Overlord Tamer: All My Pet Monsters Have God Potential-Chapter 64: Arena, Fights!
Chapter 64: Arena, Fights!
John and Azelis arrived in the Arena—a section of the mountain with two layers. Each layer was carved up to be as big as two football fields placed side by side.
Each layer had crater-like fighting rings placed for Tamers to battle within.
For normal fights without the use of Monsters, there were smaller rings while bigger ones were reserved for all-out fights.
"Look! It’s goddess Azelis!"
"And that guy...urgh."
"Haha, this is a good thing. I’m going to challenge him."
"Someone call Rakin here. It’s going to be fun."
"Tsk, I wonder why goddess Azelis brought a rando to make him her first apprentice."
"Hmm, he does look handsome. If he is strong, I might go after him, hehe."
...
Azelis led John to the fighting ring in the center, a 50-meter radius crater.
John calmly stepped inside, his attire was the usual black-red accent robe of Ouroboros Hall.
Azelis cleared her throat before speaking, her voice spreading far and wide as if carried by magic.
"Everyone, all Silver-rank Tamers are free to challenge John. Let’s give some pointers to your new junior."
John rolled his eyes.
The Tamers had already gathered while Executives and Hall Masters were also watching, but from afar, while leisurely sitting at tables.
"I’ll challenge him!"
"Me!"
John saw the shouts and looked at their faces.
Azelis nonchalantly spoke, "The first one to step into the ring will fight."
A person suddenly burst out of the ground ten meters across John after vanishing from the audience space.
The ground stayed intact, indicating he used some kind of transforming Earth’s ability to travel through the ground like how John had his Umbral Drift that turns him into a streak of darkness.
"I’ll act as a referee," Lesly arrived and said with a smile as she stood at the edge of the ring outside.
"Both of you, take your weapons. You can either use the Spirit weapon of Silver-rank or lower. You can also use weapon-type soul technique."
John had a Velcron Iridescent Bow, but it was a Gold-rank weapon, and he planned to auction it in the end to get a solid amount of Gold Essence Coins.
His opponent took out a spear, a Silver-rank Spirit Weapon of Wind and Fire attributes.
John glanced at it and smiled before a gun appeared in his hand.
Everyone clearly sensed the aura of soul energy usage, making them surprised.
"What the heck?!"
"Wait, isn’t that the infamous Blood Alloy Sculpting soul technique?"
"That weapon...."
The Gold-rank Tamers were the first ones to notice.
"Holy crap...don’t tell me he really learned Blood Alloy Sculpting so soon?!"
"Humph, anyone can learn it as long as they have Blood and Metal affinity. The question is, did he manage to create a solid combat-ready weapon with it or not?"
Lesly was also surprised, but she didn’t waste time and announced, "Hugo Jin vs John Wicked. Are you ready?"
The fight ring’s border lit up with evenay placed round lights, causing Hugo’s Strength, Speed, and Defense to become on same level as John.
However, that surprised Hugo greatly. ’The fuck? This bastard reached 55 in all three stats so fast?!’
Meanwhile, the audience had a different reaction, with a mixture of laughter.
"John...wicked?!"
"What the heck is that surname, lol!"
"Hahahaha!"
Hugo squinted his eyes and asked, "John...Wicked? Really?"
"Absolutely." John faintly smiled.
Lesly raised her hand and announced, "If you both are ready, the fight starts in three...two...one!"
John pointed his pistol forward and shot.
Hugo’s hand blurred, his spear’s blade promptly striking the bullet, deflecting it. The bullet exploded and shrapnel shot out, but too far from Hugo.
However, Hugo felt the power of the bullet’s impact and was surprised. ’That’s solid firepower....so he really created a combat-ready weapon.’
A hint of seriousness flashed in his eyes. He couldn’t afford to take this battle lightly.
A burst of wind blasted off his legs as he jumped high before throwing his spear straight at John at a speed faster than a bullet.
John’s eyes were calm like water. They flickered briefly as he side-stepped, his pistol pointing at Hugo mid-air.
Bam!
Hugo wasn’t expecting John to react and counter this fast, but he was also ready in case that happened, as he used his soul technique—whirlwind barrier.
