Book 1: Chapter 95.5: First Round Part V

Book 1: Chapter 95.5: First Round Part V

Scarlet

After walking around the dome for a few seconds with a generous distance magically appearing between me and any actual person as I go, I eventually give up on finding her. Only to raise my head and lock eyes immediately onto Denises live footage on one of the screens.

Oh. There she is.

The blonde is currently fighting against some random dude wearing factory made magi-tech armor and appears to be winning. So I stand there for a few seconds to watch, only to reach my hand up and press the random challenge button on my earpiece, following which it says in my ear, You have challenged Rachel Garcia.

I immediately turn my head as I hear someone elses earpiece play out Will you accept Scarlet Asgers challenge? And after a pause, they mutter a confused, Sure? Likely confused in that no one had touched them.

Then I find myself appearing in some sort of old style arena stadium in a desert with empty bleachers and a girl wearing a regular uniform staring at me with eyes wide open in both shock and fright. Which probably means she didnt link my first name to my title when accepting my challenge.

Oh well. Sucks to be her.

Guess Ill avoid killing her this time, seeing as her mana level is much lower than mine.

I use partial shift on my right arm as always before burning a large amount of my blood, using blood boil and life drain, and bursting from my position straight towards her, reaching her right after she quite literally falls onto her butt from fright. But instead of cutting her open, I just grab her throat and raise her up while shes still shocked, then suffocate her just enough to knock her out without killing her.

Then I find myself back in the dome again.

That was boring, Tar complains, making me raise an eyebrow.

One of them the death magic user walks forwards with one of his hands in his shorts pocket and his other waving as he says, Sup! We were wondering if you wanted to start dueling with us instead of the poor people youve been massacring? Since weve already dueled each other, and theres the whole cant duel anyone more than once thing going on.

I blink once, then twice at his statement.

We cant duel with anyone more than once? Thats a shame.

It also means Ill likely run out of people to duel before the three hour mark hits, so I might as well. After all, the duels Ive been being put in at random have all been against lower leveled students, with the exception of a few, so the duels lasted less than a minute each. For the most part.

Meaning theres still over two hours left of this part of the test, but Ive already fought around a fourth of the individuals in this dome.

Without giving me the chance to give them my agreement, one of them some guy with glowing red slit eyes and red streaks going through his short black hair just says, Who gives a shit if she wants to or not, and quickly walks up to me, touching me on the shoulder and challenging me to a duel. And while it wouldnt have been too hard to avoid him, I honestly dont want to.

Because this guys an asshole, and I kind of want to beat some sense into his thick skull.

Please dont traumatize the guy, Tar pleads in my head, and I cant help the scowl that slips through onto my face as I say out loud, Challenge accepted.

Then we both find ourselves in some sort of volcano terrain, which is almost ironic considering that the guy from what I was able to observe in the one battle I watched him fight in uses some sort of draconic fire magic.

Without wasting a breath, I tilt my head one way, then the other to pop my neck before stretching my arms out and immediately shifting my arm, following it all up with using blood boil and life drain on the ass.

Maybe I might be able to teach him a lesson about how to treat others if I only kind of maul him with my claws.

Just a little bit.