Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

On the other side of the arena, a man wearing a tattered robe with tattoos all over his body walked over while pushing the crowd aside aggressively with a dark expression on his face.

He looked to be angered and tensed at the same time, but he didn't slow down and continued forward.

'That asshole! Who knew he would give us that...'

Without giving a care for the public's curses, the man seemed to be in a hurry and irked for some reason.

'I have to win, or else I die....'

Arriving at the location of the arena, he entered the path leading to the stage under the astonished stares of the surrounding people, who now realized that this man was the one who was going to take part in today's special match.

When the tattooed man reached the end of the path, he opened the gate of the arena stage and entered inside while narrowing his eyes at the sudden flash of the stage lights.

"Huffff....."

The man closed his eyes and took a deep breath, before slowly opening his sharp eyes and seriously locking them on his opponent who stood right before him.

*****

Felix, who had already entered the stage under the surprised glances of the audience and was waiting for his opponent, stared at the tattooed man who was standing opposite him while taking out his weapon.

'He looks strong.....'

The tattooed man may look like a dirty homeless beggar wearing torn clothes, but his posture and the look in his eyes were enough to show that he was not that easy to deal with.

Seeing that both the fighters have been arrived, the referee walked forward to commence the battle.

"Hello everyone! Today we have a special battle organized by the underworld authorities themselves, so be prepared to witness this epic battle.", the referee shouted towards the crowd.

"On the left, we have Phantom who represents the underworld!"

At the mention of his name and his affiliation, the entire crowd went into an upheaval while cheering at him.

"Wait, I know this Phantom guy, he's incredibly strong!"

"Go Go Phantom!!"

"Kill your opponent, Phantom!"

"Titled the fastest, Phantom you can do it!"

"Phantom, we love you!!"

Felix had to scratch his cheek awkwardly and wave his hand toward the crowd at their enthusiastic support for him.

He knew that all of these people would turn and start cursing him the moment he lost this battle, so there was that too, but there was no way he was going to lose.

The referee smiled at the crowd's outburst and turned to the other fighter to announce the man's name in a grim voice.

"And on the right, we have Harker, who represents the dark guilds....."

The crowd quickly calmed down and remained silent for a few seconds before they started to curse at him.

"Kill that Harker!!"

"Harker is a Loser!!"

"Fuck those dark guilds!!"

"Phantom, kill that fucker!!"

It was more chaotic now than when Felix's name was announced as the crowd cursed the tattooed man, Harker.

But the man in question didn't show a reaction at all, as his eyes continued to stare at Felix with a dark expression on his face while taking out his two knife-like weapons.

From his eyes alone, Felix could see that the man was not in the mood to play around and would fight seriously with the intention of winning.

Wielding his short sword, Felix ignored the crowd's disturbance and focused his concentration with the help of his skill Unanimity.

He also used the skill Parabolic hearing and stopped any noise of his surroundings from disturbing him except for his opponent's and the referee's.

Walking to the middle of the stage, the referee looked at both the fighters once, and seeing that they were ready, he swung the green flag to start the battle.

"Let the battle begin!"

As soon as the battle began, Harker pushed himself against the ground and dashed toward Felix while raising both his knives.

Using the skill Agility Burst, Felix turned sideways and dodged the slashes, before counterattacking using the Black Horizon sword technique Striking Blades.

Both of them slashed their weapons in a frenzy while attacking and blocking each other's strikes.

The crowd saw swift clashes of lights as both the fighters attacked each other rapidly without wasting any time.

They continued to slash their weapons without actually hurting each other for a few minutes.

Felix who was feeling a bit exhausted using the Agility Burst skill, used the Sword Technique Assault Impact and pushed his opponent away, who flung all the way to the edge of the stage with a surprised face.

Taking a deep breath, Felix returned to his fighting stance and this time used the skill Corrosion to cover the baleful energy all over his shortsword.

Dashing ahead with increased speed from another Agility Burst, he launched himself on Harker and attacked him with Assault Impact before he could respond.

The combination of the moves, Corrosion, Agility Burst, and Assault Impact resulted in a strong wind pressure in the direction of the attack as it grazed in the air.

The shortsword slashed towards Hakrer's chest but at the last moment, two knives instinctively blocked the attack, with the force of the slash pushing Harker to the corner of the stage with his back hitting against the steel-wired wall.

