Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

As Crystal walked onto the stage, she studied her opponent and realized he was the same as her teammate\'s previous opponents.

Weak and loud, that is.

The rowdy man was smiling eerily eyeing all over her, but she didn\'t care about that and just held out her long sword.

Seeing that both the fighters were ready, the referee started the match. Find joy in m-vlemp _yr.

"Let the battle begin!"

A few seconds passed but the man stood in his place with a smirk and didn\'t move at all, a bit unsuitable to the craze he was showing before.

Standing on the stage with his weapon over his shoulder, the man licked his lips and muttered.

"Hmm what a waste of such a good body....", his expression looked one of regret as he thought of something else.

Taking a few steps forward, the man didn\'t attack and instead tried saying something to Crystal.

"Hey woman, how about you just surrender and then I show you around some corners of the black market later?", there was a crooked grin on his face looking at her as there were not many women in the underworld and especially not anyone participating in the arena battles.

Crystal stood straight in her position without the slightest change of emotions in her eyes.

Seeing the woman not responding, the man widened his smile and moved forward, only a few meters away from her.

The three standing near the edge of the arena looked at each other in doubt and whispered.

"Is she not going to attack?" Felix asked.

"Maybe she\'s waiting for him to get near...", Bellard replied confused.

Falcon was looking over with furrowed brows, as he knew that from the way Crystal was standing, she wasn\'t going to use her long sword.

"What\'s she doing?"

The audience watched in confusion as the man on the stage walked over dramatically while rubbing his neck.

"It seems you\'re waiting for me, huh.", the man teased almost nearing two meters from her.

"Woman, come on let\'s go have some fu-", the man stopped talking and froze just when he was about to get within the two-meter distance from her.

His eyes abruptly widened in shock and there was an expression of struggle on his face.

Suddenly, the man stepped back but then slipped and fell on the floor with a thud.

There was silence in the whole arena as the audience took in the sight of a strong man falling unconscious without even getting hit.

All eyes were on the woman named Crystal who placed back the long sword she hadn\'t used at all and turned around to walk out of the arena stage.

The people were not sure if they were to cheer or not as they didn\'t understand what actually had happened.

Even the referee was confused about the situation, but he moved forward and checked upon the fallen man.

Seconds later, the referee stood up with a stunned face and announced out loud.

"T-The winner of this battle is...Crystal!"

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The three men, Felix, Bellard, and Falcon glanced at each other without hiding their confused expressions and discussed.

"Umm does anybody know what just happened?", Felix the one with the least knowledge of everything regarding this world questioned.

He couldn\'t believe Crystal had won the battle without even doing anything. There weren\'t any attacks and her opponent was knocked out, and this wouldn\'t happen without her doing something, right?

But the question was, what did she do?

Falcon closed his eyes for a few moments and thought about something he had heard a long time ago.

Opening back his eyes, he sighed and replied.

"Phantom, how much do you know about battle techniques?"

Felix turned to him and answered honestly.

"Not much, I\'ve recently come across them."

Nodding, Falcon continued.

"Well, let me tell you about it then. Battle techniques are a set of unique movements, with the involvement of energy which results in a powerful effect.", he explained but didn\'t stop there.

"Now, what if there were techniques that gave powerful effects but without the use of any movements at all?"

Falcon questioned at last while looking at the boy.

Frowning, Felix thought about it and replied.

"You mean there\'s another type of battle technique and we don\'t even have to do anything to use it?", he sounded unsure as he didn\'t know about it.

Falcon nodded and answered.

"You\'re correct. But these types of techniques are not called Battle techniques anymore and instead, they are called Special techniques."

Turning around, he eyed the woman coming near to them and concluded.

"And what Crystal used just now was a Special Technique, something that is very rare, and very few people even know about it."

He ended his words as the only woman in their group neared them and stood silently without anything to say.

Felix looked at her and said.

"Uhh nice battle there, Crystal."

Bellard too gave her a compliment with an impressed face.

"Yeah, it was unbelievable."

Crystal just nodded to them and replied.

"Nothing, he was just weak."

The three men gave wry smiles at each other and shrugged at it.

Falcon moved forward and told them.

"We\'ve seen each other\'s fight now, so how about we go our ways and settle the remaining battles on our own?", he asked as they would be just moving around the arena if they went to see all the matches.

The other three nodded at that and agreed as that would be a lot exhausting, and instead decided to move on their own.

After a small talk, they separated and went about to their designated arena to continue their battles.

But there was still some time left before any of their battles would start as they had an hour-long break after each of their battles. So they moved around the arena randomly taking in the fighting sights and chattering of the crowds.

Felix moved alone looking at several of the arena matches here and there while slowly making his towards the place of his next battle.

"Hey, it\'s you that Phantom right?"

Suddenly, a man stood in front of Felix and blocked his way.

The man had curly brown hair and had tan skin. He was standing there with an excited face and moved forward even though he didn\'t get a reply.

"Our last match was really fun, I still can\'t believe I got defeated by you even though I was giving it my all.", the man stood near Felix who raised his eyebrows.

"Hmmm? I\'m sorry I don\'t remember who you are..."

The man froze all of a sudden with a strange look on his face, his face turned slightly red but he coughed to hide his embarrassment.

"Ahem Ahem, well let me introduce myself then, I am Warren, the one you battled with yesterday."

Felix narrowed his eyes and remembered a guy using a sword who had shown nice swordsman skills in yesterday\'s last battle,e but had gotten defeated the moment when he used his Agility burst skill.

"Oh, I remember you now. The famous guy right? With the crowd cheering your name the whole fight until you lost that is.", Felix said somewhat humorously.

Warren scratched the back of his head and just shrugged at it.

"So what do you want from me?", Felix asked as he had a battle to do a few minutes later.

Making sure he was sounding polite, Warren asked the man what he wanted.

"Umm Phantom, I want to challenge you to a battle today!"