CHAPTER 19; THE TOURNAMENT - ROUND 1

CHAPTER 19; 

  THE TOURNAMENT – ROUND 1

The auditorium where the matches for children within my age group where held was divided into three sections for everyone who was in attendance to watch the tournament as it happened; the bulk of it was filled with your everyday person who didn't belong to any prominent political, combat or economic superpower, a small portion at a side of the stadium was carved out for the patriarchs and matriarchs of the families along with people who belonged to reputable families but were not considered combat powers but politically influential powers.

A total of twenty families were [participating in the general event, however the most prominent combat families who were present for the 16 children who fought in this category were as follows;

·  DOMUN NOTIONUM – WITH 1 REPRESENTATIVE IN THE SENIOR CATEGORY, HAD 2 SPOTS AMONG THE TOP TEN STRONGESTS {KING RICHARDS & HIS DAUGHTER; ELIZABETH LE NOIR} 

RACE; DRAGONS

·  LE NOIR – WITH TWO SPOTS IN BOTH CATEGORIES, HAD 4 SPOTS AMONG THE TOP TEN {QUEEN SCARLETT AND ALL HER CHILDREN} 

RACE; MIXED

·  LE ROUGE – WITH 1 REPRESENTATIVE IN THE JUNIOR CATEGORY, HAD NO SPOT AMONG THE TOP TEN BUT DOMINATED THE TOP 20

RACE; DRAGONS

·  LE BLANC – WITH 2 REPRESENTATIVES IN BOTH CATEGORY, HAD ONE SPOT AMONG THE TOP TEN

·  RACE; ELVES

·  VON SERAPHIM – WITH 2 REPRESENATIVES IN BOTH CATEGORIES, HAD ONE SPOT AMONG THE TOP TEN

RACE; TITANS

·  VON POWER – WITH 2 REPRESENATIVES IN BOTH CATEGORIES, HAD ONE SPOT AMONG THE TOP TEN

RACE; BEAST MEN

·  NEL VOSHU – WITH 2 REPRESENATIVES IN BOTH CATEGORIES, HAD ONE SPOT AMONG THE TOP TEN

RACE; BARBARIANS

·  LE BLEUE – WITH 2 REPRESENATIVES IN BOTH CATEGORIES, HAD NO SPOT AMONG THE TOP TEN

RACE; HUMANS

·  DE CENDRE [THE HOUSE OF WOMEN] & DE CENDRE [THE HOUSE OF MEN] – EACH HAD 2 REPRESENTATIVES AND NO SPOT AMONG THE TOP TEN.

RACE; FEMALE ELVES & MALE BEAST MEN

  On another side of the stadium, which was directly opposite that of the 'powerful' families, were three special thrones, reserved for the top three strongest in the world, but only two of the three thrones were filled as Alex preferred to seat amongst the VIP's rather than on the throne.

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"LET THE FIRST ROUND BEGIN!!" 

The announcer cried out over the loud speaker as Fyjon immediately dashed towards me, hoping to cut me down in one fell swoop, he quickly unsheathed his sword and threw a big swing at me. With little determination or effort in my eyes whatsoever, I caught his sword with my gloves, looking into his shocked face as I smiled.

H e quickly took a few steps back and rushed at me once again, this time he used a few basic swordsmanship moves, trying to cut me down from every corner of my body, but once more, I simply kept on parrying his slashes with simple and lazy swings of my glove covered arm. After a few moments passed and it seemed like I had succeeded in frustrating him, he now took me seriously as he wrapped refined aura around his sword.

I looked at him and smiled as he swung his long-aqua blue sword at me, his aura was bleeding hot as his sword almost came into contact with my face.

"You're trying to kill me, aren't you?" I asked the boy jokingly,

"But you refuse to die," He quickly replied, his voice was stout and unnecessarily thick, so much that I could not believe that was an 11-year-old, I was truly stunned.

And Fyjon didn't miss that chance as he tried to cleave me from the side but I quickly grabbed his sword out of reflex as the mighty boy shot his entire frame at me, leaving behind his swordsmanship and using his fistful of aura to push my back my organs as his hand burrowed into the pits of my belly.

BOOM!!!

Was the terrific sound made by the shock wave causing collision as I was sent flying several yards back but quickly stood up, brushing my hair back as I insanely laughed.

