely at Seth's attack.

"I could destroy that thing and continue fighting, but what if—no, I can't think about that right now; class four needs me."

To Seth's surprise, Aurora jumps up and starts moving her right hand toward the ball of ice in between Seth's fingers.

"I just have to destroy the ball of ice and nothing else!"

Aurora starts to get flashes of her memories. She sees a person with blood all over their hands and hears terrifying and traumatizing screaming. After remembering this, Aurora looks at Seth's finger with fear in her eyes.

"I'm going to have to leave it all to you, Kai, because I just can't."

"Cryo freeze!"

A beam of ice at under zero degrees hits Aurora at close range and completely freezes her body. After three minutes of waiting so they could make sure she's truly down, the results were announced.

"The match is over, and the winner is Seth! That means once again, class six survives a round with two students."

In the student stands, Selena reacts to Aurora's loss.

"She froze up at the end. What was she trying to do?"

Unknown says, "I thought Aurora would have won this battle."

"Well, her powers aren't really that great for offensive purposes. Her powers require her to know everything about what she wants to create. She must know the exact materials and even the chemical compounds for some items. The only reason she's able to use it this way is because she studies a lot and trains her mind to remember everything, no matter how small it is."

"Wow, that actually sounds hard, but my match is up next."

Unknown looks to his right and looks to the seat above him, where he sees Kai, who has his arms crossed.

"Aurora's loss is upsetting, but with my skill, I'm sure I can pick up the slack for class four."

Kai and Unknown stand up and start walking in opposite directions.

"Let the best man win."

Chapter 123 end