"Avon? Is that you?"
The woman asked in a slightly excited tone as she stood up.
'This voice...'
"Sister Zia?"
He asked in a surprised tone.
"Yes! It's me!"
She said out loud, tears welling up in her eyes.
He jumped down from the ring and stood before her.
He looked at her face, it was very beautiful. It was a perfect match for her melodic voice. Just as he was about to speak,
"It is the mysterious warrior who won! Now the final match is between this mysterious warrior and Chen Zhu! The match will begin after 10 minutes!"
The announcement interrupted him.
He and Zia slowly walked off the ground. After entering the waiting room Avon immediately took off his hood.
Zia just stood before him and looked at his face with tears in her eyes.
She slowly touched his cheeks with her hands and ran them over his eyes gently. Then resting them below his ears she spoke,
"Can you see now?"
Her voice soft and shaking.
Avon just looked into her eyes where all he could see was relief and warmth.
"Yes...I can. I never got to see your face before, but now I can see how beautiful you are."
Avon spoke looking into her eyes.
"Little brother....you don't know how much I worried...I missed you. I am glad you are alright."
A tear escaped from her eye as she spoke. Slowly she put her arms around him and embraced him gently, resting her head on his chest.
"I am fine now sister.
Thank you for looking after me. Else who knows what would've happened."
They remained like that for a while then she finally pulled back.
"Little brother, you have gotten very strong. You even defeated me when just a month ago you were below mentioned in cultivation. I am so happy for you."
"Elder sister is very strong too... By the way there is something I must tell you..."
"Hmm?"
"I will be leaving the planet today."
Her eyes widened upon hearing this,
"Why, what happened?"
"I...have very difficult circumstances going on...the purpose with which I came to this planet will be fulfilled today and I must leave without wasting any time."
Zia felt her heart sink hearing this,
"Will you come back?"
"Yes"
She felt a little relief,
"What is your purpose?"
"It is to obtain an item from the knight, but the current knight is an imposter. The real one is probably dead. So the wind masters have called him out here today and they plan on attacking him altogether once the final match is done.
Then master Silea will obtain the item for me and give it to me. So you be careful elder sister, go a little away if possible."
"Little brother what are you saying? How can this be"
Zia couldn't believe it, if what he was saying was true, then this incident would affect the entire planet's future.
"This is the truth elder sister. So please be careful."
It was almost time for the match to begin so Avon left and Zia was alone. She simply stared at blank space deciding what to do.
Avon stood before the time manipulator.
As soon as the bell rang, Avon rushed towards the man. The man was not as fast as the others Avon had faced and was able to reach him before he managed to stop time. Avon kicked him hard but the man defended well. Avon landed a few more hits but the man had a strong defense.
Avon felt the air around him thinning and found it difficult to breathe all of a sudden.
This man could control oxygen!
Deciding not to waste more time, Avon slashed the man's hands using his dagger and once his defence broke, he slashed at the man's torso.
The man was slow to dodge and took a few cuts.
The man jumped back and He took a very long jump.
Avon had run to cover the distance. In that time the man was able to freeze time near Avon.
He rushed towards him and pushed him as hard as he could to throw him off the ring, but they were in the middle of the ring and it was not easy.
Once the time freeze broke, Avon suddenly found himself near the edge of the ring and saw the man charging towards him, Avon was surprised but quickly dodged the attack and landed a few hits back,
'So that is how it feels to be frozen in time....'
He thought to himself.
He couldn't let it happen again as he would definitely be thrown off, so not giving the man time to think, Avon attacked multiple times and didn't care about the strength. Some attacks barely had any strength but the man had to defend continuously.
Using the opportunity created by being near the edge of the ring, Avon used his dagger to slash the man's hand again, the man scream in agony as this time the cut was deeper.
Using this one moment, Avon tried to sweep the man off the ground by a kick which he powered using his entire body by turning around fast. The man lost his balance momentarily and using that Avon slashed his legs too. The man lost strength in them and fell to his knees. Then Avon punched the man in his face with all this strenght. The man couldn't defend and he felt pain surge up.
His face was numbing and he felt one more punch to his face. This time he fell backwards. Then Avon kicked the man hard on his side and threw him off the ring.
And that was it! Avon had won!
He immediately looked at Silea who nodded at him with a smile.
The announcement was made and people cheered for him.
To Avon, the fight with Zia was much harder than this one.
Slowly all the wing masters descended into the ring and the sect master and the Knight followed.
The sect master looked at Avon with a piercing gaze and he felt as if she could see through his soul. He felt a shiver in his bones.
The Knight stood there simply observing everything. He seemed unimpressed and it looked like he was uninterested in this tournament itself.
"Lord Knight, please present him with the reward"
The sect master spoke.
"Ahem, yes, I should do so"
The man spoke and walked towards Avon.
When he walked towards Avon, no one else took a step forward. Everyone waited, waited till the man's back was at a distance from them.
All of the wing masters and the sect master had a serious look on their face. They were waiting for this very moment!
Ever since the imposter had taken over , he never showed their back to them. This was the first time and they had planned for this. The moment he was face to face with Avon, they all disappeared and appeared right behind him and hit him with a bright and powerful energy attack.
Silea appeared right before Avon and protected him from the attack. The Knight was shocked,
"So you all knew!"
He spoke in an aggressive low voice.
"But what you don't know is that I am an Ithanari! You cannot catch me!"
Saying so his body suddenly began to melt but the sect master used a strange energy field to reverse the process.
"We knew"
She spoke in a cold low tone.
"We knew and that is why we waited so long. You cannot escape us. You never stood a chance against me, but you could escape from me. So I prepared and now there is no chance for you to escape. Time for you to face your consequences!"
Then they all again attacked him together and he barely managed to defend. It was a very high level battle and Avon couldn't even clearly see what was happening.
The same was with the audience. They were shocked to see their wing masters and sect master attack the knight. Many screams could be heard because people panicked. Many watched it from their place while others ran away.
Silea moved Avon into her realm and now all he could do was wait for her.
After some time, she came back.
"The situation is under control. He has many ways to escape but we have blocked them all. His face is a kind that does not die easily so the battle will persist. He is like a cockroach at this point, doesn't endanger us but simply doesn't die. Heh"
His master said as she took out the ring she took off of him.
Then she spilled out all its contents.
"Is it there?"
She asked him.
Avon looked through them until his found a small disc which fit right into the medallion.
"Yes!"