"Wyba, you traitor, we should have jumped together, but you disregarded our teamwork and jumped to Yale directly. You will make cry."
Although Barha complained, she really didn’t care that much. She got bored and walked to Yale and the others.
Nurvey and Nevah also decided to stop touching Ange’s ears.
"This girl should be Wyba, right? I heard a lot about her from Nurvey. Well, she has so many plushies about her, that is like if I already knew her from before."
Nurvey never graduated from her passion for Wyba’s plushies, so Nevah had also seen them. After all, the Multiverse Trading Association was producing them, so Nurvey had asked Nevah to go buy so a lot of ti while they trained.
"Don’t tell those things to others..."
Nurvey was embarrassed when soone else pointed her hobby, especially given that Wyba was there herself. Of course, Yale and Wyba knew about her hobby of collecting plushies of Wyba, so they didn’t react at all, but others who didn’t know looked at her with strange faces.
"Who cares? The Multiverse Trading Association belongs to Yale, so you are a big sponsor given how much you buy there. You don’t need to be ashad."
Although Nevah said that, the price of plushies were negligible by people like Yale, so it mainly served as a way to attract people. The real worth of the Multiverse Trading Association was its information network.
"Did you buy Wyba’s plushies? Do you know that they also started to sell plushies of ? Julie asked permission after I t her. She really has good taste."
Barha spoke like if she did a favor to Julie agreeing to make plushies of her, but the truth was that she was jealous that Wyba had plushies while she didn’t, so Julie took that decision to make her happy.
"Sorry..."
Nurvey had been really busy, so it was already a lot that Nevah gave her ti to ask the Multiverse Trading Association to send them Wyba’s plushies, but it would have been too much asking to see new unrelated products.
Hearing Nurvey’s apology, Barha was quite depressed.
"Is my disciple better than ?"
Seeing Barha’s state, Yale decided to speak.
"Barha, your plushies aren’t available to the public yet. It was delayed until the end of the war for obvious reasons. Moreover, the first one will be a set of you with Wyba. It will be called: The cutest master and disciple pack. Julie is already preparing it to announce it once the war ends. You will be very popular, don’t worry."
That information was real, but Yale didn’t care too much about it, so he hadn’t spoken about it to others before. However, Barha looked very happy.
"Yale, it has been a long ti. Sorry for being late."
Yale smiled when he heard that voice. In the past, he was annoyed when he heard it so much, but at that mont, hearing the voice of his old friend wasn’t annoying at all.
"Hi, Zack. You aren’t the last, so don’t worry."
They had t long ago in the Nacesai Academy. Zack was really crazy about archery back then, but his obsession only grew stronger with the pass of ti.
His master was known as the Archery Goddess, the first person who obtained the True Archery Divinity, and she was as crazy as Zack for the archery. Yale knew that Zack couldn’t wish for soone better than her to teach him.
"I told you that we would be the last, what a sha. They beat us for a few seconds."
Firene and Aizu appeared just after Zack and the Archery Goddess.
"So, what if we are the last? I managed to beco a Great Goddess, while Zack is still a God. Being a bit late for this difference isn’t shaful."
Aizu was late due to her breakthrough, but strictly speaking, because she wasted ti celebrating it not because she was trying to advance until the last second like Wyba.
Moreover, she had to thank the magma pool for her quick progress. If she depended just on her talent, she would have beco a God at most even with Firene teaching her.
"No need to argue. Our group is already complete, but others are still coming, so it doesn’t matter the order we reached this place."
After Yale spoke, Zack’s master tried to catch the attention of all the group.
"I think I never introduced myself. My na is Diane, Zack’s master, and wife. We married just before coming because Zack said that it was bad luck planning to marry after a war. Sorry for not being able to invite you all."
Zack had loved her from the start, but it wasn’t until the notification of the competition was received that he expressed his feelings. Diane also liked Zack, so she agreed, but since there was no ti to organize the wedding, she suggested doing it after the war.
However, Zack told her that doing that was a death flag, so it was better to avoid it. After thinking about it a bit, Diane agreed, and they married right away without any ceremony.
Diane knew about that promise to marry later being a death flag, but it wasn’t strange that she wanted a ceremony, so she didn’t think about it until Zack told her.
Of course, all about death flags was just superstition, but they felt at ease avoiding it anyway.
The others congratulated them, but soon after that, soone started to speak.
"We will begin. Everyone, please silence."
If soone wasn’t there at that mont, it would be considered that forfeited from the competition and would be at the lowest of the hierarchy on the war.
Of course, so just went to hide trying to avoid a war since they didn’t care about the Council of Gods or the rebels enough to risk their lives.
"As you know. We will hold a competition among our disciples to decide a hierarchy for the incoming war. I am sorry, but those who didn’t bring a disciple accepted before the disciple had reached godship are disqualified and will be at the bottom. Proceed with the oaths to verify that your disciples t the conditions."
It was strange that the Council of Gods forced others to make an oath since it was a very serious matter, and no one liked to be bound by them, but making an oath about sothing of the past wasn’t that problematic if the reason was good enough.
Of course, it wasn’t good enough reason the rule imposed in that competition, but everyone who brought a disciple had followed the rules because no one believed that trickery would work.
Those with the hugest problem were those that didn’t manage to bring a disciple.
"I object! We didn’t have enough ti! This is a plot to harm us. My fellow companions without disciples, do you agree?"
The others in the sa situation agreed imdiately. It wasn’t surprising that they were displeased.
"It wasn’t our plan to give such a little ti, but the situation forced us..."
Although the man tried to justify himself, it was a fact that he and others delayed the notice to gain an advantage.
"Well, what do you think about this? We will make the hierarchy in groups, so you can just join soone who has a disciple here. All the disciples of the sa group will be together in the competition, but the groups must be announced before we say the rules, to avoid abuse."
Of course, for those who already knew the rules, they could abuse them as they wished, but those without disciples could only agree in that situation. They weren’t strong enough to face all the others, and joining in groups was better than being at the bottom directly.
Those with disciples didn’t dislike the idea either because most of them had a friend that they didn’t want to face. Inf act, Yale’s group was the happiest of all. Yale planned to move the strings behind the scenes to send everyone to the sa area, but he could just do it in the open with the new rule. Moreover, there would be no need to calculate to put everyone at the top.
The man who spoke knew that Yale’s group would like it, and since it was obvious that the news leaked to them, he thought that making sothing they would like was a good idea.
"Yale, you and your group will join . You are now my subordinates."
The first man who complained said those foolish words making everyone laugh.
"Did you lose a screw?"
Kroh felt that the man who spoke had ntal issues.
"No. I am serious. Right now, all the Multiverse Trading Association is surrounded by my n. They could kill them all at any mont. You must obey , or you know what will happen. Rember that violence is forbidden here, and even if I die, my n will kill them before you can act. You know what to do, right?"
The man was smiling while others looked at him with scorn. He didn’t have any friends in the Council of Gods, but no one expected that he would use such despicable thods.
"Of course, my friends are important to ."
The man smiled while his body was crushed by dinsion walls until disappearing.
"Thus, you died. Those lackeys of yours are also dead, I noticed them long ago. If soone dislikes what I did, co ahead. Anyone who threatens my friends is my enemy."
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