I'm near the edge of the stage, and close to me is 5 people, and one of them seems to have been glaring at me since i walked onto the stage. The man staring at me looks to be around 20 years old, and has blonde short hair. He is medium height, and slim but also mucular. He has a pretty handsome face, and is wearing expensive clothes. He is wearing a sword around his waist, which suggests he is a swordsman. But he is releasing a lot of mana for a swordsman. My guess is that he is a magic swordsman. The announcer is currently announcing the rules, and is almost finished. "...The last 5 people standing can continue. The match starts in 3... 2... 1... start."(Announcer) When he says that, the guy that has been staring at me, leaps towards me with his sword drawn. When he is about to slash downwards i step to the side, and dodge his attack. He attacks again, but this time horizontal. I, again dodge the attack easily by jumping up and landing behind him. "Why are you going after me? You had a guy that was closer to you than me, and he seemed pretty easy to beat too." He turns around, and snorts. "You don't have the right to know that."(Blonde guy) He says while wearing a mocking smile. He continue to slash after me, and i continue dodging. While we were playing around, the number of people still standing drops at a decent rate.

"I'm bored. So i will end it now." I say that, and stops the incoming blade, which shocks the blonde guy. "What?! Agh!"(Blonde guy) I punch him in the stomach just hard enough to knock him out. He falls down, and i catch him. I drag him over to the edge, and throw him over. I look at the people left, and it's only about 60 people left.

I look for people to fight, and find someone who looks available. That person is a magician it seems, and he just deafeated an opponent. The magician is about 25 years old, with very little muscles, he also uses glasses. He has at least 3000 mana, and he is using a staff both as a melee weapon and conducting mana through it. Maybe that staff is enchanted with the ability to let mana flow through more easily? He is wearing robes that you see in fairy tales, and the like. The robe is a plain ice blue, with nothing else. Well anyway, back to the magician. He is resting, and recovering his mana. I walk over to him, and he seems to notice me as i am heading straight to him. He looks at me, and says. "Another challenger? The outcome is already clear."(Magician) 

I say nothing to that, and wait for him to attack me. He attacks with ice arrows, and when they are about to reach me, i dodge by stepping to the side. "You dodged that by luck, but will that happen twice in a row?"(Magician) I don't say anything now either but i smile. "Why are you smiling? You are going to be defeated now."(Magician) He pushes his glasses up. He makes even more arrows now, and fires them at me again. When they come close to me i dodge them by going to the side, and back, to avoid being hit. 

"Why can't you just be hit, and fall unconscious like all of them have done so far?!"(Magician) He is starting to get angry, and he makes even more arrows. There are now around 20 arrows now, and i didn't let even one of them hit me. He is grinding his teeth, and is looking very angry. If i don't deal with him soon, he will just become angrier and become loud, and i hate when people are loud for no real reason. I guess i will just defeat him and move on to another person.

"I'm gonna deal with you now so stay quiet." Before he could process what i said, i had moved from where i stood, to stand infront of him and punch him hard enough in the stomach to make him collapse. I let him collapse, and step back. Where i stood is covered with holes that go about 30cm's down, and there are about 50 holes. When he was becoming angry, he couldn't control his strength very good. I look around and notice that there are even less people left standing, about 30 or so.

I go around messing with people like that until there is only 5 people left. The 5 people left is 3 swordsmen, 1 magician and me. We walk off the stage,and walk over to the place where the other contestants that also have finished battling stands. Now there is only one group left, and the winners there are nothing special. That group also walk over to us, and the announcer says."These 20 people will compete in the 1vs1 stage. Can every contestant draw a paper slip from this box."(Announcer) He says that as 2 servants push a trolley, and on top of it is a box with a hole large enough for a hand. We walk over when the trolley stops, and form a line. I am around the middle. It takes around 5 minutes till it's my turn, and i draw a paper slip. The number 8 is written on it. 

"The number written on the paper slip is just to indicate when you are going to be fighting, and who. For example if you number 1 then you are going to fight against number 2, and you are going to fight first."(Announcer) Since i am number 8 that means i am going to be fighting against number 7, and it seems to be a swordsman. The broken stone slabs on the stage is replaced and the first 2 walk onto the stage. The 2 contestants stand opposite to each other. Both of them are swordsmen it seems, and there isn't that much of an age gap. The announcer starts speaking again. "The rules are the same, You kill your opponent, you are disqualified. You get knocked unconscious, you are out. You fall out of the ring, you are out. The match starts in 3... 2... 1... start!"(Announcer) Both of them start attacking each other, and they go on to attack and defend alternately. They are pretty much equally strong. They go on like that for about 10 minutes, and one of them seems to become more tired than the other. After a few more minutes pass, the one that was more tired get's beaten.

