Everyone in the mansion where the special forces and Rogen stayed have woke up early to prepare for the duel. The a.s.signed cook started to cook in the kitchen, while Rogen was forced to do some warm-up stretching so he would not get muscle pain or cramps suddenly while fighting.Rogen was forced by Alvarez to do some warm-ups stretching so that he would not encounter any problems while fighting Venjie, he was also taught some strategies for fighting a one on one duel. Rogen has already planned to fight using his current knowledge and experience about fighting.
The strategy would only help him increase his odds of winning or surviving the duel. He was also being refreshed about some techniques in martial arts, by his teacher.
Sgt. Bonifacio spoke to Rogen, " You must always master the basic as it will be a life-saving attack as it focuses on the most vulnerable part of your enemy. Remember to first hit him the left head her his temple as that could bind him for a few minutes."
Alvarez spoke, " hit him in the face that advises of yours Sergeant is not gonna help him, Prince Venjie might be wearing a helmet during this duel."
Sgt. Bonifacio then spoke after sighing, " he"s not gonna wear any as his personality is arrogant, he does not even see anyone that can beat him in one on one fights, because of this I have concluded that he will underestimate Rogen, in terms of his fighting ability.
Alvarez replied, " Well I guess you may be right about that prince underestimating Rogen, he still doesn"t know that Rogen is quite trained on offensive and self- defense martial arts."
Rogen while doing some stretching, then spoke to the two, " Why are you too worried if lose, I understand Captain Alvarez"s reason as he has pride in his training techniques, but you Bonifacio how your acting now is quite surprising I only saw you just laugh off some problems, but now you"re too worried about me losing?"
Bonifacio replied, " Well I am also quite prideful when it comes to my mastered martial arts, you already know-how effective Arnis is, you have seen that Arnis is not as beautiful as any martial arts you learned, but you noticed how effective it is to use when it comes to weapon-based close-quarter combat, as it hits the most critical parts of the body such as the temple, eyes, and throat and combined with grappling techniques. So I am worried that you will not use this martial art because of how it looks, causing you to lose this duel."
Alvarez spoke, " Well, I can see that he will not use that as he looked like an idiot fighting with a stick against a sword hahaha."
Bonifacio then spoke in a slightly angry voice, " Don"t you dare! underestimate the power of sticks Captain, you would even look for sticks if you need to create fire, you would even look for it when your leg is injured, and it can be used as a deadly weapon if you dare speak ill about the sticks again, I"m sure the G.o.d of sticks will not help you any more with finding sticks when you need them."
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At the palace, Venjie was equipping his armor which he was helped by his servants. His butler was also there polishing Venjie"s two-handed long sword with a clean cloth the sword had engravings on its handle, which says "DESTROY".
The sword was made a magic ore, and magic iron it was able to use wind magic and fire magic for offensive capabilities. His armor was also made from magic ore and iron, it was able to use earth magic which increases the durability of the armor. His armor was so beautifully crafted that it could be put on a museum of art. The armor was also clean that it reflects the light of the sun which looked like it was glowing underneath the sun. He also wore a cape that was colored blue which added to its stylish armor, but it wasn"t an ordinary cape it was a magical cape capable of using wind magic making him easier to move with the weight of his armor.
The butler spoke while polishing and cleaning the sword, " master I"m sure your presence in your combat armor could already send fear to your opponent. He will sure cower to your presence, I already can see his image bowing down to you and kissing your feet."
Venjie replied to his butler, " Julius, I already know that, but thanks for reminding me of how great I am. None other people can be great as me in just presence alone. My presence in my combat armor alone is enough to make an army cower not just a person who dares challenge me, so Julius now always remember it now when complimenting that you should say an entire army would cower when seeing my presence alone."
Julius the butler replied, " I will surely say it when complimenting you your highness."
The armor was now fully equipped to Venjie, he then looked to a mirror, and said, " I"m quite handsome in this armor, those girls who ran away from me doesn"t know how good I am as a man and in bed. They have not tasted how good when I do it to women, all of them will beg for more after seeing how my sword performs in bed."
