When it was time for his duel, Silva made his way to the arena, but his opponent forfeited and refused to come out, which made Silva win.
He didn’t really care about the duel; however, he was fine with it, so he left the arena. As he was moving out, one of the instructors met him in the hallway.
“Silva, all your fights have been forfeited, except for one. He is a boy from B class; he didn’t forfeit,” the instructor said.
“Okay then, it would be best if I go over it, right? Can I please fight him now if it is alright? The next duel has yet to start, and it is still basically my time now,” Silva said.
“Alright, I understand. I’ll pass the word; the fight will be ready in five minutes.” Silva nodded, and the man left.
Five minutes later, the fight was announced, and the two of them walked to the stage from opposite sides.
As soon as Silva saw this dude, with jet black hair, pale skin, and sunken eyes, he felt that something was off.
He used Dragon Eyes to watch the energy flow of this boy and saw that there were two flows of energy: one was blue, which was the normal one.
But then there was a red, ominous one that felt dangerous and powerful. This boy had definitely put his hands into things that he was not meant to.
“You believe that you are a big shot just because you have been slightly more talented than others? Well, today I’ll show you that everyone can be just as good,” the boy yelled and took out a wand.
“Vine Bind.” He cast his spell, and thick vines shot from all over and attacked Silva at the same time.
Silva let out a smirk. The vines covered him entirely, but the sound of slashing was heard, and they all fell to the ground.
He spun the Abyssal Blade a bit in his hand before stabbing it into the ground and using it as a crutch to lean on.
“If you are going to fight me, you better come at me with all you have, or you may end up severely injured,” Silva said.
“Don’t mock me!” he yelled and stretched his wand again. This time, the vines were longer and dark purple.
Silva slashed through them to clear the way, then he used Dragon Eyes and saw that the energy that had taken over was the red one.
It made the boy’s attacks faster and more powerful, and from the dripping purple liquid that Silva saw as he cut them, he also knew that they were poisonous.
“Whatever that power is that you are using, it is eating away at your life force. You may not be alive for very long if you keep this up,” Silva said.
“Shut up,” the boy said. He threw away his wand and started charging at Silva; his entire arm transformed into thick, twisted purple vines.
When he was close, he lashed them at Silva to hit him from both sides. Silva used Abyssal Flames and shot out an arc that collided with the arms and caused an explosion.
The boy yelled in pain as the tops of his vine arms exploded, but they grew back in seconds, and he attacked again, with even more speed.
He kept attacking, but Silva kept blocking and dodging, and that pissed the boy off.
“Arghhhhh!” The boy fell in anger, and the power inside him responded. Four twisted vine limbs shot out of his back, giving him six arms in total.
With this, the boy felt more confident and charged at Silva again like a beast. Silva responded by slashing downwards and firing another flame arc.
The boy used all his limbs to block the attack, causing another explosion and pain.
When the explosion cleared away, Silva had vanished from the boy’s sight. The boy immediately tried to look for Silva, but his danger senses screamed, and before he could even react, Silva was at his neck with his sword.
“It’s over; I win,” Silva said, and that seemed to be the button that pushed the boy over the ledge. The boy snapped.
“Get away from me and die!” he yelled. Several more vine limbs shot out of his back in an attempt to grab Silva, but Silva had already moved.
Using Flash Step, he got right in front of the boy again. Using Dragon Eyes in that instant, he saw that the red energy had completely taken over the boy’s body.
His face began distorting into some sort of wood-like demon with two horns made of dark wood growing on its head.
The vine arms spread apart to form demon-like wings. His entire body was then encased in vines, throbbing and pulsing.
“Hahahahaha!” The boy laughed, but it sounded like there were two people inside rather than one.
“You puny human, I’ll rip your heart out of your chest,” the boy said and bolted towards Silva. Its speed was crazy, and it got to Silva in a flash and threw a punch at him, but all it hit was an after image.
Silva appeared in the air above and came down with his sword, stabbing through the back of the boy, through his heart and into the ground.
His purple blood filled the ground in no time as Silva drew his blade. The teachers immediately rushed to the scene.
The moment they saw him transformed, they knew something had gone wrong. Luckily, Silva made it quick.
Yet how could Silva choose to take a life so easily, a person that was his own age, yet still stand like nothing happened?
Silva didn’t bother himself with anything else; he walked off the stage under the gazes of his mates. How they would see him after this didn’t really matter to him because it was only a matter of days before the whole kingdom knew who he truly was.
