Easy Win?

Berry got on one knee to show respect and said "I'm sorry but for now I am not ready for a teacher there are still so many things I can improve by myself. But when I am ready will be the first to ask for guidance ".

The 3 elders were getting ready to protest immediately and the crowd was shocked that the boy didn't want to be taught by any of them. The sect leader spoke before the elders " very well Berry if that's what you want then so be it" while she spoke she stared directly at the three elders that fought over Barry like children the three elders immediately stared at the ground like children being chastised by their mother. Berry got up and sat back down. Lucifer was the last person to fight but he wasn't interested In the next 2 fights so he just didn't pay attention but when the 4th fight started Lucifer couldn't take his eyes off of a person wearing a mask and robes made of darkness itself. The strange person was fighting a woman with a book and pen in her hands she had 4 arms and before the fight started she dipped the fingers of her 2 hands that weren't holding the book or pen in ink. when the fight started the person made their preparations they made an orb of darkness in their hand and threw it as high as they could the ball flew incredibly fast and once it was above the whole sect the orb exploded into a blanket of shadow in the sky it completely blocked out the sun making it very dark in the arena. lucifer then saw the woman draw on the paper with all of her hands and when she was done she ripped the piece of paper out and threw it to the ground.

when the paper was flat on the ground the ink moved like if it was alive and suddenly a massive dragon made of red and black ink crawled out of the paper it was the size of half of the arena. The dragon roared and flew at the person and even though they were wearing a mask you could feel the cruel smile on their face they waved their hand and the darkness of the world seemed to flood towards the space in front of them. The dragon stopped and watched carefully like it was sentient, the darkness molded into a beast that was only about a fifth of the dragon's size but the beast had nine heads and looked like a completely black version of Manuel's pet. The beast was fully black except for its bright red eyes all nine of the beast's heads drooled when it stared at the dragon but it just patiently sat down next to the person and lowered its head the person rubbed its head and then said "fetch". The beast waged its tail like a dog and clumsily ran at the dragon, the ink dragon opened his mouth and breathed fire on the beast but it just opened one of its massive mouths and ate the fire. The beast then clamped its jaw around the neck of the ink dragon he then dragged it to the person and sat back down giving the strange person an adorable pleading look all 18 of its eyes were pleading with its owner.

The person sighed and said "fine you can eat it " the beast got very happy and tried to eat it but wherever the beast bit the dragon, the ink would just regenerate. The woman laughed and said, "as long as I still have qi in my body that dragon will regenerate forever". when the strange person and beast heard the woman they stared directly at her and the person simply said: " fetch". The woman's eyes immediately widened as she tried to run from the beast while drawing but the person waved their hand and the darkness around the woman became a black tar-like substance that traped her like a bug in a web. The woman forfeited before the beast could eat her and the person won, they retracted all of the darkness they made and the sun was no longer blocked out so the beast went into the person's shadow. The fight had ended and an elder proficient with the shadow element wanted the person but they declined, and the woman who made the dragon became the student of a proficient summoner.

It was lucifers turn, Berry gave him a high five and before lucifer went up he decided to leave his sword and shield he didn't need them. Lucifer walked up and he wanted to win first place but he felt bad not letting his opponent show off her strength so he decided to give her 10 seconds to attack him all she wanted because even though it wouldn't hurt him the elders would be able to tell how strong the girl is and he only needed to get her to forfeit after her 10 seconds.

Lucifer walked on and once he and the girl were ready the fight started lucifer just stood still and said: "you have 10 seconds to attack me however you like I will just stand here". The crowd and elders were intrigued by Lucifer's brazen words but the girl just thought he was trying to get her to fall into a trap, Lucifer could see she didn't believe him so he said "just chain me to the ground or something I won't do anything I swear to you that you will have 10 seconds". The girl still didn't believe him but she just shot qi chains at him wrapping around his arms and legs and lucifer just stood still. The girl didn't lower her guard at all she stared at lucifer like a hawk and charged at him her right hand was covered by a gauntlet made of lightning and her left hand was covered in stone. she slammed her stone gauntlet at lucifers face and the elders felt the immense strength in the punch it was like a mountain they thought the girl was very impressive she had a double element and way stronger than a mid-step divine core cultivator should be, but when that fist hit lucifers head all the girl could do. was laugh she thought the boy she was fighting was crazy in reality he was crazy strong because her fist hit his head and while his neck did move back a bit he didn't even take a step back and the stone gauntlet shattered on his head the girl paused for a second before she exploded with lightning the arena started shaking. she put her fist in the ground and a loud cracking sound could be heard and when she pulled her hand up and it was covered in a black obsidian rock it looked very hard and sturdy the girl then covered her obsidian gauntlet with thick lightning she even raised her other hand and thunder clouds gathered around her lightning bolts hit her obsidian gauntlet. The girl put her hand under her obsidian gauntlet to support the weight of it she then leaned back and practically threw herself with the weight of her punch she was aiming right at lucifers head and even though lucifer could tell that it would harm him he was a man of his word and if he flew too close to the sun then he must fall into the sea.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

