AFTER FEW DAYS
The match between the Indian Team and the Chinese Team was scheduled as the 3rd match. Both teams entered the arena.
"As I thought those two were unusually strong for the Training Hall it turned out the Chinese Team put two of their members in the Training Hall for a good performance." Sidhharth muttered in anger he still can't forget how he felt when he thought he was played by defenders.
"Nishant are you confident in dealing with their captain." Arjun asked. Space Element was tricky to deal with. It would be great trouble if they left Ai Jiangtu unchecked.
"I'm confident in dealing with him and one more of their team members." Nishant said confidently.
"I will deal with that white haired girl." Sidhharth said. Nishant gave Sidhharth a short side glance.
"Begin!" Judge signalled.
"Blazing Fist!" Nishant launched towards Ai Jiangtu.
"Space Rhythm: Stasis" Ai Jiangtu casted. Blazing Fist got slowed down a lot and soon disappeared.
"Meteorite Fist!" Mo Fan launched towards Arjun.
"Flower Sky: Heaven's Water Curtain!" Arjun casted.
"What!?" Arjun and Nishant were shocked when Mo Fan easily broke through the defence.
Arjun's auto-defense came into play but that was just a back up which was weaker compared to the Advance Spell, it got destroyed as well.
"Magic Shield! Magic Armour!" Arjun summoned. Mo Fan's fist finally came to stop.
"Thousand Fiery Feathers!" Mo Fan cried.
"Rock Wall!" Jitendra casted and the fearsome assault came to stop.
"Tsk..." Mo Fan clicked his tongue when he failed to eliminate Arjun in one attack. He has seen Arjun toying with mages of the Red Ornamental Guild. Once he had eliminated him. He would have taken his sweet time eliminating Nishant.
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"What an Imperious Fire Mage!" Pang Lai exclaimed. Others were also astonished at the display.
"That's the power of two Soul Grade Seeds." Zhao Manyan said in excitement. Mo Fan was searching for a Soul Grade Lightning Seed when he failed to do so he bought a Soul Grade Fire Seed for himself and a few other items.
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"Holy crap what an amazing Fire Mage"
"Seems like the result is already out. The Chinese team will be winning this."
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"Damn it" Sidhharth was having a hard time eliminating Mu Ningxue and taking lessons from last time he didn't dare to charge recklessly.
Both Psychic mages were already done with their attempts.
"Dimensional Summon: Come Forth Rock Demon!" Jiang Yu summoned to pressurize the opponents.
"Space Rhythm: Fissure!" Nishant targeted Mo Fan out of nowhere which caught everyone off guard.
"Snake Armour!" Mo Fan summoned hurriedly. The armour managed to absorb considerable damage but the remaining damage was still quite high.
"Your opponent is me! Demon Punishment!" Ai Jiangtu attacked Nishant.
"Fiery Fist: Nine Dragons!" Nishant attacked with an additional effect 'Purification' of spirit seed. The spell destroyed Ai Jiangtu's spell much to his annoyance.
"Nirvana Ice Domain!" Mu Ningxue expanded her Domain.
"Ice Realm: Ice Coffin!" Mu Ningxue targeted Siddharth who was irritating her from the beginning of the match but he easily got out of the range.
"She is even stronger now." Siddharth felt himself sweating.
"Flower Sky: Sky Collapsing Waterfalls!" Arjun attacked Mo Fan.
"Damn it!" Mo Fan tried to escape using the Shadow element.
"Illuminating: Blindness!" Jitendra didn't let Mo Fan succeed. He is very experienced in dealing with dark elements. When Ai Jiangtu was utilising Curse Element his Light Spell was ready to help Nishant.
Mo Fan got slapped by the waterfalls.
"Violent Waves: Flooding!" Arjun casted. He is quite angry at Mo Fan. He might have been eliminated by the surprise attack at the beginning.
"Fiery Fist: Nine Dragons!" Mo Fan casted. Both spells collided and resulted in a lot of steam but the steam turned into snow after a few seconds and fell down. Only then everyone realised the Ice Element was gaining on them.
"Space Rhythm: Compress!" Ai Jiangtu targeted Nishant which wasn't much useful.
"All Mighty Push!" Nishant extended his hands, a huge crater formed around him. Ice was also pushed away up to a certain distance.
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"Jiang ShaoXu of the Chinese Team is eliminated." Judge announced.
