(3° person POV)

Umbra and his friends watched without speaking to the whole tournament until the last fight, a few hours later.

(Umbra): “It’s finally here!”

(Maria): “Yeah, that Adalgar Acker is the guy that has turned into the Black King, right?”

(Ari): “Yeah.”

He said as the interval goes in until the final.

(Serena): “He blazed through his opponents. In the end he didn’t even use magic. He won through pure technique.”

(Umbra): “Well, he did get pressured in his last two fights. He got lucky to win without magic. With his last opponent will be Lotras. It won’t be easy fighting that summoner.”

Umbra said, scratching his head. What he said is true. For what he could see, Adalgar is a good close quarters combatant. He dual wield one handed swords, and he’s quite fast too with those. His physical strength is quite high too.

The finals finally start, and the competitors enter the arena with Mina narrating:

(Mina): “The best Black Swordsman and the Best Summoner, who will prevail and take the throne of the Black King?! On the left, the infamous Skeleton Master, Lotras the Skull! On the right, the Black Flash, Adalgar Darkrender!”

She says, hyped. Her animation being answered by the crowd in an even louder sound. Both contestants look at each other, glaring. Adalgar is tall and lean, with extremely pale skin with short black hair and black eyes.

His is intimidating with thin lines and an eternally glaring expression. Adalgar dashes, gripping both his swords. He’s quick, covering a lot of ground in a few seconds. However, he’s soon blocked when Lotras extends his hand pointing to the ground in front of him. A black mass of mana goes out of his hand to the ground as he throws his card on the middle of the mana.

(Mina): “OOOOH! Adalgar doesn’t lose time and attack head on, and Lotras does his signature Black Mana Shot to charge his defensive spell!”

A huge wall made of bones comes out from the ground, surrounding Lotras in a defensive fortress. Not only that blocks Adalgar’s advance, some skeletons are visible on the wall. This is an Offensive-Defensive spell, Wall of Skeleton.

Different from its cousin spell, Skeleton Wall, Wall of Skeleton doesn’t create a huge barrier of bones as a single being like the Skeleton Wall. Wall of Skeleton conjures a lot of mediocre quality skeletons in a cheap cost, clustering them together in a wall. They slowly fall out, creating a small offensive of skeletons of mediocre quality to overrun the enemy with pure numbers.

A good strategy to stop a charging enemy with low defense. Clicking his tongue, Adalgar gives a roundhouse kick in the head of the closest skeleton, backing off immediately. Lotras, having gained some time, starts his next spell. Taking ten cards from his grimoire, nine of them turn into black particles and are absorbed in the last card.

Throwing the card up, it creates a funnel of black smoke, sucking the bones and the skeletons. The bones quickly formed a giant. The many bones glued together, forming and humanoid monster that’s five meters tall, and looks like a skeleton, with a lot of heads on the neck area pile over each other.

(Mina): “And Lotras summons his favorite minion, the Bone Abomination! A higher middle-tier undead, known for its vitality and difficulty to kill without any holy magic! And since magic from any other color but black is forbidden in the fight for the black throne is forbidden Adalgar is in a pinch!”

Adalgar run away from the creature to get some distance, something bad for a swordsman. While Adalgar makes his strange moves, Lotras doesn’t waste time. Taking three more cards from hi grimoire, two of them turn into black particles being absorbed by the third one. The card breaks on his hand, making a purple light appear beside him, floating in the air.

Soon, floating skull appears. It has three eyes and two demonic horns, decorated with gold and with sharp teeth, with three times the size of a human skull. Mina, seeing that, immediately says:

(Mina): “Here it is! The origin of the Skull nickname! Lotras signature summon, the Summoning Skull! This skull is notorious for its ability and is considered a high-tier monster even though is quite weak by itself! It’s most terrifying ability is its power to drain black mana and summon undeads with it, turning it on the perfect defense against black magic!”

Pointing his hand to Adalgar, Lotras commanded his Skeletal Abomination to attack him. The advantage of skeletal monsters and skeletons is that they are extremely obedient when dominated or summoned, needing only a basic command to act, letting the summoner free to stop controlling the monster and do something else.

Adalgar, who was looking at the whole scene without doing anything, avoided the punch of the Skeletal Abomination. While his opponent is distracted with the Abomination, Lotras points his hand to the skull. An enormous amount of black mana starts coming out from his hand.

(Mina): “A bold move for Lotras! He’s giving all the black mana stored inside his body to his summon!”

A dangerous move. If he runs out of elemental mana, there is an extremely high risk that he will pass out. that’s the reason why he uses only skeletal monsters. If you lose consciousness, your monsters, if not properly tamed, WILL attack and kill you. However, skeletons never attack their masters, and some types even have some loyalty, protecting their unconscious masters.

And with Lotras wasn’t different. Although he didn’t pass out, he lost his balance, with his face getting pale and sweating cold and breathing roughly. His Summoning Skull immediately moves to support him.

The black mana going in its open mouth and eye sockets, being absorbed in an extremely fast rate. Not only that, it’s a lot too. Enough to fuel a big quantity of skeletons or make five Abominations. Standing up again, Lotras started his next move.