"HAHAAHAH!!, you really caught me there," I began, "BUT THAT WOULD BE YOUR ONLY HIT ON ME TODAY!!" I loudly declared to the whole auditorium as hushes soon filled everywhere, people began speaking of me in very ill-mannered ways as they became unappreciative of what they called 'my bluff'.

Fyjon dashed at me as he came at me even more seriously now,

BOOM!

Were the sounds his sword made every time he swung it as he began to heat up the metal to extraordinary levels, increasing the speed of the sword several times over and creating shockwaves as he soon approached Mach 70 with his sword alone.

In one movement, Fyjon dug his leg into the ground as he twisted his hips and attacked me from the left, an attack that I parried by striking down at his sword with my palm as his sword shook with a ringing vibration that could be heard all over. With the momentum from my strike, Fyjon added even more heat to his sword as he twisted his arm and brought his sword high above me, attempting to cut me down me down from above.

I smiled as I dug my feet into the ground and simply turned to the side as I landed three palm hits to the boy's chin, causing him to stumble back in agony. Almost desperately now he lunged me as I stopped his arm before he could even strike and landed a huge blow in his solar plexus, causing him to almost vomit as I grabbed his head and slammed it into my knee.

His head spun around as I was very sure that was his very first concussion, he looked up at me with his battered face and pointed his sword at me, as if to say that I was some demon lord that he wanted to kill.

"By the way, why are you not using aura armor to protect yourself." I questioned the boy, agitating him even more as he came at me, swinging his sword rapidly like a beast as he screamed in frustration,

"Arghhh!!!"

Seeing how roughly he was swinging I hit him on his deltoids thrice, causing him to go on one knee, as I got a boost from his kneeling leg, grabbing on to his ram as I twisted it backwards, causing him to scream from agony as I began landing countless punches on his head, in hopes to knock him out.

He quickly covered his body in aura as my blows sounded like they were hitting a wall, I smiled once again at the cute boy's attempt to not faint, exploding my mana in the fraction of a second, completely breaking through his aura as my fists descended on him.

All this while, the audience had not said a single word as they watched a seven stage – zero star Le Noir take down a 5th stage-4th star hulk with ease, and then one man broke the silence,

"Use the signature move of your family!!!" he screamed, as everyone began to roar his same words, calling out for Fyjon to use his family's technique. Not minding the newly added volume on the speakers, I kept on carving my way through the boy's skull, hoping to put him down as soon as possible.

I soon let go of his arm as I now moved in front oh him and attempted to destroy his face from the front, out of nowhere the boy looked up at me and disappeared as everyone went silent for a brief moment.

"Look up at the screen!!" One man roared as the screen showed to everyone the amazing achievement of the boy, he had broken through to the 6th stage of mana control; Creation.

He quickly covered his body in aura and disappeared before reappearing behind me, screaming out 

"Nuclear," as he swung his sword directly at my face, the resulting impact completely leveled the combat stage as murmurs rose up from the place where the VIP' s sat.

"What the hell?!" Blaze shameless rose up from his seat as he wanted to confirm whether his eyes were deceiving him or not.

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'Nuclear', the signature move of the Le Rouge household which earned Blaze his title, 'The nuclear warhead', just as the name suggested, the move was one that was supposedly exclusive t the family of the red dragons. 

It was one that began with coating yourself with aura that was on the same wavelength as the one you coated your sword with along with your enemy, forcing you both to be connected by a tube of aura as you compressed mana so hard around several points of your sword, that it made the opposing atoms of the several elements of air to forcibly collide; resulting in an explosion that would therefore be akin to a controlled nuclear bomb set off and concentrated around one enemy due to the aura that surrounded you both.

This move, if done incorrectly by a 4th star like Fyjon could cause a chain reaction, causing the atmosphere to heat up and setting an entire city to be caught up in the blast zone of the explosion, completely disintegrating the city, and the shockwaves from the explosion; would level mountains several miles away.

That was the attack that Fyjon used on The Le Noir boy, so why exactly were the Le Noir calm, while Blaze had a look of horror on his face.

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The smoke from the attack soon cleared up as everyone looked in shock at the sight in front of the them as the announcer reluctantly declared,

"W-W-W-WITHOUT USING MANA OR KI AT ALL AGAINST HIM, THE WINNER OF THE FIRST ROUND IS …HENRY LE NOIR!!!!"