“Fight Starts… NOW!” Echoed the referee’s voice.

Lison stuck out his arms as cold air circulated around his palm: ”VISION MANIFESTATION: ICE SOLID SPEAR.” A spear made completely from ice formed, it generated extremely cold air causing mists of cold air to be released from the surface of the weapon.

At the end of the Ice handle of the spear there was a curved blade that acted as the spearhead as it released cold air, Lison directly grabbed it and immediately took a Spear Stance.

“Young Master Leon… I’m not confident in my feelings that I’ll win against you today, but I want you to face me with your full strength. I want to face you at full power,” said Lison calmly.

From Lison’s serious tone, Leon gained a sense of respect for him, “Okay, Lison I’ll respect your request and face you with my full power.” Said Leon.

Leon stood still, his calm demeanour caused the Natural Energy to violently shroud him in a white mist, which contained faint traces of black and gold threads of energy intertwining together. The mist blurred Leon’s body, his rare brown eyes were the only thing visible in the white mist.

“External Technique, 1st Gate: Cage” Leon’s voice was calm as it resounded across the Coliseum carrying an immense amount of power. It drifted around the entire Coliseum for everyone to hear. This was Leon at his full power, he was using every ounce of his power to display his strength.

“1st Gate?” Elder James murmured with a confused expression.

The Mist surrounding Leon, suddenly expanded and then just as fast it contracted, until it shrank into a thin membrane of armour. The armour created energy fluctuations that seemed like a caged beast that desired freedom. Leon slowly stuck his hand out and Azeon appeared, this combination created a frightening pressure.

Leon stood there staring at Lison. “Lison, this is my full power. I’ll end this fight in one attack, so be prepared.” Leon spoke in a serious tone.

Leon held Azeon in a careless manner, however for Lison there was no opening which he could exploit from what he could see.

Seeing this Lison grit his teeth, not daring to show a single sign of resignation, “Young master Leon be prepared for my most powerful attack.”

Lison held his spear and immediately ran across the ring towards Leon at a frightening speed, his movement was similar to the arctic winds, appearing and disappearing only leaving cold air in its presence. The ice spear was kept in front of him to thrust at Leon.

Cold air swirled around the Ice spearhead, as energy swirled around the tip of the spearhead increasing the power of the stab.

Traces of frost was forming on the platform very slowly wherever Lison passed. In a matter of seconds Lison arrived in front of Leon.

” Frost Spear Stab.” Roared Lison as he thrust at Leon’s chest, at the same time creating multiple spear afterimages, because of Leon’s carelessness he thought that his thrust would have maximum effect on him.

As the spear closed down on Leon’s chest, Leon’s careless expression immediately became fierce:

“1st Gate: Caged Outburst!” Roared Leon as he swung Azeon down at the spear closing down on him. Even before Azeon struck at the Ice spear, the immense pressure caused by Azeon crushed The Ice spear which shattered in Lison’s hand. Lison’s face twisted with horror as he saw his spear shatter into fragments of ice energy. Lison immediately coughed blood.

“Boom!!” An earth shattering explosion occurred as a ray of white energy, that contained gold and black intertwined threads destroyed the surface of the ring as it ripped everything apart. The attack carried on even after destroying the Ice spear.

“Boom!” Suddenly the sword energy clashed against the Energy wall created by a Prime to protect the spectators. The Energy wall trembled, ripples of energy formed because of the destructive force of Leon’s attack. The light emitted by the wall was reduced by a large amount, it’s light had lost its previous magnificent lustre.

The ring was utterly destroyed, the spectators were shell-shocked, this was power that they could only dream of obtaining, a large and long crack that stretched through the same path the sword energy went through. It began where Leon’s sword clashed with the Ice spear.

The power from the attack caused the previous intense atmosphere to change into one of awe and amazement, people couldn’t help but suck in a breathe of cold air.

Instantly an eruption of noise echoed through the stadium, shrouding all possible noise, this was even broadcasted to homes around the city.

Elder James didn’t have the energy to utter a single word as he slouched back into his seat, this power was indescribable, it was unbelievable that someone without a Vision caused this much damage at such a young age as well.

