Chains Of Heaven

Seeing that Cai'er was back to sleep I felt some relief, she is now stable. She will be fine now.

Seeing this I verify if all the defenses in the formation are in place, verifying that they are I inwardly nod to myself as I move out.

Today I will have the semi-finals, the finals, and the championship match. Three more fights at most.

Seeing this decided I quickly move to the stadium, I tried to move like I did yesterday but failed as I hit others a few times. I frown inside as I consider this, but ignore it as I still have to get to my objective already. There is something there, I can just sense there is, but I do not have the time right now to think too much on that.

Arriving at the arena I am right on time as, not even five minutes after, it is time for my fight.

I look at my opponent in front of me, he looks half-crazy with a saber in hand, he has long dark clothes and has wild red hair pulled back. His eyes looked like they were looking at everything as if a child on a sugar hush, but the stench of blood and death emanating from him was terrifying.

"My name is Ninghuan Chun, I never heard of you or this tournament before I ended up on this place but I feel you are strong. Good, lesser sacrifices are not as effective, even if they are still fun, oh so fun, fun, fun. Please tell my name to whoever you meet on the other side when they ask who killed you, I want to see if they will create a whole sector for those who died by my hand in hell one day. Kekeke" Ninghuan Chun said and I did not bother answering him. Talking to this person seems like a waste.

I just took special notice of the sword in his hand, a displeased expression etching in my face as I realize what that sword is.

"Oh, I see. You have some experience then. Yes this is a weapon I used the Fiendgod Bloodforging technique into. It was originally quite normal a weapon but by now it drank 7500 people by my own hands and it is extremely powerful now. You should feel honored, you will be number 7501!" Ninghuan Chun said excitedly but all I felt was even more disgust.

The Fiendgod Bloodforging technique is a special forging method. It is more akin to a ritual used on a weapon to let it absorb baleful aura, slaughter aura, deathly aura, bloodthirst, and any other emotion related to combat or negativity to strengthen a weapon. The stronger the enemy slain by the weapon the stronger said weapon will become. It is an interesting concept since it means any weapon can grow indefinitely, but it demands far too much slaughter. There is also the fact that the negative energies of the weapon may make the people using a weapon like that turn out like this Ninghuan Chun seems to, killing indiscriminately for the sake of power and killing.

I take a look at his book that is recorded in the Library of Heaven's Path, him using that aura counts as an action and thus his book is formed. As I look it up I see that he is completely addicted to bloodshed and seems to have some Asura Race blood in him, which is surprising since it is divine blood like the Phoenix and other such Gods, but he has a weakened, diluted, and mixed one that he failed to assimilate. That, added to the influence of his sword, makes him simply a killing fiend who doesn't know when to stop and that will forever kill to improve himself.

For someone who uses a weapon like that, who has fallen like that, I simply cannot let walk away. He would be a disaster for tens of thousand more people, if not in the millions. He must be stopped before it reaches that level, and it must be here and now.

Raising my hand I took out my spear. It is the first time I've shown it during the entire competition so the surprised looks in everyone else's faces in understandable.

"You, you actualy also uses a weapon?" He asks and I shrugg.

"Yes, what of it?" I said and he smirked even more predatorially.

The judge, seeing all this, nodds twice before speaking up.

"Ready? Start!"

As soon as he says this Ninghuan Chun moves to strike, he is fast and moves quickly.

Normally I would not show off, but I am feeling a bit angry at what I saw yesterday from what Cai'er's s.p.e.r.m donor's (I refuse to call that her father) did and seeing a weapon like this is not helping me hold myself back. As such, I decide to let go of fine control for a while, not hold back so much.

I pulled my spear back, right foot forward, left foot a bit more to the left, uniting what I know of Spear Arts and of the Pulse of the World, I concentrate.

Focusing my profound energy I swing my spear with all my might, Ninghuan Chun was almost upon me but the moment I swung my spear I could sense something 'breaking' in front of me. Like if the impulse I released was too much and the growth speed too fast for the air to contain.

Like if the air itself broke a 'crack crack' sounds could be heard while Ninghuan Chun could not more even one step more. And then, the Pulse of Nature added to one of the aspects of the Spear Laws, the aspect of Might, and the attack could be felt.

It was an explosion in which the entire field in front of me was destroyed and Ninghuan Chun was now little more than a smear of blood in the furthest wall from the stadium.

There was pin-drop silence, not a single person spoke at all as this happened.

I felt regret from this, not of eliminating someone who clearly would not stop killing but regret at the life of one who would kill wantonly for the sake of power.

