LSA Inner Competition Begin!

"Brian?!?!" Muttered Luke in shock. What is he doing here?

After the sudden appearance of Brian on the first-day free battle class, Luke never see Brian again. When Luke asked Kuvar and Timothy about his whereabouts, they simply answered Brian usually gone like that. Afterward, Luke came to forget about that matter and only remember it only after seeing him now.

"Hehe, what's with that surprised face?" Brian smirked and slowly approaching Luke closer.

"I was just shocked because I haven't seen you in almost a month." Luke quickly composed his feeling and shrugged his shoulders.

"Yeah, got a family problem." Brian shortly answered before he hooked his arm on Luke's neck, "Then, what about you? I can sense you're stronger now." Luke raised his eyebrows upon hearing it.

"Oh? You can feel it? Probably as you said, my body is indeed growing stronger." Luke said with a proud smile.

Brian patted Luke's shoulder and said, "Well done." Brian praised before added, "With this muscle of yours, you can compete with a gorilla in terms of strengths."

Luke was all smiled when hearing Brian's first sentence but immediately creased his forehead after hearing the last sentence. He gritted his teeth and said harshly, "Get lost!"

"Ahahaha, I'm now going greet the other two guys. Good luck with your battle!" Brian pointed in Kuvar and Timothy's direction before he walked away.

Luke nodded his head as a response. Seeing Brian already walked away, Luke immediately used his examine skill.

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<Your examine attempt failed>

<No information gathered>

<The target you've examined had a high resistance>

<Cooldown: 17 minutes>

'How can this be? My examine skill already reached rank E, and if Brian was truly a rank E, how can he resist my skill? This Brian really unfathomable.' Luke silently thought as he gazed at Brian back.

Then a voice broke his thought, "Luke Lewis, go enter the arena."

Luke quickly proceed toward the arena and throw the Brian matter out of his head because he needed to focus on his last battle.

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-Next Day-

"Are you arrive already?" Luke typed the message on his phone and pressed the send button.

Luke and his roommates are currently seated on the stadium's bleacher, waiting for further instruction. The stadium was crowded with many students, and occasionally some people passing by him trying to get into an available seat. From the statement written on the billboard, the first competition would go by Battle Royale mode.

Because a person with a rank above 9 was quite rare, this competition only consists of people with a rank 9. But, Luke cannot underestimate it since it means the one who'd also join the battle was including the people with ability ranked A and B.

The battle royal will lasted until the participant only remained 64 people. This is quite a small number in comparison with the people who participate in the battle. Luke could roughly guess that there are at least a thousand who'd partake in the competition. Luke could only shake his head in dismay since he practically had a meager chance of entering the top 64. It's not that he didn't feel confident enough with his power. He always tried to think logically, and with his level 9 and no new ability, it's hard to determine whether he could survive or not until the battle ended.

Yes! He didn't manage to level up yesterday. It was hilarious to think he needs only 100 EXP to reach level 10. Of course, Luke wanted to try to challenge more people, but the teacher forbids him from doing so because of today's tournament. He said he must maintain his body condition and only allowed him to fight once today.

'If I got an A-Rank opponent the first time I landed on the arena, I would surely be doomed.' Luke sighed inwardly. Then a beeped sound came out from his phone. He turned on his phone and checked the incoming new message.

"Not telling you~ How about giving me a brief explanation regarding your appearance? I'll then search for your figure and keep an eye on you." Replied Aisyl with a propping chin emoji.

'Watching me? It indirectly means her rank was above rank 9, right? Since she doesn't need to participate, then it must be her rank above me.' Luke silently concluded.

Luke pondered for a moment before answered, "Alright. My hair is black, and my height is average. I'm now wearing LSA uniform."

Within a second came a reply with furious face emoji, "Which person describe themselves like that!!"

Luke chuckled seeing the response and about to type back when Kuvar from the side smirked teasingly, "Hmmmm, it seems one of us already got himself a girlfriend."

Timothy immediately inquired curiously, "Who are you talking about, Kuvar?"

