Awakened Earth!!

You weren't kidding when you said this was unpopular. I mean, this Colosseum out in the sticks for a grand final match? Normally, grand finals of tournaments would be held in one of the three grand coliseums located in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. Yeah! Suddenly, a staff member comes out in a bikini. This is no beach! Also, I'm pretty sure they have proper uniforms for Colosseum staff. She held up two bracelets. These bracelets were magical items. She began pouring Mana into them; the bracelets both had magical crystals embedded into them. The bracelet could detect a lethal attack and deploy a barrier at the last possible moment to prevent someone from dying, allowing the fighter to go all out. Triggering your opponent's barrier means you win.The two competitors came out. One of them was a Dark Elf, and he was quite muscular, which is just ridiculous considering how elves typically have a slender build, making it difficult for them to gain any muscle. Of course, he didn't look like some bulky dude who was always in the gym, but he still had a good amount of muscle on him, kind of like the guy that you don't realize is ripped until he takes off his shirt and reveals that he's jacked. His opponent was obviously human, though. She was clearly cheating, wearing armor, and her crimson red sword was obviously made of pure Mithril; only pure Mithril was that shade of crimson red. I found it odd. She could at least try to hide the fact that she was cheating. They both stood facing each other about five meters apart. Then there was noise signaling the start of the match. The Dark Elf raised his sword and buffed the hell out of his regular steel sword.He then moved at ridiculous speeds. I used magic to accelerate my brain, but even then, I could barely keep up. They were buzzing around at hypersonic speeds. Fortunately, the Colosseum had a barrier to protect the people in the audience, or we would definitely get hit with some shockwaves. So, they clashed ferociously. Although each attack was extremely fast, it didn't lack in power. Rather, every single attack was like being hit with a missile. It was obvious that the Dark Elf's skills were superior. The Dark Elf definitely would have already won if his opponent wasn't cheating. Runedek enchantments are obvious; they would show up on a simple detection spell even if the runes were made too small to see with the naked eye. However, enchantments require specialized detection magic. But the minute you use them, the mana flow would give away that your gear is enchanted. I'm more surprised that there aren't any magic crystals on her gear. She wouldn't need to use any of her own mana to utilize the magical items since she could have had them pre-charged up before the fight. I guess she thinks she can get away with this much, but she does seem to realize that even the referee, she obviously bribed would call her out if her gear had magic stones. One of my now former classmates asked how the Dark Elf moved like that without using magic. Advanced magic, called the Turtle Shell, me and Sophie, were considered monstrous for learning it in under ten years. It is a buff and defense type magic that has the highest mana efficiency of all defensive magic. Since it's being applied at the last millisecond before each move, the magic is so brief that it created the illusion that he is move around like that with pure physical ability alone. Unless an attack reaches a certain level of power, it's truly pointless to use any other defense magic.

The Dark Elf immediately shrouds himself in lightning. Lightning shroud, huh? He then strikes out with a ridiculously powerful blow, sending his opponent flying. He intercepts her flight and strikes again. She somehow manages to block, but she's then batted around the Coliseum Arena like a tennis ball. However, she seems to position her sword just in time to block. Ah, I see. She must be using a magical item that lets her see a few seconds into the future, allowing her just enough time to position her sword in a defensive position. After 10 minutes of being batted around like a tennis ball, she's slammed into the wall. After she climbs back up to her feet, she's panting from exhaustion just like her opponent. The Dark Elf then raises his sword up into the air, charging up a sword beam. If it wasn't a Colosseum fight, he would have been killed after doing something so stupid, but his opponent responds by charging up their own sword beam. The two sword beams collide, and they seem evenly matched. The crimson red sword glows blue and shatters into dust, a counterfeit, what a waste of perfectly good Mithril. Her sword beam increases in power and overwhelms the Dark Elf's sword beam, triggering the emergency barrier, signifying the end of the fight. The referee, who should have been watching using a magic item, then enters the arena and declares Rachel, the human girl, the winner. The crowd erupts, shouting, "You're a cheating bitch! Yeah, screw that! There's no way she freaking won fair and square; she's a cheating bitch!"