The reason why Michael had upgraded Nika to be able to access all his devices and be able to mirror what was going on on every monitor in the academy on his devices was that he wanted to know what was going on in the academy no matter where he was.
This would have never come to his mind if Nova hadn't shown up, the upgrade was so that he could keep an eye on Nova and Luis also.
After telling Nika what the upgrade was all about, although it wasn't necessary, he made his way back to his lab.
It was time to test out the upgrade as he quickly made his way to the table and picked up his tablet.
"Nika mirror monitor nine on my tablet," Michael said.
"Ok," Nika said as the tablet's screen changed and was now displaying what was going on on the monitor.
"Now I don't have to run back here whenever I want to check something on the monitors," Michael said as he dropped the tablet on the table and began to adjust his watch.
"Bye Nika." He said before getting covered by white light.
"I don't think the bye is required because I am always with you now," Nika said after Michael had disappeared.
White light appeared just in front of the gate outside the arena and cleared up to reveal Michael.
He was surprised to spot someone who was also heading to the arena at the same time, someone he had just been thinking about.
"Hi, Nova," Michael said.
"Hi, Michael," Nova said, sounding awkward.
The two just stood there and stared at each other for a while before Nova decided to make her way into the arena.
Michael waited a few seconds after she had entered the arena before he turned and entered the arena.
He walked to the exact position where he used to stand with Nicole and turned to his left to see Nicole talking to Lennon in front of the door leading to the staff department.
The fight currently going on in the arena was between two male third-year students.
It was a tough fight given that they were both third-year students who had managed to make it this far in the competition.
One of the third-year students had earth ability and was sending out a barrage of attacks towards the other student who had a shield as part of his soul weapon and using it to block the earth blades.
The student with the shield wasn't just defending as he also had a way to attack from range.
He lifted the earth blades that he had blocked with his shield and quickly returned them to their sender at full speed.
Being a level six lower third-year student meant that his telekinesis was at a high level and he could use it to do way more than just moving objects.
The other third-year student saw his earth blades moving back to him and formed an earth shield to block them.
As soon as he had blocked the blades, he summoned his Katana blades and quickly charged in towards his opponent who summoned his long sword to go with his shield.
Luis was watching the fight through the screen as his eyes darted towards Orah who was standing a little further away from his right with Monica and it seemed like they were talking about something.
"Hey, do you know Oprah jumped into the arena to save you from falling yesterday?" He leaned closer to Ella to ask.
"Yeah, I saw him before I passed out," Ella said. "I went to his dorm room later that day to say thank you."
"You went to his dorm room?" Luis said, trying to sound a little surprised.
"Yeah, we walked to the park together and talked for a while, he's a really nice person," Ella said.
"Yeah," Luis said.
'For the son of the Demon overlord he is nice but that doesn't mean he isn't somewhat dangerous.' Luis thought.
'I have to agree with you on a certain degree.' Lena said. 'His father contacted him somehow when he fell into the trance and showed him those visions that means he knows he's here.
'He may not be dangerous himself but he's going to bring serious danger to everyone close to him.' Lena concluded.
"A tough battle but the better fighter makes it out on top." Lieutenant Kate's voice resounded in the arena.
Luis turned his gaze back to the screen to see the earth ability user lying on the floor and the one who had telekinesis on both of his knees and judging by his movements he was breathing really heavily.
The knocked-out student was carried out by the medical personnels and as soon as the other student had been brought up by an earth pillar, the matching process began.
The first image to stop in the first box was that of Pearl while the second image to stop in the second box was that of Luis.
'Alright.' Luis was quite excited to get Tammy.
'You're excited to fight one of the most talented water ability users in the school with just weapons and fist, no abilities.' Lena said.
'I'll be fine.' Luis replied.
He was about to start making his way to the pillar rising in front of him when Ella grabbed him by his arm.
"Good luck." She said with a smile as Luis responded with a nod and continued his walk to the pillar.
As soon as Luis had gone down, Ella turned to Sonia who didn't have a nice expression on her face.
'What's even her problem?'
"Don't worry Tammy, I'll go easy on him," Pearl said making his way to the earth pillar.
'You wouldn't want to if you knew what he could do.' Tammy thought.
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At Asaka there was tension in the air, people were going about their daily activities but you could tell things weren't exactly alright with the way they were acting.
Instead of saying things out loud, everything seemed to be whispered now, everyone seemed to be on edge today and there was a reason for that.
Jude was currently in his room sitting on his bed, but he wasn't alone as Matilda was pacing up and down in front of him.
She was in her maid uniform this time and had a very worried look on her face.
"Why didn't you tell me all this yesterday?" She stopped in front of Jude to ask.
"I couldn't just tell you that the elves the king was looking for were with me," Jude said.
"But I saw the elves, you could have at least told me why the king was looking for the elves." She said.
"My mind wasn't in the right place Matilda and it still isn't now, ever since I came back from knight academy my mind has not been in the right place.
"Finding out about Tania going missing, going to look for her, mistakenly entering the territory of the goblins and getting attacked by the goblins."
"You got attacked by goblins?" Matilda said.
"Yes and I would have been dead by now if it weren't for those elves, they took me to their kingdom where their king wanted to indirectly kill me but Tauriel forfeited her freedom in her own land just so she could save me.
"I would have been dead today if it weren't for those elves which is why no matter what I am not going to hand them over to get killed, they saved my life so why would I have them get killed?"
After hearing the full story, Matilda couldn't help but feel ashamed of all the things she had told Jude.
She was dumbfounded as she stared at Jude for a while before she slowly sat beside him.
"You should have made things more clear to me." She said placing her hand on his shoulder.
"I thought telling you that they were helping me find Tania was going to be enough," Jude said, biting his lips. "I guess it wasn't."
"I'm sorry," Matilda said with a remorseful voice.
"It's okay, many other people would have acted the way you did, at least you get it now, my father still doesn't," Jude said.
There was a little moment of silence between the two before Matilda decided to ask him something.
"So how do you plan on dealing with both of these problems?" Matilda asked.
"I already have a way to find Tania, I just need to make sure everyone is safe before I go looking for her," Jude said.
"And how do you intend on doing that?" Matilda asked.
"That's the problem, Matilda, I don't know how to go about it," Jude said, sounding a little depressed.
Matilda stared at him for a while before letting out a sigh.
"When are the elves attacking, you mentioned the elf king shortening the days so when are they going to attack now?" Matilda asked.
Jude found it very hard to answer that question but he knew he had to.
"Tomorrow." He said in a muffled voice.
"What?" Matilda asked blinking her eyes.
"Tomorrow," Jude said.
"Tomorrow," Matilda said with a gasp.
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