Chapter 65
After the referee says start, I quickly dash forward and swing my sword at my opponent. I kept attacking him at high speed, but to my surprise, he was able to block and dodge all of my attacks.
Childerich is a fast bastard. He is not only fast, but he also has a great instinct to be able to block the hidden attack I made. I swing down my sword, and he blocks it once again.
"Kekekeke! Is this all you got? A disappointment!"
I grunt a little when he kicks me away from him. I widen my eyes when I see twenty needles fly toward me from his hand. I jump away to dodge all the needles and say.
"Long range weapons are forbidden, you know?"
"Kekekeke! It was only for bow and arrow but it never says something about gloves filled with projectiles, you know? It is just like forbidding a spear user throwing their weapon."
A loophole, huh? No matter. I take a low stance and release a huge killing intent at him, but to my surprise, he smiles instead of shivering. I guess killing intent will not work against a psychopath.
I shake my head and dash forward. Both of us clash our blades and keep exchanging blow after blow. I hit him, and he hit me. It lasted for a few minutes before Childerich jumped away from me.
I see. He is a speedy fighter who hits hard but also can take damage. Hell, he is even faster than me. However, he lacks stamina. So I take another stance and get ready to lock him in a close combat fight, but before I can do that, I feel some pain coming from my chest.
"Urgh"
I puke blood and see a notification appear.
|You have been poisoned!|
|Decrease 5 HP per second for three minutes|
I see. It was not stamina. He managed to poison me with his blade. I focus my gaze on his blade for a second and see a panel appear.
|Fuil|
|Hidden sword located around the user's wrist. The blade is sharp and can store a lot of poison inside the blade for an injection|
{Ghost Scorpion's Poison: Fast-acting poison that decreases the victim's HP by 5 HP per second. It can be stacked up to fifty times.}
What a dangerous poison. That stackable poison is dangerous.
"So you play dirty, huh?"
"I don't know what you are talking about."
I ignore his mocking voice and face and only focus on my inner body. I control the mana inside my body to purge the poison inside my body. When I see no one announce I use magic, I know my trick is working.
People of this world can control the mana in the air, but they do not have one thing: a mana core like me. At least, that was what happened to most of the magicians of this world. However, Jeane has a magic core inside of her.
Maybe it was because she was special?
I shake my head and focus on my body first. It lasts for a couple of seconds before I puke once again. This time, a dark-green liquid came out of my mouth.
I open up my stats.
|Name: Jacob Shiff|
|Race: Human|
|Level: 78|
|HP: 4999/5810|
|MP: 6620/6620|
|STR: 512|
|VIT: 581|
|DEX: 501|
|INT: 547|
|WIS: 662|
|SP: 390|
I nod my head and use ninety of my SP to increase my stats—fifty to my DEX and forty to my VIT.
|DEX: 501 -> 551|
|VIT: 581 -> 621|
|SP: 390 -> 300|
I nod my head and dash forward with all mighty. I appear in front of him in the blink of an eye, and I can see him widen his eyes when he sees my new speed. However, he still managed to keep up.
Not enough. I block his blade, kick him away, and then jump a few meters away.
"Kekekeke! Are you afraid? Let's dance, boy! Let us dance!"
I ignore his taunt and add another hundred to my DEX stats and fifty to my STR.
|DEX: 551 -> 651|
|STR: 512 - 552|
|SP: 150|
I can feel something going through my body, and I can feel my muscles tighten. They are ready to be unleashed. I take a deep breath and appear above Childerich before he can even breathe oxygen from his nose.
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|3rd POV|
"Poison. That bastard is using poison."
Sialeeds grit her teeth when she sees Jacob release a dark-green liquid from his mouth.
"Aye. I wonder why the referee did not call the match?"
Ferid rubs his chin and frowns at the referee, who is standing at the edge of the arena, not really caring about Jacob's situation. Hearing something foul happening, Arshtat the Queen gets up from her seat and is ready to disqualify Childerich, but before she can do that, her husband says.
"Hold for a moment, Arshtat."
"What is it, Ferid? Can't you see how he used a dirty trick in this tournament?"
"I know but please wait a moment. I have a feeling Jacob has something under his sleeve."
Arshtat looks at her husband for a few seconds before nodding her head.
"Very well."
True to Ferid's word, Jacob gets from the ground and appears in front of Childerich in a blink of an eye. That speed burst makes the warriors in the VIP seats blink their eyes. Even Freyjadour, a budding warrior, notices it.
"Wait." Freyjadour says while leaning forward, "Jacob gets even faster than before."
To his side, Georg nodded his head in agreement.
"Yes. His speed now is equal to his opponent."
"Bwahahaha!" Ferid laughed at the sight. "I know there is something more to him!"
They can see Childerich and Jacob exchanging blow after blow for a couple of minutes before Jacob kicks his opponent away and jumps from his current position.
The watcher can see Jacob taking a deep breath before disappearing and appearing on top of Childerich. The psychopath assassin cannot even keep up with his new speed and can barely block the incoming attack.
However, when he blocks Jacob's attack, he gets another surprise. He can feel his hand going numb from the impact. Again, he gets surprised by Jacob's new strength.
After attacking him from above, Jacob appears behind Childreich and kicks him with all his strength. The assassin gets thrown away and hits the wall. The impact of his body and the wall creates a crack on the wall.
Galleon, the most senior among the Queen's Knights, looked at the arena with approval.
"He has been holding back this whole time." He spoke for the first time in the entire tournament, "Deceive your opponent to create an opening. A great warrior needs to know when to use their full power and when they need to hold it back."
The other queen's knights around him nod their heads. Any advice given by Galleon is something they need to put into their heart. There is a reason why Galleon is still considered one of the most powerful warriors in the entire Queendom, even when he is in his Golden Years.
In the arena, Jacob shakes his head and says.
"It is not enough."
He added fifty more SPs into his STR and a hundred more into his DEX. He wants to go all out in this fight. However, Jacob is feeling a little bit spiteful at the moment.
|STR: 552 -> 602|
|DEX: 651 -> 751|
|SP: 150 -> 0|
After adding more, he takes a deep breath and takes a low stance. He then throws his body forward with his leg in the front. Childerich barely dodged the fast missile that destroyed a good chunk of the wall.
Childerich grits his teeth and looks at the smoke in front of him. He widens his eyes when he sees a glimpse of Jacob coming out from the smoke; the next thing he knows, he is in the air.
While he is in the air, Jacob appears next to him and then throws him to the ground. His impact created a small crater in the arena. Jacob then raises his right leg high and says.
"Heavenly Heel Drop!"
Jacob decided to copy a technique from one of the anime in his previous life. He put all his strength into his heel and dropped at high speed.
*BOOM*
The impact creates a massive crater in the arena, and when the dust disappears, the audience can see Jacob standing next to Childerich, unconscious in the middle of the crater. He wants to kill Childerich, but he decides to refrain from doing it.
He will do it secretly. He will not kill him with this many witnesses.
The bribed referee hesitantly walks forward and looks at Lord Godwin, who has a frown on his face. He then looks at the Queen, who looks at him with an intense stare. Finally, after thinking for a few seconds, he decided to say.
"The winner of the Sacred Games is Jacob Shiff!"