160 Combo Attack (1/2)
Releasing a genuine smile on her face, Eris limped off the stage towards the healers. Mouthing \”good luck,\” she did not forget to send a wink over at Greyson. Responding with a rare smile, he also mouthed \”congratulations\” back to her. Knowing it was his turn, Greyson no longer paid attention to Eris and jumped on the stage. He needed to state his opponent, but he suddenly paused realizing that he did not know the man's name...
He seemed to have done research on the names and qualities of his opponents, but did not match the names to faces. Unable to do anything about it, he figured pointing would suffice.
\”I choose him as my opponent.\” His voice echoed as he pointed his finger towards the scrawny man that Snow chose earlier.
Not expecting the challenge, the thin man's face looked unhappy. However, he was unable to reject the challenge, therefore he could only begrudgingly hop on stage.
\”You will regret choosing me.\” Glaring coldly at Greyson, he licked his lips.
Prince Braiden's expression was also uncomfortable. Greyson did not know, but Snow really had a way of choosing opponents. Actually, this man was the second strongest on the team of 10, Keaton Mendenhall. But this man had a fatal flaw: he always went for the kill. No matter if it was a training spar or a contest, he treated it as a life-or-death match and made sure that his opponent would not see the next light of day. How could Greyson have chosen him? Did he not do any research? There are so many other more appropriate opponents who he could definitely defeat. Prince Braiden wanted to pull at his hair. Greyson was a definite plus to their team if he was added, he couldn't lose here! Before announcing the start of the match, he tried eyeing Keaton to indicate that he should take one for the team then challenge someone else to get his position back. As expected, though, Keaton just scoffed and completely ignored him. Unable to do anything more, Braiden helplessly announced the start of the match. However, once could tell from his constantly tapping foot and clenched fists that he was not calm at all.
Obviously, there was nothing wrong with Greyson's sight, so he could see Prince Braiden's signaling. Although he could tell that this probably meant his opponent was tough, he did not plan on backing down so easily. He strongly believed that he could at least fight evenly with all of the representatives. Analyzing the situation, Greyson could guess that his opponent was probably Lord Keaton Mendenhall. No one else would have warranted such a nervous response from the prince. Thinking back to what he read, Greyson knew that his opponent had a rare element characteristic. These traits were more like anomalies and such talents were more rare than dual-element magicians. The partner beast that Keaton awakened had an extra ability to do with poison. Therefore, Keaton's water element contained acidic properties to it. He could not use healing spells due to this, but his offensive power was boosted instead. Without any extra spells, his water could dissolve metals and hard materials, even chew through people's bodies if they make contact. His weapon was apparently a metal whip. There was a rumor that this added characteristic to his element affected his personality as well, however, there was no proof backing up such claims.
Keaton disdained to make the first move and just stood there watching Greyson without taking out his weapon. Not attacking right away, Greyson also stood still contemplating for a moment. He tried to think of which element would be best against such an opponent. Unlike his opponent, Greyson would not underestimate his opponent and quickly gripped onto Genesis. The sword switched to a gold color as did his eyes. Normally, he would disguise himself, but even small magic like that took a sliver of concentration to keep up. He wanted to completely focus on the match, so he no longer kept up the disguise. No matter which scenarios he ran through, the light element was the best fit for this situation. This element was highly versatile in offense and defense and contained strong purifying capabilities that could fight against the poison.
Clearly disgusted, Keaton grimaced while feeling the light radiating off of his opponent's body. As if triggered by this hated element, he finally pulled out his whip.
\”I hate light magicians the most.\” He snarled.
\”That has nothing to do with me.\” Greyson just shrugged.
\”Hehehe, it seems fresh blood has walked straight into my arms.\” The raspiness of his voice caused his laugh to be even more grating to one's ears.
Not responding to his taunt, Greyson equipped himself with a light element armor around his body. His whole body shown with a shiny gold color almost blinding everyone else. Keaton also chanted a spell as black water flowed out from his hand and surrounding the whip.
Greyson attacked first as he thrust his sword forward. A large beam of light extended from the tip that extended the blade of the sword a couple feet. Light Sword was a basic spell, but its effects were great for catching opponents off balance. Keaton just smirked as his foot slid on the black water and quickly dodged away. Getting behind Greyson, he also attacked with his whip viciously. Twisting his body and using that torque to swing his sword behind him, Greyson caused the whip to repulse backwards. Not expecting such great physical strength from Greyson's thin body, Keaton almost lost grip on the handle of his whip. Arm aching from the slight overextension backwards, he narrowed his eyes to slits as his expression turned a bit more serious.
\”You've got brute strength, too. How repulsive. I hate muscle morons the most.\” He sneered.
\”Might as well say you just hate everyone at this point. Clearly, you just have inferiority complex issues.\” Greyson just rolled his eyes.
Both did not speak again and only continued to attack each other. Greyson did feel that the upper hand was slipping from his fingers as his shallow fighting experience was starting to show. Keaton seemed to be able to dodge his attacks in a fairly relaxed manner. The only reason that they were still tied was because the light element armor was neutralizing the poison. However, if one looked closely, they could see tiny black cuts in the light element aura covering Greyson's body. The poison was not completely gone but just held back. Biting his lip, Greyson knew that this situation could not continue in this way or he would lose. Unfortunately, the light element was probably his weakest element as he only knew the more basic and widely known spells. This was because the Church of Light tended to monopolize the light element spells for their own believers. Unless one joined, it was extremely difficult to become a powerful light magician.
Managing to come up with a short plan, Greyson continued closing in on Keaton's body and allowed the whip to make contact more and more. Ignoring the rotting of the light armor, he calculated the distance before his lips curved up. The moment his foot hit the floor, he instead used the wind element and exploded with speed. In just a second, he was right in front of Keaton with his right arm slashing down with Genesis. Eyes widening in shock, Keaton tried to dodge. He actually managed to react in time because Greyson ended up exposing himself due to the half-smile from before. Not finished, Greyson followed up by holding up his left hand right in front of Keaton's eyes.
\”Flashlight!\” He quickly murmured.