(Are you kidding me?)
When Tristan heard it, he didn't believe it. Advanced Mastery was already an apex in Retus and most are super genius in their mid-late 20s or even middle age and old people.
And the majority of these people are old Expert Stages or Crown stages so how could a 21-year-old girl achieve it?
He wanted to ask the system if it got mistaken on what it said.
[I'm saying the truth, most people cannot see it, but I'm different because I already have my own knowledge stored in me, it can reference a level of mastery.]
(Maybe your data was malfunctioning, seriously, are you okay?)
[You Bastard, Bastard, Bastard… How could you not believe me? After two years of guiding you, and still, you couldn't believe me? I'm heartbroken right no….]
Tristan looks at the students celebrating while looking at him proudly, sneering as if they said "Haha… What now? Serves you right!"
"Hmph…" He snorts at them and then walked away. He doesn't bother to argue with these weak people. He looked at his surrounding to find the beldum.
(System, where's that little fellow?)
[TRISTAN, YOU MUST BELIEVE IN ME, THAT WOMAN CAN ALREADY MASTER A FULL PERFORMANCE OF INTERMEDIATE MASTERY, I CAN FEEL A BIT OF STIFFNESS IN THE WAY SHE MOVED, IT'S NOT ABOUT BECAUSE SHE STILL HAS NOT MASTERED THE INTERMEDIATE BUT SHE'S CONTROLLING IT… AND ALSO, ALSO THAT ELEMENTAL AFFINITY AND NATUR…]
(Fine, Fine, Whatever, where's that guy?) Tristan rolled his eyes because he can't still believe it.
[You Goddamn Bullshit! How could you not believe me? That woman had elemental affinity but also nature contact, that woman might even reach a peak of Advanced or even a Master in the future!]
(F*ck you! It's you who bullshit, what an Advanced shit! A Master Shit! What else do you want to say; don't tell me you also want to say she's an Elite… Champion? What Else?)
[Fine, fine, don't believe me, damn it, you're so annoying, I've nothing to lose if you don't believe me, it's your loss. See the fight, both intermediate, but you were oppressed by her… Why is it?]
(Hmph… That's because I'm almost exhausted…) Tristan denied it and said unwillingly. But inside his heart, there's a bit of doubt and hesitation. If what the system said was really right. In that case, that woman's strength…
He pressed grip on the hilt of his sword with determination.
[Hoho, can't admit defeat? Why not just admit it? It doesn't…]
While they both are arguing, Tristan feels a bit of vibration coming to him and immediately defends it with the scabbard of Wado Ichmonji.
He saw the little white iron ball attacking in front of him so he smacked the hilt on its head and asked angrily: "What the hell are you doing?"
Since this little fellow can already start training means this guy can also be beaten by him, just like what happened right now.
WHIIING WHIIIING
The Beldum made a noise, its eyes were watery looking at him angrily with a grievance.
[Ah, it hurts! Bastard, you're a bad master. Why hurt me? It said] The system even imitated the voice on its action.
"You're asking me why I hurt you when you're planning to hurt me?"
WHIIIING WHIIIING
[Hmph… hmph… I'm just testing my new skills, look]
Then Beldum activated it again but…
"Bastard… Are you going to do it again?"
Smack!
Whiiiing Whiiiing
[It hurts! Whooo!... You ba…]
The beldum cried out while the system translated it to him, but his attention is when he heard it say "new skills" so he looked at beldum, ignoring its noise, and check its status.
[Pokemon: Beldum (Shiny)
Level: 11
Abilities: Clear Body ⇔ Light Metal
Height: 0.5 m
Weight: 95.2
…
Bases Stats: 300
HP: 40
Attack: 55
Defense: 80
Sp. Atk: 35
Sp. Def: 60
Speed: 30
…
Skill: Tackle, Iron Head]
He was surprised when he saw another skill appear on it named "Iron Head" but he cannot see the effect of it so he was helpless. But he knows it's a good thing for this guy.
And since the update of the system, the strength of beldum increased rapidly in just less than a week and it improved two levels. The reason behind it is because of the converter that Tristan brought.
Rainbow Poké Block must be the most delicious food that Beldum tasted in its whole life. Tristan also knew this so he made a certain condition for it. Once the little fellow completed its training task, it can get a certain reward of Poke Block based on the task it completed, and because of this, it makes the beldum more and more motivated to start training, of course, there is still a limitation because the system reminded us that work and rest must be balanced to not burden the body.
"What happened, how did you learn it?"
Whiiing Whiiing!
[Hmph, I don't wanna tell you…]
"Hoh, you want another one?"
Whiiiing Whiiiing
[Bad, you're really a bad master! Hmph]
When he was about to act… he heard its reply saying it learned its skills watching his fight with his opponents, it didn't know what happened, it just happened that it learns it that way.
(Do you know?)
[Don't ask me, I also don't know. Maybe just a coincidence like in the Pokémon Anime series]
(There's no instruction in your database?)
[If the skills are what you're talking about, there's a database saved here, I can explain it to you later, as for how to gain skills, I don't know, maybe fighting, maybe learning, or maybe Poké Block, each one has a possibility.]
