Chapter 82 - The Fights Continue (1/2)

After Krune's battle was over, not only the contestants started to pay attention to him, the guilds higher-ups of the other continents also noticed his presence, specially Yulie Forgon, the Guild Head of the Sky Fall Continent Mercenary Guild, as one can already guess, Shad Forgon is his relative, a grandnephew to be more exactly, noticing Krune's strength made him apprehensive, he was pretty sure that his nephew would get a slot for the Martial Gathering, but now with Krune there, even if he wins his bracket, Shad will be in poor condition to fight the last seven battles.

He then took a look at Guild Head Bary, he could see that he was very calm as if this was totally inside of his expectations, he had received the reports that the Yule Continent had spread the news about finding a genius, but he totally disregarded such information, Yule Continent geniuses usually wouldn't make much of a difference when compared to theirs, but it seems like this time they really hit the jackpot.

The battles of the first round continued, seed player after seed player entered the stage and soon it was Shad Forgon's time in the Sixth arena.

As a place where it rains a lot, more than half of the cultivators of the Sky Fall Continent specialized in water element, and Shad Forgon wasn't different, he could control two elements at the same time at moment, Water and Lightning, a pretty common combination in that place, but since he was put as a seeded Mercenary, he was obviously not a common user that you could find anywhere.

His opponent was an Armored Bull Demon Beast called Houl from the Borle Continent, just like the Thunder Hawk.

The Borler Continent was basically a gigantic forest, at least half of its cultivators were demon beasts, so it's Mercenary Headquarters had a lot of them every time a Mercenary Selection happened.

Houl charged at Shad as soon as the battle started, through his control of earth and wood element, he usually tried to stop his opponent from getting away, his forte was close combat, after all, Shad noticed what he wanted to try but didn't try to flee, he took out his saber and engaged the bull head-on, at first it looked like an even battle, but those with good perception could see that Shad was only playing around with the bull, he released some water and lightning every time their attacks encountered each other, it didn't seem like much, but that lightning slowly entered the bull's body and was destroying him from inside out.

The bull noticed that the situation wasn't good and tried to increase the power of his defense with earth element, but it was of no use, because of the water element that was merged with the lightning, it found its way through the flaws on the defense of the bull, after some time, the bulls combat power started to deteriorate, in fact, if things continued like this, Houl would damage his foundation, so he decided to admit defeat in the end.

Shad didn't do anything else after that, although his battle could be said to be the longest between the seeded players so far, the fact was that he used the smallest amount of spiritual energy between them, one could see that he was totally fine on the arena, it only proved that a seeded contestant has a reason to be that.

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It was finally time for the fifth round where Yusa would take part, she was the one that made a lot of people puzzled, after all, the Yule Continent could only select one-seeded Mercenary, it was basically due to the lesser number of Mercenaries participating in this Selection in comparison to the other Continents.

Her opponent was another woman from the Ice Continent called Mia Gessa, peak 9th stage of Foundation Establishment, also a dual elements user, she specialized in Ice and Wind, quite an uncommon combination of elements.

Yusa, of course, didn't know that, only after the battle started did she find out how unusual such combination was, Mia used the wind element on her movements to keep her distance while shooting several ice icicles and spears from all sides, it was a very annoying combination that trapped the opponent movements while doing a considerable amount of damage, her tactic was guerrilla warfare, it is a very strong combination at the end of the day.

Unfortunately for her, she encountered Yusa, none of her attacks could get even close, the water dragons defense that Yusa kept around her worked as an impregnable fortress, the impressive thing was that the exterior of the water dragons was made of segments of ice, the ice made their armors while the water controlled their segments and heads movements, Yusa's ice element control was much higher than Mia, so while Mia's attacks shattered against the water ice dragons, the dragons themselves suffered almost no damage what so ever.

Mia saw that her tactics wouldn't work and that she was only wasting her energy, so she switched from several small random attacks to more powerful ice attacks, she saw that Yusa basically wasn't moving away from her place, so she wanted to break through the dragon's defense using brute force, but in the end, it was useless, the difference between the control of their ice elements was just too big, Yusa's water ice dragons sturdiness were simply much better than any of Mia's attacks, after a few minutes of tries, Mia finally gave up and waited to see what Yusa would do.

Yusa looked at Mia and smiled.

”That was a very interesting use of wind and ice, I've never seen that before if it wasn't me, I believe you would have a very good chance of getting a good position in this Selection.”

Mia heard that and frowned.

”You can't beat me if you don't attack either, can you even hit me at all?”

Yusa just kept smiling, she felt a little sad that she had to eliminate one of the few women in this Selection, but there was no other choice, so she sighed and pointed her hand forward.