Astral creation

Duel shadow strike

A “Duel shadow strike"?

Hayashi: Yes kosei, how do you like it? That lighting strike was not the only move I learned for this competition.

Kosei: Well to be honest, I was kinda worried about you. I was wondering just how you were going to do well, considering how weak you were. Now that you have learned these new techniques. I feel a but relieved, you will do great.

Hayashi: What do you mean by that, huh. You know, I should be honest too. You stand no chance in the tournament, what new technique have to learned?

Kosei: Do I have to? I am really great at creating barriers, also shinrinyoku is pretty powerful. Not to mention that forbidden move. My long range attacks do pretty well with any kind of opponents.

Hayashi: Okay whatever, we will see who does better. Let's give it our all to this tournament. We can't just sit around thinking we can't beat those strong guys.

While they were talking, John tzimiske enters the room.

John tzimiske: You look messy, kosei. You did great, hayashi. I am very impressed with your results, you were able to learn two new techniques so fast. But there is no time to celebrate, the next round will be starting soon. This time, it will be one vs one matchup, unlike the first round. So, 15 players will bee battling against 15 other players. So by calculating, we can say 15 players will be qualifying to the next round.

Hayashi: Whom will we be facing?

John tzimiske: This years tournament rules are very weird, you will not be knowing your opponents name before the match.

Kosei: What does that mean, how will we be practicing if we don't know our opponents name.

John tzimiske: That's how the rules were made, you just have to be prepared for everything.

John tzimiske leaves, leaving kosei and hayashi stunned.

The next day, round 2 is about to start.

Every players who qualified from round one, all 30 of them were summoned in the ground.

It is a different ground than the other one.

The entire arena is fully packed with people, who are waiting for the matches to start.

On the big screen of the stadium, all 30 players name were been shown. Now the administrator will announce whom each players will be facing against.

The names starts rolling on the screen and stops after a few seconds.

The very first match gets decided.

It will be, Tihsan Vs Xena!

The crowd starts cheering for xena, upon hearing his name. This xena guy is one of the only eternal celebrity. He is very famous among eternals throughout the world. Which is why the crowd us cheering him.

The arena gets cleared up, the match is about to start.

“Xena"

“Xena"

“Xena"

Tihsan stays quite, while xena is waving his hand at his fans in the crowd.

The administrator gives a call, the match has started.

To put up a good show and entertain people, xena decides to create something similar to fire works. So he launches a fire attack at tihsan, which tihsan easily dodges. That first bursts and creates a beautiful scenery. So the crowd starts cheering xena more and more.

Xena tries acted cool in front of tihsan and tells him to give up while he can, xena also tried bribing him through money.

Before xena could launch his next attack, he fells on the ground and sees blood pouring out from all over his body.

The entire stadium stops making any noise, by getting shocked of what they are seeing.

In a blink of an eye, xena was knocked to the ground. He was cut in multiple place, so he is bleeding from all over his body.

The administrator sees the situation and declares tihsan to be the winner.

Tihsan doesn't waste any time and starts walking outside of the arena.

Meanwhile kosei and his friends are also shocked by what they have seen.

Kosei: Hey hayashi, did you see how he attacked him? I couldn't see anything, he was so fast.

Hayashi: I was only able to see him going up close and strike. How was he able to land that much hit on him in such a short time.

Kosei: Unbelievable, is he even faster than Krishna?

Hayashi: I don't know how fast he is, but he is definitely faster than Krishna. That guy is a monster, how are we supposed to beat him if we face him.

Soske: Thank God I didn't face him in round 2, he would have crushed me.

It is not just them, every other competitors have also been shocked by seeing how strong tihsan was.

Antonio didn't seem to get scared, he was smiling. He was happy to see someone this strong, so that he could fight someone on his level. While Krishna is also excited after witnessing the fight.

While tihsan was walking out of the arena, Krishna goes up to him and tells him to watch out for him. Tihsan looks at him and tells him to go away, also mocks how silly Krishna looked.

Krishna returns to his side with a disappointed face and Antonio laughs at him.

The next match of round 2 will also start right away.

The names on the screen starts rolling again and stops after a few seconds.

The match has been decided, it will be soske vs punpun.

The two players enter the arena and starts facing each other.

The administrator ring the bell and the match officially starts.

Soske didn't know what kind of a fighter punpun was, so he was confused with what he should do.

While it is the same for punpun, whom also didn't know anything about soske.

After staying on the same ground for a while, punpun decides to strike first.

Punpun digs on the ground and jumps on the big hole.

Soske becomes confused, he didn't know what to do. Suddenly punpun jumps out of the ground, right below soskes feet. Punpun punches soske to the face and goes back to the ground again, leaving soske completely confused with how he was gonna counter this.