The sun will set in a few mins. Lloyd stood on the stage looked towards the sun. just then a person entered his stage wanting to challenge him.

Lloyd turned around and looked, he was confused. The person before him was a member of the fire phoenix clan.

Normally only ice phoenix members challenge fire phoenix members and vice versa

He looked older than Lloyd and he had a smirk on his face.

Lloyd looked carefully at his opponent, he had a slight resemblance to Bernie. Lloyd thought and it ticked him that Bernie had an older brother. He was a genius of the clan after Derek.

'What was his name again?' Lloyd thought while looking at his opponent.

"Lloyd, do you remember me?" he said while looking at Lloyd.

While Lloyd was thinking, he heard audiences chatter.

"look that's Brandis. He is challenging that lucky guy"

"that guy is really shameful, trying to win against Dian who was weak after so many battles"

'So, he was called Brandis' Lloyd thought.

"Lloyd, you will finally pay for what you did to Bernie," Brandis said with a smirk.

"will I?" Lloyd said as he looked around as he was searching for something.

Seeing Lloyd looking around instead of fighting him, Brandis got confused and asked, "what the hell is looking for?"

"you said I will pay. So, I am searching for someone who could make me pay" Lloyd said with a serious face.

"YOU!!" Brandis was enraged as he felt Lloyd was treating him like a flea. He wasn't taking him seriously.

Brandis had a heavy sword on his back. He withdraws it and rushed towards Lloyd and smashed.

As he saw the attack, Lloyd used shadow steps to dodges and used his Fist art to attack Brandis at his ribs.

Brandis was overjoyed as his sword smashed against Lloyd. After a moment he felt weird as he only felt the air as the sword smashed.

Next moment he felt massive pain in his ribs. He stumbled backward and was brought to his knees. He felt like a massive object crashed directly into his ribs. He could also hear something breaking.

"you don't have to kneel down and apologize for Bernie," Lloyd said while looking little sad.

"YOUUU!!" Brandis wanted to shout but his mouth only moved and no sound came.

Seeing this everyone was stumbled.

"what the hell is going on?"

"At first, Dian gave up after a move and now Brandis is kneeling to him after a move"

Only a few saw how Lloyd moved. Dian was watching the match with interest. When he saw how Brandis was kneeling there, he was happy inside.

'now, that guy knows how I felt' Dian thought.

Brandis gritted his teeth in anger and slowly stood up. He didn't see, how he was injured. He activated his bloodline.

His body started to glow in a crimson light as flames were released. He combined his flames with his sword wanting to attack.

"now you what to show off your flame. then how about mine" Lloyd said as he initiated his crimson flame and countered against Brandis's.

Lloyd flame was darker than Brandis. Its heat was many times higher than.

As Lloyd released his flame, it swallowed Brandis's flame instantly. The temperature around the stage started to increase as the flame spread.

Snow melted. Burning smell appeared as stage and ground got scorched. The flames appeared as a second sun in the day.

"this is impossible!!" Brandis screamed and fell to the ground.

Brandis couldn't believe it. He was considered the genius of the clan. His bloodline purity was next to Derek's. If Derek wasn't born, he could have been the heir of the clan.

But now, Lloyd who considered trash as easily defeated him. His flames got devoured easily.

"will you stop screaming?" Lloyd asked as he came to Brandis.

"what do you want now?" Brandis asked.

"GET OFF" Lloyd shouted as he kicked Brandis in his stomach.

Brandis flew off the stage and crashed to the ground. He raised his head and looked at Lloyd in anger. His face change red in anger.

He couldn't overcome Derek and Derek's brother trashed him. He couldn't still believe it.

Finally, Brandis spat blood and fainted.

Seeing Brandis fainted, Lloyd put off his flame with a wave of his hands and looked towards the sun.

The light dimmed as the sun was setting at the horizon. The audience was still rubbing their eyes as they looked at Brandis and Lloyd. They only saw huge flame and Brandis flew out it and fainted while Lloyd still standing there without a speck of dust on his clothes. He still appeared neat as he entered the stage.

Elder wade came forward and looked and audience and said, "since the sun has set, the members standing on the stage will qualify and move on the second round"