23 Athra 1 (2/2)

Coming back to his composed self, Kai narrowed his eyes, ”I'm ready; let's go.”

So Alexander took them to the second part of the room, ”Here you two can fight to your heart's content. Of course, no weapons are allowed.”

The two nodded their heads and then got into the ring. Alexander initiated the 10-second countdown. While the countdown was going both of them charged up to full. When the countdown ended, Ethan charged towards Kai. In a flash, he appeared in front of him and smirked while launching his fist to Kai's handsome face.

Kai saw his movements clearly, 'This battle started before we fought, I learnt a thing or two about mind games from Emily. She always knew how to irritate me before and during a fight. Also, I've been training under intense gravity every day. So you are going to have to move a lot faster if you plan on hitting me.' Kai took a step back, casually dodging the punch by a few centimetres. Then he took a step forward while coating his right foot with lightning aura and roundhouse kicked Ethan in the stomach. His movements were seamless and connected perfectly.

Seeing Kai's movements Revera was flabbergasted, 'He got this good so quickly. No, he had always been strong. The reason I could hold my own against him was that he needed training on how to utilise his power effectively! Now it looks like he can, I must have him.' Then she looked at Lexi staring daggers until,

BAM!

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A pride shattering sound echoed throughout the room sending Ethan flying until he crashed onto the hard tiles. Ethan continued to roll two meters backwards because of the momentum. He would have gone further but Alexander stopped him.

Alexander stopped Ethan because he wanted to keep the fight within the ring. With his hand on Ethan's back, Alexander stood agape. He did not expect to see what he just saw. The sheer force in Kai's kick alone was praiseworthy. Not to mention, how he casually dodged Ethan's punch which in turn gave him the opening to counter, 'What!? Was that luck or is he that strong?' Then he looked at Lexi hoping to pry answers from her facial expressions but they hadn't changed. So either that meant that Lexi didn't put this fight in her books or it was normal for Kai to reveal this kind of strength.

On the ground, Ethan coughed a mouthful of blood. Then he stood up holding his ribs, 'If I didn't twist my body last second he would have broken my ribs. What strength!? Seems he wasn't bluffing but even so I will win!”

The now resolute Ethan removed his hands from his sides and glared at Kai. Now that he had a somewhat gauge on Kai's strength, he became more cautious. He kept his distance circling Kai as he waited for an opportunity to attack but there never was one. The more the fight dragged on the more Ethan saw how unbeatable he was. Every time he wanted to attack his instincts would tell him to back down. Looking at Kai, Ethan saw the aura of a lion, the King of the jungle. His body tensed up in response and then he stopped moving. He realised that for the past five minutes all he was doing was circling Kai. He wanted to attack but the pain from his ribs made him fearful. He gulped and then he looked at Lexi; there was no change in expression as if him losing was a given. Then he looked at Revera and sighed while shaking his head. Lastly, he looked at Kai, ”I give up.” He said sinking his head.

When Ethan gave up, Kai bowed his head lightly as a sign of respect. They were both in the same clan, after all, he didn't want to make enemies if he didn't have to.

Once the fight concluded Alexander announced Kai as the winner. Alexander put on a straight face but inside his emotions were unstable. Kai just beat the number 7 without breaking a sweat. With this strength, his true rank should be in the top 3, not number 10. He wondered what idiot ranked him as 10, 'They should be fired immediately!' Despite his slight annoyance, he was very happy it turned out this way. Then he looked at Lexi, 'Did they miss judge her strength too? Nonetheless, now we can send two surpa.s.sers that have strength comparable to the top 3. The fire clan has the number one female and the number two male. The wind clan has the number 1 male and number four female. The rest of the clans have surpa.s.sers below ours so it's just fire and wind that could stop us from a win. We have a decent chance this year!'

His excitement welled out of him until he wore a grin, ”With surpa.s.sers as strong as you two, we have a shot at winning, and at the very least we will not be in the last place” He said laughing. Then called his a.s.sistant. When the a.s.sistant arrived Alexander said, ”Tell the press I will be making a statement. We will be dropping a pair.”

”Yes sir.” The a.s.sistant ran out of the clan building. When he did a series of questions rolled out from different the different reporters so it was hard to hear anything through the madness. Seeing that this was going nowhere, he shouted, ”Enough, one question each!”

