Conqueror

Teral explained what these cyclops are, "So! Both teams has their gates broken! If a gate is broken, the team that broke the gate will gain a buff that will boost their attack power! But after the gate is broken, a boss monster will come out. The interval of boss monsters coming out is ever 10 minutes or so, so that the second trial won't take too long."

Is that so... But the cyclops went ahead and broke our gate in a matter of seconds. I guess this is an efficient method. I won't attack yet so I'm just going to watch the battlefield for now.

"Freezing Wave!" Zeta casted and hundreds of monsters were frozen in an instant. "Judgment!" The frozen enemies suddenly crumbled and bursted into pieces. 

Zeta ran and ran destroying everything in his way. "Splitting Gale!" Three large wind slices came in every direction cutting the monster in half. "Dragon Lightning!" The lightning took over the form of a dragon and devoured everything in its way that Zeta deemed useless.

It's not just Zeta that's doing a lot of damage on the opposing side. I'm still captivated by Mizuki's swordplay.

He not only does his sword move incredibly quickly, but incredibly precise too. He doesn't target the bodies of the enemy. Only their heads. And his blade is powerful enough that he goes through their defenses.

"Moonlight!" Mizuki's sword glowed in a bright white color with a hint of yellow. "Moon Phase: First Quarter!" His blade disappeared.

Several monster jumped on him but he lowered his stance and walked naturally. But the moment he took a step, everything around him was sliced into pieces.

Now that I take a long look at Mizuki's swordplay, that is what I need. This is nothing compared to Urgo. Urgo was a berserker. His swordplay boasts great strength and absolute power. But that power is something that I haven't achieved. But Mizuki's on the other hand is all about technique. With his small frail body, he manages to let out power that exceeds mine. That is the technique I've been looking for. 

I want to test it. I want to test my swordplay next to him. "Dispel," I took off my Gazer form and just wore my normal clothes. "Come, Bloodlust." Black lightning came down from the sky and struck my hand summoning both of my weapons. I ran up to Mizuki and battled alongside him.

"Dark..." I raised my sword in an overhead stance. "Wave!" And swing it right back down with all my strength sending out a wave of darkness, obliterating everything that comes through it.

I then jumped in the middle of the pack of monsters. "Judgment!" Every monster near me were suddenly pinned to the ground due to the heavy gravity they're experiencing. I raised up my hand to the sky, "Sword Rain!" A gate opened in the sky and came falling down thousands of swords killing all the grounded monsters in an instant.

"Chain Grab!" Hundreds of chains came out of my body and every single one of it attached itself to a monster. "Pull!" The chains retracted inside of my body pulling every single monster to me.

"Teleport!" I teleported up in the sky, "Dragon's Descent!" I spun vertically and landed by smashing my sword on the ground breaking the ground in the process and lifting all the monsters in the air.

"H-" Just as I was about to cast my next skill, Mizuki sudddenly appeared too in the sky.

"Waning Moon!" Mizuki swung his weapon in the air hitting all the monsters but there was no wound or blood. 

Every monster just fell right down. There was no wound but they're dead. Was it a wound that is too small for anyone to see? Or is it an internal damage? That was beyond amazing.

Mizuki landed on the ground gracefully. "Your sword skills on a nodachi does not fit. Your swordplay is ugly and distasteful."

Well I didn't expect that at all for his words at me is about my sword style being bad. "I see." That's all I could say.

"...You... understand me?" He asked.

"Yeah?"

"But I speak Japanese..? Are you from the south?"

Speak Japanese? But all I could hear are his words being in english. Oh. I see. Universal Language. I could hear him speak Japanese and it automatically translates for me and I think that he hears me speaking Japanese too. "No." I replied.

"But you speak Japanese and wields a nodachi..?" He seems to be confused about something. "We'll talk later. Let's focus on the objective."

"Ah-" I completely forgot that we were in a trial. I looked over the battlefield trying to figure our what I missed. 

Zeta is there wrecking havoc using his barrage of skills. "Fire Pillars, Splitting Gale!" His fierce and aggressive attacks are nothing like him but I guess it works in our favor.

He already eliminated six contenders in total. There's only five of them left. But also our four members got eliminated too. 

It seems that there's already two boss monsters on both our sides of the field. A cyclops and a... ghost apparition? I don't know what that one is.

But it looks like a monster in a form of a woman. Its body seems to be ethereal seeing as how I could see through her translucent body covered in just sheets of white cloth.

I rushed over to their aid and jumped on the cyclops' back. This cyclops gives me bad memories about someone as big as him...

The cyclops let out a giant laser from its eyes, obliterating the monsters below it. The cyclops from the enemy's side rushed and rammed into ours but our own cyclops is holding on.

Both of the cyclops interlocked fingers and began to test their strength on each other by pushing each other. No one was budging. 

The ghost apparitions suddenly inhaled a lot of air. Then I remembered.

Ghost like figure, a woman, inhaling a lot of air, flying and ethereal body... This is... a banshee! "Barrier!" I casted on our cyclops, me, Zeta and Mizuki and all the other contenders in our team.

"SKRIEEEEEE!!!" Both of the banshee screamed extremely loud that both of the forces of our army and the enemy's army passed out while their ears were bleeding. I had barrier up but I could hear their loud screeches when they were still screaming.

The enemy's cyclops dropped down on the ground dead. That's one boss monster down. I then pointed my sword at enemy's castle. "CHARGE!"

"GUAARGHHH!!!" The cyclops charged at the enemy's castle. Since we have no longer have an army we only have some contenders left. We only have a banshee, cyclops and the rest of us contenders. The enemy only has the remaining contenders on their side and a banshee, they tried to intercept the cyclops' charge.

"THIS WON'T END HERE!" Gera stood in front of the castle gates and took the cyclops' charge head on. We stopped in our tracks and the cyclops' couldn't move.

Zeta took advantage of Gera being occupied with the cyclops. "Frozen Crystal!" Suddenly, Gera's whole body froze in a crystal of ice. 

But that seal soon exploded into pieces when Gera's teammate took it off him. "We still haven't fallen!"

Mizuki dashed in the back line of the enemy and used enough force only to disarm them of their weapons, dropping their staffs and sword in an instant. Mizuki then used his quick movement and knocked them all out and finally, he teleported right at the back of Gera. "Goodbye." He then knocked him out using the back of his blade.

The cyclops broke free from Gera's grasp and began destroying the castle.

I then heard someone snap their fingers. "That's enough!" It was none other than Teral.

The whole arena we were in disappeared and we were back at the arena in the first round.

The crowd was cheering for us. Some were disappointed since Gera lost but everyone was still in high spirits.

Teral announced the winners, "Congratulations on the team that won, Zeta, Zieglind, Juery, Mizuki, Hea, Kueri and Urit!" The most monsters killed will be counted with the points gathered from last round! Zeta with 1,943 kills, Mizuki with 934 kills and finally, Kueri with 321 kills."

Welp. It seems that I didn't get in the top three again. Mizuki stole most of my kills.

"And for my final announcement this round..." Teral set up an intense mood on the whole arena.

"We will now be giving buffs on the top three this round! Zeta will receive a 200% damage increase on him. Mizuki will get a 1.5x points multiplier on the next rounds. Kueri will receive a full recovery potion on him. He can use this even when he's disqualified so that he can be brought back right in the action! But if all contenders are disqualified, he won't be able to use it to proceed on the other trials. Everyone! Let's take a short break."