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Siddharth took advantage of the steam cloud and eliminated the weakest one.
"Space Rhythm: Compress!" Nishant targeted Ai Jiangtu and Rock Demon.
"Blink!" Ai Jiangtu left immediately but the Rock Demon got covered in cracks and sinked into the ground. Jiang Yu returned the Rock Demon to the summoning plane.
"Meteorite Fist!" Mo Fan lunged at Nishant. Nishant merely smiled at the attack.
"Apocalyptic Fist!" Nishant's fist (covered in Ki) collided with Mo Fan. A huge explosion took place which melted away half of the ice from the arena and the arena again got covered in steam.
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"Kriti of the Indian Team is eliminated." Judge announced.
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"Good job Night Rakshasa!" Jiang Yu praised. He also took advantage of the steam.
Soon steam fell down revealing injured Mo Fan barely standing on his feet.
"Dimensional Summon: Come Forth Snow Creek Wolf!" Mo Fan summoned. He managed to find the same Soul thanks to Mu Ningxue's sensitivity to the ice element. This soul was another thing he bought from his savings for Soul Grade Lightning Seed.
"Icy Windstorm!" Mu Ningxue quickly strengthened her domain when Snow Creek Wolf appeared. She very well knew about its power.
"Ice Realm: Ice Coffin!" Mu Ningxue targeted Nishant, Wolf also attacked him.
"Blink!" Nishant disappeared.
"Space Rhythm: Compress!" Ai Jiangtu targeted Nishant as soon as he appeared. But Nishant easily broke apart the spell.
"Flower Sky: Sky Collapsing Waterfalls!" Arjun targeted Mo Fan.
"Damn it! Meteorite Fist!" Mo Fan's fist collided with the waterfalls and again the arena got covered in steam.
"Descending Light: Holy Arrows!" Jitendra casted when he sensed Dark Element around him. Holy arrows hit Night Rakshasa.
"No Fei Fei!" Jiang Yu returned Night Rakshasa to contract space.
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"Hmph! How dare you use the same trick against me?" Jitendra snickered.
"How about this new trick? Meteorite Fist!" Mo Fan attacked Jitendra who was posing a threat to him for a long time.
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"Jitendra of the Indian Team is eliminated." Judge announced.
"Jiang Yu of the Chinese Team in eliminated." Judge announced.
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"Nyx Regime!" Mo Fan casted.
"How dare you use Shadow Element in my presence?" Siddharth entered the Nyx Regime and started circling Mo Fan.
"You are just a fool. Shadow Nails: Shadow Star Array!" Mo Fan rebuked.
"What?!" Siddharth was taken back when Mo Fan dissolved into nothing. It was something only he should be able to do with the help of Shadow Mantle.
"Lonely Death Lightning: Thunder Arm!" Mo Fan attacked Siddharth from behind. Siddharth got thrown out of the Nyx Regime and Nyx Regime disappeared.
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"Siddharth of the Indian Team is eliminated!" Judge announced.
Chinese spectators erupted into cheer.
"This is bad." Advitya muttered. Now it was 3 vs 2. Not to mention the strong commander.
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"Way to go Mo Fan." Zhao Manyan cheered.
"We surely underestimated Mo Fan's shadow element. It is better than most participants." Song He commented.
"It is 3 vs 2 now." Nanyu said in excitement.
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"Blink!" Nishant teleported next to Arjun.
"This is bad, we underestimated them a lot." Arjun commented. He can tell the Chinese Team has sent their aces.
"It's not that we underestimated them but they are quite unpredictable but the final outcome will be in our favour." Nishant assured. Arjun looked at Nishant weirdly. It is 2 against 3 not to mention the medium commander.
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"Although the outcome is the same, it is a lot different from what I expected."
"Indeed, it was uncertain until Fire Mage used his shadow element."
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"Stop worrying about upcoming matches. It is not your style. Just go on a rampage and make sure we win." Arjun said to Nishant. He can tell Nishant is hiding few trump cards. He was almost unscathed.
"Ha!" Nishant broke into a smile. Nishant was being calculative and was trying to preserve his strength and trump cards for upcoming matches. He was also finding it hard to digest that his team got eliminated but opponents are almost full.
"Why don't you give up? It is meaningless to continue this any further. There are only 2 of you and there are 3 of us." Ai Jiangtu tried to reason. He is confident that they will win the match but they might need to show more than they planned.
