Arch-Sabre: The Inheritor of The Blade

Chapter 8: The Perfect Team

--- [15 minutes later] ---

It has been fifteen minutes since we are waiting here. All contestants can be seen preparing themselves on the stage. I guess the battle will start real soon.

"Looks like all participants have prepared!" Carl affirmed.

"Yes, Carl, so how about we do some countdown and let the battle begin?!" Hana suggested.

"That is clever! Let's counts with me everyone!! In—"

"THREE, TWO, ONE!" The crowds followed.

"FIRST STAGE OF HERO ARMAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP, START!!!" Carl and Hana announced.

The scream and cheers from the audiences are so reverberating and deafening in the whole arena. The overwhelming excitement expressed by the crowds surely increased the motivation of the participants. In amidst of cheers and ovations, the arena management operatives activate the arena's safety wall called 'Battle Safety Magical Wall' system. The magical wall functioned as a defensive barrier to prevent the effects from reaching the audience. The strength of the wall is extremely resilient, which can even hold against A-class monster direct attack.

"Your sister is in the middle of the crowd Evans."

Elea that is currently sitting at my right start mentioning my sister.

"Yea, I see her."

"That is how our situation will be like," Elea claimed.

"Hm..."

The situation my sister currently is quite bad. Why? Because currently her team is being surrounded by another one-hundred and twenty-four groups. They have Ace, last year first runner up and my sister who at least succeed to reach the last stage in one team, so, they are pretty much the best team in this tournament. If our team were to clash...

"This is not looking good for Ace's team! They are being ganged up by other participants!" Carl started commentating.

"Oh no Carl, what can they do now?" Hana continued.

"It does look bad, but their team is the perfect line up and perhaps the strongest team ever built! Ace, Angela and Frostbite are there, they must face the hardest hurdle to proceed to the next stage!!"

"Angela? Frostbite?"

"That's nickname Evans, like Ace, he used his name, Frostbite is Helena, and your sister is Angela," Quinn answered.

"What! Angela is my sister? What even is that names mean? Huh... how childish..."

"Yeah..." Quinn nodded slowly with a tiny hint of guilt.

"J-just asking. You didn't add any weird name for me, r-right Quinn?"

"Ah... about that—"

Before Quinn about to finish his sentence, suddenly a few massive stalagmites of ice emerge from the ground pushing every other contestant from my sister team at the middle. There are even several participants that injured from that ice stalagmite. I immediately look at the screen to see what actually happened at the stage where I can see Helena is holding a wand, an ice magical wand to be specific. A wand is a magic output enhancer type weapon which can produce a strong magical attack with small amount of magic. It's rare to see a wand user because it's almost useless in close combat physical fight.

"Hey, I just started warming up!!" Helena shouted.

The drone that used to record the video is sensitive to sound and able to record the voice of the participants on the stage from far distance, send the voice to the speaker in the arena with higher volume, so everyone can hear it. Better whisper if I want to say something unimportant.