After that match, the next one seemed a bit disappointing inparison since it was just a normal fight between two Awakeners that didn''t have any shy abilities.


    They did their best to put on a show, but there was nothing that they could do. They just weren''t on the same level as ze and Kaito who had received power from the Inferno Gem.


    So the crowd just seemed bored of their fight.


    It didn''t even matter which one of them won, so they could only walk off the stage with bitter smiles in the end.


    The rest of the fights were also quite simple, so there wasn''t much to see.


    In fact, Bing Xin''s match was so fast that there was no suspense at all.


    Her opponent seemed to recognize her as he tried to flirt with her by saying, "Miss Bing, I''ll go easy on you. When this is over, I hope that I will have a chance to take you out to dinner sometime."


    But Bing Xin justpletely ignored this fellow, even if he was from one of therge guilds.


    The way that she did it made her seem like the Bing Xin that I had met all the way back then.


    It turned out that she acted that way towards people that she didn''t know just so they wouldn''t bother her. The her that I got to knowter on was the real her that she only showed to people that she trusted.


    Well, I already knew that, but this was a st from the past seeing Bing Xin act this way.


    I had to admit that this kind of Bing Xin did move my heart a bit…


    But did that mean that I was a M?


    I shook that though away as soon as it appeared in my mind.


    As for Bing Xin''s battle, it onlysted an instant.


    Her opponent didn''t even get a chance to make a move as he was surrounded by ice.


    When he did react, he found that he was being frozenpletely and he only had the chance to say, "No, wait, don''t!"


    But before he could finish his thought, he was encased in ice andpletely frozen.


    Bing Xin didn''t even bother sparing him a nce as she walked off the stage.


    It should be said that she had gained quite a few fans because of this.


    The other battle of note was between Alex and Julius.


    When the two of them stepped out onto the stage, they had apletely different look on their faces. They were no longer facing each other with smiles, but rather serious looks.


    No, there was still a smile on Julius'' face, but that was just how he looked naturally.


    It was the look in his eyes that were different as they had be much more serious.


    The two of them did the same thing as ze and Kaito where they shook their hands, but their fight waspletely different.


    That was because it waspletely one sided.


    I had thought that it would be a more even match, but that wasn''t the case at all.


    There was one side that was clearly doing better than the other.


    Though he tried his best, Alex just wasn''t able to do a single thing to Julius.


    As he was firing his bolts of lightning one after the other, there was a bitter smile on his face as if he had already expected something like this to happen. It was almost as if he already knew that he would be suppressed by Julius like this.


    As for how he knew…


    Well, there was a reason why Julius was favoured to win this tournament in the first ce.


    As I watched their fight, I realized that I hadpletely underestimated Julius'' power.


    The real power that came from Julius'' ability was the flexibility behind it.


    Instors, that was how Julius had defeated Alex in the end.


    He kept creating different instors around him that blocked the lightning that Alex threw at him. So no matter how Alex tried to attack Julius, he was able to stop all the lightning bolts that he threw.


    Since he couldn''t do anything with his lightning bolts, he was pushed back by Julius until he reached the edge of the stage.


    Then with a single push, Alex was knocked off the stage and lost the match.


    It didn''t even seem like Julius had broken a sweat during this fight.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    However, Julius did reach down over the edge of the stage to give his hand to Alex to help pull him up. It seemed that the friendship that they had developed wouldst which was also a good thing for me since we were all friends.


    After pulling him up onto the stage, Julius seemed to whisper something into Alex''s ear that suddenly made his chin drop. He looked at Julius for a bit before suddenly cupping his hands and saying, "I admit my defeatpletely."


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    Julius just waved his hand and said, "There''s no need to be that formal."


    Just this alone was enough to establish Julius as one that was far above the others.


    Though many people already knew this.


    The fights kept going and it didn''t seem like there would be anything else interesting happening before it ended.


    But then the final fight caught my attention.


    That was because this was a fight between one of the members of my group and someone that had caught my eye before.


    This was the unaffiliated Awakener who had used the spatialws, the one that no one had known about previously.


    I had only remembered how he looked, but I didn''t know his name.


    But after the fight with the member of my group, his name was imprinted in my mind.


    That was because…it wasn''t a fight.


    Rather, he was just ying with that member of my group.


    It was almost as if he was trying to break thempletely so they would never be able to fight again.