
The next match turned out to be between the 21st participant who was none other than Long against the 1st participant who was none other than Drake Dragon the successor of the war god and the most promising disciple of the knight division.
"It turns out my opponent was that arrogant boy." murmured Aiden in response to his opponent Drake Dragon the successor of the god of war.
Long did not panic in the slightest when he got the opponent of a young knight number one of the knight division which was none other than Dragon, Long even felt excited, but in contrast to Anyi who was very worried about Long.
"Your sister must retreat and surrender if there is no possibility of winning against her." Anyi's advice to Long and a small nod is answered by Long.
"Fortunately I managed to break through to the early sky realm after some effort." Inner Long was excited.
Long was very confident moreover two days ago he managed to break through, even he used all the stamina points he had to raise his mana points up to the early sky realm with 2701 mana points, even he used all the stamina points he had, whereas previously he had intended to add to his combat vitality points.
While the three elders were watching those who were walking into the fighting arena with relaxed steps and seemed indifferent.
"It's a pity that the two of them met at the beginning which means one of the two geniuses would become a reserve demon hunter." said Gerd while shaking his head in regretting that two geniuses met in the beginning to become members of the core demon hunter squad.
In accordance with the rules of the knight division that whatever the result and whoever the person must be fair, even though the defeated son or grandson of one of the higher-ups.
Whoever loses in the first round, second round, and third round will be confirmed to be one of the members of the demon hunter squad, they must be satisfied to be a reserve demon hunter.
"Battle of two geniuses, one was a sword heiress of a war god with a special body of supreme bones, one was a true genius with a realm above normal." the Inner Arfera highlighted more who would win between the Dragon the successor god of war against Long the phenomenal genius.
Long is called a phenomenal genius because his realm is already the final cloud peak with the realm of 2499, whereas generally geniuses always appear with the realm only up to the realm of middle clouds in their under-20s, but in contrast to Long which is one level higher that is the final cloud realm with which points 2499.
Arfera threw a paper containing the profiles of Dragon and Long, then nodded slightly to the referee in order to start the match.
"Alright, start!" shouted the referee started the fight after getting the approval of elder Arfera.
"Well which of you two will advance to the second round." Arfera was looking forward to the outcome of the fight.
Bush!
Bush!
Long took out his aura which was already the early sky realm with 2701 mana points and made an uproar throughout the main training hall of the knight division, Dragon used two ordinary swords as he had yet to master the sword of the war god.
"He really is a true genius, but he has no special body at all" said Gerd, Dominik, and Arfera almost simultaneously.
The three elders who were sitting quietly to watch the fight were taken aback and stood up spontaneously by Long's strength that was beyond their expectations.
"What is the use of a high realm without being accompanied by a special body and being the successor of a war god?" tanya Dragon provoked Long.
Dragon felt jealous of Long who was already in the early sky realm when he did not have a special body, let alone being the successor of a god like him.
Dragon attacked blindly with the martial art of two swords, Long served him with the art of two swords as well.
A slash!
Ting!
A slash!
They attacked each other with energy slashes while occasionally making physical contact or swordfighting directly.
"Light slash!" Long attacked with an energy attack.
"Fire sword technique: fire dragon slash!" reply Dragon.
Bush!
"Ah." The dragon slashed through the attack of Long's light slash, because Long's energy slash was too powerful and split his fire dragon. This happened due to the realm difference being too far between Long and Dragon.
"Killer light steps." Long used the light-killing step technique which was one of the three basic knight techniques.
Dragon could only fend off Long's attacks while occasionally counterattacking.
Bang out!
"Ah..," Dragon was blown away by Long's kick when he had used a light shield, but was still penetrated by Long's kick.
"Yes!" dragon shouted back with all his strength.
"Shield light!" Long created a light shield in response to the Dragon's desperate attack.
Dragon ran and did a slash, Long served him happily. Everyone was stunned at how tough Long was against a god weapon user.
"This is the power of the difference realm." muttered Aiden looking at Long's fight against the Dragon.
Aiden who was watching their fight realized that the attack of Dragon the successor of the war god had little effect on Long who had the early sky realm because it had the late cloud realm (one step lower than Long).
Everyone also realized that the Dragon had so much difficulty facing Long, they also realized it was due to the difference in realm between the two of them.
Where there is an unwritten rule in the world of warriors that reads, "The higher the realm the stronger the physical body, mana armor, and strength of the person, it greatly affects the outcome of a fight"
The fight between Long and Dragon ended quite surprisingly, the Dragon lost due to running out of mana, while Long lost due to the Dragon's dagger stab that appeared suddenly and pierced his heart.
"The result is a draw!" shouted the referee, the doctor who had been prepared at the edge of the arena immediately came to handle the two young knights.
The draw caused a stir for the knights, though, because no one knew who was entitled to qualify for the second round and no one thought that Dragon was able to hold off a draw Long who had a realm one step higher than him, to make various small ruckus because of the difference of opinion between Long and Dragon supporters.
"Everything's quiet!" dominik's shout calmed the commotion that occurred because the difference of opinion between Long's supporters and Dragon's supporters were getting heated and causing friction.
After silence Dominik immediately joins the other two elders to discuss who has the right to step into the second round between Long or Dragon.
Dominik's elder and the other two elders stood up after the three of them had finished deciding on the outcome, Dominik's elder stared at all the knights who were following the selection of the demon hunter squad.
"Regarding the outcome of the match between Long and Dragon, we decided they both graduated and instantly became one of the 25 representatives of the knight division to become members of the new demon hunting squad." said elder Dominik announcing the results of the meeting of the three of them.
Everyone was in an uproar after being startled by Long and Dragon's fight, and now the announcement that Long and Dragon instantly became one of the 25 knights selected as representatives of the knight division to fill the knight position in the 25 new demon hunter squad.
"That means there are only 23 more knight slots left to fill the 25 new demon hunter squad, do you mind?" said elder Arfera, then asked.
Everyone stared at each other and asked for an opinion, moments after a fuss and whispers someone came forward a little as a representative. "We don't mind the decision, even we're glad that two great knights like them became core demon hunters" he said wisely, everyone nodding in affirmation.
Everyone realized that Long and Dragon indeed deserved to be the ultimate demon hunters (becoming members of the demon hunter squad), as they had already gone a long way leaving them behind, leaving them behind, hence there was no reason for them to reject the decision of the elders.
"Good, I thank you for your agreement" Dominik said then with a satisfied smile, the three elders sat back down.
The notification board immediately displays two participant numbers to determine who will compete next.
"Next knight no 13 against knight no 31" said the referee announced the next match.
Moments later, two knights were armed with their own weapons.