Chapter 57: The Villain Beating Up The Protagonist
“Truly ridiculous,” Theos raised his voice, pressing Alan with his own Mana.
All the nobles took a step back, watching the spectacle.
After all, it is a duel of young men, so they had no right to interrupt, and least of all against Theos, an heir of a Duke.
“Agh, stop being a coward and get down from there,” Alan shouted at the top of his lungs, his ribs and bones beginning to clench and crush his very organs.
The look of panic flashed through his eyes, then turned to determination, gripping the sword so tightly that blood began to pour from his hands.
‘Ha, it’s the same protagonist of the story… A total fool and stupid’, thought Theos, still with an indifferent look, he went down the stairs with total tranquility and serenity.
A man in a suit and a tie was waiting for him; with a tool, he brought it close to Theos, and then the device gave the green light.
“The fight is fair; Theos is not using any drugs,” the man raised his voice, showing the green light of the drug-checking device, which works by being close to the person’s Mana now checking if he is using enhancers or drugs directly.
Noting this, Theos nodded briefly as did the guests, who confirmed the legality of the fight.
“You asked for it,” as they descended the stairs, Theos’ low, soft voice made the guests relax their muscles, but the next moment, they were tense again.
Theos had expelled more of his Mana to a monstrous degree, a fully blood-red, crimson Mana, frightening even Alan himself.
“You… Demon,” with all his might Alan managed to raise his head, turning his attention to Theos.
“You’re noisy.” As he said these two words, Alan felt as if something pushed him so that the next moment, he flew backward at such a speed that almost no one saw him when he crashed into the palace wall.
Fortunately, the materials that were made to build the palace are highly resistant to magical and physical attacks, so, when Alan fell to the ground not even a scratch was seen on the wall
“Agh.” But that didn’t take away the brutal damage Alan suffered from that attack, spitting blood with four broken ribs. Although he tried to defend himself with his own electric Mana aura, it wasn’t enough to repel the attack.
“Don’t eat more than you can chew,” sighed Theos, pulling a badly wounded Alan closer.
The guests parted and made room for Theos to walk, creating a hallway all to himself.
[The protagonist, Alan, is feeling despair, fear, and anger because of the host. 2000+ negative energy], listening to the system notification, Theos inwardly.
‘Wow, I thought you forgot about me,’ he mentally communicated to himself, he had been thinking a bit about the system notifications, as none appeared in the battle against the curse or now with the guests.
[Oh, host I forgot to notify you that now you will only be able to hear notifications with gains greater than a thousand of negative energy, so if you received negative energy, but in small amounts less than 1000 each emotion.]
With the explanation of the system, Theos understood everything immediately, basically, he would receive rewards, but only the significant ones would be notified by the system, which he thought was perfect and quite good since sometimes many of these notifications would get in the way when fighting, despite trying to ignore them.
Just as Theos was about to continue his conversation with the system, a scream was heard right in front of him.
“You better die, you bastard,” Alan shouted, extending his Mana, he gathered a large amount of Mana in one spot to cast it.
His electric Mana advanced at a high speed towards Theos, who raised an eyebrow in amazement. ‘Wow, you can tell he’s a Mana prodigy; this spell, Lightning Thrower, is one of his main spells,’ he reminded, creating a barrier of negative Mana that dampened the lightning’s impact.
“What?”, the astonishment on Alan’s face couldn’t be hidden, making Theos laugh a little.
“It was a weak attack… Compared to what I’ve faced, you’re very weak,” Theos declared, moving closer to Alan who started to panic.
“Stay away, lunatic,” with great fear he extended his hand to continue hurling lightning bolts that Theos muffled with his barrier.
Only five meters away from Alan, the latter stood up desperately; with electricity coursing through his body, he launched himself at Theos, his sword releasing even more pent-up electricity.
“Mmm?” confused by the sudden confidence, Theos paused watching Alan’s movements.
“Theos, look out!”
“Stay away!”
Two voices were raised in the palace with concern directed at Theos, who could only shake his head.
He recognized the two voices, one from his sister, Nora, and one from Luna. From Nora, he understood, as she didn’t know the full extent of his power, but… ‘Luna saw firsthand how I stood up to a Peak Master, and she still cares about me? Wait… Why doesn’t she care about her brother in the first place?’
Confused, Theos could only push these thoughts out of his head to face Alan.
Expanding the range of his negative Mana, cracks appeared around his left eye, amplifying its power. “Get lost,” he uttered, Alan’s electricity colliding with Theos’ negative Mana.
*Boom!*
The guests recoiled from the wave of Mana generated by the collision of the two attacks.
“You…” Alan used up the maximum of his power to destroy Theos’ barrier, but he couldn’t; to him, it was impenetrable.
“…” Theos did not utter a single word, but he did make a move; extending his hand; he accumulated negative energy from there, creating a fist-sized sphere of Mana.
Without warning, Theos launched the sphere of negative Mana which turned into a bolt of Mana lightning, faster and more destructive than Alan’s electricity.
“What the…” Alan didn’t know how to react to such a beam of destruction; its speed was such that he knew he couldn’t dodge it, but he didn’t know how, so before his eyes, the beam brutally hit him, pushing him back again.
*Boom!*
Like a Déjá Vu, all the guests turned around to see Alan embedded in the wall again with his whole body wounded.
The big difference in this case was that the entire wall around Alan was cracked from Theos’ attack.
‘He has Mana resistance, but I guess not negative Mana,’ Theos concluded, removing his entire power field.
Turning around, he walked back towards the stairs, his intention was more than clear… Did you see what I did with one of the greatest geniuses of the current generation? Imagine what I’ll do with you!
Everyone imagined that in their minds, so the younger ones didn’t go near to challenge him… Except one.
“Lord Theos, I would like to challenge you to a duel,” a slightly childish voice echoed throughout the palace, attracting the attention of a slightly surprised Theos.
‘The voice is not Nora’s… Alan is almost unconscious in there… Then who is it?’, he mentally asked himself, turning around to notice the person who was challenging him.
Unexpectedly, a young man and not just any young man, but practically a boy of about 14 years old stared at him.
His emerald green eyes glowed with an intensity of determination fixed on his now enemy.
Unsheathing the sword that hung from his waist, he pointed it directly at Theos’ body. “I am Tristan Valor.”
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