บท 8: Chapter 8 - Brewing Storm
Block B was decided immediately.
The surprising thing is, Jelal, whom I thought is a wimp was actually pretty decent in the battlefield. He did not only fight proudly, but he was able to match Felix until the last minute. Well, Felix was probably not using all his strength, but the fact that he was able to stand against him for about 10 minutes was a great feat.
He was covered in sweat and dirt, though. Felix, on the other hand, did not sweat at all. And his clothes weren't dirtied at all.
In the end, they were the only ones who passed Block B.
"I can't believe it." Murmured the girl beside me. Fenrir was gaping at the sight. She, then, looked at me. "Who the hell is that guy?! Why can't Jelal beat him?!"
I crossed my arms and smirked. "He's my bodyguard."
"No, not that! Jelal was supposed to be a master of the sword. No one can beat him at home, even my father, you know! Yet, he can't even touch that guy. And you too, what's with your weapon? I haven't seen something like that before!"
She suddenly exploded and I didn't answer her either. It would be a drag f I answer her since I'm sure she'd ask more questions after. And I probably can't answer all of her questions. She's the type of person that will not stop asking because of her curiosity.
The candidates walked out of the arena and I chose to walk over the arena's exit to welcome Felix. Fenrir, who still murmuring, followed me. When we got there, we saw Felix and Jelal talking. I can't help but smile.
Felix has a friend now.
"Can you teach me those evading moves?" Jelal asked as we got nearer.
"Sure. But I'm a strict master, you know." Felix replied. However, contrary to his threat, he was smiling. Well, not the smile which can be seen naturally. I'm the only one who can tell that he's happy. We've been together for years, I could read even a slight change of his expression.
And by the looks of it, he's happy.
"I'll be in your care, master!" Jelal, with watery and sparkling eyes, nodded and bowed.
"Waah, not even a day passed and you already got a lackey. Sasuga." I interjected in their conversation.
"Well, to think that I will become quite famous here is totally out of my expectations. You should learn from me, hime." He said. I crossed my arms and rolled my eyes.
"Whatever."
"You – you traitor! I'm supposedly your master!" We both looked at the one who spoke. It was Fenrir and she was punching Jelal, while the latter kept receiving her punches by his palm.
"Fenrir-saaaan, calm down, okay?" Jelal laughed guiltily. "He's just my master in martial arts. You're aware, right, that even if I excel in attacking, I totally lack in defense? I passed today because of Master. If he even attacked me with the intention of defeating me, I'd be one of those unconscious bodies y'know!"
I looked at Felix who just shrugged in response.
"Really?" Fenrir finally calmed down.
"Yes. Now, compose yourself because it's already your turn."
And thus, we sent Fenrir off to the arena. When she finally entered, Jelal sighed.
"Sorry about that. She's tends to get a little bit overreacting." He apologized. I shook my head slightly.
"It's fine. It somehow suits her character, after all." I winked.
After that, we proceeded to the bleachers in order to observe the third block's battle royal. Around 50 candidates gathered, and when Helena Grass signaled the start, just like how it is usually, all of the candidates started rushing and attacking each other.
However, not even a minute passed all, except one, candidates fell onto the ground unconscious.
With eyes widened, the three of us, and all of the observing candidates stood up.
"Hey, what the heck happened? Not even a minute passed…"
"Who's that guy?!"
Murmurs started to fill the whole arena.
"Fenrir—" I managed to stop Jelal by holding his left arm. He was about to charge into the battlefield.
"Calm down Jelal. Fenrir's just unconscious." I said.
Even so, what kind of magic did 'that guy' used? 'That guy' is a guy wearing a long black robe. Nobody could see his face because it was well-hidden and the hood extends to where his jaws should be.
"Silence!" Roared Bullard Brazo. "You – state your name!"
The guy took off his hood and thus, we, the audience, saw a guy with spiky purple hair. His ears and the side of his nose, pierced. One look, you could tell he's a gangster punk. The kind society rejects.
