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Chapter 332: Chapter 332 Rough.

Leon's body bent into a V-shape as it flew away in a straight line before colliding with the wall outside the Arena.

The entire venue turned quiet for the sudden event that happened. It happened so fast that they couldn't comprehend it.

Tiara looked at the situation with a pale face, and Akane's face was expressionless, with a chilling glint in her eyes. She looked at Leon with deep meaning.

The people from Camelot look at the situation with cool heads, except for Livia, who covers her mouth, worrying about Leon's safety.

Meanwhile, Hina's side and the other were chilling, enjoying the match they knew Soma would Win.

"Fuu, I thought he could do more than this, but!".

Soma exhaled with his stilled stance and raised his right palm, watching the figure of Leon stick to the wall before it gradually slid down, almost letting him be disqualified.

However, to everyone's surprise, Leon grits his teeth and kicks the wall so hard that he pushes his body toward the Arena.

Because of his rushed action, Leon couldn't figure out how to land, so he used his front body to act as a break while his body dragged across the Arena.

Leon, realizing he was lying down on the Arena, gasped for breath. He tensed and raised his body, crouched while holding onto his sword.

"Quite determination you have there, Leon".

A calm and amazed tone that came from his opponent filtered through his ears, making Leon's face frown, and he forced himself to stand up.

"Well, yeah, no matter what. I don't have any reason for losing here. Because, there is something I must do and I have someone that believes in me. So, I will never give up!".

Even though Leon said that internally, he sighed in relief and sneakily checked the brooch in his pocket, which showed no sign of breaking or even a crack.

Before entering the match, Leon was informed by the official that the brooch item was a bit different from the usual. Because it was the semi-finals, the Academy decided to use the one that was more durable than yesterday. This was to prolong the match.

Soma was a bit taken aback as he released his stance and stood up, looking behind Leon's figure at the two presence of girls who supported him.

However, looking at the girls, he felt something amiss in his heart, but he shook the connotation from his head and focused on his opponent before him.

"Then, what are you waiting for?".

"Huh?".

"Hurry up and show me your resolution! I, too, have faith in my power and confidence in sweeping the tournament in clean victory."

"!!!".

Again, Soma prepared his stance and gestured with his palm to come forward. Leon, who saw it, tightly gripped the sword in his hands.

He did not realize it, but Leon's face was currently contorted with scary expressions, which he rarely showed. Every person who knew him also gasped when they looked at his face.

However, after they shifted their gaze toward the other side where it was Soma, the strongest first-year as Leon's opponent, their faces also knitted in regret.

"What should I do?...". Leon muttered while preparing his stance, lost in thought. "...Should I release the limitation? If I rashly release it, I wouldn't be able to endure it for long and will be exhausted, then I will lose miserably, in front of this many people and worse my father. I can't let that happen. I already promised him and the others to win in this match.

But, if I didn't do it, there is no way for me to penetrate that perfect parry state. Soma is indeed above mine in terms of stats and techniques. What should I do?". Leon clenched the sword hilt, frowning.

Sweat trickled down his temple as Leon struggled to break free from the restraint he had put on himself.

Soma, who understood Leon's struggling mind, exhaled. It was known to the public that Leon, the protagonist in Chronicles Saga, had a bit of an inferiority complex despite possessing a mountain of potential buried within him because of the family issues that traumatized him.

He properly looked at Leon's face, who seemed trapped in his own delusion, and exhaled as he released his stance.

"(There is no other choice!) Oi!".

The venue, bustling with hustle, turned slightly cooled down as Soma's irritated voice echoed in the venue. Sound disappeared from the stadium, and all eyes gathered on the two contestants.

"...Soma?".

Leon's body jolted because he heard that cold and indifferent tone, reminding him of his own father, who used to treat him like nothing.

"What the hell are you doing in here?".

"What do I do? I am fighting you for…".

"For what? Women? Recognition? Or to test your limit?".

"What is your point? Why are you suddenly so angry?".

"Angry?! Of course I will. You said fighting but you didn't even consider this as a fight, your thoughts are all over the place. What is your purpose in fighting me? What is it that you want, huh?".

