Chapter 47: First Match (1/2)
Fighting spirit burned on Rex and Gregg's eyes, they glance at each other disdainfully before casually walking into the Arena.
The crowd of students makes way for them,
Rex and Gregg are famous throughout the university, one is the first-ranker in the field test and the other one is a non-Awakened that can beat a rank four supernatural.
All of the student's eyes were locked onto them, their aura started to rise the closer they got to the Arena.
Some early rank-two and rank-one students feel suffocated because of Rex's and Gregg's aura,
Each of Rex's steps makes the ground around him tremble, while Gregg's step left a gash on the ground because of his wind elements.
The wind elements around Gregg become violent, the students around him needed to step back to avoid getting hit.
While Rex's aura gives the students around him goosebumps as if there is a Supernatural behind them that can kill them in a mere moment if they provoke Rex.
They both get into the Arena with burning eyes, they looked at each other fiercely.
Rex's eyes glister as he looks at Gregg's stats,
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Race: Human - Teen
Power: Peak Rank Three - Wind Elementalist
Mental: 35
Strength: 28 (+10)
Agility: 40 (+8)
Endurance: 20 (+15)
Intelligence: 50
Looking at this, Rex was contemplating how to humiliate Gregg to get extra rewards from the system,
Meanwhile, the wind elements around Gregg are getting more violent, the wind element seems to cover his whole body like some kind of barrier.
Rex looks at the ground beneath Gregg and saw it was full of slashing marks, 'That wind barrier can defend and also attack, this is going to be troublesome'
Just as their fighting spirit is nearing its limit, the Lecturer that is in charge as a referee said, ”Before we began, Students please greet the honorable Lecturers, Vice principals, and the principal of Ochyra University”
Rex stopped in his intense stare match and glance to his right,
Suddenly a huge platform made of translucent crystal emerges from the ground beside the Arena,
There is a couple of seats that divided into three rows, the bottom-most row is where the lecturers sit, Rex saw Mr. Joseph sitting there.
The middle row is for the vice-principals, there are four of them and each of them emits a terrifying aura that is stronger than the Pawn Vampire that Rex meets before.
But Rex's eyes fall to the right side middle row, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a military uniform.
His hair is white due to old age but his figure is still sitting straight like an arrow, his left eye is gone and there is a scar near his left eye.
The interesting part about him is that he doesn't emit any aura which means he is a normal person,
The middle-aged man wearing a military uniform is looking at Rex, Rex felt uncomfortable under his gaze.
In the top-most row sits the principal of Ochyra University, he is a middle-aged man with blonde hair, he emits no aura but unlike the middle-aged man before, Rex knows that this man is so strong just by looking at his cold eyes.
The principal gazes coldly at the Arena, he wears an all-black uniform that emits dark energy, there is a black saber behind him that is hard to look at.
Rex's eyes felt pain after seeing the sword for too long, Rex felt the black saber stares back at him.
All of the students bow slightly and shouted in a union, ”Greeting from the students!!”
Rex also bows slightly while taking glances at the principal, the principal notices Rex's glance but he didn't do anything but stare at Rex.
Rex avoid his gaze feeling the pressure as he looks down to the ground,
Hearing the greeting, the principal nodded his head and waves his hand gracefully,
After getting approval from the principal, the referee continues with the match, ”Rex and Gregg, the rules are simple, you cannot inflict life-threatening injury, forcing your opponents to step out of the Arena ground or surrendering will make you the winner, and you must follow my words. Breaking the rule will cause you to be disqualified and punishment, and good luck to both of you”
The referee signals Rex and Gregg to move to the corner,
”Who do you think will win?”
”I can't tell, they both in my eyes will be in the same footing”
”Gregg will probably win, his wind elements will be his advantage compared to a non-Awakened Rex”
Rosie who hears the student's conversation suddenly intervenes, ”Of course Rex will win, you guys are just too dumb to comprehend it”
The students were angered after getting mocked, they glance to their back and saw Rosie folding her arms beside Adhara.
The curse words that the students want to say got stuck on their throats, ”Rosie!”
Rosie gives them a 'What?!' face, the students got scared.
Although they can deal with Rosie, they can't possibly handle the consequences of angering Rex knowing that he's Rosie's boyfriend.
They immediately shut their mouth, ”That's what I thought!”, Rosie said pridefully followed by Adhara's little chuckles from the side.
On the Arena,
Rex puts on his battle stance, he wears the battle glove given by Adhara carefully, his sense was put to the max.
Rosie felt jealous looking at Rex who care so much about the battle gloves, she bit her lips In jealousy.
Adhara notice this and can't help to crack a smile,
Gregg goes into his battle stance, wind elements started to gather at his sword, the wind elements also gather to his body again and formed a violent barrier.
The referee glance left and right before he shouted, ”BEGIN!!”
After the referee's signal, the violent wind around Gregg condensed into a wind spear, the wind elements started to gather more and more towards the spear,
Rex only stands there waiting for Gregg to finish his spell, he cracked a mocking smile and taunt Gregg by waving his hand.
Looking at this, Gregg was delighted, 'Don't blame me for beating you with one attack!'
”Basic Magic! Violent Spear!!”, Gregg shouted as the wind spear above his head got launched towards Rex,
WHOOSH!!
The students felt the wind spear sucked the wind that caught in its trajectory,
Class 1-D lecturer's eyes lit up, ”That's a very powerful rank three magic, Gregg is indeed a natural talent to wind element”
Hearing this, Mr. Joseph chuckles from the side.
Class 1-D lecturer frowns hearing Mr. Joseph's chuckles, ”What's so funny sir Joseph?”
Mr. Joseph covers his mouth trying to stop his laughter and replied, ”Nothing much sir Andric, but my students will not be beaten that easily”
The wind spear arrives in front of Rex, the violent wind already started to prickling Rex's skin.
Rex inhales a deep breath as he activates his skill, ”Force Beam!”, he punched the wind spear with only his battle gloves.
The students were mocking Rex who recklessly punches the wind spear but what happened next makes them sucked in a cold breath.
BAM!!
The raging wind spear that can pierce through anything suddenly disperse under Rex's punch, the wind spear that looks mighty disappeared just like that.
Gregg widened his eyes in shock, he didn't believe that one of his attacks can be deflected easily by Rex.
Rex straightens up his body and brushes the dust that got on his armor, ”That attack is just so-so, the standard in getting into class 1-D seems low to me”, he said mockingly.
Andric was also shocked by Rex's feat, 'HOW?!', he screamed in his head.