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In the sky,A man with a oppressive presence was calmly looking at the visage of a colosseum,Two youths were facing off against each other, beside them were other match ups of youths who would soon fight each other.

The man was called Maximus,the owner of the Colosseum and one of the strongest Light keepers in Akash.

Maximus,upon looking at the scene below him, started reminiscing about the past,not his past,but the past of two legendary warriors of the Aliad,The God of Assassins Hashassin and the God of the Human Beasts Valark.

'Am I witnessing history being made...'

...

VanKcrow was calmly looking at the youth before him,He could feel Arsenal raring to fight, Arsenal was asking to battle only in it's original form,which is a rare occurrence,but since "Arsenal" had requested, VanKcrow wasn't planning to refuse...

Summoning the twin silver swords, VanKcrow charged Ahead and when he entered the range of Yakone's spear,he crossed "Arsenal" into an x shape and blocked the spear tip that came in direction of his chest.

'Changeling and Fated...'

Yakone was the first person to match his physical prowess ever since he awakened the Scarecrow bloodline and became capable of using the Ausstrahlung.

The Ausstrahlung enhanced physical prowess as well but considerably less than the fragments.

And if one considered that VanKcrow's physical prowess should be higher than the base enhancement that is given to changeling, VanKcrow could assume that Yakone also had an inheritance that boosted his physical stats.

After performing the block, VanKcrow removed the rear blade from the block and attempted to strike at Yakone's forearms,However,Yakone pulled his arms back and wasn't hit,the spear was about to fall down but it suddenly disappeared and appeared again in Yakone's hand.

'A soul Bind?.'

Yakone moved forwards and attempted to strike at VanKcrow again and VanKcrow rose the blade in his left hand to block,but Yakone suddenly changed the direction of the spear and aimed it at his left knee before throwing it forwards,The spear almost struck but VanKcrow widened his stance making the spear narrowly miss, VanKcrow immediately jumped forwards to take advantage of the enemy's lack of weapon but Yakone decided to cast a spell, VanKcrow found himself in an altar battle against Yakone.

At this moment,In VanKcrow's field of vision, certain characters "appeared",he didn't know exactly if appeared is the right word,he wasn't technically seeing anything like usual,but he could process the position and shape of the characters.

'this must be spirit sense.'

Spirit sense is an ability fated have that allows them to sense the position and shape of souls and spiritual existences,There is also spiritual concealment and spiritual oppression.

Spiritual concealment is the ability to conceal the presence of your soul and spiritual oppression is the ability to oppress the souls of others with your willpower,it is the ability Akerveyn had used in the vision.

VanKcrow could see a sort of "board" in which his characters and Yakone's characters were positioned.

ꦮ could move one position forward and capture diagonally one position forward,ꦋ could move horizontally or vertically any number of positions,ꦎꦴ could move in an L shape,two positions in one direction,ꦪ could move diagonally any number of positions,ꦈ could move diagonally, horizontally or vertically any number of positions,ꦄꦼꦵ moves one position any direction.

The others can't move and are only there to be captured.

To capture one must move a character onto a position where there is an opposing character and get rid of it, when ꦄꦼꦵ is being threatened,one must take action to remove the threat and if they fail,they will lose their ꦄꦼꦵ and be defeated in the altar.

The rules were exactly like the rules of chess,This was good for VanKcrow since he was a chess grandmaster back on Earth,he was also a doctor,a scientist,an engineer, a soldier and an entrepreneur.

VanKcrow even managed to become the world's youngest multi billionaire before being reincarnated into Era,he had a net worth of 9 Billion and could even aness more money if given enough time,All This was possible because VanKcrow was a genius since birth and also worked extremely hard to improve his skills in different areas...

Thanks to VanKcrow's chess skills,he managed to get rid of Yakone's ꦄꦼꦵ but with a lot of difficulty,it seems Yakone was also very skilled at fate battles,which isn't surprising since VanKcrow could guess that he went through a lot of training in Schach ever since young.

The spell VanKcrow decided to cast was, Stehlen,his thought capacity improved while Yakone's decreased for about 4 seconds, Taking advantage of this, VanKcrow jumped forwards and faked an attack to the left side of Yakone's head,this caused Yakone to over commit to using his shield to block, normally, Someone as skilled as Yakone would not have done this but with his thought capacity decreased,he became more similar to a beast who acts on instinct.

