Aiden was now in the Arena facing another human. He didn't know anything about him but one thing was sure, he would win this fight.
Aiden wanted to make sure that he would show his supremacy to the others.
Skills, techniques, none of that would even matter in this fight, he would make sure that he would win without the opponent being able to use any of those.
He wanted to show the Nightshade family that they had made a mistake, even if they didn't know that it was him that was participating.
Aiden didn't know why he wanted to prove it at such a degree, but he still went with it, as he couldn't be bothered by knowing the reason.
Only one single was on his mind, annihilate the person in front of him.
Give him a feeling of powerlessness, he wanted to make the person in front of him feel the same thing which he had felt two minutes ago and one month ago.
He wanted to make others suffer, he couldn't be the only one suffering anymore.
He needed those close to him to understand what it was living in his shoes and if that person in front of him was a way for him to let go of everything and let his rage take over then he didn't care, he would do it.
He would let all the rage which had accumulated inside him be released onto this random opponent.
Then, as he was thinking about all of this, Thorin's voice resounded in the Arena,
"Since this isn't inside of a duelling zone and both of you could actually die, there will be a referee for this match which will be the person that you first met when coming here."
As he said that, the person he had seen when coming out of those small rooms a couple of hours ago was on the right side of the Arena looking at them carefully.
"Don't worry about trying to hurt each other, he will intervene if he judges that one person might die or get crippled," continued Thorin, wanting to reassure the people in the stands who were worried about the members of their family.
It made sense that people coming from all around the world wouldn't want to have their members die, especially when participating in such a tournament.
So, it made sense for measures to be taken into account, especially where there was such a risk.
Then, Thorin's voice once again resounded in the Arena.
"Are you both ready?" he shouted, trying to hype the crowd.
Some were booing and some were shouting a name.
"Boo!"
"Jackson!"
"Boo!"
Those boos where clearly directed toward Aiden and from what Aiden could guess, his opponent was named Jackson by the looks of it.
However, all that didn't matter as Aiden and Jackson both nodded their indicating that they were ready for the fight that would be coming ahead.
"So, you're the one who was so scared that you didn't fight to win the second battle, huh?" said Jackson trying to make Aiden mad.
But, his attempt was literally useless as Aiden didn't even listen to him, fully concentrating on annihilating him with whatever means that he knew of.
If Aiden could even see for a millisecond an opportunity to kill his opponent, then he would take it without even blinking or doubting.
If he wanted to win this tournament than he would have to grasp all the opportunities thrown at him.
Seeing that Aiden wasn't answering, Jackson tried to make him mad once again.
"You won't be able to make a deal with me this time," he said, laughing as he said that.
However, Aiden had no other choice but to find this person in front of him really stupid.
Did he think that it was him that stroke a deal?
It was his opponents that wanted to do so, or else he would have fought to the death without any problem.
He was ready to do so after all. In fact, he still didn't fully understand why Olivia and Logan had given up, but well he didn't care about it as he was further in the tournament and not them.
All that was in Aiden's mind at the moment was a single sentence which kept coming over and over again.
'I'll kill him.'
'I'll kill him.'
'I'll kill him.'
Aiden clearly wasn't in his right mind, as his emotions had gotten the better of him this time. Maybe it was his doing or maybe it was the old owner's doings but that didn't matter.
The state in which Aiden was currently was scary as the black aura which he had released in the first fight started to come out of his body as it started to become bigger and bigger and finally enveloped the entirety of the Arena.
"Hey, hey, stop that the fight hasn't even started yet," shouted Jack, seeing that big aura coming out of Aiden.
Nonetheless, the referee didn't even glance at him as he kept his mouth shut saying that this was accepted.
Then, Thorin's voice resounded once again.
"May the fight begin!"
As soon as those words resounded inside the Arena, the crowd went dead silent and the other participants did the same as most of them were trying to analyze what their competition would look like.
However, there was one exception which was Lucius Nightshade who wasn't even looking at the fight, he was sitting down and looking at the ground for no known reason.
But the one who had won the last fight with him was looking carefully at all the actions that the Reaper was making trying to understand who he was.
She was trying to figure out who he was because the look that he had given her earlier was weird as if that person knew who she was or something similar to that.
But when she saw that death aura coming out of the Reaper, she had absolutely no idea who that person could be as she had never seen something like this before.
The dark aura or death aura depending on how one would look at it was currently all over the arena, hiding what was happening inside of it which meant that all spectators couldn't see anything.
However, there was a big fight that was going on inside, well... big wasn't the right word for it. It was more of a boring fight as Jackson was currently running away from Aiden.
Jackson who had felt the aura coming out of Aiden had become scared out of his mind as he kept running around without looking back, trying to get away from the danger that was the Reaper.
But, his running around only delayed the inevitable as Aiden was much faster than Jackson as he started getting closer and closer to Jackson.
His dagger was almost able to reach the back of Jackson's back, but that wasn't what Aiden was aiming for.
He wanted to deal one swift strike to his opponent, his signature move, a strike to the neck which would kill his opponent right away.
Aiden was wondering if the referee would be able to stop him for a bit, but he quickly dismissed those thoughts as they were useless.
The only thing he needed to do at the moment was win by whatever method necessary.
And that's exactly what he was about to do as he was now at arm's reach of Jackson's body.
That's when he moved his dagger toward his opponent's neck putting as much power as he possibly could as he wanted to end this fight right at this moment.
'This has gone on for too long already, I need to end it,' thought Aiden who still wanted to show to the others that he could dominate his opponent.
Even if the other participant couldn't see what was happening, they had a very good idea of who was going to be the winner of this fight as none of them except a few special ones had seen such an aura come out of such a young awakener.
They were all shocked that such a person was in the same tournament as them, well except maybe Lucius and a few others who didn't seem to shocked.
Then, as Aiden's dagger was about to reach the neck of Jackson's something intervened that Aiden wasn't even able to see which stopped his dagger and made the aura surrounding him completely vanish.
Then, as the aura vanished, Thorin's voice resounded inside the Arena once again.
"And the winner is... The Reaper," he shouted as loudly as he could.
However, the crowd still wasn't convinced by the abilities of the Reaper since they couldn't see what had just happened.
They had only seen the final scene where Aiden held a dagger right under Jackson's neck which clearly showed that he was the winner.
Nonetheless, the crowd was complaining saying that maybe he had struck another deal to win this fight.
But, a voice changed their mind instantly.
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