The class tournament has a different kind of theme each time. This time it has a theme as a survival contest. The tournament will take place in a nearby forest owned by the academy. There are two hours for all participant classes to eliminate others.
Once the two hours are up, the battle will stop, and the most surviving people in one class are the winners. If there is the same number of people, the teachers will judge who the winner is.
Besides fighting with other classes, they also need to fight monsters that are scattered inside the forest. The monsters are varied but most of them are only ungraded and few 1st-grade monsters.
It will be difficult for the 1st and 2nd-year students who still do not form their mana core to kill one of these monsters. But, if the student manages to kill the monster, they will get 50 points for each person in their group.
For safety reasons, the student will get barrier-generated items that could hold attacks from the 2nd-grade monster.
The barrier will get alarmed if being attacked with the strength of a 1st-grade monster twice. Then, the student will get disqualified and need to get out of the forest.
Hearing this tournament, Angus thought silently, 'Damn.. What a troublesome tournament?'
This kind of tournament is a headache for Angus because many unexpected events could happen, especially fighting against monsters in the wild. If something goes wrong, he needs to reveal his real strength.
Because of this reason, Angus decided to visit the monster house, a place that contains monsters to be studied by students.
The monster sent into the tournament has the same species as the one in this monster house. This way, it will motivate students to learn more about the monster.
Angus wants to learn more about these monsters and open his manual battle selection with these monsters.
He plans to learn their fighting habits and patterns in the manual battle before entering the tournament. This way, he could at least somewhat avoid any unpredictable situation during the match.
After learning about the monster closely, he goes to the smithing area. He needs to take some material for weapons to protect himself in case of an emergency.
Fortunately, the academy provides iron ore in low quantities for each smithing student to increase their smithing mastery. Since Angus never uses his quota from the start of the term, he has enough iron ore to forge a weapon.
After taking his iron ore, he goes back to Spring Dorm. Spring Dorm has many facilities. One of them is a smithing area that its residents have never used before. None of the residents of the Spring Dorm could do or interest in smithing beside Angus.
Arriving at the abandoned smithing area, Angus starts the fire in the forge. Although Angus only acts as a helper during his smithing course, he still has some experience making his own weapon in his past life.
As a true martial artist, Angus needs to learn the art of making cold weapons to know how they actually work.
Since he has only limited resources, he plans only making throwing weapons that specialize in piercing. After hours of hammering and burning, he finally made five throwing daggers that are very slim and thin but have a sharper edge.
'Hmm… Not too bad. Still, I am quite rusty to take this much time to produce these daggers' thought Angus inwardly after inspecting the daggers.
Because of that, he still needs to skip his side course for the entire afternoon. After that, he returned to his room and prepared himself to fight some monster inside his system.
Experimenting a few times inside the manual battle, Angus found that he could bring anything he touched to the battle arena.
He could bring things to the battle arena and also cannot be too big, like the bed or other big furniture. Apparently, the battle is happening inside his mind while his real body stays still after trying to record himself during the usage of manual battle.
Angus will also get the same wound if he gets injured during the manual battle. Using this as a rule, he also speculates that there is a chance he could get killed if he dies during the manual battle system.
Soon, the time for the class tournament is approaching. All the students inside the royal academy are in hype to fight against monsters or the other students. After getting some speech from the headmaster, the tournament officially begins from the 1st year.
At this moment, class 1-A is in their position outside the forest waiting for the signal. As always, princess Jayna took leadership among the rest of the group. She keeps making some speech about beating the others and wins without having real planning.
'Well, what did you expect from an eight-year-old kid to think of a plan?' thought Angus while having a bored expression.
*BOOM* After a while, the signal for the tournament began. The group immediately goes inside the forest in search of the other team.
While this is happening, Angus wanders inside the forest, aimlessly separating himself from his groups. Looking around that no one is nearby, he closes his eyes and focuses his mind.
"HUMP!!" as Angus releases a thin layer of mana to the ground. [Mana Echolocation]
Soon, he got feedback and knew the approximate location of others. Then, he goes towards the nearest monster location. Angus planned to get eliminated by fighting with a monster.
After five minutes of walking, he found a scaled monster that was two-meter tall. It's called Mandile, a huge lizard that is moving very fast with a poisoned claw. It is also famous for being aggressive.
Since Angus didn't hide his presence, it immediately found him and attacked him. Angus pretends to look afraid at this encounter and stays still.
Suddenly, a barrier from his school emblem became active and protected him before the claw approached Angus. But, the Mandile ignored it and kept clawing at him. Soon, it managed to activate the alarm in Angus's school emblem.
'Fiuhh… With this now, I just need to go outside the forest.' thought Angus inwardly.
A few moments later, A teacher came and frightened the Mandile with his mana aura. Looking at Angus is fine without a scratch and half-sleep eye expression, "Are you okay?" asked the teacher.
"Yeah, fine. Now, I just need to get out of this forest, right?" replied Angus with enthusiasm.
"Y-yeah, I will bring you out…" said Teacher.
*BOOOMM* A loud explosion was heard from somewhere inside the forest. Then the teacher's communicator rang loudly, "CODE GREEN, all teachers need to go towards the North immediately!!"
"Tch.. Just what is happening at this beginning tournament? Can you go toward the base by yourself? I need to check the situation." said the Teacher.
"Sure, no problem. I could walk by myself." Said Angus before the teacher went towards the explosion source.
'Just to be sure, let's check what is going on.' thought Angus as he uses [Mana Echolocation].
"This is…"