Light

The foes went down fairly easily. Nobody seemed to have much in the way of powers outside of a few, and even that was basic astral swords and weak electric abilities. Cassandra and Einer were easily weaving through everyone on the ground floor, but even Julian was easily avoiding contact, just letting his bear corpse loose would result in either one swipe taking them out or for their foes to start freaking out and run away without a fight. When one victim flew away and hit their back against the wall surrounding the castle a little too hard, Julian looked around and decided to check on them.

All seemed okay, anyway. Nothing to indicate any permanent damage. But he'd have to check them into a hospital afterwards. Yeah, that seemed like a decent reason to survive. The person groaned and his gaze met his, so they were at the very least conscious.

"Who are you?"

"I'm fighting the Legion. But I'm just checking you're still alive."

"I am?" The Legion soldier muttered.

"Hey, that's good. You just rest here, and I'll check up on you when this is over. Sound good?"

"Sure?" The solider muttered, clearly confused. He was certainly younger than Julian, anyway. By several years, probably a recent recruit. Probably, he still didn't know how this worked.

"Alright. Stay alive till then."

Julian gave a reassuring thumbs up and joined the other three in getting to the castle, leaving the guy to fend for himself between the other either knocked out or terrified Legion members.

Daciana observed the windows from inside the castle at the top. There wasn't an official lookout declared, so she decided to nominate herself. As she passed through the windows, she looked towards the three approaching. She made a call to Serafina to alert her.

"Can you see what's outside, Serafina? From the front of the castle."

"Uhh, lemme check." Serafina mumbled. Some shuffling was heard before she continued. "I see them, yeah."

"Well, you should probably tell Chelic about it."

"Working on it." She said casually.

Serafina ran towards Chelic, reading a book he found while exploring the castle.

"Lord Chelic, we have four people approaching the castle. What's our next course of action?"

"Dang, they've started already?" Chelic asked while glancing at his watch. "Well, I suppose it's time we get the main event rolling! Serafina, get Daciana, Aubrey, and Finbarr in front of the door, then beat their asses!"

"Daciana, you've been called down!" Serafina yelled.

"Be there in one minute!" She said back, before ending the call.

"Sorry, am I interrupting something?" Samuel asked from a broken window. Daciana recognized him from the tournament footage. He looked pretty joyful as he was facing off against his friends, but that was gone. Instead was a look she knew all too well. The look of someone deeply wronged, and was out for blood. She knew exactly who he wanted to fight, but the question remained on whether he'd stop at Levin.

"Where did you come from?" Daciana asked, squinting her eyes and quickly creating an outline of her weapon, which quickly formed into the translucent double bladed sword.

"Took an alternate route." Samuel said as he crawled through the window, being stopped by a blade stopping just short of his neck. He glanced at the woman holding it, unimpressed, holding his hands up by his face, but kicking the blade out of her hand in one swift motion. It dissipated in midair, and Samuel ran towards the door leading to the staircase. Daciana followed him, leaping to the front of the door while summoning another blade. Just as Samuel had his hand on the doorknob, he had to throw his hand back as the blade was embedded in the door.

"I'm not letting you leave." Was the only thing Daciana said as she removed the blade, standing in front of the door. Samuel responded by kicking her in the stomach. She clutched the doorknob for leverage, and quickly began to step forward, swinging the double blade in a circular motion, vertically as to not get it stuck in a wall. Samuel looked annoyed by this, trying his best to figure a way forward. Daciana quickly let the blade exchange between her hands to stop him from overwhelming her on one side. Samuel kept trying to keep his eyes on the weapon, and then looking towards her. Eventually he shook his head, running towards the door, sliding underneath and knocking Daciana to the ground. The weapon got stuck in his leg, and he had to quickly pull it out before it faded into the air.

 He ran outside, quickly running down the stairs and into the bathroom to wrap his bleeding leg in toilet paper. It wasn't the best, but it did seem to stop the bleeding. But the bleeding was heavy, incredibly heavy. And the wound was pretty deep. But that didn't matter. He knew the bastard who killed Adebayo was in the building and he needed to reach and beat him. He flung the door open, and Daciana was waiting, summoning a sword which Samuel barely ducked under. He slid underneath, quickly picking himself up and looking around while she swung her blade downward. He was in a hallway that didn't have much of interest besides the lady attacking him, and she wasn't important. Someone in the second wave can deal with her. It may be immoral, but he knew what he came for. He turned and ran, hearing Daciana make some kind of disgruntled noise when he did.

He ran down another flight of stairs, jumping and bouncing off the wall and landing on his feet at the bottom of the spiral. Not just as a time saver, because doing that on spiral staircases doesn't actually save much time, but he needed to test how how badly his leg was struck. It seemed fine as he was able to land without too much hassle, but there was definitely a flash of pain as he hit the ground. But he wasn't going to think about that. What mattered was how close he was to the throne room. He could hear commotion from several voices, and he could make out Julian's in there somewhere. But as he burst into the throne room, he came face to face with the man he was looking for.

Levin. This was the man. The light powers he had matched Adebayo's killer perfectly.

"Oh hey, another one." Chelic said casually. "Your friends are fighting over there, buddy."

"Shut it!" Samuel yelled. "I'm here for Levin!"

Levin exchanged a glance with Chelic and Marcus, and quickly raised his hand to fire a beam of light. Samuel ducked underneath it and delivered a quick uppercut to Levin's face.

"Damn, you got me." He said calmly, illuminating his hand and emitting a light so blinding Samuel was forced to step back.

"You killed Adebayo!" Samuel yelled, delivering a swift kick with his good leg.

"Oh, you figured that out." Levin said, his grin not leaving his face. "And I'm guessing you want revenge?"

Samuel went for another kick, only for Levin to shoot a beam forward, which Samuel was forced to dodge at the last second, landing on his bad leg. He tried not to show any pain on his face, but Levin's grin widened ever so slightly.

"Oh, something up?" Levin asked, scanning his body for anything irregular, noticing the left leg of his jeans was redder than the other, and by a fair margin.

"Oh, I see." He said calmly with a chuckle. "Well, I doubt this will take long. Hey, Aubrey! First to beat our opponents gets control of this place for the first week! Sound good?"