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Chapter 52 - The weapon awarding ceremony: part 10: part 2

Every eye in the colosseum is on Nate, the second year student Michael is on the floor, blood is dropping from his fingers, the shield that Nate had conjured from the hatred and malice inside Michael's heart is as strong as his resentment towards Nate, which powered the shield, every strike from him, towards Nate, only powered the shield that is guarding him and the only way to shatter the invincible shield is by showing respect towards your opponent.

A fight, is sacred duel between two opponents, it is the only purest thing there is in the multiverse than love, and the connection between to men or two creature's fight over a domain or a turf is very sacred and that sacredness is what the shield is vulnerable to.

But, Michael is too consumed by his anger and resentment toward this first year for beating him with just a paper ball and sending him to the hospital wing, the one who is attacked by the dark mark will see nothing but darkness in his sleep, the dark mark is very dangerous to be used in this civilized world of advancement, the wielders of power, Darkness, are very rare that, the decree of banning these attacks by the government works are very poor, and in fact of speaking the truth, this decree for the users of Darkness, they actually lifted this decree a long time, the government thought that, wasting the resources on detecting these attacks and rather than working on real pressing matter, the government silently removed the department of "Detection of banned attacks" a long time ago.

The inner voice inside Nate is rushing to finish this duel by one strike, and it is saying "draw me", and Nate's eyes were very black, just like the pitch blackness the king of the moon was trapped in, and finally, Nate is drawing his katana, his face went completely blank when he is drawing his katana, he held his right hand on the hilt of his katana, he is drawing the katana, the metal that is visible to the crowd gasped at the color of the metal that katana had, the blade was pitch black, the same blackness where, mothers in every universe had scared their children, "if you don't eat, the monster in the darkness at night will take you away", we all knew that line where our mother's had said this once in our life time.

One of the security squad member who is gliding above the colosseum had just released a huge lazy sigh, and that made his commander look in his direction with stern look, the soldier just sighed, stood straight and he was vigilant on his duty now, but when the commander had looked away, the soldier had just something in his breath, "why do we have to glide for hours, just standing on our glider, when nothing going to happen, this is just giving to toys to kids, that's all" he thought and suddenly a black thunder with red outline had dropped just beside his ear, the soldier was bewilder with what just happened, he was shoved down from his glider by the impact of the thunder that had just fallen out of nowhere, just when the soldier was about to fall, he pressed a button on his wrist band and then glider he was gliding on, it came to get his falling body in the air.

Suddenly the atmosphere had changed drastically and dark clouds are coming out of nowhere, they are looming around the colosseum and the rumbling of the thunders inside the clouds made the soldiers who are gliding, they made them close their ears, for the sounds of the thunders are just like a thousand lions roared.

And the commander had give the command to shield the colosseum and every soldier had took their positions and they are now again on top of the colosseum and in a circle shape that covered the colosseum entirely, and they combined their both hands together to form a shape of triangle with their fingers and from the shape, on the top of them, a huge triangle had appeared and then it acted has a shield between the thunder clouds and the colosseum below them.

And the commander just looked down on the colosseum and wanted to check everything was ok, but he had found the source of these dark clouds and these giant thunders, and it was Nate, and he had drawn his katana, and the blade was out of it's sheath completely, the blade of the katana was very black, and suddenly when he had drawn his sword, the entire atmosphere of the colosseum had turned from the hot sunny day to the cold winter day, the coldness in the colosseum had made the students to shiver in the coldness, and then light power user had used their power to make hands glow with light, and that light had provided the student with the heat they need to make up the coldness around them, and black thunders were coming out the blade, and Nate is standing in front of Michael, and who had regained some his strength but, just then, Nate's inner took control of him, and Michael is about to get up, but Nate had put his katana's tip on one of Michael's finger nail, which had shattered by the shield of Nate.

And he pushed the sword down on to the fingers of Michael with more intent to cause pain, and Michael was screaming with pain, professor Mary was about to call off this is madness, but a voice inside her ear piece had said "no" and she didn't do anything, the screams were so intense that it made the students in the colosseum more uncomfortable, and then Nate had pulled the sword up, and Michael was still screaming with pain, and then Nate started to speak, "why" he said loudly that, everyone's attention was shifted from Michael to Nate, "why are shouted so loudly, aren't you a noble who could do anything, aren't you an upper classmen, aren't you strong, you took the pleasure are stomping on weak things right", and the thunders are growing very strong and it made the students scared, and then Nate had swung his sword in air and a thunder of black from that slash went in to air with speed of light and it shattered the shield that the security squad had conjured and the force of that slash had generated enough air to make the members of the security squad who are on their gliders to flown away, and they did, except the commander, and Nate continued "come on, get up, let's play some more, fire more of that fire balls you sent toward me" he said this line in child like play voice, and Michael with great trouble had stood up and he is about to pick up his gun that was on the ground, he picked it up, and Nate saw it and with cruel smile he said "yes, let's play" and when he said this, more thunder came and fell on that sword and the thunders are going through Nate, but he did not feel as threat but, it seemed like it was like he absorbing them or it seemed to the crowd like he is accepting them.

And Nate distanced himself from Michael with a great leapt in air and he stood at some distance from the second year Michael, blood is dropping from his hands, his fingers are no longer functioning the way we wanted them to, and with great difficult he surrounded his fingers around his gun and he began to shoot, but the moment his finger reached the gun's trigger, Nate disappeared from his standing position and that made Michael to look for him with fear and shock and pain, which is radiating from hands, and suddenly, Nate appeared from nowhere and struck his sword in air, the the force had created a slash from air, Michael, dodged that slash, the slash went past Michael and hit the wall, and great amount of dust raised into the air, and the wall, that the slash had hit, it was devastated, and all students awed and gasped at that, and then Nate is releasing continuous attacks towards Nate, the match was decided the moment Nate had drawn his sword, and Michael is having a hard time dodging the attacks now, and one slash had nearly missed his neck, the thunders are more aggressive now, the sound is ringing in all students ears, and Michael is now on the floor, he is begging Nate to stop the attacks, but Nate did not hear a word that Michael is saying, he is too absorbed in attacking him, and Michael is shouting now, "i yield", he is chanting these words like crazy, but Nate did not want to stop, it appears that his hand is swinging the sword like, it is swinging a wheat grain stem.

Some students of second year are shouting to stop the match but the school is listening to this, the principle is waiting for some thing to happen, and it is finally is happening, when Nate decided to end the match, because he could not listen to the wailing of Michael on the ground, and he lifted his sword high, and he clenched it very tightly, and it seemed to everyone that Nate is going to kill the second year, but then everyone in the colosseum and including Nate, they all heard a beat.

prior to this beat, everyone's heart in the colosseum is filled with fear, watching that first year, nearly killing Michael, a second year and from a noble family, and the attacks he is sending towards his opponent and his power DARKNESS, no one believed this, a mere first year had the power of darkness in him, and that katana of him, the colosseum is still very cold, the coldness can relate to the coldness that of moon, and when they all heard the beat, that beat filled everyone's heart with hope, rather than fear, and the beat is growing stronger, and every one thought, the headmaster is the reason to this beat, but he is not, the source to this beat, Nate whose sword was high in sky and about land on Michael, he shifted the direction of his sword in another direction, and for the first time in whole duel, Nate was really serious right now.

Nate turned to the direction of that 'beat' and he pointed his sword in the direction of it's source and he said "stop that" and the source of this beat was, Steve Rogers.

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