The tournament continues, the jury’s decision silenced Faraday University’s representatives.
‘They will surely cheat again, they will make it harder for me to win’, Rex thought.
He concluded that Faraday University aims at him and those close to him, there’s no other explanation besides that.
Considering Rex taunted and mocked their first ranker, it makes sense for them to do this.
‘I don’t think I can last long, but I can’t just let them have this one’, Rex thought.
In the first part, Rex and Edward are tied.
If Rex loses the second part, he can only tie things if he wins the third part.
Although Rex’s element is of a higher rank than Edward’s, the difference between their Awakened strength was miles away.
Rex just got into rank three while Edward already reached early rank four.
In rank four, an Awakened already started to make runes that can amplify their spell power by multiple times.
This is a huge advantage of rank four from rank three.
ZONG!
The wave of vibration came,
Rex readies himself but he was shocked by the power of the wave, he can feel his head throbbing in pain because of the wave.
What he concluded is true, Faraday University cheats again.
He gritted his teeth as he tries to focus on his elemental weapon, he can feel that this wave is even stronger than the wave power they used on Adhara.
‘They really want me to lose’, Rex thought.
A minute passed,
This minute feels like an eternity for Rex, the wave becomes unbelievably stronger.
“Look at Rex, he’s struggling! It’s only been a minute”
“What the hell, I thought he will at least reach the third-minute mark”
“All talk with no skills”
The crowd that supported Faraday University started to criticize him, they started to open their mouths again.
Approaching the two-minute mark, Rex’s lightning ball started to throb uncontrollably.
It was trembling left and right as black lightning started to zapped around, from the looks of it, he will not survive the next few seconds.
Edward from the side was confused,
He knows that the wave of vibration is hard but not this hard, seeing Rex’s trying desperately to hold on greatly shocks him.
‘Is he that bad? Or?’, He thought in confusion.
Before he can even finish thinking, the lightning ball on top of Rex was trembling crazily.
Seeing this, Kevin unconsciously smirks.
He really wanted to at least see Rex’s embarrassed expression, this might just be the time where Rex will stumble.
BLITZ!!
Rex’s elemental weapon exploded with black electricity, it zapped around the arena chaotically.
Sand splashed around the arena covering the other’s vision, every time the black lightning zapped it scorched the sand in black.
Some of the black lightning zapped the barrier splitting the arena in two, which makes the barrier flickering slightly.
Hera creates a barrier to shield the other representatives from the explosion.
The jury stopped the match as the medical team strides inside, they thought that Rex will surely be injured because of it.
Seeing this, the jury from Faraday University smiles evilly.
“REX!!”, Rosie shouted in worry, she’s afraid that Rex will be injured.
She is worried If Rex got injured, he will lose to Kevin miserably. The agreement with her parents will be called off.
Adhara on the other hand is not worried, she can feel Rex is okay.
The sand fades off revealing a shadow in the center of it, the crowd gasps in surprise when they saw Rex standing there unharmed.
Even the jury from Faraday University was shocked.
Rex just brushes off the sand that got into his uniform nonchalantly, he’s brushing it off as if the black lightning explosion from before was nothing.
Looking at this, the medical team froze before they went back.
It was clear from Rex’s demeanor that he is not harmed, in fact, he’s not injured at all except for a few dents on his clothes.
‘I didn’t train for this, it’s a good thing to be able to hold it for that long’, Rex thought.
He’s not worried about the first round of the tournament,
Even if he wins against Edward, the Ochyra University has already lost four times.
So winning the first round is already out of their reach.
Rex brushed off his uniform before the juries stated Edward’s win, it was obvious because Edward didn’t have a hard time tanking the wave.
But he’s skeptical about the wave, he just didn’t believe Rex is that bad.
The next part will be power testing.
Edward is up first, he dashes towards the dummy with two fiery daggers in hand.
His movement is fast, it makes Edward looks like a fiery shadow, “Fire Titan Art! Blazing Slash!”
SLASH!
Edward slashes the dummy leaving two burnt slash marks on it, it created an X mark on the dummy’s head.
Rex didn’t pay attention to Edward, he’s looking at the sand.
His eyes darted to the sand on Faraday University’s side, he seems to be searching for something before a smirk appear on his face, ‘Nice, it went through’
“810, Early Rank Four”
A mechanical sound was heard as it states Edward’s power.
The crowd cheered for Edward, his score is the highest out of all previous pairings.
But some of them were not surprised, Edward is second only to Kevin so his high power was expected.
After Edward heard his score, he glances at Rex to only find him not paying attention to him.
He felt hurt because of Rex’s action.
Rex notices this before he smiles awkwardly, he saw Edward’s pained expression.
It is Rex’s turn now, he knows that Ochyra University will definitely lose this round but he didn’t want to look bad.
He musters all the surrounding mana and feeds them to the lightning ball.
The black lightning ball above Rex becomes bigger by the second, it becomes even more chaotic as it blitzing with electric current.
It was a sight to behold, the lightning ball was the size of a human.
His hand then cracked with black lightning, he points his fingers towards the lightning ball before he shouted, “Lightning Salvo!!”
BLITZ!!
A lightning strike came out of his fingers as it attacked the lightning ball.
The lightning strike hit the lightning ball making it cracked with lightning, it lit up crazily with immense lightning mana.
It lit the place black, it looks like a blitzing black hole.
After that, Rex points his fingers to the dummy in front of it before the lightning ball sent a thick black lightning strike towards it.
