Chapter 242: Ch-242: Confrontation
"Let’s go to the VIP section first and take our seats," Valerie said and then turned to Victor, Amber, and Rina and invited them. "So, do you want to join us?"
The trio looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders and nodded.
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After they had taken their seats, where only elite students along with their guests could sit, a host came onto the large stage and announced, "Everyone, please welcome Miss Olivia and Miss Rachel."
As the announcer shouted, two beautiful women, Olivia and Rachel, appeared on the stage under everyone’s applause.
Everyone’s eyes were focused on Olivia and Rachel, who calmly walked onto the stage and locked eyes with each other.
"Guild Leader, I am not going to go easy on you... and I will win," Rachel said with a teasing tone as she looked at Olivia, who snorted upon hearing this. "Hmph, then I will go all out."
Rachel, who heard this, broke into a cold sweat and stammered, "T-There is no reason to go all out. How about you hold back your strength... I am your dear cousin, aren’t I?"
"Heh." Olivia’s lips curled up and her eyes narrowed as Rachel cursed inwardly, ’Damn, she is not going to hold back, is she? I should have kept my mouth shut.’
Both of them started radiating a large amount of mana from their bodies, and the Awakeners who felt it had their expressions changed when they felt the mana radiating from them.
"Holy, such dense mana. No wonder they are both S-rank Awakeners."
"I heard when they tested their rank at the World Awakeners Association headquarters, the people nearby had fainted due to the pressure."
"Not surprised. I would probably faint too. Even being so far away, I can feel my hair stand on end, and getting close would likely cause me to faint as well."
"Feeling this mana, I just wonder what kind of monster the top player, Faceless, is."
"Tsk, show-off." Ruby, who was watching from the audience, clicked her tongue.
"Hah, look at the referee. He looks like he wants to be anywhere except this place," Rina said with a chuckle.
"Haha, you’re right," Valerie laughed softly as she looked at the stage.
The referee nervously stepped onto the stage while wiping the sweat from his brows. He looked at the stage beneath their feet, which had cracked under the pressure, and almost wanted to turn around.
"The special match between Awakener Olivia and Awakener Rachel will begin in 3... 2... 1. Start!" the judge said as he lowered the white flag in his hand, and in the next second, he was blown away by the fierce winds swirling around Olivia and Rachel.
"Ahhh!"
"I’ll be striking now," Olivia warned her since she was kind enough to give her the first strike.
"Go ahead," Rachel said with a confident smile on her face.
"Fine, Giant Ice Ball," Olivia said in a cold voice, and the next second, the temperature dropped sharply as frost started to appear on the railings of the stadium seats, and a large shadow covered a small portion of the seats.
The people in the seats who saw the shadow fall over them immediately looked up, their pupils constricting to the size of needles, and cursed.
"Fuck!"
"Does she want to kill us?"
"Damn, can she control this?"
A huge ice ball, the size of one-quarter of the entire stadium, was descending like a meteor towards Rachel.
"Hmph, if I created one, mine would have been thrice as large as the stadium and way stronger," Amber boasted calmly, which caused Victor to roll his eyes at her.
"Bone Wall," Rachel said with a nervous smile as she wiped the sweat from her brow, and a large wall made of white bones appeared in front of her.
Bang!
The ice ball crashed into the bone wall, causing it to tremble and almost crack.
"It held," Rachel sighed with relief on her face. She was only 40% sure it could withstand the attack.
Rachel glared at Olivia, who looked at her innocently, and her eyebrows twitched as she started to gather mana. Seeing this, Olivia responded in kind, but before they could unleash their skills...
"All right, enough. If you two continue, you might kill everyone." Lance stepped into the middle of the stadium and said in a gentle voice.
"Headmaster Lance." Both girls looked at Lance and stopped, greeting him with respect.
"How about you stop? I think the audience has had their fill," Lance said, and the girls nodded as they stepped away from the stage.
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"Valerie, you’re here. I was looking for you everywhere." Valerie, who was in a good mood, had her joy plummet to the ground as she heard a familiar, annoying voice in her ears, and sure enough, when she looked at the source, she saw Julian walking towards her with his obese body, and beside him was a young man.
"It’s you three." The young man, Ellie Scarlet, whom Victor had met, shouted in surprise as he pointed his finger towards him.
"Who are you?" Amber asked in a genuinely confused tone, her brows furrowing as she could not remember him. She had a nagging feeling that she had seen someone before but could not remember him.
Seeing her reaction, Ellie’s eyes widened, and he felt an arrow pierce his chest as he staggered backward, but then shouted, "I just met you a few hours ago at the Guild Association! How could you forget me?"
Rina leaned over and said, "He was the guy with the young-master-type energy."
"Oh." Amber suddenly remembered and exclaimed, then lost interest.
Seeing this, he felt another critical blow and was about to erupt again when a cold voice stopped him.
"Little Brother, what kind of manners is this? Why are you barking like a dog?" Ruby said with a pleasant smile, and when Ellie heard the voice, he shuddered, his eyes widening when he saw his big sister sitting with them.
’Oh no, what is this demoness doing here? Damn, I am going to get disciplined again.’ Ellie cried out inwardly and could not help but take a few steps back subconsciously as some memories resurfaced. When he was young, their parents had given Ruby the charge of disciplining her brother and teaching him aristocratic manners, but he still sometimes acted out of the norm, and Ruby would punish him by beating him to a pulp.
"Valerie, who is this guy?" Julian did not pay attention to Ruby or Ellie’s antics, but his gaze was fixed on Victor, who was sitting very close to Valerie, his fiancée, and their thighs were touching each other, and what made his expression darken with anger was that Valerie’s hands were resting on his thighs.
He was extremely petty and sensitive, especially regarding Valerie, whom he thought was his biggest prize, and had a habit of torturing and killing anyone who touched his possession. Of course, being weaker and easy to bully, this personality was probably due to his inferiority complex, as he knew he was not handsome and probably even ugly.
Valerie frowned when she heard this and saw where he was looking. She wanted to pull her hand away, as she did not realize her hand was touching his thigh, but then an idea formed as a mischievous smile appeared on her face. Without hesitation, she leaned even closer to Victor.
’What is she doing?’ Victor blinked, surprised by the intimacy, and then looked at the red-faced Julian and understood, which caused him to rub his temples.
"You..." Julian’s forehead bulged with veins as he saw this and took a step forward towards Victor and said in a cold voice, "You move because I am going to sit here."
As he said this, he released his mana and tried to intimidate him. If it were outside, he would have already tossed him aside or killed him outright.
Ruby also turned her gaze towards them and showed a curious look. ’What will he do?’
Victor looked up at him and said in a mocking voice, "Someone call the owner. An ugly pig escaped from their own."
"Pfft." Hearing this, Ruby could not help but snicker, and Valerie, sitting beside Victor, had her eyes widened as she looked at Victor.
"You..." Julian was so angry that he was speechless and was about to grab his arm when he froze all of a sudden and started trembling as sweat began to form on his forehead.
Victor had unleashed his Bloodlust skill and directed it solely at Julian, whose face went deathly pale and whose legs weakened as he stared at Victor with dread.
"What’s going on with him?" Valerie was startled, seeing Julian trembling with fear and looking at Victor like he was some kind of monster.
"Scram." Victor looked at the bag of trash and said in a cold voice. He nodded and hurriedly bolted away.
Ruby narrowed her eyes at Victor and thought, ’Even though Julian picks on weak people, there is no reason for him to act like this... he must have done something, but what?’