The defeated contestant gets carried out, and next two walk up. This time it's a little different matchup, it's a magician against a swordsman, and the magician is a woman. The woman is 33 years old, but she looks like she is about 20-25 years old. That is because she has much more mana than a regular person, and mana is linked to a beings lifespan. A person can live to 60-80 years whatever amount of mana they have, and when they come to 100 and above, 100 is worth 1 year. So someone with 100 000 mana can live to about 1000 years. That woman has about 10 000 mana. She is also married so i'm not interested in her. The swordsman is nothing special, he is 30 years old, has about 2000 strength, and his sword mastery is on level 20. The battle starts and as i expected the woman defeats him in about 10 seconds. The man attacked first, but since they were not close together he had to move closer, and the woman started shooting things like fire arrows at him to keep him at a distance while she was power up an attack. The attack she was powering up was a beam, and when the man got hit by it, he got thrown out of the stage.

The next match wasn't that interesting, the contestants were 2 magic swordsmen, and one of them one easily won. I'm going to be fighting next. I begin walking onto the stage, and i can see my opponent, it's a man. The man is a magic swordsman it seems. He is level 132, and has about 5000 mana, and 3000 strength. He is 87 years old, but he seems to be about 40 years old. He is wearing expensive armor that have been enchanted with things like 'lighten' and 'strengthen'. He seems to be an S-rank adventurer from Qato. When the announcer start speaking, he readies himself. "2... 1... start!"(Announcer)

When the match starts, the man attacks me right away, and starts slashing towards me. I dodge the attacks by going to the sides when he attacks, and after doing that for a bit, i catch his sword when he slashed towards me. "What?!"(Man) The people watcing were also suprised a bit. The man tries to pull the sword towards himself, but i don't let him. "Let go!"(Man) He says as he tries to pull the sword. "Okay." I do as he asked, and let his sword go, but he was pulling so hard that he fell over when i released it. He stands up quickly, and gets into a stance again. "I'm gonna stop messing with you." I say that and walk towards him. When i get in his range, he attacks, but i before it hits me, i move behind him so fast that he couldn't see me. When he couldn't see me anymore, he gets suprised, and becomes even more vigilant. I chop him in the neck with just enough force to knock him out. The announcer announces that i won, and i walk off the stage.

Rest of the matches weren't something i was that interested in, and the tournament was done for today, when the last match of the round finished. Now there is only 10 people left. The matches start tomorrow at 08:00 am and end when the semifinals is concluded, and the next day is the finals. All of the spectators leave, and the contestants also leave. I begin walking towards the city, and enter. I begin looking for an inn. I find an inn after looking around for a bit. It's called Water horse inn. I walk in, and go towards the reception. "Hi i would like to stay here for 2 nights in you most expensive room." I say that to the old man standing behind the reception. "Okay, that will be 20 silver coins."(Old man) I give the money to him, and he says that it is at the end of the hall on the second floor. I walk up, and walk inside. Inside there is a big bed, a desk and a dining table. On the wall is a magic lantern. I walk over to the bed, and lay on it. Aterna wake me up 07:00 am tomorrow.

Ok master.

 I begin falling asleep, and close my eyes.

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The next day i wake up at 07:00 am thanks to Aterna waking me up. I stand up, and walk out of bed. I look out of the window, and see the sun rising. I decide to try something i have been thinking of. I want to try to fly without wings. I think that if i make my mana shoot downwards, it will make my body levitate, and i can controll my speed with how much mana i output. I stand upright, and feel the mana in my body. I make a little bit mana be outputted in a continous stream. I don't feel my body becoming any lighter, so i output even more mana at the same time, and now i feel that i am no longer connected to the floor. When i land again a window pops up.

Skill: Flying learned!

 Oh, cool. I learned it! "Skills, Flying."

Skill Explanation

Flying (Active) LV 0

You are able to fly with minimal control. 100 mana for staying still in the air. 1000 mana for 10m/s

I max the skill, and now i have 12591 skill points left.

Skill Explanation

Flying (Active) MAX LV

You are able to fly with great precision, and minimized usage of mana. 10 mana for staying still in the air. 100 mana for 10m/s

Good. I try to fly around the room, and it isn't so difficult. I can stop, and turn whenever i want, and i think i can go really fast if i really want. I land down beside the bed again, and turn invisible. I walk over to the windows and open them. I fly out, and close the windows behind me with mana. I fly up 1000 meters, and look around. I see a forest just outside the capital, and even further out i can see cities. I look towards the demon lands, and don't see anything special. I can see giant sea monsters in the ocean a few kilometers out. If i don't stop sightseeing now i'm gonna be late.

