Marked Ones: Advent of the Demon Prince

Chapter 283 : Gett vs Kalliope [Part 1]

Crowds roared in excitement and anticipation for the fights to come. They had already been treated to a handful. Some of which had major upsets. They won a few brave souls a lot of money, while costing those playing it safe their earnings.

Such was the way of gambling on fights in the arena. However, the next few rounds would be easy bets. No one would win much because they already knew the outcome. But if they did choose to bet on the unlikely winner, then they would walk home very wealthy men.

Kalliope knew this already. She had been fighting non-stop for a while now and was still undefeated. Everything they had chosen for her to fight with was to try and put her at a disadvantage. Short of pitting her against higher-ranked opponents, they had failed. She beat all the challenges.

In fact, she had started to find them entertaining and wondered if they would give her any sort of edge in future spars with Lucius.

Something like that required getting out of this place, though. Which looked extremely unlikely. The security in the fighting arena was extremely tight. Not only that, but they wore equipment that was designed to knock them unconscious with a single thought. So long as a guard had one of those mysterious crystals controlling the armor.

Unfortunately for her, every single guard had a control crystal. They were not attuned to a specific prisoner. Any crystal could activate any of the prisoners' armor at any time. This created a host of issues for any escape attempts, but there was a way to circumvent that.

According to Ethi, the crystals the guards carried were actually slave crystals to a single master. The main crystal was hidden in the personal office of the arena master, Itorin. If someone managed to destroy that crystal, then the special armor all the prisoners wore would essentially become normal pieces of fabric and metal. No longer capable of electrocuting them.

This was all a pipe dream at the moment, because they had no way to actually get to this master crystal that kept them all as slaves.

"Fighters..." The announcer called out. "Begin!"

Gett roared in anger, the veins in his neck and face threatening to pop from the strain. He charged for her, nearly causing the arena to shake with every step. Kalliope decided that meeting this opponent head-on was a bad decision and decided to charge around instead and kite him along for a short while to gauge his reaction time.

She could tell immediately that he was physically stronger than her. Kalliope had to admit that the same was true before, but he felt on a different level now. A single blow from him might take her out of the fight.

It was quickly proven that while his speed was enhanced with his strength by whatever mysterious method was used, she was still many times faster than him. Kalliope was able to duck and dodge under several strikes as though he were moving in slow motion.

Still, she did not want to let herself get over-confident. Over-confidence was the killer on many battlefields and was a lesson she had learned well with Lucius. Instead, she maintained a cool head and tried to analyze Gett's weaknesses.

He seemed incapable of protecting from attacks aimed toward his back at the moment. Due to the size difference, any attacks by her would not have a major impact. There was also the chance he was hiding his true reaction time and waiting for such a strike to land a grapple on her.

"Only one way to test that theory." She mumbled to herself.

Kalliope rushed to the side and then straight at her opponent. He raised his axe for a downward swing, but she slid along the ground and between his legs to dodge it. The moment she cleared his range, she hopped up and launched a kick into the small of his back. Unfortunately, she was right in her guess that he was hiding his true speed.

"Got you!" Gett said with a smile as he whipped around and grabbed her by the ankle. "You're mine! You bitch!"