Chapter 60 - A Healthy Rivalry
Benton watched as Yang Xiu and her opponent, a girl who looked severely out of place with her yellow hair, walked into the arena. He scanned the blonde.
Affiliation:Poison Claw SectAge:14Cultivation:Qi Gathering: Minor Realm SixQi Available:???Techniques:Misty Silent Steps, Wind and Water Fan Art
Spiritual Roots:A-Qi Aspect:Mist on the moor, concealing all
Yikes. The sect was bringing out their best. An A- talent and already at minor realm six while still being fourteen. Nice. And like the previous duelist from the sect, she had both a weapon technique, interestingly a fan, and one for movement. Both were aspected to match her own qi.
After the rules were read, the exact same as the last duel, the bout began. The blonde immediately hid behind a boulder and pulled out a talisman. An instant later, mist began pouring out of the device.
As Benton had expected from the girl’s qi aspect, she primarily used mist for concealment. What he almost commented on was how her incongruous hair stood out so much. It was definitely not a natural shade unless Su had seen much less of the world than he thought.
Benton wondered if the girl colored it that way as a rebellion against her natural type or, a much more likely scenario, if it was a deception tactic. No one would expect someone who stood out so much to be a concealment type.
“Does the Esteemed Master Cultivator object?” Elder Pan said.
“No,” Benton said. “This is perfect. Yang Xiu will need to bring her A game in perception to win this one.”
Hah. A game. As opposed to the blonde’s A-. He hadn’t even intended that particular pun.
Of course, he wasn’t wrong, either. Yang Xiu and Yang Ru had probably chatted between matches, and he wouldn’t have been able to resist gloating about his achievement. She must be just about desperate to not only to match his win but to also reach Large Success in her perception technique.
The two were closer than almost any sibling pair Benton had ever met, but they were also very competitive with each other. It was a healthy rivalry as far as he was concerned.