Chapter 82 - The Fights Continue (2/2)

Immediately, an enormous water prison that covered almost one-fourth of the arena appeared, the area that it covered was so big that even with her wind element movement, Mia didn't have time to escape before being trapped inside, but if she was fast enough, it would be useless, that's because Yusa can now move the water prison around as she likes, Mia then tried to use her Ice element to create a barrier around her body, but didn't expect to receive an electric shook even before she could concentrate, Yusa might best at support, but it doesn't mean that her attacks were weak at all!

It took only a few seconds for Mia finally lose consciousness inside the gigantic water prison, all of that happened while she still controlled the Water Ice Dragons around her, it finally downed to everyone that the Yule Continent Seeded contestant isn't weak at all, Yusa can also control three elements at the same time, and she was obviously extremely proficient at that.

The referee had no need to take action, he could see that Yusa wasn't planning to really hurt the other girl after Mia passed out, the water prison was released and the personal taking care of the cultivators injuries entered the arena, they soon noticed that Mia was totally fine and just needed some rest, they then took her out and the referee announced Yusa's victory.

Yusa was the only seeded mercenary fighting in this round, so the other seed mercenaries paid a lot of attention to her, some of them were relieved that she was selected as a seed contestant, they definitely wouldn't want to battle someone like that before the eight winners are decided, Krune and Ao watched everything and just smiled, no one knows Yusa's power better than them, her victory was assured the moment they noticed Mia's combat power.

Yusa came down from the arena sighing.

'If it was Krune, he would simply use my water prison to take a bath, because of his practice with the Tribulation Lightning, normal lightning attacks can barely do anything to him now, and that is considering that I can catch him inside my prison at all, that dammed lightning movement fused with some tribulation lightning is just too fast!'

'As for Ao, I reckon that he would slice my prison in half with brute force, well, at least he can't break my defense easily, so it's always hard to say which of the two of us would win in the end.'

She found Mia's attacks interesting, that combination of ice and wind wasn't something you saw every day, but that was all, she hadn't felt the least bit of danger from the start to finish.

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The battle continued, no seeded players had lost in the end, but Krune wasn't the only dark horse so far, there were another two who stood out, a cultivator called Deno Baril from the Sky Fall continent who was in the Third Arena, much for Tasier's dissatisfaction, and the other one was a Water Dragon called Drorne from the Ice Continent who was in the First Arena, making Lina quite sad, just like the Earth Dragon that Krune fought in the past, this Water Dragon also wasn't a real dragon, but had a good concentration of dragon blood in its body.

After the first round was over, the Mercenaries got two hours to rest, the second round would continue after that, Krune noticed that he has quite some time free, so he called the others over.

”It's almost lunchtime anyway, so I'm going to make some food, you guys want some?”

They immediately nodded, except for watching the seed mercenaries' battles, they were pretty much bored, so eating and drinking something would help improve their moods.

Another wave of fragrant food appeared somewhere close to the arenas, the Yule Continent people didn't even think twice and asked if they could join as well, they were even willing to pay for the ingredients used, Krune just shook his head and told them to help organize the tables instead, surprisingly, Bary Casfiu came over to join the fun, he simply didn't care about his status anymore, making sure to have a good relationship with Krune and the others was his number one priority after what he saw in the first round.

And just like that, while a lot of cultivators spent their time concentrating for the next round, the Yule Continents contestants and even those who lost already chatted and ate happily, it could also be said to be a way of releasing their stress as well, or maybe an attack to their opponents, because they could feel quite a few jealous eyes fixed on them, but those outside didn't dare to ask for food anymore, otherwise, their guild higher-ups would rebuke them once again.

Almost two hours had passed, Krune and everyone else were back to the side of their arenas, except for Krune's group that haven't felt any tension so far, the rest of them felt a lot more relaxed, and it was also shown during their own battles, surprisingly, even Turi Belane had joined the feast before, and after noticing that neither Krune or Ao seemed to takes his previous actions to heart, his worries disappeared and he performed much better, he was even able to defeat his opponent which people thought to be stronger than him, and like that, advancing to the third round.

The battle on the second arena finally started again and this time, Ao would be fighting, he even got the first battle of the second arena on top of that, his opponent was a cultivator from the Makui Continent, his name was Pesque Kaen, specialized in Fire and Earth elements.

Pesque was feeling very lucky, Yule Continent is known for most of the times to have the weakest cultivators in the Mercenary Selection since two dark horses already appeared in the sixth and eighth arenas, how could there be another one here in the second? He thought that Ao was only present in the second round due to his luck to be exempt from the first round battles.

Unfortunately for him, he just had to encounter Ao Sulian this time.