Infusing one's elemental ability into a normal weapon was something almost every elemental ability user could do, some of the few people who were lucky to have two elemental abilities could even fuse them together, but nobody had been able to fuse their elemental ability with their soul weapon until today, she was even able to do it before the arrow appeared in her hand and with just that one arrow, she ended up taking down four targets before her teammate could even take down one target.
"I thought that was impossible," Luis said after turning his gaze to Chloe.
"Yeah, it's impossible for a lot of people but not Cherry," Chloe replied. "She's special."
"I see you admire her a lot." The Angel said.
"Why wouldn't I? She's a formidable ice user, maybe the best ice user I have seen."
"Better than your father?"
"Um….I wouldn't go there, my dad's a wonderful ice user but Cherry is someone you would call gifted and special, I think she has what it takes to surpass my old man, I am also aiming towards that." She expressed.
"Okay, I get it," Luis said with a nod before turning his gaze back to the pitch.
With a total of six arrows, Cherry Snow was able to take down twelve targets and the remaining eight were taken down by Karen, all their shots were headshots which meant that they got all maximum points.
They managed to take down twenty targets with just fourteen arrows and that meant sixty bonus points for them.
Cherry could have easily done it all by himself, but it was a team competition so that wouldn't be fair, she had to leave some for Karen.
"Team Eukerion academy successfully hit all targets, they got all headshots with only fourteen arrows and because of that, they have acquired all four hundred points plus sixty bonus points." The sergeant expressed.
"That's quite a bright student you have there, Rosa Bliss," Kelvin said before turning his gaze to Rosa who had a smug look on her face since the archery competition kicked off.
"Yeah, I bet you don't have anyone like her in your academy," Rosa said.
"Someone who can fuse her elemental ability with her soul weapon, no, I don't think we have that but we might have better students, I don't know since I don't stick around that much." He expressed.
"What do you mean you might have better students?" Rosa asked as the expression on her face suddenly turned a bit sour, that smug look was all gone now.
"Like I said, I don't stick around much so I don't really know, but I know we have a lot of talented students now compared to the previous years." He replied.
Rosa didn't know what to do so she just inflated her cheeks before turning away from him.
"Team Crockel academy, your time starts now." The sergeant said as soon as Brad and Brolin stepped up to the area.
The targets were back up, and now they had just seven seconds to take all the targets down.
"Let's do this Brad," Brolin said before pulling out two arrows from his arrow pack.
"Do those two have anything special to show?" Chloe asked after turning her gaze to Luis.
"Um…I don't really know, they're good archers, that's all I know." The Angel replied.
"You know you two have been talking a lot lately, am I missing anything?" Ace just had to butt in.
"Do you feel like you're missing anything?" Chloe asked.
"Um…not really." He said before he relaxed back in his seat and crossed his arm.
"What's your deal?" She asked with a confused expression on her face, but there was no response from him.
It was only after a few seconds that something finally clicked in her mind.
"Just get whatever you're thinking off your mind, what's your place in it anyway?" She expressed before crossing her arms.
"Oh, dear." The Angel mumbled before turning his gaze to Tania who still had her gaze on the floor.
There was nothing particularly flashy about Brad and Brolin's style, just like during the school competition, they were shooting multiple arrows at once while trying their best to hit two targets with one arrow.
They weren't particularly lucky with that, but they managed to get headshots on all twenty targets with just eighteen arrows.
"Team Crcockel academy has acquired four hundred and twenty points." The sergeant announced. They now had the second-highest point in the first round, but there was a chance that could be pushed off from that position as it was now time for the twins from Tron Ville academy to show everyone what they could do.
"They're pretty good, at least they did better than the ones from Phoenix academy," Chloe said after turning her gaze to the Angel.
'Yeah, but they're not good people.' The Angel said subconsciously.
"Team Tron Ville academy, your time starts now."
As soon as the sergeant said that, both of the twins quickly pulled out two arrows from each of their arrow packs and quickly fitted them into their bows.
The first one shot out his arrows before the other one quickly shot out his arrows toward the arrows like he was trying to stop them.
