Chapter 143: Leo’s investigation (1/2)

Author: M_W Cancer

With the new changes to the trial competition, Leo also decided to make new changes to his plan.

”Guys, change of plans!” Leo said to the other leaders of the alliance.

”Is there something wrong about the new plan?” Justine can't help but ask.

”There is nothing wrong with it. But, I talked with teacher Smith for a bit just a moment ago and he said that there are new changes to the trial competition now due to only having 12 class remaining.” Leo replied.

”And what exactly are these new changes...” Alfred followed after.

”Well, every nexus can be transferred now. So Justine, please go back to your base and gather your remaining classmates, your nexus will be transferring to somewhere nearby our base afterward for the sake of convenience!” Leo finally revealed his intention.

”Very well!” Justine nodded his head as he motioned for his classmates to follow after him. He doesn't have any problem transferring their base nearby Leo's Class 1S- base. It's better that way anyway, since they can easily help each other. As for when they are the only class remaining, then they could just simply give themselves a bit of a grace time period to transfer their nexus. So, no problem at all.

The moment Justine and the Class 1S left, Leo quickly motioned for the leaders of Class 1S- to come closer, ”Angel, I will be leaving you in charge the moment Justine comes back.”

”Why?” Angel curiously asked.

”I need to do some scouting around the Floating Mountain. I need to know which specific class was eliminated aside from the Class 1B and Class 1A+ that we ourselves have eliminated.”

”When will you be back?”

”The next day, I guess...”

”How about just do your scouting tomorrow morning?” Alfred quickly suggested, ”You're pretty worn out right now after eliminating 2 class, right?”

”Don't worry about that, I still have a lot of energy left in me!” Leo assured.

”But...”

Angel suddenly put her hand on Alfred's shoulder as she said, ”Just leave him be.”

”Okay...” Alfred could only reply helplessly.

The truth was, Leo is the only pillar that's keeping together this alliance and Class 1S- right now, so the moment he gets eliminated, the Class 1S- might potentially break down inside, and the alliance might even also break.

That was the exact reason why Alfred was worried about Leo.

Since Angel and Alfred agreed, naturally the other leaders of Class 1S- also agreed, without any choice. It's not like they can change Leo's mind or something.

”Just tell Justine to go and collect some information about the Class 1E+! I'll be needing that after I returned.” Leo waved his hand as he went to the forest.

.....

After a while, Leo finally arrived back at the ravine he had stumbled upon before.

To be honest, his purpose for scouting wasn't only to scout for who was the class that got eliminated but to also does his own investigation about this sudden appearance of the ravines and the Magical Beast that used the holes as tunnels.

He was now fully aware that the teachers were currently investigating about that case and the best thing he should do right now was just to leave it to them since they were the teachers in charge of their safety, and just focus on the trial competition, just like what teacher Smith had said to him a while ago too. However, he knows for sure that the moment the teachers found out that something is wrong, it wouldn't necessarily mean they would be able to quickly relay the information to all of the students. Obviously, it would take time, and there might even be some unexpected variables that might prevent them from easily informing the students.

Although those were just possibilities, his past experiences tell him that he should always prepare himself for those unknown variables the most than those expected outcomes or results. He doesn't want the same thing as what happened in the Royal Court to happen to him again, since his Master Olivia wouldn't always be by his side and protect him.

Looking down inside the ravine, Leo quickly noticed that there was already water filling up the ravines.

”Water?”

Looking closely, Leo immediately noticed that the water came from the tunnels. Shockingly too, all the tunnels seem to work as a sewer system, and it looks like more Magical Beasts are passing through the tunnel as the water level goes higher and higher.

The only fortunate thing for Leo this time is he finally knew just what kind of Magical Beast they were.