In the Ochyra University representatives backroom,
Tony was briefing the others, they’re all gathering in a circle as they pray for the tournament success.
This is the first event that the first-year students of Ochyra University, this tournament is the first time for Ochyra University to make a name for themselves.
For Tony and Hera, this tournament is the best moment to establish Ochyra University’s reputation.
“Remember, stay calm and focus on your channeling in this first round. It’s all about the focus, channel the amount of mana you can perfectly control to create an elemental weapon that you’re most comfortable with. Like this”, Tony said.
His hands glow with a grey hue, the mana is not excessive but enough.
Slowly but surely, a metallic sword filled with mana materializes in front of him.
The greyish mana gather in front of Tony and started to create a sword slowly, it turns into a long sword that reaches almost three meters.
After the sword was completed, Tony grabbed it and lay it on his shoulder.
He looks at the students and said, “Just like that, no need to rush. At least you need to make one, I hope nobody fails to do this”
“You’ll be scored by how fast you can materialize it, how durable it is, and how strong it is so if you can’t make it fast just focus on the other two”
The students nodded their heads with determination, Ochyra University’s name is on their shoulders.
Hera then added from the side, “I will be watching for you all, so do your best!”, she said with a smile.
After getting ready themselves, they can hear the announcer was about to call them.
Tony glance lastly at the students and reminded, “Our leader Rex just Awakened, so it will be hard for him to do the first round so you guys need to make up for his lacking”
Just as he said this, Tony then frowns, “Wait, where’s Rex?”
Hearing this, Hera also realizes Rex is missing, “He left to search for a sword, I already told him to be back in thirty minutes”
“He’s here”, Adahra said calmly.
After Adhara said that, Rex got into the backroom with hurried steps.
The other was looking at Adhara weirdly, they’re confused as to how she knows Rex is near but they shrug it off.
All attention falls to Rex and the sword on his waist.
Although the sword Rex borrowed from Evelyn is still inside the scabbard, the others instantly notice that the sword is not a regular sword.
The sword is roaring with electricity, if not for the scabbard then maybe it will run rampant.
“What are you guys looking at? Am I late?”, Rex asks innocently, his words snapped everybody back to reality.
Hera then asks, “Where did you get the sword from?”
Rex smiles mysteriously, “Someone let me borrows it”
Hearing this, the others were confused.
Rosie and Adhara were also confused, ‘Who would lend Rex such an extraordinary sword?’
“PLEASE WELCOME, OCHYRA UNIVERSITY!!”
The announcer shouted excitedly making the crowd goes wild, many of them wanted to see Rex who taunted Kevin publicly.
The gate opened revealing the cheers of thousands of people, the bright light shone to the Ochyra University representatives as Tony signals them to go in.
Rex walks first as he’s the leader, he waves to the crowd.
Hera especially said to him to be friendly to the crowd,
Rex needs to at least make the front of a likable character for the Ochyra University, he doesn’t want to but Hera requests this to him. She even begged him.
In the end, Rex agrees to it because Ochyra University is also his university.
On the other of the arena, Rex saw the Faraday University representatives already lined up.
Faraday University and Ochyra University representatives are split by a translucent barrier, which divides the arena into two.
The barrier is there to prevent them from fighting.
The first round is to compare their mana control, it will deduce how well of an Awakened these students are.
“Faraday University, the host of the tournament is on my left. The challenger is on my right, Ochyra University”
“The first round of this tournament will be mana control, each side will send one student for each turn to show off their mana control and it will be picked randomly”
After the announcer said that, Rex looks to the Faraday University representatives.
He then scans each one of them, ‘There’s five fire Elementalist, one wind Elementalist, one earth Elementalist, and one water Elementalist. For a university that shines in their fire element, it is as expected’
Rex looks at them and saw they all have confident looks, it is really different from his team’s look.
Especially Rosie’s expression, her expression is very pale that one can tell that she’s dead nervous.
She once in a while glance at the second floor trying to find her parents.
It is as expected because Faraday University has years of history while Ochyra University just opened, the embedded pride and confidence are way in favor of the Faraday University.
Rex then looks at Kevin and scans him,
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Race: Human
Power: Rank Four Awakened(Early) – Hell Fire Elementalist
Mental: 43 (+20)
Strength: 42 (+56)
Agility: 61 (+10)
Endurance: 36 (+26)
Intelligence: 82
Kevin’s stats are stacked with high ranking gear, coming from a big family and also as the star of Faraday University his equipment didn’t come in a shock.
Looking at this, Rex immediately opens his stat tab.
He wanted to check how his weakened stats compared to him, ‘It will certainly somehow even with him now, my power is in the mid-rank four realms before’
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Pack: Silverstar (1/2)
Level: 21 (715,500/1,000,000)
Race: High Werewolf
Full-Moon: 21 Days – Yule Moon
Berserk: 50%
Sanity: 65%
Mental: 42 (+32)
Strength: 66 (+68)
Agility: 34 (+2)
Endurance: 27 (+25)
Intelligence: 52
Attributable Stats: 0
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Looking at his stats, it decreased drastically because of the 30% decrease.
His stats look even with Kevin who is only an early rank four, his force can increase about 10% of his physical stats and that can’t make up for the huge 30% loss.
‘Kevin’s agility is so high! I never would’ve thought about this’, Rex thought, he knows that fast opponents are his nemesis.
