Third Challenge (2)

The atmosphere inside the Machine Revolutio Tower was very tense.

Bloed and the others were gathered in the meeting room of the tower. The reason? The challenge that the club just received.

Flying Leaves. Best of Ten.

These words made the expressions of the main members of the club gloomy.

"Bloed, what are we going to do?" Gina hurriedly asked.

Bloed did not reply immediately. Instead, he looked at Prince Calisto to ask him what information he knew about Flying Leaves.

Prince Calisto understood his cue and started to speak.

"Flying Leaves, one of the most promising clubs that had appeared in the city recently. It's led by a peak A-Rank student called Anna Rose. She is one of the top geniuses of the city who just defeated the student in the top twenty-six, becoming the new 26th strongest student of the city.

"Besides her, the club originally had another three A-Ranks, one of them being their sub-leader, Yaru, who just became an A-Rank recently. However, this club has shown a great performance in this War of Clubs, defeating another two clubs successfully. After that, another four A-Rank joined the club."

"In other words, this club has eight A-Ranks, huh," Sara said with a grave expression.

Prince Calisto nodded and put on a bitter smile. "Yeah. It looks like the situation is hopeless for us this time."

The others did not reply, but it was obvious that they agreed with him.

The problem was not the number of A-Ranks, but the format of the challenge.

Best of Ten.

Ten individual battles and the club with the biggest number of victories would win the challenge.

Every member could participate only once, and if at the end of the ten battles, both clubs were tied, then the two clubs would send a representative for a final battle.

The problem was that this kind of challenge was very disadvantageous for Bloed's club.

"It looks like we finally ran out of luck, huh." Liu Ying said with a bitter smile. "Our club doesn't have enough people to face them."

Yes, that was the problem.

In Machine Revolutio, the only people that could fight an A-Rank practitioner were Bloed, Eres, Sara, Princess Elwha, Liu Ying, and Aya; And the last three of them could barely fight against an initial-stage A-Rank practitioner.

Only six people!

The other team, on the other hand, has eight A-Ranks, and the other two participants were likely to be peak B-Ranks.

It meant that of the ten battles, Bloed's club had already lost four of them automatically.

Bleod could only smile bitterly when he thought of that. Until now, the luck of his club had been great, but now, the situation was had turned completely around.

This kind of challenge was literally one of the most disadvantageous for his club.

However, although he was a bit depressed, Bloed was not planning to lose.

That the situation was pretty bad, so he could only make his best to increase the chances of victory as much as possible.

Just when he was about to speak, he saw Princess Elwha opening her mouth.

"Mr. Bloed, I don't know if it will be useful, but I just made a breakthrough."

"Huh?"

Bloed was startled. But immediately, he noticed the change in Princess Elwha's aura.

Her aura was definitively stronger than before. A lot stronger!

"Did you breakthrough to A-Rank?"

Princess Elwha nodded with a smile.

"Actually, I could have breakthrough long ago, but I delayed my breakthrough due to a technique that I practice. Now that I finally broke through, my strength increased a great deal."

Bloed was surprised. But immediately, he became excited.

"That is great. With this, our chances of victory will increase slightly."

After that, Bloed looked at Liu Ying and Sara.

"Liu Ying, Sara, I also have good news for the two of you."

"Huh? Good news?"

"What is it, my lord?"

"It's time to strengthen your bodies," Bloed stated.

Liu Ying and Sara were confused.

Quickly, though, the two girls seemed to think about something and their expressions became excited.

"Dear, are you serious!? But don't you said before that you could not strengthen my body?"

"That was back then. I had been researching about the Body Enhancing Virus recently, remember? In the process, I improved the Body Enhancing Surgery and I managed to resolve the problem with the compatibility of your body."

Bloed then looked at Sara.

"It's the same with you, Sara. Actually, I had been thinking about doing this since a while ago, but I have been a bit busy, so I forgot about it. I think that it's a great opportunity, though."

"Brother, what are you talking about?" Eres finally asked at that moment. Just like her, Aya, Princess Elwha, and Prince Calisto were looking at Bloed with confused expressions.

Bloed did not reply. Instead, he looked at Eres and put on a pensive expression.

Now that he thought about it, Eres was human too.

He should be able to apply the Body Enhancing Surgery on her as well.

It was impossible for Aya and Elwha, after all, the body structure of Elves and Beastmen was very different than humans, and Bloed needed to research it a bit to make the surgery compatible with them. However, it was definitively possible for Eres.

Immediately, his eyes lit up.

"Eres, you should come with me as well. This should increase your strength a lot."

Eres was confused, but in the end, she nodded.

She trusted that Bloed was not going to harm her. Plus, she was curious about what Bloed was going to do.

Just like that, Bloed started the preparations for the challenge against Flying Leaves.

There were three days left to the challenge. And by then, Bloed needed to do his best to strengthen his club members as much as possible.