Hero of Darkness

After the teams were dispersed into three sections of the battle ring, each one facing their targeted opponent, Kahn revealed his intentions to the tengu swordsman without a second thought.

"My my.. You're a grade-A dumbass. Did you even fight in a real battle or just this competition?

How can you be so naive to walk into a trap just with simple provocations?" asked Kahn with a coy expression.

"What.. What trap? The one who should be worried is you." said the opponent.

"Ahh… it's like I'm talking to a toddler.

Well then filler character no. 34, let's begin. I promise I won't pluck out too many of your feathers." spoke Kahn as he took a defensive.

"Bastard! Who do you think you're talking to? Pluck my feathers? How about I skin you alive instead?!" retorted the tengu and spread his large black feathery wings.

His species had a head of a crow and two black wings on their back in addition to their humanoid body structure of 2 arms and legs.

But their wings were what their kin prided in most as they enabled their kind to fly in the sky unlike other species.

And Kahn's remark about plucking his feathers angered the swordsman to his core in just a second.

As for Kahn who usually made such type of remarks to rile up his opponents hit the mark again.

At the same time, Elaine and Cattleya passed similar comments to their respective opponents and made them furious as well.

Showing them a middle finger, then making such disgraceful remarks was something Kahn already planned ahead of the battle.

It was to see if their opponents were cool-headed seasoned warriors or some hot-headed buffoons who couldn't even see through this simple war tactic. And luckily.. Their opponent team was the latter type.

They clearly didn't prepare for a battle strategy and were too overconfident of themselves.

"Listen to me, idiot. We just broke your formation with a single finger and separated your entire team. And now you're already by yourself.

Yet you don't even understand it. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything more from a bird brain." said Kahn with a grin, making another bird joke.

"You motherfucker! I'll kill you!" shouted the tengu in an irritated tone and took an attacking posture.

BOOM!!

On the left side of the battlefield, Elaine and the demonkin mage started their battle with a bang.

The female mage created a protection barrier around her and launched AoE fire spells that exploded and shook the nearby 20 meters area. Elaine on the other end launched a volley of wind elemental attacks using her archery skills, fanning back the fire back at her opponent.

On the right side, Cattleya faced her Enchantress opponent who was casting magic formations after formations in the air and then using them to launch various types of elemental and destructive attacks at their opponent.

Cattleya, who was a Summoner gathered her mana around and created a tall and sturdy wall to protect herself. Then she summoned a giant halberd made up of dense mana in the air and attacked the opponent from a long distance.

Although both classes functioned just like mages who were dependent on mana, the way they used it in a battle differed by a huge margin.

Enchanters/Enchantress first created magic formations using their mana and these magic formations channeled that mana to either attack or defend. Every magic formation had different uses.

So this class paid more attention to mastering these formations and casting them quickly than studying how to use mana to cast different elemental spells.

Summoner class had the same foundation as a mage but instead of casting spells infused with mana, they created objects such as walls, spears, swords, shields and even mimic a monster using their skills and mastery. And they could infuse a particular element inside their summoned objects as well.

The key difference between these three classes was how they utilized and structured their mana for their spells, formations and constructs.

Kahn was a person who was already studying magic so knew about this basic and key difference, unlike the common population who thought they were all the same.

In the middle of the battle ring, Kahn's opponent dashed towards him as both his swords glowed faint green and highly compressed wind swirled around them while the wings also increased his speed by twice.

Kahn had already activated the draconian bloodline effect for Lucifer since the beginning, making it leak intense heat since it was made from the body parts of the magma drake.

He gave a light smirk and sprinted towards his opponent for a frontal clash as well.

CLANG!

Two swords with a faint green glow clashed against a black giantsword with crimson veins leaking intense heat, as if it had lava running inside.

Spark!

Sparks formed in between the blades as Kahn pushed the opponent back.

He took a step back after gauging the opponent's physical strength from the first clash.

[He's fast and precise. But I can take him..

The only problem will be those wings and his armor which isn't even hindering his speed or movements despite him being fully covered in it.] spoke Kahn to himself and launched another swing at the opponent.

This was how high-ranked warriors tested each other. They didn't just start with their aura attack skills or combat techniques but took note of the opponent's strength first by exchanging basic moves.

A few more moves were exchanged between him and the opponent and both of them were forced into an impasse.

Although Kahn was fighting by limiting his rank and stats to match the intermediate rank grandmaster opponent, he had to admit that his enemy had good posture and control over his weapons.

Just based on his attack patterns, he felt that the tengu swordsman had the advantage in speed and movements because he was using two normal-sized lightweight swords while Kahn was using a 5 feet long greatsword.

Although his control was perfect over the sword, it was still a 2 vs 1 scenario where he was at a disadvantage.

Just then, an idea came into his mind and he spoke to himself in a hushed tone...

"I guess I'll have to Sekiro this guy."