555 Preemptive Strike
Malvas, the challenger, got the first strike.
He lightly took a stab at Balgaranda's throat with his short spear. Yep, he's in for the kill, no hesitation.
According to the guide, there's no restrictions imposed on fights between gladiators, everything goes.
Literally anything goes as long as you defeat the opponent even fights outside the ring.
That includes getting hold of your opponent's weakness and threatening them with it.
(Is that okay? Of course not, no? In all manners of speaking.)
While I was having that thought, the challenger already made his third stab.
The champion nonchalantly dodged every single stab.
The fourth stab was aimed at the abdomen to which the champion greatly backstepped away.
The audience which had gone silent after the match began erupted once again.
(They can never keep it down can they? How do you even concentrate on the battle.)
It's a match where any tactic is valid. That much shouldn't even serve as a warm up to gladiators standing on the summit of this sort of world.
All the more to someone who can maintain his position on those summits indefinitely.
(This champion stands at the peaks of all five arenas. This can't be his full power.)
The champion leaped ahead, swiftly closing the distance and slashing at his opponent diagonally from above. The challenger exquisitely dodged to the side.
As the challenger's long flowing hair swayed in the hair, a group of woman fans yelled one after another, 'Kyaa!', 'So dreamy!', 'Hug me!'
(Wonder why? I'm compelled to say, blow up.)
Their clash was nothing more than a light skirmish, yet the whole arena went into a frenzy like never before.
Meanwhile, in the center of this swirling passion, the two gladiators aren't budging at all, wait-and-seeing each other's next move.
"You do not possibly believe you can take champion spot by playing around like this, do you?"
Balgaranda asked the challenger. He got his answer.
"That was merely a demonstration of my former strength. And now, I'll show you the power I have obtained in order to defeat you."
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Malvas signaled his intent to go all out.
He gripped his short spear with both hands and took a stance like he was doing a sword drawing move.
Balgaranda got on alert as he stood in the ring.
The arena is wrapped in silence once again from the heightening tension between the two.
The audience is waiting in bated breath for what comes next.
"Can you keep up with me? Eat this, Thunder Thrust!"
Must be that finishing move's name. Malvas disappeared right after he yelled it out loud.
Reappearing diagonally behind Balgaranda's left side.
"Tch! You've got luck on your side. Or, was that battle hardened intuition from all your fights?"
That move was apparently a straight charging thrust at imperceptible speed.
Balgaranda accurately parried that while suffering no damage in the process.
The shield he used to parry has a straight black line engraved on it from the sheer speed contained behind the thrust.
"Oh wow that made me break in cold sweat. It's been quite some time since I last witnessed such a good move."
"You won't be so lucky next time! Eat this!"
Malvas immediately took another stance. And unleashed the same thrust.
Malvas reappeared behind Balgaranda once again.
But unlike before, his expression is grim.
Nobody is talking among the audience. The thrust was so fast none of them could understand what was going on. They all look dumbfounded.
"You dodged that!? After only seeing that once!?"
Yep, that's the champion for you. The zenith of this coliseum stands far above his challenger.
The only reason I'm acting normally is thanks to having entered Acceleration, allowing me to enjoy the match to the fullest. Heck, I can't help but enter Acceleration on its own whenever I try to concentrate.
But it's the lowest stage of Acceleration. Thus I could make out the 'Thunder Thrust' and the champion perfectly dodging the second thrust.
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