Next day was quite eventful. Strangely only eight groups were left on end. The Sect of Eternal Fire, Inner Turmoil Sect, Holy Lady Aera Sect, G.o.ddess of Ice Leq sect, Grounding Fairy Sect, Warrior Guild, Guild of Fire and Ice and Dark Arts school.
She already spoke with Warrior Guild and Holy Aera Sect that she will pull back as soon she wins against Illo"s sect. Unfortunately. Holy Aera Sect met on Illo"s Guild.
Kendra sat straight and closely watched the fight with rising nervousness. ""She should pull the people out, I fear she won"t be able to save them if they fight his guild head-on.""
Isaa"s knuckles became white as she saw something that was not usually used. ""Do they use the soul catching technique. What is G.o.d"s doing? Don"t they see it?""
Kendra arose her head and saw that the two G.o.d"s seemingly looked but had a blank expression. ""Isaa, look at their eyes.""
They did follow the whole fight but it seems someone showed them the completely normal illusion of fights. Isaa jumped and wanted to intervene when Kendra pulled her down. Using her powers she broke through the protective s.h.i.+eld and whispered.
""G.o.d"s are under an illusion. Run!""
Laura turned her head towards Kendra and saw her serious expression. She knew already that Kendra wouldn"t make jokes about such thing so she just rose her hand and made an alarm. Suddenly all her cultivators escaped, one after another until only small group were stuck between Illo"s people.
Unfortunately for them Kendra already gave them short-range transportations scrolls that would just take them out the s.h.i.+eld. With big smiles, she cracked the scroll with one hand and everyone disappeared making Illo and others roar in rage. They couldn"t kill even one of those people.
In his anger he turned his head and saw Kendra smiling at Isaa and chatting with few people nearby, completely ignoring him. ""I guess not. It"s impossible that she knows scroll scribing. That would be..."" He just shook his head as his win was announced.
This time the win had a strangely bitter aftertaste. They couldn"t even really fight against them.
Next group was Warrior Guild against G.o.ddess of Ice Leq Sect. That fight was really something different.
Even tho Warrior Guild members used their body as a base for their power but fighting pure water and Ice cultivators are quite hard. On the end, his Guild barely won and came our completely blue and frozen.
Guild of Fire and Ice and Dark Arts School was something Kendra wanted to see. Each of the groups had their own merits. Dark Arts School actually used darkness to blind enemies and then hurt them like asa.s.sins until they were so harmed that they would be kicked out the stage.
On the other hand, the cultivators from the Guild of Fire and Ice used their powers as well to freeze or burn the opposite cultivators. But they all tried to stay inside restrictions. Harm, but don"t kill. Their fight was long but interesting.
Kendra watched with s.h.i.+ny eyes at both groups and literally took out package of popcorn and shared with everyone while watching the fights. The smell of freshly popped corn with b.u.t.ter on top of it made everyone in the surrounding guild in greed. They never heard of such a thing. At least not most of them.
It was unheard of such conduct. Even Illo"s Guild tried to conduct themselves elegantly showing off n.o.ble air, but Grounding Fairy Sect didn"t give d.a.m.n about any rules and regulations. But wait, there was never a rule that you couldn"t eat and drink while waiting for the next fight.
""Can I have some more?""
""Mee too!""
""I want some as well!!!""
The surrounding voices could be heard as they couldn"t handle anymore the amazing smell coming from the strange-looking snacks. Even potato chips were served and the sound of munching could be heard while they commented on the whole compet.i.tion.
""Wow, that Ice spear had quite a lot fo power!""
""Yes, look at the spinning fireball...""
""Whoa, that girls speed is amazing. Look she made traps around everyone.""
""Yes, but that red-haired man just used his wind powers to blow them to another side of the compet.i.tion ground. Goo idea!""
""Look! Someone has magnetic powers, the traps ae back on their places as before!""
""Wow. The traps are quite strong, look one even has the marrow of Impending Doom Tree in it. That is dangerous.""
Everyone in surrounding started cheering for this or that one. Most of them were finished with compet.i.tion and stayed only to see what will happen in the end. Everyone, especially many smaller Guilds that had huge personal losses because Illo"s Guild waited to see if any of groups are strong enough to fight him.
Most of them laid their hopes on Warrior Guild, but there are still many that hoped that they will fight Grounding fairy Sect. Somehow they could feel that these flamboyantly dressed people were quite strong but intentionally just made noise about spirit food and rinks.
As the last of the cultivators were done it was announced School Of Dark Arts won and that meant it was the first time that this school came this far for many years.
As the two girls from School of Dark Arts came back Kendra could see the tiered but happy expressions and smiled ta them. ""Well done fight. I think your guild has change to get at least one of the wins.""
The cultivators from the School of Dark Arts smiled at her while headmistress looked ta Kendra with a smile. Her intention to become connected she could feel but she stills struggled. The Elders of their school were quite strange people, will they accept Grounding Fairy Sect or not, she just didn"t dare to choose and as it seems this child knew it as she a.s.suringly just smiled and nodded at her.
""Next compet.i.tion is Grounding Fairy Sect against Inner Turmoil Sect. Compet.i.tors to come and fight!"" As usual one of G.o.d"s made announcement but just as Kendra stepped on cloud another announcement was made.
""Inner Turmoil Sect recedes from the fight and accept to let Grounding Fairy Sect this win.""
Everyone stilled while looking at the young man turning around and bowing deeply at Kendra.
""My cultivators are most wounded and it makes no sense for me to continue the fight. I hope that Grounding Fairy Sect will forgive me for giving up. But I feel that my cultivators health is more important than a win. I hope you will accept my defeat.""
Kendra just nodded. ""Fine.""
She didn"t comment on anything. She knew his thoughts as he pushed his cultivators to overuse their powers even from start on. It seems he had this idea the whole time. No matter what ideas he had she just shrugged and accepted.
Their Sect, their problems...
Seeing that Grounding Fairy Sect came into last round everyone held breath. Who will be able to fight her? Actually Warrior Guild and School of Dark Arts was innerly praying not to be chosen to fight her sect as they already knew that she has more powers than people might imagine.
""Warrior Guild and School of Dark Art fight first then Grounding Fairy Sect and Sect fo Eternal Fire.""
The announcement went down like a bomb spreading in moments and rise of antic.i.p.ation made everyone exhilarated. But then the next bomb went off.
""School of Dark Arts pulls out as it has too many hurt cultivators. It gives up.""
""Warrior Guild is giving up as well for the same reason. Too many hurt cultivators.""
So everyone again became silent as they knew that these two crazy groups will now go straight against each other. Everyone became still as Grounding fairy Sect members floated down and stood in certain positions while Sect of Eternal Fire surrounded them in a strange way as well.
As soon everyone was inside the s.h.i.+eld the G.o.d"s had feeling they should improve the s.h.i.+eld around the stage.
And they were right as next what happened was so breathtaking...