Phoenix decent

As the smokescreen disappeared, people started to see what was standing there. A man was standing in the middle, he was standing tall. He had caught the fireballs straight on, but he hadn't fallen. This was already surprising enough.

What surprised everyone, Gus was standing there, as nothing had happened. He had a smirk on his face like he was looking down on the mage. "Is that really all you can muster HAHA?" Gus tried to provoke the mage.

It seemed that it worked, as the mage gave Gus a death stare. It looked quite scary, and before anyone knew it, the mage had started chanting in a weird language. As the chant went on, the temperature was rising.

It became so hot, that it was almost unbearable to be underneath the battle arena, even the judge himself went back a few steps. Adrian could not help but help to look towards Gus. To Adrian's surprise, Gus just stood there looking at the mage, with a small grin.

When the chanting stopped, the temperature stopped rising, but a sun started to appear in front of the mage. It was glowing so brightly that everyone had to look away. The mage suddenly yelled, "GO!" As he yelled it, the sun started moving towards Gus.

The audience had started to become a little nervous. This was a powerful attack of the flame magician path. This much heat meant a lot of damage was going to be dealt. Everyone was surprised though when Gus just cut straight through that Sun. It split in half, and all the heat from the attack disappeared.

At this point though, Adrian saw something he didn't know what was. The weapon Gus was holding, had a mirage of different runes on it. They all lit up as they got into contact with the sun. As the sun and the blade collided, all of the sun's energy was sucked into all of these runes.

At the moment, the sword Gus was holding, was glowing a bright red. It seemed like all of the power from the pårevious attack had been absorbed into the blade in Gus's hand.

"I see, your family wasted a lot of money on you, huh?" The mage could not help finding this a little funny. He knew exactly what kind of weapon Gus was holding.

"Oh, you know what this is?" Gus was a little surprised, this was a weapon that was really rare in their kingdom.

"Of course, I know! It is a magic sword!" The mage looked at Gus like he was an idiot. Of course, a noble would know what this is.

Adrian was shaken though. This was not the same weapon Gus had used against Adrian. Adrian might actually have been a little worried if this was the blade he had been up against. Adrian could feel dangerous energy from the blade, other than the suns. He did not know what that was, but he knew he also wanted a magical weapon.

"The name of this sword is Phoenix decent, do you know of it?" Gus kept staring at the mage, he said this name like it was something very famous.

"Y-you mean your family was the family wasting all those money?? HAHAHA," The mage was far from frightened. He felt this was funny. "You do know it is a 'broken' blade right?" The mage knew about the sword, he also knew that it was a 'broken' weapon.

A 'broken' weapon, is referring to an incomplete magic weapon. It is a weapon where the blacksmith who made it, failed in completing the runes on it. Which could mean that the weapon could do a critical fail in battle.

In this case, the sword 'Phoenix decent' is a weapon that absorbs energy. The critical error in this weapon is, when it hits the maximum amount of absorbed energy, it releases it all in an explosion. Normally it would just stop absorbing. This could be a critical flaw in a battle if you did not pay complete attention to the weapon.

Gus felt shocked this time, he did not know it was a 'broken' blade. He didn't even know what a broken blade was. He could feel that it was nothing good though.

"HAHAHAHA, it seems like you didn't even know that!" The mage was having a good time, from Gus's misfortune. "Well, let the blade absorb everything!" As the mage said this, a countless number of fireballs appeared around the arena. They shot straight at Gus.

Gus started to block all of these fireballs with his sword. The sword started glowing more and more, and after being hit with the 56th fireball.

BOOM!

An explosion took place. Another huge smokescreen was made, this time, Gus did not stand tall inside of it. He was sent flying out from it and did not stop before he hit the arena walls.

As he hit the wall, he was basically embedded inside it. He had lost consciousness as soon as the explosion happened. It was not a nice look he had. His skin had been charred completely black, and his feet and arms were twisted into weird positions. Adrian could only imagine the pain he was in when he would wake up.

It seems like quite a bit happened, but it all ended in a few minutes' time. To Adrian, this was a huge learning experience. He now knows what kind of fighting style this mage had. He was a fighter from range, with no mobility, but a lot of strong attacks. Adrian was a little afraid of those fireballs, but he was more excited than frightened.

Adrian went over to Sir Harlace for a minute "Can I ask you something?" Adrian looked straight at Sir Harlace like he was looking for knowledge.

"You want to know what a 'broken weapon is right?" He looked back at Adrian, while Adrian just nodded. "Unfortunately, I don't know either" Sir Harlace just gave him a wry smile.

Adrian had a disappointed look, but he did not worry too much about it. He went around to other people to see if others knew what it meant. None of them knew about broken weapons, but almost all of the nobles knew about magical weapons. So he did get some information.

Apparently, there was only one true magical weapon in this kingdom. It was the weapon the king would use. It had gone down for generations from king to king. So when everyone heard that this weapon was a magical weapon, they were all surprised.

They were all relieved when they heard it was a broken weapon, even though they didn't really know the meaning. They could still kind of figure out what it meant.

If it had been a true magical weapon, their family would instantly rise in the ranks and might get close to being equal with the king. The king already knew they had bought a magical weapon and he had done his research a long time ago. So he already knew it was broken, and he should not really feel threatened.

Back at the battle stage, Bertram was had started a fight with the other winner from the fourth house. While Adrian had been gathering information, the fight had started without him noticing. Now that he finally saw that the match had started, he could see the guy from the fourth house was almost as strong as Bertram.

"You are strong, I like strong fighters!!" Bertram was a battle maniac just like Adrian. He might be a battle maniac like Adrian, but he was not as smart. He was a simple man, to say the least."What is your name?" He asked a simple question. This question meant a lot when it came from Bertram, he would only ask for your name if he recognizes your strength.

"HAHA, I thank you, big friend, I am called Kyris!" Kyris seemed like seemed to really appreciate the comment from Bertram. "May I have the honor of knowing your name as well!" They both knew each other's names, but they did this out of respect for each other's strength.

"Bertram! Now, let us fight again!" Bertram answered with an excited look. He was ready to get this fight started.

Adrian looked at this exchange of words like he was looking at two idiots. These two thought more with their muscle than their heads. Adrian also looked at them in a weird way, it looked like two big meat mountains were fighting on the battle stage at the moment.

Kyris was about the same height as Bertram, but his muscles were much bigger. He did not use any weapons, he was using his body as his weapon. He was a ground fighter, which meant he wanted to grab people and throw them onto the ground. Then fight a battle of endurance.

The best way to counter a fighter like Kyris was with speed. Kyris was slow, because of the power and endurance needed for his fighting style. His strong point against speedy fighters is that he can take a lot of hits before he falls. Adrian was looking forward to fighting Bertram, Oras, and Kyris by now. It seems like the next few fights for him will be exciting.