Battle Royale III

It isn't hard to think of a concept. I trained, sweated, bled, and eventually almost died just to come to this realization.

The strength I see myself portray is not what I can perform. I am weak, but why do I feel strong? The only answer is... self-deception.

The power signature of an individual is what portrays the true self of an individual, since mine is 'deception' it means that everything I think I know is likely just me deceiving myself and that is the real me. But isn't it a copied power signature?

Because of how hard I worked I deceived myself into thinking I am way stronger than most of my peers. That is just disgraceful and pitiful.

I have many skills that I don't even know about or how to use and I am left with that feeling of not knowing something that is part of you.

If a man believes a lie for his whole life and doesn't know it is a lie it becomes the truth since that is the only thing he knows. Therefore, since my whole strength is based on a lie it might as well become the truth.

As I walk towards the generals I rip my upper garments off since they were in tatters already, and every step I take leaves a crater on the ground.

I don't even use Blink, I just run, and immediately, I appear behind the generals. When I run I become so fast everything looked so slow. This is probably my ultimate-mode skill.

I only applied little force as I punch the ground but it creates a huge crater. The shockwave affects the generals and they all fall, except for the earth-mage general who uses earth to push himself out of the shockwave radius.

Elise snaps out of her dumbfoundedness comes running over, not to miss this chance to take down the six stunned and felled generals.

Bruce is a bit far and he is battling the three remaining generals and is winning since they are enforcers. If they were sorcerers I doubt that he will even be able to touch them. He uses earth magic but uses it to only protect himself and create a large earthen mallet.

Zeus and Hades followed Arleore under my instruction right after she left to fight Ben.

"You're just a weak ass scribe!!!" The earth-mage yells out. It looks like fell into despair because he probably knows how this is going to end.

He starts shooting giant spears one by one in succession but never at the same time.

I just walk forward with my hands in my trouser pocket. As I am about to get hit by a spear I just move to the side slightly to dodge them.

"Looks like you're going to run out of mana before I even get there." Immediately I finished I sprint forward and with my insane speed, I got to him in less than 5 seconds.

I stop directly in front of his face and said:

"And you're just a bug flying around my face," I said that to finish his last sentence.

'Boom!'

I use my palm to cover his face and slam the back of his head on the ground, he instantly became unconscious.

Elise has already defeated all the generals that were stunned so she decided to help Bruce while I move on ahead. Now I am certain that the earth-type mage general is the only one among the generals that is strong, I should have gotten his name at least.

I rin at full-speed to get to Arleore so I can arrive before Ben launches the finishing blow on her.

***

ARLEORE BEDIVERE

"Is that all you got?"

The leader of Team Drale – Vin Drale, asks disappointedly as his face contorts to express his contempt.

"Are you really from the Bedivere family?"

I arrived here and met the leader of Team Gray with Vin Drale. The leader of Team Gray is a grey-haired kid that looks about my age. He took Danton's dogs and told Vin Drale that he should take care of me that I am not strong enough to fight him.

I have been fighting Vin Drale ever since. He is a sorcerer and I am an enforcer so it is really hard to land a successful hit on him, and because he is an elf he has a large mana pool to boot.

He has only been shooting ice spikes and creating ice walls. He even trapped me In a make-shift prison and started bragging that it was his first time forming such.

"No matter what I shouldn't release it! No matter what I shouldn't release it!" I said to myself. I can't possibly let his taunts get to me since I have anger issues, and it is getting harder to keep calm.

"I bet I can still win with my eyes closed."

I keep on catching some of the spikes and dodging them from time to time, while some manage to get to me.

"Your family should just throw you out. Are the Bediveres always so weak? I wonder why you're still part of the top military families. If this is how weak your ancestor 'Bedivere' was I don't think he'll be part of the 12 knights at the round table chosen by King Arthur. You should dig up a hole and just bury yourself in it because you... are... weak and useless."

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

I can't contain myself any longer and this boy will pay the price.

My hair loses control and starts covering my body and grows bigger and bigger. The hair grew arms and legs, so now I look like a giant hair golem.

"Ahhhh!" Vin Drale screams as I move forward, then he starts shooting his spikes carelessly.

I charge towards him with full-speed and punch his footing.

He manages to escape but another hand grows out from my back and punches his new footing. He shoots ice spikes to the arm to buy time to evade the attack.

The hair monster – me, looks up and screams, then hair from every part of me shoots out large spikes.

Vin Drale still manages to evade the attacks by creating an ice protection barrier around himself.

I am starting to return to my senses as my mana capacity drains and I feel dizzy. In an instant, all the hair reduce until it's back to the original length.

I am in the middle of the air and everything is moving so slow. 

From the corner of my eye, I can see Vin Drale, who doesn't want to lose this chance, prepare a giant ice spike.

My fall feels slow. Vin Drale shoots the giant ice spike he was preparing, knowing that I can't dodge it in the middle of the air.

I slowly close my eyes, accepting what is to come.

Suddenly, I could see a blurry figure in front of me with what looks like long deep-violet hair, I already know who it is.

"Thank you." I slowly shut my eyes as the whole world blurred out.

VIN DRALE

That murderer disappears mid-air to the ground to dodge the giant ice spike I shot.

He gently drops the Bedivere on the ground and stands back up with his eyes still on her.

I don't know what to do but to stand and watch. If I attack him with ice spikes or an ice tornado I don't believe he will even get hurt, but I have got to try.

"Y-You murderer. You can't win. You will not get Grandmaster Windstrum's favour because you're a weak, evil and mischievous coward who threatened to kill his teammates!" I said, with fear and fright encompassing me but I can't possibly beg for mercy because I am from the Drale family; we never back down.

I shoot out little ice spikes to increase the speed of the attack and to reserve my remaining mana.

He dodges all of them in a breeze as he calmly walks forward with his hands in his pocket and hair covering his eyes, but I can't accept defeat.

I prepare a spell by reciting the words as I used the last of my mana capacity to form a tornado with spikes around it.

'Swoosh'

It hit him. I'll let it go on for a while so I can be sure he got hit.

My mana is drained so the tornado is dissipating. I look closely and I can see a figure still walking forward.

"----ug." He says something but I can't hear it because of the wind from the dissipating tornado.

"What the hell did you say!!!" I screamed with fear, anger and despair.

I suddenly felt a hand cover my face.

"I said... You're just another bug."

'Boom'

As he repeated what he said I wanted to become furious, get angry and teach him a lesson never to mess with someone from the Drale family; but such isn't possible since I am currently on the ground and slowly losing consciousness with a stinging pain at the back of my head.