When Kain awoke it was already the next day and he was in his room, unaware of how he even got there.
However, based on the pointed glare coming from Kairos all throughout breakfast, it was safe to assume that it was Kairos who’d protected his beauty sleep and allowed him to get back the room without waking up.
“Ahem! Thanks for carrying me back. But you know, you could have just woken me up…” Kain said awkwardly as Kairos’ expression only grew colder.
“No I couldn’t!” Kairos expression contorted with immense rage. “I tried every method short of maiming you and you didn’t wake up! Did you take some kind of drug?!”
Kain lowered his head awkwardly, but also in confusion. Beast-tamers are usually quite light sleepers, Kain included.
Otherwise, if they were sleeping when an enemy approached, they wouldn’t be able to react in time. Therefore, all beast-tamers were subconsciously on guard, even in their sleep.
Being able to sleep so deeply would have to mean he’d felt safe enough to completely let down his guard…but in a crowded stadium full of people watching him, and his greatest rival Serena so close by, that’d be absolutely impossible…Right?
“I didn’t…I’m not sure why you couldn’t wake me up. Maybe you didn’t try hard enough?” Kain proposed awkwardly. However, this explanation only made Kairos’ enraged face even redder.
Kain moved his eyes awkwardly everywhere and not make eye contact, probing his mind for a possible explanation. freewebnσvel.cm
‘Maybe it was that smell…’ Kain decided after searching back through his vague memories.
“It won’t happen again I promise.” Kain said while placing his hands together, and trying to make his expression as cute and pitiful as possible.
But Kairos’ disgusted face didn’t seem to appreciate Kain’s attempts. Explore hidden tales at
“Ahem! I know. What if I work for you as an Evolutionary Planner for free once? Since you’re bound to cursed constructs, and all cursed constructs are unique, its more complicated finding a suitable evolutionary formula for them.
Therefore, a talented planner will need to research a brand new plan just for you.” Kain proposed, finally regaining his confidence after talking about a field he was experienced in.
Kain could tell from Kairos’ expression that he’d already put down most of his anger at Kain’s proposal, and was just continuing to feign irritation so as not to seem so easily placated.
Kain decided to give one last push. He pulled out his phone and search up one of the more recent gossip articles about him.
“Look right here,” He said while pointing at the screen, “That’s usually how much I charge per consult, not to mention how difficult it is to even arrange a meeting with me. With this we should be more than even.”
He straightened his back in pride. For once, having so many articles about him online wasn’t annoying. At least it came in handy during times like this when he needed to brag.
Kairos, finally reluctantly nodded in resignation. Although, the slight smirk on his face belied the fact that he was actually ecstatic about this deal. After all, as Kain’s closest direct competitor, it wasn’t even for any of the members of the top 5 to reach out to Kain for help.
Now he not only got the help of Kain’s “gift” to help him deal with an issue that’s been hanging over his head for a while, he got the service for free!
“Fill me in on what happened after I fell asleep.” Kain said, while picking up a pastry to munch on.
“Nothing much…We all won our matches. Both us and the upper-years. Since we don’t have a match today, the professors said that we can choose to watch the broadcast in our rooms or go to our college’s personal observation box to watch the remaining matches.”
After thinking about it, Kain decided to watch the matches in person, and based on the crowded state of their personal box, it looks like many of the other participants also had the same thoughts.
After all, there were many details about the battle that can only be seen well in person.
Unfortunately, similar to yesterday, most of the higher-ranked schools concealed their strengths as much as possible, so they weren’t able to obtain a significant amount of information. The gap in strength between the top and lower ranked colleges was too great to force the members of the top 5 colleges to reveal any of their cards.
There were hundreds colleges within the Celestial Empire, however only the top 100 were even eligible to participate in the National Tournament.
As a student at a top 5 College, Kain’s school was automatically always allowed to participate, so he wasn’t clear on how the ranks were distinguished among the lower-ranked schools to decide who participates.
However, he had vaguely heard only those who were in the top 50 were guaranteed to participate again next year. There seemed to be preliminaries held throughout the to decide the remaining 50 schools participating.
Therefore, all of the teams that won their matches yesterday were able to secure their tickets to the National Tournament next year.
For some of the lower-ranked schools with no hopes of winning, that was their ultimate goal when coming here, and so they felt much more relaxed after successfully passing one round than they did yesterday.
This was in contrast to the mid to higher-ranked schools, who usually got more anxious with each round they passed under the pressure of getting a better rank than the previous year.
Kain could more accurately see the differences in tension when the draws for their second round opponents began.
Although, members of the upper-ranked colleges were still pretty relaxed, since the officials would make sure the higher ranked teams wouldn’t face each other so early.
Shortly, Dark Moon’s opponent for the next round was revealed, a college in top 30. After that was revealed, he could immediately see many faces in the crowd crumble, either members of or supporters of their next opponent. Kain’s face also crumbled after their opponent was revealed. Unfortunately, it looked like he’d still be benched for the next match.