Warlock of Oceans: My Poseidon System

Chapter 58 Jar of Talent (1)

Maybe the boy with long dark green hair could potentially match mine with a few more years of training, but in general, they were all still green and extremely wet behind the ears.

I mean, they are children, so I shouldn't expect a professional level from them, but it would be nice to witness such an event for myself.

Of these four kids, a new generational leader will be born.

Soon, the tension between the children had reached an all-time high, but before they could get any more suspicious, we finally reached the bottom of the stairs and looked up, finding ourselves in a small cylindrical dirt arena with a large window at the very top.

"Now, let me explain how this will go down."

We all lined up in front of the dynamic duo whose eyes were so cold that they practically blended in with the surrounding darkness.

This almost jar-like place was completely pitch black, but one kid who really stood out was the boy with green snake-like eyes, his pupils practically glowing in the dark.

He looked like a true reptile as of now, but in unison, the children all began to leak bloodlust unbeknownst to them.

Clearly, they felt threatened, coloring me amused since they probably thought we were going to fight to the death.

"Don't worry; you won't be killing each other. Most of you here are from important families, and we don't feel like angering such families as of now," The man muttered, his words practically in a loud whisper as he continued on. "All of you will fight until you all are defeated. If nobody fights within the first thirty seconds, everybody here fails, and you will all be kicked out of the Daggers, forcing us to manipulate your memories just a bit,"

Everybody visibly shivered from his words before both of the siblings poofed away in a cloud of black smoke, the entrance to the hallway behind us also swiftly shutting.

In a muffled voice filtered through a microphone, the beginning of the match had begun, with a few more rules being announced.

"If somebody is about to die, do not finish them off. There will be no killing blows, and if you do kill somebody, we will kill you. Other than that, there are no rules… Now, begin,"

Everybody immediately flash-stepped to their own respective parts of the room, their eyes scouring the area as they prepared for somebody to immediately go after blood.

Once again, it was amusing seeing them so weary, especially the boy with dark green hair and snake-like eyes… I was only becoming more and more impressed with him.

"Fifteen seconds left before you all will fail," A filtered voice announced, and this immediately caused the boy with a white buzz cut to dash towards the golden elf, who didn't look as playful as yesterday.

She immediately deflected a punch right at her face and then caught the knee, which was the real attack, hidden under the boy's punch.

It was intriguing seeing such young kids displaying such high battle IQ… but of course, skills were at play here.

VWOOM… VWOOM… VWOOM…

A golden glow beat in the center of the elf's hand before she smashed it in between her palms, forming a golden sword that she unsheathed from the nothingness beneath her palm.

The golden sword illuminated the entire arena, causing bits of dusty particles and small rocks to float into the air, forcing the opposing boy to activate one of his skills.

The girl with long black hair, the snake-eyed boy, and of course, yours truly sat back, waiting for a moment to strike as the two began to drain their mana.

From the buzz-cut boy, a white glow erupted from his skin, causing the veins to surface from his body as if the blood within them began to strain and attempt to escape from their meaty pathways.

Two sickles formed from what seemed to be a bone-like material appeared in the middle of his palms, allowing him to grip them and charge forward, his feet practically kicking off the ground as he shielded his face with his sickles.

His eyes peered through the gaps, waiting and attempting to anticipate what the elf would do… and it was as straightforward as I thought.

VWOOM

She swung downwards, right towards the boy, cutting through the air but completely missing him as he tumbled to the side, feeling a trickle of blood slide down his face.

He looked puzzled as he wiped the blood from the cut on his forehead, but had no time to think further as the elf dashed towards him, swinging her sword down once again-

BAM

Suddenly, she was sent flying across the room as I chucked a sidekick straight at her ribs, nearly knocking her out and causing the buzz-cut boy to tumble to his ass.

Everybody in the room looked surprised as they didn't detect anything coming from me… which is to be expected for kids with so much inexperience.

"Even my naive siblings move better than you all," I taunted them, wanting to fire them up in order to see their highest potential. "And especially you… why didn't you attack?"

As my eyes shifted over to a pair of reptilian pupils, they soon crawled down his body and then to his fingers, which twirled a pair of bone-like sickles, practically dripping with green venom.

"My skills aren't for fighting. They're made for killing and solely only killing… if my blade scratches anybody here, they will die," He explained with a generally expressionless face.

My lips pursed into a slight smile as I saw a shadow shift behind him.

"You're more inexperienced than I thought,"

SHING

The boy just barely dodged a dagger that had made a surface-level cut on his chest, and if it wasn't for the fact that killing was banned, his throat would have been slit by the girl with long black hair who moved through the shadows like a true assassin.

"You're quite slow for a descendent of Jormungandr," The girl with long black hair taunted.