Affinity: Chaos

Grey didn't reply to the young man's words. When the young man tried to come close to him, he unleashed the gravitational force trying to catch the young man off guard, but the young man seemed to have been monitoring him for a while, so when he noticed this, he retreated without hesitation.

He stood and looked at the young man who was standing opposite him. The darkness domain the young man had made him one of Grey's toughest opponents so far. Other than that man from another realm who almost killed Grey, this young man was the strongest.

The young man smiled when he saw Grey's expression before sending out a series of lightning bolt attacks at Grey.

Grey dodged the attacks as he countered as well.

With a fireball and fire beams, then there were the inscriptions that were also sending out attacks.

The young man was quite stronger than Grey, and it was evident from his attacks since whenever they collided head-on, Grey would always be pushed back by the impact of the attack. He couldn't fight against it since he was still in the Eighth stage, after all.

Grey's eyes glowed with a pale blue light, but the moment the attack hit the young man, even before the ice started to form on his body, he exploded out with lightning, covering himself with it.

Grey's attack was made futile since it didn't even stop the young man for even a second.

The young man soon released an orb into the sky that exploded. It was made from the darkness element, and as soon as it exploded, it released tiny particles of darkness essence across the platform.

Seeing this, Grey knew his plan, but he wasn't worried about it. The darkness element had little to no effect on him, so he wasn't too bothered with what effects it would have. He focused his efforts on trying to get more chances in attacking, but the young man's darkness element attack power saw an increase of almost twenty percent.

Grey's earth wall was corroded through, and he was open to attacks.

The darkness element was already causing a problem for Grey, with the addition of this darkness essence on the platform, made things worse.

Just as the battle was about to get past the five minutes mark, the platform lit up. Grey had been preparing an array just like before, and just in the same manner, no one noticed him when he was doing this.

The platform lit up and Grey's figure started to move around the platform at an insane speed. The only thing that those below the Ninth stage of the Sage Plane could see were multiple afterimages. They didn't know which one was the real one.

The young man he was fighting against didn't have this problem, although he has been able to keep track, he was a little slower compared to Grey when it came to speed and he wasn't able to attack Grey even when he wanted to.

Grey started to attack with three elements, he focused the space element on moving while he used the others, as well as the earth element to attack the young man.

Seeing that Grey was starting to get the upper hand for the first time in the battle, those from the Burchard Family cheered while those from the Nether Faction had worried looks. If Grey were to defeat this young man as well, that would put the number of people he had defeated to six, a staggering number.

This was not the main issue, the main issue was that the Burchard Family will have four members, while the Nether Faction would have only three left. Of course they were the ones challenging now, but these numbers would not make things easy. If for one thing, Grey had substantially shattered their morale, so even when they want to fight, they wouldn't be on the level they were at first.

"Who the hell is this kid?" The leader of the Nether Faction was fuming.

No one answered his question since none of them knew the answer to it.

Grey seemed to appear out of nowhere, and now, he was looking to be the downfall of the Nether Faction. They couldn't afford to lose the secret realm, unfortunately, their only chance of taking out Grey seems to be on the verge of being wiped out.

If Grey wins this, they could not risk sending out someone else to fight against him. However, if they didn't send someone else to fight him, then they would give him the time he needed to rest, so even if one or two gets to the next round, it wouldn't matter.

"Don't worry, he knows what to do. I've told him to use that technique." Bill said when he saw the leader of the Faction losing it.

"That? Hmm, it's not a loss if both are taken out. Scott has never been your opponent." The leader calmed down visibly.

Back on the platform.

The young man had changed from attack to defense. He knew in terms of speed, he was lacking compared to a Space Elementalist who got a boost from an array.

Grey was using as many techniques as he could, but the young man was standing strong. With every attack Grey sent his way, he would either block or evade.

He didn't dare to allow Grey to get close to him since he knew how impactful the gravitational force field was.

Grey sent out a stream of fire, but it was cut open by a lightning blade. He tried to use an earth hammer to slam the young man into the ground, but he dodged to the left, barely escaping the attack.

He used the space element to get close to him so he could use the gravitational force field, but the moment Grey appeared beside him, the young man moved away.

After watching Grey fight for some time, he was using the experience to fight against him.

'Sneaky guy, unfortunately, you're falling into my trap.' Grey thought internally, not bothered by the young man's movement.