Book 2: Chapter 42: First Round Part I

Book 2: Chapter 42: First Round Part I

Scarlet

I cant help but stare at the beautiful prize money. A grand total of a hundred thousand credits and a single point for everyone on the first place team for this tournament. And it takes all I have in me not to let my awe and desire at it show. To keep my face perfectly neutral.

Tar just sighs and doesnt say a word about my current thoughts.

Good on him.

My attention is brought back to reality though when the brackets stop alternating above us, showing the team matchups. And after some brief searching, I find our team which Michael named Last Stand on account of this being the only time Ill be working with them in an Interschool Tournament matched up against a team called Sunshine.

Honestly, Im not feeling all that excited about this battle. Specifically because I know how itll go. After all, the tournament organizers are all about keeping the most entertaining battles closer to the end of each tournament. So they arent going to pair us up with a hard team to beat at the very start.

And now that the brackets are in, lets commence with the tournament!!! the MC whose name I still cant remember despite promising to myself that I would look it up shouts, his voice echoing throughout the stadium before mist begins to rise from the pitch black stone, enveloping everyone. Then I find myself with the others standing in a white room with a large glass wall in between us and another team of five who I can only assume is Sunshine.

My eyes are drawn to the top of the wall where it has a countdown along with four large screens showing the current four livestreams of the other battles. And the countdown itself seems to be going down from fifteen minutes, which I guess means were going fourth in our bracket.

I turn my attention back to our opponents again to find them trying to talk to us for a second before realizing that the glass is completely soundproof. So they give up and begin studying us, a couple of them giving me wary glances that make me think they recognize me.

This round should be pretty easy, I hear Michael say, and I cant help but nod. Because judging by their mana level, which I can sense from here, they are only around level sixty or seventy. Meaning I should be able to tear them apart with ease.

Which just goes to show how much easier the majority of the secondary tournaments are compared to the Primaries where everyone is at the max level for their Classes. Otherwise their universities wouldnt bother sending them as the predator skill is a little confusing sometimes on whether or not itll actually give you the full bonus listed depending on the level difference between you and your target.

Not too tall, nor too short.

Alright, you know the plan, Michael says, and we all nod before sprinting forward into the tower.

Our plan is rather simple, since Michael spent the first few minutes of our wait studying our opponents through online sources, finding out that they all have some sort of earth or nature based magic. And none of them tend to like fighting in close range.

Not a very good setup for a team, but from what he could find, theyre just a group of friends working together that didnt really have team setup in mind when making their team.

So the plan basically involves having Emily, Belle, and Michael stall them while Denise and I rush forward to attack.

We sprint our way through the empty tower towards the stairs before climbing them to the second floor and almost immediately finding four of the five girls on the balconies of the third floor overlooking the second floor with attacks readied next to them. Attacks that they release towards us in the forms of spears made out of earth, some sort of green bolt of lightning, some pollen, and some powdered poison.

But were ready for it as Denise immediately jumps forward and slams her fist into the ground, making half a dozen geysers of flames shoot out of the walls, incinerating the poison and pollen pollen that according to Michael is supposed to put you to sleep. Then after that, I raise my hand, summoning two spears of blood that I send flying straight at the spear and bolt of lightning heading towards us, destroying the spear in the process and making the bolt of green lightning absorb into the blood, evaporating it in the process.

I dont stop there though, following it up with blood boil and life drain on the girls that I can see, making them all stagger forward while clutching their chests as red bubbles begin to pop on their skin, splattering blood on them and their clothes.

Guess this was inevitable with you on the team, Michael sighs, realizing were not really gonna get much actual training here working as a team when my skills kind of overpower them. He then waves his hand at me and says, Go ahead and do what you do best.

I cant help the grin that stretches across my face at those words.

Then let the hunt begin, I mutter, raising my head to look at the students again who are struggling to climb back to their feet amidst the burning of their blood and draining of their life force.