The Locked System 58 Preliminaries

The city lord turns to see the partic.i.p.ants and he began to speak in a humble voice " Now young lord Zeran, could you please be the first one to take one "

A handsome young man around 22 years old walks and climbs the stairs to one of the platforms, he wears the same robe as Hayato and Wade but he has his hood retracted, leaving his face and hair exposed to the rain, he has black short hair and onyx eyes, all the women in the benches began to yell with admiration with the exception of three beautiful women that had careless faces seeing him

" For what they are yelling like that? " Dye said with surprise as she sees from left and right

" It seems that they like him " Maya shakes her head and makes a mocking smile

" I meet n.o.bles like him before and seeing his face, I know that he thinks that he is superior to anyone present " Alyra made an angered face

" Haha, wait until he fights Hayato " Dye laughs happily

Maya narrows her eyes as she sees Hayato " Hmm…. "

Alyra turns to see her and asks with surprise " What's wrong Maya? "

Maya shakes her head and says with a smile " No, is nothing "

Hayato was seeing the young man named Zeran with his eyes narrow and he makes a wry smile ' Yep, I can't see him well thanks to the Mangekyou Sharingan '

Maya looks worried and thinks: " Hayato, are your eyes really so damaged? " After that, the lord of the city spoke again

" Good, the young lord Zeran grabbed a Blue sphere, now please, go back with the others " The city lord spoke with a big smile and the young man named Zeran nods and he gets down of the platform

" Now the rest of you can grab the spheres, you have to pa.s.s in groups of two to each platform " The city lord spoke again and the partic.i.p.ants began to climb the stairs and to grab the spheres until it was the turn of Wade and Hayato they went to the same platform together, Hayato puts out a Yellow sphere and Wade a White one, there is a lot of partic.i.p.ants so the full process took more than half an hour

Wade sees his White sphere and says " It seems that we have different spheres "

" Yes, let's see what they have for us " Hayato smiles as he squeezes his Yellow sphere

The city lord starts to speak with a surprised voice " Well, it really took more time than I thought, but now that each of you has a sphere I will explain what's next. There is a knight in each platform, they have a flag with the same color as the spheres, now go to your respective color "

Hayato went with the knight with Yellow flag and Wade with the knight with the White flag

" Now, you will fought with each other until 4 partic.i.p.ants were left in each platform, the rules are simple: you can't kill your opponent, the ones that fall from the platform will lose and remember you can't use long distances attacks, don't worry about hurting the spectators I hired Light Mages to make a barrier around the platforms " The city lord spoke with a big smile and he sits

' It seems there are around 30 or 40 men here ' Hayato turns to see the other platforms ' There is the same number in each platform, I can't see the city lord's daughter but she must be very attractive to make all these young men fight for her hand '

" Let the preliminaries began! " The city lord yelled and all the young men in the platform raised their guards

" Blazing Warrior! " " Great Speed Boost! " " Great Strenght Boost! " The young men in the platform began to activate all kinds of boost techniques and to then began to fight with each other

" Get out of the platform kid! " A young man around 24 years old yelled at Hayato, he has his body covered with a green light

" Hmph " Hayato sees him and smiles coldly then his body began to emit blue lightning until his entire body was covered ' Raiton Chakura Mōdo (Lightning Style Armour) '

The city lord makes a surprised face after seeing Hayato " Lightning reinforcement! that means that he is the other Magic Swordsman that entered the tournament "

The captain makes a wide smile " That young man has a lot of potential, he already dominates the Fire, Wind and Water elements, but.. " he turns to see the city lord

" .... " Kara has an expressionless face, but she clenches her fists

Maya makes a sweet smile ' So he bought that Jutsu, that was a smart move '

*ZOOM* Hayato runs against the young man at an incredible speed *PUM* " Ack..! " Hayato punches the stomach of the young man with his right fist sending him flying like a missile out of the platform until he impacts the barrier and falls unconscious

Hayato turns to see a group of young men that are fighting with each other and makes a cold face " I only need to leave three of them " then *ZOOM* *PAM* " Ugh! " *PAM* " Ack! " *PAM* " Agh! " Hayato runs in from left and right at great speed hitting the young men with great strength and they ended just like the first one, with just that pa.s.s Hayato threw out 10 young men out of the platform in a few seconds

" Now those two " Hayato runs against two of young men that were fighting appearing in the middle of them

" What the... Argh! " Hayato punches the stomachs of both of the surprised young men at the same time sending them flying

The spectators that were seeing that platform were silent, but in all that silence a loud laugh began

" Hahaha! That's awesome! " Dye laughed loudly jumping on her sit, as Maya and Alyra turn to see her with cheerful smiles

The spectators began to yell like crazy after hearing Dye

" You saw that! that small guy sent the others out of the platform with just one punch! " A spectator turns to see the man on his left with a big smile

" I saw that you idiot! that little guy is really strong! " The man made a wry smile as he nods

On the special area, things are different

" Wow! that young man is really impressive, now you see what I told you before was true Kara " The city lord makes a happy face as he sees his daughter

" ... " Kara doesn't say anything, she just sees her father out of the corner of her eye

" It seems that that doesn't convince you " The Captain makes a wry smile after he saw her face

The city lord gets up from his sit and he begins to speak " It seems that the ones with Red and Blue spheres finished their preliminaries, now there are just the ones with White and Yellow spheres

Hayato turns to see the other platforms and he frowns ' That young man that grabbed the first sphere is there and on the other platform are those sh*tty n.o.bles we saw before, why they finished so quickly? no, let's focus in this first ' Hayato kept attacking every young man that crossed his way

In the special area

" The Red ones pa.s.sed thanks to all the partic.i.p.ants that jumped from the platform with no apparent reason " Kara made a very cold face

" I know those four. They are from the Keller family, I never thought that they will use cheap tricks to win " The city lord shakes his head

The captain turns to see him and says with a calm voice " You want me to disqualify them, city lord? "

" No, leave them, when they pa.s.s they will experience what is a true fight " The city lord said carelessly

" Ok city lord, but now, what impressed me was the young master Zeran, he cleaned all the platform with the help of the other three, it seems that they are with him they really have great teamwork " The captain said with a little grin

" He is the same as those from the Keller family " Kara said coldly

" Kara he is the son of the duke and maybe your future husband, you have to respect him " The city lord said calmly

" .... " Kara sees him coldly and she turns to see the platforms again

" What is happening to you today? you usually don't behave like this " The city lord asked but after being ignored he sighs and shakes his head "*SIGH* Then let's wait until the last preliminaries ended "

Wade was attacking some young men with an aggressive style, he has his hair red and blue and every time when someone attacks him their attacks and boost are canceled

" Ha! " Wade kicks a young man out of the platform and turns to see the platform where Hayato is

' Haha, that's what I expected from you, now I only need to defeat a couple of more them '

Hayato was running in the platform with great speed

' d.a.m.n this f*cking rain don't let me run faster I feel I can slip out from the platform ' Hayato turns to see a man without a s.h.i.+rt and he jumps to kick him

*PAM* " Ack! " the young man was sent flying like the others

The city lord gets up and says " With that, we have our 16 partic.i.p.ants for the real tournament! "

Wade scans the partic.i.p.ants

' Hayato, a s.h.i.+rtless man, 2 stupid n.o.bles and their 2 dogs, that guy that grabbed the sphere first and his 3 companions, the other 5 that have decent strength, and me, this part was easy but the next one will be fun ' Wade makes a grin