The Endless System
Ch 86 — Scenario

The spectators could see nothing but black smoke spreading in the arena. Tohrei, Ifrit, and Ryui were still in a state of calm. But unlike Urashia, she looked annoyed.

“Tournament is very annoying the longer.” Urashia gritted her teeth.

‘What is this black smoke? I think it's too dangerous to breathe it.’ Inner Ikumi who was shocked saw the existence of the smoke.

“Me.” Cresil said with a smile. He managed to find Ikumi.

Without Ikumi realizing it, the smoke was the spirit of his enemy. Cresil orders Blaince to capture Ikumi.

According to his master's orders, Blaince turned some of the smoke near Ikumi into his initial form. It looked like Blaince was doubling up.

Blaince's clone moved towards Ikumi, but he quickly realized the sound of a step behind him and was able to slash through Blaince's clone using his wind sword.

However, Ikumi just slashed at one of them. The smoke kept turning into a clone of Blaince's.

The clones were attacking Ikumi simultaneously. Fortunately, Ikumi used her Area of Effect skill in order to block the clones at once.

‘!’ A wind explosion was created in the Ikumi area. The clones that tried to get close instantly disappeared.

“” Cresil acknowledged his magic.

From under Ikumi's shadow immediately came out a black hand that tried to catch him. Ikumi was unaware of the attack until she felt a cold piercing from her back.

As soon as I realized the piercing coldness, Ikumi looked back and realized the existence of the black hand. He swiftly pierced his shadow. Instantly the black hand seemed to freeze for a moment before it simply vanished.

‘From the beginning I saw his dark spirit I could guess that he also had another dark skill and it seemed that my guess was correct. Fortunately, I suspect he has this kind of skill.’ Inner Ikumi who was happy her guess was right. Now he can avoid the bad possibilities that linger later.

However, he could not feel relieved for now. Black smoke was still spreading within the arena, he had to immediately search for the whereabouts of Cresil amidst this dark state.

‘’ Ikumi took out one of her skills, it was a skill capable of making her see through the blowing wind. This was a skill he had recently acquired while still at Ashfriet.

Ikumi created two windballs as visions for his wind vision. The two balls of wind went in two different directions.

If she was currently in her full strength, Ikumi could at least see using five visions. But he is currently even quite difficult to control two visions.

Ikumi has the ultimate skill wind barrier as a protector so she doesn't have to worry. But just in case, he made additional wind protectors.

“What? Protector?” Cresil receives information from Blaince. She receives information that Ikumi is currently wearing a shield but she is still motionless in her own protective cover.

“For now I will be quiet, I wonder what he will do.” Cresil let Ikumi in for a while.

Meanwhile, one of Ikumi's windballs moved not far from Cresil's position. In Ikumi's vision, he can see Cresil's position.

Ikumi immediately regained consciousness from her wind vision skill. He immediately chased the position of his wind ball. Ikumi was able to detect the presence of her windball so this made it feel spit out.

“Huh? A ball of wind? Oh, it seems that this belongs to my opponent.” Cresil approached the ball of wind. He did not forget to use his protective skill when approaching him.

“Hello little man, what are you doing here? Making explosion or so?” Cresil spoke to the ball of wind as if he were talking to a living being.

“” Ikumi quickly gets to her destination. He immediately launched an attack on Cresil.

‘Dia?! So this ball of wind is the radar?!’ Cresil immediately tried to dodge, he made defensive magic to resist Ikumi's attack.

“” Cresil is not only a user of dark magic, he is also a user of earth magic.

The wall that Cresil made was smashed to pieces by Ikumi. Cresil immediately orders Blaince to attack Ikumi. He asked Blaince to change back into being. Cresil knew that just handing this over to Blaince's clone was just a waste.

The spectators were finally able to see the match normally again. They are able to see that there has not been a single side that has outperformed its opponent.

However, thanks to the ultimate wind barrier, Blaince bounces when his attack almost hits Ikumi. But the bad thing did not happen only to Blaince, Ikumi who was currently suppressing her strength to the B+ level felt tired from the use of the ultimate skill wind barrier.

Cresil since the beginning of the match noticed Ikumi's protective skill, he tried to analyze the weakness of that skill.

“Blaince, keep attacking him.” Cresil wanted to experiment with the Ikumi skill.

Blaince without looking directly at his orders. Cresil's dark spirit attacked Ikumi many times.

Ikumi often fended off Blaince's attacks using her wind sword. But sometimes he was caught off guard so he had to rely on the ultimate skill wind barrier.

Cresil managed to analyze the skill, he now knew what the weakness of the skill was. After knowing the weakness, Cresil knew what he had to do now.

When Blaince and Ikumi are busy fighting, Cresil makes a spell.

“”

Hundreds of arrows containing dark energy were created. The arrows shot so fast towards Ikumi. Simultaneously, Blaince was ordered to retreat by Cresil.

Ikumi who immediately noticed the attack immediately dodged as much as she could. However, he was only able to dodge a few arrows. Most of the arrows launched by Cresil were blocked by the ultimate wind barrier.

As a result where Ikumi drained quite a lot. Actually the ultimate skill wind barrier consumes mana if hit by an attack. However, when in S+ rank this skill only takes a little of his whereabouts despite being attacked in a row.

But because Ikumi is now only a B+ rank class, the consumption of mana from the ultimate skill wind barrier becomes more than it should be.

As soon as the consecutive attack from Cresil was over, Ikumi slightly bowed. Tohrei from the audience bench watched.

‘System, what is the current rank of Ikumi and Cresil monsters?’ Ask Tohrei on the System. Tohrei wants to find out the reason why Ikumi looks not superior now.

[Ikumi is currently at B+ rank in terms of strength. His mana is reduced quite drastically when compared to when he was in S+ rank. The effect of Ikumi's skill also decreased.]

[As for Cresil, the system analyzes that he is in the SS rank. His spirit was not too high, it had a B rank. If it is in level, it is level 305.]

‘Wait, what?! The SS?! How come? Or maybe it was because of his race?’

[Yes, his race made him so strong. However since his race was hidden at the moment, his strength was only A+ equivalent. It was possible that he used the opportunity to show his full strength.]

Ikumi from the arena stared at Tohrei. He asked for telepathy.

‘What's Ikumi?’ Using telepathy, Tohrei communicates with Ikumi.

‘My current situation is cornered Master, what should I do now? I have to give up or can I increase my strength a little bit Master?’ Ask Ikumi to Tohrei.

If Ikumi increased his strength, he would only increase the match time and make his injuries even worse. The rank of his enemy is too high, even if Ikumi uses his full strength it will only create a fierce fight that could result in destruction.

Ifrit's match with Ryui may not be that bad as they try to minimize the excess destruction at Tohrei's request. But what about Cresil? No one guarantees it.

Tohrei finally made a decision.

Tohrei now understood the reason why the system gave the mission to ask Ikumi to use half of her power. That was so that Tohrei could deal with Cresil. The fight with Cresil against Tohrei was the main scenario here.

“What do I think is true, system?” Tohrei whispered with a faint smile on his lips.

[You are right sir]