Nishant smiled provokingly much to Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue's annoyance.
"Nah we will win." Arjun replied confidently when Nishant took a few steps forward.
"Space Rhythm: Compress!!" Nishant stacked two spells and covered half of the arena. 4 of them kneeled on ground.
"Blink!" Ai Jiangtu somehow stood up and teleported away.
"Demon-" Ai Jiangtu tried to stop Nishant but the water jet didn't let him complete his spell and threw him away.
Ai Jiangtu glared at grinning Arjun.
Snow Creek Wolf was making its way out of the Compress field. Wolf clawed at Nishant as soon as it came out of the spell's area of effect.
"Scatter!" Nishant jumped back and dodged the wolf.
Out of 2 only Mo Fan stood up who was using his own Space Element to resist Nishant's spell.
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"Mu Ningxue of the Chinese Team is eliminated." Judge announced.
Indian and Chinese spectators clenched their fists and jaws.
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"Nyx Regime!" Mo Fan casted. He knows very well he doesn't stand a chance against Nishant in a head-on fight.
'Almighty Push!' Nishant casted. Mo Fan was thrown out of the Nyx Regime along with Snow Creek Wolf. Nyx Regime also disappeared.
Snow Creek Wolf charged at Nishant.
"Space Rhythm: Fissure!" Nishant swung his index finger at the wolf. Wolf jumped out of the way and dodged the spell.
"Nishant, finish this." Arjun urged.
"Meteor Fist!" Nishant targeted Snow Creek Wolf and spell hit the wolf hard, without Mu Ningxue's domain it was just an above average small commander.
After eliminating the wolf, Nishant picked up Mo Fan using 'Void Claw' and threw him at the judge.
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"Mo Fan of the Chinese Team is eliminated!" Judge announced.
Indian spectators erupted into cheer.
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Ai Jiangtu evaluated his opponents. Although Arjun was exhausted, Nishant was almost unscathed.
"I surrender." Ai Jiangtu declared decisively. The core members of the team are already battered if he pushes himself too hard they will surely lose their next match as well.
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"We gave our all and we still lost." Zhao Manyan said helplessly. It was another matter if Zhao Manyan had entered the arena, Nishant would have to put more efforts to defeat the Chinese Team.
"They didn't even send their captain." Nan Yu said in disbelief as it was common for captain to be very strong.
"That Space Mage is very strong. He alone turned the tables. Even Ai Jiangtu is no match for him." Pang Lai said. Ai Jiangtu is quite famous among military for his courage and strength. Seeing someone trifling with him is rather shocking.
AFTER 2 WEEKS
The following matches were relatively easy. The Indian Team easily defeated the 3 teams they were put against.
"Listen carefully everyone, the treasures of the treasure hunt are very tempting but all of you must put your well being ahead of them." The instructor said in a stern tone. Everyone nodded.
After sometime the teams were teleported to the treasure hunt location.
Nishant found himself in a dense forest.
"Let's not waste time." Nishant decided to claim the Grand Treasure first, the old Grand Treasure to be specific.
'Scatter' Nishant disappeared and appeared in the air. He found himself losing his senses as he looked at the compressed spaces below him.
"Focus, it's actually better. I can observe more places like this." Nishant was quickly able to adjust his eyes to see the compressed spaces clearly. He flew above compressed space for a while and soon found the place which matched the descriptions. A valley filled with Poisonous miasma.
"There are also guards. What should I do?" Nishant pondered.
"Let's barge in." Nishant decided, he can't waste time. He is supposed to make a fortune.
"Blink!" Nishant teleported and appeared at the edge of miasma.
"What?!" Guards were dumbfounded.
'Black Armour' Nishant activated his armour and jumped into the miasma.
'Thud' Nishant softly landed at the bottom.
'Too Dark' Nishant thought and brought out a magic scroll which casted Novice Tier Light Spell and illuminated the surroundings.
'Ki Armour!!' Nishant casted.
Nishant ventured deeper into the darkness. Much to his irritation it was taking a long time to find the treasure.
After wandering around for quite a long time he came across the cacoons. He found himself sweating. His sight fell on the wooden box.
'Take a deep breath and go for it.' Nishant advanced towards the box.
'That easy?' Nishant was confused with the ease. Nishant retracted the path he came from but to his dismay he returned to the same place.
