The people cheered whole i had a mask to hide myself.
We told him that Nero was no where to be find but still, i stood there with a cloak.
I held the blade tightly but it still shivered.
In front stood the same man that people cheered for.
“Navcaso.”
He stood in his shining golden armour with two swords that he played with.
He raised one of the sword and the cheering went louder.
The whole stadium shook with the noise.
I could see Emilia with Ana, Standing on a pedestal among the people.
He raised the second blade towards me.
Globes of gold started roaming around me.
I stepped forward and bolts of electricity came out of the spheres.
I started my run but the spheres kept following me.
I jumped for a strike which he blocked by his blade and people stood up to cheer.
I rotated the sword to left and lifted it back.
Then went for another strike but the sphere intervened.
It shoot a bolt of elevtricity straight to my sword.
I fell few feet back and barely caught my balance to stand up.
I send arrows of ices straight towards him bit they were blocked one by one by the spheres sorrounding him.
He started to circle the blades in air.
The spheres started sparks among each other and electrical lines binded the three spheres in a triangle.
They flew towards me and i crafted a wall of ice to block them.
The electricity stopped but the spheres shattered the wall.
One hit my stomach while one dislocated my shoulder.
Suddenly amongst the crowd people started to panick.
The people who attacked us on the flight had come across the audience.
My arm felt a lot of pain and it started to feel heavy on my left side.
I tried to disappear by hiding my nesk and crafted walls all around him.
I could see from the outside but everything from inside reflected what was inside.
A spike grew from the ice but he shattered it with a single blow from his sword.
He recalled the spheres while spike kept growing from the walls.
Spheres collided with rhe spike and it shattered.
Among the crowd there were noises of blades tattering and Emilia had vanished from her seat.
“Hey, There’s something wrong in the…”
The spheres started racing around with charges come out of them and at a point they suddenly stopped.
A huge wave of electricity came out of them in all directions and the walls shattered.
He send the spheres after me again.
I dodged them and tried to push one with my sword.
It pushed me back and as a result, i was sliding back with its push.
Another sphere came from the side and thrashed my torso.
The next ball came from my face and i fell with its strike.
“Don’t fall warrior show us your true strenght.”
The crowds had been turning silent with the events of the fight.
Another ball came flying towards me and i had to jump from the ground.
I rotated and tried to kick but the ball instead it turned my feet back and i fell again.
Balls were heavy and moving in incredible velocity.
They all aligned at the top of my head in a zig-zag manner and a jolt of electricity fell from the sky.
I was forced on the ground again.
With my body shivering due to the waves of electricity that had just smashed my body.
I pushed the swords inside the ground and started to pull myself back up.
But somehow Navcaso stood in front of me.
He spun and landed a kick on my chest.
All the broken limbs of my body started to hurt and i screamed as i fell from the wall.
I tried to kill the scream inside myself but it seemed i was incapable of that either.
“Dont hold back warrior. Claim what’s yours.”
After a few minutes of silence i stood up again.
Even the view behind the mask was full of shame.
The people who cheered started talking amongst themselves in ears.
I couldn’t face the audience and too tired to even move but i took one step followed by another.
“Yes! Come on warrior this is not the end.”
Slowly me feet started running and i swung my sword again.
But he grabbed it with his bare hands and whispered to me.
“What are you doing. Show us the strength of Nero.”
“I told you. I don’t have it.”
“What are you saying?”
In frustration he pulled out his sword and swung it against my blade.
My sword barely faced it to block it and it shattered with the strike.
His blade sliced my chest and blood started rushing out.
I slowly lost strength in my limbs and tried to hold the shattered blade but i fell.
“I am sorry i thought you were someone else.”
The gong rung and Emilia jumped out the wall.
And came running towards me.
She sat across my side and grabbed the injued chest.
Trying to stop the blood flow.
“Ren.You will be okay. Dont worry”
The whole stadium stood silent and the people started moving out of the stadium.
I was in no condition to speak but i could see her silver eyes that held tears about to fall.
My eyelids slowly closed down but i still felt the shame.
The weakness that i was trying to throw off didnt left my side even after the weapons i held.
The snow that was left in stadium slowly melted.