KABOOM!
The lightning sound makes the crowd jumped in shock,
Some of them can’t help but close their ears, the sound from the lightning strike was akin to a gun firing beside their ears.
In a flash, it zapped the lightning before a mechanical voice rings out.
“650, Peak Rank Three”
Hearing this, the crowd was speechless,
“All that is only 650?”
“I thought it will be higher than that”
It was logical for them to criticize Rex because he is the strongest in Ochyra University, they expected more but Rex’s score greatly disappoint them.
Muji, Rosie’s father frown, “He can’t even beat the second rank, how can he beat Kevin”
Hearing Muji’s remark, Cinta also frowns, ‘Where did he get that confidence from? Is this really his maximum power?’
For someone who doesn’t know Rex, it is indeed a low score.
But for Ochyra University’s representatives especially Adhara, Rosie, and Hera, this score makes them utterly shocked.
They know that Rex becomes an Awakened recently.
He’s not even a month old in being an Awakened, but his score was an astonishing 650!
Rex’s score matches everyone who already becomes an Awakened for years, he even beat Adhara in terms of score.
“How? His growth is too fast!”, Hera said while covering his mouth.
Adhara and Rosie were also speechless, they’re beside Rex all the time but Rex becomes way stronger than them without them even noticing.
‘Can I even match him? Will, he even need me?’, Adhara thought.
She looks down at her scarred arms before he looked back at Rex, she has a complicated expression on her face.
Edward won the match, it was evident that Rex is still far away from him in terms of Awakened power.
Rex walks back calmly, his loss didn’t even phase him.
From the third floor, Evelyn studied Rex’s movement, ‘That’s weird, I’m sure he’s stronger than that. I can feel his overwhelming power from our meeting before’
Kevin on the side was silent, he studied Rex from afar.
Although Edward won against Rex, Kevin is still not convinced of how powerful Rex is.
‘I’ve done research on him and I know that he’s not an Awakened before, which means that he just Awakened recently, Kevin thought.
He’s thinking when suddenly, he realizes, ‘If he Awakened recently, how did he get to peak rank three so fast?!’
Kevin was shocked to his core, even he himself didn’t have that kind of talent.
Kevin was up next and he instantly wins both parts with 4 seconds in making his Elemental Weapon, and two minutes holding it before his opponent’s elemental weapon exploded.
His Elemental Weapon is a fiery sword that emits a threatening aura, it increases the temperature in the arena to a terrifying degree.
Rosie was the only one left, she’s already helpless in the situation.
She’s paired with number 7 that is also a Wind Elementalist just like her.
The match begins and both of them started to create their own Elemental Weapon, the air started to rush towards both of them.
Rosie created a sharp katana with wind mana twirling inside it, she manages to do it in 9 seconds.
But she lost because number 7 manage to create hers in 7 seconds.
Rosie’s parents were silent, they can see Rosie’s nervousness as she held her head down.
‘She’s really nervous about this tournament huh’, Rex thought.
Rex didn’t blame her because if he’s put in Rosie’s shoes, then he will feel incredible pressure from this tournament.
He then glances at number 7 before he smirks, ‘But don’t worry, I’ll help you’
The second part started as the wave of vibration attacked both Rosie and number 7.
They both can handle the wave in 10 seconds, but then Rosie’s Elemental Weapon started to tremble.
‘It started again’, Rex thought.
The Faraday University is definitely aiming for those around Rex, the wave of vibration becomes unbalanced again.
Seeing this, Rex smirks evilly before he mumbles, ‘Activate’
Puff!
A slight puffing sound was heard from amidst the sand under number 7’s feet.
After that puffing sound, number 7 felt her mind suddenly got hit by a truck.
She suddenly can’t maintain her Elemental Weapon anymore,”What’s happening? I can’t control it!”, she shouted in panic.
The Elemental Weapon is throbbing like crazy before suddenly,
BOOM!
It exploded slashing number 7’s body,
She was blown back because of the wind explosion, slash injuries can be seen all over her body that started to bleed.
The Faraday University’s jury stands up in shock, he didn’t expect this to happen.
It was so unexpected, number 7 looks fine but then she suddenly loses focus resulting in her Elemental Weapon exploded.
‘Did they mess up? How did she lose focus like that’, he thought in confusion, but then he saw Rex staring at him.
Rex stares at the Faraday University jury with a smirk,
This act makes him froze in his spot, ‘Did that kid do something?!’
Rex indeed did something.
Adhara who is beside Rex looks at him suspiciously, “Did you do that? I can sense something exploded from under number 7’s feet”
Hearing this, Rex smiles mysteriously.
Adhara instantly knows that Rex did something, ‘But how?’
When Rex’s Elemental Weapon exploded, he purposely aims at the barrier that splits the arena in two.
The system said that he can create a disturbance in the barrier.
It makes the barrier flicker because of Rex’s black lightning, and at that moment is when Rex flicks an item he bought from the system.
The explosion covers the whole arena making it the perfect time to do it.
‘Silent Distortion Bomb, although we will not win this round at least Rosie will calm down’, Rex thought.
From the looks of it, Rosie was shocked in the arena.
Number 7 after having her Elemental Weapon exploded cannot continue the match, making Rosie the winner of the round.
Rosie went back to the line with a dumbfounded expression, she was still confused.
She doesn’t know that Rex helped him nor does Rex wants to tell her.
‘Playing dirty? I’ll show you how to play dirty’, Rex turns his head away with a smirk.