Meredith looks over the arena as the crowd keeps cheering and booing. The crystals echo the speakers words once more. "For the first round, these ruthless bandits shall fight for their lives. They have been offered a royal pardon if they can best our competitors." As they say this magic activities in the arena and the mentioned criminals flash into it. "To be honest, they'll be fine. However for who's the best fighter that's a tricky question." She shudders a bit.<br/><br/>"Both have highly powerful magic on their side. I've gone over Hayes' file a few times. He has the ability to control fire by spewing it from his mouth. However at the same time Alucard is a shadow master." She says watching Alucard begin to control the shadows in the arena for his benefit. Meanwhile Hayes draws both of his blades running into two bandits slitting their throats with ease. "To put it simply, if they ever fought one another it was more likely to be when they were younger. If they fought today they'd kill each other." She ends as Hayes sends one of his blades flying into the skull of another bandit and running at him using him much like a spring bored as he grabs his blade. Meanwhile Alucard makes several bandits fight each other using their shadows against them.