Sitting at the top of a tree in the forest where the event is taking place, is a boy wearing dark grey shirt, a pair of black trousers and a pair of black boots. He has medium length hair with some of it covering his right eye. His eyes are dark purple in colour.

“Hmm Showoffs,” he says to himself.

“Seems like they have not gotten serious yet.”

“Oh well let’s just showoff a little too, shall we?” he adds, smiling and standing at the tip of a tree branch.

“Elemental Release: Darkness style: Darkness Dome,” he says, with both his hands in his pocket.

Slowly, the whole area where the event is happening, from point A to point B, starts to get dark and instantly, after some seconds, it becomes totally pitch-black. Once this happens, the boy vanishes.

“Wow!!! Another genius in action, covering the whole area with his darkness element, give it up for Erraz!!!” the commentator exclaims.

“What?!” the participants scream.

“First it was a confusing maze, now this!!!”

“How are we supposed to see the path or the beasts now!!!” they complain.

Luckily Serena is already at point A1 so she just hops on one of the beasts, one that seems like a huge white lion and begins riding it to point B.

“Luckily, this one can see in the dark and I’m used to riding it a bit since we have so many of this type in Lightville,” she says to herself and giggles.

Meanwhile, Kiiara is yet to reach point A1 when the darkness dome is activated, however, she is unaffected thanks to her eagle eyes which enables her to see in the dark not fully clear but she can manage. Dia, once everywhere was filled with darkness, places her hand on the ground.

“Earth Trace,” she says.

“With this I’ll be able to trace at least one beast since they’re stepping on the ground anyway.”

“Voila!!!” she exclaims, after some seconds, having found a beast through the earth trace technique. She begins to run in the path she had traced, having no fear of the darkness although she is already close to point A1.

Kiiara, Dia and Dubnet are able to reach point A1 at the same time however, without being able to quickly recognize themselves due to the darkness, they each quickly hop on a beast and start riding to point B although Kiiara recognizes them a bit but decides not to say anything.

Elsewhere within the events ground.

“Hmm? Darkness Dome huh, nice one Erraz,” Damian says, facing Erraz though it is dark and there is no light for him to see who is standing before him.

“Hoo,” Erraz claps.

“As expected of the genius himself, Prince Damian Ignition of Earthville.”

“Guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” he adds.

“Tell me, how you knew I was the one?” he asks.

“Wait let me guess, since I’m standing on the ground, by using a certain earth element technique, you can probably guess it’s me right?” he continues.

“Asking and answering the question yourself, as expected of Erraz, the dark genius,” Damian responds.

“How about we just have our duel here?” Erraz asks.

“Soon the dark dome will clear up. I can’t maintain it for long,” he adds.

“Doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me,” Damian replies.

“I suppose we should give it a shot,” he adds.

“Oh My!!! Seems an Epic battle will ensue between these two young warriors even before the main tournament!!!” the commentator announces.

The atmosphere around the two boys starts getting really tense as they stare at each other. The darkness dome begins to fade away slowly until it becomes completely bright once more.

Suddenly, Damian jumps backwards with his left hand in the air, he forms a large earth boulder and tosses it at Erraz who quickly steps sideways to dodge the attack.

“Darkness Bringer,” Erraz exclaims, stretching forth his left arm at Damian.

Immediately, a big shadow arm, having a mix of dark purple and black colors with flame like edges, extends from his arm and heads straight with speed to grab Damian.

“Impressive!!” Damian exclaims, smiling, still in mid-air. He makes a pillar from the ground and hops on it with immense speed to another pillar he makes. The shadow arm keeps following him however, he makes several pillars and continuously hops on them, switching his position with great speed.

“Elemental Release: Earth Style: Grasshopper,” he says, as he does this.

Erraz tries following him with his eyes however Damian is really fast with his hopping around and so in an instance, appears behind Erraz about to launch a punch at him. Before Erraz can fully turn to face Damian, Damian already launches his attack.

“Elemental Release: Earth Style: Rock Fist.”

Small rocks gather around Damian’s right hand, forming a huge rocky arm with which he throws a swift powerful punch at Erraz. To Damian’s surprise, it was the after image of Erraz he hits as the real Erraz does a quick front flip over Damian and lands behind him.

“Dark Fade,” he says, as he does this.

Immediately he lands, he sets his right palm wide open, facing Damian, with his left hand holding the right elbow. The atmospheric pressure around that area becomes so intense.

“Guess I’ll just end it here now,” he says.

“Elemental Release: Darkness Style: Black Canon: First Round,” he adds.

A small round object, black in color forms at the middle of Erraz’ palm with what seems like black smoke revolving round it and it begins to expand in size.

“This is bad,” Damian says to himself as he quickly turns and steps back a bit, to face Erraz.

The black ball expands in a haste, till it is the size of Erraz’ head. With a smile, Erraz says,

“It’s over,” and immediately, with a powerful boom which causes the ground to shake violently, launches the attack at Damian, blowing up everything in its path.

“Guess I have no choice,” Damian says, as the ball approaches him with great speed and the force generated from the ball, pushes him back bit by bit.

BOOM!!!