I fly towards the arena, and land beside the arena in an area that no one is in. I turn myself visible, and walk towards the entrance for the contestants. i walk in, and there isn't anyone in line. That may be because there is only 10 people left. I walk up to the desk, where the old man from yesterday is standing. "Show me your registration papers."(Old man) I give them to the old man, and he looks at them, and give them back to me. "Take the hallway to you left, and when you come to a door numbered 1, walk in."(Old man) I thank him and walk to the left. I walk a little bit, and arrive the door numbered 1. This hallway is a spitting image to the hallway to the right. I walk in, and inside there is already 9 people, which means that i am last. In the corner is a magic tv, that like the other room shows the arena. We wait til tournament starts, and the announcer from yesterday come up onto the stage. "Welcome the his majesty and the royal family!"(Announcer) The spectators stand up like yesterday, and cheer. The king gives a speech like yesterday. The spectators sit down when the royal family also has sat down. The announcer says then. "Can all the contestants come to the arena."(Announcer) Everyone in the room then begins walking to the arena.

We walk out into the arena, and stand beside the walls. The announcer starts speaking. "Can nr. 2 Gretinorim and nr. 3 Eutukore come up onto the stage?"(Announcer) They walk onto the stage, and stand opposite of each other, and takes their stances. The announcer starts the match, and they attack each other. After doing that for a few minutes, nr. 2 Gretinorim wins the match. 

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"Can nr. 6 Fruxone and nr. 8 Matthew come onto the stage?"(Announcer) Fruxone is the girl that won, that is actually 33 years old, but looks like she is 25 years old. We both walk onto the stage and face eachother. The Announcer starts counting down, and when the match starts, Ruxone starts firing fire arrows at me. While she is firing that, she seems to be charging up the beam that knocked the other guy out. I am currently blocking the arrows with my hand. The beam seems to take a few seconds to charge. When a few seconds has gone past, the fire arrows stopped coming, and she seems to be about to fire the beam. She fires the beam, and it goes at about the speed of a bullet. I could easily dodge it but what fun would that be? The beam is getting closer, 10 meters... 5 meters... now it's only 2 meters away. If i don't do something to it, it would most probably push me off because my feet isn't fused together with the ground. When the beam comes into a distance i can reach, i punch it with about 10 000 strength. When i do that, the beam reverses, and goes towards Fruxone. The beam is slightly faster after i punched than when she sent, so i don't think she can do something about it. The beam hits her before she could process what happened, and she flies off the stage, and hits the wall to the spectator area. There is a silence for a few seconds, and i can hear people muttering things like 'What happened?' and 'I didn't see what happened.' The announcer says that i won, and i walk off the stage. The rest of the matches are held.

The second round is over, and now the third one starts. I am against a swordsman, and we are fighting first. We walk up to the stage, and face eachother. His name is Gretinorim. The announcer counts down, and i decide not to mess around this time. When the announcer says 'start', i run at a 'normal' speed of 100m/s and push him of the stage. He flies of and hits the same wall that Fruxone hit. Everyone is shocked yet again, and there is a silence that lasts for a few seconds. I walk off the stage like nothing happened and after the announcer regained himself, he said who won, and announced the ones who is going to fight next.

The next match was quite boring. The last guy didn't have anyone to fight(Because the author is stupid) so he won via walkover. The fourth round is just 2 guy fighting, and i am not gonna fight(Again because the author is stupid). The guy that won is who i'm gonna fight against, and he seems to be a dukes son. His name is Takius, and he is nr. 19. The finals is tomorrow, so everyone's leaving. I am gonna leave aswell.

When i was returning to the inn, i heard something interesting. It was about how Patriv just recently summoned heroes from another world to fight against the demons. Aterna what is that about?

As you probably know, the human lands is currently at war against the demon lands, but since Patriv border to the demon lands they are the ones who do most of the fighting. But of course, the other countries help with supplies and such because if Patriv goes down, there is nothing that stops the demons from invading further. So while fighting against the demons, they developed magic that can transport(kidnap) people from other worlds to here, and when they come here they get a blessing from a goddess that if used carefully they can get strong. Basically a normal summoned to another world web novel kind of scenario.

 That seems cool, i guess i will find out more about it when i am done with the tournament. I continue walking to the inn. I walk up to my room, and close the door. I walk over to the bed, and lay onto it. Aterna wake me up at 07:00 am like usual.

