Begin! The Contest of Power! (Part1)

The Contest was about to begin, and the first ten contestants were ready to spar. The announcer was cheering on the audience to make them charge the environment with enthusiasm. There was a big bell besides him, it was relatively smaller than the one in a chapel, but still, it was big. The announcer was supposed to ring it himself by hitting it with a hammer. The first round started with the loud gong of that bell, being heard across the town. The atmosphere's tenseness increased drastically. All of them took an opponent and started attacking, except one. The calm man was standing at a safe distance from them all, idle, doing absolutely nothing but gazing at the floor. There was a brawler in them, with his monster like body and mind, he killed two contestants instantly by ripping off their heads off their body. And later crushed their skulls with bare fists and pure grip-strength. This was way more than cruelty, but what kind of person would it take to allow it. The answer was the King. The audience was shocked, disgusted and scared due to this scene. The King though he allowed killing, didn't allowed the right to complain about it. Even the contestants were shocked, and had no idea what to do next. They weren't moving a muscle, they were frozen solid. But the calm man was an exception. He stood there like nothing happened. The brawler noticed this, and was provoked by his calm. The enraged Brawler, started running towards the calm man. Everyone thought that this was it for that man, but the results were different. He didn't lost his calm, he looked upwards, didn't moved a bit. The brawler on the other side came too close, and was in the range of attacking. The brawler extended and leaned his hand forward, aiming towards the head of that calm man. And in an blink of eye, the calm one vanished form the spot and emerged in front of his back. It was like he just teleport led himself across the brawler. And without doing anything, started walking in the other direction. Ignoring the brawler and other contestants. Besides the big-shots and some solders, including me, all the others were confused, they had no idea what happened right there. As the calm mystery man was walking away form the brawler, the brawler was frozen, he was not moving a bit. And a line, of crimson red started to appear around his abdomen. It wasn't seemed to be just a line for long. Blood gushed out of it and his upper body slipped form his lower and fell on the floor. In an instant, his body was cut into two parts! Blood was gushing out, spilled around his body soaked by it. This scene wasn't pleasant for anyone, but it had an impact of a completely different level on the contestants. They were scared of the calm man more then. All of them dropped their weapons, admitting their defeat. The announcer was continuously doing the commentary, he smashed the bell and yelled, "THE FIRST WINNER! EDWARD~~~~~~!!!!!"

And thus, the first round was over. After this, the contestants came to know the intensity of this tournament. And the ones for whom their lives were more important than the title, withdrew from the contest. There was a drastic decrease in the number of contestants, the total number of contestants dropped to 51 from 170. The 51 included the winner of the first round, Edward. So, there were only 50 still-to-be qualified contestants remaining. The contestants then, we're divided into 5 blocks and the first round was labelled as block 1, which was over with the victory of Edward. I was allotted in BLOCK 3 while Ogre was in the last.

The contestants in BLOCK 2 assembled in the arena. There were 3 female guards in it, while the remaining seven were big, muscular, strong-looking men. As the announcer smashed the bell and started the round, one of the female guard, wearing a white mask, and a male contestant dashed towards each other with their swords ready to cut the other. Both of them swung their swords with full might and this generated a shock wave, a powerful shock wave. The wave was strong enough to affect the other contestants and knock them out. The contest was over for them, the only two standing in the arena were the ones who caused that wave, Scarlett Willwood and Jonathan Jester. They were continuously smashing their sword with might and each successive collision generated the same wave, stronger than the former. While Jonathan took a step back, so did Scarlett, Jonathan swung his sword towards the horizon, while Scarlett swung vertically. The collision was the strongest one till then. The shock wave generated by this was powerful enough to break the walls of arena and crack the floor. This wave lasted for half a minute. Non of them were looking exhausted. Jonathan smiled at Scarlett and started shivering out of the blue. He became weak and his sword slipped and fell on the ground. And again with the loud gong the announcer shouted, "The Winner Of The BLOCK 2 : SCARLETT WILLWOOD!!!!!"

The fight in BLOCK 2 lasted for 20minutes. With survival time of the others being just 4 seconds. The long lasted fight came to an end with the victory of the Masked Women Scarlett. As the fight finished, Ogre's face was not normal, he was concerned about something. He said all suddenly, "She's a Will user too!" with a serious face. It was like he was scared of her now. Seeing this reaction on the hero's face concerned me too.

I had no idea, what 'Will' is. But at the same time, I was too nervous and concerned after seeing Ogre's face. The next block, in which I was about to fight, was about to start. But due to the ruckus made by the two in Block 2, there was a cleaning and repair break. I was, then, more nervous after seeing block 2. But what I was feeling wasn't just nervousness, I was excited at the same time. There was an unease in my gut, while my heart was throbbing in excitement. After the cleaning break, I, with the other 9 fellow contestants in block3 entered the arena. I was ready to fight and win. And the announcer smashed the bell with his hammer!