Chapter 8 – I Can Even Use A Stick

Rufus and his wife were surprised, but they controlled themselves as the competition was starting.

Thousands of eyes were staring in awe at Alan, who was standing on the stage with his couldn't-care-less attitude.

They were shocked to see the teenager in front of them suddenly crashed the competition out of nowhere.

"Who is he again? Alan?"

"He's so beautiful, are you sure he is a boy?"

"Of course he's a boy, don't you see how fearless he is just now? He's manlier than the adults who call themselves man!"

"This year, the competition is going to be so much fun!"

They were arguing and giving many comments on what had happened in front of their eyes just now.

They were quite confused. All these years, they never heard the name "Alan" from the Snow family that was so overbearing like what Alan did.

This kind of character exists in the Snow Family. Why do they, never hear of this teenager named Alan these past years?

Suddenly a man was mumbling, "Alan…Alan…this name is so familiar…hmmm…Alan…"

After a few moments, the man was shocked!

"Alan! Alan Snow! He is the Snow Family's genius prodigy who suddenly disappeared ten years ago!" the man shouted using magic.

All the people in the stadium heard him.

Alan Snow. Who did not heard of this infamous name ten years ago? He was so well known, not only in Snow City but throughout Unity.

Ten years ago, Alan's reputation was at the highest when the Snow family engaged him with the Hills family princess, Jessica, who was one of Alan's closest childhood friends besides Tracy.

Sadly, after he became crazy and disappeared, his legend left along with him.

Now, the people in the stadium heard this name again. After they recalled who Alan was, they were shocked, especially the members of the Snow family.

"How on earth did he suddenly recover?" the members of Snow family thought.

Alan ignored all of them.

"Contestant number 30, Alan Snow!" Alan loudly said.

"So this is the so-called genius prodigy, Alan Snow?" one of the contestants thought.

"He is gorgeous, though. I hate him."

"If he is that beautiful, how am I will get married? Nobody will want me. I hate him."

The words sounded in the majority of men's and women's heads. They were jealous.

Alan saw this, "Woah…all these hateful stares brings back memories." Alan thought while chuckling.

Lukas and Rose were glad that their Alan made it to the gathering.

*thump *thump

While Erica's face blushed in bright red, her pair of beautiful eyes were always watching Alan.

In the past, Alan always showed up grandly like what he did just now, including the moment he saved her thousands of years ago.

"You made me fall in love with you again…" Erica smiled.

James watched the whole scene that happened before him. He was shaken after he heard the teenager in front of him said his name, but he still managed to maintain his 'perfect' face in front of everyone.

James looked at Alan, "You, Alan? This weak-looking pretty boy dares to challenge me?" he thought.

Alan noticed that James was looking at him.

"This guy who claimed that he can kick my ass just now, right?" Alan thought.

Alan walked towards his sisters and asked, "Who is that guy? He was so noisy, like a clown."

"Hehe…big brother that person is James Snow, the eldest son of father's eldest brother, Norbert Snow." Alice chuckled.

"Ohh…then why he seemed crazy? I thought I'm the only one who went crazy, but he is crazier." Alan innocently said.

"You dare! Don't think after you've claimed that you're Alan Snow you can say anything as you please." James angrily said.

"See, he is crazy beyond compare," Alan said calmly. He did not even look at James.

"Hahaha." Mary laughed.

"Just you wait, Alan! You lost ten years. You can never catch up with me in terms of strength. Just give up the competition already, trash." James coldly said.

"Okay, okay, whatever you said." Alan shrugged.

The match was about to start. The first match will have fifteen matches simultaneously.

All contestants will have to compete with a random opponent that was drawn by themselves.

Alan had to fight with a contestant named Nolan Snow.

According to Mary, Nolan was the son of Lukas's cousin, Marvin Snow, and he was so proud of himself.

After Alan wished good luck to his sisters, he went onto his arena. In front of him was a burly man. Although Nolan was only 21, his body was enormous. He carried a large, broad sword behind his back.

Nolan looked at Alan, and he sneered, "You sure you want to fight me? A weak pretty boy like you should only stay at home."

Nolan drew his sword out from its sheath. Not long after that, the spectators were looking at the sword in admiration. The body of the sword was covered in gold, and it looked very so expensive.

"That sword is Balmung, right? The sword that was highly bid for five hundred million unity credits in last year's Snow City auction." One of the spectators said.

Nolan was pleased when he saw the spectators' faces when they saw his sword.

Alan looked at Nolan's behaviour and shook his head, "Does the Snow family have a member with a decent character at all? This Nolan was quite similar to James just now, pure arrogant."

Alan sighed and unsheathed his sword. He does not use his inventory this time as people seemed to always shocked every time they saw the 'spatial skill' he used to equip his sword.

He knew the spatial skill was scarce in Unity and did not want unnecessary attention that leads to trouble.

When Nolan saw Alan's Sword, he laughed.

Alan used his Simple Sword as he thought Star Sword would be an overkill for these babies.

"You're indeed the trash of Snow family, even if you're not crazy anymore, trash still trash." Nolan sneered.

"What are you doing? Come on. I don't have much time to waste. One…two…three…ugh…four…" Alan cooly said while stretching his body.

Alan did not pay attention to Nolan at all. No one knew if he heard what Nolan said just now.

"How dare you!?" Nolan yelled at Alan.

"What? Why are you yelling at me?" Alan frowned while giving a pig face.

"You!!" Nolan was outraged seeing Alan rude behaviour.

Lukas and Rose sighed while shaking their heads when watching Alan's behaviour. Alice, Mary, and Erica tried not to laugh, seeing Alan being 'Alan.'

The ones with the reaction towards Alan's behaviour were Rufus and his wife. Just now, Rufus was already angry with Lukas not telling him that Alan had recovered, now his anger soared up again when Lukas did not give Alan a good sword now his precious grandson was humiliated.