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The Arena where the duel will happen was already packed with people after hearing the duel that will occur today, all of them had their own bets on who would win, of course, the entry wasn"t free, but a lot of people still watched and betted as they can also earn from this duel gambling their money was not illegal in the city, but must be done in a right place, you are not allowed to gamble anywhere in the city as it sometimes causes fights which causes damage to bystanders and establishments.
The arena was noisy as it was filled with people, over fifty thousand people were in the arena to watch the match between Venjie and Rogen.
One of the people spoke to his seatmate, " Well, I guess most of the people placed their bets on Prince Venjie, as a rumor also states that his foe does not any combat skills, he doesn"t even have any affinities for magic. So even I betted for Prince Venjie, as I only see this to earn some extra cash."
The person he was speaking to replied, "Well you are not wrong about this being a chance to earn some cash but if the person who is to fight today is a person we knew, we already have placed our bets on that person. As all of us love to see that arrogant prince"s a.s.s get kicked while we earn, sadly the one he is combatting is not from here and not a person who is known for his background here, I heard he came from some unknown place. So to just show our patriotism, to our country knight, we choose to bet on Venjie, well I also hate to see that our knights are beaten up by some random stranger well the Prince is also a knight.
After waiting for an hour the king and Eric arrived at the arena where a VIP seat was prepared, the prime minister also made an appearance seating with the king and Eric. The prime minister was the same age as King Danilo, the two were actually friends in their younger days so they got along pretty well with each other.
At the arena, an announcer was in the middle of the flat battlefield, he started to speak the rules of the duel.
"The rules of this duel is very simple and that is to fight until the opponent is unable to fight or surrenders or dead. If someone will die none will be responsible for the one who died as he agreed with this duel knowing he would die."
Everyone in the arena cheered after hearing the announcer, they were excited not because of the announcer but because of the possible entertaining, battle. That will happen today, some were not excited as they hate the Prince and we"re forced to bet on the person they hate in the kingdom the most.
The announcer continued to announce the combatant"s names, " Okay at the left side of the arena we have, prince Veeeenjie Sirius who was the one who challenged our next combatant, " A mysterious man we don"t know of, he just suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but we all wanna know what he did to Prince Venjie to challenge him to a duel, the man"s name is Rooogeeen Adorna."
All the people started to cheer harder this time, the voices of the people can be heard throughout the city.
King Danilo and Prince Eric were ma.s.saging their heads thinking about how troublesome tho is for them. The prime minister took notice of the worried expression of the king and prince that were with him.
Prime minister spoke, " What the h.e.l.l is going on with the two of you aren"t you excited about this match. Well, I can understand Eric as the man named Rogen is his guest. But you Danilo worried about the stranger than your own son, that is surprising.
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Danilo then spoke replying to the prime minister, " Well that stranger has access to some great investments which is gonna be good for our economy, but if he does here that would be the end of a possible investment in pepper."
The prime minister gasped after hearing pepper and spoke, " Well I get it why you are more worried about the stranger than your own son. But why didn"t you say so earlier that kid has access to pepper I could have done some good negotiations with him.
The announcer shouted, "combatants, face each and get close to each other."
This caused everyone"s attention to be centered on the two combatants. All were excited to see the fight between the two people.
The announcer then shouted, " FIGHT."
Venjie pulled his sword and slashed Rogen, which Rogen avoid with his footwork. Prince Venjie was quite surprised at Rogen"s agility. Venjie then attacked Rogen but this time the slash was more powerful with the intent to kill.
Venjie was not attacking but was more focused on dodging the sword than attacking. So it was clear who was dominating in the battlefield, Venjie didn"t stop with his attacks. He did twenty-one slashes to attack Rogen which were all dodged by Rogen.
Venjie them thought to himself, [ This b.a.s.t.a.r.d is slippery well I guess I underestimated him, but he will fall immediately after my next attack.]
Venjie used wind magic with his sword which caused it to glow with a light green glow. He then continued to slash Rogen with his sword, but this time the slashes we"re faster and powerful than before.