After chatting with the system on his thought, he feels a hand patting his shoulder and a voice saying: "You did a good job, and even exceed my own expectation. But this time, it's also a lesson for you to not underestimate any people"
It's the Headmaster Kenile
"Oh… I, I didn't underestimate her… no I, I maybe, exhaust…" But then he stopped talking because he thinks his reasoning was just nonsense and just showing his weakness. He really did underestimate her from the beginning, and even though he was exhausted, the fight before was really suppressing him no matter what. He thought, even if he recovers in full condition, it will not change his defeat but just prolong the period of time. Then he started to remember what the system said before, maybe she really…
[See, did you believe me right now? I already told you that…]
(You're Spying on my thought again?)
[Oops] The system pretended to hear nothing.
Kenile looked at him contemplating and he just smiled and shook his head. Every young warrior experienced this in their early times, no matter how tall you are, there are always mountains that are taller than you.
Tristan looked at the Headmaster and said: "That woman was not a native here right, Headmaster?"
Kenile heard what he said and understand what he means and also sigh and said: "Yes"
By saying not a native means maybe outside of Artheran. Maybe it's from another country of Asul Continent. But what Tristan means was
Outside of Continent.
"Rilello Continent… Why come here, with no ice? Hmph… She's just wasting her talent" Tristan snorted and said. Ice user was rare, especially in a place with few ice place like Artheran, and even in the Asul Continent, only a few ice places can be seen.
And most ice element users didn't dare to go to another continent with no ice like Iris. So, it's weird for Iris with no affiliation with this country to come here. And the most shocking thing is Iris still improving fast with no benefits of an Ice Environment and reached the Late Stage of Expert. Even in the Rillelo Continent, it's still rare, and mostly, only the super genius in the generation is capable to achieve this. And this type of people is below rank 20 or even below rank 10 of the country.
Currently, the rank of Iris in Artheran Youth was 39, but now… It seems will change. It can even reach maybe, maybe… Below rank 10?
And hearing what Tristan said, the headmaster said nothing and just shook his head. This was also one of the questions she wanted to ask that girl. He feels he's making a great sin for accepting her into this university because it cannot help her with the environment and even the ice skills method because it's obvious that Artheran had no deep foundation in Ice Elements, they only hindered her improvement. Kenile even received a letter of complaint from a certain country in the Rilello continent
But despite having disadvantages, surprisingly, Iris can still achieve a Late Stage and even surpassed Fred, and it seems she has a deep heritage and does not need to get some skills for her credit points.
He still remembered how Iris defeated the current Vice Captain now of S-Class Universities almost half-year ago, she defeated Nikko, Emelda, and can even fight toe-to-toe with the current captain of S- class this year with just a bit disadvantage. And also because of this, She and Fred and other senior members shone in that battle.
But right now, her strength had been improved a lot of times compared last 6 months.
What happened?
But Kenile didn't delve into it and thought she was just a super genius like the guy in front of him. And he thought this guy was more lunatic.
…
A few minutes later, he introduced Tristan again to the students, some senior and other male students looked unwillingly at him but didn't say anything, even the Core and Sub-core members were quiet and didn't say anything.
They are convinced by the strength that Tristan has shown right now. And even if they have an opinion, they cannot say anything because it's simple, they can't defeat him.
If you have an opinion then go and fight that lunatic, who knows if you can defeat him.
Do you think he was exhausted? Look at him fighting with Frank before, and the latter suffered tremendously. He can even fight Iris who was in the Late Stage, even though he was oppressed, they cannot deny his ability.
No wonder, no wonder, the school rejected Carlo Baker.
Isn't that because the school became dumb or had been bribed, hoho who can bribe the school against one of the 9 strongest families? Is the replacement bribe enough to be compared to the bribe of 9 families?
And so, this Black Coated guy was a genius.
Not only a genius, but it's also a:
Powerhouse this time!
When thinking of this, their eyes light up, maybe this time, they can really…
They still remembered the fight last 4-6 months, ranked fourth, it's almost near the Championship, if it's not because of the GRIW that they fought, maybe they can reach 2nd place or have a bit chance of being Champion.
And now…
Late Stage, Peak Middle Stage, and Early Stage who had a strength of nearly Peak Middle Stage then supplemented by also the remaining middle stage
Whoah, what's this? S-Class lineup? Even though they're only an A-Class University, their lineup was really…
Frank this time was a little bit afraid right now, with the addition of Tristan, there must be one core member who will withdraw to a sub-core member and so as the last member of the group and the defeated opponent of Tristan, it's reasonable that he must remove this time.
And as expected when the Principal announced the ranking position, Frank was removed and was changed by Tristan in the Tenth.
Frank didn't say anything and just bow down his head, gripped his spear, then looked towards Tristan and then at Lyda and Josh.
I cannot defeat Tristan but how about you?
Feeling the gazed Frank, the two of them felt tensed with this situation but didn't back down and also looked at Frank with determination as if saying: "Come on!"
The position of Core Member was really tempting and there are many Sub-Core members are already attempted to take the position, especially the numbers 7-10 which were weaker in their minds.
So it's normal to have a competition to take the core member position.