Crimson Overlord

Orpheus and Nemesis went to the small arena where the second round of the mock battles would be held together. Nobody said anything when the two arrived together; they were used to this, only Ella frowning because she felt jealous; as for why she felt jealous, she could not explain it; the story Orpheus told her, she tried to connect it to their situation, but somehow she could not bring herself to believe what he said ultimately.

Five minutes after they arrived, their teacher arrived, announcing the participants of the first two matches.

There were thirteen participants; one would be the lucky one not fighting this round; this could be called the quarter-finals. This time Amber is the lucky winner.

The first match was about to start. In this match, Grim Asmodeus would be fighting against Delia Solon; they were already in the ring. On the left was Delia Solon, facing her; on the opposite side was Grimm Asmodeus.

The signal to announce the start of the match was given.

It was Delia who attacked first by extending her arms.

A Hundred wind bullets were formed before they were sent towards Grim. Grim also created hundred dark bullets sending them toward the incoming wind bullets.

Boom!

A small explosion occurred when the two attacks collided, sending shock waves all around, their first clash or, to say, probing ended in a draw.

Grim followed suit by sending waves of dark slash with his black scythe(tall as him) toward Delia. Those dark waves slash were coming from all directions sandwiching Delia in the middle

Using the origin inside her body to slightly float in the air (she was floating two meters in the air) as she drifted in, thus avoiding the incoming attacks. Still floating in the air, she gathered the wind around her mouth before sending powerful sound waves toward Grim

, who had already performed the Dark World, he uses it as a cover to quickly disappears and reappear far from the attacked zone. Pointing his finger toward Delia, who is still in the air, he fires a dark energy beam at her.

Delia using the wind around her as propulsion she, did a backflip in the air; just like that, she managed to avoid the beam. Retaliating, she sent dozens of sharp razor winds toward Grim; he responded by joining his two hands together; suddenly a dark tornado was generated, nullifying the incoming sharp razor winds, still continuing afterward towards Delia levitating in the air.

Delia performed her [Last Wind Requiem], becoming a cyclone with her in the middle; she clashes with the dark tornado.

Boom!

A violent shock wave was sent in all directions, making the newly erected protective shield shake violently. The cyclone started to devour the dark tornado assimilating it slowly. Grim was astonished, not expecting even his dark tornado to be devoured, combining with Delia cyclone becoming a dark cyclone, who was coming straight toward his location. He had nowhere to hide because the dark cyclone had become too big, taking half of the stage's diameter already; he must get serious about ending this fight rapidly; this girl was more dangerous when the fight dragged out.

Calming down, Grim looked at the incoming dark cyclone for a while before sighing; he let his scythe down on the ground and looked up at the sky before chanting.

[Come forth, Oroboros]

A dark giant snake's mouth appeared from a dark portal(only the head ten meters long, six meters wide appeared), and the giant snake was directly facing the dark cyclone. The snake opened its mouth, swallowing the dark cyclone with a gulp before he disappeared beyond the dark portal.

When the snake wanted to swallow the dark cyclone, Delia executed her secret technique, the wind teleportation; she sent one of the black daggers coated in her blood toward Grim and the second one straight up in the sky. Grim only saw the black dagger coming toward him as he avoided it; the dagger was embedded into the ground behind him.

Chuckling Grim created two hundred dark orbs around him and held his black scythe, ready to finish off Delia if she managed to avoid all two hundred dark orbs. Never would have he thought that, instead of using the embedded dagger as an anchor to teleport, she had already sent another one straight up in the sky; using that, she appeared high in the sky holding the black dagger covered in blood; she used that as the sender to deliver a wind tornado to the receiver, the embedded dagger behind Grim.

Grim and the crowd noticed Delia high up in the sky; suddenly, a wind tornado started to generate from the dagger; immediately, it became big, clashing with the hovering dark orbs engulfing Grim.

His expression darkened because he had been played like a fool, and it was already too late when he noticed it; the tornado swept him off the stage. Grim lost not because he wasn't powerful, but he lost because his opponent was smarter than him, using shrewdness to win against him, who was more powerful.

The technique executed by Delia was rather ingenious, using the two daggers, one as sender and the other as a receiver so that she could transfer attacks through it. The only downside was that it must be done as an element of surprise to catch your opponent off guard. Still, now everybody already knows about it, her next opponents will be warier when fighting her not to be caught off guard by that dangerous technique. Grim admitted that he had truly lost against Delia, that she had good potential if she continued like that.

''This fight has shown you that sometimes being shrewd can be useful when fighting against powerful opponents or enemies. It is Delia Solon's win. Next match contestants Ren Xiaosu and Andrea Rillet.''

The second match started after Miss Asmodeus announced it

Ren Xiaosu attacked first by sending dozens of wind blades from his sword toward Andrea. Andrea immediately defended by creating an earth wall in front of herself; the wall managed to last before a huge horizontal wind slash sent after the wind blades cleaved it in two.

Andrea avoided the attack by executing her technique [Terraportation]; she appeared on the other side of the stage.

Xiaosu immediately used the wind to become faster; he attacked her by sending dozens of wind slashes; Andrea deflected them using her earth spear. It appeared that Xiaosu wished to end the fight quickly.

Managing to distance herself from him. She created five golems of two meters made of earth; she ordered them to attack him, and immediately they pounced on him, swinging their thick arms around wildly. The crown prince of the Eastern Empire easily dodged their attacks and counterattacked. It didn't take him much time to kill all of them.

Meanwhile, Andrea executed one of her trump cards; she extended her hand towards the sky before chanting:

[Meteor Fall]

Two small meteors (2 meters long and 3 meters in width) start falling towards the ring at high-speed.

Ren Xiaosu's expression became serious as he stared at the incoming meteors; spreading his legs widely, he held his sword with his two hands before using his strongest technique.

[Wind Dimensional Cut]

A huge sword made of wind reaching ten meters long, slashed towards the incoming small meteors cleaving them into four pieces that fell on another side of the stage.

A gaping sound was heard coming from the crowd; firstly, Andrea's technique was powerful, but Xiaosu's Wind Dimensional Cut was too overpowered; he cut through the two meteors like butter. It seems that the technique was not perfect now; if not, it can cut through dimensions as the name suggested, but with a bit of training, he would be able to cut through dimensions making him a formidable enemy.

Xiaosu disappeared and reappeared behind the dumbfounded Andrea, who was not expecting that kind of technique; she rolled on the ground avoiding his slash. Xiaosu stepped on pieces of broken stone, immediately noticing that around him there were many pieces of broken stones forming a circle; he instantly paled.

The smart crown understood that he had fallen into a trap. He tried to retreat; however, before jumping back to avoid the fate of being trapped, he heard Andrea chuckling; her dumbfounded expression changed into a smiling one, and she mumbled.

''Earth Prison!"

Immediately the stone fragments surrounding Xiaosu transformed into earth pillars trapping him in the middle; the pillars were too thick to be easily cut; he gave up because Andrea was already coming toward him holding two earth spears, ready to strike.

Once in front of him, she asked with a smile.

''Do you want to surrender, or do you want me to force you to surrender?''

''I surrender.''

Ren Xiaosu said after taking deep breaths. He was immediately ejected from the ring. The match ended in Andrea Rillet's victory, who also used her trickery to win. Something many didn't expect.