Chapter 109: Silent Distortion Bomb (1/2)
The tournament continues, the jury's decision silenced Faraday University's representatives.
'They will surely cheat again, they will make it harder for me to win', Rex thought.
He concluded that Faraday University aims at him and those close to him, there's no other explanation besides that.
Considering Rex taunted and mocked their first ranker, it makes sense for them to do this.
'I don't think I can last long, but I can't just let them have this one', Rex thought.
In the first part, Rex and Edward are tied.
If Rex loses the second part, he can only tie things if he wins the third part.
Although Rex's element is of a higher rank than Edward's, the difference between their Awakened strength was miles away.
Rex just got into rank three while Edward already reached early rank four.
In rank four, an Awakened already started to make runes that can amplify their spell power by multiple times.
This is a huge advantage of rank four from rank three.
ZONG!
The wave of vibration came,
Rex readies himself but he was shocked by the power of the wave, he can feel his head throbbing in pain because of the wave.
What he concluded is true, Faraday University cheats again.
He gritted his teeth as he tries to focus on his elemental weapon, he can feel that this wave is even stronger than the wave power they used on Adhara.
'They really want me to lose', Rex thought.
A minute passed,
This minute feels like an eternity for Rex, the wave becomes unbelievably stronger.
”Look at Rex, he's struggling! It's only been a minute”
”What the hell, I thought he will at least reach the third-minute mark”
”All talk with no skills”
The crowd that supported Faraday University started to criticize him, they started to open their mouths again.
Approaching the two-minute mark, Rex's lightning ball started to throb uncontrollably.
It was trembling left and right as black lightning started to zapped around, from the looks of it, he will not survive the next few seconds.
Edward from the side was confused,
He knows that the wave of vibration is hard but not this hard, seeing Rex's trying desperately to hold on greatly shocks him.
'Is he that bad? Or?', He thought in confusion.
Before he can even finish thinking, the lightning ball on top of Rex was trembling crazily.
Seeing this, Kevin unconsciously smirks.
He really wanted to at least see Rex's embarrassed expression, this might just be the time where Rex will stumble.
BLITZ!!
Rex's elemental weapon exploded with black electricity, it zapped around the arena chaotically.
Sand splashed around the arena covering the other's vision, every time the black lightning zapped it scorched the sand in black.
Some of the black lightning zapped the barrier splitting the arena in two, which makes the barrier flickering slightly.
Hera creates a barrier to shield the other representatives from the explosion.
The jury stopped the match as the medical team strides inside, they thought that Rex will surely be injured because of it.
Seeing this, the jury from Faraday University smiles evilly.
”REX!!”, Rosie shouted in worry, she's afraid that Rex will be injured.
She is worried If Rex got injured, he will lose to Kevin miserably. The agreement with her parents will be called off.
Adhara on the other hand is not worried, she can feel Rex is okay.
The sand fades off revealing a shadow in the center of it, the crowd gasps in surprise when they saw Rex standing there unharmed.
Even the jury from Faraday University was shocked.
Rex just brushes off the sand that got into his uniform nonchalantly, he's brushing it off as if the black lightning explosion from before was nothing.
Looking at this, the medical team froze before they went back.
It was clear from Rex's demeanor that he is not harmed, in fact, he's not injured at all except for a few dents on his clothes.
'I didn't train for this, it's a good thing to be able to hold it for that long', Rex thought.
He's not worried about the first round of the tournament,
Even if he wins against Edward, the Ochyra University has already lost four times.
So winning the first round is already out of their reach.
Rex brushed off his uniform before the juries stated Edward's win, it was obvious because Edward didn't have a hard time tanking the wave.
But he's skeptical about the wave, he just didn't believe Rex is that bad.
The next part will be power testing.
Edward is up first, he dashes towards the dummy with two fiery daggers in hand.
His movement is fast, it makes Edward looks like a fiery shadow, ”Fire Titan Art! Blazing Slash!”
SLASH!
Edward slashes the dummy leaving two burnt slash marks on it, it created an X mark on the dummy's head.
Rex didn't pay attention to Edward, he's looking at the sand.
His eyes darted to the sand on Faraday University's side, he seems to be searching for something before a smirk appear on his face, 'Nice, it went through'
”810, Early Rank Four”
A mechanical sound was heard as it states Edward's power.
The crowd cheered for Edward, his score is the highest out of all previous pairings.
But some of them were not surprised, Edward is second only to Kevin so his high power was expected.
After Edward heard his score, he glances at Rex to only find him not paying attention to him.
He felt hurt because of Rex's action.
Rex notices this before he smiles awkwardly, he saw Edward's pained expression.
It is Rex's turn now, he knows that Ochyra University will definitely lose this round but he didn't want to look bad.
He musters all the surrounding mana and feeds them to the lightning ball.
The black lightning ball above Rex becomes bigger by the second, it becomes even more chaotic as it blitzing with electric current.
It was a sight to behold, the lightning ball was the size of a human.
His hand then cracked with black lightning, he points his fingers towards the lightning ball before he shouted, ”Lightning Salvo!!”
BLITZ!!
A lightning strike came out of his fingers as it attacked the lightning ball.
The lightning strike hit the lightning ball making it cracked with lightning, it lit up crazily with immense lightning mana.