Chapter 99: An Emergency
After using his Step shift and wowing the crowd, Jake activated his Frenzy strike, melee combat and Lockdown Jake was now in front of Harry by using Step shift again to get In front of Harry. Then Jake quickly used his sword and started rapidly swinging at towards Harry who couldn't move because he was frozen by Jake's Lockdown skill.
Jake kept on attacking everywhere he could attack with all his strength causing cuts all over Harry but it didn't go in deep for Harry was using Qi to strengthen his body very well. This confused the crowd for they could only see Jake striking while Harry was standing still, not moving one bit.
After 11 seconds, both Frenzy strike and Lockdown wore off and Harry could finally move again which made Jake activate step shift to get away from Harry to observe his condition. Currently, Harry was stumbling on his feet and his body was riddled with injuries from head to toe but he was still standing strong looking at Jake.
Everyone in the crowd were awed by Harry's resolve in not giving up and Jake's vast pool of skills.
Harry was now gritting his teeth in anger. "Enough is enough!"
Harry now was spilling with energy that everyone were familiar with known as Qi. The Qi was spilling from his body and was now showing visually, this was the start of using the third stage of Qi and now, in less than a second, shards and arrows were now floating around Harry.
"I told you, there's a difference between us and this is it!" Harry shouted as he shot out all the shards and spears made from Qi towards Jake.
This move by Harry, was worrying to everyone watching.
"Isn't he taking this too far?" Humfree said worriedly.
"What? Are you worried that you are gonna lose 10,000 credits and your favorite to win is going to lose?" Gunther said while smirking.
"You fool, that's not what I meant." Humfree said. "If Jake is unable to avoid the shards, he's going to die and the crowd and everyone will be angry at the academy for allowing a death of a student to take place which will make us lose public support."
Gunther listening to Humfree now realized the truth in what he was saying. "Should we call of the fight now and declare Harry the winner?"
"No, I don't think Jake has given up and I think he has a plan." Rowan said who hasn't taken his eyes from the match one bit.
They could all see Jake taking a stance and drawing his sword out then he opened up his system then went to his equipment.
"Activate lighting sword's active skill" Jake called out at the system and immediately, his sword started sparking and currents could be seen running around the sword.
'Kilberg couldn't use this skill against me because I didn't give him the chance to but thanks to him, I have something to help me.' Jake thought as he swung his sword and called out.
"Lightning strikes." Jake said and pointed out the sword towards the shards heading his way and immediately, three lightning bolts came out of the sword and headed for the shards then it shocked it rapidly therefore making all the shards and spears disappear.
The crowd cheered at the sight of this display and they were now shouting.
"Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!"
'I was forced to use that skill. Now I only have two more times to use that before the cool down activates.' Jake thought as he remembered the description of the active skill when he had used his Inspect skill on it.
<Lightning sword: This sword was forged from an advanced tier beast that had the rare attribute of lightning.>
<Active skill: When activated, the user has a total of three shots to use it and each times, three lightning bolts will shoot out.>
<Cool down timer: 4 hours>
Jake was impressed by the sword and the attributes and couldn't wait to try it against his opponents and he just got the chance today in the tournament.
When Harry saw that his shards didn't work, he kept on shooting more shards and now a dozen of them were heading towards Jake.
'Let's see you destroy these.' Harry thought with a smile.
'Darn it! Even if I use the sword to destroy it, it won't be enough to. What do I do now?' Jake thought worriedly.
As the shards were approaching Jake, he could only do one thing that came to his mind. Jake quickly used the second stage of Qi to create invisible shards and then he quickly shot them out towards Harry's strikes.
Jake had to shoot two strikes for one of Harry's one shard which made him shoot out two dozens of shards towards Harry's shards and then, they all fell down to the ground.
Jake was so focused on the shards that he hadn't seen Harry move and when he lifted his head up, Jake could see a fist heading towards his face that connected successfully with his nose therefore blurring his vision for a bit.
It was more than enough for Harry charged right towards Jake and started slashing and swinging his sword towards Jake who was now trying to block or avoid the strikes blindly.
All of Harry's strikes connected successfully therefore causing a whole lot of injuries on Jake's body. By the time Jake could finally see properly, he was now a bloody mess and Harry had created a bit of space while panting hard.
Jake was now somewhat tired and feeling pains all over his body even his eyes were somewhat closing in and out and he was about to lose consciousness because of blood loss. But a thought crossed his mind.
'If I'm gonna lose, then I need to at least deliver a good hit on him.' Jake thought as he sheathed his sword and took a stance while looking at a now tired Harry.
Even though Harry was good at using Qi, he had been using it for long and was about to run out of Qi now. Normally, Qi users could go on for some time before they needed to rest as long as they had more Qi in their core but due to Jake's strength and skill, Harry had to expend more Qi.
Harry now took a stance with his sword in his hand and looking at Jake. Then Harry charged right at Jake with all the strength and speed he could muster. And so did Jake, Jake used all his 61 points of Agility together with the boot to dash towards Harry.
To the crowd, it looked like Jake teleported again and in less than a second, they met in the middle with Jake having activated Melee combat again and then Jake jumped up, rotated his body and delivered a strong hook towards Harry's head while Harry also swung his sword towards Jake's stomach.
Jake's fist hit Harry successfully on his head and sent him crashing down with full force therefore causing dust to rise up. But before he went flying, Harry had managed to make a slash towards Jake's stomach that made a deep cut on it because there was no Qi protecting his body.
Then Jake heard a ding in his head.
<-8 HP>
"That strike was strong enough to remove 8 HP of health from me." Jake said as his body now hit the floor the same second Harry fell down due to exhaustion and his eyes were now closed.
Paul, Wilfred and some soldiers quickly came on stage and then the soldiers took Jake and Harry to the clinic because they were now unconscious meanwhile Paul decided to announce the results.
"Due to there being no winner or last man standing, we have decided to call this a draw. There's no winner in today's match." Paul said which made the crowd boo angrily because there was no doubt in anybody's mind that Jake was the winner of the match.
But Wilfred managed to calm them down and then they were now given a break to prepare for the next match. Some people left the stands to get some snacks or use the restroom before the next match.
Meanwhile Jake's friends quickly rushed to the clinic to see if Jake was alright.
Meanwhile, the Head Generals were still in their viewing booth sitting down.
"Well that wasn't the result I was expecting." Rowan said.
"Yeah, I didn't expect a draw between them." Gunther said.
"But Jake certainly made an impression on the people's minds today." Humfree said chuckling.
"If some of these second years are this strong, I can't wait to see the next mat…" Rowan stopped as they all heard three beeps coming from an electronic device kept on them.
Rowan's eyes widened. "What do they want now?"
"Whatever it is, I know it's an emergency that's why they are calling." Humfree replied getting all serious.
"We need to inform the generals." Gunther said as he called Paul over.
After a few minutes, Paul was now standing by the Head Generals side.
"There's an emergency, we won't be here for the next matches. Heck, we won't even be in the academy for some time so take care of the academy for we will be taking some Generals along." Humfree said and then he dismissed Paul after saying what he wanted.
Immediately Paul left, the Head Generals stood up and left their own special viewing booth along with two Generals.