Kuvar threw a tease glance at Luke, "Guess who~"

Luke coughed and tried to defend himself, "We just a normal friend."

"Who's gonna trust your words upon seeing the smirk on your face while texting." Kuvar satirizes as his lip curled upward.

Luke about to reasoned further but stopped upon his eyes caught an elderly figure that appeared from the main hallway, followed by a handsome middle-aged man and a gorgeous middle-aged woman.

Unlike Elder Wayne whose hair already turned all white. The middle-aged man still retains his handsomeness from the past and still hadn't a strand of white hair. His face shape was perfect, and those pair of attractive green eyes wandered around the stadium as if scanned it. Or so Luke thought.

"Tch! You didn't change the slightest, still using a beauty product like a female." Elder Wayne ridiculed the middle-aged man after seeing all his female students seem bewitched by the man."

"Same for you. Still ugly and had no sense of fashion." Snorted the middle-aged man who angered Elder Wayne.

"What did you say?" Elder Wayne's anger flared up.

"Can you two stop arguing for a moment?" A soothing voice came out from the middle-aged woman. Her brown hair was tied up in a bun. Her face was glowing healthy and didn't less attractive with the middle-aged man. Her current expression was somewhat helpless at the scene of bickering in front of her.

"No way!"

"Impossible!"

Came simultaneously reply from the two men.

The middle-aged woman frowned a bit, "At least, don't try to ruin your own reputation in front of your students."

Elder Wayne stunned at her statement, then shut his mouth tightly and began straightening his back as he walked toward the podium.

Arriving at the podium accompanied by the two-person, Elder Wayne cleared his throat before spoke, "Good morning, my students."

"As you anticipated, the LSA Inner Competition will begin shortly. But first, let me introduce two representatives from respectively two top-ranked academies. Let's give applause to Madam Nicilia from Flokyce Academy and Mister Braun from Drofore Academy."

As soon as Elder Wayne's voice reverberated within the stadium, all the students start clapping their hands excitedly.

In front of his students, Elder Wayne didn't dare act disrespect toward Mister Braun. Thus he could only swallow his pride and speak respectfully, "Mister Braun, Madam Nicilia, you can now invite the disciples you brought over the stadium."

Seeing a conflicted look on Elder Wayne's face, Madam Nicilia almost laughed aloud but refraining herself considering her elderly image, "Alright."

Mister Braun didn't speak but a gloating smile plastered over his face.

The two-person exchanged glances before nodded their head and proceeded to raise their hands. From the tip of their finger, a small ball of light suddenly came out in a second and shot up into the sky.

Like a firework, the ball exploded in the sky, creating a wonderful scene. Not long after that, twenty people came out from the corridor directed to the special seats on another side of the stadium. On the left side was a parade full of man led by a young man with black hair. His face was not outstanding but pleasant on the eyes. Currently, that pairs of eyes of his looked uninterested, contrasting with the clamour within the stadium.

Contrary to the full boy group on the left side. On the right side was a group filled with only girls. The group was led by a young woman with her black hair tied up in a lovely ponytail. Each step she took would make her ponytail danced around in the air. Her eyes were bright and full of confidence as if a failure meant nothing to her.

Although the two groups walked on the same path, they didn't seem to get along well since they didn't converse as they walked. Even after they arrived at their destination, no one initiates a conversation.

Mister Braun and Madam Nicilia could only shake their head helplessly at their disciples' attitude. Though, the two groups didn't have animosity and merely act with their own nature. The audience was completely clueless and would surely assume they were on bad terms or something similar.

Elder Wayne acted obviously to this and cleared his throat, "Second, because the competition will go with battle royale system, and we definitely cannot observe each of your performances. You can press the button on your badge as a signal of surrender. Once you press it, you'll be eliminated from the competition, and other competitors cannot attack you, nor you cannot attack other participants. Our team will then teleport you to the safe zone as soon as possible. And if you dare to violate those rules, you must know that the consequences are severe."

Elder Wayne took a deep breath before pumped his fist against the air, "Third, I hereby declare that now, LSA Inner Competition begins!"