Yes master.

I close my eyes, and fall asleep. I lay there the rest of the day. In the middle of the night, i feel something touching my skin. I open my eyes, and in front of me is a man in black clothes, and he is wearing a black mask. Is... this an assassin? "What are you doing?" I ask him. He doesn't say anything but it seems he is shocked, and he starts to run. He is faster than a normal human, but not faster than me. Before the assassin was able to reach the window, i had stood up, and begin 'walking' to him. When i reached him, he had moved about 5cm from when i was still in the bed. I take him by the neck, and open the window. I slow down to a normal speed before i continue. The assassin was again shocked when i started moving normally, yet he still doesn't speak. I fly out of the window with the assassin in a neckgrip. I take him and fly to the forest, far enough away that no one can hear us. It takes us 2 minutes, because if i go too fast i will kill him. I have also been regulating the strength i use to hold him, not to choke him. I land in a small clearing. I drop the assassin down, and he tries to run, but i'm not that easy. I mold mana to become restraining straps, and tie him up with it.

"Okay, who sent you to kill me?" I ask him but he doesn't answer. I take off the mask, and what is under is a young man about 20 years old, average face. There is nothing that stands out about him with his body. "Not gonna say anything?" Again he doesn't answer. Aterna who sent him to kill me, and why?

The one who sent him was a duke of Qato. He sent him because his son is in the finals against you, and he thinks his couldn't win directly against you so he sent an assassin. His name is Alut.

Since you told me, then i don't need him anymore. I take a few steps back, and raise my arm. I make a fireball with a diameter of 2 meters. I throw it at the assassin. It hits him, and he doesn't scream as he is being burnt alive. The fireball lasts for a few minutes, and then vanishes. What remains is a scorched ground, and ashes. 

Then where is the duke Aterna?

The duke is in the noble zone. In his mansion. It's in the middle of the noble zone, and it's built just by stone, so it's hard to miss.

Ok, thanks. I make myself inivisible, and fly up 1000 meters. I fly towards the city, and this time i go faster than last time so it only took about 30 seconds. I fly over the commoner zone, and then the wall to the noble zone. I stop in the middle of the noble zone and look around. I couldn't see the house from where i was, so moved further along. After searching for a little bit, i found the mansion. I find an open window and fly through it. I sense after the dukes man, and it is in the study, alone. I walk to the study, and knock on the door. I take a few steps back. I hear an 'come in' from inside, and he says that a few times. He becomes a bit mad when no one comes inside, so he begins to walk to the door to open it. When the door opens, i grab him, and over his mouth so he can't scream. I drag him into the study, and close the door behind me. I make mana restraints, and restrain him. I also make a strap for his mouth, so he doesn't make any sound.

I drag him with me as i walk to the window, and open it. I fly out the window, and head for the clearing i just was at. It took a few minutes but we got there without any trouble. I drop him down, and land beside him. I make myself visible again, and he gets scared when he sees me. He is trying to say something but the mouth thingy is in the way. I release the mouth strap, and he begins speaking. "You won't get away with this!"(Alut) He is speaking annoying crap. "Shut up. I don't care what you think. You're going to be my guinea pig. That is what you get for trying to kill me." When i said that he didn't dare speak another word. What i meant by guinea pig is how the human body reacts to runes and enhancments. How many can it take, and is it effective. Before doing anything, i check his stats, and see that they are like normal people's stats. The first rune i'm writing is 'Immune to fire'. To test it, i will burn him with a flame. When he sees that i have made a flame, he begins begging me to stop. "Please stop! I'm sorry for trying to kill you! I will give you anything if you stop! Please!"(Alut) I don't listen to him and bring the flame to his hands. When the flames touches his hands, he screams but stops soon after. The hand was completely normal. "Wh-What did you do to me?"(Alut) I don't bother responding this time either.

I check his body with mana, and i don't feel any irregularities. The only thing that is a bit different is how his mana flows through his body. Well anyway. The next thing i'm doing is Injecting mana to his muscles to see if there is any change. I put my hand on his stomach, and find all the muscles. When i have found all the muscles, i begin injecting mana gradually into each of them. 100 mana. He doesn't react. 500 mana. He says that he feels a bit strange. 1000 mana. He says he's hurting and asking me what i am doing. I stop at 1500 mana, because i don't think his muscles can take anymore. I check his stats, and see that his strength has gone up with 20 000, stamina 2000 and mana 1000.