'Ah right, I will not be able to leave unless I kill at least one of them.' Nishant thought, he gulped down hard then used another light element scroll but kept its altitude higher. Then he found those disgusting and terrifying monsters. He stared at them and they stared at him.
"Hell Furnace!" Nishant summoned. The bigger one got burnt into the fiery pillar while the smaller one jumped away in fear.
"Almighty Push! Almighty Push!... Almighty Push!" Nishant casted non-stop, he found himself in 30 metres deep crater. He felt his mind going numb due to the load, he should have casted the spell at least 50 times. Both monsters were advancing towards him at relatively fast pace but the closer they were getting the stronger the resistance they were facing.
"Hell Furnace!" Nishant summoned and the burnt monster got hit by the fiery pillar again but the strength of the fiery pillar was weaker than before. The monster was still alive not to mention its healthy partner.
"Pentagon Prison!" Nishant summoned. Nishant poured his own energy into the domain. The domain was able to restrict the movements of the unscathed monster.
"Lightning Spear!!" Nishant shaped his Tier-3 Advance Tier Lightning Spell into a spear and stacked 2 of them and launched it at the monster.
"*Pant*... *Pant*..." Nishant was breathing heavily while watching the monster breaking away from the Pentagon Prison.
"Space Rhythm: Stasis!!!" Nishant stacked the spells but to his surprise the monster was still moving at considerable speed.
"Apocalyptic Fist!!!" Nishant again stacked the spells and concentrated the power on his fist and smashed the fist into the monster. The monster got thrown away and crashed into the cave wall.
"*Pant*... *Pant*..." Nishant sat on the ground and cautiously looked at the collapsed wall. A few seconds later a soul essence flew into Nishant's Soul Container.
Nishant decided to leave immediately.
'Scatter! Scatter! Scatter!' Nishant dashed forward as fast as possible and came out of the miasma and found a group of mages outside.
"Are you alright?" A mage with healing element hurried towards Nishant but Nishant backed away.
"I will be disqualified if you touch me." Nishant said. He still plans to look for treasures.
"Oh!" Everyone was taken back with the statement.
"But you are clearly not in good condition. Your nose and ears are bleeding." Healer tried to convince Nishant.
"It is nothing." Nishant wiped the blood from his nose and ears. Then he went into the forest.
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"Thank goodness he is alright." Instructor said in relief.
"But he should have come along with the judges." Mr. Tendulkar wasn't happy with Nishant's decision.
"It is understandable he wants to earn a lot of resources from Treasure Hunt, he doesn't have a faction to rely on." The instructor tried to calm the Mr. Tendulkar.
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"Ayleen, you found someone?" Mo Fan asked when she opened her eyes implying she is done surveying the area.
"Well I do, it is Nishant from the Indian Team and he is alone." Ayleen informed.
"He is alone. Let's cripple him that way one of our opponents will be less." Mo Fan said shamelessly. Mu Ningxue and Ayleen looked at him weirdly.
"Ok we will just steal from him." Mo Fan said. Mu Ningxue and Ayleen agreed.
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"It is Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue and Ayleen. They are targeting Nishant." an official of a national team said loudly.
"This is bad." Instructor from the Indian team muttered. If two sides collided, it might not end with just robbing.
"I'm afraid they will not stop with just stealing." an official said.
"On top of that Nishant is not in his peak condition." an official said in amusement. His team lost to the Indian Team badly in the last match.
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"Nishant, we meet again how fateful." Mo Fan was smiling viciously.
"Give up your resources and we will let you go." Ayleen said politely even though they were robbing him in broad daylight.
"Is that so?" Nishant looked at Mo Fan who was clearly itching for a fight. Then he looked at Mu Ningxue who had a neutral expression.
"I'm really grateful for your kind offer." Nishant smiled mockingly at the trio.
"Space Rhythm: Compress!" Nishant casted almost instantly which caught the trio off guard.
A shadow leaped at Nishant with unparalleled speed.
"Almighty Push!" Nishant casted. The wolf got thrown away with great force.
"Meteorite Fist!" Mo Fan shot at Nishant like a rocket.
"Almighty Push!" Nishant casted, Mo Fan came to sudden halt and then got thrown back. Mo Fan got crashed into ground.
"Nirvana Ice Domain!" Mu Ningxue expanded her Domain. Wolf got even stronger.
