Chapter 61 - 61 : First Tournamen (1/2)

The first tournament soon began without any disturbance, Arthur's match was not the first so he sat back and watched the fights.

They were not that exciting yet not that boring too, in most of the matches, the participants fought each other except a few matches were a participant fought a disciple of one of the four clans.

Tenhi, the master of the Locus Clan watched from above, each time a talented or strong participant joins he would nod in satisfaction, all people knew he would recruit everyone that pleased his eyes to his clan and that was an opportunity no one would want to miss so everyone that fought tried to show off the best he can as to maybe grab Tenhi's attention.

After 13 matches, it was the bald daoist's turn to fight, Arthur waited for this match since the beginning as he wanted to see what this man was capable of, after all, he was in the Heavenly Realm and he was the only one amongst the participants to be in this Realm.

Actually, all the clan masters were in the Heavenly Realm except Anastassia, Arthur didn't why but he was sure that although she's still in the Spirit Realm, her strength was probably much stronger than that.

The bald daoist went up to the arena while rubbing his hands awkwardly, his opponent was a disciple from the Xi Clan, since each clan only put 5 disciples to participate then that only meant that each of these disciples is very strong.

The rules were simple, once the two of them entered the arena, they have 20 seconds to get ready then the battle will automatically begin whether they are ready or not.

The disciple from the Xi Clan looked at the bald daoist coldly and hastily retrieved a short cane which had a small red gem on top of it.

As for the bald man, he just walked while staggering toward the disciple, he literally looked like a beggar or a homeless person.

”Youth! This daoist is willing to spare you for some gold.. what do you say?”

The disciple furrowed his brows for a couple of seconds before he felt he was underestimated and given a 'chance' by this beggar, he was easily angered and wanted to teach this bald man a lesson.

Once the 20 seconds were finished, the disciple waved the cane in the air which resulted in 3-meter fire cyclone to spawn and charge at the bald daoist.

Although a fire cyclone was quite simple, that didn't mean it was slow or weak, the more the person has intelligence the more his attribute will deal more damage to the enemies, for example, Lucy's magma melted the Grand Elder who was considered very strong.

The bald daoist looked at the incoming fire cyclone with surprise, his face paled and he appeared frightened and scared shitless.

He jumped with what seemed to be all his strength to the right, barely dodging the cyclone, but unfortunately for him, the disciple was very adept at controlling the cyclone as it immediately follows after the bald man.

The daoist looked like a chicken as he jumped around multiple times, everytime dodging by a hair's breath, however, his ragged clothes was slightly burned in the sides.

He really appeared to be struggling and trying his best to evade.

The disciple got more irritated, with another wave of his hand several 30-inch fireballs were created and thrown at the daoist.

The bald man just landed on the ground after evading the cyclone when he saw the fireballs coming at him, so for the first time in the match, he used his magic or skill or whatever it was, a metal shield was created around his hand, he quickly raised it and prepared himself for the impact.

He, fortunately, managed to dodge 12 balls just by 'luck' like always then, also by a streak of good luck, managed to defend against the rest, each time a ball hit him he would advance little by little as if he was struggling against them.

The disciple was surprised by this but he didn't dare attack lightly anymore, he created 2 other fire cyclone and soon they rushed at the poor bald man.

Arthur looked at this while laughing inside as this bald daoist really deserved the Oscar prize for his act as there is no way in hell he is not acting, he was in the Heavenly Realm so struggling against a Mortal Realm is simply nonsense.

But he got to give it to him, he really knew how to act, his expressions and actions are precise that even he would be fooled if he didn't appraise him and see his Realm.

The daoist, seeing all 3 directions blocked by the fire cyclones, showed a terrified face and created a metal sphere around himself to protect for the fire.

In no time, the cyclone hit the metal sphere and began melting it easily, however, for some odd reason, metal was being created as the last one was melted, it was a continuous process and it lasted until the cyclone disappeared.

The disciple was satisfied by his attack but when he saw the bald man come out of the sphere with only several burns on his arms and face, his eyes widened.

The daoist was running at the disciple, who unconsciously backed away as he was weak in close combat, after all, he was a fire mage.

While backing away, he threw fireballs at the incoming enemy non-stop but they all missed as he was not concentrating enough and couldn't aim right.

The bald man was extremely smart as he slowly chased the youth until he led him to the edges of the arena then punched him weakly making him fall from the stage, as per the rules said, if one of the two people fell out from the arena then he's disqualified.

And just like that, the daoist won after a long 'struggle', as Arthur glanced at Tenhi, he too didn't appear to be able to see through the bald man which indicated how much is good at acting.

”This penniless Daoist is in need of gold... if you gave me you might have won, you are very strong after all”

After he said that, the daoist strolled out of the arena then he resumed begging the people for some gold again, he didn't seem to get tired of it.

The next few matches weren't worth watching, Arthur simply took a book and began reading leisurely, he would sometimes glance at the fights if they are a bit interesting, but except that he didn't do anything.

He already saw Lucy, Saly sitting in the back rows of the audience, Mary and Sonia were also present and sitting next to them, Saly was watching excitedly, as for Lucy, she too was observing the fights but she didn't seem much interested, she would sometimes throw some glances at Arthur.

She knew him best and immediately recognized him even with that robe, after all, there was only a few who were covering themselves and Zodiak's robe was a bit unique and hard to miss.

As he heard the next announcement, Arthur put down his book and stared at the arena, it was not yet his turn but the mysterious bandaged guy was going to fight right now and he was curious about his abilities, he was in the Spirit Realm but he emitted a strange and somewhat suffocating aura.

His opponent was a participant from the nearby crowd, it was an old man in the Mortal Realm, he was LVL834 and had a long cane as a weapon.

Unlike last time's fight, this one ended very fast, the bandaged guy kept mumbling some incomprehensible words as he went to the arena, as for his opponent, he stayed silent and cast some barriers around him before the 20 seconds were up.

The bandaged guy slowly lifted his hand which caused his white bandage to suddenly stretch out and with lightning speed strike the old man.

Fortunately, the old man was an experienced mage and cast several barriers but they were easily broken by the fast bandage, it struck his rib cage and he was sent flying out of the arena.

He was shocked and stared with disbelief at the bandaged guy, he was unwilling to lose like this but rules were rules and he didn't dare protest, he could only angrily go out of the stage.

The bandaged guy also went back and sat at a corner by himself.