Felix moved forward and attacked Harker again, who stood up with his expression turning more darker as time went by. check out m-v-l-e-m-p-y-r

The two of them continued to battle while swinging their weapons, but everyone could see that Felix seemed to have the upper hand in the fight.

*****

In the audience.

Mr.Dealer walked over to Felix's battle arena after checking up on the others and he could see that as expected, the boy was pushing his opponent.

"Good.", he muttered under his breath and was about to walk away, when a cold voice called out to him.

"It looks like you're quite confident in your fighter, huh."

Turning at the sudden voice, Dealer found a handsome man wearing a one-eye mask standing behind him with a cold demeanor.

A bit surprised, he said to the man.

"Graham, when did you come back from your training?"

The man named Graham, who had an eye mask covering one of his eyes, with a slender body and long brown hair that reached his shoulders, replied with a serious nod.

"Just yesterday, I heard about the situation and came back before anything bad happened."

Mr.Dealer looked at the man who had his one eye concentrated on the battle that was taking place on the arena stage.

Just like him, Graham was also one of the members in the council of the underworld.

He was hailed as one of the strongest man in the Underworld, and was also a battle junky whose only thoughts were fighting, training, and more fighting.

That was why he was often found deep inside the forests and monster's territories, always seeking strong opponents to clash with, making his presence and popularity really low in the city.

Graham stared at the black-masked figure fighting on the stage and muttered.

"You've found a nice gem, Dealer....."

With a small smile on his face, Mr.Dealer nodded proudly.

"Well, what can I say? I have good eyes, I guess."

Graham turned his one eye and looked at him with a blank face, his expression turning colder.

"Cough- What I mean is, I was lucky to find him. That boy is also young and has a lot of potential.", Dealer quickly changed the topic with an innocent face.

Graham continued to stare at Dealer's face for a few seconds and then turned back to the stage while narrowing his eyes.

"It's good that the boy has potential, but the one he's going against is from the dark guilds, and they're known for their dirty tricks."

Dealer nodded at his words and then replied with a serious look on his face.

"He'll do fine. Mr.Estrada had specially cleansed him and the others, so they must be stronger now."

His words gained Graham's surprise as the man looked fervently at the black-masked boy with growing interest.

Both of them continued to watch the battle as they could see that the match was about to end.

*****

On the Arena stage.

Felix dodged another strike and kicked his opponent's stomach before retreating back from the kick's force.

As he was getting exhausted from using Agility Burst too many times, he decided to end the battle and dashed forward using the skill again one last time.

Arriving in front of Harker, he first swung his shortsword while using the Assault Impact, and pushed him back but Harker, who had gotten used to those attacks stabilized himself.

But before he could counterattack, Felix used another Agility Burst and attacked at the red line appearing on Hakrer's chest using the skill ratio technique.

Blood gushed out from Hakrer's chest and a long wound could be seen on his upper body. Felix delivered another kick on his wounded chest and pushed the man away to the edge of the stage.

The crowd cheered out loud at the sudden turn of events as Felix slowly moved forward, towards his fallen opponent.

Harker, who was lying on the ground stared at the dark ceiling of the underworld with an unwilling expression.

'Am I going to lose? Will I die....'

His eyes showed intense emotions of frustration and helplessness, but at last, he gritted his teeth and twisted his face looking like a crazy psycho.

'This is the only choice....'

Swiftly getting up from his lying position, Harker took out a vial from his robe and quickly removed the cork before drinking the black liquid inside.

Felix raised his eyebrows at the man's actions and prepared himself for what was about to come.

'What's that? Drugs?'

His thoughts were interrupted when a demonic roar escaped from Hakrer's mouth.

The tattooed man's skin started to change in color, from tan to light purple, and then purple to black, and then at last returned back to tan as he was before.

But everyone could see that the man standing on the stage was not Harker anymore, as he had a more muscular body that was healed and had completely black eyes with saliva leaking from his mouth.

The sudden monstrous change in him terrified the surrounding crowd making everyone take a step back.

They could feel from far away an evil energy wafting off of him, which made their skins crawl.

Even Mr.Dealer and Graham looked shocked at the drastic change that was taking place on the stage and were ready to interfere if things went south.

Meanwhile Felix, who was standing just a few meters away from his new opponent gulped with a strange expression while taking a few step back.

"Umm.....this wasn't supposed to happen,....right?"