"Spirit Tear: Irritation!" Ayleen casted only to find it was useless due to Nishant's high Mental Strength.
"Ice Realm: Ice Coffin!" Mu Ningxue casted, 5
Ice coffins fell on Nishant.
"Space Rhythm: Stasis!" Nishant casted, ice coffins got frozen in air.
"Meteorite Fist!" Mo Fan shot toward Nishant from behind.
"All Mighty Push!" Nishant casted and sent Mo Fan crashing into the woods.
"I hate that spell." Mo Fan muttered.
"Scatter! Scatter! Scatter!" Nishant ran in a zigzag pattern to escape the wolf.
"All Mighty Push!" Nishant came to a sudden halt and the wolf crashed into the barrier and then got thrown away.
"Meteor Fist!" Nishant targeted Mu Ningxue who summoned dozens of Ice Locks and stopped the attack.
"Try stopping this, Apocalyptic Fist!" Nishant casted. Mu Ningxue decisively dodged the attack.
"Blink! Space Rhythm: Fissure!" Nishant appeared next to Mo Fan and injured him even though he managed to summon his armour.
"Space Rhythm: Compress!!" Nishant crushed Mo Fan's hands.
"Ahhh!" Mo Fan cried in pain.
"Blink!" Nishant disappeared and several Ice Locks slammed the ground where he was standing.
"Almighty Push!" Nishant appeared behind Mu Ningxue and casted. Mu Ningxue got broken into several pieces. Nishant noticed several Ice Locks got broken due to his spell. He grinned when he found he destroyed Mu Ningxue's Ice Lock Formation.
"What?! Void Wall!" Nishant was surprised when a pair of Icy and Fiery wolves attacked him. His Void Wall cracked and he was forced to use Black Armour.
"Ah! Right Flame Belle" Nishant muttered under his breath.
"Space Rhythm: Compress!!" Nishant crushed both wolves.
"Time to end this, Void Burst! Void Burst! Void Burst!" Nishant threw invisible spells at Flame Belle, Mu Ningxue and Ayleen.
"Ahhh!" Ayleen groaned in pain.
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"How dare he?" Instructor of English team flew in rage.
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Nishant wandered around relentlessly to find the treasures. He went to the dangerous places where he got quite a few precious treasures.
While finding the treasures. He entered an eerie zone. The place was dark and had deafening silence but Nishant was able to sense several existences.
'Ki Armour' Nishant casted and entered the place. As soon as he entered the zone, the existences started moving. They were surrounding Nishant.
"What a bother?" Nishant muttered when he found the existences were 25 Advanced Warriors with few commanders among them.
"I'm not really a fan of Shadow Element especially when I'm at the receiving end. Almighty Push!" Nishant extended his hands outwards and a force launched in an outward direction. The surroundings were destroyed.
The eerily silent zone turned into a chaotic battlefield.
'Scatter!' Nishant disappeared but to his surprise commanders followed after him using Shadow Element.
"Void Bursts" Nishant rained several Void Bursts on the commanders but commanders managed to flee but not without sustaining considerable damage.
'Blink! Almighty Push!' Nishant appeared among the Shadow Advanced Warriors and repeated his attack. Several warriors were killed, with a lot of them sustained grave injuries.
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"If I had known someone like him would be participating I would have made it more challenging." a man in white and golden robe said with regret.
"Give it a rest Captain, either way it was meant to be conquered. It's just that he is overqualified." another man in white and golden robe said with some amusement.
"I had to say he took away both the Grand Treasures, he is quite lucky." The third man with a similar outfit said.
"You better be ready to sell that Heavenly Vein of yours, Captain." 4th man said teasingly.
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"What's this? a Business card?" Nishant looked at the card in confusion. Then he flipped it.
'So I can buy 1 Heavenly Vein using this Card. The price will be... Hmm... It's 3000 Crores (715 million dollars) in Indian rupees. Validity is 6 months. I should be able to save enough money to buy 2 or 3 Heavenly Veins, I will be able to exchange them for some other treasure.' Nishant thought then smiled bitterly. He knew Heavenly Veins aren't something you can just buy using money. You need to have strong connections just to get your hands on one of them.
"Don't be greedy, 1 is already a big deal." Nishant flicked his own forehead. Nishant then proceeds to continue his treasure hunt.
By the end of the treasure hunt. He had total possessions of INR 3500 Crores (830 million dollars/5 billion Yuan).
