You win round two, and technically round three.

When the next round begins you take a moment to chat with your first opponent. You ask what he does in the village and you aren't surprised to discover he's one of their blacksmiths. Asking a bit more you find out that not a single one of them are soldiers strictly. They all known how to fight if needed, but for the most part they work doing various trades. The actual soldiers of the village are almost exclusively the taller and stronger women, which isn't that surprising to you, and from the limited information you get from him you'd consider them similar to the Samurai from your old world. In that from a young age, whether soldier or tradesman, they work at perfecting their craft their whole life. It isn't something you'd want to base your plans for a city on, but you can certainly respect it.

The next round is the mace wielding man, whom you've learned is named Cal, versus a rather skinny man wielding a long spear. You don't particularly like Cal, but you aren't really sure the skinny man has much of a chance. However, once the fight gets underway you are pleasantly surprised to see the skinny man is very capable with his spear, preferring to use it more like a staff. His spins and quickness keep him out of Cal's reach, with his thrusts and swipes landing several solid hits. Though you can tell all that he's succeeding at is frustrating Cal more and more. Having had enough of this fight seemingly the skinny man thrusts his spear at Cal, which Cal had been waiting for. Stepping to the side of the thrust Cal drops the mace in his right hand to grab the shaft of the spear, and pulls the skinny man off balance.

With the other mace Cal swipes upward hitting the skinny man in his elbow. You cringe as you see his elbow bend in a way that elbows shouldn't bend. You see in the corner of your eye the Amazon woman moving to declare Cal the victor, as the skinny man immediately releases his grip on his spear to cradle his broken elbow. You watch as a smirk forms on Cal's face, and he spins around whipping his mace into the side of the skinny mans head who promptly falls to the ground and doesn't move. Cal immediately roars at his triumph as utter chaos breaks out. You rush forward meeting Nadine and Annabel at the fallen man. Boos and jeers make it hard to hear, but you can see his chest rising and falling barely. Blood trickles out of his ear, and his limbs are rigid as well, so you know there is some brain damage there. Suddenly the man begins convulsing, so you release him to let it happen.

"Can a healing potion help him" you yell to Annabel over the noise of the crowd.

"Yes, but I don't have any with me" she yells back. Standing up you see Lira, Aella, and Lina looking towards the scene so you wave your arms to get their attention. Lira sees you and you try cupping your hands to your mouth and yelling "HEALING POTION". Lira tilts her head and points at her ear looking confused. You know the crowd is too loud for her to hear you, so you mimic slicing one finger with your other finger, and then pouring an imaginary potion on the imaginary cut. You then put on a mock look of shock and show her your now uncut finger. Her eyes widen immediately and she pulls Aella close to tell her something. Aella takes off at a sprint into the throne building, returning moments later Lira and Aella push through the crowd to hand you the potion.

By now the man has stopped convulsing as you kneel down next to him, but he's gasping for breath and his color looks to be deathly pale. You uncork the bottle and pour some into his mouth, and Annabel massages his neck trying to get it down his throat. It only takes a moment, but you see the his color start to return and his breathing starts to get back to normal. You pour a little more in and see him swallow it on his own. Nodding at his elbow to Nadine and Annabel, you watch the two of them reset his elbow back into place. You weren't sure exactly when the noise of the crowd fell to silence, but the moment his elbow popped into place his eyes opened abruptly and he looked around.

"Did I win" he asked you loudly when his eyes fell on you. You could only smile and hang your head in relief as the crowd burst into cheers and laughter. You helped him sit upright and told him to drink the rest of the healing potion which he quickly did. You figured with a brain injury he might as well finish the whole thing off to just be sure. Getting him back onto his feet Lira stepped forward to put her hand on his shoulder. She leaned in to tell him something and he nodded in return. Next he offered his hand to you, Nadine, and Annabel offering his sincere thanks, and finally walked back to the sideline glaring at Cal who just sat smirking. The crowd made their way back to where they were as Lira and Aella made their way back to their seats.

