?1244 Earth''s First Challenge
Author''s Note: Unedited Chapter
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"I don''t need to tell you guys how physically strong the xosapes are," Gustav voiced as they stared at the screens.
"But strength is the only thing they have going for them... I''ll squash any one of them," Yonda stated from the side.
"Don''t underestimate them just because they only have immense physical strength. They also have very high defense and are not in anyway slow. Not to mention that each of them vary in strength, their captain is an opponent I trust only three amongst all of you to be able to deal with... and you Yonda, are not amongst that three," Gustav exined with a candid expression.
"Tch, you overestimate them and underestimate me," Yonda responded with an irritated expression.
"Do not go against the xosapes unless I tell you to," Gustav stated.
Yonda responded by looking away. It was unclear if this was a reaction of agreement or defiance. Gustav overlooked it and kept his eyes on the battles ongoing all across other stages.
With perception, he could have a sensory view of all the battles ongoing at the same time but Gustav still decided to activate God Eyes asionally.
[God Eyes Have Been Activated]
With God Eyes he was taking note of the internal strength of participants he found spectacr andparing them to his teammates.
He had initially gauged the strength ofs based on the information he read about them and how they had performed since the start of IYSOP. Now gauging individual strengths since this was a versus battle and wouldn''t want any of his teammates taking on participants that they couldn''t defeat.
As the versus battle challenge continued, more participants who were initially unknown, rose to prominence. They hadn''t gotten the chance to disy their real capabilities due to the initial challenges but now the spectators could see that they had truly been sleeping on a number of participants.
< Tevirqk Roidinstack) Wins >
< 500 Points Attained >
< Yikiwo Ustanbid) Wins >
< 500 Points Attained >
< Destom Ezretil) Wins >
< 700 points Attained >
< Gorim Riz) Loses >
< 500 points Deducted >
The first batch happened to be very intense as more than fifty participants won as well as lost fights in twenty minutes.
Gustav kept pointing out things to take note of to the group as the numbers kept reducing. The battles were so intense that the terrains within the stages were getting destroyed.
Fortunately, the environment would repair itself after a fight ended so there was no doubt that these stages would be reused for the next batch regardless of how much it was destroyed.
After another thirty minutes had gone by, only three set of participants seemed to remain.
At this time, everyone could properly focus on the fights since thsre was a lesser number left.
-"Who do you think is winning between Zia and Runphold?"
--"I''m going with Runphold even though he''s from Ilk,"
-"I''m going with Zia... Thrizhta has done well so far,"
-"But they''ve been fighting for nearly an hour already,"
-"They seem to be evenly matched,"
The battle between Zia of Thrizhta and Runphold of Ilk seemed to be more interesting to the spectators than the other two.
This was mostly because Thrizhta happened to be top hundred overall in IYSOP whereas Ilk was ranked around the four hundreds based on their differences in total points. Yet, Zia and Runphold had been going at it for nearly an hour without anyone really getting the upper hand.
What made this even more interesting was the simrities between both parties. They were both using weapons and dressed like warriors.
Zia was a female withpletely red skin and blue helmet covering her face. Her skin tight white jumpsuit like wear, made it so her fluid movements were undiluted as she swung a glowing green de repeatedly.
Randolph on the other side who was d in metallic ck like wear that covered his entire being like a giant Knight also retaliated by parrying her attacks with a broadsword like weapon in his grasp. The de emitted a bright red glow as they shed repeatedly sting shockwaves across the vicinity.
Trees were uprooted as every swing of their de evaded by the other, sent sharp energy ripping through the environment.
While their battle continued, the other two had already concluded their battles, leaving only Zia and Runphold as thest participants left in the arena.
"Who do you think will win Gus?" E.E questioned from the side.
"Randolph," Gustav answered with a look of certainty.
"That''s... but Thrizhta seems to be more powerful overall," Matilda voiced in surprise.
"They are... but not in the case of these two battle. They are almost evenly matched but Randolph had been chipping away her energy all this time by slightly holding back. This isn''t his full strength. He ns to unleash his full strength and take her by surprise when she is nearly out of energy so she will be unable to evade. While she also has a few tricks up her sleeves that she hasn''t tried, Runphold has a higher chance of evasion that she does," Gustav analysed lengthily causing everyone around him to slightly open their mouths in disbelief.
"You''re able to tell just from watching?" Since this was Yuhiko''s first time of witnessing Gustav do something like this, shs was more shocked than the others.
"Pfft he is definitely wrong," A team member of Thrizhta yelled from the east. It seemed they had heard Gustav.
"He had a bet with an Osiris due a simr urrence and won... I don''t think he is wrong," Another participant from a differentary group voiced.
"Shut it clown, Zia would never lose to that..."
Just as they were speaking a loud yell was heard from the middle of the arena.
Runphold who had been on the defensive for sometime had suddenly turned aggressive charging at Zia recklessly or so it seemed.
"Thousand seering falls..." Runphold leapt into the air spinning repeatedly with his red de swinging forth.
The sky suddenly darkened above like a storm wasing and what appeared next was a rain of thousands upon thousands of red des.
Thiinnghhh~ Thhhiinnhh~ Thiiinnghh~
Zia swung repeatedly with as much strength and speed as she could muster, repeatedly hitting away the hundreds of des shooting at her.
Fwwhiii~
Runphold suddenly appeared behind her while she was busy with this.
Siiihhh~
Stretching his de sideways and swinging forward with all of his might, Zia noticed the attack almost toote. She turned to the side to parry but the instant their des collided an insurmountable force rocked her entire being.
She only realised that this attack was ten times more powerful than normal when her entire body was spiralling across the air with blood oozing out of body.
Runphold charged forward and leapt upwards with his de raised once more.
"Yaaahhhhh!" He roared as he swung the de downwards with intensity at the spiralling body..
< Runphold Ilk Wins) >
< 700 Points Attained >
The announcement rang loudly causing cheers to ring out from a particr part of the spectators area.
Gustav didn''t even need to say, ''I told you so''. The look of defeat on the faces of Thrizhta team members as their eyes widened was a pleasant enough sight. He didn''t really care and was d that the first batch had finally ended.
Not a single earthling was challenged during this or even picked so he was already looking forward to the next.
The screens above disyed the highlights of the first batch for about a minute before showing the list of all the winners as well as the points they had acquired.
In about a minute more theputerised system had began picking out participants for the next batch.
Soon a new set of one hundred and fifty participants were picked once more and unsurprisingly not a single earth participant could be spotted. However, this time there were a few participants froms who were top fifty and amongst them was Ghundabault.
Gustav recognised the exact participant that had been picked amongst them. The Ghundabault''s were rtively small sized in structure. The biggest amongst them was only a little over three feet tall yet they were very powerful.
Due to size no one had noticed the re that the Ghundabault participant had shot in the direction of the earthlings but Gustav spotted it.
''Looks like we finally have an opposition,'' His face nearly broke a smirk as the small structure female with a multicolored hair floating above her head moved towards the stage with streets and multiple high-rise buildings.
She wasted no time in heading to the middle to pick out her opponent and soon enough the beam of light that appeared in the area where earth''s participants were seated confirmed Gustav''s theory.
"Someone challenged one of us," Angy was the first to voice out as they stared at the person who had been challenged with looks of astonishment.
On the side of the Ghundabault, their captain disyed an expression of disbelief as she stood to her feet, "Is Navira stupid? How could she challenge him of all people?" She voiced with a tone of anguish.
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