"WHAT THE HECK? ARE YOU KIDDING ?!" I shouted loudly.
But my voice disappeared completely in the roar of excitent that the rest of the students were giving out.
"No wonder they allowed to use my special skill! They wanted to bury under the attacks of a thousand chas! Evil! Big bro, how can you do this to !!" I moaned, feeling slightly betrayed.
But deep within , an indomitable sense of confidence began to bubble up slowly.
I knew that I was extrely strong.
But to have the entire Grand lee set up in such a way so as to specifically target and bring down, served as a powerful acknowledgent of my strength by the academy.
I was a special existence, and required special treatnt!
"Justin, be careful, alright?" Tes gripped the edge of my sleeve tightly.
"Don't worry, Tes. As you probably already know, I can manifest armor. Don't say five thousand, even fifty thousand practice chas can't do anything to !" I assured her confidently.
"Tch. Pride cos before a fall. Don't get careless!" Tes glared at .
I smiled at her and rely nodded.
Grand Elder Shella had raised her White Phoenix's hand up to call for silence.
"You will be separated into five groups of a thousand students each, and positioned at the four corners of the arena as well as the middle of the arena. Follow the instructions of the Elders and proceed. Thirty minutes will only start once all of you are in position and on my command. Now, go to your starting positions!"
Ten Elders imdiately ca forward and efficiently divided us into five groups.
Tes and I were part of the group going to the center of the arena.
Great.
Of course I would be at the center. How would I get buried by the rest of the students otherwise?
Several huge landjets ca and carried us to our designated starting locations.
"Do not leave the circle marking before the Grand Elder's signal. If you take a single step out before that, I will imdiately disqualify you." Warned the fierce looking Elder who brought us to our starting location.
"Understood." Ca a chorus of replies from the thousand of us.
"One minute to start. Prepare yourselves." Grand Elder Shella called out.
I glanced around , and saw a thousand nervous faces.
Many of them had their eyes fixed on the chas ahead of them, aiming to rush out as soon as possible to secure their chas.
Others from the sa group had already clustered together, and prepared to bull through the crowd to reach the heavy and dium chas near them.
Very few, like , were looking around and studying the group.
Our eyes t briefly and an unspoken understanding passed between us.
There are a lot of prey, and we'll stay out of each other's way. For now.
"Austin Jeffreys. Kage Tarou." I continued to look around and noted the ones which were in the top thousand.
The Lins, Wangs and Longs weren't in my group. It was probably done on purpose to keep the strongest away from each other until the last mont.
"It doesn't matter. I will mow them down like wheat whenever they show themselves!" I thought to myself.
"Tes, when the signal to start, follow my lead and attack the other students." I whispered softly to her.
"Huh? Attack the other students? Why?" Tes whispered back in surprise.
But not a second later, her mouth turned into an O as she understood my intention.
"Oh… I see." She whispered back.
"Yeah. Why let them get into chas and beco dangerous enemies when we can disable them right away when they are still weak? So… Get their tokens and break them. Make sure you keep your own token safe and secure during this first phase." I whispered into her ear.
Tes giggled uncharacteristically as my breath tickled her ear.
"Okay! Let's do that!" Tes agreed.
"Study them now and take note where they keep their tokens. And if possible, go for the groups first. We need to weaken them as much as possible before they get into their chas." I said to her as I started to pick my targets.
"Thirty seconds." Ca Grand Elder Shella's calm voice.
A few of the kids started to get so nervous that they actually vomited, much to the chagrin of the kids around them who imdiately shrank back from them.
"Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six… Five. Four. Three. Two. One. GO!"
Imdiately, everyone burst into action!
The roar of excitent rose to a high crescendo as many kids and the two hundred thousand spectators scread out their exhilaration!
Tes and I dashed out together and began to attack our predetermined targets.
I pulled at the shirt of a weak looking boy in glasses, grabbed the token out of his hands and imdiately left him to go after my next target.
"He-hey!! My token!!" He wailed.
CRACK!!
I crushed it and flung it away as I reached out to pull at the shirt of a chubby boy right in front of .
"HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU- MY TOKEN!!" He looked at his token which was already in my hands in horror.
CRACK!
"Two." I thought to myself as I pushed him away and glanced up at the drones.
I quickly flashed them a grin, knowing that my big bro would be watching .
"You seeing this bro? I'm going to be the champion!" I shouted loudly and punched at a tall boy who was running past .
BAM!
He fell down heavily, stunned.
CRACK! Token gone.
"Big brother!!" His three buddies yelled in shock. As one, they charged at to take revenge for their fallen comrade.
The first one unleashed a powerful right hook at as the second one slid down to tackle my legs. The third one was even more flamboyant as he leapt up to give a flying roundhouse kick!
"Hohoho. These four are pretty skilled. Good prey!" I thought happily to myself as I dodged the right hook easily, stepped on the leg of the one tackling and caught the roundhouse kick with my right hand.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
And a few seconds later…
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
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