Chapter 06

The enemy side was still stunned by the pace of events, but the young man with ice powers recovered first and reacted fastest to go on the attack. Takeru touched the ground with his hands and a wave of ice was launched toward the other candidates.

Participants X, Y, W and V managed to react in time to dodge the blow, but young U was not so lucky and ended up completely frozen. By the time of the ice attack, Alex had returned to his previous position next to the young man with ice powers.

"Now are you willing to negotiate?" - Alex with his usual calm expression.

"You bastard!!!" - Participant X activating his ability while taking some stones out of his pocket.

'*sigh* why does everything have to be solved on the basis of violence? It's so tiring...' - Alex.

"Can we at least fight in the nearby corridors so we don't put out the torches?" - Alex.

"HUMPH" - candidate X and the others nodding.

"Takeru, can you handle the two on the left?" - Alex.

"I don't know, but I'll try to at least hold them off!" - Takeru.

"I'm counting on you!" - Alex starts running towards the X and Y candidates.

And so, the two sides moved into the neighboring corridors....

Right after they entered the corridor, the stones in the hands of examinee X began to be fired at high speed at Alex Walker, and in the same second participant Y formed a metal sword in his hand.

'If I get hit by that, it will be problematic...' - Alex.

The black haired boy was getting faster and faster as he tried to dodge the objects that were constantly coming at him. However, Candidate X's ammunition is not infinite, so the moment he needed to grab more stones, Alex saw an opening at this instant.

The young student dodged the last stone, jumped towards the wall, and picked up momentum to jump against his target in an attempt to hit him with a knee to the face while his knee was covered with a black substance to harden it and increase the damage.

However his chance went down the drain as the Y candidate blocked the blow with his sword and sent him backwards again. In contrast, it broke into pieces soon after he managed to block it.

Man Y was quite surprised at the turn of events, however, within a matter of seconds a new sword was formed and his expression became confident and determined.

'Tsk, so the power of the first is something related to strength or the stones themselves, and the second is basically able to create weapons...' - Alex.

So changing his strategy, the well-trained physique teenager headed for hand-to-hand combat with the swordmaker. The black haired boy coated his arms with the same black substance and set off on Y before candidate X could retrieve his ammunition.

He started with a jab with his right hand aiming at his opponent's chin, but it was blocked once more, the sword shattered again and another one was created soon after. Both continued this exchange of attacking and defending for some time, until finally candidate X recovered his ammunition and shot Alex again forcing him to retreat.

'I wanted to use as little of my powers as possible while I haven't passed the exam yet, but if we continue in this stalemate I'm going to end up losing by some wavering against this duo...Well, it'll cause some cuts on them but there's no other way!!!' - Alex.

Deciding to finally take them more seriously, the boy removed the black substance from his arms and turned onslaught against the two candidates while dodging the stone bullets.

'This guy wants to die?' - both candidates confused by the young man's action.

But when they least expected it, two black scythe-shaped blades emerged from his two forearms and when they were less than 3 away, the young man jumped towards them while giving a diagonal spin.

(Use Levi's movement as a reference to imagine this scene)

Both were taken by surprise, but still Candidate Y tried to defend with his sword. However, the black blades were even sharper than the swords used and they simply sliced the weapon in half. Having no room to maneuver, Participant Y could only receive the blow from the front and this entailed a large diagonal cut that came from his right shoulder to the lower part of his left lung. Soon Participant Y was knocked unconscious by the force of what he felt.

'I think that's enough, if I put more force on him he could end up life-threatening.' - Alex as he watched participant Y fall unconscious on the cold ground.

His companion was extremely frightened thinking his partner was dead and his legs began to shake in fear as he had no means to defend himself should the black-bladed boy decide to attack him now.

"Eae? Do you want to continue the fight?" - Alex.

"I SURRENDER!!!" - Shouted the young man in desperation as he knelt on the ground with his head down.

'Now let's see Takeru's side...looks like he will soon finalize his side as well' - Alex with his gaze glazed on a wall.

Back to the moment when the fights started...

After splitting the enemies, Takeru was fully focused on his fight. In his mind he had to win anyway or else things would get extremely difficult for the other boy in his group.

After they entered a separate corridor, Takeru wasted no time and quickly formed his small spears and threw them at his enemies. Candidates V and W managed to react in time and used their skills.

Participant V made his hand stretch and become large enough to act as a shield, at the same instant that examinee W also activated his power to increase his physical strength to the extreme.

The shield hand managed to block the blows, and a second later his entire arm was transformed into a catapult. The super-strength man positioned himself inside it and the next instant was launched at high speed at the fat teenager.

Takeru managed to realize it in time and stepped back a few steps, in the same second he created a wall of ice to be able to cushion the attack.

The impact happened and the ice broke, but the super-strong man couldn't get through and fell on his ass on the ground right where Takeru had stepped earlier and...

*Boom

The landmine made of ice exploded and froze participant W's ass. As confident as he was in his strength, he underestimated the hardness of the boy's ice. Besides, no one except Black-White knew about this treacherous technique that freezes you.

Candidate W was about to break free, however, a very solid ball of ice hit his head with such force that it made him dizzy and unable to stand up. And right on top of that came two more ice balls that knocked him unconscious.

"One down!" - Takeru speaking to himself.

The elastic man was shocked at how quickly his teammate was knocked out. He didn't have that many expectations, but he didn't expect such a quick defeat.

Takeru Satoru created 4 large ice spears sharp enough to pierce his body without killing him if they hit the right spots. The young Asian could simply create several huge spears and quickly end the fight, however, it would not pay off because the Naro energy consumption would be too high for that.

The four spears were quickly thrown in the direction of the W candidate. The fight seemed to be finally decided, however the man stretched his body and became thinner than a malnourished person, causing all the spears to go straight through.

'If I keep producing more spears the result will be the same, so I better end this at once and help Alex-san!'

Takeru decided to circumvent this simply, the fat man put his two clasped hands together with his fingers intertwined, and a large ball of ice appeared in front of him. The next moment it began to spin very fast and constantly in the same place while floating less than an inch off the ground.

Candidate number 8600 unclenched his hands and let the large ice sphere touch the ground. The object moved much faster than his spears, and gave the elastic man no chance to dodge it because there was neither the time nor the space to do so.

This was a technique that Takeru could only use in enclosed places where the opponent could not escape, but it uses a lot of Naro energy.

Participant W was now all stretched out on the floor and unconscious.

The brown haired boy wasted no time and quickly ran to help his teammate, but arriving at the scene he was faced with an impressive and at the same time disappointing scene of a kneeling man with a bent body surrendering to a black haired boy.

'I guess I underestimated Alex-san too much...' - Takeru as he lamented that he had spent more naro energy than necessary.