Will of chaos

Chapter 1280 Cap 1278: Foreplay part 1

Pov Fiona's: 

When the tournament preliminaries started I was initially focused, in my arena there were all men, with the exception of a Human woman holding a large Axe. 

She tried to join me just before the fight started, but I didn't want to, I knew it could end up becoming a tag team fight, but I want to use these preliminaries to prove to myself that I'm getting stronger. 

I know that my decision could hinder the mission if I lose in the preliminaries, but I won't be able to go far if I doubt myself. 

As soon as the fight started, they tried to eliminate the only competitor alone, which would be me, I knew that would happen since I would do the same thing, eliminating the weakest link is a standard action in any type of fight. 

Only one person moved faster, approaching me from the left, the others were trying to attack both of us at the same time, but at that moment a whip grabbed him pulling him back making all the attacks come towards me. 

I smiled, the situation was serious, these people were strong, but half of them were weak when it came to using their powers, with the spear in their hands they penetrated the ground, throwing a large purple spear forward, causing one of the attacks to explode, finishing off the rest. 

I took advantage of the lack of visibility to attack, I wasn't paying attention to them with my normal senses but using my Aura in my eyes, and thanks to that I was able to identify everyone even within the smoke. 

I throw 3 knives at a person who dodged a knife while defending the second, but the third one hit his arm, with that I gain momentum before throwing a side kick at a large Ax before using my spear to cut off the arm that He held the battle axe. 

When the smoke from the first attack disappears there is a person shaking on the ground with green veins expanding on her arm, it looks like the poison worked, there was also the only other woman besides me in this arena missing one of her arms, it looks like the Ax from before it was hers. 

I saw her give up the fight to replace her arm, a team of healers waiting outside the arena, a shame that the poisoned person won't have that chance. 

Meanwhile, the other 12 were now fighting among themselves, ignoring me, but I knew they were still paying attention to me, in fact, they were waiting for me to interfere in a fight in the hope that I would help one of them. 

I smiled holding my spear tightly, my Aura and Power pulsing inside me, I could feel the power in the jewel on my forehead, but I chose not to use it, I want to prove myself using only my own power, show that I am worthy of receiving the power of Zenos. 

"< Incarnation of the Spear >" (I) 

"< Piercing Flux >" (I) 

My Aura becomes a Spear incarnate to me while my Weapon is left engraved on the ground, I enter combat releasing 3 attacks at the same time a punch, a kick, and an elbow. 

Each of my attacks was aimed at a different enemy followed by a Piercing attack from my Aura with each attack. 

One of them tried to attack me and was pushed back where he met a punch from another opponent throwing him out of the arena, meanwhile, my kick made a hole in an opponent's arm and went through until it reached his chest. 

The fight continued while I was in a combo of combat techniques using my body as a weapon in a priceless flow of blows, abandoning all defense in favor of attack. 

I was injured a few times, but because I wasn't the only target of their attacks I managed to last several minutes before falling into a magical trap with three others. 

"< Restricted Lightning Blast >" 

"< Come >" (I) 

Before the trap was completely released, I waved my hand, making my Spear move towards me on its own, passing through the head of the Wizard who made this trap. 

As soon as the spear touches my hand, I strike with the spear's blade pointing outward, thereby cutting one opponent's back while the other lost a hand. 

The fight lasted a few more minutes until there were 2 more opponents left besides me, we were in a three-sided stalemate knowing that the first to attack would gain the aggression of the other two. 

"< Aura Wave >" (I) 

"< Earth Ascending Blade >" 

Knowing how to attack directly would be risky and knowing my injured state, I make an area attack using my Aura, this moves the two away from me and one of them uses a spell at the feet of the second causing a large sword blade to emerge from the ground piercing he was left hanging in the air bleeding. 

"Match over, you both win!" (Judge) 

"Someone take care of the injured." (Judge) 

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Pov Xagar: 

As soon as the battle started I was smiling, that's because I noticed that many among them are well trained, but they don't have enough killing intent, and their strikes are also not very accurate in vital points. 

As the first few minutes of the fight passed, the one alone was expelled with some ease, leaving only the newly formed pairs fighting Honestly, this opens up more gaps than fighting, sweetie, since these pairs don't know the strength of their companions. 

"(Wait...that man...)" (I) 

Between fights I saw a man who, like me, was hiding his strength, avoiding attacking directly, just giving his partner the opportunity to attack. 

This man had his eyes closed, but I could feel his eyes all over the arena, I tried to feel his Aura, but it was masked somehow. 

I had to finish the fight faster, so I decided to pull out my sword, I waited until everyone was in the middle of a fight, and then I attacked all at once. 

"< Demonic Slash > ×10" (I) 

In one attack half of them fell to the ground, their bodies twitching with the Demonic energy coursing through their bodies, while the others managed to dodge or defend, they didn't do well either, two were directly killed by the man I saw earlier while I took care of the other two Just cutting off its legs, the latter jumped out of the arena screaming in fear. 

"You two passed, now leave the arena." (Judge) 

In the end, only me and the man from before were in the arena, I felt his attention focused on me as he smiled, that's when I felt his murderous intent before turning to leave. 

But my eyes were not on him himself but on the sword on his back, I felt a unique presence of that sword just at the moment of those two's deaths, a frightening presence. 

"(Looks like you're ahead this time.)" (I) 

As I looked at him I saw blood dripping from one of his hands, one of my attacks had been aimed at him, but within the energy blade attack was a second Demonic Aura attack that hit him. 

As soon as I left the arena victorious I went towards the arena where Fiona was still fighting, she was doing absurd things to the point of asking myself if she suffered some type of brain damage. 

Not only was she fighting alone without a partner, she was also attacking everyone in an almost indiscriminate way as if she was attracting everyone against her, which fortunately didn't work since they were paying attention to each other the whole time. 

In the end, she emerged victorious, but I wasn't happy, she revealed too much of her power unnecessarily while placing herself at a numerical disadvantage the entire time. 

As soon as she left the arena I put my arm around her neck while pulling her to one side, using our skin to skin touch for a telepathic technique. 

"(What by the Goddess of Death are you doing!?)" (I) 

"(Shut up, I know I did wrong considering the mission, but I needed to do this or I wouldn't be able to continue the mission.)" (Fiona) 

"(I won't say anything, but you have to take our mission seriously, Zenos is counting on our results, so I don't want to see this kind of behavior again.)" (I) 

"(I understand.)" (Fiona) 

With that, explain to her about the man who won the first phase of the preliminaries with me, I also explained about her strange sword, other than that I ask a more specialized observer. 

"(What do you think?)" (I) 

"(I didn't feel anything from the man, but his sword really is strange, there was a slight fluctuation of Spiritual Energy in the attack, other than that I didn't feel anything else.)" (Targo) 

"..." (I) 

Targo is a Spirit of the Blood Element, a unique type of Spirit that only exists in Lord Zenos' Dungeon, I made a contract with him during my training, at the moment he is hiding inside my body more specifically within my blood. 

While I was talking to my Spirit and Fiona about our mission just like that man from before, they were still waiting for all the fights to end in the arenas, when I thought it was over they asked me to wait while the arenas were reduced to 25 bigger ones in total. 

While we waited, everyone received a sign with a teleportation spell, then someone appeared floating above explaining the rules for the last part of the preliminaries. 

"Let's see how far we go..." (I)