Itoyea took stance, ready and armed, he had become a living weapon.
He set his eyes on Aitken who seemed to understand the look in his eyes.
They screamed ' deadly'.
'This was going to good fight' Aitken thought
Just then Itoyea moved, so fast, he was a blur, even Aitken was shocked at the speed, in flash he was behind him, before anyone could react he already had one flag in his hand.
Aitken had thought that he would be coming for him and had his blood shield up, but when he did he didn't see Itoyea, he realized he had been played.
" That's one" Itoyea said, a flag in his mouth.
Cheim Nell squealed as if on que.
Aitken gritted his teeth, he had not expected that he was that fast.
" Uhmp! Lucky attempt" Aitken said, as he set the second flag and they started the second round, Itoyea again shot towards Aitken, as he came close, Aitken fired several blood pins at him, Itoyea didn't slow down.
With the most minimal of movements he deflected the blood pins but only the ones that were aimed at vital points, like his neck or eyes or chest region the rest he simply dodged.
The blood pins, are pressurized blood, that are stretched out, when they're fired they move at top speeds of about 100m/s, they can cut through literally building so to combat with it.
Itoyea felt his hands shake, they was already this battered! He had covered his hands with spiritual energy to increase their durability, but those pins were too much. Each hit feels like a truck is being hammered on him.
Itoyea by now had gotten close to Aitken, he swung his coated arm at his head, Aitken dodged but didn't really need to, a pool of blood had covered his head almost simultaneously.
Itoyea took the moment that Aitken was blinded to attempt swiping another flag, as he reached for it, he realized he couldn't move, he looked at his feets to see, a pool of blood had gathered at his feets.
Shit!
Aitken released the pool of blood over his face, he had a really cringe smile on, and he seemed pleased.
" You're incredibly predictable" he said, Itoyea frowned and gathered a pool of spiritual energy in his mouth and spat at the blood chains holding him, upon impact they exploded and he immediately reached for it.
Bam!
Itoyea now had four flags, the one he had gotten on his way here, the one originally his teams, and the two he had just swiped from these oafs.
He knew they were toying with him, they were probably thinking he only had the two flags with him, they did not know, all he needed now was one more, and when the moment comes he would not waste it.
***
Kutote had no issues getting his flags, his teammate however, lay in their safe zone out cold. He had knocked him out cause the guy seemed to only be interested in failing the test, he didn't volunteer to get the flags neither did he plan on defending the safe zone.
Kutote sat, there looking as the timer ran out, barely 2 minutes left.
Just then he heard a cracking sound like someone had just stepped on a loose tree branch.
" Hello!" A voice said coming out, Kutote was already up, his hand in the air, as he searched for the intruder.
" Subject A107p, it's nice to finally meet you" A voice said, coming into the clearing, it was a like a man, his face was hidden, the light from the clearing, was no properly reaching him.
" Who are you?" Kutote called out.
" I am know as Marcle, there's a huge bounty on your head you know, the king of Brandish, has just increased it" the man said.
Kutote gasped, there wasn't much he knew about the laboratory, where he had escaped from, but he knew it was the royal laboratory of the kingdom of Brandish.
" You can't touch me, not even the king can, not here!" Kutote said with the most confidence he could muster, yet his voice shook a bit.
" Hehe- of course, I am aware of who presides over this school, but rest assured that one you leave the premises, you will be hunted down, and captured" the man said.
" Is that a threat!!"
" No it's a promise, goodbye subject A107p, I hope to see you again, outside" the man said, as he sunk back into the shadows.
Kutote sank to his knees,
'almost there, I'm almost done, I'll be safe here '
***
Itekan moved his shadow tentacles downwards, he used one to hit the Frost Mornach, who was sent crashing into his throne.
Arizel shot ice making a tentacle out of it, the two collided with a bang.
The ice walls around them shattered upon impact. Itekan flung one of his shadow daggers at Arizel who dodged it, Itekan immediately switched places with it, appearing behind Arizel, who spun around instantly.
Itekan coating his hands with spiritual energy, swung his daggers at Arizel's face, he leapt back, a blade of Ice formed at his hands and he and Itekan started sending cuts at each other.
Itekan's shadow tentacles were smacking at the Frost Mornach who had quickly regained his composure, he cut down the tentacles, as they beat against him. The ice tentacles also, were boring down on the shadow tentacles, the they wrapped themselves around it, freezing over. The Frost Mornach without delay rose his sword high into the air, bringing it down on the shadow tentacles trapped by the ice tentacles.
The sword sunk in, without any effort, then from within, it spread around the sword reaching up, like thousands of hands seeking the light of day.
The shadow hands covered the ice tentacles, and the Frost Mornach who were attached to it.
Just then Itekan flung his daggers upside down, holding it faced backwards, he rushed into Arizel, stabbing him just below his chest, stabbing into his liver, Arizel coughed out blood as his eyes went blank, then he fell over.
The shadow tentacles had just finished wrapping up the Frost Mornach when it suddenly disappeared, the tentacles slowly retracted back to Itekan's shadow, as the Ice castle fell apart.
Itekan simply came out from his shadow domain, that was even much larger than the Ice Domain.
Itekan walked back into his safe zone where Binturu sat, looking unbothered.
" What do you think, huh?" Itekan asked as he grinned wildly.
" You wasted too much time" Binturu simply stated.
" I would have ended it unless than a minute" he said, Itekan arms sagged a bit, but he was still smiling, as he looked at the timer.
23 seconds left.
***
Itoyea was pinned down, with blood needles everywhere on his body, he was barely breathing but he had done it, he gotten the last flag, he raised his left hand and in it was the thirdflag.
In front of him, Aitken stood watching him.
" Are you not going to get up, you still have one more round " he asked, as he wiped some blood off his face, it wasn't his.
" I'm already done for" Itoyea said through clenched teeths, looking up.
" What! Fine I'll end this game now!" Aitken said as he raised his hands up, a single blade made of blood formed.
But Itoyea chuckled and pointed at the sky.
Aitken looked up, a frown on his face.
'3! 2! 1! Times up!!!'
" Lucky bast-" he said as they disappeared.