Sam went up to the stage and said to Hawk. "I thought nobody is going to challenge me anymore. At last."

Hawk just smiled and didn't say anything.

"Begin." Elder announced. But both Sam and Hawk didn't move immediately. They just looked at each other and tried to see what is other party's intention. The stare down went on for a few seconds, they didn't move neither they looked at different directions. They just stared at each other and tension rose.

Finally, Hawk spoke. "You are more patient than what rumours mentioned." As soon as he said that he started making hand seals. Sam just stood there and didn't do anything, he just stood there and looked at Hawk as if he was watching a performance.

And soon, Sam is surrounded by wind blades, from all sides, he is observing the wind blades that are coming towards him, he can feel the sharpness of the blades and the threat they could pose.

When they were two feet away, Sam made his move, with his superior speed, the wind blades didn't pose much threat to him. He moved fluidly without making any contact with the wind blades, but before he could relax another wave of wind blades are coming towards him, but this time the density of attack increased.

The number of blades became twice the previous time. This time, Sam didn't just evade them, but he started moving forward. The spectators are watching the fight in awe. They knew about Hawk's wind blades attack. He is very proficient in its control and if his opponent gets struck in the first wave, he was almost done with it.

Even when the opponent is able to make it through the first wave, he might not make it to the second wave, if he makes it through the second wave, the third wave might take him down.

And every time the density of attacks increases such that evading is not an option anymore. But Sam is dodging and he is making his way forward.

Just when Sam was a three- feet away from Hawk, the latter floated with the cover of wind blades and went to opposite side.

"Elemental fusion." Sam muttered as he looked at Hawk, who stopped attacking. When Hawk heard Sam's word's he was surprised.

"Not bad, you can recognize the Elemental Fusion." Hawk said. Sam didn't reply. Of course, he can recognise it. He himself can do it after all. But Sam was pretty impressed with Hawk. The latter is using the Elemental fusion on his legs and is floating. Even though he can't use it directly to fly, but hovering a bit is not really a problem.

"Why are you not using your Elemental powers?" Hawk asked.

"Well, nobody is bothering to challenge me anyway. Might as well make most our battle and see what I can do?" Sam said but he still didn't attack. He is waiting for Hawk to attack and he will test himself. After all, it is not everyday that he gets to fight with a Novice level 1 fighter with this much control over his element.

Hawk formed hand seals and this time they are much faster. This time air on the stage all started circling around Sam. The image resembled a small tornado circling around him. Just as he was examining it, he felt that it is a little difficult to breath. The tornado is trying to create a vacuum.

Just when he thought that these are the only tornado's effects, he felt his feet floating and then suddenly a wind blade formed with in the tornado and attacked him from behind.

Even though the feather coat stopped the attack, he wasn't feeling happy at all. He felt that he is being a bit too passive. Sam then spread his hand towards the wind currents and his hands started conjuring fire.

He controlled the golden flames with the enormous heat and made it circle the tornado in its opposite direction, but when he tried it in the beginning the fire is being affected by the wind speed, when spectators started feeling that Sam's attempts are futile, he increased the intensity of flames. They started circulating with very high speed and the intensity also high and before he knew what's happening, Hawk felt that something is amiss, his control over wind tornado became difficult and unstable and while he tried to control it Sam already came out of the tornado.

Sam and Hawk stared at each other when Sam said. "Maybe you want to use your Dual wing slash."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, you can use it. Let's see if I can deal with it." When Sam said these words, Hawk was already almost done with his hand seals. A Hawk materialised in front of him and the two wing shaped wind blades moved towards Sam.

This time, Sam didn't just stand there, he took out his golden staff and started spinning it. The two ends of staff are directing and condensing a huge amount of fire as he spun the staff above his head.

Before the wind blades neared him, Sam threw the condensed fire towards them. Both the attacks collided and negated each other.

Sam and Hawk came into a dead lock.

"You are really good. I thought that Kelly is exaggerating." Hawk praised.

"You aren't bad yourself." Sam returned the praise.

"Maybe we should stop testing each other? Why don't you become serious?" Hawk asked as he started making hand seals.

This time neither replied nor just stood in place, instead he made his move with his staff. When he swung his staff and was about to make contact with Hawk, a wind shield formed and stopped it.

Sam took a step back and again did the same, this time the wind shield again made the contact. But Sam didn't withdraw and an explosion happened at the point of contact, pushing Hawk a step back.

Sam didn't miss the opportunity and followed with attack after. His moves are fast and precise. Hawk wasn't able to see him at all other than he could see is the after- image Sam left behind after an attack.

Soon, he wasn't able to cope with the speed and took the full force of an attack. He fell down on his back as he spewed some blood from his mouth.

Sam didn't stop. He made his move again and just as he was about to make another successful attack something unexpected happened.

Hawk is covered by a water shield and a water sphere was launched towards him at same time. Sam took the full force of attack and landed a few feet away. He coughed out some blood and stood up.

When he came to his senses, he saw Hawk covered with a water sphere on all sides.

"Oh, you are a dual elemental Mage. Didn't see that coming." Sam said with a smirk. He didn't seem discouraged at all. But he failed to see the spectators' expressions which are filled with shock.

"What Hawk is a dual elemental mage?"

"I never knew this."

"Yeah, he really hid deeply. I thought he only has one wind element. Who would have thought that he also had water element?" Even Castor and Count Falcon felt surprised, for different reason though.

"I never thought he would use water element here. He said that he might not need to use this in this tournament." Count Falcon said to Castor.

"I thought that it was his trump card." Castor spoke

"No. He said that