Anyway, just when he took off his hood, he started laughing evilly. He then curtsied.
"Hello~ Hello! I am Hee Van Virgo. It's nice meeting you all~"
"Hee Van… Virgo?" The other four enrolment staffs, Hertrude, Helena, Cleia and Frazen, murmured.
"Ah! Aren't you the that child prodigy who erased a whole mountain when you were still 8 years old?"
A child prodigy? That guy is? That guy who look like a gangster who looks like a good for nothing punk?
The guy only smiled while waving to the audience. Wait, the way he waves, he looks like a child, who's proud of his achievement. However, when he finally looked at our direction, his childish smile vanished – and the next thing I knew, he was in front of me.
"You – you smell different." he said while sniffing me. I stepped back, quivering, confused, and worried. What the heck is wrong with this guy?! With just a single sentence, he raised all alarms in my body!
He was about to step forward when Felix stood between us.
"Take one more step and I'll kill you."
"Hmm…" He started sniffing Felix too. "Smell different. AHAHA. I knew it! The two of you… you're something else."
All of my body hairs stood up. I don't really know what to think. The only thing that keeps registering on my mind was danger. This guy is dangerous. And out of the many reasons, it's because he might know something about us.
He smirked.
"I see. You have that scent, ne~?" He started laughing loudly. "How amusing."
Felix aimed one of his knives to the very person, but that guy did not even flinch. He just stared, amused, at the knife and Felix like it was a boy was aiming a toy knife at him.
"Hee Van Virgo. Come back here at once." The voice of Bullard Brazo echoed in the entire arena. Virgo looked at the old gorilla guy, and the once amused expression turned to a sour expression hearing Brazo's statement.
"Che. What a bore." He said and then turned to us, "Well, see you later!"
And once again, in just a blink of an eye, he was there. At the center of the arena. The once unconscious candidates were starting to gain their consciousness.
"Hee Van Virgo. I declare you pass the preliminaries. You are to follow our enrolment staff after the remaining block finish their preliminary activity. For now, wait." It was Cleia who declared his passage. Although those were the same words delivered to us when it was our turn, in his presence, it was rather different.
After all, an unpredictable storm just arrived. By the name of Hee Van Virgo.
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"Hime, should I kill him?"
I looked at Felix comically. Seriously, whenever a problem arises, he always resorts to murder. Anyway, we were now in a little forest park inside the building where most of the candidates were resting.
A greenery with trees but mostly bushes of flowers. Benches were set up where anyone can rest.
I sighed, "I can't not understand you actually. Even I am aware of the danger that Hee Van pose. However, murder is out of the question." I sternly looked at him. "Especially you, you brat. Stop thinking killing can solve anything! You haven't even killed before!"
It was a shout that he could only hear. We're in a pretty isolated area, but there were still few people passing here and then.
"Humans are trashes, hime. Killing them is not a big deal."
"Shut up! You even said there are exceptions hours ago!"
"Well, there are. But that guy is bad news. His magic can't even be detected by <Vibration>, his skills are unknown. We only know he's a prodigy, and he had performed a great feat in the past. Apart from that, nothing. Knowing he's alive, I can't just rest easy."
I don't really know what to say. After all, what Felix said were the same things that's been bothering me.
"For now, let's just be careful with our movements. We can't get exposed this early in the game." I said. I was sure I was frowning. I really can't seem to crack what's up with that guy. Back then, reading and watching guys like him gave me thrills because they're too unpredictable, they could make a story more interesting.
I didn't know it's this troublesome dealing with their types.
"Hee Van Virgo. What will he bring forth?"
"Hmm~ I can at least make your boring lives waaaaaay more interesting!"
Felix and I jumped off from the bench we were sitting because the person in question suddenly appeared. In our backs, where we would be most surprised.
And as usual, my omnipotence couldn't sense him. Not at all. Even when I adjusted its range to a kilometer in radius, I can't. By the way, the only thing I could see in him, at the very moment, was an enormous amount of aura. It equated to my own aura reserves.
