Arkhen and others sat in the stadium''s audience section and watched the ongoing fight in front of them on a 1000 square meters tform.


    After a while, two fights were over as the anchor started an announcement.


    "Ladies and gentlemen! We have an irregr entry in the ongoing tournament. It is a man brought here bydy Meya herself! Let us wee Arkhen!"


    Arkhen stood up and jumped as he entered the fighting tform.


    "The one fighting Arkhen is Croco the Crusher!"


    "Waaaaaaaaa!!*


    The audience cheered as many of them knew Croco, who had arrived here yesterday and won many fights with his brutal and fiercebat style.


    A bulky man with a dark green scaly body and a crocodile mouth entered the tform and stood 20 meters away from Arkhen.


    "Although we are familiar with the rules, I''ll exin them to our new contestant! The rules are simple. A strong barrier will cover the tform, so you cannot go out of it. The ceiling of the barrier is 100 meters above the tform, so you can fly until that height.


    "Lastly, fight until one gives up or dies! Hahaha, be sure to surrender if you think you cannot win, lest you lose your life!"


    "You are pretty strong looking for a human, kakaka," Croco said with a weirdugh.


    Arkhen grinned and cracked his knuckles. "Don''t surrender too fast."


    "Alright, the battle starts innnnn!! Three, Two… One!"


    *BOOM….*


    Croco pped hisrge palms right at the moment when the countdown hit one and released strong waves of condensed wind blows towards Arkhen.


    Arkhen waved his hand and created a Mayhem Field around him, with him at the center of the field.


    The condensed wind blows dispersed and turned chaotic energies as they started whirling inside the whirlpool field.


    A secondter, Arkhen threw the field towards Croco, who conjured a scaly green energy barrier and defended sessfully.


    ? "That was a nice skill. A defense that turns offense, kakaka," Crocoughed as he dashed towards Arkhen, his whole body covered in dark green energy.


    Arkhen quickly activated his Purple-star wings and flew up, dodging the charge before he waved his hand and started his specialty.


    SPAM!


    ughter des started conjuring and shot towards Croco while he also waved his fist and used Fire Fist Agnister.


    Croco was defending with his full power. Inside the barrier, heughed, "how long are you going to keep this up?"


    Croco had confidence that he could outrun Arkhen in energy because this barrier skill was his highest ranking skill.


    Arkhen just grinned and didn''t say anything. He continued bombarding Croco with ughter des, and the Fire Fist Agnister skill asvatic fists with fire whirling around it hit Croco''s barrier that he was constantly fueling to keep it intact.


    After a minute, Croco''s expression turned somber. ''What the heck? My physical power is higher than his, so if he recklessly runs of out energy, I will easily beat him. What''s his y?''


    [Fire Fist: Agnister''s mastery reached Adept]


    [Fire Fist: Aginister''s mastery reached Expert]


    After several seconds, Croco couldn''t bear it anymore.


    "Enough!!" Croco shouted as he exerted his bodily strength and deactivated the barrier before dashing forward at a fast speed such that none of the ughter des hit him.


    Croco couldn''t defend anymore since he was almost out of the chi energy pond, which was the source of his main defense-type skill, the Reflow barrier. The energy in his chi energy pond was reduced by 96% just by defending against the constant bombardment of Arkhen''s ughter des and Fire Fists!


    This was unthinkable to Croco because his barrier skill was all about consuming less energy for more defense!!


    Arkhen changed the direction of his attacks, but Croco''s speed increased as he continuously ran in the stadium while barely dodging before jumping up and opening his mouth.


    A faint image of a giant beastly mouth appeared over Croco, intending to devour Arkhen.


    Arkhen was startled at this attack and quickly infused energy in his wings to make a burst of the quick dash and flew away to dodge the attack.


    Croco pped his hand in the air, producing intense wind along with a st of wind from his hand that pushed him towards Arkhen, continuing with his attack at a super quick speed.


    ''Hyacinth Prison!''


    A prison manifested around Croco just when he was 1 meter away from Arkhen while Arkhen was backing away.


    Croco''s attack hit the flowers inside the prison, and that one attack instantly made the prison reach its limit as it sted.


    "Gaaah!"


    Croco came out with injuries over his body, but he hadn''t given up and dashed towards Arkhen.


    ''Piercing Rain des!'' Arkhen pointed his hand at iing Croco and shot hundreds of slim rain des.


    He thought that Croco would dodge or back away, but he continued!


    The beastly mouth image disappeared, but instead, something else appeared and covered his whole body like armor. A humanoid exoskeleton looking like Croco''s species covered him! It was even more deadlier looking than Croco.


    The energy scales on that faint pulsing exo-skeleton blocked the ughter des. However, faint cracks still appeared on that mysterious exoskeleton due to the severe bombardment of powerful ughter des.


    ''Tsk, I need more skills,'' Arkhen thought as he clicked his tongue and continued bombarding iing Croco with his ughter des and Fire Fist Agnisters while backing away.


    "You can''t run!" Croco shouted as his Exo-Skeleton was on the verge of breaking but a burst of wind blew behind him and pushed him towards Arkhen quickly.


    Arkhen stopped his attacks and quickly conjured multiple force fields around him.


    *BOOM..*


    All force fields broke as Arkhen was shot in the barrier, spitting out some blood.


    "Hahaha, nice power!" Arkhen shouted with augh as he flew up and stretched his arm wide! "Now take this!"


    Giant ughter des manifested all around the stadiums. Some sharp, some thick andrge, some slim but pointy, and various kinds of des!


    Thepetition didn''t allow the use of items like armor or weapons, so Arkhen couldn''t use his Draconic Armor or Dragon de.


    He also didn''t want to use his Undead Realm superpower as it would''ve made the fight very easy.