Chapter 13.) The 18th Fight

Souei, scared half to death, turned around and began running for the exit.

Inorin teleported behind Souei and grabbed his shoulder. Souei then turned around and looked at Inorin with fear in his eyes.

"Chill out dude, I was just joking." Inorin said as he pulled up his menu.

Hovering over the forfeit button he said; "Seriously though, I wanted you to at least try to fight back."

"Maybe I would've tried if you didn't start with a black hole!"

Inorin pressed forfeit and the match concluded and they were both transported back to their rooms.

"Okay time to find Koeda so I can watch her fight." Inorin said as he got up from the CT type bed.

As he walked out of the room a message popped up in his face informing him of his next fight.

"Hmm, the 22nd fight huh. Against some guy named Jonnie Dinero."

As he said this, he sensed murderous intent coming from his left side.

Without even looking to his left, he reopened the door he had just came out of and took a step back.

The person who he sensed then lounged their arm into the door.

"Hey what's your deal opening that door in front of me?!" The man said angrily

"My deal, you just tried to sneak a hit on me? Who are you anyways?" Inorin rebuttals

"You really don't know who that is?" A man sitting in a chair behind him says.

"No am I supposed to?"

"That's Jonnie Dinero, he already failed the exams twice now. He's basically your neighborhood bully."

"Okay, and what does that have to do with me?" Inorin asks

"If you're his next battle he'll try to crush you before the fight even starts."

Inorin's face changed from his regular nonchalant laughing face to a cold straight face with dead eyes.

He turned around to face Jonnie and said "trash deserves to be taken out!"

He then grabbed Jonnie's arm that was stuck in door and pulled the rest of his body straight through it.

He then began dragging him like he was literal trash.

"Wait, you can't kill him!" The guy feeding information butted in to say.

Inorin ignored him and kept walking but it wasn't on purpose, he was just too mad that he couldn't stop himself.

"Wait Rin he's right, if you kill him here you'll be disqualified." Koeda appeared in front of him with her arms open.

"Hey the little girl's right. You'll be disqualified and have to take the exams over" Jonnie said while on the floor.

"Rin DESTROY him when your match starts. But my fights about to start so let's do that first." Koeda explained

Life came back into Inorin eyes and the hand that was firmly clinched around Jonnie's head loosened up.

Jonnie then precedes to get up with a whole different expression on his face. "Next time, you won't get so lucky boy!" he shouted as he walked off angrily.

"I won't let you go next time." said Inorin.

He looked back and noticed that Koeda's demeanor had changed to a more serious expression.

"Ready?" asked Inorin. Koeda deeply inhales and then exhales as she prepares herself to finally take care of Yūki.

Koeda is then teleported to the area where she will fight Yuki. She comes face to face with the crippled Yūki standing on one leg.

Every six battles a fight is chosen to be shown in a colosseum; spectators get the opportunity to actually sit in the stands of the arena, which is protected by an impenetrable invisible barrier.

*Bing*

A 10 second countdown started as other players were transported to the stands of the arena where the fight was taking place.

"Hey, where are we?" someone exclaimed.

"I think it's a colosseum." The person behind him explained.

Inorin looked from the stands as Yūki and Koeda appeared to speak to one another with serious expressions on both of their faces.

As soon as the countdown ended Yūki took to offense before Koeda.

"Take This!" She yelled

*Dimension Style: Black Hole*

It then preceded to drag Koeda into the ball of nothingness.

"That's not going to work!" Koeda exclaimed

*Gravity Control: Fallout*

She escaped the grasps of the black hole by using a skill to control the gravity around her.

'This really isn't a great place for her to be fighting, Rogues need space to hide and sneak attack.' Inorin thought.

Koeda runs up close range on Yūki, hitting her with a flurry of punches and kicks

*Fire Style: Destruction Wave*

She lets up off of Yūki and throws a default fire spell not exclusive to any one class.

*Dimension Breaker*

Yūki utilizes a move similar Dimension Slicer to cut through reality, absorb the impact of Koeda's attack, and send it right back at her as an explosion.

Koeda was caught off guard by Yūki's attack. She jumps back nearly fully avoiding the explosion except for a burn on her right leg.

"I...won't lose!" shouted a fatigued Yūki because of depleting nearly all of her karma from using two high level magic attacks.

"I'm ending this!" Stated Koeda.

Koeda shook off the injury she obtained from the explosion like it was nothing to begin with.

*Assassin Skill: Stealth*

Koeda completely conceals herself making herself invisible to the naked eye.

"What the…? Where did she go?" Yūki exclaimed

Yūki heard a whisper in her ear saying…

*Phantom Skill: Elemental Drain*

Koeda showcases her first sub-class exclusive skill; acquired during the 3rd phase of the exams. A powerful skill allowing her to use whatever element she desires.

Her invisibility wore off right before her next skill activated. A skill to freeze Yūki in place.

*Elemental Drain*

She uses the same skill again only this time with a different element.

Acid, with this element she has to touch the person directly to activate it.

She places her hand on Yūki's head and acid drops from her palm, destroying her head and neck effectively finishing the battle.

She looks back at Inorin after battle ends.

*Bing*

The winner of the 18th match is Koeda. Congratulations, you have now completed the exams.

"I knew she was strong but I didn't think she could do this, impressive." Inorin stated

When the fight ended everyone in the colosseum was transported back to the lobby for the next fight. Inorin quickly got up to find Koeda.

He spotted her as she was phasing out of reality.

"Koeda!" shouted Inorin

"Rin, I'm finished with the exams, I'll find you after you finish your last battle!" She replies

Inorin nodded and then opened his menu to submit a request for his final battle.