Two youths looked at each other as the professor spoke certain words, Vyncent had an intense and focused look on his face,his figure emanated a feeling of nobility,in contrast, Veangeance's gaze revealed no emotion,his figure emanated a strange unsettling feeling.
" I've been wanting to fight you for a long time,but I know regardless of which one of us wins,the outcome would make someone I care about sad, so just so you know, it's nothing personal..."
Towards Vyncent's words, Veangeance gave no response, instead,
Wielding the twin silver swords he chose as weapons, Veangeance charged Ahead and when he entered the range of Vyncent's longsword,he crossed the blades into an x shape and blocked the blade that came in direction of his chest.
After performing the block, Veangeance removed the rear blade from the block and attempted to strike at Vyncent's forearm,However, Vyncent pulled his arms back and wasn't hit,the blade was about to fall down but it suddenly disappeared and appeared again in Vyncent's hand.
Vyncent moved forwards and attempted to strike at Veangeance again and Veangeance used the blade in his left hand in an attempt to block,but Vyncent suddenly changed the direction of the blade and aimed it at his left knee before throwing it forwards,The blade almost struck but Veangeance widened his stance making the blade narrowly miss, Veangeance immediately jumped forwards to take advantage of the enemy's lack of weapon but Vyncent decided to cast a spell, Veangeance found himself in an altar battle against Vyncent.
In this dispute, Veangeance won by getting rid of Vyncent's ꦄꦼꦵ.
The spell Veangeance decided to cast was, Stehlen,his thought capacity improved while Vyncent's decreased for about three seconds, Taking advantage of this, Veangeance jumped forwards and faked an attack to the left side of Vyncent's head,this caused Vyncent to over commit to using his shield to block, normally, Someone as skilled as Vyncent would not have done this but with his thought capacity decreased,he became more similar to a beast who acts on instinct.
Veangeance proceeded to slash at Vyncent's left hip and left a deep cut, however, Vyncent still managed to fall back before receiving a more dangerous wound.
Veangeance immediately charged forward and was about to strike again but suddenly the "Die Hand" manifested itself, Veangeance was given a sort of code he had to decipher and one he had to protect, depending on how much he deciphered the code he would be given information regarding the probability of what Authority Vyncent had received and vice versa.
This process is Called Gambling, Gambling required one to have hacking like skills and also depended on one's confidence in their skills,if one was overconfident or under confident,they may make the wrong decision.
Both gambling and altar happen In a separate time from the universal time.
He managed to predict that there was a 70% chance Vyncent had received White rest,90% probability he had received sin of Knowledge and 94% probability he had received Sage Instinct.
Veangeance himself received, Black rest,sage instinct and Light of judgement.
'Troublesome...'
According to the percentage,even if Veangeance used light of judgement, Vyncent would be able to use sage instinct and counter it,which meant Veangeance would waste his Light of judgement for this Hand...
Veangeance made his decision and decided to not use Light of judgement, Vyncent despite having his thought capacity lowered, hadn't become completely irrational and could still predict that Veangeance most likely hadn't received White rest to counter sin of Knowledge or use black rest, therefore he decided to use sin of knowledge,Even though he knew that his tought process was lowered, precisely because it was lowered he still decided to make a bet,in this case, Veangeance's Stehlen worked against him...
Veangeance was struck by Sin of knowledge,his mind was filled with knowledge that kept corrupting it.
Vyncent took this chance to strike at Veangeance and managed to pierce Veangence's stomach with his spear,Soon after however, Veangeance cast Handel,He and Vyncent again engaged in a altar and this time, Veangeance barely managed to win by getting rid of half of Vyncent's characters,his mind corruption decreased just in time for him to regain enough thought capacity to beat Vyncent who was still under the influence of Stehlen.
Veangeance's and Vyncent's wounds switched and Vyncent was now the one with the hole in his stomach.
However, something strange happened, Vyncent started radiating an energy even more fierce than before.
His physical capabilities increased enough to the point that Veangeance was finding it hard to keep up with him...
'A bloodline ability?'
That coupled with the fact that The effect of Stehlen had now expired made it so that
Veangeance started being pushed into the defensive and Looked to be headed towards defeat.
At this time, Veangeance decided to summon his Avatar.
After he manifested an Avatar he used sage instinct on it.
Seeing this, Vyncent had thought of summoning an Avatar and using sage instinct as well,but he reminded himself that Veangeance had likely received Light of judgement,he wasn't very certain,but the chance was enough to make him hesitant.
Therefore,he chose to just summon his Avatar and didn't use sage instinct,due to this, Vyncent started being pushed back,it was hard having to focus on both the avatar and himself.
Eventually, Vyncent was forced into a bad position in which he had to take a chance and use sage instinct, right after he did however...
