Chapter 492: Overwhelming
After the first battle was over, the crowd started cheering, but it is not as great as the previous days. It is not because the fight is too short, rather the people who came here today didn't have a habit of cheering like this.
They are too prudent and too high-class to yell and shout like that.
But one of them is not like that. It is the guy with the Purple scales and Orange hue. He is drinking wine from a table and he only has one body guard. He is the only one who doesn't have human slaves, particularly the female slaves around him in the VIPs.
The rest of them all had slaves, and even the three young women have female slaves dressed in extremely short dresses barely covering the nipples of the breasts and genitals.
The noble with orange hue whistled and clapped as if he was normal audience when he saw Sam's finish.
Sam was busy cleaning the blood with a cloth. As for why he didn't use the water element, it will ruin the surprise. If he really needs to use the water element, then it would be better to use it in a battle to give a huge surprise.
The attendants came and took away the standing unconscious man and the someone started repairing the stage. Within a minute, the stage is back to its original form and the next opponent arrived.
This guy is actually a staff user. It has been a while since Sam one and he is actually a bit excited as he took out his own staff.
The opponent frowned, he is already frustrated that Sam is trying step over all of them to rise, but now he even took out the same weapon as his, it is clearly a provocation and he couldn't control himself.
He lunged forward and swung his staff straight to his head.
Sam once again went on with defence. Today, not only does he want to show off cockily, but he also has to show off his combat ability.
He would like to be a popular product amongst the nobility.
For that his solid foundation in combat skills has to be displayed completely.
After three minutes of solid defence, the opponent lost all the patience and once again went on with the trump card.
And that is the end of the battle, Sam landed his first strike of the battle and all he did was thrust the staff's end straight into the chest of the opponent.
The opponent was not sent flying, neither was he blasted into pieces. But he stopped his actions completely.
His energy flow broke and the rib cage cracked all over along with the shaking of internal organs.
He started spewing blood and stood still like a statue.
One hit finish once again.
The third opponent came and this time, this guy happened to be an archer. He stood at the extreme edge of the stage almost leaning to the barrier and aimed straight at Sam.
His arrow-head was converged with a flame and when shot out, it created an Area of effect type attack that burned a certain range within the landing point of the arrow.
Sam still held his staff as he tried to close off the distance and attack in close quarters.
But there is no chance for him to get past this. If only he made a bow that could handle his strength. If he used the Golden Crescent now, it would break and even if it didn't break, the arrow wouldn't have enough force to deal with the opponent.
As he thought of this, he decided to use another method to deal with this.
He started circulating spiritual energy in the staff and started spinning it between in his fingers.
He spun the staff right in front of him like a propeller and walked forward like nothing could faze him. The audience and the opponent are stunned.
It is not easy to block an arrow from an expert using this method. If they are skilled enough with the staff, one might be able to do this, but that is only for normal arrows that only penetrate, not for the arrows that can explode with flames.
But some of the guards behind the VIPs who are some old experts could see something their young masters and the rest of the audience couldn't see and that is the spiritual energy waves that are surrounding the staff.
The opponent shot the arrow straight at the staff as if challenging Sam's field, but when it reached a few centimetres of the staff, the fire elemental energy surrounding arrow disappeared or more like diffused into the surroundings with a red flare and the arrow was hit away by the staff.
Sam is nullifying the fire elemental energy by diffusing its condensed form on the arrow with the spiritual energy. With his manipulation level, it is easy to do so, when he is facing same level attacks and the arrows happened to be not the full-scale attacks of the opponent.
Sam advance further and further like this until he was only a few feet away from the opponent. The opponent took his trump card and made his move. But this time, Sam didn't wait for it to reach, he made his move and lunged forward with the staff barely dodging the arrow which landed right behind him.
As the flame exploded, Sam's feather coat didn't even have to activate to reduce the effects completely, he just took the force to his advantage and landed a hit straight on the opponent's head.
This time, the opponent didn't even bleed, he just stood fell down like a ragdoll.
Sam is a little disappointed, he wanted to plant him to the ground just like the first two. He wanted to make him stand up on the spot.
The third opponent was gone and Sam didn't even break a sweat.
The opponents continued on and most of the next people are mages and fought long ranged. But Sam finished them all the same.
He is like fish in the water as he moved all over the stage like he owned it and swept everyone with a single shot.
Until the tenth fight, nobody has even seen him pant. Only the tenth fighter made him use more than one move and that guy didn't go unconscious on the first two moves, but he was still down on the dumps for the third move.
Only after the tenth fight, did they see some difficulty.
And that difficulty is just the opponents blocking three to four of Sam's strikes. There is no real combat here. The audience saw one sided beat down from the start to finish as Sam ran through the opponents like a hit knife through the butter.
Soon, it is time for the rank one candidate's battle and only around three hours has passed.
And that too because, Sam made a short work of everyone present. The nobles and the guardians are having a conversation as they sized up Sam.
What Sam did today, is really amazing and from what they saw he is not even tired yet. Maybe, the gold rank number one could do this, but Sam is one level below in terms of cultivation and he did this so easily.
He didn't even show his full strength.
The fight with the first ranker is duller than they thought, because the first ranker already knew that he would lose, so he straight up made a request.
"Hit me with an elemental attack of yours and I would withdraw from this. At least do it for stepping on all of us. I want to get a glimpse of your true strength."
When he said this, all the audience also got interested and even the nobles are looking forward to it, Sam looked at the audience and yelled.
"Are you guys okay with that?"
When Sam asked this, they all yelled in admission.
Even the nobles said the same thing, so he didn't reject this at all.
"You will die if you take the full blow."
"We wouldn't know until we try."
Sam didn't try to persuade further and lightning energy started coursing through the metallic staff.
He has no reason to reject the other guy and he leaped into the air with silver after images and swung his staff.
The opponent activated all kinds of defences and got ready to block the blow with all his might. Sam jumped really high and the intensity of lightning increased as he came down.
Suddenly, the opponent felt like he made a mistake as he sensed the pressure from this. He didn't want to take that attack.
It is too much for him.
But he gritted his teeth, because his legs gave in and he couldn't move.
As the silver lightning bolt landed, he closed his eyes.
*BOOM*
The lightning landed and there is a large flash blinding everyone. But when every saw again, they didn't see the opponent dead, they were confused.
Because, Sam landed the attack right beside the opponent at the same time, he controlled the impact of the energy that the opponent wouldn't get any damage.
But the opponent is soaked in sweat and shaking. He couldn't hold himself and his legs buckled as he fell on his knees.
Sam defeated his opponent without landing a single hit.