Chapter 5: Fight

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"Ace!" Ace didn't even hear Alex screaming, he was too concentrated on a guy with a gun. As man put his finger on a trigger, Ace drifted his massive sword, that was 1.5m long and almost half a meter wide, this massive hunk of metal could not be used with normal strenght. Now with sword infront of his body with end facing the ground he started running.

'Earth Sword .' As Ace activated his skill, layer of earth was starting to hide away metal. In just a second his whole sword, except handle, was burried behind layer of rocks.

'BANG' Bullet started flying towards Ace, but there was never hope of hitting his wholy protected body. 'KLING' Bullet hit the metal of a sword making a hole in rock layer. There was never a hope of one measly bullet doing damage to his well paid artifact, only reason why he used this skill was to increase width of a sword so his big body frame would stay protected. 'KLING KLING KLING KLING' Man started panickly shooting as unbreakable wall approached closer and closer while getting faster. 'SLAM' 'CRACK' Arm that he put infront to protect him could be heard cracking from impact. As he was sent, to eat dirt and wail in pain, his partner in crime which was 6-7 meters away started to make ball of fire.

Ace quickly realized what this skill does, since he saw one of three people that was left in his group use it, it covered few meters when shot. Ace quickly stopped his skill, which mana cost was based on duration. 'Earth Wall' At the same time as Ace started to charge his next skill, other attacker pushed his hands towards ball of fire which after that got wider and shot forward while losing it's ball shape, making it cover wide area. However, as fire was getting closer, wall, of 3 meters high and 2 meters wide, rose up from the ground. Instead of waiting for fire to dissipate, Ace skillfuly climbed on top of a 3 meter high wall leaving his sword behind. Only reason why he could fight like this was because all injuries, health and mana regenerated instantly after getting teleported. Even if someond had 1♡ he would be completly healed.

'Air Jump' As Ace used this skil, his feet got pushed by wind as he accerelated into the air, he could jump farther as he was standing 3m above the ground. He jumped diagonally since he knew he won't be able to get behind target that was 7m away. He landed close to attacker, which was just finished with his spell. However he wasn't able to land properly and slipped. Ace looked up and only thing he could see was another ball of flame, just about to burst. Thud... Hand that was about to shoot just fell to the ground. Plop. Plop. blood was dripping from black machete. "AHHHH!" Man was screaming in pain as his hand hit the ground, he quickly turned around and tried to get away

"Alex? Hahahahah, what are the chances!" Ace jumped from the ground hugging Alex tightly.

"Hahaha, i knew you were gonna be alright!"

All ten groups were watching that fight... 'How can someone be so strong, just hour passed.' Everyone was questioning his strenght, well, except man that was standing alone in front of metal gate.

"Oh... Wait, i need to take care of something." Ace rashed pass Alex.

"Hey, are you okay?" Ace asked Asian girl.

"Ye-yes thank y-you very much."

As Ace noticed that she was just in her underwear and with almost ripped shirt, he took of his own. Girl flinched from this, and made scared expression. 'She's probably scared of man now...' "Here, take this" Ace handed his shirt to a girl. "Tha-thank you." At closer look Ace could see how beautiful this girl was. She had black hair with dark eyes, long eyebrows and thin lips, she didn't have any makeup which just showed her natural beauty. He could also see dried up tears and sweaty hair sticking to her neck

"I'm Ace." Ace extended his hand to her.

"Kiyomi." She accepted it.

'Kiyomi, Kiyomi... That's Japanese name right?' Ace didn't really know, since in Serbia, Asian people were really rare.

"Hey, we should get to my group." Alex remembered that system said they will recieve second lesson. He alredy decided to call it by that name.

"Tiarra, Rico, this is my best friend Alex. Alex, they are Rico and Tiarra" Ace gave quick introductions.

"Nice to meet you." 'There's only three of them... so that's how he got this much strenght... Wait... come to think of it, didn't he just use wind and earth skills?.. ...Jack of All Trades? Can it be bought in every class? That's only explenation. But why does he have sword? Is it artifact... or maybe he can pick two classes?"

"Hey, Alex you okay?"

"Yea, yea i'm okay. Anyway, let's go." 'I will just ask him later' Kiyomi couldn't walk alone so Ace asked Tiarra to help her, he felt like she didn't really need shirtless man thouching her now.

'Little shit!'

"Watch out!" Noah that was 15m away shouted as he started running towards them.

BANG BANG

Click Click 'Tsk, fucking bullets.'

Ace quickly stood up after hearing bullets, none of them hit him, and started running towards attacker. As Ace prepared to swing his sword, man put his shoulder as protection, knowing he can't dodge. Sword connect with his skin just below the shoulder. However it didn't have enough force and just went half way in.

"Earth Sword!" As skill got activated sword got bigger in size. "Ahhhhh!" Thud. Man's whole arm was on floor not connected with his body anymore. After that, Ace cought man's neck with his left hand. "Air Jump!" As wind pushed his feet he sprunged forward, with mans neck still in his grip. SLAM. Ace slammed attackers head straight into the wall of Colosseum with boost from wind. Man didn't move his body anymore, he lost his counsicnes. However, Ace decided to not have mercy. He put his sword through man's head.

After finishing man off he quickly turned around and runned back towards Kiyomi.

"Samantha! Heal her." As Noah was ordering Samantha to quickly heal her she fastened her pace and got next to her.

Samantha shook her head from left to right slowly. "She... she's dead." While Samantha was closing Kiyomi's eyes Ace fell on his knees dumbfounded. He slammed ground with his fists, he stayed in that position, with hunched back and face few centimeters from the ground.

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"Ace." Alex slowly put his hand on back of his friend, support was important now.

"Alex... I told her it's gonna be okay... I reassured her... And now she is dead! What's this world! Why is human life just pebble on a road that can be kicked whenever! Even now! I just ended that guys life!" Ace stopped for few second before he countinued again, now with much lower voice. "This is my fault... i won't give second chances next time." Alex wasn't sure what to say to this, but knew he needed to say something.

"Ace... we need to get stronger." They both quickly realized strenght was most important if you want to protect someone. After Ace heard his words, he slowly stood up. He walked up to man that did all this, and watched his lifeless corpse witgout slightest regret. In next moment he extended his hand and picked up misty brown ball of light. After that, he got back to the group. And again... extended his hand. 'Kiyomi, goodbye', Orb floated towards Ace's hand and dissapeard.

"I... I have something to say... That tombstone is getting darker and darker every minute." Samantha said out her realization from observing. At those words eceryone turned to Altar

"It really got darker." Noah proclaimed as he thought what to do.

"Mark, Lincoln, Huang Chen go collect other groups and tell them to come here."

After five minutes there were 20-30 new people, which was almost half of how much were there, not including Noah's group. Altar was now dark grey colour. Noah quickly assigned new people to their positions, he decided to go with same formation except now it was on bigger scale. They had 1 Healer, 2 Summoners, 4 Druids, 4 Spearman, 6 Pugilist, 6 Guardians, 7 Knights and everyone else being a mage, differing in all kinds of elements. Only Mage that was at the front was Ace, with his big sword. Reason why Noah decided for him to be in front was because, from what he saw, he was actually close-combat mage, considering his sword and skill that strenghtened it. Alex was at the same position as before, now little stronger with soul of man that had gun and... Kiyomi. If Ace was ready to get stronger than so was Alex. Ace was much stronger than him, it was probably connected to only 3 being alive from his group.

Formation of 40 plus people all griped their weapons as tombstone turned completly black.

[Second Begginer's Leasson begin]