VanKcrow proceeded to slash at Yakone's left hip and left a deep cut, however,yakone still managed to fall back before receiving a more dangerous wound.

VanKcrow immediately charged forward and was about to strike again but suddenly the "Die Hand" manifested itself, VanKcrow was given a sort of code he had to decipher and one he had to protect, depending on how much he deciphered the code he would be given information regarding the probability of what Authority Yakone had received and vice versa.

This process is Called Gambling, Gambling required one to have hacking like skills and also depended on one's confidence in their skills,if one was overconfident or under confident,they may make the wrong decision.

Due to Yakone's thought capacity being lowered and his enhanced,he managed to predict that there was a 70% chance Yakone had received rest,90% probability he has received sin of Knowledge and 94% probability he had received Sage Instinct.

VanKcrow himself received, Black rest,sage instinct and Light of judgement.

'Troublesome...'

According to the percentage,even if VanKcrow used light of judgement,Yakone would be able to use sage instinct and counter it,which meant VanKcrow would waste his Light of judgement for this Hand...

VanKcrow made his decision and decided to not use Light of judgement,Yakone despite having his thought capacity lowered, hadn't become completely irrational and could still predict that VanKcrow most likely hadn't received rest to counter sin of Knowledge or use black rest, therefore he decided to use sin of knowledge,Even though he knew that his tought process was lowered, because it was lowered he still decided to make a bet,in this case, VanKcrow's Stehlen worked against him...

VanKcrow was struck by Sin of knowledge,his mind was filled with knowledge that kept corrupting it.

Yakone took this chance to strike at VanKcrow and managed to pierce VanKcrow's stomach with his spear,Soon after however, VanKcrow cast Handel,He and Yakone again engaged in a fate battle and this time, VanKcrow barely managed to win by getting rid of half of Yakone's characters,his mind corruption decreased just in time for him to regain enough thought capacity to beat Yakone who was still under the influence of Stehlen.

VanKcrow's and Yakone's wounds switched and Yakone was now the one with the hole in his stomach.

However, something strange happened,Yakone started radiating an energy even more fierce than before.

His physical capabilities increased enough to the point that VanKcrow was finding it hard to keep up with him...

'His inheritance?'

That coupled with the fact that The effect of Stehlen had now expired made it so that

VanKcrow started being pushed into the defensive and Looked to be headed towards defeat.

At this time, VanKcrow started feeling something strange whitin his soul,a certain "voice" was telling him to do something...

To use an Avatar, VanKcrow didn't yet know how to use an Avatar,yet he sort of instinctively started manifesting one as the fight went on.

Eventually, VanKcrow Had manifested an Avatar and he used sage instinct on it.

Seeing this,Yakone had thought of summoning an Avatar and using sage instinct as well,but he reminded himself that VanKcrow had likely received Light of judgement,he wasn't very certain,but the chance was enough to make him hesitant.

Therefore,he chose to just summon his Avatar and didn't use sage instinct,due to this, Yakone started being pushed back,it was hard having to focus on both the avatar and himself.

Eventually,Yakone was forced into a bad position were he had to take a chance and use sage instinct, right after he did however...

He was struck by a red light and his conscience was severely weakened, enough that he completely lost the next fate battle and VanKcrow managed to cast Zurucksetsen and completely removed all his injuries.

VanKcrow took the chance to attack Yakone while Light of judgement was still taking effect and launched "Arsenal" right at Yakone's throat, Yakone's throat was pierced and he soon fell to the ground.

However,soon after, something onmious happened.

Yakone's "corpse" started levitating into the air, scales with color similar to his Ivory skin started manifesting around his body,two pitch black wings manifested in his back and his eye patch started melting,a sort of magma and fire mixture started burning his right eye area.

Throughout all this, VanKcrow could not move an inch.

He was completely paralyzed,and whitin his soul, something was attempting to get out,After a while, VanKcrow understood what it was.

It was the scarecrow.

VanKcrow's eyes started glowing red, black marks appeared around his body,after a couple of seconds...

The two youths were replaced by two humanoid monsters.