Lukas flinched after he felt his father was glaring at him, but not long after that, Rufus calmed down.

Rufus and Andrea were smiling from ear to ear. Alan, who was naughty, cheerful, and playful like ten years ago, was standing in front of them doing the same thing especially Andrea, she was constraining herself from jumping down to hug and kiss her precious grandson.

Andrea can't control herself anymore, she wanted to stand up, but Rufus immediately held her hand.

"No dear, you must control yourself. Many people are here today." Rufus, who looked calm, said while his legs were restless.

Andrea sat back down. Suddenly, Rufus quietly said, "Unless we cancel the competition, then we can meet Alan."

Lukas heard what his father said and cannot help but to say, "No father, we can't do that, tens of thousands of people came here already. If we suddenly cancel the competition, our family's reputation will become dirty."

Rufus was furious when he heard what Lukas said, "How dare he oppose me?" but calmed down not too long after that. What Lukas said was indeed correct.

Rufus can only watch Alan from afar, "My lovely grandson, wait for grandpa!" he thought.

The referee who was in charge of Alan's arena look at them before he said, "Are the two of you ready?"

"Yes! I can't wait to kick his ass." Nolan said while pointing the tip of his sword towards Alan.

Alan only nodded to the referee.

After the referee confirmed both of them are ready, "Then, begin!"

"Take this!" Nolan shouted.

Nolan rushed towards Alan while holding his sword to his right with both of his hands. At the midway, he jumped and swung his sword towards Alan from above.

Alan watched from his original spot.

"Too much brute force, lack of technique. I wonder what's wrong with your brain thinking you can beat me with this shitty ability." Alan calmly said.

Alan rotated his body backwards, stood sideways and watched the sword passed through hitting the ground before he sighed.

Nolan was quite surprised. He looked at his left and swung his sword again towards Alan, who was quite near beside him.

Alan blocked the attack with his Simple Sword while one of his hands behind his back. He parried the attack from Nolan with a simple block.

Nolan was pushed behind. Not only him, but all the spectators were surprised by the scene. Alan looked so relax.

"Come, defeat me if you can with your so-called 'good' sword." Alan calmly said.

Nolan looked at Alan, "I guess you're worthy of being defeated by me."

Nolan threw his sword like an arrow towards Alan.

Alan dodged to the attack, but he caught by surprise when he saw a pair of hands suddenly held the handle of the sword and swung it to him.

Alan was impressed. Nolan had dashed forward right after he threw the sword to Alan and when Alan had dodged the incoming sword, the already close Nolan held his sword and swung it to Alan.

"Die, you trash. We don't need 'Alan' anymore." A hidden killing intent came out from Nolan. No one can sense it except for Alan.

Alan turned cold. He can bear with insults but wanted to kill him? Never.

Ting!

Alan swung his sword towards Nolan's.

The attack by Alan was too powerful for Nolan. He was thrown away by Alan but still standing.

"You dared trying to kill me," Alan calmly said.

"You're lucky, trash. I'm not giving you any chances anymore." Nolan smirked.

"Now, it's time for your punishment," Alan calmly said.

Alan stood calmly, "Lotus Art: Thousand Shadows."

From afar, Alan swung his sword in the air. Nolan watched Alan who was making a move, but after he saw Alan was cutting the air, he laughed.

"HAHAHA, this pretty boy is still crazy!"

Suddenly, a cut appeared on Nolan's arm. "What?!" Nolan was bewildered. Before he can speak more, a deeper cut appeared on his body.

Nolan now was shocked, "What the f-…" he did not finish his sentence a deeper cut than before appeared on his body.

The cuts appeared on Nolan's body gradually became deeper and deeper.

"Ahh! IT HURTS!! Stop it! STOP IT!" Nolan was screaming in pain.

The contestants on the nearby arenas were terrified by what they saw or heard. Especially Alan's sisters who somewhat pitied Nolan. "Well, that's what you get for if you mess with big brother." They thought.

The cut appeared on Nolan's body for a thousand times. Nolan was on the ground twitching, and the arena was blood-soaked with his blood. His bones can be seen from the deepest cut.

The spectators were horrified by the scene in front of them. Nolan almost died beaten up by Alan.

Not only the spectators but all the members of the Snow family were shocked by how the fight ended up.

Alan's parents were quite stunned, looking at their son, being ruthless on the arena. Rufus and his wife were in dazed.

"Just now, grandpa thought it's okay if you're not a prodigy anymore, grandpa will protect you, but grandpa was wrong, my grandson is so strong!" Rufus thought while laughing.

Nolan's father, Marvin, was angry. If Rufus were not at the competition, he would go out and kill Alan immediately.

Nolan was quite lucky. If Alan did not do it, Erica would do it, and Nolan will be dead by now. Erica did sense the killing intent by Nolan just now, and a threat on Alan will be eliminated instantly but Alan actions just now, showed that he would give Nolan a chance to live and she understood that.

"You're so lucky, boy." Erica thought. Although she tried to control her killing intent, it still leaked. Alan's parents, grandparents and the Snow family members were terrified.

Rufus did not know Erica's relationship with Alan.

"My lady sovereign, what happened?" Rufus asked.

Erica stared at Rufus, "I don't care even if you're Alan's grandfather. If anything like this happens again, I will eradicate Snow Family myself."

All the members of the Snow Family were sweating, and their hearts were beating so fast after they heard 'Eradicate Snow Family.' especially Nolan's family.

Alan stared at Nolan, who was twitching on the ground.

"For someone like you, I can even use a stick. This is your punishment, and if you make the same mistake again, your life will be no more." Alan calmly said.

Nolan was in fear when he heard what Alan said before he fainted.