Chapter 10

Finally its time. The selection tournament begins here. And like me everyone else is also gathered in this huge hall, waiting for the principle to arrive and inagurate the program.

"When will it start?...."

"Where is he?..."

I can hear a lot of restless murmurs among the crowd. They were exited, nervous, confidence... All was written on their faces like on a white clean paper and anyone could read them effortlessly.

"Ahem...Good morning everyone!!"

That man has arrived at last. Everyone was patiently waiting for his entrance, so their attention was instantly turned towards him making the hall drown in complete silence. And once again his majestic voice echoed through out the hall from that huge platform.

"I can see that everyone is fired up for the match to began"

He continued with a smile.

"Futures greatest wizards and warriors.....Today I came to welcome you to the beginning of the star cup tournament. As you all know only the top six person will get chosen to participate in the tournament representing our academy and veninsula kingdom. So I am hoping to see every ones best. Then without further delay let us began the matches. All of you go and et prepared and take it as the greatest moment in your life!!"

"Yeah!!!!"

Even that short speech caused such an uproar.

.....

"Hey, do they sell anything to eat here?"

Alice asked with a boring expression looking at the big arena down from the gallery. I was sitting just beside her also hoping for the matches to begin.

"I don't know. Maybe there is?"

"You don't even know that?"

She seems disappointed.

"Why would I know that? I am not some cafeterian guys son, my father is a duke.."

"..."

"By the way Lon, why are you sitting here? Aren't you also participating?"

Yeah, she calls me Lon now. How did she even know about my nickname by the way? The most scary thing was the people who heard her were already spreading rumors. Should I silence them? Maybe not, its too troublesome.

"I am in the last group so I thought I will watch the match from here until then"

"Oh.."

There were 36 people participating and were divided in to six groups each. Only third circle and above were allowed to participate and the organisers put everyone according to their power level in each group. So that any strong candidates wont be knocked out in the first stages. A good strategy indeed.

If my memory is right then the first match will be the protagonist's. I was not really exited for this one as I already know the outcome.

"Phew... finally its starting"

Alice exclaimed in relief when she saw the first participants slowly arrived in the arena. One was Sam our protagonist, holding a long and thin sword similar to a katana in his hands he took his stand. Even if he wasn't handsome as me, when he took that stance it felt really cool. A cold and silent hero. His pitch black eyes were devoid of any emotions and his long black hair added more elegant to it. I can see now why he was the favorite for most of the readers.

His opponent was not that strong, he is only a third circle and it wasn't much threat to our protagonist who was already at the peak of the fourth circle.

"The first match of the tournament starts here!!! As you were already informed about the rules, LET THE MATCH BEGIN!!"

The boy stepped forward pointing his wand at Sam with his already prepared magic circle. The spell launched at an instant and two air blades were heading towards Sam. He wasn't much startled by that surprise attack, just by taking a step towards the side he easily dodged it.

"Tch.."

Seeing Sam easily dodging the well calculated surprise attack, his opponent wasn't much pleased. Without wasting another single move he launched another spell at him. Three more air blades were launched at him one after another. It only took two steps for Sam to dodge them and when he did what greeted him was a kick by his opponent which was infused with mana. But before it could reach Sam's shoulder he easily blocked it with his left hand. His opponent was surprised again and suddenly gained distance between them.

"You are strong, I will use my best spell then"

His opponent declared and started chanting something. Small whirls of strong wind formed around Sam and began to approach him and anyone who saw that scene thought Sam would be trapped between those multiple tornadoes. But he just draw the sword out from its sheath and in one swing the tornado was scattered and disappeared.

"You..you are too strong"

I can see his opponent just lost the will to fight and finally he declared his own defeat and left the arena. Sam also left the arena just like that. Every one was dumbfounded as the first match ended with him not even taking a simple hit. I can see even the cool minded Alice were also surprised by that.