Chapter 231 Pressure Tactic

Luis was in no way surprised by how Rodney had finally shown up in the arena, Nicole had told him everything that had happened while they were in the clinic.

Rodney felt a shiver run down his spine as he had locked eyes with Luis and it didn't take up to ten seconds before he had broken eye contact.

He had thought of him as only a level three higher first year that he could get back at and show him that he shouldn't mess with him but after the events of today, his opinion of him had changed drastically.

Luis could have ended his life back there in the woods if he wanted to, just thinking about that was giving him goosebumps.

The countdown began as Rodney glanced at his hands which had large red spots over them.

Diego was the first to attack as soon as the countdown was over. He pulled out a large piece of earth from the ground and just threw it toward Rodney.

That wasn't a problem for Rodney as the piece of earth wasn't that fast giving him the opportunity to roll to the side before the piece of earth smashed on the side where he was standing before.

Diego tried to pull more earth out from the ground but before he could do that Rodney stomped his foot on the ground sending out the shockwaves that knocked Diego off his feet.

This would have been the moment where he would summon his fist blades and pounce on Diego with them but Luis had destroyed his fist blades recently and it was going to take time before he recreated them.

Diego tried to get up but Rodney stomped his foot on the ground again and he was back on the floor.

Looking at the way Diego was falling you could tell he wasn't among the skilled fighters in the class and despite being a third-year student he was only a level three higher while Rodney was a level five higher.

His fist blades may be unavailable but he still had his spear, he summoned the spear and quickly closed up on Diego.

Diego got up from the floor right on time to form an earth shield which he used to block Rodney's first slash but the earth shield couldn't take the second slash as Rodney's spear shattered it.

Diego didn't have enough time to react after that as Rodney thrust his spear into his shoulder.

"Arghhhh!!" Diego screamed as he fell to the flow on one knee.

Rodney quickly pulled the spear out of his hand as blood gushed out from the deep wound and then sent a powerful kick down his opponent's face to knock him out cold.

"I still don't understand why most of the third-year fights are looking easy but it will probably get better in the next round."

The medical team rushed into the arena and tied a cloth around Diego's bleeding shoulder before putting him on a stretcher and carrying him away.

Rodney was brought up to the third-year side by the earth pillar and the first people he had seen were George, Brad, and Brolin.

"I thought something terrible might have happened to you," George said.

"But something terrible did happen to me," Rodney said, looking towards the first-year area.

"What?" Jacob said, popping up behind Brad.

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Both Nicole and Michael were seated on the blue couch in the nice-looking living room that had its walls painted blue.

"So what do I offer you guys?" The man asked as soon as he had come out from the other room.

"How about some juice?"

"Nothing," Nicole said.

"Huh?" The man said.

"We're here for a serious business Blip," Nicole said.

"What type of serious business?" Blip asked, trying to keep the smile on his face.

"Why don't you take a seat and find out for yourself," Nicole said, pointing at the couch at the other end.

Blip was hesitant as he stared at her for a while before eventually sitting down on the couch.

"So what's the serious business?" Blip asked.

"How many reports did you submit from students last week?" Nicole asked.

"There were only two." Blip said, sounding as casual as ever.

"But there has been a lot of bullying going on in the school so far," Nicole said. "How come we never got any of those reports?"

"I don't think they submitted their complaints to me." Blip said. His voice went from casual to a little shaky.

As soon as Nicole had mentioned that there was lots of bullying going on, the bald-headed man had stiffened as his heart began to beat at a little faster pace.

"They didn't?" Nicole said.

"Yeah." Blip said.

"And you're ready to swear on your life that they didn't?" Nicole said.

"Yeah." Blip said with an awkward nod.

There was silence in the room as Nicole stared directly at him and just the intense heat from her eyes was making him really uncomfortable.

'Oh, she's good.' Michael thought as he could already see Blip trembling from where he was sitting.

"I want to see a full report of all the complaints you have gotten since we arrived here," Nicole said getting up from the couch and turning towards the door.

"When?" Blip asked.

"Tomorrow morning." She said opening the door. "And don't leave anything out."

"If you keep your hands clean nobody will disturb you," Michael said before getting up and leaving through the door.

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The competition had finally come to an end for the day and looking up Luis could see that the sun was beginning to set as its orange rays were beginning to shine on the edge of the arena.

Lieutenant Kate had gone down with her earth pillar after telling the students that they could leave.

In order to avoid congestion, the first-year students were told to leave first before the second-year students would follow.

The martial arts students moved together as the first-year students made their way out of the arena.

They were outside now and continued moving but Luis was suddenly stopped by someone who had suddenly grabbed his arm.

He was startled at first until he turned and saw who it was.

"Hi, Luis," Sonia said as she brought her view up to meet Luis' eyes, she still hadn't let Luis' arm go and seemed to be snuggling on it now.

All of the martial arts students had stopped moving as they looked at Luis and the cute girl who was holding onto his arm now.

"Do you know her?" Orah leaned closer to Ace to ask.

"No." Ace said with a wave of his head.

"Oh hi…." Luis was cut short as he didn't even know her name.

Of course, he knew her from the time green-eyed students were locked up but he never got her name.

"It's Sonia," Sonia said, letting go of his arm now.

Just like Luis, Sonia had green eyes but while Luis' eyes were emerald green hers seemed to be light green which wasn't that much noticeable.

"Ok, Sonia."

"Who's your friend Luis?" Ace asked, he had rephrased that sentence meaning it didn't come out the way he thought it.

"I'm Sonia, I was among the students who were locked up because I have green eyes," Sonia said. She didn't even give Luis the chance to answer the question, but Luis was okay given that he didn't know what to answer.

"Oh, green eyes," Orah said, taking notice of the color of her eyes.

"Yeah." Ace said.

"Luis was really sweet to me while we were locked up in those cells," Sonia said.

"How?" Ella asked.

"He wouldn't eat and would always pass his food to me, maybe because he thought I wasn't getting enough food," Sonia said, crossing her hand around his arm again.

"You were giving her your food?" Silvia said, looking at Luis.

"Why?" Monica asked.

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