44 The Tournament Begins (1/2)

After the Mysterious Expert left his office, Sainac went to Ange's celebration party and announced the news about the tournament; it was a good place as there were a lot of students in the same area.

”In two weeks there will be a new tournament!”

His voice could be heard in the whole academy, being present in some place where a lot of people could see him was only his custom.

All the students present in the celebration party applauded Sainac.

”This time the tournament will be for those students who are at the 3-star mortal real or less.”

Those who were still in the peak of the 3-star mortal realm became very happy and those who had just advanced depressed.

Because those at the peak of the limit realm were always those with higher possibilities to win.

”The battles will be one versus one, without time limit. If a student is knocked out or fell from the stage will lose.”

Those were the standard rules; Sainac liked to add few changes like the best of three matches or the best performance in five minutes.

However, as the Mysterious Expert asked for that tournament, Sainac chose the most straightforward and most classical rules.

”The reward this time will be for the best eight! And the prize will be announced once the tournament ended!”

That shocked everyone, usually the rewards were particular lessons or some items, that was the first time in the story that the prize was a mystery until the end of the tournament and also the first time that the best eight would obtain it.

Yale was also present in the celebration party accompanying his sister.

She helped him a lot before and after coming to the academy, so even if he were in a rush to train he wouldn't neglect such an important occasion to her.

When Yale heard Sainac's announcement, he became happier than anyone else.

That was an opportunity to battle against the members of other groups of their same level, all of them had trained more time than Yale's class, so he hoped to find good opponents, being always battling with the same people wasn't optimal to improve.

Furthermore, Yale could use Bloodline Force to double his Strength and Agility; then those stats would be the same than a peak 3-star mortal realm Strenght and Agility.

Thus, Yale really felt that he have chances to enter the top eight.

Of course, Yale would try to win, but as he didn't know who would be his opponents he didn't want to be overconfident.

Especially those who were still at the 3-star mortal realm after more than one year in the academy.

They were looked down by their own promotions but compared to Yale's group, who had only entered the academy the previous month, they had a lot of experience.

Even if that group also had a lot of students who had lost hope in reaching Rank 1, those who were there due to being overfocused in other areas instead of increasing their realm were still there and were fearsome against rivals of the same level.

As Yale's blood was burning with the desire of battling, the same could be said to the other outstanding kids who met the requirements to participate in the newly announced tournament.

Usually, the academy didn't let the five groups of beginner classes interact to avoid the older ones bullying the newcomers.

Thus, they couldn't battle among themselves unless a tournament like that was announced.

That rule was made to protect the average students, but to outstanding newcomers that was only a limitation in finding good opponents.

When the celebration party ended, Yale went directly to train.

In the next two weeks, he skipped all the lessons except the sword ones with Swordmad and Aizu.

Yale knew that George would join such a tournament and probably Zack would also join, so Yale wanted to distance a bit from them to prepare himself.

Aizu probably would also join, but given that Yale was Aizu's master in the sword, that his Water Battle Armor is the perfect counter to her Fire Ball and Yale also had Illusion Immunity, Aizu had no chances of winning against him.

In those two weeks before the tournament, Yale managed to increase one more point his Vitality and Dexterity which were still his lowest stats.

Even with all the five groups participating there were still only twenty-nine participants, most of the students didn't dare to join if they didn't feel confident in reaching the top eight.

After all, not everyone was a battle-loving who wanted to fight strong opponents.