Chapter 170: Wakening (1/2)
Chapter 170 Wakening
“The entire city of Eichemalar has already been closed off for three days. I should have had a date with that girl I like already, and I might even have brought her to watch the tournament together. But now I can’t even go out and go see her, we’re already missed the day of the appointment, and even the tournament’s suspended. I can only sit here and drink my boredom away.”
“Stop mopping here. If the Evil Dragon followers’ plan had succeeded, the whole city would have crashed down. That would have been the real disaster. Shouldn’t you be happily drinking in celebration instead?”
“That’s right buddy, they have to close off Eichemalar entirely to investigate, that’s the only way they can catch all of them without letting a single one slip away. Also, they’re rushing with the water tower’s repairs, The only thing the sky ferries are transporting is the water needed for the city. Where would they find the time to ferry visitors?”
“I never thought that the ‘God of Death’ Lotton from team Hellfire would turn out to be an Evil Dragon follower. No wonder he showed no hesitation when it came to killing.”
“What is even harder to imagine is that even a famous celebrity fighter like Massay from Abel Academy, a member of the vice-champions last year, was also an Evil Dragon follower.”
“There’s also Sea Gale Academy’s Chirade… There are actually so many people bribed by the Evil Dragon followers. With such an unexpected turn of events, they actually announced that the national tournament would resume in fifteen days, but the structure of the tournament should be altered now, shouldn’t it?”
“…”
Inside the city, in a tavern covered in rattan vines, a group of half-drunk people was idly chatting away.
The center of the conspiracy this time, the athlete village housing the contestants had also been closed off for three days already. Some damaged facilities were undergoing repair.
In the chaos of that night back then, a total of thirty-seven arcane masters had been confirmed as henchmen of the Evil Dragon followers.
Among them, fifteen were patrollers turned traitors, as well as arcane masters these traitors had secretly let inside the village. The other twenty-two were all members of various participant teams!
Grey Garden Academy in the western part of Eiche even had four of its five main team members who’d secretly become henchmen of the Evil Dragon followers and had participated in team Holy Dawn assassination operation, but the other main member of the team hadn’t noticed anything at all.
That night, in the chaos inside the village, the most intense fighting had occurred in the vicinity of team Holy Dawn’s lodgings.
The team led by Massay and the team that Lotton should have led hadn’t participated in the assassination attempts on team Holy Dawn. Other than them, everyone else had participated in the assault on team Holy Dawn.
However, these killers had ended with grievous casualties, whereas not a single member of team Holy Dawn had been killed. Those assailants hadn’t even been able to enter team Holy Dawn’s residence.
Rumor was, there was only one member of team Holy Dawn who had unfortunate enough to be hit by a water jet caused by the breaking of the water tower. He’d been sprayed through the roof and been a little wounded.
Among the people accompanying team Holy Dawn, there was an old professor who surprisingly was one of the extremely rare Draconic scholars on Doraster!
This had been the direct reason the killer teams had suffered a total rout, but the presence of such a formidable Draconic scholar in team Holy Dawn imperceptibly reminded every academy participating in the tournament that Holy Dawn Academy had once achieved glorious results, and that Holy Dawn Academy was one of the academies with the longest traditions in the entire kingdom.
Holy Dawn Academy weren’t the only ones to have gained a whole new level of respect; the whole city of St. Lauren did.
Because concrete news came that those who played the most crucial part in stopping the Evil Dragon followers’ plan wasn’t Audrey, but Iron Forest Academy’s Ferguillo and Holy Dawn Academy’s Ayrin.
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“Ahahaha, Ayrin was sent to the infirmary in the Office of Special Affairs?”
“That pervert, he won’t get out for a short while, there won’t be anyone fighting over Nikita and Sophia with me.”
In team Holy Dawn’s residence, covered all over in bandages, his hands stuck on his waist, Stingham was still delighting in Ayrin’s misery.
After a bit, Stingham rubbed his butt and said, looking miserable, his gloomy, “That said, it’s been three days but I still can’t poo, and I have to hold it back for another two days at least. It’s really too painful!”
“It’s only been three days… Feels like ages. The curfew in the athlete village is lifting tomorrow already, but who knows when that guy Ayrin will come back from the Office’s infirmary…” In Moss’ room, so tired after completing several series of exercises that he didn’t even want to lift a single finger, Moss was staring blankly outside the windows. Back when Ayrin was hitting him and pestering him every single day, he’d itched to stomp Ayrin underground, but now that Ayrin had been away for three days instead of shouting at him brave warrior this brave warrior that, he felt that every day had become a lot more boring.
“You can even defeat a terrifying opponent like Lotton and still come out alive… Moss, you really can’t compare to him right now, he really can afford to mock you.”
“That won’t do. Moss, you also have to go the extra mile and do your best, you can’t let that guy look down on you!”
Such a voice unconsciously rose inside his mind. Gritting his teeth, Moss stood up again and started another series of exercises.
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“Teacher Fran, how are Ferguillo and Ayrin now?”