Chapter 79: In order to protect (1/2)
Chapter 79: In order to protect
“Brook against Ayrin!”
The referee spoke again, and only then did the Holy Dawn Academy students slowly start recovering from their numbness and dizziness, only then did they start believing that something huge happened inside this Dragon-Battling Arena.
“Team Divine Shield is a team that qualifies for the national tournament year in and year out, but we’re actually on the verge of beating them!”
“Ayrin already beat Charlotte and Ivan back to back, if he wins against the next two Divine Shield team members, then a legend will truly be born in the Dragon-Battling Arena!”
“Go Ayrin! Beat them!”
The national tournament was something far out of their reaches, something far beyond their school, but now it suddenly became so real. Even the usually most reserved Holy Dawn students felt their hot blood ignite completely.
Brook, the fourth contestant representing Divine Shield Academy, had an utterly unsightly expression amidst the cheers and the singing engulfing everything in the entire venue.
“No matter how strong he is, no matter how much strength he hides, he’s at most a low-level arcane master with one open arcane gate. He can’t have many arcane particles left inside him after spending so many arcane particles to invoke arcane skills like Evil Flaming Eye and Crown of Ice and Snow!”
Brooke was already keenly aware that the final victory in this match was already out of grasp for Divine Shield Academy. The only thought left in his mind was to defeat Ayrin.
Only by defeating Ayrin would their defeat be a little less humiliating, only then will some heavyweights in the stands take a fancy to him!
“Brook, his most powerful arcane skill is ‘Iron Skin,’ it belongs to the outstanding resistance and strength type.”
Ayrin carefully thought back to Carter’s briefing in their pre-match meeting. He sized up this opponent with brown hair and half a head taller than him.
“I don’t have enough arcane particles left to sustain even Evil Flaming Eye. It seems I absolutely have to accumulate as many arcane particles as possible in this fight if I want to defeat the next opponent.”
Ayrin took a deep breath in. He basked in the blood-boiling feeling and the atmosphere of victory, and once again roared out loud!
“Bring it! Brave Warrior!”
“I will beat you today even if I have to stake my life away!” Ayrin’s single-minded focus on fighting stimulated Brook’s bravery. His eyes turned blood-red!
“Die!”
He clenched his teeth the instant the referee declared the start of the fight. Fierce winds rolled up around him. Arcane particles spilled continuously out of his hands and adhered on his skin. His skin started to glitter with a metallic gloss.
“Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!” …
In the space of a mere breath, his silhouette intertwined with Ayrin’s silhouette, their hands and feet knocking nonstop against each other.
He held the upper hand in speed and strength at once. He launched his attacks like a surging storm and continuously forged forward, while Ayrin kept retreating backward, defending with everything he had.
“Pa!”
Ayrin fell back two hundred meters in succession under the frenzy of his assault, falling back all the way to the edge of the field. His back even pounded fiercely on the black stone wall under the grandstands.
“Die!”
The already berserk Brook roared savagely the instant Ayrin’s back bumped against the wall of volcanic rocks. He bent in a lunge step, his body like a fully-drawn bow, and with a an explosive boom, the recoil from his punch caused Ayrin’s blocking arms to hit his own chest.
It was only a moment ago that Ayrin’s back broke away from the stone wall behind him. Now it once again crashed heavily on the stone wall!
His body stiffened all of a sudden. The sound of a crack came from the black stone wall. Countless minute crevices extended outward, like the weave of a spiderweb with his back as the center.
The strength of this punch completely exceeded Brook’s limits. His own body, under the recoiling effect of this one punch, fell back six or seven steps in succession, before steadying.
The instant he steadied himself, Brook saw Ayrin’s back seemingly embedded into the stone wall, his head hanging down.
“Is it over?”
Brook slightly froze, heaving and panting, such a thought emerging inside his mind.
“Ayrin has been defeated?”
“He’s finally no longer able to go on?”
The entire stands fell deathly quiet at this moment. Even the whole world seemed to still.
“This guy finally lost? Is he dead?” In the stands, Stingham saw Ayrin not moving a single finger, his head hanging down, and suddenly breathed in relief.
But at this time, Ayrin actually raised his head all of a sudden.
“Ah! A ghost!”
Stingham immediately shouted out loud in fright, almost falling down from his seat.
“What!”
Brook believed this fight was already over. Now he directly leaped several steps backward out of fright.
“Now it should be my turn.”
Crack crack sounds came in quick succession from Ayrin’s back. Many tiny stones fell from within the crevices in the stone wall. Ayrin walked forward in Brook’s direction, step by step.
Brook subconsciously fell back a step once again.
“This guy, why did he droop his head if he wasn’t dead, why’s he trying to scare me!” Stingham cursed gloomily in his corner of the stands.
“Come then!”