Chapter 200: Reiki
Ryan slowly walked from the corridor to the competition venue, this is not the first time he has come, 4 years ago, his Lace team had walked out of this corridor many times to play, except for the last one, Ryan and they all returned from the original road as the winner.
There are quite a lot of people participating in this year's competitive competition, but in the case of a large number of sub-arenas in the imperial capital, the knockout round is also quite smooth, and only ten days have passed, and 64 players such as Ryan stood out and entered the finals. After a new round of draws, the opponents of the game have all been determined, Ryan actually became the No. 1 and the first to play, and coincidentally, his opponent was Angelo, a member of the Royal Knights who had an appointment with Vivien.
For such a new holy knight, Ryan also has an expectation in his heart, Christina was just a trainee knight, showing great resilience, her tenacity and desire to win made Ryan as an opponent also very respectful. And Angelo's strength should surpass that of Christina at that time, after all, he is already a true holy knight, although he has only received the blessing of the gods for a short time.
As for Vivian and Angelo's appointment, Ryan didn't take it to heart, as long as he didn't pay too much price, Ryan even encouraged Vivian to fight like this, even if they lost the game in the end, they could bring themselves rich experience, which was the real purpose of this kind of game, not for the so-called honor.
When Ryan stepped into the arena royale, the noise of the audience outside the arena was reduced to a minimum, and countless pairs of eyes turned to the magister from Cassano. Young, powerful, and golden, and the youngest magician in the history of the empire, shrouded in the pseudonym Fabia's Lane, there are countless auras that are enough to attract girls to scream, coupled with the operation behind Faraz and others, Lane has become a hot figure in the imperial capital.
Angelo, who was standing opposite Ryan, was both envious and jealous of Ryan, he always thought that in this country, only the great holy knight was the real protagonist, but the guy from the other country stole his limelight, not only that, but Angelo's appointment with Vivien, the other party's subordinate, was also forcibly suppressed by his captain, how could the young and vigorous Angelo endure it?
"Hmph, since I can't teach you that arrogant woman, let's teach you a lesson!" Angelo looked at Ryan indignantly and said, "Fabia Magister, don't be kidding, in such a narrow field, you will understand how terrible the Holy Knight is!"
"Now the two sides of this match are the Fabia Magister from Cassano and the Knight Angelo of the Royal Knights of the Imperial Capital. I announce, the game begins!" With this command, the magic defense shield that shrouded the playing field flickered a few times and then disappeared without a trace, and the two sides of the match could directly attack their opponents.
Angelo did not immediately rush forward to besiege Ryan, but put the two-handed giant sword in his hand upside down on the ground, and then he himself began to pray half-kneeling, accompanied by the secret prayer, Angelo's feet also appeared a mysterious magic array, the main body of the entire magic array is two pentagram superimposed together, plus some strange symbols around that look like some kind of text, and these strange symbols have been flashing since they appeared, making Angelo's body slowly shrouded in a layer of golden haloใ
Ryan rubbed his nose slightly, he was really surprised by Angelo's performance, in fact, if Ryan shot with all his strength now, Angelo would die without even a little dregs, but Ryan had some concerns in his heart, it was his defeat of Christina's Royal Knights squad that cast a shadow on the invincible honor of the Royal Knights, and the chaos on the continent later had a lot to do with Ryan's victory.
So Ryan chose to wait, on the one hand, he didn't want the men sent by the Royal Knights to lose too quickly, and on the other hand, he also wanted to know what kind of improvement the strength of the Royal Knights in 4 years would have compared to Christina and the others back then. Ryan's idea also gave Angelo enough time to pray and allow him to complete the entire ritual.
"Whew!" With a wind-like whistling, the magic array under Angelo's feet had been fully formed, and his body was completely wrapped in a layer of gold, he stood up, pulled out his two-handed giant sword vigorously, and lifted the heavy weapon into the sky with only one hand.
"Honor is my life!" Angelo shouted the slogan of the Royal Knights before launching the charge, and his body also ran towards Ryan at high speed with this horn-like command, and what was surprising was that Angelo's body was moving rapidly, and the magic array that was originally under his feet had been moving with him, so that Angelo himself would not lose the blessing of this magic array because his body left the magic array.
