First match


    Evan POV


    |Ahem .... Then the party Hollow blade will be the first to fight the heretic Crimson duke, I''ll ask all othe contestant to leave the fighting ground !!|(Announcer)


    Much to my dismay we were the first party that had to fight him. Of course the rules were the same than in the regular tournament, one on one until one of the party has either gave up or been entirely knocked out. The only difference beeing that we go for the kill. Even though I am confident enough in our ability to hurt him I don''t think we''ll be able to beat him, I don''t even know if we can all come out alive of this ordeal. All the other party except ours and Apocalypse went out of the fighting ground and came back to their lodge. The five of us were facing him, he took a long glance at us and his eyes returned to a green color and his teeth turned back to normal.


    |.... Why are ya drooling Jane ?|(Apocalypse)


    He said while raising an eyebrow .... where did that came from ? What happened to the tension from earlier ? Well okay, I am pretty sure seeing your opponent drooling in front of you can be rather perturbing and make you ask yourself several questions but asking the reasons just like that. Jane snapped out of it and whiped the drool off her face.


    |Sorry, I was thinking about some fresh meat.|(Jane)


    |Although meat is delicious I don''t really think it is tha right moment ta think ''bout such thing.|(Apocalypse)


    Don''t be fooled, she was just thinking about your muscles. Anyway, it seems he was just a little pissed off earlier, other than that he sounds like a nice guy and I highly doupt he guts out little children like the church often say about heretics, well you never know since there are some pretty fucked up people out there that look like they''re nice but are in fact serious assholes in the shadows.


    |The witness of today''s match are the royal families of the allied countries .....|(Announcer)


    |LEAVE ME ALONE !!!|(Girl)


    A curtains opened itself from a veranda behind Apocalypse and numerous arrogant looking people could be seen sitting in golden thrones, some didn''t look so arrogants but they still had an aura of majesty. However at the right of the veranda a blond girl who must be nearing her twentieth anniversary was being helf by the wrist by a cocky looking boy who must only have seventeen. An old man with a beard was clenching his fist and staying silent and the same for the woman that seemed to be his wife. A little boy was tugging the girl velvet dress while crying. I could see Apocalypse''s grips on his great-hammer tightening. Suddenly a girl with lion ears and a sword at her waist stands up.


    |I can''t bear it anymore. Prince Vermen let go of her this instant or else !|(Lion girl)


    |Or else what ?! Are you saying that the Empire is siding with those heret....|(Boy)


    The boy never got to finish what he was saying, a great-hammer met his face and made him disappear along with the wall behind him. The royals did not understood what happened but when our eyes fell on Apocalypse who no longers had his great-hammer we all knew what happened. Here it comes ...


    |HOW DARE YOU LOWLY SCUMS !! YOU''RE NOTHING MORE THAN SCRUBS AND YOU DARE DEFY ROYALTY !!!|(A fat arrogant man)


    And other screams about how he was nothing to royalty were heard, suddenly the air became heavy, I looked at Apocalypse and saw that rocks were flyings around him, his hair were fluttering as if they were in water. It was hard for us to breath and several royals were stolen of their breath and couldn''t shout anymore, the only one that were unaffected were the girl who still had her wrist grabbed by a hand without an arm attached to it, her family and the Empire royal family. Apocalypse''s eyes had became red and his teeth sharp, so I was right it happens when he is pissed off. He looked behind him by tilting his neck and the air shook.


    |Did I not make myself clear enough ? Touch them and ya''ll die. {Return}|(Apocalypse)


    The royals that had stood up fell on the arses and the other were suffocating. After his command his great-hammer appeared in his hand, it was covered in blood, he turned his head to us and both his eyes and teeth returned to normal. Normaly since royalty had died the tournament should''ve ended but strangely enough it wasn''t, and the contestant would''ve been sent to catch the killer but something really wasnt right since it did not happened. The announcer slapped himself.


    |Ahem .... As I was saying the witness are the royal families of the allied country, the holy pope and everybody praise them and honnor them in honnor to our beloved goddess. The Apostles are here, unfortunaly Forgiveness did not came for she had to speak with our beloved goddess.|(Announcer)


    Now I understand why it wasn''t canceled immediatly, if the Apostle have come of course the lives of one or two royals doesn''t matter. Of course we where surprised to hear that the Apostles had come, if we trust history it had only happend once two hundreds years ago when Mercy received her title. Since the only remaining Veranda was behind us we turned around and kneeled down like everybody else. I heard the curtains open and six divine presence forced me to stay on the ground, they were the real deal, I couldn''t see them since I was looking down but I felt their power and presence.