"The tournament will continue" Lira yells before sitting down. You are next up to fight, but you feel a bit less enthusiastic about it right now. Your opponent this time has a sword like you do, and from what you remember he was very capable. When the fight begins your opponent doesn't rush forward. Instead he makes a flourish with his blade, stands up straight, and crosses his sword across his chest to salute you. In response you cross your sword against your chest to return his salute with your own. The crowd cheers once again as the two of you start to circle each other.

You're a little wary of his movements. You remember him preferring to counter his opponent rather than attack, so you test him a little bit. As you remember, with every parry or dodge he follows quickly with a thrust of his own. Looking to avoid what it'd feel like to get hit with his sword you start luring his attacks by quickly jumping backwards after your attack. The result was exactly what you wanted when you slashed upward at him and jumped back while keeping your sword raised. He extended too far with his thrust trying to hit you, and you used all your might to bring your sword down and onto his blade near his hand. Your blade stopped, but his flew out of his grip onto the ground, and all you had to do was quickly move your blade to his throat. He smirked and nodded his head as the Amazon woman declared you the victor with another sound of the drum booming the crowd into a cheer. Offering his hand you clasped his wrist as he clasped yours. Letting go he wrapped his arm around your shoulder as the two of you walked back to the sidelines.

Two more fights took place for the second round of fights leaving 5 fighters left. According to the rules, straws would be picked by the remaining fighters to see who moved automatically on into the next round, and you were lucky enough to pull the longest straw. You were disappointed in the result of the first fight in that round. You weren't surprised to see Cal once again win though, but at least this time he didn't try to murder his opponent. The remaining fight in that round was very exciting. Both fighters went all out landing blow after blow on each other. As the fight went on you learned that it was actually a father and son, with the father just barely winning in the end when the son slipped on an upturned rock due to his exhaustion. The two of them embraced each other as the crowd cheered, and even Lira praised them for such a great fight. In the end that left you, Cal, and the father as the last fighters. To your surprise the father bowed out stating he only wanted the honor of fighting his son, and was proud that his son was now his equal. Which left you and Cal.

For the final fight they decided to delay it a moment in order to rake the arena. You didn't think a rock would snatch a victory from you, but you appreciated the brief moment all the same. You waved to your girls and they smiled back at you.

"I wonder which one" you heard Cal say as he came to stand next to you.

"Which one what" you asked frowning knowing you already weren't going to like his answer.

"Which one of your women I'll fuck first once I kill you" he responds without looking at you. You know he's trying his best to get under your skin, and honestly what he said did make you a bit angry, but you can't help but burst into laughter.

"What's so fuckin' funny outsider" he hisses at you. It takes you a moment to calm down because you can see him getting more and more angry. You hold up a finger for a second as you calm your laughter.

"Oh man, thanks for that. Hehe, oooohhhh, that was great. Ok, I'll admit anything can happen in that ring. I could trip up on a rock like that last fight and you could bash in my skull. That's fine, go in that ring with all the confidence you want, but what made me laugh" you say but interrupt yourself with a snort and start laughing again thinking about it.

"What's so fuckin' FUNNY" he yells at you.

"Oh man...sorry...just...HAHAHA...it's just...I don't know what would happen first if you did kill me. You want to fuck those women, but what would actually happen is Nadine or Dawn would make your blood boil in your skull, or maybe Annabel would melt you with one of her potions. Literally melt you, I've seen it happen, or possibly Yvette would get to you first and cut your head off. HAHAHA...you think...you think you'd have a chance of fucking any of them AHAHAHAHAHAHA" you burst into laughter again.

"Look here fuck face" Cal gets in your face poking his finger in your chest "Lina is mine. We belong together" he snarls.

"Oh my lord" you say trying to hold back your laughter as best you can "you think HAHAHA...you think Lina wants to fuck you too AHAHAHAHAHA...it's too much" you say holding your side "my cheeks...HAHAH...my sides...just stop...please" you say doubling over. You can hear the other fighters starting to snort and laugh behind you. Cal looks around, his face red with anger as he storms off to go stand in the ring now that the raking was finished. You calm your laughter down knowing he is likely going to try to kill you now. You let out a sigh feeling a little bad about the situation. You weren't trying to make an enemy today, but you just did.