Once Gora and Secomi have the logs standing up straight they step around fifteen feet back”OK Secomi log splitting isn’t a test of strength like shot put or stone lifting. log splitting is purely about ability”

  Secomi looks a little confused. When he heard log splitting he figured 1 foot tall logs that they were to split with some kind of brute force. Yet the log is 15 feet away the only way he could hit it would be with his geia though hes not sure how he could split the eight foot tall log with his fmes”Gora this is insane how am i supposed to even hit it?”

  Gora grins and points to a table to the side of the ring near them, the top of it would have man various weapons on dispy. gora walks over and picks up not the many swords axes and other sharp objects but instead picks up a sling. Grabbing three yellow stones she makes her way back over to secomi and presents the little yellow stones to him.”do you know what these are secomi?”

  Secomi looks over the yellow stones quite curiously as he goes to pick one up to get a better look the little pebble shocks him. As he quickly pulls his hand backs he looks at gora looking quite amazed”geia infused stones? Where do you people find this stuff?”

  Gora ughs a little”find? You have to make this kinda stuff bozzo. Its no surprise you violent astrans wouldn’t know anything about geia working. You might live in those impressive stone castles and build impressive stone bridges but us sokarans are a master of working with geia!”

  He looks quite confused now as he looks at the stone again”your people forged these how?”

  She ughs and belittlingly pats his head”sorry Secomi that’s a Sokaran secret that we would never tell you hot heads”

  Secomi’s eyebrows once again twitch as gora continues to antagonize hi,.”just hurry up and demonstrate how you sokarans do this event”

  Gora grins and puts one of the yellow stones into the sling. Getting into a proper stance she starts swinging it. Her focus shifts towards the logs; she swings the little stone in the swing only for a few moments before releasing it.

  little sparks of electricity crackle through the air. secomi watches with much interest as the stone flies over the log rather than hitting it. Though the second the pebble is right above a bolt of lighting shoots down from it into the core of the log almost splitting it in half as the wave of geia had came out the side rather going straight through.the log still stood as the part where it splits is more to Gora’s left the further down it goes on the log. she was mere millimeters from hitting the center perfectly but with a sport like this precision is everything.

  Secomi hair stands up straight though not just from the impressive discharge of energy but through the new terror he felt for the sokarans. He had never known the sokarans to be such skilled workers of geia nor had he ever seen such a casual dispy of such destruction. The log started to catch fire causing it to finally fall over.

  Gora quickly rushes over to it carrying a rge leather bnket and proceeds to start batting the fmes with it. The fire is quickly put out and gora makes her way back over to a still shocked secomi.” what a frightening dispy of geia if that were to hit me id be finished

  Gora shrugs”these little stones cost a fortune and are only used for ceremony like this I’ve heard stories of them used in war against the luutons but they’re not something you’re likely to see on the battlefield. though i guess i do use something simir to them”

  Secomi breathes a little easier hearing this. He looks at the sling then back at the stones”well gora i guess your were being quite honest. i too have no idea how you could teach me an astran to participate in this challenge. Are you sure i cant do discus i might be able to win that one I’ve pyed the sport a few times and seemed to be quite good at it”

  Gora rolls her eyes seeming quite annoyed by the astrans neediness.”no secomi the winner of the antagon is decided by which side won the most challenges meaning we can only afford to lose one. If my grandfather decides he doesn’t want to lose to me in discus this is undoubtedly his second choice and to be honest im not sure i could beat him in log splitting. So I’ll win discus no matter what, you’ll lose log splitting , and i doubt there’s anyone that could beat Utum so that’s two challenges in the bag. Suck it up buttercup this is for the good of your people im sure your massive astran ego could be taken down a few pegs.”

  Secomi fist clutch down”no ill find a way just you wait and see!”

  His voice was filled with fighting spirit he seem to determined to win no matter what. Though it seems gora is unaffected by his moxy as she just shrugs”well try your best i guess we still have a little longer until noon. im gonna go find that stone then im going to throw a few discs”

  She waves goodbye and starts searching for the little stone. Leaving secomi by himself. With another sigh of disappointment he makes his way over to the table of weapons. It seems most of them were simple weapons designed for these challenges.

  He sighed though as he looked upon the swords this day just keeps getting more disappointing. He had hoped the sokarans preference in weapons was a bit more different than the astrans but at st all the swords in front of him were swords meant to be used with a single hand.

  He grabs one of the one handed swords regardless and begins to examine them. While most of the sword the sokarans used were not too different from swords his fellow astrans used the one he grabs looks quite peculiar. The bde was oddly curved and the edge was only on one side. It reminded him of the curved bdes of the lisad though the curve seemed to be more pronounced on the the lower end of the bde where the lisads swords curve closer to the end giving them the appearance of a sickle. Secomi didn’t know quite what to make of these short swords but decided this would be his weapon of choice.

  He knew there was no point in using his geia a fme can not cut it can only burn so any fire he sends towards the logs will be fruitless. Instead he has a different approach in mind. He stands in front of the logs 15 feet away like gora had shown him. Pulling his right arm behind him he holds the short one handed curved sword back. He braces his body for a second then slings the sword towards the log. It spins like a wheel as it cuts through the air. though as it approaches the log it spins forward one more time before hitting it causing the front of the hilt to hit the log.

  Secomi swears to himself as he once again lets out another sigh of disappointment. He wasn’t going to lose this challenge without giving it his all.