Chapter 104: Ah, these ■■■■■■■ retards, actually ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ (2) (2/2)
“These guys look fucking sinister.”
3. Noblesse School.
85 cadets had been sent from there. Although their average level of skill was already very high, the one that required the most amount of caution was Tyr Brzenk, the son of the current Rank 1 worldwide, Oscar Brzenk.
Almost everyone sent from Noblesse school belonged to a study group or a society, but Tyr Brzenk wasn’t. He appeared to have learned it from his father.
There were lots of exceptional cadets apart from them. First grade students living in the academy city amounted to around 10,000, and 1% of those were prodigies who had been praised for being geniuses in their home countries.
They would all be commuting to Colosseo Lair, pondering on how to raise their ranks.
“Then what should I do now?”
“For now, let’s continue with the spars and slowly raise the points. There aren’t any assignments with a high number of points available yet, and the tournament is only going to open next month.”
“Alright.”
Yeorum nodded with a serious expression.
“So this guy’s father is that Rank 1 Oscar?”
“Yeah. He’s also the vice president of the International Hunter Association.”
“Hnn, is he stronger than you?”
“No.”
After casually flicking the cigarette bud away, Yeorum grinned.
“He’s trash then.”
***
After that, Yeorum spent the next two weeks diligently participating in the duels without resting a single day. Most of them ended with one strike and were boring.
The semester had just begun and the cadets all had relatively low points on average. Strong and weak cadets were all intertwined within the similar range of scores and Yeorum’s opponents were comparatively too weak.
Of course, it was also true that Yeorum was just overwhelmingly strong.
The allocation of points decreased when there was a bigger gap between the scores of the participants. For example, If Yeorum with 100 points defeated a cadet with 50 points, she wouldn’t get the full 10 points and would instead get 5.
Due to that, the points she had gathered from the past 14 days was 111. The ranks weren’t given yet because it only got refreshed monthly, but she would at least be in the top twenty.
On Lair’s forum page, there was an anonymous cadet with 113 points. That cadet probably won all 14 days but was just luckier and received more points than Yeorum did.
Once everyone accumulated a decent amount of points, cadets with high scores will fight others with similar points.
That will be the true starting point of the competition.
“Uwaaah! Our unni is crazy. Crazy crazy!”
Kaeul clapped and created a fuss. Clap clap clapp–! Without knowing anything, Gyeoul copied her unni and gave a clap.
“Unni unni unni! Can I go have a look?”
“Huh?”
“I want to watch unni fight!”
“Why?”
“Do you know everyone’s talking about you these days? I’m not interested in fighting so I didn’t know, but the kids were calling Yeorum-unni insane!”
“Really?”
“Nn! They said you look like a charging boar!”
When Yeorum made a straight face after hearing that, Kaeul went, oops.
“Umm, anyways! Can I go watch?”
“Why bother. Just use your watch at home. Why would you go all the way there?”
“Whyy? It’s going to be more exciting in person right!”
“Just don’t come. There’s nothing to watch anyway. It ends straight after the start when I smack their heads so why bother?”
Kaeul appeared regretful and Gyeoul also showed a regretful look a second after her.
“Do you even know what we’re talking about?”
“…Nn,” nodded Gyeoul.
“Know my ass. What do you know.”
“…I, know. Okay?”
“Whatever. Come watch when I’m actually fighting someone a bit stronger, when there’s actually something to watch.”
“…Will you call me?”
“Yeah.”
Hearing that, satisfaction arose in the water-coloured eyes.
Although Bom didn’t say much, she tied Yeorum’s hair into a bun before she left for Colosseo and said, “Don’t get hurt.” But her hair was too short and it was hard to create a good bun without all the hair sticking out.
“I’ll be right back.”
*
The gazes of the surroundings had changed. Cadets wearing short sleeves stole glances at Yeorum whenever she was walking down the road.
This was the same as usual. However, it was to glance at her face before while now they looked as if they were staring at a celebrity. Some of them whispered, “Is that her?” among each other.
“What you looking at?”
Sometimes, Yeorum frowned and spoke to the whispering ones who would then turn their heads away in fright. There were occasionally cadets who walked up calling themselves a fan but Yeorum remained apathetic.
“A fan? So what?”
That wasn’t the end. When they were at the waiting room of Colosseo, people glanced at Yu Jitae with eyes that seemed to be asking, ‘Is he that girl’s guardian?’. For him, this was a new experience because everyone had been uncomfortable and afraid of his existence from the fifth iteration onward.
Since they were completely uninterested in fame, Yu Jitae and Yeorum both ignored them.
However…
Something added fuel to the fire.
Two weeks after the start of the school competition when Yeorum was struggling from the boredom of fighting against boring cadets, a special cadet was finally chosen as the opponent.
The stage for the battle in the alternate dimension was a back alleyway of a town. A gloomy townscape was visible behind the pathway.
Yeorum was waiting for a person to join after entering first when the opponent was found and a simplified profile appeared in mid-air.
⚫[Ling Ling]
(Erfan Guild, Heavenly Horse study group)
– Strength 9 Agility 9 Stamina 9 Mana 9
– Acquired Points: 109
She was a cadet from CPC’s Erfan Guild, who also belonged to the Heavenly Horse study group, which rivalled the previous Azure Dragon study group of Wei Yan.
The statistics weren’t very meaningful beyond the limit and Yeorum also had 9 for all her stats. However, considering the fact that average cadets had 4~5, it was a pretty high stat.
Her acquired points were 109 and were 2 less than Yeorum who had 111 points. It also meant that she hadn’t lost during the past 14 days.
As light gathered in one place and soon scattered, a female cadet holding two swords appeared from within.
It was Ling Ling.
She was short and small and was a head shorter than Yeorum who was about 167cm tall. Although her body was small, she resembled a wild beast.
Her eyes were blurry and her unkempt hair was left messy. Her face, neck and arms were all full of scars and wounds, and her fangs were also protruding out like a beast.
The only things clean were her two wooden swords that had been provided by Lair.
“…”
The aura she was giving off was different from others.
She was strong – after estimating the power level of the opponent, Yeorum’s gaze became a level sharper. News about their fight seemed to have spread in that short span of time and the number of audience which usually stayed somewhere around 50 to 100, quickly soared up like crazy.
[( ́•ω•̀) x 373]
Soon, the countdown began.
[3]
Ling Ling raised her two swords and readied herself for battle.
[2]
Yeorum closed her eyes and felt her pulsation.
[1]
And finally, the bell rang.