Immediately the crowd shut up and then he spoke, ”We have seen the article and the clanmaster plans to come out. He will discuss how we plan to move forward. That will be all,” After speaking the crowd roared with questions again but the coltish a.s.sistant ignored them and went back in where it was safe.

Once he was inside, he told Alexander they are waiting for him. Alexander took a deep breath and then walked into the wolf's den. Then he explained to them that they have decided to only send one pair and that would be Lexi and Kai. When they heard it was Lexi and Kai and not Revera and Ethan they asked why. However, Alexander ignored them and then said they will be departing for Athra soon. Then he walked back into the building heaving a sigh of relief.

”Good work sir.”

Alexander nodded his head then he looked at all the surpa.s.sers who were waiting on the first floor, ”You depart for Athra in five minutes. If you have any last-minute needs sanitary or personal please take care of them now.”

When he said that multiple conversations broke out as excitement levels reached an all-time high. Kai and Lexi weren't any different. Kai looked at Lexi, ”Are you ready?”

”When I have not?” She said in her mellifluous voice.

Kai chuckled, ” I don't know, I'm just telling you lest we get there and you accidentally stab me with your spear.” He said teasing her in his warm and low pitch voice.

Lexi stifled a chuckle, ”You did that too you know and more times than me. 52 times to be exact and I only did it 37 times. But it isn't an issue, like who is counting?”

”Okay, okay, okay, you had to get all statistical on me. But well played.” He said clapping his hands softly.

Then Alexander came down to the first floor again, ”Get ready we are leaving now. Follow me out the door.” As he walked everyone else followed him. This time Alexander had more bodyguards than normal to keep the crowd away from the surpa.s.sers. They continued to walk through the path created by security until they reached the street. The street was now filled with black military-grade armoured flying cars. They were to enter them and then go to the military airport where they would board the carrier aircraft which would then take them to Athra.

The security made sure all unauthorised people were 10 meters away. Once that was confirmed and all the flying cars above had cleared they lifted off one for one using the thrusters under them. When they reached the right alt.i.tude which was above the flying cars yet below the aircrafts; the horizontal thrusters kicked in propelling the cars forward.

They were in the air for 10 minutes before they reached the military based airport in Ginmon. Once they landed the flying cars doors opened and the surpa.s.sers climbed out. You could tell by the way they walked who had never been in a military-grade flying car before. They were stumbling while they were walking. It was quite comical, it looked like they were drunk. Although surpa.s.sers can run at abnormal speeds, as beginners they can't run faster than a flying car. Hence the reaction.

Kai being one of those never to fly in a car before was holding on to Lexi's shoulder for balance, 'Besides the nauseating feeling, it isn't all bad.' Then he looked up at Lexi who was looking ahead.

Lexi carried him to their a.s.signed post. This was in a line in the middle of the fire clan and the wind clan. All the clans were to line up 10 meters away from the carrier aircraft. They were all going to board it together. So far all the clans were there and had already lined up in a rectangle formation. Once everyone in the lightning clan a.s.sembled they were given the lightning clans emblem to stick on to their clothes. When in proximity to another person from the lightning clan, the azure symbol s.h.i.+nes. After they got their badges, the clans walked into the aircraft one for one. The first to go in was: the earth clan then the water, wind, lightning and lastly the fire clan.

While everyone walked in Kai looked at the people who had a presence about them. From the Earth clan, he felt a few of them. Then he moved on to the water and then the wind. When he looked at the wind clan he didn't need to look far to see who was the strongest. His instinct told him immediately when he saw the guy. In the distance, standing tall was a strapping youth with long black dreads hanging below his shoulders. His cinnamon-brown skin covered his square-shaped face and prominent jawline. The colour of his eyes were silver and he had hooded eyelids as well an epicanthal fold. He wore a long black overcoat and on his sides were two katanas. He looked like the reaper of death but the girls couldn't get enough of him. They found the contrast between his eyes and skin colour captivating. Also, silver eyes are the mark of royalty to the Wind clan.

'd.a.m.n, this guy is going to be a pest, not to mention the girl next to him.'

