Chapter 125: Underestimated teams (1/2)

Chapter 125: Underestimated teams

“Let’s go, we can only eat somewhere else.” Team Mountain Kings’ captain, Werther, the “Wild Battlemaster” of resounding fame, looked through the windows at team Holy Dawn in high spirits. He shook his head in contempt. “Look at them, it’s like they’re celebrating a victory.”

The vice-captain Rykiel, nicknamed the “Violent Bear,” said with a great laugh, “Haha, captain, that’s not far from the truth. For them, it’s already a victory to reach the nationals.”

Austin was a very eerie-looking starting member of the team. His face was veiled by long, black scattered hair, with only a strip in the middle of his face left exposed, both his eyes almost covered in half. He coldly said, “Let them eat. When the match comes around, I’ll beat them up until they puke it out.”

“It’s not like the match is tomorrow. They’ll have digested all of it by the time we fight, they won’t spit it out even if they wanted to.” The group of people laughed loudly while while they went away behind captain Werther.

Just at this time, the laughter of everyone in team Mountain Kings died all of a sudden.

A boy wearing a deep-red school uniform walked past them.

This boy wasn’t particularly tall. He had an oval face, short brown hair left in disarray, his features looking very pretty and delicate. The moment he brushed past team Mountain Kings, he turned around and glanced at team Mountain Kings. It was only a single glance, but it suddenly killed their laughter.

“Who’s that guy?”

After a dozen seconds or so, vice-captain Rykiel was the first to say something: “Why did that guy’s eyes look gray, they didn’t even seem to have pupils?”

“I have no idea either… He seemed to be looking at us like dead men… He seems to be looking at everyone like dead men.” Werther frowned. “What a strange feeling.”

“That’s Hellfire Academy’s uniform.” Looking at a magazine, Austin said with astonishment, “Is he from team Hellfire?”

“Hellfire Academy?” This bunch of people suddenly looked at each other.

…

“What?”

At the same time, Chris, Moss, and the others also noticed Ayrin freezing all of a sudden. He looked a little abnormal.

“A frightful feeling, as if a powerful monster that could easily eat me at any time glanced my way.”

Ayrin looked outside the windows, puzzled. His gaze also stopped on the back of that boy with short messy brown hair.

“You’re talking about him?”

Following his eyes, Chris, Sophia, and the rest also saw the boy from behind.

“Anyway, it’s very strange. He seems different from ordinary people, even different from powerful people like Rinsyi.” Ayrin nodded. He only felt that the sensation inside him was very strange. But exactly how strange, he couldn’t say.

“That’s Hellfire Academy’s uniform,” Chris immediately said.

“Hellfire? Why does it sound so familiar?” Ayrin and Moss were both startled.

“Because just like us and team Wolven Knights, they’ve been ranked as a weeds-level school.” Chris flipped open the magazine and put it in front of them.

“Another one of the weeds-level teams?” Ayrin blinked. A thought suddenly emerged in his mind. Was it also a team that was severely underestimated?

“Hellfire Academy fights tomorrow already. They’re one of the eight teams in group one, upper half. Their opponent is Hornwood Academy.” Sophia told Ayrin, “After the inaugural match tomorrow between Dragon Breath Academy and Sea God Academy, the match just after that is between them and Hornwood Academy.”

“The second match tomorrow?”

“Right. Hornwood reached the top thirty-two last year, their captain and vice-captain are twins, the Norton brothers. They’re also very powerful celebrity-level contestants.” Sophia nodded. “I saw a match of theirs last year, they’re both good with an arcane skill called ‘Holy Light Splendor.’ It not only has a formidable power, the most crucial is that the opponent can’t keep their eyes open under their skill’s intense light. They can only close their eyes and fight by relying on their other senses.”

“I really wonder what kind of team Hellfire Academy is. Why did they get ranked weeds-level just like us?” Ayrin mumbled. He couldn’t stop himself from taking the magazine and reading Hellfire Academy’s introduction.

“A team that never reached the nationals?”

“A second-rate academy in Southern Setting Sun City?”

Moss also crowded forward. Just glancing over the magazine, he was suddenly struck a little dumb.

Though Holy Dawn Academy had had very bad fighting achievements in recent years, they at least were once vice-champions in the whole kingdom, and they also had a brilliant record of reaching the top four many times. But this Hellfire Academy actually never reached the national tournament once.

On top of that, Hellfire Academy was located in Southern Setting Sun, in the most southern part of Eiche. That was a small city at the tip of the Dragon Breath Mountains. Every year, the Awakened young people their academy could recruit numbered about two hundred. The tuition fee was only one-third compared to the other academies in the city. They were all students that wanted to join an academy and learn, but their families were very poor.

“They actually never ever had even a single outstanding feat. But since Ayrin had this kind of feeling, that guy could very well be a genius with a special gift.” Belo pushed his glasses. “It’s not something impossible for a powerful character to suddenly emerge in a school.”

“There’s another possibility!” Stingham suddenly shouted out loud just at this moment, looking dead serious.