458 Tournament 1.9 (1/2)

The enormous sized pillar made out of silver ice shattered into chunks which later on turned into silver dusts. Beneath the falling silver ice chunks, was a silhouette of Madman Floyd.

His body was still covered in silver frost but it doesn't seem to be a hindrance to him. He was wearing a large fiendish grin on his face while a hair-raising aura was being released from his body in addition to some steam. The black cape he was wearing earlier wasn't able to endure the cold therefore it turned into silver dusts along with the rest but the uniform he was wearing was mostly unscathed.

That enormous cleaver of his was still resting on his shoulders, the only time when others saw him swinging it was only once and it was earlier ago. This means that Floyd might've shattered the ice around him without using his weapon at all. What's even more shocking is that, he was still standing on the same spot as before. Appearing completely fine and dandy.

His vulgar words earlier caused a few maidens to blush, some of them even tried looking at Floyd's crotch just to confirm, while others were outright disgusted.

Meanwhile, Ryan was stunned into silence. He could only stare at this scene with profound thoughts on his mind.

He truly wasn't expecting Floyd to be completely unharmed from all of that. It had to be known that no one else managed to push him to use five percent of the total power of his Pale Moon Umbral Ice before, even those at the same cultivation level as him was either frozen to death or close to death after receiving at least four percent of his ice essence.

Yet this man in front of him, did just that...

And if he was being completely honest, he doesn't know how to react.

”Hey! I hope you had fun attacking me earlier because it's my turn now!” Floyd warned while flashing a wide and devious grin on his face.

He lifted his cleaver and everyone held their breath. Floyd did a wide horizontal sweep which happened so fast that no one was able to follow it with their eyes. Nevertheless, Floyd's attacked definitely caused majority of them feel a jolt on their bodies.

The strength behind his attack was incredible. Even the protective array covering the arena almost gave in from the impact. It happened too fast and arrive just as fast too.

Ryan's pupils constricted as he received the blow. The force behind Floyd's attack almost caused him to be breathless. It was heavy, overbearing, dominant, and raw. No fancy tricks nor any profundities, just plainly strong to an unreasonable degree.

The impact caused Ryan to retreat several paces away from the edge of the arena. He gritted his teeth and exerted the influence of his Ice Laws to freeze majority of the attack and disperse it in order to weaken it sufficiently so that he won't fall from the arena.

Ryan quickly shifted his position to evade, allowing Floyd's follow up attack to miss by a hair's breadth. Thankfully his senses were sharp, or else he would've been sliced in half from that attack. There was no doubt about that since that attack just now managed to shatter the protective array surrounding the arena.

This not only alarmed the management but also the entire audience.

”Damn, what an unreasonable power.” Ryan spat while gritting his teeth. He looked back only to see Floyd slowly but menacingly walking forward as he carried that enormous cleaver of his.

A shiver went down Ryan's spine. He hastily prepared to receive another attack while also devising a plan to deal with this dangerous situation.

Although he was confident that Floyd will honor the rules and won't kill him, his actions and aura were telling him otherwise. In addition to that, this guy won't get the title Madman Floyd for nothing, therefore he had to make sure to never let his guard down around him.

Both fighters weren't aware that their battle caused many to panic, specially due to what Floyd did. In order to keep everyone else safe, some people arrived and erected another array, which was stronger compared to the last one. They hastily placed it since they don't want to be caught by their clash.

What made things difficult for them, was the chilling temperature around the arena thanks to Ryan and the life-threatening crisis that felt from Floyd. They managed to replace the array without getting hurt thanks to the fighters clashing directly. As soon as the barrier was replaced, they immediately retreated away from the arena while sighing in relief.

Meanwhile, clashing directly with Floyd caused Ryan to berate himself inwardly for his stupidity.

With how much brute force Floyd has and how intimidating his aura was as well as his cleaver, a direct clash should be the last idea he has, yet he went ahead and did just that. Of course he'd call himself stupid because of that.

Needless to say, he was already committed. And he had to say…