Chapter 21

The rankers surrounded us separately. A total of 10 students on mine and 9 on the president.

They still underestimate me I guess. How sad.

They all looked at each other first then attacked. I guess that’s my cue to move also then.

All of them attacked me one by one unlike the first batch earlier that attacked me all at once. So we ended up having a

one on one.

Fools. They should’ve known that I could easily defeat them this way. Don’t they know how to fucking analyze me?

Sapphire, Hade and Eren ended up with Zach and Lucas, Reven and Wade on mine. I see even the Grey Apcue are split in half. I somehow expected them all to be on my side, thinking of friendship and all that. Guess I’m wrong.

Unfortunately for me, even Venice is my opponent who's now giving me death glares. As if I was supposed to be affected by it.

A boy my age stepped in front of me wearing an ugly smirk on his face.

“I suggest you step out of the arena now if you don’t wanna be hurt” he tauntingly said to me. This fool really be

underestimating me. As if he isn’t one of the rankers who visibly looked scared earlier.

“Nah I’m okay here.”

“Okay then” and with that he attacked me with blades that’s made with pure air. So the visibility of the attack isn't really that high. However, because of my other senses I am able to feel and hear the attack thus allowing me to dodge them.

Surprise could be seen in the faces of those who're just watching me as they themselves have a hard time seeing where the attacks are.

I on the other hand made sure to attack my own fire balls to give me time so that I could do another attack.

When I found the perfect time I quickly made a circle of fire surrounding my opponent. Though he was able to put it out,

I still continued to circle him with fire. The cycle went on until he stopped attacking me with the blades and only focused on putting the fire off as the fire surrounding him got stronger the more that they came back plus the fact that his energy was easily gone because of his attacks and because of how he needs to put off the circle of fire to defend himself. At his fifth attempt to put the fire off, the fire didn't budge a bit, instead it became stronger. I smirked as I could see sweat beginning to form on his forehead.

He tried desperately to put the fire off but it only grew stronger with each attempt that he made.

My fire isn't like anyones, because of my training I was able to produce the blue fire on my own. It's the highest level of fire anyone could make. I'm clearly controlling myself not to roast him. He should be grateful.

"Oh? What happened? I thought I was supposed to be hurt if I continued this fight? Huh?" I tauntingly asked him when he started to step back inside the circle. I made half of the circle fire gone so he continued to back away. He tried to run using the way behind him but I closed every way he could think of with my circle of fire. He even tried flying even though he couldn't do it perfectly yet. I saw it on how he hesitated to fly first. But I made sure to stop him. Closing or making the circle small so that he could lose his concentration which makes him unable to fly. The heat is bothersome for him.

He's trapped whatever he does.

"Shut up! Just you wait-" he was cut off when he suddenly fell off the stage which means that he lost. He was so caught up with escaping the fire circle that he didn't realize that he was too near the edge of the stage resulting in him falling off the stage.

"Oops, you lose" I sweetly told him and turned around to the remaining nine opponents of mine. "Who's next?" I tilted my head as I boredly asked them.

The fight continued again and again. Some of them gave me quite a good fight because of their wit like that fire player that I fought with earlier. She's quick witted and strong no doubt to that however, she thought that she could make fun of me by using the same fire circle technique on me. Only to be shocked when I simply manipulated her fire to be mine. I used it on my attacks on her and she didn't know what to do since she thought she'll defeat me using MY OWN technique. So she ended up flying out of the stage because of it. She should've known not to use the same technique of her opponent on the same opponent that she copied it from because every technique that we use is thoroughly studied by us so we know the weakness of our technique. At least that's how the majority of the people are. Unfortunately for her I'm one of that majority.

There's also another that gave me a good fight because of his strength. He's an earth player. He's one of the president's friends. So he really gave me a good fight considering that I think he's part of the top 5 of the school. But I easily tricked him when I pretended that I lost and when he was busy bragging and all that to the audience I attacked him from the back knocking him out. It's hilarious really.

He should've known not to turn his back on his opponent even if his opponent is nearly dead.

My next opponent is Lucas, he's strong. I know that since he's in the top 4.

"I hope you won't make mistakes like those first opponents that I had. I deserve a somehow worthy opponent, don't you think?" I asked and even tilted my head to the side. He just stared at me like I'm some kind of puzzle that he wasn't able to solve.

Ah I forgot that he's the silent one. Well then let this fight begin.

I was just about to attack him to make this all over with immediately when suddenly we heard a loud roar within the place. Squeals could be heard from the audience because of shock. Everyone was frozen in place because of fear from whatever that roar came from.

I frowned in confusion. Are we under attack?

Another roar was heard causing another round of squeals and screams from the people.

It wasn't long till we saw a huge shadow that's lurking above us. Flying and letting all of us know of it's presence.

I froze as I caught on what kind of creature the shadow comes from. Me and the president looked at each other. Checking if both are still okay for more fights. And when I saw him alive and breathing, I looked above us, and there I saw a huge dragon roaring and baring its teeth at us.

Looks like our trial was just starting.