62 Chapter 62: Cool Challenge (1/2)
”Oh, wow…that was an awesome battle! Tell your dad to wait for me! I'll be back!”
The next day, Troy was hounding me. Despite the beating he took, he was still as bright and springy as ever. Evidently all his injuries had healed in under an hour…if he had even sustained any at all. Come to think of it, I did see him bleed, so I guessed he did suffer some wounds.
But looking at him now, you could never tell that he was battered pretty badly last night. Not for the first time I found myself impressed by Troy's vitality and strength. That was why I said, he wasn't godlike…yet.
He would eventually become a god, I had no doubt about that.
”Yeah, he knows. He says you're welcome to challenge him anytime.” I smiled as I returned his greeting. Troy chuckled as he slapped me in the back so hard I almost toppled over. I flinched, but did my best to hide my pain.
”I look forward to it! Maybe next time I'll beat your dad, eh?”
”Maybe,” I said vaguely and noncommittedly, but I couldn't imagine that happening. Dad wasn't going to sit still and wait for people to catch up with him. If I wasn't mistaken, he was going on another mission next week, and he had instructed us in the dojo to do our self-training while we were away. When he returned, he would no doubt be stronger and more experienced than before.
”In the meantime, we should climb the school rankings.” Troy frowned as he glanced at his smartphone. ”I've received a couple of challenges, so I had best get to them done.” He looked up at me and grinned. ”If we want to get into the elite universities…no, if we even want to qualify for their entrance exams, we need to rank among the top 100, don't we?”
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”We do,” I agreed and then sighed. While I had climbed about over five hundred places in about four months, it was increasingly more difficult to raise my ranks. The reason was because the number of points I earned from beating my opponents would be less, the higher our ranks and the smaller the difference between our positions were. I didn't know the exact mathematical formula for calculating our matchmaking rating, but let's just say I earned about a hundred more points if I beat a 100th ranked person when I was ranked 1,000th than I did when I beat the same 100th ranked person and I was ranked about 500th. Or something to that effect. I guess levels and experience points might be an apt analogy, though ranks were obviously different from levels. But you get the picture – if you were only level 1 and you beat a level 10 opponent, you might quickly jump all the way to level 5 or 6 at one go. But if you were at level 5 and you beat a level 10 opponent, you probably would only grow 2 or 3 levels at most, rather than 4 or 5. And the gap would continue to increase.
”What about you? I heard a lot of crazy rumors about you that happened when I was away. Apparently you took out a top 10 elite academy team of representatives by yourself!” Troy laughed. ”Is that true?”
”Eh, well…you know how these things go,” I replied ambiguously. ”They always tend to be exaggerated.”
”I see.” Troy shrugged. ”Still, if it's true, I would love to see the expressions of those representatives when you beat them! Hmm…yeah, I should ask for a replay.”
”Nah, it's not worth your time,” I hastily told him.
”What are you talking about, bro? Of course it is! If you're that afraid of being embarrassed, at least think of it as me helping you out and giving you advice. I remember you're still having trouble with your summoning magic, right? Always getting knocked out before you can summon your soul beast or something?”
”Uh, I found several ways to mitigate that…”
”Oh, you did? That's awesome! I can't wait to see that!” Troy nodded thoughtfully. ”We should have a match sometime!”
”Er…yeah…sometime…in the future.” Now that was something I wanted to avoid. Troy was a terrifying opponent. I mean, you just saw how he fought on par with my Dad just yesterday, didn't you? There was no way I could hold up against him if he added magic to his martial arts as well. The guy was an absolute monster.
I pitied his challengers. With his experience from the mission he just recently accomplished, I had no doubt he would break into the top 100 by the end of this year. In contrast, I would be lucky to reach there by the end of next year, before the university entrance exams. My rank had fallen quite a bit and now I was hovering just above the 600 mark at 598 or 599.
Scary.
”Anyway, I'm going for gravitational class. You have combat magic class in the morning, right? I'll see you later then.”
”Sure.” I watched him leave, and then turned away once he disappeared down the corner. Taking a deep breath, I began making my way toward the classroom for combat magic.
I had only taken a couple of steps before I heard a beep from my smartphone, notifying me of a message. I frowned and took a look at it. Even before opening the message, I already recognized the type from the red light that surrounded it.
It was a challenge.
”Oh boy…”
Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao would arrive.