First Match

Kagami-: what do we do now.

Mariko-: is there any option left except starting it all over again, who knows how many more chits have the same problem.

Merlyn-: I am sure losing my edge, nowadays.

Kagami sighs and calls for the student explaining about the situation and asks them to submit all the chits. They will redo the whole process and reshuffle all of them.

For some who had the chit of round 2,3,4.... were overjoyed, as they would get another chance to choose, they felt like their luck was slowly changing for good.

Everyone stood again in a queue, the first one standing at the front of the line puts his chit inside the glass jar and was about to leave when a voice came from a distance near the drawn court.

"um... I think I made a big mess"

Kagami-: what!!.....what do you mean by a big mess?

Rin-: it's 11.

Kagami-: what is 11?

Rin-: the number on my chit, it is eleven. That time I didn't open it completely and thought that it was number one.... ahahahah.

Kagami keeps staring him with an enraged look in his eyes, no doubt right now he is completely pissed.

"he…... he…..... he... he...…." And gradually he stops laughing seeing his pissed of face.

Rin silently walks out of the ring, gesturing the other kid who actually had the number one chit to enter the battle field.

While moving towards the ring the other student whispers to his friends in a downhearted voice.

"It would have been best if I had kept my shut instead of complaining"

This is what people calls, hitting the axe in my own foot" thinking to himself.

Merlyn-: oh, the brat these days don't have a slight bit of patience in them, always doing mistakes in a hurry.

Everyone heads back to their positions waiting for the contestants to be ready. The ground tension rises as the hearts of the audience were filled with craze, waiting for the amazing duel match between two power users.

The rowdy audience killed the silence in an instant with loud cheers and whistle blowing for either side of the duel. The noise grew more wildly as the match starts with Merlyn's approval.

Both of the contenders walks into middle of the ring with an unquestionable confidence. They stood at the centre in front of each other, with the fiery eyes gazing straight into each other eyes.

The crowd eyes were sparkling expecting to see some great magical techniques clashing with each other. One of the contestants lifts his hands to the air...…

(most of the mouths were open wide expecting for a fiery move with the use of his hand to summon a stunning magic, that's what a duel between powers users supposed to be)

One of the competitor who had lift's his hand in the air making the hopes of viewer sky rockets lands a punch straight in the face of the other knocking him on the ground.

Instantly the crowd's wide mouth was shut.

(Let us give them number to remove the confusion, the one who punched is competitor A and the one who gets knocked down is competitor B)

Competitor B slowly gets up enduring the pain caused by the punch in his jaws and immediately questions merlyn

"isn't this cheating, punching your opponent in a power fight"

Merlyn-: I never said about such rules, the only thing banned are hitting in the dangerous regions in the body such as eye, neck heart and giving a low blow.

Hearing these competitor B bursts out in rage and charges angrily towards competitor A just like an angry bull.

In the next moment " the power fight affected by a series of events applied through some serious changes takes the appearance of a kick box tournament where the participants hits each other with hard blows until one of them knocks out"

These changes of events greatly hurts the audience feeling, all of the enthusiasm was wiped out within a few seconds. The uproar increases it was already double that was heard at the start but ironically it was not cheering but the boo's of the crowd that created the uproar.

While the candidates were so addicted to hitting each other, they were no more in the condition of listening anyone, the only that was in their eye sight was their opponent.

Engaged in the fighting they didn't notice, they were out of the boundaries of the fighting ring. Merlyn whistles o indicating the match was over but it was not audible to the ears of the raged bulls.

Kagami and Merlyn instantly use their teleportation to separate them from each other. Within few seconds of the separation competitor B collapses on the ground from the after effects of the heavy blows he had received.

Mariko rushes to the competitor B and calls for the nurses to take him to the medical ward and heal his injuries.

Mariko-: my my this kids are so terribly injured.

Kagami-: it seems like more of them will be coming soon.

Mariko-: today is going to be very one.

Kagami-: Merlyn san, declare the results of the match.

Competitors A stands proudly, waiting to be greeted for his win. He walks proudly towards Merlyn elevating his chest looking to be honoured.

Doing some gestures with the fingers, Merlyn uses 2nd tier dimensional magic. He took out a megaphone from the 3-dimensional space used to store things and calls out the name of the winner of the first round.

The whole crowd was stunned after hearing the winner. Competitor A rushes towards Merlyn to confirm what he heard and in reply Merlyn repeats the name of the winner.

"What!! How is that possible? He fell senseless after you stopped the fight it means I am the winner" competitor A

Merlyn-: don't be hasty, brat. First hear me out, when I called the match off, the winner was already decided. While both of you are bullying each other, unknowingly both of you stepped out of the ring and you were the first one to step out of the line, that concludes him the winner of the match.

The student ran to his room weeping.

Rin-: that was a lame match.

Tess-: why do you think they fought with fist instead of magic?

Rin-: cause they were very angry, went with the flow to show their manliness.

Tess-: hahahahaa..... that 's quite a funny reason.

Rin-: fine you say then.

Tess-: it's simple both of them didn't know how to use mana.

A cold sweat flows down his forehead while a chill passed through his spine

"i wonder what my match will turn into"

Interrupting all of the discussions, Merlyn shouts in his megaphone

"Contestants having the chit number 2, enter the battle arena"