"Ah, it represents the heroic fanatical aura!" blurted out Christina, who was standing in the nobleman's box, while Queen Catherine, who was sitting in a chair and leisurely tasting Bordeaux, was indifferent to this, she was more concerned about which Fabia Magister would deal with such a scene.
Standing majestically in the field, Ryan did not have any expression of fear from Angelo's menacing attack, he just watched Angelo rush towards him at full speed, and then watched Angelo leap high with his sword in both hands, and slashed down at Ryan without mercy.
"Kill!" Angelo's blow directly split Ryan's body into two, he did not stop the attack after he succeeded in one blow, but dragged the two-handed giant sword with both hands, changed the downward split to a left and right sweep, and continuously cut through Ryan's chest, waist and other parts, and divided the entire Ryan's body into more than a dozen pieces.
It wasn't until this step that Angelo realized that something was wrong, because his hands didn't feel any force at all, not a two-handed giant sword slashing on the human body, even if he cut a stake, it would be shaken by a movement, but Angelo didn't have these feelings at all, as if he had just slashed not a person, but air.
"Angelo has been blinded by desire, and he has lost. Orlando, who was sitting in another aristocratic box, said lightly: "This is not the difference in strength between opponents, but his own problem." The first step for all fallen Holy Knights is to lose their hearts like him, and maybe when the game is over, I should ......"
Before Orlando's flowers were finished, there was a change in the center of the playing field, and several burning walls of fire rose from the ground, directly besieging Angelo in the center. Even though they were still five or six meters away, Angelo could still feel the heat emanating from the wall of fire, which was enough to melt steel.
"Is it a hallucination? I didn't see that magister cast a spell!" Angelo was slightly stunned in his heart, and then he did not hesitate to slam his sword into a wall of fire, whether what he saw in front of him was an illusion or not, Angelo had full confidence in the aura he had obtained through prayer, and he did not think that there was any power in this world that could stop the favor of the gods.
It's just that Angelo instinctively let the two-handed giant sword in his hand enter the wall of fire first, and the fact in front of him also surprised Angelo, he saw that the part of the two-handed giant sword that entered the wall of fire melted in an instant, and a scorching heat was directly transmitted to his hand along the body of the giant sword.
"Ahh When the two-handed greatsword fell to the ground with a crisp sound, Angelo realized that his beloved weapon, which was about one person long, was only half a small piece left.
"Damn!" Angelo cursed fiercely, and once more he fell to his knees, and began to pray to the god he believed in, to pray for another aura to ward off the wall of fire that had surrounded him in front of him. With Angelo's prayer, the golden halo on his body slowly disappeared, replaced by a layer of red light, and at the same time, the magic circle under Angelo's feet also found a change, and another pattern faintly appeared.
The magic array that appeared under Angelo's feet was now made up of more than a dozen irregular circles pieced together, but in the end, around the complex figure, there were still many indecipherable words, and when these text symbols began to rotate along with those irregular circles, the red light on Angelo's body suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and Angelo directly passed through the wall of fire under the protection of this light.
Ryan was a little surprised by Angelo's performance, it was the first time he had seen someone force their way through his fire prison unscathed, which was obviously the credit of the magic circle at Angelo's feet, but it is said that this magic circle was given by the gods through prayer has another name, called "aura".
"Die!" Angelo broke through the wall of fire, and at a glance saw Ryan standing leisurely next to him, he was so angry that he didn't care about the ban that killing his opponent would automatically disqualify him, and he directly waved his hands and threw himself at Ryan. In Angelo's opinion, even if he doesn't have a weapon, as long as he fights in close quarters, he can still firmly restrain the magician in front of him who looks very fragile.
But just when Angelo was only 1 step away from Ryan, and it seemed that he could press Ryan to the ground and teach him a hard lesson, a fist whose skin seemed to be wrapped in the bark of a decades-old tree swung at Angelo's head from the side, and if Angelo continued to attack Ryan, then his head would be hit by this fist that came out of nowhere, and in desperation, he only needed to step on the ground hard, and changed the direction of his body with his strength, and he could avoid this blow.
After Angelo stood still, he turned his head to look at the strange fist owner, but saw a huge humanoid with a height of 2 meters and completely composed of soil, and the entire huge humanoid appearance was covered with a thick layer of armor, as if it had been blessed with a large number of "stone skin techniques", needless to say that this must have been summoned by Ryan, known as the earth elemental giant with the strongest defense among the four elemental giants.