"Let's move on." Next thing is another rune. This rune is gonna be 'Regeneration'. I sense after something that may be not normal for his body, and the only thing different from last time is that his pulse is really fast, like 130 bpm. Well let's check if the last functions properly. I form mana to make a mana blade around my index finger. I cut him on the face, while he begs me to stop as usal. I retract the mana blade, and after a few seconds the wound is being closed very slowly.

The next rune i'm going to test is 'harden'. I write the rune, and i can see that Alut becomes very pale when i do that. I check him for irregularities and find that his mana is really wild. It looks like he hasn't enough mana to supply all of the runes equally. To test the rune, i make a hammer. I take the hammer while he continues to be beg me to stop, and lightly hit him in the leg. I hit him with enough strength to bend metal, but he only has a few scratches. I put the hammer into the inventory, and check him for any internal injuries. I can't find anything. I look for the mana source, and find it in the middle of his chest. The mana source is where mana is produced, and the place it is, is specific to the race. Humans have it in the middle of the chest, i also have it there. Well anyway.

I begin pouring mana into Alut's mana source by the thousands. I do it for a little bit till i feel that he is about to collapse, and then i stop. I check his status, and his mana has gone up with 100 000. I look for any irregularities and the mana is getting even wilder by the second. Alut is screaming of pain. He must be hurting very badly, since the mana want to expand. I get away from him, and watch. 

He just passed out from the pain, and i can feel the mana starting to expand by an explosive rate. When i don't think his body can take it anymore, his body explodes, and creates a crater with a diameter of 5 meters. What's the time Aterna?

It's 07:43 am.

Then there is only 17 minutes left! If i don't hurry, i'm gonna be late. I fly up, and find the arena. I fly towards it at a speed of 100m/s so it only takes a minute or two for me to arrive. I land where no one can see me, and walk to the entrance for the contestants. It's the same old man that has been here the last three times. He say to go left, and go into the door with number 1 on it. I do that, and inside there is already a guy. That is the guy i'm supposed to fight i think. I think his name is Takius. He is about the same age as me. He's a swordsman. He's wearing a expensive, but good armor and clothing. The sword he has is decorated with dragons, and it's enchanted with runes that a low-leveled enchanter wrote.

While i was thinking that, the announcer came on the stage and did the usual thing, welcoming the royal family. He says our names, and then we walk out to the arena. The announcer asks us to get on the stage, and we do that and face eachother. The announcer starts counting down, and when he says start, i walk towards Takius. When i come close enough to him he attacks me by slashing at me with his swords, but i dodge and punch him hard enough in the stomach that he flies into the wall. The audienced were quite shocked, but since it has happened before, the silence didn't last that long. The crowd starts cheering, and the king starts speaking. "Congratulations on winning the tournament. Come to the royal viewing box to get your reward."(King) After saying that he walks back into the room where he can't be seen. The announcer walks over to me, and says. "To get to the royal viewing box, you have to go in the entrance for the spectators, and in the middle is stairs that leads to the viewing box."(Announcer)

I do as he said, and walk out of the arena, and go around, and there is an entrance that is a bit more decorated than the entrance for the contestants. I walk inside, and there are people still leaving, but there are very few people left so i can walk through. Inside there is 2 stairs to the left and right that leads to the seating areas. In the middle is stairs that is guarded by 2 soldiers. I guess that is where i'm supposed to go. I walk up to the stairs and the guards look at me for a few seconds then looks back. They must know that i am supposed to go there. I walk up the stairs and at the top is a man in a butlers outfit, and behind him is a door. He starts speaking to me. "Sir Matthew please follow me."(Butler) He says that and opens the door.

I follow him into the room, and when i have walked in the door is closed by a servant. Inside is like a lounge. There is a table, and around it is chairs and couches. At the end of the table is a chair that is more decorated than any other chair or couch in here, and upon it sits the king.

"Hello Matthew."(King) He says to me, and i answer back. "Hi." 

"Here is the coins."(King) He throws a bag towards me, and i catch it.

"So, what do you want to request of me?"(King) What do i want? Hmmm... Okay that.

"Magic books, i want magic books."

"Okay, that will be easy."(King) He lifts his arm, and i can feel him pouring mana into a ring he has on his finger. Is that a magic item? A screen like the screens i see pop up that is connected to the ring. It looks the same just that everybody can see it. He puts his free hand into the screen pulls out 6 books. On each of the cover it's written 'Wind', 'Water', 'Fire', 'Earth', 'Darkness' and 'Light'. I take them, and say. "Thanks." I walk over to the door and a servant opens it for me.

I put the books into my inventory when i am walk down the stairs. I walk past the guards, and continue walking. When i have come close to the city, i can see the blonde guy from the tournament standing in the way.