For the first time in his life, Zeras finally came to understand the meaning of the words, there’s greater power in an army.
The collision between a total of 300 New Cadets who went all out with their genetic abilities made him feel a chill rise on his spine as he saw how devastating their attack was.
Normally, if it was a single one-on-one fight, then he wouldn’t be worried at all due to their attacks, but it wasn’t. It was 300 people unleashing attacks at the same time on each other.
The Royal Rumble was incredibly chaotic, with some quickly choosing to team up to take the more powerful Cadets down.
A very wise decision for Zeras.
Normally, those at the top 200 would have their strength grow even more than those without ranking, so the best choice for those without ranking is to band together with those with rankings and get them eliminated.
This tactic worked so much that over 50 people on the rankings have been eliminated, which means they’ll now be the ones unranked after this event.
Sure it might look unfair, but as the handlers said, your rankings are determined by your combat and Intelligence abilities.
Some were ranked and bonded together once they noticed the trends to resist getting disqualified and Zeras gave a satisfied nod seeing that but there was a person that caught his eyes and made him furrow them together…
And right now he was facing a group of Cadets all on his own…
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A group of ten New Cadets formed a circle at the end of the battle stage away from all the chaos as they looked at the single figure they were encircling.
He was a white-skinned young man with blue hair, standing at a height of 1.8 meters.
He stood at the center of the 10 cadets, his eyes closed but they slowly opened as he stared at the twenty cadets surrounding him but his eyes still revealed calmness.
Powerful waves of aura undulated from the twenty cadets surrounding him as they got ready to unleash their genetic abilities.
“You’ve all chosen to challenge me… Fine, I’ll entertain your battle lust…” The young man stretched his hands to the sides and a long white katana soon appeared in his hands.
The katana was without a sheath and an image of a strange blue star could be seen in the middle of the blade revealing bursts of blue lights.
The silence was palpable as the face-off unfolded between the two groups when suddenly…
Vroooooom
The sound of an object cutting through the rang out as one of the new cadets clamped his hands together and a root rapidly extended from the ground piercing towards the young man with speed.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP
The young man’s head was immediately torn apart into two but a shocking phenomenon occurred when the image of the young man faded away to particles and the tree branch was divided into two.
The young man’s sword sliced the roots into two and the next second he arrived in front of the New Cadets responsible for the attack and his blade cleaved towards his neck with speed.
The New cadet’s eyes widened In shock as the attack was just too fast. His extremely thick root was sliced into two instantaneously and the blade was rapidly magnifying towards him by the passing second.
CLAAAAAAAAAAAAANG
The sound of collision between a metal and a sword rang out as a hand completely covered in yellow metal slammed against the blade causing it to bounce backwards as the young man jumped backwards.
“KYAAAAAAAAAHHHH”
Blood immediately erupted like a wave from the metallic hands as a deep cut that cleaved apart his palms could be seen on it.
The remaining eight cadets immediately unleashed their genetic ability as different attacks slammed forward towards the young man who soon bent his knees and slashed with his katana unleashing a gigantic image of blade light that ripped towards the multitude of attacks…
“SHIIIIIIIIIT…”
“ATTACK….”
“How is he so fast….”
Zera’s eyes widened in shock as he saw a single man fighting against ten other new Cadets like himself and blood erupting continuously as deep cuts appeared all over their bodies.
3 minutes later…
The young man stood at the center of the battle stage his blade beside him dripping with red blood as the young man swerved it to the side splashing the blood away from it…
Around his legs were the bodies of the New Cadets who all had different blade cuts lining their body as they were knocked out on the ground staining the ground in a colour red.
“HAAAAAAA” The katana the young man was holding soon disappeared as he sat down cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes.
Zeras looked numbly at the scene as he almost screamed out ‘ Just who the hell is that?’
It had to be known this guy wasn’t even in the top 100 rankings, yet how did he get strong and where was he since all this while?
Zera’s watch suddenly vibrated as he saw a notification appear
Zeras raised an eyebrow looking at the notification as he suddenly felt a gaze on him and turned towards the battle stage.
Eliot who was formerly sitting crosslegged with his eyes closed now had his eyes opened as he looked dead straight at Zeras before standing up straight and pointing his katana towards him.
“How interesting…” A smile widened on Zera’s face reaching up to his ears, but unknowing to Zeras his chaotic eyes revealed a burst of Abyssal dark lights.
His act couldn’t be any clearer… He was challenging him!
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The exchange between Eliot and the 10 other cadets didn’t escape the eyes of the Instructors and neither did the exchange between him and Zeras.
“He’s very good with his blade…” An instructor commented. 𝗳re𝚠en𝗼vl.c𝐨𝐦
“Of course he is. He’s one from the Norgodomev family. While they are not from the top ten families, when it comes to the art of the blade, they are unrivaled in the world…” Another instructor replied, not at all surprised by the fights.
“He seems to have a feud with the kid at the number one. Having said that don’t you guys think that number one kid is a little strange…” Instructor Muruda, the instructor responsible for the Infiltration said as they turned to look at the Zeras who watched the battle happening below with a smile on his face.
“Well, none knows how powerful he is not what his genetic ability even is. But after this event, whether he’s a weakling or not will be revealed as the monsters of this event all had their eyes on him…” One of the instructors said with a smile.
“Either way, the fight would definitely be an interesting one…”
While the instructors in the event feverishly discuss the upcoming fights and more or less think little of Zeras. A single instructor remained silent as his snake-like eyes stared at Zeras in confusion.
This instructor was Instructor Draco of the Operation Combat Class. His eyes were narrowed to points as he looked at Zeras.
‘Just what secrets are you hiding, kid…’ Instructor Draco thought to himself as he felt a close familiarity from Zeras.