MORVAIN'S POV
Eleven minutes ago
The colosseum was massively bigger on the inside than it did on the outside.
"Woah, how...how is it this big?"
The question escaped my lips.
My eyes moved around the colosseum taking notes of everything, and there is spotted something, something have only seen once in the weapons art book.
The weapons art book, it's a book updated every cycle(A/N:year), it carries the description of weapons and relics during that cycle, but sometimes there are special Volumes, those gives the description of some ancient weapons and relics.
And one of those ancient relics is in front of me, The Sky Conqueror Armour.
This is the armour Lady Nereza, the sky empress used to wear.
How she got the title Sky Empress, was through her massive annihilation of aerial abominations, she damn near almost wiped them out.
In her background information, her hometown was destroyed by Night fiends, an aerial abomination that's invisible in the night sky, and has the ability to release corruptive gas that disintegrates things.
"I... I can't believe I'm seeing the Sky Conqueror Armour!"
I said, taking slow steps towards the armour.
"It's been lost for many generations"
I added, my eyes glued to the armour.
"This... This completes the set!."
My voice, Shakey and barely containing my excitement.
"Her household, the Hespera Household only has the lower set!"
"And this... This is the upper half!"
I took a loud gulp, as I stood just beside it.
"With this, I can contribute greatly to the weapons and relics society, not only that the Hespera Household will surely reward me greatly, for finding their founding mother's armour, their household treasure."
I bent down slowly, trying to savour every single minute of this moment, to pick up the armour.
As suddenly a huge vibration threw me off balance, as I fell to the ground.
Touches around the colosseum flickered to life, casting an eerie blue light around the colosseum.
A board containing... Names? Slowly began to shine, displaying it's contents more clearly.
Slowly something began rising from the platform above.
As I suddenly noticed the distance between ourselves began to stretch, weirdly.
"Kaldareth!!!"
I called, at the top of my lungs, but when he turned to me, his facial expression was evidence, he couldn't hear me clearly.
Not knowing what was going to happen next I swiftly gripped the armour.
As suddenly everywhere went dark, still and silent.
Wherever I was, I'm happy I was still with the armour.
Then a voice came, bearing not a hint of emotion in it.
"Welcome to my arena, challengers, as you already know, whoever manages to break the record, wins. Escape is futile and will be punishable by death, let us begin."
"Record?"
I asked myself before looking at the only light source in this darkness.
"Lady Nereza is on the list!!"
"Hmm, explains why her armour is here"
Multiple low growls became audible from the darkness around me.
As the voice came again
"First wave, fifty losts, begin!!!"
As soon as those words came out, the losts came sprinting at me from all sides.
I got up to my feet, dropped my bag and brought out my weapon.
A Katana, as much as I would love to give details on my Katana but I'm afraid this isn't the time.
I unsheathed my katana halfway, displaying just a little of its blade, as I took my stance and activated my technique.
"[Ghost Techniques: Ghostly Executions]"
I disappeared from where I stood and reappeared in front of a lost, and cleaved it in half in an instant.
I disappeared again and reappeared in front of another, also cleaving it in half.
I disappeared and reappeared multiple times before stopping.
The surrounding losts were dead, cleaved in half, from the chest down.
The few remaining losts became hesitant.
"Oh that's new, you guys are usually relentless and mindless"
I said with a mocking tone and a little smile under my mask.
I took in a deep breath than activated another technique.
"[Ghost Techniques: Ghostly Severance]"
And in an instant the few remaining losts, fell, No, more like their upper body fell to the ground after been cleaved in a perfect oblique line.
And with that they were all dead.
I looked at my katana and gave it a kiss.
"My beautiful, beautiful Katana, letting me execute a technique a stage above me"
My eyes soon lingered back to the armour, which was close to where I stood.
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Shadeva's Pov
Eleven minutes ago
We stood in the colosseum, which was mysteriously larger on the inside than it did on the outside.
Everyone slowly began wandering around.
Seemed like kaldareth notice something.
Seems Morvain did as well.
Hmm Jin seems to be just looking around.
"Girls let's move together!"
I called out to Obsidra and Nyxara, who were not too far from me.
Obsidra waited, but Nyxara, she gave me a little glance, before continuing to roam around slowly.
'is she still angry about what happened back then?'
Sigh
I brought up a small smile and caught up with Obsidra.
Not up to five minutes passed when a sudden vibration shook the Colosseum.
Touches around the colosseum flickered to life, their light, ghost blue.
A large board at the side of the colosseum slowly grew bright, displaying names.
Something was beginning to rise from the platform above.
I turned to Obsidra, her face was a mixture of fear and uncertainty.
"What's going on!!!?"
She asked, her voice filled concern.
"I don't know!!!"
I replied, my expressions weren't really different from hers.
She moved to hold my hand, but her movement seemed slow, and instead of coming closer she grew farther.
As suddenly everywhere went dark, still and eerily quiet.
Then a light source came, the large board from before.
As suddenly a voice came, piercing through the silence.
"Welcome to my arena, challengers, as you already know, whoever manages to break the record, wins. Escape is futile and will be punishable by death, let us begin."
"What's going on!?"
My question was answered by growls from the darkness around me.
Than the voice came again.
"First wave, fifty losts, begin!!!"
Upon those words, multiple losts lunged out from the darkness, and came at me from all sides.
I threw my bag to the ground, brought out my urumi and quickly activated a technique.
"[Serpent Techniques: Swift Serpent]"
My urumi stretched out into the distance, and with a slight turn, began killing the lost, Swift and precise, like a serpent.
I killed most of the lost before they even got close.
The rest looked hesitant, this was an opportunity.
"[Serpent Techniques: Serpent's rampage]"
Unpredictable pattern of precise movements.
And with that they were dead.