The words that escaped Soma's lips one by one pierced his consciousness and greatly affected his turbulent mind.

"You! Are you looking down on me?".

"No, I was…".

Noticing Leon's shaken expression, Soma stepped forward, but his step covered the distance, so he stood face to-face with Leon, which shocked him and the others.

"Shut up!".

Soma swung his left hand and struck Leon's face with the back of his palm. Leon received a huge blow that shook his brain, rendering his brain in a stalemate, and he couldn't process what was happening.

Before Leon bailed out from the Area, Soma again appeared before Leon's body and struck his back, slamming his body downward toward the Arena.

Leon lay motionless in the Arena, where the spectators looked at the match as if it was done. But Lee does not interfere in the match and lets it still flow just the way it is supposed to.

"Hmph, Heaven chose you as a Savior and this is what you got! You are just wasting my time. Leave, if you don't want to face me in this match, pathetic!".

Soma coldly spat this word, and he got a response from Leon; his body flinched for a moment before a blinding aura flooded from Leon's body, and it covered the entire Arena.

His spine tingled in immediate danger, so Soma had to leap back and watch the situation unfold to see if Leon was free from his worry and had faced the match seriously from the start.

Leon, who felt bitterness spread through his mouth, clenched his teeth and tensed all the muscles around his body before standing up.

Unbeknownst to him, on the back of his palm, there is a golden tattoo of the sun shining, bringing infinite power from the heavens.

His head was still down. Leon's eyes were unfocused as he looked at his own body and couldn't recognize what was happening to him.

"Finally, you face me".

"...Shut up!".

Soma was baffled hearing Leon's cold demeanour directed at him. No, it was practically the first time Leon had become like this.

"Huh?".

Without any warning, Leon's figure disappeared, and a blinding fist that blocked Soma's sight gradually hit his right jaw, jolting his brain inside and distorting his mind to think clearly.

Leon, not satisfied with what he did, disappeared and reappeared before Soma with his fist, retracted back and thrust it toward Soma's abdomen.

"Gahak!!".

"You are the one who is pathetic, haa!".

Using one of his legs as an axis, Leon turned his body around and sent a kick that blew Soma's body away, creating distance between them.

A cheer and roar reverberated in the venue, shocking Leon, who finally regained his clarity. He looked around and felt his body lighter and brimming with power.

"This is?".

Soon, he found out the source came from the tattoo on his hand. It kept shining in golden colour, enhancing his entire body.

"Good, now you are taking this match seriously".

"!?".

Leon shifted his attention toward Soma, who seemed fine after being hit in the abdomen, and that fact shocked Leon, for he was sure that he had used his all.

"How was it? Are you still feeling hesitant about this match? About facing me?".

"...Stop that roundabout questions! In the first place, that should be my questions. You are the one who is looking down on me? By using only that much preparation despite having something more to fight me and rattling about something irksome have you no shame?".

Both contestants start to argue, which creates a commotion among the spectators. They can't hear clearly what they say, but it seems Leon snapped at Soma for some reason.

"As I said at the start, I have something I want to test right now, and that is to see how far I can fight using only my basic strength, without any external power."

"As I thought, you are!".

Soma inhaled deeply, discarded the unnecessary feelings in his mind, and focused his attention on the enemy in front of him.

Slowly, the world's ringing voice faded, and the colour that caught his sight turned grey. He only saw a golden light that threw its hostility at him.

The crimson stars inside his body start to roar; they tremble intensely, sending a rush of raw, refined power that enhances his physical ability to exceed human limits.

However, even after he was in a focused state, his eyes couldn't capture Leon's figure, who suddenly disappeared, and a sword was in his line of sight, about to slice his neck.

Within the still world, Soma's body reacted; his instinct skill flared up, forcing his body to dodge the attack by a hair's breadth as he ducked down.

After that, Soma couldn't even catch a break as Leon kept raining him down with an attack that Soma barely dodged or deflected using his only experience in handling his opponent.

Soma struggled with the situation repeatedly, which forced him to use the method he had saved for last.

[Martial Saint First Technique Lightning Step Beyond Heaven's Might]