"Aaaand! Today we have the son of the General- Frey Ardeloria versus The Rising Prodigy-Rudolph Tolstoy!!!!!"
The people in the audience around the stage let out a loud cheer as the commentator finished. Today was one of the major competitions between the young people of military forces to determine who the holder of the next Blessing Crystal will be. These were the semi-finals for its inheritance and the winner would get to advance to the final battle.
Blessing Crystals are the source of the power through which humans can operate the huge mechas the size being almost 5 times bigger than an average adult.
'Blessing Crystal, activate!'
An ethereal glow emanates from the Prototype mecha designed for tournament combat on the opposite side, the emblem of Tolstoy family engraved on its rear as the nearly thrice as large as a human being comes to life, standing tall and graceful with a small space at its abdomen built for carrying the controller.
'Activate!'
And just like the former, the Mecha with Ardeloria emblem having Frey as its controller glows before also taking a battle stance similar to Rudolph's Mecha, ready to pounce on the opponent the moment the fight were to start.
"Begin the fight in 3...2....1....GO!"
As soon as the referee of the match shouts at the end, both the opponents stomp onto the stage, and push themselves towards each other in the air, Rudolph at a slightly higher altitude than Frey, but with a lesser velocity while Frey came towards him faster.
The Ardeloria Mecha hurls its fist towards Tolstoy Mecha, but the Tolstoy Mecha blocks it and gets further pushed upwards as a result while Ardeloria falls back to the grind with a loud 'THUNK'.
'Time to implement my counter tactic for this battle, a pity it is going to end sooner than expected~'
Frey thought as his Mecha looked upwards towards Tolstoy Mecha coming towards him like a meteor, its metallic arms curled up into fists, with his body resembling a metallic arrow.
However, seeing this frightening sight, Frey didn't move, waiting for the right moment and right before Tolstoy was about 2 meters above him-
WHOOSH
A huge gust of wind is produced when he evades the attack with all Blessing Crystal power focusing on the mecha legs, the falling Mecha landing on the stage with all its power where Frey once had been, its palm opens and instead of an impact that was expected to occur, he responded with a counter attack to Frey's Mecha, sweeping its legs and hitting the arms of Frey's Mecha.
Skidding to a halt, Frey sighs in frustration at the quick reaction speed of his opponent.
'That makes it easier for me to lose hahahaha!'
Laughing loudly, he runs towards Rudolph after regaining his balance from the impact, while Rudolph was now on its Mecha legs, a punch thrown to Rudolph.
Opening its palm. Frey blocks his fists and using his right mecha arm, performs a brutal swing to the opponent that sends him flying backwards.
The reason why Frey had made it to Semi-finals was due to his unnatural ability to be able to shift blessing crystal energy into a specific parts of the mecha which was something usually only the elites who went through intensive training or life-and-death battles of Mecha wars could perform.
However, today it looked like he intended to lose. Only 50% of the blessing crystal power was used, barely denting the opponent's Mecha in the abdomen which Rudolph could not block due to the sudden burst in his opponent attack's momentum.
Frey closed in the distance in the time it took Rudolph to regain a perfect control of the Mecha, delivering a decisive blow, that made the fight appear to be coming to an end- however it stopped mid-way before it could land and the Mecha fell downward, Frey inside the Mecha collapsed, the power of Blessing Crystal running rampant in his body and the refree declared after realizing what happened.
"The Fight is over! And today's victor is Rudolph Tolstoy!!!!!!!!!"
Half of the audience stood up and went into a frenzy, shouting at the top of their lungs.
"Rudolph! Rudolph! Rudolph!'
While the other half stayed silent, dazed and dumbfounded, unable to believe what happened. Seeing their state, the cheers went down in a few minutes, their eyes landing on the Mecha that suddenly fell silent.
A deathly silence spread on the stage, everyone keenly watching the stage, all had one question in their minds at this moment.
'What happened to the Mecha Frey was controlling? Why did it suddenly stop working?'
And soon the answer was in front of everyone's eyes, the refree who was asking for Frey to press eject button inside the Mecha's controlling space was not responding, and despite repeatedly asking him to, even transmitting his voice through a microphone to resound inside the Mecha, no response came.
Panicking, the refree hurriedly called the Mecha scientists that soon came and after pressing a few buttons on tablets they carried, the shaft opened, revealing unconscious Frey inside, veins bulging on his forehead and his body sweating profusely, clearly a sign of Blessing Crystal overflow.
"Damn it! We need to hospitilize him, fast!"
The refree was in a state of panick, the boy lying in front of him was the son of a general, if found out, he would be questioned by him about what happened in more details, he'd be held responsible for not monitoring the vitals of the controllers despite being a refree, especially when the child was so precious! This could end up making him lose his job!
'No no no! Please get better soon...this was too unexpected. Who knew that this undefeatble son of the general would fall so suddenly and due to such a simple issue at that! If only I had monitored the vitals closely, damn it!'
Maybe it was because the infirmary realized the graveness of the situation or due to it not being free to the point that it was almost never seen in these kind of battles where the controller almost never took damage, they came only after a minute of which murmurs spread across the audience.
Frey was taken to the complex inside, where he would get treated, placing him on a ventilator and medical appartus attached to his body that began regulating the Blessing Crystal energy, extracting it from his body where it accumulated more than necessary, spreading it and making it normal.
It was a very slow process of reducing the energy condensations in his body and the competition itself was in the evening, so night came soon with nurses coming once in 5 minutes to check up on the conditions then stopped altogether after an hour more of seeing no irregularities on him.
And right after an hour had passed, footsteps resounded from outside the door, this person was wearing boots and after opening the door, a tall muscular figure wearing mask revealed itself late at night, seeing it made Frey relax and the energy condensations disappeared in a matter of a few seconds which he had himself created to force himself into this situation so he could escape today.
"From today onwards, Frey Ardeloria is dead, he was murdered in his sleep after losing in the battle of youth blessing crystal conquest by a person of an uknown organization"
He spoke with a tone full of pride and arrogance, as if he was a different person altogether, which he was, left with the stranger with a note left on the bed he was lying that read:
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We are taking the life of Frey Ardeloria, for the greater good of humanity and for a dawn that has yet to come.
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