Loosing Minds

I've regained my mana and my attributes are all elevated to their limits. Now that I cleared that, I slowly stood up and started climbing the steps.

As I slowly climbed the stairs, the golden place appeared to be waving, with a golden light flashing upon me and enhancing my body. When I turned back to see how far I'd come, the golden light dimmed and vanished as I reached the eightieth step, and the entire golden world blurred.

A vigorous and terrifying aura gushed out from the second floor as I stepped up the ninetieth step.

I purchased a Spatial Ring while adventuring for the past four years, and with it, I was able to keep my sword during my first test. However, upon sensing this aura, I quickly pulled out my sword and prepared  myself before proceeding.

Even with all of this, I'm only 11 years old, and is this effort worth it to join an organisation that I only want to inspect?

Well, whatever, it's not like I can go back on my word or have any hope of leaving here without passing the trail.

Sighs.

I may as well look through it.

The second floor resembled an arena, with no audience seating. Only a massive battleground surrounded by statues of three rulers representing the Aderon continent's three races.

After looking around, a man in a black dress and black mask, with a pair of Horns sprouting from his head, was standing in the arena. He was probably waiting for me.

"Good day, Mister!" To begin with such an adversary, I greeted him.

I was sweating buckets as I was standing at least three meters away from him.

That man radiates a negative aura, and I sense a lot of malice from him.

I wonder though, where does that female's voice go?

"Youngster! I must inform you of this before we begin. If you fight me and successfully kill me, you can proceed directly to the floor eight test. If you want to pass this test, simply walk around in each floors like you did before again and again until you reach floor eight for a different test. Choose your pick soon and tell me!"

Wait, wait, wait! Is he for real? If I kill him, I will directly make it to take the test on floor eight? If I don't, I have to walk the same distance on each floor until I reach Floor eight?

Like hell I will walk! Are you kidding me with this?

I'd rather kill that man and escape to the eighth floor. But, even for an assassin, he left his aura unmasked, and his malice is raging uncontrollably. Not to mention his arrogance in claiming that the test is to kill him, as if I can't defat that man.

It reminds me of the me four years ago, when I was always getting lost with Mr.Blue Grim while adventuring.

With his horns, he is clearly not a human and may be a demon. But whatever or whoever he is, I can't kill anyone like plucking plums from tree. If  I'm going to fight him, I will force him to admit defeat. I'm not Clay, I'm Ethan, and this world I will take a life only if I rgard him as a threat.

"Mister! I've decided to fight you!" I informed him.

"Good for you, prepare to die!" he said with a nod. He didn't care about standing and rushed without any gaps as soon as I told him I wanted to fight him.

His malice appears to be out of control, and his Mana, along with his aura, erupted, sending all of the dark elemental mana directly at me.

As the dark elemental mana approached, they quickly combined to form a single massive meteor, which was even more terrifying because it was blood-red in colour and emitted a pungent odour of blood and gore.

He has the ability to use Dark Magic, indicating that he is a demon. Even so...this guy....he is gone insane! What could've caused him to drop this kind of maliciousness? This causes me to tremble. I was able to stand still thanks to my reinforcement.

It was a very harrowing sight to behold.

In the face of this massive Meteor, I was confident that I could use my skills to get through, so I showed no signs of backing down.

I manipulated my Ice elemental Mana to create my supreme Ice spell I trained so hard for, which can freeze anything within a certain radius by absorbing water attribute mana particles into my body.

\*Absolute Ice\*

I yelled out loud as I blasted the Meteor with Mana to freeze it. With my Breakthrough to Dark Yellow stage and my elements enhanced with Holy Liquid, it froze the meteor as well as the arena, creating a cold blizzard that swirled the entire floor.

The Man leapt into the air, but he was affected by my Spell. The man's body suddenly began to glow with piercing crimson light. It is also appears like he became big all of a sudden.

How is that possible? I'm not aware of any magic that can cause someone to enlarge themselves.

Immediately after, he violently swirled in midair, unleashing a devastating streak of Black tornados that sliced through the floor's walls and came within inches of me in the blink of an eye.

I barely jumped back and forth as I was flabbergasted by the strength of this attack.

The tornado completely destroyed the Frozen arena and the Blizzard I created, and even the frozen meteor is in pieces.

I'm out of options now. I didn't intend to kill him first, but he's emitting this much malice, and a power like this, which can only lead to destruction. I'm sorry, my friend, but I'm afraid I'll have to kill you now for real.

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AUTHOR'S P.O.V:

As the tornado destroyed everything, including the kings' statues upper portion leaving thir base, it moved straight towards Ethan. But Ethan remained calm and composed, with his eyes closed.

Taking a deep breath, Ethan quickly drew his sword and manipulated Wind and Lightning mana into his sword, making it buzzing sound, and at the point when the tornado was on the verge of blowing him away, he simply slashed the tornado with his sword at an incredible speed, with lightning reinforcement spell to his sword and his right hand.

The Tornado was slashed in half, passing through Ethan's left and right sides. Finally, Ethan manipulated Ice mana on his left hand and took a gaint leap as he jumped in a zig zag pattern, with his mana willed sword, freezing every single tornado and destroying it with Absolute Ice spell.

The Man went insane and flew straight at Ethan, intending to kill him with his dark elemental mana manipulation, but Ethan evaded with lightning reinforcement to his boy and used his ferocious wind Blades to attack his torso from above.

The Man fell, but he quickly got back up. Ethan was sanding one of the King's statues, which had been halved by previous attacks.

"Wanna Give Up?" As Ethan inquired from above in a cold voice and a strong demeanor, the man smiled despite the fact that many wounds began to open up all over his body and his blood spilled everywhere within the Ice frozen arena.

***CHAPTER 30***