” Bring It! ” Ronan said with an arrogant smug as he taunted the enemy toe at him.


    But unlike the fight with Percy , Zimo was calm this time around as he wasser focused on the refree starting the match.


    The second the referee signalled the match to be started , the two superior elemental users instantly bolted into action as they went in for the first punch.


    Rudra activated lightning punch as his fists got covered in blue lightning while Zimo went for light punch as his right fist became covered in a streak of white light !


    KABOOOM!


    When the two fists collided a massive explosion took ce that rattled the entire arena , as both men were blown away.


    The crowd cheered this sh as if it was the greatest thing they had ever seen , but even the sect leaders were impressed as although they were sitting at a considerable distance the shockwave was still felt strongly by them._.


    Ronan flipped twice to regain his footing , while Zimonded on his feet and slid backwards. For a small moment the two made eye-contact as they gauged each other’s strength and immediately went in for the second strike.


    What followed was an intricate dance of martial arts as the two were embroiled in extremely high intensity fist exchange that had no room for the slightest of errors.


    Punches , kicks and feints so sharp that one could see the air being torn apart when they went for a straight jab or a hook.


    However the real shocker was that Ronan was able to stand his ground against the considerably higher levelled Zimo , as the other party was not able to get an upper hand in Raw strength.


    Ronan was one of the rare superior elemental users that had trained his body to this limit. usually , superior elemental users preffered to train their elemental affinity more , because it was their ultimate advantage in a battle. However, Ronan was a forbidden elemental user till recently which meant that Karna forced him to train more and more of his body which made him the behemoth that he was today.


    Looking at the situation , the sect mastersmented to Alexander


    ” Your son has great innate strength, his natural muscle quality is higher than Zimo’s”.


    ” The 13 y/o has practiced some incredible martial arts , the Avalonian kingdom sure has some fine martial arts hidden “.


    ” What power … amazing! “.


    Alexander only smiled at thepliments and said nothing. Little did these guys know that Ronan had built this muscle himself and hereditary had nothing to do with it.


    This was his own ruthless hardwork doing the job.


    After a full 3 minutes of a beautiful back and forth , Ronan finally started to gain the edge over Zimo as the other party’s peak concentration became to waver.


    Zimo had never sustained such a long volley in a spar and his concentration had started to give out , and made him incapable of following Ronan’s attacks at such a high pace.


    Ronan however having trained his mind and body to the limits in the cave of penance was used to practicing such high intensity volleys for hours by himself, shadowboxing his opponent.


    For him this was a walk in the park and it started to show once Zimo started to slide as more and more of his punches made contact.


    Finally after a feint that Zimo misjudged , Ronannded a beautiful roundhouse kick to knock him off his feet and send him flying.


    BAM!


    CRASH!


    Zimo was the first one to have his back hit the floor , as he waspletely rattled by the roundhouse kick. He desperately tried to regain bnce in anticipation of a follow up attack , but to his shock Ronan never closed in .


    With him stretching his neck , he patiently waited for Zimo to stand back-up as he gestured him toe at him once more.


    Zimo felt stunned at this moment , as the Avalonian crowd roared in appreciation. The 13 y/o brat infront of him was apparently making fun of him , and that too in such a serious battle!


    Zimo did not understand wether tough or cry at this situation , but he was d that Ronan did not close in as this gave him the time he needed to move onto ying with his strengths which was the game of elemental attacks.


    Not reacting outwardly but instead resolving himself internally, Zimo decided that he would let his attacks do the talking as he would make Ronan regret his choice as to not capitalise on the opening that he had gotten.


    ” Alright … time for me to y to my strengths ” , Zimo said as he started to shoot out javelins made of light , just like against Percy as Ronan was forced to dodge.


    However just after dodging 7nces , Ronan seemed to get bored of them as he summoned thunderbolts in his palm and started to throw them back towards the light javellins.


    THUNDERBOOM!


    It felt like the clouds were crackling as lound thunderbooms were created when Ronan’s thunderbolts collided with zimo’s lightningnces .


    Completely taking Zimo by surprise, Ronan’s thunderbolts were actually strong enough to neutralize his lightning attacks , as for the first time since the fight started , Zimo started to question if he could actually clutch this fight out.


    The opponent seemed to be much stronger than he had initially anticipated him to be ….


    Although he had not yet exhausted all his options and he was still fresh into the fight without having umted to much fatigue or damage , the opponent did not seem to have either.


    In their first exchanges the opponent had managed to gain an upper hand and this was not what team Zimo had nned for.


    Their n was to establish dominance early and end the fight within a moderate 20-25 minutes time. But that seemed like a pipe dream at the moment.


    Little did Zimo know , Ronan never even considered him to be truepetition, as for him , this was only the warm-up before the finals .