Izak could not hold the joy he felt inside, “Haha, that kid hid his power so well!” his voice couldn’t hide his joy as he forgot himself. “Leon, my son you might actually reach the finals of the tournament or even win this if you’re hiding something even more incredible than this.” Izak just couldn’t believe that this was the peak of Leon’s power after being stunned again and again by this boy.

What Izak just said piqued the interest of Elder James’s and everyone else’s in the booth. They slowly gazed at the two figures in the ring.

Both Lison and Leon were standing still in the exact same stances, Leon drew Azeon back as he stabbed it into the ground as he staggered, this was to keep balance because this attack carried a huge burden. Leon’s face was pale, he immediately coughed blood onto the fractured floor as he slowly shifted his gaze to stare at Lison.

Lison’s face was pale, devoid of blood. His forehead was covered by a layer of cold sweat, when his gaze caught Leon staring at him, he involuntarily gulped in fear and fell onto his knees. To Lison it felt like he was staring at the power of an Emperor, the attack just now destroyed his will to continue fighting, he also gained respect for Leon for going through with his request.

“I give up…” He said with a hint of fear still lingering in his voice, even under the noise of the crowd the referee heard, whom immediately announced Leon’s victory.

“Quarter-Finals winner is… Leon Kaiser.”

Even though Lison had given up he wasn’t ridiculed for being beaten by this boy, after seeing Leon’s power they could not help but admire his strength.

After Leon unleashed this attack, the crowd expected this result but they still couldn’t help but erupt into a cheer for Leon.

Leon gave a respectful glance at Lison and then turned around. He slowly but steadily walked off the stage with the help of Azeon. However with Azeon there it still produced a huge pressure that it emitted without a reason, so Leon had no choice but to put Azeon away.

Leon jumped off the ring and headed towards Lumios who was sitting on a stone chair, who had his mouth agape. Leon staggered next to him and sat down, Lumios carried on staring at him still shell-shocked.

“Leon, I thought you’re strongest attack was ‘Tremor Impact’ and now you have ‘1st something’ which is even stronger than that.” Muttered Lumios.

Leon helplessly gave a hollow laugh, “It’s actually called ‘1st Gate: Cage,’ and yeah, that is my strongest attack, I do have something stronger but I still need to spend some time to comprehend that technique, but what I used now was a power which I devised while reading some books… Weird isn’t it, finding something unexpected in a book, hehe.”

When Lumios heard how Leon had devised this technique he couldn’t help but feel at loss, only an outstanding genius could come with such techniques. The power that Leon showed was something that even caused his hair to stand with lingering fear and to hear he had something even stronger made him shiver slightly. I can’t underestimate Leon if I face him in the finals, Lumios thought to himself.

“Please wait a moment as the ring is being repaired,” as he said this a man stood next to the referee, smacked his foot on the ring floor, layers of earth erupted and covered the broken bits of Leon’s fight, this process took five minutes to complete.

“Thank you for your patience, We’ll immediately start the second fight: Kline Rauber and Christopher Veruth please come to the ring.”

Kline stood up and arrived on the ring with a few gliding steps to the ring. Kline was wearing a red robe with an arrogant expression plastered on his above average face and was openly ignoring his opponent Christopher, his arrogance caused Christopher who was opposite to him fume with anger. He had no prior meetings with Kline but already had a bad impression of him.

The referee waved his hand, indicating that the fight starts now.

Immediately Kline arrogantly stared at Leon, his expression told everything. Let me show you what you’ll be facing, when we fight.

Christopher couldn’t take it anymore: “Earth Vision Manifestation: Feisty Ape,” Christopher’s body grew twice in size, his muscles bulged as hair started growing all over his body, his face changed into an apes. His body was emanating brute strength and savageness.

Christopher instantly thrashed his way towards, Kline who still didn’t take notice of him. “You arrogant Bastard!!” He roared.

“Hmph…” Sighed Kline in disdain, ”Earth Vision Manifestation: Prison Sword,” A double edged sword appeared that released a purple glow. Leon immediately recognised the sword, it was the weapon that Kline used to nearly kill him.

“Prison Arts: Dark Edge,” he vocalised, an eerie dark aura covered the sword as he sliced down at Christopher right away.

“Bang,” A huge blinding light was emitted when the sword came into contact with Christopher’s transformed body.

The blinding light slowly died down, the crowd was tense and then they were shocked at the scene in front of them.