I moved to my place back, there was a lot of talk about what I just did and they needed time to remake the field. Hearing that I felt a bit regretful over my actions so I moved to give them a hand, using my profound art Ars Magna: World Embrace to fix the problem faster. It was not that hard, I just joined together what there was from the previous stage and the rest was up to the rocks and ground underneath. I even compacted it all a bit further to make it all more resilient.

More matches happened afterward, but honestly I am tired of this all. Why do people like tournaments that much? Why does proving to everyone that you are strong matters so much? If not for teacher wanting me to prove myself I would have rather be with Cai'er until she recovers and then decide what I should do next, it would be a better use of my time.

Well, the reward for this tournament is appealing, but I still think there ought to be better things to be doing instead.

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I watched all the matches and then it was finally the finals of the Loser's bracket.

I was facing a strange person. It was a man who looked to be in his late teens to early twenties, he had black hair and an honestly handsome face, in the background cheers from girls including things like 'marry me' could be heard. In his hands he had a long spear on the right and a short spear on the left as he spoke.

"Your power is impressive, in pure might I doubt I can match you, but I am sure my spear techniques suppress yours. What do you say? Would you accept the challenge to use only spearsmanship to this combat?" He asked me.

Yeah, no. I want to use ALL my power, not keep controlling myself right now. The faster I defeat him the faster I can go back to see if Cai'er's bandagesare okay, if Levy, Medusa, and the others need help I want to take a good look and also spend time with them.

After seeing the previous sword and what happened to Cai'er, examples of how this world is right now, I can't help but want to end this all.

End this d.i.c.k measuring contest equivalent on martial arts, so to say.

Thus, I stayed quiet as he lowered his stance. He smirked at me in challenge, but I did not care.

"Ready?" The judge said as he stood between the two of us. He waited a moment before shouting. "Start!"

I moved first, my spear at the ready as I launched an overhead attack. He was about to jump to the left when his movements were stopped by a chain of earth locking him in place.

Releasing a 'tch' sound he crossed both spears above himself and barelly blocked my strike. However, he missed the fact I launched a kick at his abdomen at this moment which launched him back by quite the distance since I used some of my understanding of the Pulse of Nature in this strike.

I looked at him and admit that I am surprised, he is not only still standing but he seems almost fine.

"Hehe, if you want to make me fall you will need more than just this much. One of my ancestors obtained the Divine Bloodline of the Fairy King, it is not much anymore but this does make me good at the Laws of Wood as well, I too have certain understandings to the Profound Mysteries of Wood. Especifically, I am good at the Profound Mystery of Resilience and the Profound Mystery of Regeneration. Not only that, my spears are the Sacred Tree Spears born when I was born, they are perfectly suitable for me and forever growing, your body may be tough but I can certainly pierce you with them.

"I have great defense and regeneration just like you and my attack also can reach you, I can definetly beat yo-"

I shut him up with an strike from the ground, specifically I launched a rock from the ground at him.

He looks at me and begins moving to me again, I change the ground into a swamp-like terrain and unbalanced him. I then used my spear to move the ground, it worked even better to direct the Earth element, especially since I used it to move the ground as if it was a giant snake of rocks at the opponent.

"... Well, that is just unfair." He said as he looked at the twenty feet long snake of rocks coming down at him when he couldn't move well nor have a steady footing.

I controled the rocks to not kill or cripple him, just injury as it should be enough to defeat him with that.

With this settled I turn away from stage and spoke up.

"This isn't about fairness or a game, this is about winning." I said and began moving away.

I took about five steps before I heard a laugh.

"Well said, really well said!" Then from the mountain of rocks my opponent jumped out, his clothes are in tatters but he seems to be mostly okay despite all I put him through. "I told you, didn't I? I can match you!"

"Oh yeah? Good for you." I said as my chains moved faster than he could react and ensnared him. I long since figured out that I can create my chains whenever my profound energy is, it may as well be said that from the start the entire field was a giant trap.

He grunted, trying to get out of the chains, but it was useless. Had he not gloated so much my chains would likely not have trapped him, but he acted as if I should have been battering and talking with him instead of just winning this already.

I create more chains from my hand and close to me, locking him further as if in a cocoon, before starting to spin, spin, spin, and then launched his still bound form away from the stage. As he now was out of bounds, I claimed victory just like that.

It was strangely comforting to be able to just go out with my entire power instead of trying to constrain and only use parts of what you can do. While the later helps in improving as if I am training the former is simply a battle, something I feel I need to learn more about, the only issue it seems is finding someone who can truly challenge me.

I hope my last opponent tomorrow will be an opponent who can truly put pressure on me.