CHAPTER 75

The duels matches were decided randomly by lot. Shuri had come to the Arena to start off the tournament with her speech. She was surprised by Arata and Rachel as they did not join the match, but it was not needed for them to join anyway.

"Who is this loli ?", Shuri asked Arata in the most modern language she could muster.

"She is my disciple.", Arata said with a straight face.

Shuri did not expect that. She did not think Arata would be that kind of a person. Anyways she then went on the stage to give her speech.

"We still want to enroll two people.", Arata said. The enrollment was over and they only had Shuri to get their way into the competition. They hadn't done their practice matches as Alphonse was too strong and Shia was too weak for the competition. "And we want them in the opposite brackets.", Rachel completed.

"You both aren't participating, so I only see Alphonse who would want to participate, but Anna can't fight right ? Or are you going to send this loli to fight ?", Shuri asked.

"Yes, you are exactly right.", Arata said, in turn expecting a 'no way' response from her.

"OK then. Her name is.. Shia ? and Alphonse ? I will allow it. But then they would have to win 15 matches to enter the next round.", Shuri said nonchalantly. She expected that as Shia is the Arata's Disciple, so she also must be special. But there are plenty of special people in this competition also. She had also seen 4 Legend Ranks among the participants. There were also people without cultivation among those 100 who were strong. And these people had various nationalities and some of them were from out of this continent. She had used the specialist's connections and her own to bring these people here.

"OK then. Sit back and enjoy this competition !", Shuri said and walked off to give her opening speech. The arena was a really big square ground, and it was divided into 4 equal parts and a circle was made inside the small square. The spectators all sat in their seats like in a sports stadium. The rules were simple, the person who got out of the circle would be disqualified and get eliminated. It was a well arranged arena, Shuri must have spent a lot of money on this. The audience were mostly people from the underworld as only they had the information of this.

Alphonse took part in the first day. There were some glances towards him as he had not participated in the matches.

"Good seeing you here captain ! Did not expect you to be here !", a familiar voice to Alphonse came from his side.

"Good to see you here Raiku !", Alphonse replied. Alphonse also did not expect his student to be present here. And as luck would have it, Alphonse had to fight Raiku in his first match.

"What luck ! But I have trained a lot the past month !", Raiku said. Alphonse felt that Raiku had certainly gotten stronger. But Alphonse was not going to lose. He still hadn't gotten his Assassination glow in his cultivation realm but he had one glow for Enhancement !

Their fight started. Arata had brought Shia to this fight to make her look at a top class fight. Arata wasn't actually interested in this fight, it was kind of evident Alphonse would win and wanted to look at the other people's fights because Shuri had said they would be interesting, but Alphonse insisted at this.

"Get ready to taste my special weapons now !", Raiku answered. And he took out his nunchakus. But this time, it looked different.