Final Rank

As the day of finals arrived,Zeph and Sauren both arrived at competition stadium.Sauren went to receptionist for some reason and came back few minutes later.

"Done"asked Zeph .Sauren nodded.

"You know you can Still fight."

"But not win "laughed Sauren .

Moreover I certainly want to test my strength with him but my injuries are rather serious .It will still take week to heal them.Those waves have impaired my cochlear membrane of my ear so they will need time to recover.

As they were chatting announcement was made regarding withdrawal of name from competition by Sauren because of serious injuries cross checked by Medical staff.So therefore Tyson will be directly promoted to Final match.

Now Match between Zeph and Ceclia will start .

In arena both Zeph and Ceclia approached each other.She greeted Zeph to which he politely replied.Soon bell indicating beggining of match rang and both took battle ready stance.Ceclia unleashed destructive force by channeling earth energy through her spear into ground.whole arena began to shake with eart collapsed directly under Zeph.He tried to dodge but area was too wide to avoid and soon fell into one crack in earth.

His whole leg was swallowed by ground rendering him immobile.This was 'Earth collapse' technique used by Ceclia specially to restrict movement of this fast opponent. She quickly reached his position and attacked with her spear.Zeph also defended from strike by dodging and maintaining defensive stance through his katana.

Simultaneously he was vibrating his leg at full speed to take out his leg from crack.Slowly his leg was beginning to shake itself out of ground.Ceclia watching him succeeding,quickly mounted his attack by Spear.

Finally ,Zeph managed to break free from restrictions and channeled his energy to form lightning cloak over his body .He soon began to move around Ceclia looking for oppurtunity to strike.She stopped and looked around to find trace of Zeph .He was moving so quickly that it left only white lightning shadows moving around arena.Ceclia calmed herself down and prepared herself to defend his upcoming attack.

Zeph found her not keeping eyes on him but fixed her eyes at one direction.she was fighting Zeph's extreme movement speed with her stillness.Rifht thinking commented Zeph in his mind .He activated blaze and got ready to attack her.

Suddenly his step became unsteady ,he mis stepped and began stumbling down.Ceclia found her chance at his mistake ,she quickly dashed toward stumbling Zeph and activated her technique 'Dragon's might' and stabbed directly at him .Her spear energy took form of massive earth dragon after being released and went towards Zeph.

Zeph was enduring pain badly at this moment.His pain seizure begun at exact movement he was about to attack.Due to sudden onslaught of pain in whole body he was unable to maintain energy cloak and missteped during running which led to him stumbling.

He clenched his teeth and looked toward upcoming dragon.He barely managed to put his katana between him and dragon .He was struck squarely by dragon. Quite of its force was neutralised by blaze of sword but rest of it threw off Zeph from his feet toward edge of arena.

He vomited blood ,he felt like whole his bones were broken by blunt force .He stood up staggering and took out his sword .Ceclia was astonished for a moment when dragon struck her opponent.She thought he would dodge it easily due to his speed, therefore she ran in cover of dragon to strike when he will dodge dragon.

She found him standing staggering up and striked down by using her elemental energy.Zeph instinctively raised his katana to block but due to low force spear doesn't get fully deflected and pierced his leg instead.Ceclia was totally astonished at low force behind katana .She stopped her attack and called refree to call off match.Sauren ran towards Zeph and found him unconscious.Soon Match result was announced with Ceclia being winner and final match tonight between Ceclia and Tyson.

Zeph gained consciousness soon after few hours .He found himself in familiar type room of medical warriors.He moved his body and looked toward his bandaged leg.

"You woke up ,great tell me what do you prefer seafruit or apple"said Sauren as he began peeling off apple.

"Apple "replied Zeph as he lifted himself up in sitting position.

"So what happened?How did you fall down?"

"well ,I missteped"

"Missteped,come on !give some better excuse."

"Ok curse pain seizure occured in exact moment"

Sauren was surprised."Sh*t,I never thought about probability of that happen during battle"

"Neither do I"replied Zeph as he took half peeled Apple from his hand and began munching on it.

Sauren knew about his pain seizures, before when Zeph was once meditating during seizure .

After some time Sauren finally opened his mouth to comfort Zeph but words which came out his mouth changed to some other words,

"Don't worry, you will now have 1 more technique in your 'limited' arsenal."

Zeph looked towards Sauren and smiled ,"Atleast I got one ....."

Sauren was rendered speechless,he wanted to retort but then gulped down his angry words seeing his gloomy condition.

Next day , Sauren visited Zeph to deliver latest news about Competition.

Tyson won as expected and Ceclia came in second rank .Match didn't even last for 15 minutes . Tyson ended match easily by knocking her out.

No technique or skill worked on him.Top 3 were announced on stage with their prizes.

Tyson - 1st position- 3 techniques and one skill from common academic library

Ceclia-2nd position- 2 techniques from common Library.

Zeph -3rd position- 1 technique from common Library.

Winners can claim their prize anytime during next week.After some hours of announcement,Ceclia visited medical hall to visit Zeph.She came with some rare fruits which Sauren hurriedly took from her and began peeling.

"Are you alright?,you were pretty hurt that day."asked Ceclia.

"yeah ,I'm feeling better"replied Zeph.

"I'm curious how did you stumble that day and you didn't even dodge the earth dragon Technique even my casual strike pierced right through you?This thing is bugging me ever since you could have won that match with that speed."

"oh .....I missteped during running and sprained my ankle so you know lost my ability to run"

"Seriously"

"Yes , ofcourse you know in that speed it is very hard to maintain your footing when resistance of air is dragging you backward with enormous force.so mistakes like this are pretty common."said Sauren in place of Zeph.

He knew he will have hard time making lie on spot so he interjected to helm him.

After so much explaining Ceclia finally accepted this reasoning.she went away after a hour or so of chatting with both of them .She invited them to join academy which both of them politely declined.

Zeph was going to leave medical hall tommorow so they decided choosing of technique to be tommorow noon.