Chapter 22

After the fight, there wasn't anything interesting, the fights went on without anything flashy.

Vlad's journey to the top 6 was indeed an experience, he was almost at the peak to break through to the core creation realm.

"Not only have I gained battle experience, but it seems like my cultivation also improved, maybe I will breakthrough."

Vlad wanted to cultivate and increase his rank, but then he would be unable to partake in the body forging fights, so he decided against it.

"Are you alright Vlad." Alice askes in a concerned tone.

"Yes... by the way, Alice will you participate in the core creation fights?" Vlad replied.

"Yea but my rank is pretty low for the core creation fights, so I guess I won't make it far and Vlad you should be careful of that guy." Alice pointed towards the guy with the black katana, who simply stood there motionless like a statue.

Vlad simply nodded as he closed his eyes and laid down, Vlad took a small rest until the top 5 fights began.

Opening his eyes, Vlad looked at the blue sky, which was especially cloudy that day.

"Seems like it is going to rain, let's hope I get a easy fight." Vlad thought.

Seemed like God had listened to his call, as he didn't get the guy in the black katana, his opponent was a rather bulky and muscular girl carrying a white nodachi, she was also at the peak of the body forging realm.

(Author's note: Nodachi is basically a longer and heavier model of the Katana, used in feudal Japan it was carried by the samurai class of feudal Japan.)

"I have to admit, you definitely stronger than me but I would still like to compare our power level. I Havana smith challenge you, Vlad Tepes to a duel."

Vlad wasn't really in a mood to entertain her, neither did he want to waste stamina on this fight.

'Why can't you just surrender, if you know you are going to lose.' Vlad thought in an irritated mood.

"I won't go easy on you," Vlad replied as he dashed towards her.

Havana seeing Vlad approach her swung her nodachi, Vlad immediately activated her Evasion stance and dodged it.

Vlad immediately used this opportunity to activate his 3rd stance of the wrathful spear arts.

Vzzzzt!!!

A sharp noise echoed throughout the arena as the spear headed towards her neck.

Havana knew she couldn't dodge this, so she redirected her nodachi in an attempt to block it.

Clang!!!

A loud metallic noise was heard as the weapons collided, Vlad stood at his stop but Havana was clearly pushed back, she had lost her balance and her hands were trembling.

Not letting go of this opportunity Vlad instantly attacked again with the 3rd stance of the wrathful spear arts.

Seeing Vlad again dash towards her, Havana was out of options, she couldn't block neither could she dodge, the only option was attacking.

She immediately prepared her strongest attack and swang towards the incoming Vlad.

The nodachi carried insane power behind it and Vlad promptly knew his spear wouldn't be a match for it, so Vlad switched his 3rd stance with the evasion stance, dodging her attack.

Immediately using this opportunity to again switch to the 3rd stance and strike her, Havana also wasn't expecting him to dodge again and was caught off guard.

The fight ended with Vlad's victory, it was quite a quick fight, with this win there were only 3 people left in the tournament, Vlad was among the group, beside him stood the guy with the black katana and a blonde guy.

The blonde guy was also quite strong, he was at a similar power level to Vlad, this technique was also something quite eyecatching, Vlad didn't really know his identity, he didn't even see him in the training hall well it was the same with the black katana guy.

These guys appeared out of nowhere and dominated the fights if you think it was a similar case regarding Vlad.