Lexi saw Kai's expression, ”That's w.a.n.g Rory, he is the number one. His clan calls him King as a nickname. They all know he will be the future King of The Wind Clan. He wields two katanas but to date, no one has seen him use the second one. Or maybe they have but as a spirit, they can't communicate with the world of the living. That's the talk on him. Then there is the girl next to him. The one with the beautiful jade-white skin and pet.i.te body, that's his half-sister, w.a.n.g Lin. She is the number 4 on the list but there is more to her than what meets the eye. Honestly, all these ranking are inaccurate. Look at you for example. They ranked you at 10 when we both know that isn't the truth. The same could be of anybody else. This could be a good thing or a bad thing...”

Kai nodded his head and then he looked at the fire clan. In front of the pack was a female and a male. They both had vermillion hair and blood-red eyes. Their skin was slightly tanned and they were taller than the average heights for a female and male. The male stood at 188 cm where the female was 180cm. It was clear to Kai that they were the Elites from the fire clan. And it was because it was their first joint expedition the lightning clan had to lose firepower.

After looking at the fire clan it was time for the lightning clan to go inside the carrier aircraft so as a team they walked inside. Kai had seen enough so he didn't mind. Of course, he didn't see everyone. He had to of missed a lot of powerful surpa.s.sers but he had a general idea of how strong the surpa.s.sers of his age group were.

Once the lightning clan walked in then the fire clan walked in. They were now all inside the ma.s.sive carrier aircraft so it ascended using its horizontal propellers. The aircraft had four of them on each corner. The propellers glowed with a neon blue colour. The blue served no purpose but to make the aircraft look good. Once the aircraft was in the air the horizontal thrusters activated blasting the machine forward. However, unlike the flying cars, there was a stabilizer inside so the speed didn't affect have an impact on those inside.

They travelled for an hour before they reached Athra. Athra was one of the countries that had been marked as a no man's land by the World Government. Although most of the things were destroyed life still existed here. Now that the leading population wasn't pa.s.sers, the animals walked around freely avoiding all the stray Zolma as much as they could.

Once they reached the border of Athra they landed on the on sea sand of the beach and when the ramp descended and they all walked on dry land again. As Kai walked on the dry land, excitement welled up inside him. He had only been to the beach once as a kid but never had the time to do it as he grew up. Now his job was bringing him here. Of course, he wasn't here to play but he could at least admire it while he could. Seeing that inside of the aircraft the team leaders of each clan were still discussing stuff, he tiptoed away from the pack and then went to the seawater. However, he wasn't the only one who had this idea. Another youth decided to run and then following him was a group of five.

Once Kai got there he looked at the sea. The waves were forming and cras.h.i.+ng and in the sky the three full moons were visible as there wasn't a single cloud in sight. It was if the ocean was actually in the sky, ”Wow, this is beautiful! I wish I could swim but of course, I can't do that.” Before leaving Kai wanted to look at the cras.h.i.+ng waves one last time. Using his eidetic memory, he made a mental image for him to fall back onto then he turned to the right to go back to the group. When he turned to the right he saw surpa.s.sers with the fire emblem on their clothes. He decided he would ignore them and return. He wanted to but then he heard a familiar voice, ”I wonder how my mom's b.u.t.ter would taste on toast if she put sea salt in the recipe?”

Astonished Kai flung his head around, 'Is that Quinton. Sounds just like him and he is talking about toast. It has to be him.' Kai moved his head to see where the voice was coming from but he couldn't see properly, the five guys were blocking his view. So he found an angle where he could see properly. And when the boy turned around he exclaimed, ”Quinton!” Then he walked past the other guys and stood in front of his best friend, ”d.a.m.n man, I didn't know you were in Strera. No wonder Carmen said she had no idea where you were. Oh, and is your Genome watch still broken? There are so many things I have been dying to tell you...” Kai continued to speak non-stop until he noticed that during this whole time Quinton hadn't said a thing. And the only one that was excited about their reunion was him. In fact, Quinton looked more concerned with the five guys behind him than him.

Kai furrowed his brows and then looked at the men behind him. They all looked at the lightning emblem on his combat gear and then laughed. Then the self-proclaimed leader stepped forward, ”Quinton, do you know this trash?”

Kai looked at Quinton and then Quinton looked at Kai then he shook his head, ”Never seen him in my life.”

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