Kyle hummed softly and checked his mana.
“20 percent mana left. I think I cleaned the mountain. Let’s go down now.”
He tapped his foot on the ground and immediately started running downward.
The mountain was rocky with many large boulders scattered around everywhere.
On his way, he stopped when he saw Regius’s group walking ahead of him.
Kyle gazed at their backs. His eyes traveled to the honey-haired girl walking behind Regius with another girl.
“It’s seemed they know each other.”
He wanted to say hello to Regius but when he thought about how they were running away after witnessing the ice domain he stopped himself.
Kyle shook his head and decided to move in a different direction. After coming down from the mountain he encountered some more monsters but they were too weak.
Kyle’s days in the forest were quite relaxing. He would avoid all the other participants and kill as many monsters as possible.
The only problem was that he wasn’t able to take a proper clean bath. The small lakes and other water sources he encountered on his way were clean but he wasn’t satisfied.
After a month of running and killing monsters, Kyle finally stopped because he got bored of the usual routine.
The only things around him were large trees, plain valleys, mountains, and a few water sources. Moreover, he unexpectedly broke through to (B)-Rank, and his strength increased again.
The increase gave Kyle a headache. Not because he didn’t like his new strength but because the highest rank monster he found up till now was only (C)-Rank. Kyle already had so many strong skills and coupled with the blue flames a (C)-Rank monster wasn’t even able to scratch him.
No matter how slowly he fought with the monsters they would die within a few seconds. So, he wasn’t able to enjoy a good fight.
Kyle pinched his brows with an exaggerated sigh.
‘I am getting too strong.’
He shook his head solemnly but Bia’s sarcastic voice sounded in his head and it almost made him trip.
-‘No, you are becoming a narcissist.’
‘Tsk.’
Kyle rolled his eyes inwardly and started moving. This time he just roamed around without doing anything.
After a day, he started observing the other participants. Their fighting styles, their skills, their arts.
It was indeed fruitful because, within a single day, he learned a lot of new things. He even secretly scared the participants with his blue flames and ‘borrowed’ some of their weapons.
Kyle grinned at the pile of swords he collected just in a single day.
“I wanted one sword but now I have so many swords.”
He tapped the swords and threw them in his mind space. They were all low-rank with (C)-Rank being the highest.
Kyle clicked his tongue. Now, with his strength increased he needed a strong weapon because he knew his sword Art would be more powerful.
Meanwhile, outside the competition space. The atmosphere around the dome was quiet and heavy.
The audience and the many academies professors left after the first week that’s why now the dome was mostly empty.
However, the noble families, Anlee, Aira, and a few more unexpected individuals had their eyes glued to the large screen, floating below the dome ceiling.
Dynn eyes narrowed at the screen and his hand trembled slightly. He was sitting beside Anlee with a grim face. Even though he agreed when Regius his grandson told him about the event he was just too worried to leave him alone. That’s why after giving his wife some consoling words he arrived at the dome.
However, he didn’t expect to see a very familiar name on the ranking screen.
1_Kyle Ohan 360,450
2_Sinon Ambing 35,670
3_Larji Homes 31,040
4_Regius Gravis 31,010
‘Kyle… Kyle Ohan.’
Dynn repeated this name in his mind. He wasn’t sure why but he was having a deja vu somewhere at the back of his mind.
Was this person the same Kyle who appeared in his village a month ago? Dynn solemn eyes traveled to Anlee and he said with a grim voice.
“Do you know about this Kyle?”
Anlee turned around to look at him with a deadpan expression. Not just Anlee, Aira, and the other individuals in the dome all turned their heads at Dynn.
“What?”
Dynn blurted out with a serious expression but Anlee sighed.
“Can you see the dark circles under my eyes? They are all because no matter where I looked I wasn’t able to find anything regarding Kyle.”
Anlee turned around to look at the projections.
“The person who knew about him, Serena just disappeared into thin air. So, I don’t think we will be able to know anything about him for the time being.”
Dynn nodded and looked at the screen to see Regius’s name again. For some reason, he felt sour when he looked at the huge points difference between the top name and the other participants.
Why was the difference so high? It’s like Kyle was collecting pebbles while the others were collecting huge boulders.
‘I want to kick the top name out of the ranking list. He is clearly cheating!’
Dynn grumbled inwardly and tore his gaze from the floating screen because it was giving him mild depression.
Not just Dynn but even the nobles sitting behind him were depressed due to Kyle’s points. They thought their children were the best out of the best but Kyle’s points told them their children were nothing in front of him.
While they were contemplating why Kyle’s points were so high, they noticed his points stopped moving altogether.
Aira was the first who notice this and a frown appeared between her brows.
“Don’t tell me this kid got injured? Tsk, he was doing great.”
Anlee shrugged his shoulders.
“Don’t worry. If he was badly injured he would have already appeared in the dome. I think he just stopped hunting monsters.”
Then he laughed loudly.
“Anyway, with the amount of points he has right now even if he stopped and didn’t do anything he would stay at the top until the end of the event.”
Aira clicked her tongue. Not just her a lot of individuals showed sore expressions. However, there was nothing they could do.