Tough Fight

The training grounds at this place, looked a lot like the one in the mansion of Emall town. It was just a little bigger, and there were room for a lot more soldiers to train. Today though, there was not a lot of people there. There were around nine people here, all of them around the age of 20. Adrian guessed they were people joining the tournament as well.

They were all doing some kind of training routine at the minute. One of them were not though, he was sitting on the ground by himself.

Of the nine people there, only three of them looked interesting to Adrian. One of them were a green haired woman. She was tall, around 180 cm. She was very slim, almost like a stick. Her face was quite beautiful.

What caught Adrian's eye about her, was that she was a very agile fighter, and she was using two daggers. It was the first time he had seen a person fight like her. Moving around quickly, making the enemy confused, before they strike to win.

The other one was a man. He was quite average looking, around 180 cm tall as well, but he had quite an amazing aura. He looked calm and sharp, like nothing could escape his eyes. He was using a katana, which he hadn't drawn through the whole fight, which made Adrian curious.

After looking at the katana guy for a few seconds. He finally drew his sword, and he did it so fast that neither Adrian nor the opponent saw it. It was one hit to win.

The last person he found interesting, was another man. He looked really ugly, had a hump on his back, he was very skinny, and he almost looked dead. The only thing that looked alive was his green eyes.

He was a magic user. Adrian was guessing he was a summoner of some kind. Because he could summon undead creatures at will. They all looked quite weak though. After some time, he started summoning stronger monsters, which in the end overwhelmed his opponent.

As Adrian saw these three people fighting, his blood started to boil, he was getting excited. His battle intent started to leak out, which surprised Sir Harlace a lot. He would have never thought a young man like Adrian would have this much battle intent.

The 9 people that were training also reacted to this, and looked straight at Adrian, while also releasing their own battle intent. Sir Harlace saw all this, which quite amused him.

"Calm down everyone, this is our new recruit!" He tried to stop this from escalating. There was just one problem though, Adrian an his wolf were both ready to fight. They both ignored Sir Harlace, and walked over to the nine people.

"You guys want to spar or what?" He had a very provocative smile on his face. He almost looked like he disdained them. This made their battle intent flare even more. This was what Adrian wanted.

Sir Harlace was in the background shaking his head. He couldn't really do anything about this. It seems like he had taken a troublemaker into his mansion. At least he was not arrogant, he was just battle hungry.

The guy with the katana was the only calm one, or at least he looked calm on the surface. If you looked closely though, you could see pure battle intent blazing in his eyes.

Adrian already liked this group of people, they were very much like himself. What surprised Adrian though, was that the first one to strike out of the group, was a tiny girl in the back. Adrian had not really noticed her, and she was not any taller than 150 cm.

She was very quick, and Adrian could almost not even react to what just happened. The only reason he could react, was because of 'instinct.' He bent his back into an impossible angle, and the girl missed her attack. She dashed backwards straight away and looked at Adrian in shock

She was very confident in her speed, but what just happened made her confidence take a small blow. She was 21 years old and the guy who evaded her, looked no more than 18. How could someone younger than her, evade her attack like that?

Adrian looked at the girls shocked expression, and gave her a small smile. "That was amazing, now it is my turn!" His battle intent flared even more than before, as he dashed straight at the girl. He thrusted his spear at the girl, but before he arrived, she was gone.

Adrian was getting excited, how was it possible for her to disappear. Adrian's smile grew wider, while his curiosity peaked.

If the people didn't know that Adrian were fighting at the moment, they would have thought that he was looking at his first love, with that smile on his face. This creeped them out a little. How many people have that kind of look on their face, after having exchanged blows?

The small girl that disappeared, reappeared behind Adrian, trying to strike again. Adrian's 'instinct' kicked in again, and he turned around. As he turned around, he grabbed the girl as well. He grabbed her by the throat, lifting her up from the ground.

"So, this fight was easy, anyone else?" Adrian threw her to the ground, and stared at the other 8 people. She was fun to fight, but way too weak for Adrian to be threatened.

One of the men from the group came forward and looked at Adrian. He looked quite weak, he was around 175 cm tall.

"I will take you!" He basically yelled this, his blood was boiling from seeing Adrian fighting.

"Good, come" This sentence made all of the people there, feel like Adrian was their senior, teaching them an important lesson. Adrian didn't really think about this, he just wanted to fight.

The man that stepped forward, starting towards Adrian. Adrian thought he was moving quite slow, which made him a little impatient. Adrian chose to dash at the guy. This was a mistake though, as he was about to hit the guy, his spear made a detour. Adrian couldn't control the spear for a second, and this made him open for an attack.

The weak looking guy made a chop towards Adrian's neck. It hit Adrian without interruptions, which made the weak looking guy smile. What he didn't expect though, was that Adrian just stood up like it was nothing.

In all honesty, it really hurt, but Adrian just didn't care, he wanted to fight. As he turned around to look at the weak looking guy again, he saw a shocked expression. Adrian didn't care though, he thrusted his spear, but the same thing happened again.

Adrian kept doing this over and over again, until he had been chopped in the neck around ten times. The last chop hit him so hard, that he fell to his knees. This made the weak looking guy a little relieved.

"Finally, my win" He said this with a proud look, while looking at the small girl.

"Who said you won?"

The weak looking guy turned around, and saw that Adrian looked at him with a grin. He didn't seem hurt whatsoever.

"You have an interesting ability there! too bad I know how to counter it!" Adrian had used those ten previous times to test what this ability was. It seemed like it was some kind of metal control. What Adrian needed to do, was just to use his fists.

The problem with that though, is that Adrian had never had to use just the fist before. He is a novice in hand to hand combat. While his opponent is probably an expert at it.

Adrian threw his spear to the side "Lets have some fun" He lifted up his guards while saying this. Everyone could see that he was a newbie at hands to hands combat.

This just made the weak looking man smile even more. This was the best scenario he could ask for. He couldn't help but think that Adrian had dug his own grave.

He looked at Adrian, and made a hand sign that said 'Come at me then!' Adrian was not stupid though, so he chose to stand still, and waited for the weak looking guy to attack.

They stood like this for a while, no one wanted to start the fight. Especially not Adrian, he had a disadvantage, the only way he could win, was by relying on his two skills, 'Dash' and 'Instinct.' These two skills could be deadly if used correctly.

In the end, the weak looking guy chose to make the first move. Adrian tried to block, but he was unsuccessful. He was hit so hard in the stomach, that he threw up a bit of blood.

He looked at the ground, with a shocked look. This weak looking guy was actually stronger than he had thought.

"I underestimated you!" Adrian could not help but say this "I am glad" He gave a small confident smile after saying this.