Humanity Return

Ch. 84 – Arena Special for Their Fight

The festive cries did not stop for long enough, but the fight still had not begun. They look very excited even though they only see the view above the arena in the middle of the stadium.

The two youths were 50 meters above the arena which looked slightly different, as the floor was already darker and shiny than before.

A stylishly dressed man slid through the air and landed amongst them.

“Good day to you all! Finally we reach the top of the tournament this time, the final between these two lads..!”.

Isaac spun in the middle of the arena beautifully and swung his long arm into the sky excitedly.

“Maybe this will be the hottest fight in junior tournament history, much different from the previous fight! Exchange between two geniuses of this generation..!”.

Isaac stopped spinning and smiled widely, he opened both of his arms and pointed at the two young men at once.

“But as we have seen for these few days, the fight of the two of them will not only destroy this arena below them, but also harm you all! Because of that..”

Isaac flicked his finger and suddenly, the gigantic magic circle around the arena started to light up slowly.

The magic symbols one by one began to shine and form a full circle, exuding great pressure and finally...

A 100-meter-high transparent dome surrounded the arena, enveloping it.

“High-tip pure protective magic has been established to protect all of you, modified to withstand attacks from outside and inside! With the help of over 100 people to charge Mana into this magic circle, they could rampage as freely as possible without worrying about their surroundings!”

Unbeknownst to them, Isaac was already standing on top of that transparent dome. This proved that the dome was only pure to withstand an attack, and touching it normally did not result in any reaction.

“Haha, I didn't think they would prepare this just for us. I think we need to find another place to fight seriously”

A huge smile could be seen on the black-haired young man's face above the arena, with a sword seen sheathed on his waist and a small bag on his right thigh. Leinn stood there while examining the large magic circle around the arena.

His iconic big bag was already nowhere to be seen on his back, replaced by a striking long black jacket. The jacket had long sleeves, was unbuttoned, and had many small pockets.

Surprisingly this jacket looks fluttering slowly even though there is no wind around it.

Almost hidden by the long sleeves of the jacket was a black glove on both of his hands that had a square-shaped yellow metal on the back of his hand.

“Yes, will not be interesting if the fight is stopped because someone was injured by our attack”

On the other side of the arena stood a blonde-haired youth with protectors on various parts of his body.

His chest and shoulders were covered by a dark blue-colored protector with golden engravings that formed the lifelike, dragon-looking head, with iron shoes that protect all the way to the knees of his feet and iron gloves protect his entire palms and wrists. Of course it was all dark blue with gold around it.

A dark blue short chain can be seen on the waist of Roland's pants, with 14 identical rings hanging there.

The two young men looked at each other without saying anything.

What stopped the silence from forming was Isaac speaking excitedly far above them.

“-that's why this protector won't be destroyed even if it's attacked by magic of the same level! In addition to this protector we also modified the arena floor to be more sturdy, with earth element magic from dozens of people.”.

Isaac was seen drowning while explaining the protective magic and began to explain the recollection of the durability of the arena floor. It looks like it's going to take a while.

“Hehehe..”.

“Hahaha...”

The sound of laughter came out from the mouths of the two young men almost simultaneously, and it was not because there was something funny going on around the two of them that made that happen.

The reason for the laughter was none other than their excitement, the fact that eventually the two of them would fight each other again after a few years.

This feeling was overflowing in the last seconds that they needed to wait.

Leinn tried to calm himself down by saying something he had just remembered.

“How much do we score first? I don't remember”

Hearing the question, Roland stopped laughing and started to ponder and tried to recall it.

“Should have.. 124 wins, 124 losses, and 450 draws”.

“Oh is right too..”

Leinn took off and grasped his sword sheath with his left hand.

“How about... Our bet? If it's not wrong my score is one time lose and..”.

Roland pulled out his weapon and the sword looked shiny in his right hand.

“...one time win” further Roland short.

On top of the podium beside the arena was seen Aura and Adeline who felt the tense atmosphere between the two youths had already almost reached its peak.

“Kyuu?”

The aura was startled by a small Clear who jumped from his lap to the outside of the podium, then disappeared from their sight.

“H-hey..!”

Suddenly from the same place appeared two transparent tentacles, then four tentacles and finally his body was visible. A familiar large bag appeared on the podium with eight transparent legs that made it look like a strange spider.

Being on top of that bag was a small Clear-small.

“Kyuu!”

The small transparent blob crawled down the big bag and of course, the owner of the leg was Clear. He was asked to bring this big bag here and just wait.

Leinn and Roland had no intention of bringing their Contracted Beasts into this fight, they realized their opponents this time needed their full concentration.

The small-clear leaped onto it and rejoined it into one with Clear, who put down the large bag he was carrying and began to spread out on the podium, looking relaxed.

Beside him was Basalt who had already stopped training and was intending to learn the fight of the two young men in the arena. He had lost heavily while he was challenging Roland and he realized Leinn wasn't really serious when fighting him in the forest before.

Twig crept up and lay beside Clear and prepared to see his master fight as well. He and Clear seemed to have been close friends for a short time before this. He also looked tired after moving all day without stopping.

Rufus was still in his lying position beside Aura but he was seen not letting go of his gaze from the two youths above the arena. He also had his own reasons for becoming stronger and the fight between the two young men had a high possibility of helping him.

Spirit Beast Elsa had already landed on Adeline's shoulders and started to shake her legs, looking impatient watching Roland's fight this time around.

Away above them, a golden-haired bird appeared perched on the open roof of the stadium and looked at the two young men seriously.

While the ones feeling the most tense at the moment were the teachers and disciples standing outside the magic circle while preparing to enter their Mana to strengthen that protective dome.

They believed that the two young men inside this dome would not be able to break through the regenarations coming from the Mana belonging to these more than a hundred people but somehow, somehow, an unpleasant feeling continued to creep up behind their heads.

“-it looks like everything is done and ready to go!”

Isaac leapt up high and floated to the seat for the teacher who now had only two people left besides him.

He landed and sat down in his chair while stomping his cane to the floor beside him.

“Bet ready!”

The two teachers beside him were also seen stomping their feet and sticks and the magic circle started to light up more and more, then a change occurred.

The transparent dome thickened at a speed that could be seen after receiving that last Mana, becoming much sturdier than before.

The two young men only looked at each other without putting up a fighting position, not being affected at all by the announcement.

“Start!”

Then, they both vanished from where they stood

CLANGS!

...and appeared in the middle of the arena.

The encounter of the two of their weapons produced a shock wave that spread out in all directions, shaking the transparent dome.

“ROLAND!”

“LEINN!”