Teacher shouts: »First one is down! Do me a favour and bring out the other one fast, I still have plans with my pupil.«

As an answer Safania beckons two staffmembers who were taking the bets who hurried here. Then Brovurion holds out Dumbelo. The staffmembers first look surprised at each other, take over to hold onto Dumbelo and are uncomfortable at first but then accept this situation quite fast.

Brovurion goes down into the Arena and arrives while Asab has already been brought out a sideexit. Coming to a stand some meters before teacher.

He first bows down in an elegant way. Teacher responds accordingly.

He strives off his Warhammers holder letting the Hammer fall to the ground. A heavy thump resounds. Like a little Meteorite has landed a huge wave of dust comes up and the hammer burries itself into the ground. Never thought that thing would be this heavy. But unexpectedly he did not undress his coat and just took his stance. The Hammer on the ground before him and holding onto it's stem with both hands. In this pose, just slightly revealing his arms, I can see that there is an armour hidden behind his white coat.

I am not a professional regarding this, but seriously, he must feel really hot beneath all those clothings. All the times I looked at him before he never broke a sweat, even though he additionally carried and held onto Dumbelo!

Teacher takes her stance and Safania announces the second match. Through teachers pressing this break was really short.

»Through the first matches victory by Milla Parchel I am happy to announce the second and last match for this event. Milla Parchel against Brovurion Annariake Wolfenson. May this match be as exciting as the first one. And now, START!«

Again teacher and her opponent stare at each other. Brovurion with an advantage of knowing teachers fighting-style from her previous fight, additionally it's her already used energy against his probably full charged power. Even though you can see the previous fight as a warmup... I guess?

I want to win this fight fast, but I don't know anything about that guy. Except for his shoulder. I've got some light cuts here and there but they don't really bother me. The only problem from the fight before is a bit of Numbness ind my arms from defendig against Asabs heavy attacks. That numbness is luckily going away quite fast.

Judging by his weapon and build he looks like a heavy hitter with a decent armour beneath his coat. His Movements are probably slower than Asabs but even stronger and heavier. I first have to penetrate his defense and then an opportuity to make a decisive blow. 

This kind of matches are especially hard against armoured guys because you normally should prevent fatal blows.

Okay first let's try out how fast he is.

I begin to charge at him. My sword pulled to the back a bit for an easy straight piercing attack and my glove guarding me like a shield. It's an easy attack he will proably block, but in which way I wonder. 

My piercing attack starts and his body moves to the right while the armour aroud his left (from my perspective) arm deflects my piercing to the side. Easy but efficieant. The next moment his other arm grabs the hammer and swings it at my body. Nothing unexpected so far. I accelerate a bit, to get out of his range and turn around instantly, where his Hammer misses me by a wide margin.

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His reflexes are good and he did not show anything extraordinary yet, but most probably because this was a standard situation.

His expression is neutral and kept beeing like that since the first time I saw him.

I look into his eyes. They tell me nothing. But he seems concentrated and careful.

Okay next I'll try something else.

My second charge begins, but surprisingly he charges as well. At the point we meet his Hammer swung by both arms has the upper hand against every weapon of mine. I duck down under his hammer to deal an uppercut with my glove. Again charged with some fire magic at my elbow to enhance the power of the blow. But the moment my counter begins suddenly his upper body moves back and his knee comes up my chin. Just closely being able to react and turn my body away his knee graces my chin. 

That was dangerous. He anticipated this attack from the fight before and used his hammers swing as a decoy, then used it's swings weight to pull his upper body away from my attack while transferring that power into his knee the same time. 

While I roll to the side he does a backflip and after his landing charges again, while I am still getting up. He holds his hammer behind him for a second swing. But this swing comes so fast, I am not fully able to evade or block it. The barrier of my glove isn't finished in time and he hits me from the side penetrating my gloves blocking. My rips are hit, the next moment I fly some meters to the side. Fortunately I had a barrier around all my body, but this attack still hurts a lot. I am wondering why I still feel quite good and the hit wasn't as heavy as expected.

The moment I look at Brovurion I understand. He didn't hit me with the hammer, but only with the stem.

Again, while I am trying to get up he charges again, but I fire a Fireball at him with my glove and use some magic controlling the air to get up faster. Using the Fireballs cover I charge at him too. He uses his staff to disperse the fireball. Not having noticed me, I slash my sword cutting open his amour beneath the clothes, but not getting trhough to his skin yet. Using this spin and further accelerating it with Wind magic I combine it with a strike of the back of my glove that hits his hopefully hurt shoulder with all my might.

This time he gets blown away.

That Moment I realized from his back the head of the hammer comes flying at me. I evade it with a shot fireball and air manipulation. 

This guy is trickier than expected. 

He gets up again, his Hammers had flying to his staff and connecting again. I guess this fight will be nastier than the previous.

I hold onto my rights hips, he holds his shoulder. 

„Staring at each other volume 2!“ begins.

I've set my strategy and am the first to charge again. Brovurion swings his Hammer, the head flies at me and I evade it. My swordslash from the side is blocked by his staff leaving a noticeable mark in his Staff. But it wasn't supposed to hit. The force was meant to strain his hurt shoulder to give me the opportunity to hit him with my glove. It strikes forceful at his armour around his belly where I've damaged it already and my glove penetrates it enought for him to feel it and he slides back on the ground. I duck down as the expected hammer head flies above my head to Brovurion. I charge for the last time, his Staff and hammerhead connect again. The next moment my glove comes in for another hit at his belly. He blocks it with the staff, but the staff can't bear the force with the Cut my sword left and breaks. My sword comes up and we stand still while my swords tip is held at his throat.

Brovurion lets go of his broken Staff and hammer, raises his hands and for the first time his expression changes. A kind, caring smile. The halves of his stick fall to the ground and again the hammers head leaves a deep mark in the ground throwing up a lot of dust.

»I give up!« -he says.

At that moment me knees are about to give in. I let down my sword, take a step back and breath in deeply again.

Brovurion looks at his broken weapon and frowns discontently. Then he looks up to Ms. Safania.

The loud cheers of the crowd are a mix of excitement and disappointment.

Ms. Safania then announces my victory.

»With this the match has concluded. The winner of both matches is Milla Parchel! Like always you can get the payout of your bets at the counter outside. Let's have some fun furthermore and enjoy the rest of the day. Remember this evening the preliminaries of our weekly turnament will take place. It's still early, have a nice day. The staff will take care of the main hall and its damages. For the people at the destroyed table, I apologize for it's hard to fully reconstruct the way your game was. Therefore our staffmember dealing at that table will give you your share plus a bonus. If you have problems regarding his choices you may come to my office!«

Then she whispers something to one of her attendants, takes Chelos hand going outside a special door at the back of her gallery. Dumbelo is carried right by two other staffmembers behind her. I try to hurry up, but i realize it's hard to move through the croud at my entry. On the other side though the attendant has opened another door beckoning me. Brovurion already went through that door.

I hurry there.

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