Rogen barely escapes the slash, a part of his hair near his bangs was cut. This causes him to retreat eleven steps away from Venjie"s sword. He was now looking at Venjie"s sword with a hint of fear. But he immediately removed it after remembering some of his strategies.
Rogen took an offensive stance, which he started to jump it was a boxing stance where his fist we"re up ready to counter and defend.
Venjie who notice Rogen"s stance laughed and spoke, " Do you think you can fight with your fist, can you really even beat me how idiotic of you. It seems you have lost your brains, so i will forgive you if you will lick my feet while apologizing."
Rogen didn"t speak but instead moved forward with as fast as he can. Venjie then prepared to attack with his sword, as Rogen got closer to the sword"s range, Venjie casts wind magic again to the sword and slash the approaching Rogen.
As he slashes, he noticed that Rogen disappeared suddenly, which caused him to be surprised at how Rogen was able to go head to head with speed of the magic casted sword. He then felt something hit his feet causing him to almost lose his balance.
When he looked below he saw Rogen was the one who almost caused him to almost lose his balance, Rogen had performed a low kick while bending his upper body.
Venjie was forced to step back, but Rogen didn"t let him, as he chased Venjie who was backing from him. Venjie prepared another attack, but because of the footwork, Rogen learned from boxing, his movements we"re almost unpredictable as he keeps moving from side to side.
Venjie then saw Rogen preparing for a punch, he then locked his eyes on Rogen"s left hand. As Rogen"s left-hand stretches to attack Venjie, Venjie then defended with a counter-attack with his sword, but his eyes were locked on Rogen"s hands. Instead, of doing a straight punch Rogen bend his left a downward which was followed by the eyes of Prince Venjie.
This gave him an opportunity to attack Venjie again, Venjie was surprised at Rogen"s left-hand punch, which he did not expect to be a diversion.
Rogen then performed a leg sweep after seeing Venjie locked his attention to his left arm. Because of his leg sweep, Venjie lost his balance and fall in his back.
Rogen didn"t give Venjie a chance to think as he immediately kicked Venjie in the face, but Venjie"s reflexes we"re good, he performed a backflip while on his back to the ground, to avoid Rogen"s devastating kick which targeted his pretty face.
Venjie immediately uses wind magic to his sword, this time he also used his cape to make him a little bit faster. He then charged towards Rogen, with a roar of anger.
Rogen was the one surprised this time as he did not expect Venjie to be faster than before, this caused him to immediately change stance. Rogen managed to dodge Venjie"s sword but not his elbow, Rogen"s mouth started to bleed after being hit by Venjie"s elbow.
As the battle got intense the cheers of the people also got intense inside the arena, all of them were yelling because of the entertainment brought by the two to them.
Rogen just wiped the blood out with his hand and took another stance, this time he did not move on his position, but stayed still like a statue. Venjie was now careful after seeing Rogen"s new stance, he already learned to be more careful when coming to close with Rogen"s hands and leg and feet. He still used his magic cape to increase his speed, but Rogen did not move even Venjie launch a forward attack.
As the Venjie and his sword got closer to Rogen, it was only a foot away from Rogen. Rogen immediately pivots his foot after the sword got near him enough. Venjie was surprised again as Rogen immediately turned to his left side, as Rogen saw Venjie"s back which the cape was visible, he immediately pulled it causing Venjie to fall to the ground, but this time the impact was greater as he was faster than usual.
Rogen did not let this opportunity pa.s.s, he immediately holds Venjie"s right arm and twisted it causing him to release the sword he is holding. Rogen then kicked the sword with a powerful force, to stop Venjie from grabbing it. The sword was now 24 meters away from them.
Rogen has now the upper hand in the battle as Venjie was not able to do anything with his magic sword.
But Venjie struggles to get out of Rogen"s lock on his arms with overwhelming force. Rogen was surprised at how strong Venjie was, he was thrown away after Venjie set free from his lock. Rogen was sent flying near to Venjie"s sword, which he immediately picked up.