Just like when he fought Miru before, he got slashed multiple times by her.
Although he manage to defeat her that day, it was only due to luck making Miru caught off guard.
If Miru was to fight him with care, then it will be hard to defeat her.
Rex’s eyes then fall to his strength stat, he saw a big increase in the added section.
He was shocked when he saw his strength stats.
He looks at the sword given by Evelyn before with shock, ‘The best equipment I have is the necklace adding +30 to my mental stat but this sword adds me raw +50 strength!’
The sword is definitely a great sword that only a few can have, it was a miracle for someone like him can hold such a sword.
While he’s admiring the sword, he suddenly realizes something.
Rex looks at Kevin who is smiling smugly at him, there’s a blazing red fiery sword on his sides.
The lining and the materials it made look similar to the sword given by Evelyn, in fact, the only difference is the embedded element.
It emits a threatening fire aura that can even match the sword given by Evelyn, the swords are definitely in the same rank.
Rex smiles, ‘So that’s why she borrowed this to me’
“We will start the first round of the tournament, the jury for judging your final elemental weapon is on your right. Please number 3 of Faraday University and number 6 of Ochyra University step up”
Ivy who is the one wearing the number 6 pin was stunned, she then snapped out of her daze and walks calmly.
Although her walk looks okay, Rex can saw a slight tremble on her legs.
The number three of Faraday University is a guy with long blonde hair, there’s a blue circle mark on his forehead that stands out.
He walks a couple of steps confidently before stopping,
Ivy and the number 3 stare at each other for a while, they’re both Water Elementalist and the competitive aura between them sparks.
“The scoring will be based on your speed of materializing an elemental weapon, the durability, and the power of it”
There are three juries on the side, one of them is the lecturer from Faraday University, the other is Tony, and the last one is a man from a neutral party.
“BEGIN!”
After the signal from the announcer, number three starts first.
He stretches out his hands as water mana got sucked into between his hands, it was at a shocking speed that in just seconds it started to take shape.
Ivy gritted her teeth, the momentary pause makes number three got the lead.
She started to gather the water mana, although it is a little slow compared to number three it is not that bad.
The crowd sent cheers for both of them, seeing the future of Awakened makes them excited and also felt secure.
The stronger the Awakened students, the more excited they get.
In a flash, number three finished his elemental sword in the shape of a blue sparkling trident that is emitting intense water mana.
The water inside it is twirling like a vortex, it emits strong water mana.
Ivy also follows through, she made a water spear stretching for about four meters.
After seeing they’re done, the juries raise their first score for the first components.
From the look of it, it is obvious for number 3 to win the speed of making it. The difference between them is about five seconds.
Although it looks slight, in battle this can determine life and death.
Three of the juries raise the Faraday University crest as their first component, they all agree the first score goes to Faraday University.
After that, the announcer continues, “Three of the juries vote Faraday University for the speed, now participant please ready your weapons”
Hearing this, number three and Ivy focus on their own weapons.
They both don’t know about how they will get tested when suddenly,
ZONG!!
A vibrating mana wave suddenly appears out of nowhere aiming at their weapons, it disturbs their mana channeling making their weapons vibrate.
The wave of vibration becomes stronger for each passing second,
Ivy frowns heavily as her elemental weapon started to vibrate heavily, the wave of vibration makes her dazed.
It didn’t only attack the elemental weapon but also herself.
Rosie bits her lips after feeling the wave of vibration, even when she’s not maintaining an elemental weapon she can feel her vision becomes blurry.
Rex notices this, he then shakes his head, ‘The tension is overwhelming her’
Number three also struggled to keep his elemental weapon in check but suddenly, the vibration stops.
Ivy and number three finally manage to steady their elemental weapons, just when they almost gave up the wave of vibration stops.
They both look at the juries and saw the three of them holding the Faraday University crest.
Tony looks unwilling but he needs to keep it fair,
Ivy was confused as to why she lost so one-sidedly, even Tony voted for number three.
She glances at her water spear and saw it still trembling uncontrollably, even when the wave of vibration stopped it’s still trembling.
Her shocked expression was evident on her face, “Why can’t I stop the trembling?”
“As you all can see, the vibration contains disruptive properties that will still linger even after the vibration disappear”
“The weaker elemental weapon will vibrate more, it can even be destroyed”
Hearing this, Ivy held her head down in shame.
She’s the first to come first to compete and she lost two points overwhelmingly, she can’t even make one of the juries support her.
Number three smiles mockingly, he pridefully waves to the crowd.
“FARADAY!!”
“FARADAY!!”
The crowd cheered for the host of the tournament, number 3 overwhelming victory excites them greatly.
Kevin from the sides was smiling mockingly,
The person beside him approach him and said, “This will push his pride down, he will surely falter in this tournament if this keeps up”
“Even if he’s in full shape, he will not beat me”, Kevin said with a grin.
In his line of vision, Rex was looking at Ivy with a complicated expression.
Kevin thought Rex is starting to get nervous because of the overwhelming first victory of Faraday University but in reality, he doesn’t.
Rex is currently thinking about how can he win against Kevin later, he doesn’t care about the other rounds.
All that matters is for him is to finish the promise he made to Rosie.
He’s in a hurry because of all that is happening to him, ‘It’s going to be hard to defeat him on a broad day’