His conscience was severely weakened,
Veangeance took the chance to attack Vyncent while Light of judgement was still taking effect and for the first time in this battle,Sacrificed his Avatar to use Annihilation, certain types of strange characters manifested themselves in a blood red color,they formed the shape of a longsword.
Deciding to not risk too much,he manifested the "sword" right in front of Vyncent,the sword then proceeded to pierce through his chest,but the avatar interfered and moved Vyncent just enough that he still managed to avoid having his vitals pierced through,which normally meant he would not die just yet,but Veangeance's ability of annihilation took effect and killed him.
However,soon after, something strange happened.
Vyncent's "corpse" started levitating into the air,Pure dark red fire engulfed his figure and a tremendous heat spread all throughout the arena, Veangeance found himself unable to move at all,after a few seconds,the raging fire disappeared revealing the figure of a young man without any injuries whatsoever.
After witnessing this,Veangeance had an idea of what happened,
'He previously never used an active ability,I had wondered if he still didn't have one before,but it seems that he did have one, it's just that it was a Resurrection ability...'
With this new development,Veangeance had already lost,his Penalty would soon activate and he would "die",His chances of winning the tournament were slim to non-existent,but he had a chance to enter the top 10 if not for his bad luck in meeting one of the strongest Prodigents this early.
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Back at the stands,Akane had one of her fists clinched tightly,The situation she least wanted to see happen Ended up happening after all, Vyncent and Ven were paired up against each other in the third round,This meant that one of them would have to leave the tournament empty handed,A scenario most wouldn't like but for the two of them especially,this tournament likely meant even more,for Vyncent,it was his chance to get a soul Bind, only by getting a soul Bind, could he,who had a 2nd Origin manage to match Seyrryu and Anneliese and truly rise to the Pinnacle of geniuses,for Ven,this was his last opportunity to do something meaningful and leave his name in the hall of fate, although she didn't know if the Current ven would still have similar goals to before,if he had at least placed in the top 10,she would be somewhat glad to know that maybe one of his goals was fulfilled...
Watching the battle between them was truly an emotional rollercoaster,she had previously been certain that Ven would have no chance against Vyncent,he had never excelled in Altars previously when they still hadn't chosen their successions,and since he only had a 4th origin in comparison to Vyncent who had a 2nd Origin,it meant that the avatar he could sacrifice was much weaker,this would lead to his active ability being weaker as well,but as the battle unfolded, Veangeance kept on gaining more and more ground, This situation gave her conflicting feelings,but she still would rather see Vyncent win,so his "death", caused her a lot of distress,yet now,as Vyncent stood uninjured in the center of the arena,Ven's figure was slowly decipating into blue sparks,she didn't understand why,but this meant Vyncent had won,her mostly joyous heart pained a little...
'sigh...'
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Vyncent now stood alone in the Arena, a few seconds later, Annabelle arrived and announced the result of the dispute,Said result which left most of the people in the stands quite flabbergasted.
The performance Veangeance had shown surpassed practically everyone's expectations,He had decisively won most of the match and seemed to have only lost at the end due to his own penalty,If Vyncent didn't happen to have that resurrection ability,he would likely lose.
This resurrection ability was also part of why they were so shocked,a Resurrection ability could be said to be the rarest type of ability in existence, Vyncent having one was beyond their wildest expectations...
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At the hall in which the 4 clan's higher ups gathered,a man with an average height and looks had a proud expression on his face,he was the uncle of Vyncent and one of the elders of the Legenda clan, Next to him,A fairly handsome man with black hair had a dissatisfied expression on his face,he was the father of Vyncent,Vent.
Noticing his expression, Vyncent's Uncle asked,
"Why do you seem so dissatisfied?, Vyncent had just won, and he even displayed the rare resurrection ability,You had to have known that, and yet you kept it hidden..."
"..., tsk,he only won because his abilities were a direct counter to the opponent's, but when it comes to actual battle prowess,he lost miserably,what is there to feel glad about?"
"..."
"Now there, Vent,No need to be so harsh, having someone with a Resurrection ability is quite the fortunate event for our clan, I'll make sure to give some extra rewards to your son in the future."
"Understood Patriarch,I am sincerely grateful."
"Hahaha,no worries, helping the future generation is the job of a leader after all..."
While those of the Legenda clan were discussing About Vyncent, Reyrryu was in deep tought, his face showed a rare intrigued expression.
'That kid,his battle prowess is truly exceptional...It's unfortunate that he will probably die in about a month,if not,I could have tried to recruit him to our clan...'
The other people around them were also all either dwelling on their toughts or sharing them out loud,for most,this battle was the most intriguing one so far.
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Veangeance's body manifested itself in the hall of fate,he stood there as the only person around, everyone else was either still in the tournament or just watching, Veangeance himself had interest in watching the rest of the tournament and analyzing the true battle prowess of top prodigents,but he had other matters to take care of, therefore he proceeded to walk out of the hall and headed in direction of the training area.