tbate - Confrontation

His worth

ARTHUR POV

The council and my mother relocated outside the base.

"Are you sure Art? I know you are strong but we aren't pushovers, we won't go easy on you." Tess was worried for me. 

I responded with a light chuckle, irony, "It's not like I'm not going to have an teammates, I'll have one."

Regis jumped out of my body and shocked everyone with his ghastly appearance. 

"Hello, nice to meet everyone. My name is Regis, a godly weapon fit for only the best fighters of this world. I am in fact all powerful, and single~." Regis gave threw Kathyln a wink which she responded with seemly mixed emotions.

"If you guys don't attack with the intent to kill, you won't stand a chance. That is the difference in power now. Personally I think I could handle you all at once but for any who don't wish to participate aren't forced to. With that being said, any volunteers?" I drew my gaze towards Bairon, almost daring him to test me.

A smirk crept on his face, "I volunteer." he bit.

"I also wish to test Arthur's power." another expected contestant, lance Varay.

Gramps looked around the crowd before raising his hand himself, "If you are going to act that cocky you better impress, brat."

"I also volunteer, I don't like the look the dog gave me just now." Kathyln also raised her hand, I didn't know she was so easily provoked.

Curtis also raised his hand, "If Kathyln is then I don't have much of a choice. I hope you don't mind if Gawder fights as well?"

"Of course it's fine." I looked at Ellie, she clearly wanted to satisfy her curiosity, nothing's stopping her. 

"Fine, I'll fight too." Ellie rose her hand.

"Well if no one else will fight then maybe you will after the first round. Then we can talk about the war."

Everyone took a stance, with Virion, Curtis, Gawder, Bairon and Varay at the vanguard. Kathyln and Ellie had their weapons drawn. I waited 30 seconds for their attack but it never came.

"What are you waiting for?" I asked.

"We'll let you have the first move." Bairon said overly confident in his abilities.

"Fine." Without another beat I willed Regis to go inside me and godstepped to their backline. Without giving them anytime to react Regis jumped on top of Kathyln, for which she responded with a surprised squeal. I then formed a knife out of pure aether and pulled it under Ellie's chin.

"Sorry Ellie, you're out." I smiled as she walked away from the playing field in shock of al that happened.

Regis got off of Kathyln and said, "You too Princess, if you want some more come back for round two." 

"Now only 5 left. Still want us to make the first move?" I asked.

Not saying a word Bairon summoned a lance of Lightning in rage. Varay then cladded herself in ice and compressed more to make a sword. I decided to leave the other three to Regis. I wanted to make a spectacle of our power difference so my point would be clear. 

Bairon cocked his Lance back and launched it at the right side of my torso. Varay was hesitant to attack, probably due to the strength of his attack. If I wasn't so powerful I would actually be in danger. 

I released my aetheric defense and stepped slightly to the left, but ultimately allowed the lance to make a direct impact on my right arm. My arm was completely torn off. Bairon took a moment to asses the situation but that was fatal. I godstepped behind him and kicked the back of his knees, causing him to collapse on himself. I made a very long claw out of aether and pressed it against his shirt.

"You're out."

Varay wasn't aware of me as she was staring at my arm that was laying on the ground. 

I put tapped her shoulder before slashing her ice clad torso, breaking it into many pieces. She turned around, wondering why I hadn't stopped the fight or simply dodged the attack until her gaze landed on my new and improved right arm. I pushed her back making her fall on the fround.

"You also lose." I turned to Regis and saw that he won against his opponents as well.

"Thanks for letting me hand the one with a Shadow Panther will, I almost died!" Regis complained as he stepped off Gawder's body.

"I'm sure, anyway," I turned to our small audience, "what do you guys think. I definitely held back a great amount, but I hope this was good enough for you to place your hopes in me." 

"I've never heard of mana being able to regrow limbs at that speed, much less in combat. Please explain." Varay was baffled by the display of regeneration I showed in the fight.

"I can't really explain everything, but ultimately it amounts to the fact I don't use mana, I use aether."

"That makes sense, that's why you could open the door to the camp. Do you know the limitations of your powers Art?" Tess inquired.

"No actually, so I can't really explain everything because I don't know too much myself. I do know that with more aether I could do much more. With time I could do impossible things, but for now I might just be powerful enough to win."

"I really thought I had a chance." Bairon seemed a little disappointed but he'll get over it. After all if I had lost we wouldn't have a chance in this war.

I clapped my hands, "With all that said and done, let's win the war."

[A/N]
I think I'm going to end the story here, I don't really have any ambition to continue and I'm a little burnt out. I'm considering making a reaction fanfic a little later down the line but I'm currently working on a big story that I hope you guys could show some love to. It's in the same neighborhood as TBATE so please consider reading it, I'm updating it at least 3 times a week. I also put a lot more effort into that story than in this one. I'm also thinking of posting it on tapas so stay tuned.