Jacob POV
As the newbie climbs the arena he looks around the arena first with excitement and anxiety and then he stares at me and then nods like he was just making his mind up on the spot, he closes his eyes and then his hair turns white and his skin that was already pale turned even paler and I was scared for him for a bit until he opened his eyes and I see it, a darkness like I have never seen before, like an endless abyss. I think to myself, this just might be fun. And then I see it, the current in his eyes fueling the lightning in his hair and around his body, his lightning is just like mine but unlike mine that is yellow, his is red. I am pretty confident in my capabilities and I know I am the only student who could master lightning very well apart from the teachers and so you can imagine my shock when the newbie surrounds himself with lightning as strong as mine.
He charges at me with a speed too fast for a normal person to see but I see it cause of my lightning amplifying my senses and I block immediately and launch an attack of my own which he easily blocks, I attack again but this time he does not block but attacks with the same attack as mine, they cancel each other out and I make another attack and the same thing happens again, this goes on for a while and for a moment it feels like we were thinking of the same attack at the same time until it is like he is telling me which attack to make, I get very confused and pause my attacks which he also does and now I get the feeling that he is copying me, it feels like I am attacking a mirror of myself. Even if he can reproduce the same spells as mine, I doubt it if he has the same level of reserve as me. let us run wild a bit.
"Summanus' furie"
Kevin's POV
The plan seems to be going well, let me finish this. As I move towards him with my blade, the cloud darkens and thunder starts rumbling, the current charges up and the lightning around him starts striking violently causing me to jump back a few steps, already at the finish point is when my plan decides to go sideways.
"I am sorry but I cannot let you"
I continue with the illusion on Jacob and use my eyes to foresee where the lightning strikes so as to avoid it before getting hit. After dodging several hits and landing in front of him safely I release the illusion on him after using the hilt of my blade to hit his head, knocking him out and stopping the strikes and thereby becoming the winner though the cheers are not so loud as the murmurs and looks of confusion from people.
"That was how the battle with the Crystal Saint played out too, it did not take more that a few minutes"
"How does he do that ? the battle was so short, too short even"
"seems I was right, he places then under an illusion"
"I hope I do not get placed in the arena with him during the next selection"
"I do, I wonder how long I would last against him"
I walk down the arena to my seat leaving Jacob's friends to carry him off the arena.
After several matches, it was Erastus' turn to go up the arena again but this time against the best martial art student.
"did you hear about the Crystal Saint new technique? I hope he uses it here"
"me too, I heard it is a very strong technique and it was the Dean himself that taught him"
"I heard, even the Dean praised the technique"
I also hope to see Erastus match and this 'strong technique' of his. I watch as they go go up the arena
"for someone who is not a martial artist, you are a good swordsman, I also hope to see this technique of yours but I pray you last long enough to use it"
"I hope you are not a talkative like your big friend there"
After saying that, Erastus with his poker face lunged with his sword while his opponent who's name was Kim took out two short swords and also lunged.
"I suppose you deserve that title of best swordsman, I have never spent this long fighting with another student and I have never had this many cuts from another student blade"
"I can say the same about you, those short swords are for show, why do you not just abandon them and use your daggers, after all those are what caused the cuts on my body, am I right ?"
Erastus said with a smile
"I did not expect you to see through that, you have pretty sharp senses for someone who is not a martial artist"
"Enough with all these martial artist talk I am getting tired already and I am sure you are also"
After that, Kim threw his swords off the arena and drew his daggers, four in each hand, but I notice one of them has a string attached to him. The match kicks off again and this time it gets more intense that I could not keep up if I did not use my powers,
"how sharp, you hid a throwing dagger among them, no wonder I have been getting more cuts, this is already getting out of hand"
"you are very sharp, I commend you"
Both of them are already breathing heavily and bleeding from different places, seems they would soon pass out from exhaustion. Erastus threw his sword and took a stance, immediately the temperature dropped and the wind turned cold, the blood covering the floor started to rise, the cuts on his body stopped spilling blood and the blood on his body also started rising
"I commend you Kim, first one to experience the debut of my technique, I hope you are alive to see the end of it"
he streched out his hands towards Kim and the blood flowed towards him
"Whatever you bring I would just cut it down"
he threw his daggers again but this time Erastus sliced the strings attached to them disrupting their flow and causing them to fall to the floor and like metal to magnet the blood on the floor were getting drawn to the one on Kim's body and soon he was covered in a thin layer of blood leaving only his head
"Crimson Crystal Confinement: Crimson Coffin"
Silence, like none other, and then shrieks of horror and delight, in total, chaos had occurred. The sight on the stage had filled everyone with fear and admiration cause Erastus was standing with his arm streched towards Kim and with those words caused spikes from inside his body to puncture several holes through and then encompassing his whole body in a coffin made of ice. Immediately I activated my eyes and saw that he actually manipulated his blood to form the spikes, froze them, and then extended them so they come out of his body making him look like a frozen porcupine but also he made sure to avoid any vital organs. This is one dangerous technique
He turned and left the stage like he did not just almost kill Kim with his own blood
"so that is it, the new technique, it is..."
"so that is the name, Crimson Coffin, befitting"
"that is our Crystal Saint"
"that martial art dude did not even have time to react"
"did you see that? he used his own blood to kill him"
"how scary is that, does that not mean he can kill anybody he wants?"
"I did not know water can be utilized in such manner, how enlightening"
"leaves one to wonder, how did he, a student, do it?"
"horrifying"
"Why are you all surprised? he is our Bloody Saint after all"
"that is just too insane"
"I do not think there would be anyone who can evade such an attack"
"are you crazy? that is asking if anyone can evade their own blood, who can do that"
"how scary is that, imagine if he can do that on a large scale"
"would that not mean we are all in danger?"
"how do we get out of that?"
"is it not obvious? just melt it"
"so you are going to melt your blood right?"
"of course"
"what about your body, would you not burn or you know how to melt your blood without the fire touching your body?"
"you are right, only an experienced flame elementalist can melt it"
"or an experienced water elementalist to undo the spell"
"but wait, the name Crimson Crystal Confinement: Crimson Coffin suggests there is another spell under the Crimson Crystal Confinement"
"I wonder what that one would be like"
"I wonder when we would see it"