Annery,who had just won her battle against the green eyed woman, turned her vision to them, specifically she was starring right at VanKcrow.

'The Scarecrow!,so it was him after all.'

She had already suspected him as well as the other members of her team,but couldn't take action due to not being certain which of them was the scarecrow.

She kept asking them if they were a scarecrow in an attempt to make them reveal themselves to get rid of her,that way she would know who it was.

Scarecrows can cast a long acting curse that usually no one can sense ,so if the scarecrow used it against her the teachers and the principal would not find anything wrong until she left the Akademie.

However,none of them showed any true malice towards her,so she never managed to figure out who it was.

Annery prepared to summon the divine blessing that is given to the Saintess of the church of Matre,a blessing specifically designed to get rid of scarecrows, However,The Scarecrow looked at her,as well as the draconic looking being that Yakone turned into.

A deep and demonic sounding voice came out of "Yakone",it was targeted at her.

"Filthy wench,do not disturb our battle."

Right afterwards,she lost conscience...

...

Two creatures flew into the sky,they were only a hundred meters or so below the teachers.

VanKcrow and Yakone have now somewhat lost conscience and were acting based on pure instinct,they weren't thinking of using any spells or authorities,they weren't planning on using any weapons,they were going to bash each other with their limbs.

VanKcrow flew forward and struck Yakone straight in the face pushing his head backwards,Yakone kicked VanKcrow in the chest, VanKcrow grabbed Yakone's right leg and threw him towards the ground, before Yakone could hit the ground, VanKcrow turned into a mass of darkness and reappeared below him,he kicked Yakone in the back and Yakone flew upwards towards the teachers, Before he reached them however,he abruptly stopped mid air,Yakone turned to look at Maximus before he turned his attention back to VanKcrow,Yakone let out a loud roar and VanKcrow's body started heating up, VanKcrow turned into a mass of darkness and when he reappeared near Yakone,his body was back to normal.

VanKcrow flew forward and attacked Yakone with his right knee in direction of the enemy's forehead,Yakone managed to block with both his forearms and attacked VanKcrow with his wings, VanKcrow barely managed to block with his own wings.

Both of them moved their wings forward pushing each other backwards.

Two figures flew forwards and a black shadowy paw struck a Ivory colored rib,the paw was grabbed and the being pulled into the direction of a scaled hand which struck it right in the chest,then It was spinned around before being launched to the right,It stopped itself after a couple of seconds.

The two beings stared at each other for a couple of seconds and meanwhile...

...

"Wtf?,how is that a battle between students?"

"I knew they were fierce,but this goes beyond any expectations,What exactly are those transformations?,this time we could see everything and neither of them sacrificed an Avatar,which means that it can't be an active ability..."

"Yea,If Yakone had an active ability he could use in combat currently,he would have likely used it before instead of employing the avatar In combat..."

"We might be in the presence of two future Honored Ones...or at the very least Gods."

Zagreb, Levant,Miss Shang and professor A spoke in sequence.

All of them were more than shocked by the battle they were seeing,the same could be said for the principal and professor Brahms who was far away from them.

'To think that my class would have such a powerful student...At this point It's very likely we can place in the top 10...Brat,I don't know who you are but you have my thanks.'

'Well,It seems we truly are nearing times of great turbulence,Two youths who defy how strong students normally should be,and there is also Anneliese who is far stronger than most people know and Anneryse who is being kept secret...I wonder who is stronger between the four of them...'

The principal peered at professor Brahms Soul Mundus where he could be seen alongside a beautiful girl with extremely pale skin,long white hair, sharp red eyes and a cold temperament.

...

Two monstrous humanoids were facing each other,they were completely still and made no movement.

After a while,The marks in VanKcrow's body disappeared and he went back to normal.

A mass of darkness manifested itself in front of him, something similar happened to Yakone except it was a Golden fire that manifested in front of him.

They remained still for a few seconds,only the darkness and fire growing larger,after 9 seconds had past.

The darkness and fire simultaneously launched forwards,they kept trying to push each other until they disappeared.

After that,both VanKcrow and Yakone lost conscience and were about to fall to the ground when Vankcrow was grabbed by two pale and slender hands with black colored nails and Yakone was grabbed by two dark and slender hands with white colored nails.