Seriously? How strong is this guy?
"Oh, come on. Don't be so unfriendly! I just came to say "Hi" and maybe continue our conversation." Then he looked into Felix. "<Vibration>, huh? That's a powerful perception magic. As I thought, you two aren't humans, right~?"
I frozed. Felix kicked him which he evaded easily by disappearing on sight. He then appeared a few meters away from our left.
"My, my. Don't be so hotheaded, brother."
"As I thought, hime. We should really dispose him." Felix whispered to me without taking his eyes away from Hee Van. "To think we'd be discovered by someone. Should I say, as expected of a child prodigy?"
"Ahehe. You flatter me. It's not really that great." He scratched the side of his head. However, Felix already made his move the moment he took his time answering the question.
Felix attacked firt with his knives which stuck on the pavement. Hee Van reacted too late. Being a dragonian royal guard, you have to be one of the elite forces which was divided into four. The rear guards, specializing in long range attacks, Sparrow; the defense guards, specializing in an impregnable defense, Solid Gate; the attack squad, which specializes in head on attack, Order; and the squad with no official name because nobody has solid proof that they exist.
The Shadows. A well-organized assassination squad, spearheaded by my own father, and was a state secret. At present there were only five elites as members which only the royal family knows. Coincidentally, Felix was one of them. He was probably the weakest, but the Shadows, without question, overpowers the normal soldier squads.
In short, Felix specializes in quick, insensible, attacks. The very reason Hee Van wasn't able to react.
Felix disappeared in the shadows then freely flying knives started attacking Hee Van from all direction. And as if, it wasn't enough, the knives that were stuck on ground started to fly, circling Hee Van, in all directions. Attacking, and then, hover again, dancing mid-air.
I also slowly understood his magic.
It was space manipulation. To alter a given space with magic. The reason why I wasn't able to sense him with my omnipotence, I finally understood. Those times I didn't seem him when in fact nothing could pass Omnipotence, oh yea, except for Shellcy who actually had a divine blessing from my parents, and my parents, even an arrow dashing in the speed of light would get detected.
It was because he isn't travelling in the physical world.
To create his own dimension. What a terrifying person.
"Waaaah. Impressive!" He said, while clapping his hands. "However, shall we stop this feat? The last block is about to end, you know?"
And then he disappeared, again.
Felix appeared in the shadows in shock. He probably thought that by hovering over dozens of knives in the air would prevent him from travelling space – however, it didn't.
He then appeared behind Felix, gripped my bodyguard's arms.
"You might be able to win from other human beings, but not me, boy. If there was a person who could actually beat me, that would be the lady over there. Not you." He said, then he freed Felix.
The latter hissed.
"Forgive me, hime."
I shook my head. "No, I should be the one who's sorry. I thought the same as you in the very beginning so I thought you'd be enough – I just realized the nature of his magic late. I'm sorry."
"Well, well. Don't worry too much. I'm not going to expose you."
I frowned, without lowering my guard.
"Why?" I asked.
"Well, just because." He smiled evilly. Like those evil villains in anime. "I don't have the obligation to tell you why, right?"
He's right. Whatever's in his mind now, I can't force him to tell. Even though he said that I would be the only one who could beat him which I would probably agree – only if I use Siguinaguran, however, it's way too risky. If I use that sword with y unstable control, not only he would die but probably all of the people in this building.
That's how OP the sword on my hip is.
"Anyway! We should really go now. They're about to start the second round."
He then left humming a familiar tune I couldn't point what it was. But I was sure it was very familiar.
Felix and I both looked at each other.
I sighed mentally. For now, if he really was telling the truth, Van will not be a thorn in our way. For now that is.
However, I can't brush the inner questions in me away.
Why was he doing this?
What is his motive?
And what else does he know?
I didn't know that the answers, which I will learn from a later date, would stir the whole world to chaos.
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