    In the corner of my eyes I saw someone walking while dragging a hammer. The fool even if he is powerful he should at least show them some respect, they are still the Apostles of the Dragon goddess and how can he be walking just fine under that much pressure ? Just by them being there I feel like kissing the floor.


    |.... So this is where ya were sister .... ya really have fallen far from the tree, I am sure father and mother would be quite sad ta see ya like that, or maybe ya don''t care ? Do ya even know who they are ?|(Apocalypse)


    At first his voice was filled with surprise but it was quickly replaced with sadness, he was speaking way to quietly for the Apostle to hear what he had said but to me who had heard what he said I just couldn''t understand what he meant. Sister ? Amongs the Apostles ? Or was she just with them at the moment ? Apocalypse was just too misterious to me to know or even to care.


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    Apocalypse POV


    When the curtains of the second veranda opened seven people were already sitting on some richly decorated thrones. A bald old man was sitting in the less decorated thrones and it was just slightly under the six other. Maybe because I was also half dragon I could tell they were the real deal. They all looked like they were in their thirties or maybe early fourties except for one, the group was composed of three women and three men and the one who looked young was one of the woman. She was beautiful and had long blue hair and blue eyes, she looked as if she was in her twenties. Deep inside me I knew she was Mercy, my sister ..... my father had told me she was called Freya Seraph Fremael, now I suppose she is called Freya Zadkiel Seraph Fremael.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    Seeing her surprised me a little but also made me sad .... Why was she here and not by mother''s side when she could ? Her who had lived her life since five hundred years ago should know what happened, she should be by her side not theirs. As I was looking at her and they were looking down at me without saying words our eyes locked and I said in a quiet voice who wouldn''t rech her.


    |.... So this is where ya were sister .... ya really have fallen far from the tree, I am sure father and mother would be quite sad ta see ya like that, or maybe ya don''t care ? Do ya even know who they are ?|(Apocalypse)


    The old man stood up and glared at me but quickly averted his gaze when I looked at him. He opened his arms and shouted.


    |My children, the Apostles of our beloved goddess have come to see us. Raise you head and let them enjoy our tournament !!|(Old man)


    The crowed stood up and roared while I went back to my side of the ring. Evan and his group left the stage except for Refira the swordswoman who was in a red heavy armor, flames could sometimes be seen popping on the armor .... So it is an ignolite armor, ignolite is a magic metal that tend to catch fire when exposed to oxygen, the effect are often reduced by enchantement and it makes great armor against fire monsters. She was wielding a great sword of about one meters and fifty centimeters long.


    |I''m a lil'' scarred of fighting you.|(Refira)


    |Don''t be, I won''t kill ya.|(Apocalypse)


    she looked at my bloodied hammer and then at me and showed me a wry smile.


    |This one doesn''t count, he was hurting a friend.|(Apocalypse)


    |You''re fucking terrifying.|(Refira)


    |Well thank ya.|(Apocalypse)


    |May the first fight BEGIN !!!|(Announcer)


    Refira was the first to act and charged at me, she disappeared and reappeared in front of me, or that would be what the crowd is seeing, for me she was just running. She swung her sword at me and I stopped it with the head of my hammer, using the momentum of her slash I took a step forwards and made the head of y hammer follow her slash ruselting in me getting behind her and hitting her back with the non-headed part of the handle. She groaned in pain and turned around to face me again. I was making my hammer spin above my head and at my sides, dust was rising around me before I sudenly stopped. My sister was among the witness and if she was here that means...


    |Done tout ce que t''as ou alors c''est moi qui ouvre le bal.|(Apocalypse)


    [Give me all you''ve got or else I''ll open the bal myself.]


    That I''ll have to give her the best show she ever had in her life.


    Refira charge at me once again.


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    Freya POV


    Me and the other Apostles are on big veranda, I remember last time I went to this city, it was two hundred years ago and I was to show that I deserved to take the name of Zadkiel, the last Mercy had died three hundred years before and hand''t named anybody as her successor. Now I was sitting in the Apostles throne with all the other except for Forgiveness, I never met Forgiveness and I don''t even know her name, Grandfather say she doesn''t like other people so she stay in her room and doesn''t allow anybody to enter. I don''t even know where is her room.


