"Excalibur Blast!" he screamed.

  An explosion of golden to whitish light illuminated the entire arena and even outside the arena due to the very bright ray of light that emerged from Azura's sword.

  It forced Blaze to release Azura's neck because both his eyes were directly hit by that ray, penetrating deep inside, almost making him blind.

  "Agh! My eyes!" Blaze shouted while rubbing his eyes.

  Azura landed with the sword tip pointing upward from the ground.

  "Excalibur Push!"

  A pressure of light gas emerged from the tip of Azura's Excalibur sword, immediately pushing Azura upward again with very strong wind gas pressure.

  When Blaze successfully regained his sight, it was already too late for him—the first thing Blaze saw was Azura flying toward him at a fairly close distance.

  "Excalibur Slash!"

  "Flaming Barrier!"

  Both sides collided—Azura forcing his sword's power with very strong light force, while Blaze held back that light attack with his fire barrier.

  "Sorry, bud. No more time for clashing like this, my time has been drained quite a lot," said Azura with a small smile.

  Before Blaze could answer that statement, Blaze was shocked when he saw Azura suddenly disappear, only leaving the light projectile given by Azura's sword still held back by Blaze's barrier.

  Without Blaze realizing it, Azura appeared behind him and kicked his back, forcing Blaze to hit Azura's previous attack.

  Someone with mysterious cloak from outside the arena saw that and immediately checked Blaze's health bar, and it turned out... it decreased more than he thought—so powerful was Azura's previous attack that it managed to eliminate half of Blaze's health bar.

  For now, no one could see what Azura's sword looks like, because the sword was so bright that even the physical form of the sword can't be see from far away.

  However, Blaze didn't give up just like that—after being hit and eating the arena floor, Blaze used his fire power to push his body upward to force Azura to release his foot from Blaze's back.

  After flying and fixing his position again, though still half-standing, Blaze spun his body trying to kick Azura's face with his back ankle already mixed with hot fire.

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  With one second of wrong calculation, Azura could have been hit by that kick, but with luck on his side, Azura could avoid that kick which was only an inch away from his face.

  Knowing that Azura would avoid that kick, Blaze aimed for his left hand.

  Azura, who didn't expect Blaze would target his hand, could only accept what Blaze planned.

  Blaze kicked that sword hand down to the arena floor then stepped on it on that cold floor until it cracked.

  That action forced Azura to fall as well because the sword was fused with his hand and body.

  "Got you," said Blaze with a sly smile.

  "Flaming Gas Push!"

  Azura was shocked seeing Azura's mouth releasing a gas smell that he knew was dangerous gas, so Azura could only close his eyes and accept that attack.

  Blaze snapped his fingers, creating a fire shockwave explosion that forced and pushed anyone around Blaze far from him, including Azura who was very close to Blaze before.

  Azura was thrown around until he stopped at the edge of the arena wall—although Azura survived that fire shockwave explosion, Azura immediately realized that something was different.

  Something that disappeared.

  "I-Impossible," said Azura with shrinking pupils.

  Although Azura didn't feel pain, Azura felt the loss of his sword which was pulled from his left arm, still being stepped on by Blaze far ahead.

  "Now one of your two swords is gone," said Blaze with his sly smile.

  Fortunately Azura was able to regrow his hand again, although he lost his left hand sword under Blaze's foot.

  Azura's heartbeat pounded very fast, a feeling of anxiety immediately attacked, a doubt that he couldn't defeat Blaze immediately came.

  "I'll take this, thank you, Azura."

  Blaze took the sword and used his fire power to transform that sword into one small fireball which he put in his pants pocket.

  Seeing his sword taken by Blaze just like that, Azura felt something very important disappear from him, something more than family.

  Afraid that his right sword would be taken too, Azura changed his arm sword back to his original hand, taking the initiative not to make the same mistake.

  "I-I, I, I can't lose again, not again."

  Azura looked at his left hand before looking forward again, but suddenly Blaze was already in front of Azura and immediately punched Azura's face repeatedly without stopping until Azura's health bar decreased to half of full.

  "I said NOT AGAIN!" Azura shouted while raising his right hand and immediately punching Blaze's face.

  With just that one strong punch, Azura could knock out some of Blaze's teeth before he got up from his fall and ran chasing Blaze who was thrown far away.

  "Shield Change!"

  Azura transformed his arm into a large iron shield and rammed it right in front of Blaze's body all the way to the edge of the arena until it shattered and cracked.

  Azura hit his arm to release his hand from that shield, forcing his hand to destroy the connector from that shield.

  Although Blaze managed to shift that iron shield from him, Azura was ready with his sword hand.

  Blaze didn't have strong enough reaction to avoid Azura's sword attack—as a result, Azura successfully stabbed his sword into Blaze's right arm very deeply until it entered the wall.

  Of course Blaze wanted to immediately pull out that sword from Azura's hand, but Azura very quickly released his hand from that sword and transformed his hand back into a new sword to stab Blaze's left arm with the same wound and stab depth as the right arm.

  Now, Blaze couldn't move both his arms again because both were already deeply pierced by Azura's two swords.

  Azura hit his arm again to pull out from that sword, before doing something more to Blaze, the first thing Azura did was breathe first.

  Transforming his hand into a sword again and pointing it at Blaze's neck very closely.

  Blaze could only bow his head in shame, "You think the sword I've already taken you can take back?"

  "Return it or I'll take it by force," Azura answered while pressing the sharp tip right at Blaze's neck.

  Blaze was silent, not uttering a single word—there was only the sound of melodious and cold wind.

  "Fine then, have your own way," said Azura who wanted to slash Blaze's neck.

  But suddenly there was thick smoke covering the arena, and Azura also felt there was something or someone holding his sword and foiling Azura's attack to slash Blaze's neck.

  Azura transformed his left hand too and tried to slash Blaze, but just like his right hand, his left hand also seemed to have something or someone holding back that attack.

  It didn't take long for that thick smoke to disappear, revealing that there was someone in front of Azura—no, more than one person.

  All members of Flaming Fairy came into the arena and disrupted Azura's final attack on Blaze.

  Both of Azura's hands were being held by a blonde elf woman, and Azura also realized that behind and on the right side there were also other people pointing their weapons at Azura.

  Azura smiled, "You all realize, right? All of you violating Guild rules."