Race holstered his sword, turned around and was teleported back to the seat reserved for the first place. The crowd was absolutely livid, they have never seen such decisive victories ever before in the MAD tournament. There very few mechanics who can fight and now they just saw a kid in his teens fighting such in such a refined way. This was a feast for the eyes.

There were many other matches taking place in the arenas, but none of them were able to captivate the viewers like the way Race's match did. when compared to the refined and quick way how Race ended his matches, the rest of the Matches seemed to a brawl between barbarians.

With how easily Race won the matches the rest of the challengers immediately retracted their challenges. While those who were particularly salty with Race claiming the top spot last round were unable to do anything except to mumble to themselves," Its because he is just good at fighting, otherwise he would have lost miserably".

Though spoken out of spite, their words had a little bit of truth to them. If Race were to fight with only his current design and no prior knowledge in fighting there could have been a small chance for the opponents to win. But armed with the knowledge from a life full of battle, His opponents were nothing but little kids to him.

After about 30 mins something that shook both the contestants and the viewers happened.

" Race Smyth, The contestant in First Place has been removed from the competition...", Those who were unhappy with a junior ranking above them were happy and just as they were about celebrate, the announcement resumed;

"..... As he has been selected by the Enlightened one".

Those who were about celebrate Race's misfortune was stunned, they felt as if their tongues had turned in to lead; not even being able utter a single world. But these people were only a minority, While the vast majority of the crowd were happy to witness the choosing of an Enlightened Mechanic's disciple. Even some of those who were unwilling to accept that Race was superior to them, began change their mind. If Race was chosen by someone like an Enlightened Mechanic it was sure that there was something Race had, that they couldn't compare to. That was undeniable fact.

When everyone thought that announcement was over, Some that made the crowd as well as the contestants exhilarated. " Now since, The Enlightened one is taking away the top contestant from the tournament, He proposed that a battle between Race's design as well as a basic swordsman MA designed by the Enlightened one piloted by an expert is to be conducted."

The entire arena bursted into cheers. Though no one had any hope of Race winning against such odds, They were still delighted to see a design made by the Enlightened one in action. Even Race himself knew he held nearly no chance in winning this battle, But even he was excited to battle.

" I can fight an expert in an expert design, I can find out what my current combat standard is."

And he was teleported into the arena, this time he wasn't even given the choice to enable automatic combat. This fight had to manual. And Race was not a bit disappointed. He was getting what he desired, a good fight. One that could gets his blood pumping like crazy.

Race was the first to be teleported to the arena. He was in the Mobile Armor he designed, the design that was the sign of invincibility in the tournament uptill now. And on the other side, a new mech appeared. With just one look even an untrained eye could find that this design was a work of art.

This design's armor plating was distributed in a way that it was both practical and beautiful. If the original design that was given as a reference at the beginning of the tournament was a teenage boy; This design was a like a man who spent his entire life in the battlefield, It's had a upper half was big but compact when compared to Race's MA, with a slim waist. The legs were beefy but only to the right amount. It was like a design that Race would have made if he had a bit more foundation in mechanics. This was only what that can be seen from the outside who knew how the inner parts were arranged. It was only armed with a sword and shield.

Race was intimidated by the design, he knew that even getting struck once would cause him to pay a heavy price. This time Race didn't show off, he didn't throw away his wrist guard nor drop the great sword on his armor's back. He held both his sword and saber tightly and entered a fighting stance before even the countdown began.

The old fighter in him could sense that the enemy was stronger and faster than him, And the only thing that had going for him was that he was more skilled than his opponent, But he knew that the opponent was more than capable of bringing out the full potential of the MA that the Enlightened one designed, Otherwise he would not have been chosen.

But Race knew that his current body was not as strong as the one that he had, and his mind wasn't as strong as in the past either. Every time Race used his skill it would place a huge strain on his mind. While fighting other participant this was not a problem, because those challengers' were incapable of giving him a challenge. But this time he had to pull all the stops and that would definitely push his mental capacity to the max.

And unlike in his past life, he was not controlling his body but a technological armor, So the skills will hurt cost more concentration than in the past.

And as the timer slowly counted down, Race prepared to face his first challenging fight in this life.

3...2...1

" Let the duel begin ".

[ Sorry guys I was hoping to start the battle today, but setting the battle up required to much effort than what i believed. I really sorry, tomorrow they will definitely fight]