Christopher’s was already back in his normal form, however his body lay crumpled in the middle of a crater and there was a large sword wound, where blood was profusely pouring out from.

Right away the referee jumped into the ring and quickly checked Christopher’s pulse and then he nodded: “The winner of the second fight is… Kline Rauber.”

Immediately afterwards a group of doctor’s entered the ring and gave Christopher medical attention straight away.

At that moment Kline turned towards the participants stand and found Leon, he smirked, his gaze said everything that had to be said: This is you next, be prepared or I’ll cripple you to the point where not even your mom will recognise you.

Leon simply ignored Kline’s aggressive expression, which caused Kline to feel annoyed. Kline got off the ring and simply walked back towards Ed.

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During the next two fights both Ed and Lumios won the fight with a single punch, this deeply astonished the crowd, they had never expected that four of the five finalists were actually from Reon and not from an outside sect.

The fifth and final fight of the day bought the most horrific, shocking event in the whole tournament. In the middle of the arena stood Harrison Darris holding his right arm that was soaked in blood and in front of him was Fauder lying crumpled in a pool of his own blood, his mangled body was horrifying to look at, his right arm wasn’t attached to his body anymore, it was lying a hundred metres away . The crowd were baffled, sickened by this because they had seen what had happened.

During the fight it was clearly seen that they had enmity towards each other, either because of the hatred between the Scorching Fire Tribe and the Darcius Corp or it was a personal grudge. However everyone saw how Vicious Harrison was when attacking Fauder and in the end Fauder lost his arm and was violently battered to the point of being considered a cripple.

The referee walked and checked his pulse, after a moment he shook his head: “Fauder Feuer is dead.” His voice echoed through the Coliseum, causing shocked expressions to appear everywhere in the Coliseum. The faces of the branch sect members of the Scorching Fire Tribe were twisted with a burning desire to kill, “Harrison Darris, you are disqualified from participating in the finals and the Darcius Corp, will hereby be banned from the next 2 Path of Kings Trials.” This caused a wave of discussion to course through the crowd.

In a matter of seconds a Horrifying aura appeared in the ring. The Branch Master of the Scorching Fire Tribe appeared his expressions dark, the second best disciple of their branch had just been killed and the first one was crippled and would need a long rest to return to his best state. Simultaneously a manager from the Darcius Corp appeared besides Harrison, then both groups forces came to their respective leaders.

“Move…” A cold voice escaped the Branch master. This caused everyone in the ring except for the manager from the Darcius Corp to cough out a mouthful of blood and their faces to turn pale.

“Branch Master, we’ll compensate for your loss, so please forgive this young one.” Said the Manager with a smile on his face.

This caused, the Branch Master’s face to turn cold, someone of his status could not take this disrespect after having one of his tribe member killed. “You arrogant Bastard, I’ll kill your entire group here and now.” His voice was filled fury, A fiery aura was released by the branch master.

“sigh…” the Darcius Corps Manager frowned and he also released a chilling cold aura as frost permeated around him, clashing with the fiery aura, cracking noises could be heard around the Coliseum.

“Hmmph…” A cold voice ripple through the ring, causing the temperature of the Coliseum to drop drastically.

The fiery aura of the Branch Master and the cold aura of the Manager was crushed by this voice. The both of them fell onto their knees as their face went pale and immediately coughed blood onto the ring. The aura that the cold voice released was suffocating.

“You arrogant kids dare to fight in front of me, take care of your problems elsewhere or I’ll kill you all here and now.” This cold voice made them shiver in fear as they turned their heads to find the fear-striking voice.

There they saw Elder James, his eyes closed not even bothering to look at them, however they felt a pressure that they had never felt before crushing down on them. The heavy aura was lifted but fear still lingered, the crowd was quiet, even the weakest person feel the cold aura emanating from Elder James.

Suddenly both the Darcius Corp and the branch of the Scorching Fire Tribe both left as quickly as they could, in fear of angering Elder James.

Leon was filled with awe as he saw this. What power… I wonder what level Elder James is on, it’s definitely higher than prime. Little did Leon know that a Prime was not even considered a joke for Elder James, a mere thought could kill a prime with his strength.

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After the great ruckus, the semi-finals had been decided:

First Match: Leon Kaiser Vs Kline Rauber

Second Match: Edward Rauber Vs Lumios Rakel