They were both pulled upwards and entered Professor Brahms Inner soul Mundus...

...

VanKcrow regained conscience to find himself with his head laying on something soft,he looked up to see the face of an very beautiful and ethereal looking girl with red eyes and white hair,he didn't know exactly what was happening but the first thing he tried to do was get his head out of her thighs, however he failed miserably and was forced to remain there.

A calm yet fierce sounding voice came from the red eyes girl saying,

"It's best you don't attempt to move,your body is completely exhausted from that transformation, I'm using my inheritance to help you recover..."

The girl was staring right into his eyes without blinking, After a while, VanKcrow moved his eyes a bit to the left to properly see what was there and saw Yakone in a position similar to himself, even the girl was somewhat similar looking except she had dark skin, dark hair and blue eyes.

He also spotted Professor Brahms near them.

VanKcrow tried to talk but he couldn't either, therefore he just remained there until a dark energy enveloped him and he finally managed to move, right afterwards, VanKcrow got up and saw that Yakone had done the same.

The red eyed girl remained silent but the blue eyed girl spoke,

"Why the rush,was it really that unpleasant?"

"...It isn't that,I just assumed you wouldn't want to be in that position any longer and didn't wish to make you uncomfortable,It appears you have offered help so I must thank you.Now could you please explain what is going on?"

Yakone asked Anneryse and VanKcrow attentively listened.

"You two used berserk abilities,They are abilities that make the user lose rational thinking and have severe side effects.

It is very hard to deal with those side effects, fortunately for you two,me and my foster sister just happened to have the capacity to deal with them, which is why we asked professor Brahms for permission to go there and bring you two here..."

"Uh I see..."

Yakone was pondering something and VanKcrow looked at Professor Brahms who nodded slightly.

VanKcrow then turned to Anneliese and said

"Thank you."

"Alright."

...

VanKcrow was still in professor Brahms Inner soul Mundus,but now, there was a couple of other students with him, altogether,there was about 50 or so students.

The principal was floating in front of them,She had a pleased look on her face.

"You lot did better than I expected,this generation is truly fierce..."

"Well,The battle royale was supposed to last 7 days but everyone has already passed or been eliminated, therefore I think we can proceed to move on to the next phase, but before that..."

"Here is the announcement of the class rankings in the Battle Royale,in First place we have professor Maximus's class,in second we have Professor A's class,in third professor Abraham,in fourth professor Zagreb...,in ninth we have Professor Brahms..."

...

VanKcrow was currently looking at a massive white tower,this tower was the tower of trials,It was located in the principal's outer soul Mundus and was tied to her inheritance.

The students that managed to pass were going to enter the Tower to enter the second competition.

The second competition involved meeting the origin,the origin of fated.

The initial point of their bloodline,the first fated soul That Honored Savarr had created.

They would need to gain its approval to pass the second competition,How they would be tested,they didn't know however...

After standing still for a while, VanKcrow proceeded to enter the Tower...

...

VanKcrow felt himself floating in space,he tried to open his eyes but couldn't,he couldn't see anything,but he could feel.

An overwhelming Sense of terror like he had never felt before, VanKcrow couldn't even think properly,his mind was frozen.

He...

He felt it, something peering into the depths of his soul.

VanKcrow didn't know it,but he would soon cease to exist.

The soul of VanKcrow, would deteriorate until his very existence was erased,he would be nothing, forsaken by the World.

...

"It" was "seeing",one of "it's" subjects,"it" didn't understand why "it" was seeing it,but now that "it" did,"it" would have to consume it, assimilate it.

"It" moved, through space, through time, until "It" reached "it's" target,"It" commenced the assimilation process, however,at some point,"something" defied "it",that "something" desired" it's" prey,"it's" subject.

"It" could not allow "something" to have what "something" desired.

Therefore "it" fought,"it" fought against "something", against "dreams", against "reality", against the "future".

And yet,"It" lost,the prey,had escaped.

"It" only managed to rip apart something out of it, something that belonged to"it".

...

In a capsule made of flesh,a young man with white hair, sharp facial features and tanned skin was completely still.

After a while,his hands twitched a little,then they twitched a lot, right afterwards,two dark brown colored eyes opened themselves.

His dream,had come to an End.