"Andrew and Nora both cleared the first round too," Jason muttered as all of the fights of the first round were over and thirty two children remained.
So houses had been knocked out completely whereas so had both of their children still standing in the center of the arena.
"The second round will start in a minute." Zilan suddenly inford as he snapped his fingers and the children once again got divided into pairs.
"Hey brother."
"Hello Nora."
Jason and Nora now stood in front of each other, making them opponents for the second round. Both of them were looking into each others eyes and were ready to fight at a mont's notice.
A minute flew by quickly as Zilan once again announced the start of battle.
Jason and Nora didn't move imdiately, both asuring the others movents while trying to co up with a plan.
"Fire bomb!" Nora decided to test Jason a bit as he summoned a fireball the size of a baseball in both his hands.
He jumped back using his wind elent to boost him a bit and threw both the bombs at the sa ti.
Jason had already fought the sa move in his previous match. He wasted no ti in summoning a lightning bolt and throwing it towards the incoming bombs.
It cut through both the bombs easily, except neither of them exploded. The lightning bolt continued to move towards Nora who looked at it with a smile.
"Jason, rember the ti when Felix summoned that gigantic fireball?" Nora smiled as he called Jason by his na.
The latter imdiately understood that Nora was serious about the fight and that sothing big was about to happen.
"Yes, I rember that. I had saved you back then so the match could continue." Jason replied regardless as he activated his 'Lightning Steps' skill silently.
"Since then, I wanted to create sothing like that too despite knowing that Felix had cheated." Nora spoke before joining his palms together. He then touched his index finger together and ford a fist with the remaining portion of his hand.
Jason narrowed his eyes as he looked at the glass box instinctively. He couldn't see through the glass box yet he had a feeling that soone was looking down at them.
Jason's instincts were correct as all eyes inside the box were currently focused on the screen which showed the duo's battle.
"Zara, you taught him a tier 2 spell?" Risa slowly asked as Zara smiled proudly.
"I decided to teach him sothing that he could use as his trump card. Though I would have liked Nora to use that in the semi-finals or finals, its his choice to use it against Jason." Zara explained, her eyes following Nora's monts.
"Jason's monts would be restricted in such a small area and if Nora is using the spell I am thinking he is, things can go wrong for Jason." Issac was also having a conversation on this with his friends.
"Both of your grandsons are showing off I guess." Gus observed, his eyes moving from one screen to another.
"As if Issac didn't do that in the past." Another old man snorted and soon enough, all of them were chuckling.
"At least they got the right genes." Issac pointed out as things cald down and everyone focused on the battle again.
Both of these things had been going of simultaneously so Nora had prepared his spell the mont Issac had stopped speaking.
"Fla Vortex!" Nora then pointed his hands towards Jason as a red wave of energy launched out from the palms of his hands.
A ten ter swirling tornado made out of flas was summoned right in the middle of there small battling area.
Jason stared at it with narrowed eyes as he judged the area he could move around in. The possibilities were rather small since most of the space was taken by the tornado.
"Oh, I forgot to tell this but the fighting area is much longer now. Also, there is no penalty for touching the fore field now." Zilan's voice echoed around the arena as Nora's expression distorted.
Jason on the other hand smiled at his brother as his form flickered. Nora couldn't even follow Jason's movent as he was too quick for the eye to see.
Most of the audience was also focusing their eyes on the duo's battle. Nora and Jason had stolen the spotlight and even those from well known noble families were ignored.
'He is not even using thunder elent and is still fighting like that.' Amber noticed as she watched Jason's battle directly instead of looking up at the screen. 'But then, his battle isn't over yet.'
Amber was the first one to finish her battle and had been looking at her twin's battle. However, she too had been attracted towards Jason and Nora's battle due to the tier two spell Nora had used.
Amber herself had a very high affinity with fire elent due to her magma affinity and she could tell that Nora's flas were inches away from touching the power of her own flas.
She wondered whether the entire Syrward family was full of such people because even though they were less in number, they were more famous than most of the noble families gathered there.
"Nora, your attack was quite surprising you could have defeated . As for how? We will talk about that later on." Jason suddenly spoke as he appeared behind Nora, a lightingm bolt buzzing with power in his hand.
He held the bolt of lightning right around Nora's throat as he was teleported out of the arena's floor in the next second.
Jason then sat down on the ground and stared at the screen, waiting for all the fights to be over. The audience looked disappointed at his actions as they had expected Jason to do a flashy move.
The nobles on the other hand were thinking sothing completely opposite.
'If this was a real fight, he could cut his throat with the lightning bolt as well as use his free hand to capture the person. He was in a minimum risk zone unless the other person had a trap.' Zilan was also thinking about Jason's move while looking over the other fights.
He didn't believe that flashy moves were the best since the most deadliest moves were those who were either silent or were too large to avoid.
Zilan felt that if Jason and Nora had been fighting for real, the forr could have easily killed his opponents nurous tis.
Zilan silently noted Jason's na inside his mind as potential prodigy to bring under his banner.
'That is if his grandparents let him do that.' The pri minister sighed knowing that Issac and Risa would never let anyone from their family fall under their wing.
Zilan couldn't bla them either especially after what had happened to Risa and Issac's daughter. If he was in their place, he wasn't sure whether he would've even appeared for the event.
'Only sixteen children remain now. Two of them are the Feuer twins. Three from the Bloodthorn family, two of Brian's children. Two children from the Anvilone family also made it here. If I add Jason here, that's half of the participants from those four families.'
Zilan counted the remainder of the children with a surprised expression. He hadn't expected to see half of them being from the four families.
The remainder of the participants weren't from well known families either. Zilan knew that many of the noble families didn't have ten years old this ti around yet the low number surprised him.
'I can't add anyone under my banner this ti. None of those eight families would allow their children to do that and choosing the other eight is only worthless.' Zilan sighed as he snapped his fingers and got everything ready for the third round.
This ti, Jason was matched with one of the children he had seen earlier.
"What's your na?" Jason asked casually as he looked at his opponent, soone wearing the purple clothes of the Bloodthorn family. He was one of the two children who Risa had said were Brian's children.
"Orion Bloodthorn."
"I see. Good luck for the fight, Orion." Jason smiled as he saw that his 'lightning steps' skill still had two minutes remaining.
"Sa to you." Orion replied politely as Jason could finally see the resemblance between him and Brian.
Both of them had the sa black eyes that were mostly set in a cold expression with the occasion showcase of emotion.
Jason upped his guard a bit for this round as he wondered what moves the boy would. But the mont the fight started, he was left surprised.
"I abstain." Orion raised his right hand in the air as a halo appeared above his head and teleported him away.
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[ I sll a plot in the making. ] The system comnted as Jason shrugged.
'Our lives roam around plots. I wonder what a normal person's life would feel like.' Jason replied as he saw the fights pass by.
In the end, eight children remained. The Feuer twins, one from Anvilone family, one from Bloodthorn family, three others and Jason himself.
Jason then fought his quarter finals match which ended rather quickly. He just had to activate his movent skill and travel behind his opponent to end the fight.
The last two fights had left Jason bored but when it was ti for the semi-finals, he knew that things would get interesting.
"So its you and , Andrew." Jason grinned as his opponent for the semi-finals was Andrew.
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