Without wasting any time, Serivo started attacking even faster than usual.
He knew that this man in front of him, Conrad, is not a weak one he encountered.
He believed he should be giving everything he has to have any chance to take this man out.
Other than that, there was no other chance he could win.
Conrad ducked and dodged the right swipe of Serivo and then kicked from the ground.
"Thump!"
The kick hit the chest of Serivo and made him shoot towards the back, more than five meters of a distance.
He shook his head and touched his chest.
"One basic kick from him and it was enough to almost break my ribcage..."
"How he is able to hit like this..."
"He uses those orbs to fight, I presume. If he uses those orbs, either those are conjured or manipulated objects."
"This means that he is no enhancer, but if he is not an enhancer, how is he able to hit hard without using the ability..." Serivo thought and tried to make sense of the power behind Conrad.
Conrad smiled and then said.
"You should focus on the battle instead of thinking or battling while thinking." As his words ended, Serivo felt something amiss deep in his soul.
His soul and his body spoke to his mind and warned that his life was in danger.
A moment later, he jumped to the right just because it felt right, and the second he jumped, a powerful bolt of nen hit the ground of the arena.
If Serivo did not dodge, it would hit him in the back and pierce his chest.
His eyes landed on the ground for a moment and saw that there is a hole about the size of a baseball, but the depth of it is more than three meters.
A new ball enough to penetrate three meters into a solid rock ground arena and open a small tunnel.
"I know my power..."
"I would not be able to defend against that..." Serivo gulped as he looked into the eyes of Conrad.
"Why this caliber of nen user here, fighting against the people like me?" Serivo could not but think, but then he felt a threat again; he again dodged, and another hole opened on the ground.
This was the second time he dodged death for real.
"I can only fight!" He thought, and again with a big roar, he launched himself towards Conrad.
He understood that if he did not take the offense and fight in close combat, this man named Conrad would just use one of those orbs to keep flying.
He did not know that the orb can only fire three times before filled up with nen but that was only natural as most nen battles fought in total unknown against the enemy nen users and their abilities.
It was one of the advantages Conrad had compared to the others.
"Good."
"It is better for a fighter like you to fight in close combat," he said and then dodged left and right and held the right arm of Serivo and spun like a fidget spinner and launched Serivo into the air.
"How!" Serivo could not believe how he was able to dodge all of his attacks and use aikido-like movements to send him flying.
"No!"
"I cannot defend if he uses that orb to shoot me with that dangerous nen projectile!" he thought, but then he noticed no projectile came.
"Why?"
"That would be the perfect chance." Serivo thought as he landed.
He then could not help but think.
"Does he have no more uses of the ability..."
"It does make sense; those projectiles are too fast and too powerful to be used without several conditions or limitations."
"Maybe he can use it two times before waiting for some time; it needs some sort of an activation in the middle of the combat..."
"No!"
"I am making mistakes and thinking too much."
"I need to think how I can deal real damage to him." Serivo walked left and right. He was having a big problem trying to find a way to get close enough to him and then deal real damage to Conrad.
His most confident area of expertise was hand-to-hand combat in close range; due to his ability, if he can hit, he is almost sure that the opponent will be gravely injured.
But now, after several tries, he saw that Conrad is able to dodge him or send him flying by using aikido and wrestling techniques.
"If I am not going to beat him at the close combat..."
"I may have to use my trump card..."
"I don't see how I can win."
While he thought this, Conrad smiled, and this time he launched an attack. Which caught Serivo a little bit unprepared, as this was the first time Conrad made a powerful move against him.
He punched, Serivo dodged; he kicked, Serivo jumped back, and then he spoke.
"You should look where you are jumping." As he said this, Serivo felt an orb behind his back, and then a powerful burst of energy pointed towards his left arm erupted from the orb.
"Booooom!!!"
Serivo landed on the ground holding his left arm that is almost separated from his body. One can see that without a real doctor and immediate medical attention, the arm was gone.
Serivo took a deep breath and looked at Conrad for a moment and then at his arm.
"I have a purpose..."
"I am not going to let myself be a cripple just because of a heavens arena battle right now!"
"If he wanted, he could have targeted my body instead of my left arm with that orb that caused the explosion..."
"He has already given me a chance to leave..."
With these thoughts, his eyes turned sour, and a helpless smile manifested on his face with a pretty wretched look as he said.
"I give up!"