"Don't call that!" Reacted Talia to Alex calling her 'beautiful'.
"Is it false? Are you not beautiful?" Asked Alex in an innocent tone.
"No, it's just that it feels disgusting coming from you! I don't even know how woman the like of Lilia and Anna can be with a man like you"
"Oh you do know the reason, if I recall correctly, weren't you also-"
"Shut up!" Exclaid Talia to keep Alex from continuing his sentence.
She shot him a death glare and whispered to him, "If you ever-"
"Start!"
Before she could finish her warning, Talia's voice was drowned out by Adrian's, announcing the start of Alia and Zo's fight.
Talia glared at Alex one last ti before turning around to concentrate on Alia's fight.
'It's always funny to ss with here, chuckled Alex before he also turned to concentrate on Alia's fight.
Upon the fight initiation, before Alia could even take out her seeds that usually grow into plants, Zo took out a longsword from his space ring and charged towards her.
'I must not give her ti to use any of her abilities,' thought Zo as he streaked towards Alia with great speed.
From what he had seen, Alia was the type of opponent that one should defeat at the very start of a fight due to her abilities.
He needed to defeat her before she had ti to plant her seeds and make them grow.
He wasn't worried about her other power that allowed her to create an explosion in her battle against Ector because, from his understanding, she needed ti to form that explosive orb. So, if he defeated her from the start, he didn't need to worry.
Contrary to what Alex and Alia thought, he had no intention to harm her because Alex had 'humiliated' his twin brother, He was soone with a cool head, able to analyze things calmly; He knew that his brother was in the wrong, so he understood why Alex 'punished' him.
As for why he had glared at Alex, well, it was as Alia said. En was his twin, and their faces were pretty identical. People often confused them. Now that his twin had been 'humiliated,' if soone wanted to make fun of En, he might be the one at the receiving end instead of his brother. It was annoying, however, it was not enough for him to hate Alex or Alia. All he wanted in this fight was to win because he wanted to be the head of the branch, nothing more.
Barely a split second since he charged at her, Zo was upon Alia, swinging his sword vertically towards her.
'He's fast!' thought Alia as she swiftly evaded the sword by moving to her right.
Boom
'And also powerful' added Alia as she glanced at the aftermath of Zo longsword touching the ground.
Zo's attack was so heavy and fast that his sword caused the ground to crack under its force.
'His ability is truly dangerous; unfortunately, he is squandering it with that sword,' thought Alia as she evaded another attack from Zo, who didn't leave her any room to breathe.
Zo's ability was one with a great potential, this ability boosted all his physical attributes, not just his strength and speed, but also his sight, his hearing and even the hardness of his body.
The problem was that he persisted in using the longsword as a an to fight, even though it's not a weapon made for an ability like his.
'The sword is not ant for you, it greatly restricts you'
The number of tis Zo had heard this sentence was uncountable, even his twin had once said that to him, but for so reason he still clung to the sword.
'He might be the only one here able to go toe to toe with Alex in terms of physical might' analyzed Alia as she ducked to avoid a horizontal slash.
'Let's end this,' thought Alia as she rolled on the ground to evade the kick that Zo aid at her when his slash missed.
The mont Alia stabilized herself, she extended her arm and a multicolor round orb quickly ford on her arm.
Seeing the orb, Zo ca to a stop just as he intended to charge at Alia again to prevent her from activating her abilities, however it seed that he was already too late.
What Zo didn't know was that contrary to what he and everyone else who didn't know Alia's residual blast ability thought, she didn't need to concentrate for a long period to create her orb. The reason it took her several minutes when fighting Ector was due to the lack of residual energy in the air and the ground at the start of the fight. However, how many battles occurred after hers? How many abilities were used, and thus, how much residual energy was available for her to utilize?
The answers to these questions were 'many,' so contrary to before when she needed ti to concentrate and draw residual energy to her, now she could do it even on the fly, as she just did.
"Do you give up or do you want to test if your hardened skin can resist the explosion ?" Asked Alia.
As Zo was seriously thinking if he should have faith in his hardened skin to save him.
"For your information, I can make this orb much bigger than this, and it will be at least ten tis more powerful than the one I used Ector, are you willing to give it a go?" Questioned Alia with a smile.
"You pair of siblings are really sothing" said Zo as he shook his head.
"I give up"
"That's the smart thing to do," said Alia as she dispersed the residual energy she had used to create the orb.
"Alia's wins the fight!" Exclaid Adrian.
After that, Alia returned to the participants' sitting area, boasted to her brother a little, then started gossiping with Anna and Talia as the next fight unfolded. anwhile, Alex dozed off again due to the boring battles that took too long from his point of view.
Just like in the first stage of the competition, all the fights that happened after Alia's were boring to watch because there wasn't much action.
The only fight that interested the people after Alia one was the one opposing Talia's little brother and Jonathan.
Jonathan had won the fight, but it was not as easily as his fight in the first round, and he even had to use one of his two abilities, wind manipulation, to win the battle.
After this fight, there was another one and then finally it was ti for the last fight of the second round.
"Talia darling, it's our turn, let's make sure to go at it for a long ti~"
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