    Apparantly a bad guy is supposed to fight in the tournament so we have to watch, I asked Grandfather why we couldn''t just ask him to stop and if he doesn''t then use our force but he told me that the man we are witnessing the pseudo execution seruly won''t be killed even if the six of us were to attack him together, maybe we could hurt him a bit but the only ones that could kill him are humans and other member of the races.


    We were told he killed a royal earlier but Charity told them to continue the tournament like nothing happened. That guy is really a bad one, why did he killed them ? Couldn''t he just talk it through ? When the curtains opened everyone bowed except for one man, he was topless and had a bloodied hammer in hand. He had small blue scales at random places of his body like me, is he an unawaken dragon like me ? Grandfather told me that Ancient dragon can transform into their dragon forms one thousand years after their birth but I never met any other young Ancient dragon so I don''t know if it is true.


    His face seemed familiar but I couldn''t put a name on it. He was the only one who wasn''t kneeling and he walked to us and stopped in front of the veranda and he looked at everyone. When his eyes feel on me he looked a little surprised and a small sad smile creeped on is face. I never said it to Grandfather but my earing is superior to his and I was able to hear what the man had whispered.


    |.... So this is where ya were sister .... ya really have fallen far from the tree, I am sure father and mother would be quite sad ta see ya like that, or maybe ya don''t care ? Do ya even know who they are ?|(Apocalypse)


    That man was the fouth voice I had heard after the first roar, there had been more than one but the fourth one was the one that had shocked me the most since all f the other voices were speaking about him. Even now he is calling me sister. I don''t know why but when I look at him a single word pop in my mind, Wrath, it''s like when I look at Grandfather and I immediatly think of Diligence. What he said also greatly intrigued me, mother and father would be sad if they saw me ? Grandfather told me they were both dead .... Grandfather wouldn''t lie to me. But with a sad smile like that it is hard to say this man is lying.


    After the pope made his speech and the man went back to where he was previously standing, everybody left except a woman in a red heavy armor. She charged at the man but he deviated the strike and hit her in the back. He then said something in an ominous language, to some it must ave sounded like he wa casting a curse but after hearing his tone of voice I could only think he was telling her to fight with all she had.


    The woman charged again and instead of deflecting it like earlier the man twisted his body to the side and slammed the head of his hammer on the ground with the woman''s blade under his hammer. Since his body was sideway his hammer didn''t land on the flat side but rather on the high corner. Using it as a lever he kick the ground and jump to land on the other side of the blade, the blade that had to support both the great-hammer and the man weight, which must be nearing the three digit giving his size, broke in two. He jumped away and the woman took out a small spare sword and charged at him, this time instead of swinging her sword she rolled and thus avoided a hammer swing but when she tried to stab him he kicked the floor and did a flip to land behind her.


    The woman rolled sideway trying to slash him in the back in the process but he surprisingly bend backwards and grabbed her hand with his and streightening himself slammed her on the ground.


    |That''s a rather perticular way to fight.|(Charity)


    Said the woman with silver hair next to me, she is Charity and my favourite Apostle after Grandfather, she taught me how to fight and use magic.


    |To me it looks more like he is trying to show off to someone, well that and the fact that he could kill her with a finger flick and is trying to avoid that. That brat grew up quite nicely, I can see what his mother saw in his father ~~. I wouldn''t mind making him mine.|(Humility)


    Aunty Humility said so, but didn''t you all said he was a bad guy just earlier so why would you want to take him with you ? And plus if he really is my brother like he keep saying it would too akward to have to call sister-in law when you raised me like a daughter. And did you just say father and mother ? Do you know them ? So much questions my head over-heated.


    Back to the match, the woman slashed at him again but he side-stepped and crouched to do a swipe kick and make her fall. She jump to avoid it but stop mid-way and stand up. He swing his palm at her but it doesn''t reach far enough and just touch her armor but.


    |AHHHHHH !!|(Apocalypse)


    An explosion of energy comes out of his palm and the armor shatter and the woman is sent flying out of the ring. Impressive, it wasn''t magic but some sort of intern energy that he made explosed at will. He slam his hammer on the ground and say


    |Next one. Even though I missed my daughter birthday ta come here I haven''t enough time ta deal with all of ya if ya don''t step up now.|(Apocalypse)


    And now the second match will begin.