The girl's fist exploded on Lucifer's head like a grenade and an elder with the space element reacted immediately he wrapped the arena up with his arua so that when the explosion reached the edge of the arena it would be taken into a random rift or area in space. On top of the explosion lucifer also had to deal with the earthquake that the girl made. when the smoke from the explosion cleared the side of Lucifer's face that got hit was swollen within seconds it was already turning black and blue lucifer stopped the swelling and coughed out the little bit of blood that was in his mouth because the girl hit him hard enough to reverse Lucifer's blood crystallization in the side of his face that got hit. lucifer was knocked to the edge of the arena before he could stop and there were. 2 trenches thought the arena where Lucifer's feet were dragged through the ground to slow him down. Lucifer sat down and was huffing and puffing at one point when he breathed a tiny gargle was heard from the blood in his throat lucifer put his hands on his face and neck he secretly crystallized his blood again.

He stood up and walked to the girl he looked at her and said " you are very strong I'm sure most mid-step divine core realm cultivators would be unable to fight you if you practice more techniques like that punch you could probably fight or at least survive a fight with an early martial core realm cultivator, it's just a shame you had to fight me today" when lucifer finished he activated his demon mark form and used demon kings release. Now that the space barrier was gone the crowd felt the immeasurable pressure coming from lucifer and with every step it grew stronger and stronger, with every step lucifer would release more of his hidden power. He felt amazing and realized that because of his bloodlines lucifer was stronger than he would be in gladiator but he couldn't use his elements as freely in real life. By the fifth step, the girl's back was hunched and when lucifer stared into her eyes she saw the determination in her eyes she was gonna stand until she couldn't she would fight until her life was in danger and even though she knew she stood no chance yet she stood with pride.

Lucifer paused his walking and said, "I don't even know your name but you have earned my respect so I will give you the respect you deserve and take you seriously". The elders were worried about the crowd so they made a barrier just to weaken the pressure they would feel. Lucifer released everything he had The pressure radiating from him was terrifying to any divine core cultivator and even martial core cultivators but Lucifer wasn't done he then activated the wolf's stalk without entering the void, he then used demons tyrannical fist and purple energy surrounded his fists. Lucifer then continued walking and with every step space would distort the area around him slightly, Lucifer then started charging spacial rend on both hands and now with every step, he took very tiny cracks in space spread around him. After 10 steps lucifer was close to the girl and despite the cracking sounds her bones were making from the pressure she stood she looked lucifer in the eyes. lucifer brought back both of his fists and swung them up as hard as he could the girl reluctantly said "I Forfeit" and lucifer tilted his punch farther up and his fists just missed the girl's chin. The energy in Lucifer's fists hit the sky and slightly bigger cracks in space are formed. Lucifer exited his demon mark form and went back to normal with his bloodlines active. The sect leader stood up and started talking "That was an amazing show of strength from the both of you would any elders want to take any of these 2 as a student, since lucifer won we will do him first, raise your hands if you are willing to have lucifer as a student".

Every elder that had an attack-oriented element or was strong attackers raised their hands only 3 didn't they were the sect leader, the elder proficient with the holy element and the elder proficient with summoning. The sect leader then said, "who do you choose lucifer". Lucifer stood tall and proud as he said "I have no need for a teacher at the moment but if I do ever need one I will ask the elders for help" lucifer said what Berry said but he said it with a lot less respect. The elders were fuming because for the first time in years three geniuses had declined a teacher and the elder proficient with space said "Boy we are elders of the great eternal phoenix sect we are not available to you as you wish so choose ether you pick one of us or you don't but you won't have another opportunity".