Chapter 128: Nine Levels (1/2)

After the game had finished the group remained deep in their own thoughts. They didn't know what to think and had never felt this way after watching a game. All of them had one thought on their mind, ”How do we win against that?”

Novis had always set his goal at Lucas, when he saw him playing against Arthur at the time, he really didn't know how special Lucas was. Even to this day he still didn't but the things that Novis did know about Lucas made him fall in love with the game.

Lucas was the same age as Novis, it felt like Lucas was a goal he could achieve and for the first time, Novis felt true passion coming from Lucas about the game. In a way, Novis wanted to feel the same way Lucas felt about the game and it finally felt like he did.

With the match ended, everyone decided to head home. As soon as everyone had left the room Alex immediately got to work.

”I wasn't there for you last time, But I can help this time.” Alex thought.

He started to watch the matches not only between Westgate and Eastwood but even the past matches of Westgate over and over again. He could tell just from the atmosphere in the room that everyone felt hopeless.

Being the captain and team leader, it was Alex's job to come up with a plan that would bring hope to the team. After hours and hours of research though, Alex had come up with a final percentage of Montem beating the current Westgate team.

On the bottom of the piece of paper held in Alex's hands, was the number three percent. The main problem was Lucas. Alex only had information of Lucas from one game, but even in that game, he had shown enough skill to clearly show he was above everyone else.

Lucas was a new person compared to matches that were available to watch online, so that information was useless.

Not only that but the rest of the Westgate team were veteran players, and although Alex didn't want to admit it, every one of them would be able to outplay the members on his team. With calculations of luck and improvement from his team players, three percent was the highest number Alex could come up with.

While everyone else had decided to head home, Novis, on the other hand,

decided to head to his grandfather's dojo. He laid out each of the weapons on the floor and looked at them carefully deep in thought.

”The thing that Lucas did today, that was the so-called sword energy, right?” Novis asked.

”Yes, I believe so.” George replied.

”Can you guys explain a bit more about sword energy, if I want to beat Lucas I need to learn everything I can about it?” Novis asked.

George looked towards Arthur and smiled.

”It looks like you were right about the boy, he hasn't given up.”

”To put it into simple terms there are nine levels of sword energy.” George began to explain. ”Now there have been a few people that you have seen or met before that has been able to perform sword energy in the real world. Hastam and Daki would be two examples of these, both of them are only at the first level though.”

”What really, only the first level!” Novis said, he couldn't believe that such strong and powerful players were only at the first level.

”Then what about Lucas, what level would he be at?”

”I'm not too sure since I have only seen him through video, but to be able to perform something like that, I would say he was at least at the 3rd level.”