Artificial

Chapter 22

Brandon spent the first week of June recovering from the injuries Sora gave him and the Demon Council was utterly terrified of Chase.
They automatically gave my siblings a Triple S rank on thier liscense and after the week they have announced to all Artificial Demon Tribes around the world to meet in the Demon Council three days from now for the Rank Up tournament to determine who will be placed where during the war, me being me,
I am hyped as hell for this tournament, I haven't been this excited sense my years in Taekwondo.
My siblings outright stated they would not be participating in this tournament and they have no interest in the Council,
quite frankly I don't blame them, the Council can burn in hell.
So I waited and the stadium in the Demon Council we had demons as far as the eye can see,
we had demons wearing Japanese style clothing,
had katanas and golden white looking color scheme,
we also had wind demons that dressed in navy blue Hollywood ninja style clothing, they made it quite clear they allied with whom they call the Light Tribe.
Then we had fellow shadow demons known as the Dusk Tribe and they wore black knight armor,
then we had the Kitsune Tribe who were all about the peace and love,
then we had the Wolfskin Tribe who were werewolves.
Then we had Ice Tribe,
population,
mostly women,
we also had Earth Tibe who were a bunch of dicks who offerd their children to Satan for power, wealth,
and more shit I didn't care to know about. Then we have the Water Tribe who are way behind the times and perfer to use steam powerd limbs and bend water,
partners with Ice Tribe on paper but reality is they hate each other's guts and only get along because their power goes hand in hand.

And finally we have the Lighting Tribe and Flame Tribe,
Lighting Tribe takes pride in their speed like the Flash,
Flame Tribe takes pride in their insaine strength and durability and stubbornness not to go down,
I heard their blood is fire itself.
I signed up with Penny,
Leon and Anton and shortly my bout is about to begin,
apparently the tournament system goes all E ranks duke it out in the arena until you're the last man standing then the D rank bout begins after all the injured are removed. If you win your bout you are immediately promoted so to someone like me, pacing and constantly monitoring my enemies is key to S rank, okay Seth!
You got this! Let's show Brandon and those dick waffel Demon Council that I am worthy of S rank and above.
And one day I will come back to beat their asses! Believe it!
"All E ranks enter the stadium."
The Demon Council pages. "Break a leg twinkle toes." Leon says.
"Give them a thousand page muda on my behalf."
Anton says with a bit of excitment. "Fuck them up Seth! I believe in you!"
Penny gives encouragement.
"This will be entertaining to watch." Chase says on my sibling's behalf.
"Try not to trip on the way in."
Brandon says with snark,
I glare at him.
"Brandon, out of everyone here, I want to wipe that condensending look off your face, and when I beat you in the ring, one day I'll be back for the Demon Council."

I continue the glare and for once he meets my eyes, this guy sees me as a threat and I can feel it.
"I'll think about it once you make A rank." He says.
I enter the ring and begin stretching, by the looks,
two ninjas, two samurai, two boxers, two kitsunes, two wolfskins,
two speedsters,
and finally two Onis wielding a steel club with spikes on it.
Like a mace but more Japanese looking. "Now that all E ranks are in the ring, BEEEEEEEGIN!"
The announcer commands as it suddenly turned into utter chaos,
the ninjas teamed up with the samurai, ninjas creating shuriken or throwing stars if that's what you want to call it,
out of their aura.
The samurai created bows out of aura which to a human looks transparent but to a demon we can physically see the bow. The oni's charge in clobbering anyone in their way,
the boxers used water runes to make their body faze through opponents and I just hid in the shadow of a ninja sense they were the quickest demons in the arena,
feels weird merging into someone else's shadow but oh well.
The oni's were the most durable and while the other E ranks were powerful in their own right,
they just couldn't get passed their raw power and durability,
the ninjas go down last so I just trade shadows and merge into the oni's. They were confused and started counting everyone,
while they did that I created a familiar in the other's shadow and right when they concluded that there was indeed one more in the arena,
I sprang my trap!
I emerge from their shadows and punch them both in the spine,
so long as I think it my familiar will automatically sync up with me.
My familiar uses a shadow rune with me and our shadows emerge like a JoJo stand and we yell muda as our shadows beat up both oni's until they knocked them out. "Next bout, all D ranks enter the arena!" The next round was more easy as two of all the demon tribes of last round enter the ring, this time they all agreed to take me out and act like I was the weakest link.
Bigistake as while they were talking a big game I was already plotting my next move, when the lights shined on me,
they were all out cold in seconds as my Shadow Execution threads,
rapped around all their limbs and broke all their bones, leaving them hanging like a marionette. I retract my Shadow Execution and the staff workers pick up the bodies.

Bout three, all C ranks enterd,
ten Water Tribe in total,
unlike last round these guys were real fighters and took me seriously.
They all came at me,
they put a water rune on their body and would turn their bodies into puddles of water if I attacked,
so instead I waited to test if their rune has to be a conscience decision or not,
no surprise though sense when I was punched,
I felt it.
So I waited for all of them to attack me all at once and cast a shadow rune on all of their shadows,
forcing themselves to be impaled by it, bout four,
all B ranks which was again a bit of everyone,
these guys were a bit more smarter as the Earth Demons turned their bodies into stone,
so I smashed them all into pieces with my Shadow Flame Rasangone,
the Light Demons shot me with a light rune, if you think that's instant kill you're horribly mistaken as someone I talked to earlier told me a light rune moves faster then lightning but slower then light despite being a light rune.
I shrug off the hit and shoot them with my Spirit Gun Chiappa rhino revolver,
of course I hit none vital areas but they won't be recovering anytime soon.
I sprout Shadow Wings like Anton and fly as high as the room then make my favorite Shadow Bow and fire one arrow that strays and rains down multiples,
all I saw was purple explosions and the sound of me being the victor. I look into the stands at Brandon and motion for him to come down here.

"All A ranks, the ring please, again all A ranks to the ring."
Brandon stands up and announces he's withdrawing which ticks me off,
I see my siblings look at him and call him a pussy as he walks away.
Penny and Leon enter the ring along with two Ice Tribe ladies known as yuki-onna, I may not be Japanese but I did study some history,
yuki-onna are Japanese yokai that control ice, elegant as they are deadly.
"Oh this will be fun, show me what you got Seth!" Leon says as I brace myself. "Bring it!"