Chapter 269: The real boss in defense (1/2)

Some people who were currently looking at the person in a dark cloak narrowed their eyes. Ice, the Ace was one of them. She could feel something from that person.

In backstage, Keremi also narrowed his eyes towards the same person. Then his mouth extended at both sides, forming a smile.

Bob and the others had their eyes focused on the large monitor. Beside him was Chloe. Most of them were already in their resonance state. They already upgraded the battery of their System Deities to the latest version, so most of them wereable to stay in resonance for straight three days without canceling it.

”Who do you think that person is?” Suddenly, Bob heard Chloe's question.

”Hmn… no idea. Perhaps, someone from a different section.” He replied honestly.

”I see. By the way, who do you think will win?” Chloe asked once again.

”That's hard to say. Especially that we don't know who's the person behind that cloak.”

”You're right.”

”However, against that bastard Bruno, that person will certainly have hard times to win. Especially Bruno's tricky skills,” said Bob.

”Yeah, and he's specialized in the defense too.” Chloe agreed to Bob.

”Exactly. Well, let's see how that person will handle someone like Bruno.”

”Mhm!”

Bob and Chloe knew exactly how hard to win against Bruno. The skill of his wind element was a hassle to most enemies.

Not far from them, Mai and Brai also had the same conversation. They were guessing who would win in this fight. But the two had the same guess. That Bruno had a high chance of winning.

Almina and Maena could not tell if who had a high chance of winning between the two. More or less, they didn't want to guess as they had no idea of the other person's identity. They also noticed that most of the trainees from the Elite classroom were still present backstage, and those people they believed had a chance of winning against Bruno were also present in the room. So far as they didn't know what kind of ability or techniques that person had, they couldn't tell with certainty if who among them would win.

The moment after they heard the word 'START!', everyone fell silent, and all of the attention was on the stage.

They saw Bruno materialized a longsword in hand then hurried towards his opponent. He also summoned wind barriers around him. These barriers were his special ability. With these barriers, his defense was firm and he could only focus on offense.

Seeing that his opponent was yet to make a move, he snorted. ”Heh, slow!” Bruno muttered without stopping his feet. In just a span of 3 seconds, he already traversed the distance between them. The previous 20 meters away from each other was now nowhere near 3 meters.

”Kuku, such an easy win,” Kiko muttered with a mocking grin.

”What a lucky bastard! Haha!” Marco laughed with a little envy. He wanted to be the first to show off his skills as well. Especially that Miss Almina's group was all here.

Everyone heard a loud yell. ”Die, dude!!!” It was coming from Bruno who was raising his weapon overhead. He noticed his enemy was lifting his arm to punch him. But Bruno only snorted at it. He was surrounded by wind barriers. Such an attack would never reach him. It was useless! In his mind, what an easy fast win. Forget 5 seconds this match would end in just 4 seconds!

The audience was lively cheering. Some of them even bet on who would win.

In backstage,

”Uh-oh, you can't just stand there and do nothing while facing Bruno,” Kesha commented. Everyone agreed with her. After all, they already witnessed Bruno's abilities several times. Especially when they had a joint exploration inside the dungeon. Bruno's ability was very helpful at that time.

That's why. Everyone gawked in disbelief when they heard a loud, yet dull impact, then they saw Bruno staggering back.

A moment later, he fell on his butt with empty eyes while staring at his enemy. ”Y-you…” he muttered with a disbelieving expression on his face. Not just that, his knees lost their strength. Then his vision was murky.

”What? What happened?” Kesha wondered and so the others.

”Bruno was knocked down?!!”

A solemn arena.

Everyone has to process what is happening on the stage.

”How is it possible?!” Marco questioned with a tinge of deep emotion.

Kiko, on the other hand, was staring still at the monitor. Even he could not understand. He was sure that Bruno used the Wind Barriers around him, out of precaution.

So how did that punch landed?

Although a straight punch was faster than a downward strike of a longsword, the problem lies in the Wind Barriers. By using it, it was almost impossible to land a hit on Bruno since whatever attack would be slowed down because of the Wind Barriers.

Yet, not only that person's punch hadn't slowed down, but it also hit on Bruno's jaw directly.

Now his health points dropped to 75 percent.

Everyone was slack-jawed staring still at the monitor. Only the lively audience around the arena was noisy at the moment. Those in backstage and even in the VIP room were all staring at the fight in puzzlement.