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'What is he doing? He might receive a backlash and injure himself!'

Aselia noticed the bit of change around Arthur and frowned.

She had some accomplishments in comprehending wind intent and she could sense that Arthur was about to use 'Wind Ride'.

'Why am I even worrying about him? He should fail and let me win instead,' Aselia shook her head as she increased the intensity of her tornadoes.

Just then, Arthur's voice echoed as he spoke.

"Wind Ride..."

This time Arthur used his Wind Intent up to the seventh level and also augmented his speed with fifth-rank Speed Intent.

*Swoosh!*

Arthur disappeared from his spot in an instant and appeared behind Aselia.

Then without any delay, he straightened his palm and used the side to knock her out.

*Tat!*

Aselia's vision darkened as she wondered what happened.

*Pat!*

Arthur caught her unconscious body and looked at her face closely for the first time.

Aselia had light-green curly hair and an oval-shaped face. She was very fair and slender.

'Her body is incredibly soft...wait, what am I thinking, I can't be a pervert right?'

"Stage two, Invincible wins!" The elder announced.

Arthur carried her bridal style and jumped off the stage, before tapping a place at her neck with his essence energy.

"Huh?"

Aselia woke up to find Arthur's smiling face with his eyes staring into hers.

"What happened?" She asked a bit sluggishly before she widened her eyes and pushed Arthur away.

"Pervert!"

"Hey don't call me that. I just couldn't bear to see you fall to the ground," Arthur said and pretended to look hurt.

"Hmph!" Aselia puffed her cheeks and walked away ignoring Arthur.

'Damn it! I didn't even know how I lost. How fast is he, and how much of that technique has he mastered?' She wondered as she waited for the next round to start.

Over at Luke and his group, they watched this interaction between Arthur and Aselia with interesting expressions, including Luke.

He had never seen Arthur act like that before with a girl.

'As expected of Master...' He thought.

Arthur would laugh if he knew what Luke was thinking. As he was just trying to have a little fun and had no real intentions of doing anything.

Although he wouldn't shy away if 'something' did happen as he hadn't yet 'become a man' yet in this life.

This made him think of Jade Maiden who had always teased him back then.

'I wonder how she is?'

Just then, another match was concluded and the winner was announced.

"Stage three, Julie wins!"

"Stage four, Yanglin wins!"

"Stage five, Wester wins!"

Just like that, the other two matches decided their winners and the next round of battle continued.

"Round 2!"

"Stage one, Mark Vs Yanglin!"

"Stage two, Gakner Vs Tomin!"

"Stage three, Invincible Vs Wester!"

"Stage four, Aselia Vs Ethan!"

"Stage five, Julie Vs Devon!"historical

Everyone ascended their assigned stage and the next round of battles erupted in the direction of the elder.

"Begin!"

Arthur's opponent Wester was the sixth-ranked disciple and had a Flame Beast Martial Spirit which was a variant that had the advantage of Elemental Spirits and Beast Martial Spirits.

Wester summoned a flaming red bull and his hands began to form hand signs at an incredible speed.

"You have never used your martial spirit before, this time you might want to," Wester said with a neutral tone.

"We'll see about that," Arthur replied neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

"As you wish," Wester stopped forming hand signs and released a flame-type attack from his mouth.

"Flaming Breath!"

'A wide-ranged attack huh? Like I have never seen that before,' Arthur was not impressed.

'Time to show more of my strength!'

"North-Star Fist: Sixth Star!"

Six tiny lights formed a first made of Arthur's energy and enlarged to a third of his size.

Arthur took a step forward and punched forward with great might.

"Hah!"

The fist made of energy bore through the flames like it was nothing and scattered it into the air.

Then with immense speed, it arrived before Wester who tried to change position as he knew of the nature of the technique.

'Heh, too slow,' Arthur snickered as the fist arrived, and then...

*Boom!*

"Argh!"

The attack exploded upon contact and Wester got sent flying.

"Stage one, Mark wins!"

"Stage three, Invincible wins!"

Just at the same time, Mark won his fight without suspense.

Arthur looked at him and then back at his defeated opponent who was frowning deeply with gritted teeth either due to his loss or due to pain.

Arthur left the stage and soon the winners of the other matches were announced.

"Round 3!"

The next round began soon after with the disciples had little time to rest.

Just like that Arthur kept true to his words and defeated every opponent he faced with one move except Gakner who admitted defeat in an instant.

Arthur could not understand what this strange guy was thinking as he had admitted defeat to everyone he faced without hesitation.

"Round 8!"

"Stage one, Mark Vs Ethan!"

"Stage two, Invincible Vs Julie!"

"Stage three..."

Arthur stood in the arena and looked at the second female disciple in the top ten besides Aselia.

Julie was previously ranked second which was an impressive feat. In the outer court, she was only second to Mark.

She was a young girl with glossy black hair that dropped to her shoulders. She had black pupils filled with coldness and indifference.

Arthur could sense the pride that was well hidden behind her straight expression.

"You won't be able to defeat me," Julie spoke with a cold tone, clearly looking down on Arthur.

"And why do you think that?" Arthur saw the disdain in her eyes but thought nothing of it.

"I am not thinking, I know."

"I see you are very confident."

"Well, I am just stating facts."

Arthur refrained from speaking anymore to the conceited girl and waited for the start of the battle to be announced.

"Begin!"

'Just in time,' he thought and waited for Julie to attack first.

"You would be foolish to let me attack first..."

A harp appeared above Julie which was her martial spirit and began to play a sweet melody.

Immediately the sound was heard, and a few disciples close by had their minds drifted elsewhere as they saw another scene altogether without knowing that they had entered an illusion.

'The Divine Spirit Harp, I never imagined that I would meet such a powerful martial spirit in this low-leveled world,' Arthur was a bit shocked.

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Author's Note: *Yawwn* It's 1 am over here, and I just managed to finish this chapter...as promised.

Goodnight fellows...