The bullet was once again deflected.
Hugo landed fast, grabbing his spear that was embedded on the ground and sweeping it at John, who was ready for it and ducked before sweep kicking him, his pistole already at his stomach.
Bang!
Hugo felt a Jolt before he was pushed back, blood leaking.
"Stop! The winner is John!"
"Holy crap, he won against Hugo!"
"His reflexes and reactions are crazy."
"He used a Geno Ability, I’m pretty sure."
Hugo got up, stopping the bleeding with his hand while Lesly used a skill to heal him.
Wryly smiling, he said to John, "That bullet packed quite a punch...."
"I used 30 Soul energy, so it was thrice as powerful as the first and second ones."
"Such power in little soul energy consumption...you’ve created a solid weapon with Blood Alloy Sculpting. Congrats."
"Thanks."
The other Tamers went bonkers!
They weren’t expecting John’s Blood Alloy Sculpted weapon to be this powerful!
Hall Mastery, who was watching, raised his eyebrows. "That’s rather impressive."
"Indeed. And he hasn’t awakened Blood and Mastery yet," Yasmin said with a nod. "It looks like picking Blood Alloy Sculpting was the right decision for him. He got potential to uneart its powers."
"It won’t be long before he awakens those both." Hall Master Varek smiled. "Maybe, it could happen during the sparring here."
On the other hand, after Hugo left the fight ring, Azelis spoke. "No need to take a break. Next, one can come up to challenge John right away."
There was a faint, prideful smile on her face that irked some executives.
Meanwhile, the Tamers around the fight ring were annoyed to see John with his carefree attitude and smile filled with cofidence.
After Hugo lost, the others who wanted to fight with John didn’t dare to step in, but there were other Tamers more powerful than Hugo, and one of them promptly stepped in after hearing Azelis’s words.
He was a six-foot tall muscular young man in his late teens, probably eighteen years old, and had millitery cut blond hair, wearing a gray tank-top and camo trousers.
His aura slightly surged as he took out a pair of Silver-rank long-daggers in his hands, his light brown eyes flickering.
"Rhett Carver versus John Wicked. Are you both ready?"
"Ready," Rhett flatly spoke, his expression straight and eyes focused on John.
"Ready," John said with a faint smile and a nod.
"Fight starts in three...two...one!"
The moment she finished countdown, John felt a jolt from below as a stone pillar sprung up and flung him up in the air.
The same thing happened to Rhett, except that he was like a reaper, already higher in the sky than John, his daggers ready to slice him.
But John’s reaction was fast. He whipped both of his legs in the opposite direction while clawing his empty hand, positioning himself just enough that Rhett’s right hand was grabbed by his left hand.
’What?!’ Rhett’s pupils shrank, but he didn’t stop, shoving his dagger into John’s stomach.
Alas, John grabbing his hand gave John an anchor to move further. Strider’s Gaunt geno ability gave him enough flexibility and agility, and he utilized it fully, shooting a bullet and using its force as well as his grabbing hand to rotate, going above Rhett and aiming his gun at him. freёnovelkiss.com
Bang!
30 soul energy bullet!
Rhett was smacked right into the ground with a loud thud as blood spurted from his mouth and chest where the bullet hit, the impact of both making him unconscious.
The area turned dead silent until John perfectly landed on his feet and blew off the smoke from his gun’s barrel.
"Next."
Azelis’s smile bloomed as she soul whispered to John. ’Good job. That was perfect execution.’
And the audience erupted in uproar after the brief silence following John’s words.
"What the fuck did I just see?!"
"Wait, what Geno Ability is he using?!"
"Holy crap!"
"He knocked out Rhett!"
The executives watching were visibly surprised.
Hall Master Varek chuckled and said, "This kid got a great combat sense, alright. It matches perfectly with Strider’s Gaunt."
"It looks like we will be gaining yet another exceptional Tamer."
"He’s here," Executive Tavros suddenly spoke as he spotted a seventeen-year-old young man arriving.
Rakin Lockham.
He jumped into the ring amidst the uproar, making everyone almost silent again before the heated talks rose.
"Recover to full. Then we shall fight."