The eyes of the skull lit up, and for the first time in the tournament, a magic circle showed up. The black magic circle is made of two circles, on inside the other with the symbol of Black Magic, a skull, on the center. Between the inner and the outer circle, mysterious runes appeared, spinning constantly.

From the circle, a black radiance sprouts, and a figure raises from the ground. donning a mix of armor and robes with a huge scythe on hands, the new monster doesn’t have skin or muscles, and its hooded head is a skull that seems to be grinning. The creature is also tall, around two and a half meters.

(Mina): “Oh! Lotras shows up with a creature that we never have seen him summon before! According to the rumors, he had acquired a powerful undead on the Temple Ruins in the Black area! That’s a Reaper Knight, famous for it’s viciousness with the scythe and Black Magic!”

Adalgar smiled, still avoiding the attacks of the Skeletal Abomination. The first of the creature dug deep on the ground as he sidestepped to avoid the attack. And now, he finally goes on the offensive again. His hand moves, turning into a blur, shattering the arm of the Abomination.

(Mina): “WOOOOOW! Adalgar isn’t intimidated by the appearance of the Reaper Knight and finally goes on the offensive! What a physical strength, to shatter the strong arm of the Abomination with only one swing!”

Adalgar doesn’t lose time, jumping on the abomination’s retreating severed arm, climbing to the head area. Sheathing his sword in his right hand, he takes a card from his grimoire while spewing black mana from his mouth on the card.

The card glows purple, and he grabs it strongly, punching the heads, making his arm dig deep into the creature. Jumping off, he starts to run in the direction Lotras while the light inside the Abomination intensifies, leaking through the bones. Suddenly, it explodes, scattering the bones all around, releasing a bit of a black and purple mist.

(Mina): “Oh, a combination of physical prowess and the Black Explosion defeated the Abomination!”

Adalgar breathes in and blows out, an enormous amount of black mana comes out from his mouth, and he runs in the black mana. The mana doesn’t disperse, following him, making him look like a big black comet, completely hiding his body. Lotras decides to wait, and, when Adalgar gets into range, he orders the Reaper Knight to attack.

The Reaper raises its scythe using both hands and slashes, cutting the approaching figure in half. However, before the scythe could cut Adalgar in half, he jumped, spinning and attacking with both swords.

However, the biggest difference is that now he’s covered in armor. An armor made of bones, making him to look like a skeleton monster. The intimidating and menacing armor doesn’t hinder his swift movements.

(Mina): “Oh, Adalgar summons a Bone Armor by using his own mana! If he isn’t careful, he will have all his mana drained away by using the overt time spell!”

The Reaper raises its left arm, using the gauntlet to block the swords. The right hand, holding the scythe, moved, aiming for Adalgar’s neck. Raising his foot, he kicks the scythe’s handle, being flung away by the reaper.

In the air, he stabilized and fell on his feet. The reaper slashed the air in Adalgar’s direction, with a purple wave coming out of the blade of the scythe. The wave cuts the air in high speed to cleave Adalgar, who rolls out of the way and throws his swords in the reaper’s direction.

The Reaper deflects both blades with a single circular movement as Adalgar runs in the direction of the Reaper, with two sword-like sharp bones sprout from his hands, and he attacks the reaper wielding them like swords.

He exchanged attacks with the Reaper for a few times. The monster is fast, and its attacks are precise and heavy, pressuring Adalgar. Lotras gives three mana cards to his skull, and it immediately summons six skeletons, that he orders to advance to go for the kill.

Adalgar, noticing the skeletons, took the Reaper by surprise with a kick, making both get away from each other. Throwing his bone swords in the monster, distracting it, he then punched the ground.

Enormous bone pikes come out from the ground, attacking the reaper. The monster isn’t fazed though, jumping out of the way however, the attack quickly catches the six skeletons, destroying them. the Reaper advances against Adalgar, however, something unexpected happens.

(Mina): “What a clever move! The armor isn’t a summoned equipment, but a summoned monster!”

She says. Adalgar’s armor opens, and he jumps out of it. the armor closes, and moves by itself, attacking the Reaper.

(Mina): “A Living Bone Plate! An extremely rare monster that inhabits the Dark Forests in the Black Area! It’s famous for being an empty armor made of bones, however, nobody was able to tame it before! It’s the first time that it’s being seen in combat!”

A high-tier monster, the Living Bone Plate doesn’t have the same ability with magic that the Reaper Knight has, it’s stronger physically and it’s more skilled in close combat while being intelligent and loyal like the Reaper.

With the Plate on the way, the Reaper can’t protect Lotras from Adalgar’s attack. The summoner panics, taking cards from his grimoire. However, Adalgar takes one of the swords that he threw earlier from the ground and threw it at Lotras. Lotras gets distracted with the attack, feeling relieved when the skull floating next to him bites the blade, stopping it.

However, his happiness is short lived. Something came flying together with the sword. Adalgar, entering with a flying kick. His foot connects with the face of Lotras, knocking him out.

(Mina): “A marvelous combination of physical prowess and magic! Adalgar Acker claims the Black Throne, and becomes the First Black King!”