Chapter 120: The City in the Sky, we’re here! (2/2)

“I’m fine.” Belo pushed his glasses and pretended to be undisturbed. “I’m a little afraid of heights.”

Usually, he was the Impulsive Freshman unafraid of everything in heaven or on earth. He could crash into the Beast Enclosure and cause a teacher to be wounded, could secretly dig a hole in the walls of the Beast Training Field. Now he was afraid of heights?

Moss and the others almost fell down face first.

“We would like to inquire, which two academies do you represent?”

Several persons holding small notebooks suddenly rushed in front of Ayrin and the others. When Ayrin, Sophia, and the others thought they were tournament staff here to welcome the teams, these people introduced themselves, smiling from ear to ear, “We’re from the Breith Merchant Guild. You must have heard about us, right?”

“Breith Merchant Guild, what do you guys do?” Ayrin and everyone else from Holy Dawn Academy were all baffled.

“They’re a trading company specializing in selling tournament souvenirs, specializing in picture magazines, in reporting the whole course of the tournament, including gossip about every team,” Sophia explained in a soft voice to Ayrin and the others. “They’re very famous, many people like to buy their picture albums and gossip. They make their living from it. But the good thing is, they also make the tournament livelier, they make people more familiar with even more school teams. You can say they’re also useful in promoting the tournament.”

“Is that so…” Ayrin and the others suddenly saw the light.

“It seems we’re doing alright, people know about us.” These people all talked very courteously. After introducing themselves for a few sentences, they immediately asked, full of excitement, “We dare ask, which two school teams are you?”

“Holy Dawn Academy and Agate Lake Academy.”

“So you’re from these two teams…” Right when they were ready to take notes, these people stared all of a sudden. Then they exchanged a look between themselves and started to hem and haw.

Always slow on the uptake, Ayrin asked, a little curious, “What’s the matter?”

“About that… About that… If you’re teams from St. Lauren, it seems your news isn’t especially popular. It probably won’t attract the attention of too many people,” one person explained, a little awkward.

“What, are you looking down on us?!” Even Stingham came back to his senses and started shouting in anger. “Is it because you think we’re aren’t any good?”

“I’m really sorry… It’s only that your two academies have had too little fighting success. Most people probably won’t be interested,” these people summoned their courage and explained, then wanted to retreat at once.

“Why wouldn’t they be interested?” Just at this moment, however, Ayrin said in a loud voice, without showing any anger at all, “We’re the team that’ll become the grand champion, why wouldn’t people be interested?”

“What?!”

These people shook from head to toe all of a sudden. Their eyes shone. “Is that your slogan?” one person immediately asked. “Your Holy Dawn Academy’s slogan is to become the grand champion?”

“Of course. Our goal is precisely to become the winners of the Cup of Starry Skies Braves,” Ayrin said, firmly brandished his fist. At the same time, he silently thought, only this way will Chris’ father come to the finals’ field and watch Chris fight to become champion.

“Very good! Team Holy Dawn’s slogan is to become champions at all cost! Jot it down!” These few people clapped excitedly, then turned away and retreated.

Moss watched them leave at flying speed. He couldn’t resist saying, a little suspicious, “They looked a little strange, something seems a little fishy.”

“Something wrong? What could it be, I didn’t see anything,” Ayrin said, watching their backs.

“Ayrin, after we settle our living arrangements, do you want us to take you out and play?” Several Agate Lake girls hadn’t paid attention to the brief interlude either. Instead, they looked at Ayrin, full of excitement, and said, “Ayrin, there are many interesting places in Eichemalar. There are many shops selling cute little monster pets, there are also all kinds of witch stores selling weird things. There also many interesting curio and antique shops. Anyway, there are many shops you can’t imagine…”

“I want to have a good rest first, then train a bit more,” Ayrin first said.

The girls from team Agate Lake who wanted to drag Ayrin with them and stroll around were suddenly disappointed.

“The tournament draw hasn’t happened yet, we don’t know who we’re going to face, so I don’t seem to be in the mood to stroll around. That said, after the drawing ceremony tomorrow, we can actually go out and play. Can you guys take me with you?”

His following words immediately made some members of team Agate Lake very happy.

“Right now, I only want to say four words,” Stingham said earnestly, inserting himself. “Bring me with you!”

TN: When I say “Draconic” in this novel, I mean the dragon language. If you forgot the prologue already, Draconic used to be the gateway to magic before, but now every language mixed draconic in so everyone can do magic at present. Sorry if that was confusing.

Also, as a sidenote, when I started tling this novel, it was more of an easy going 7/10 side project to be honest. But now I’m liking it more and more as I tl, it’s making me more hype. I remember now why I chose it as my tl XD. (Yes I read it before but I tend to skim greatly over the fine details when I read hundreds and thousands of chapters in bulk XD.) Also I used to feel down about the lack of readers to be totally honest, but after the break I’m taking it much more in stride. So I hope you guys are enjoying it as much as me XD.