"What are they doing?" Ciara asked with a confused expression on her face.
Just as the arrow from the second twin hit the first set of arrows, they changed their targets and to everyone's surprise, the arrows got headshots, one of them even managed to get another target, and that right there was the only arrow that they were able to save.
Their combined effort worked really well to land them neat headshots before their time got exhausted, but they were only able to save one arrow which meant that team Crockel academy still had the second highest point in the first round and in the competition in general.
"They're really good," Ciara said.
"They only managed to save one arrow, we'll see how good everyone really is as the rounds progress." Bella asserted.
"For the first round, Team Eukerion academy is currently leading with four hundred and sixty points, team Crockel academy acquired four hundred and twenty points, team Tron Ville academy forty-one points, and team Phoenix academy four hundred points." The sergeant announced. "With that said, it is now time to move to the second round of the competition."
"I think this is where things will start getting interesting," Chloe said before putting both of her hands together.
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While the tournament was going on, things were starting to get a bit interesting in Eukerion.
Inside the presidential house in Eukerion academy, a man could be seen relaxing on the luxurious red couch in the luxurious living room.
He seemed to be a bit plump with a mustache running down to his well-trimmed beard, he wasn't exactly the man that would strike anyone as attractive with his almost golden teeth and slightly protruding belly, but he had his good features.
He was enjoying a glass of red wine when a young man dressed in a tuxedo entered the room.
"Mr. President." The man said as he made his way to him with a black bag which happened to be filled with some sort of liquid in his hand. "Here's everyone's blood just like you asked."
The President quickly sat up on the couch and took the bag from him.
"Thank you, Theophilus."
"I don't mean to intrude Mr. President, but it is our blood after all, please what do you need the blood for?"
He didn't like that question, but still, he had to answer it and satisfy Theophilous's curiosity.
"I just need to run some tests with it, you don't need to know the details." He replied.
"Okay, but was it really necessary to put all of them together?"
That question earned him a glare that made him flinch back a bit.
"Yes, Theophilus, it was necessary to put them all together." He replied, trying really hard to keep a straight face.
"Okay, sir," Theophilus said with a nervous look on his face before he quickly turned toward the exit but just before he could start heading toward it, he remembered something. "Um…sir, have you seen James, I haven't seen him since he brought you home.
"Oh, James, I think he went home to see his parents or something like that." The President replied.
"He went to see his parents?" Theophilus said with a confused expression on his face.
"Yeah."
The young man didn't say anything else until he slowly made his way out of the room and closed the door.
"But James only goes to see his parents during the weekends and Mr. President knows that." He mumbled.
It was pretty clear what had happened here as the President's eyes took an abrupt purple glow as he slowly got up from the couch.
He stretched his hands toward the middle of the room as the area quickly got covered by an outburst of purple smoke and once the smoke was gone, a container filled with strange black liquid appeared there, it was just like the one at Asaka.
"I need to find that old wizard as soon as possible." He said before throwing the bag of blood in there.
As soon as the bag dropped in there, it slowly went down and the liquid slowly began to take a dark red color.
"It's…"
He wasn't allowed to finish what he wanted to say as the door was quickly pushed open by Theophilus who had both of his hands covered with a long water blade now.
"Who the heck are you and what did you do with the President?" He asked as he slowly gritted his teeth.
You could tell the level of his rage by the way he was breathing.
"Answer me! What did you do with James and the President?"
"This was faster than I expected." The imposter said with an expressionless look on his face.
"If you won't talk, then, I'll just force it out of you."
That was a big mistake from him as he was quickly pulled up by a purple energy rope before he could even make a move.
The rope pulled him close until he was hanging over the liquid.
"What is this?" He said before swallowing hard.
His body was starting to tremble now, but he didn't want to give in to fear.
He tried to cut the rope with his water blades, but before he could reach it, two more ropes sprang up from the floor, and wrapped his arms together to keep them in check.
He tried everything he could to pull himself free but it was futile.
"Sorry, Theophilus." The imposter said before opening his right hand to reveal four purple energy blades. "But you're needed for this."
"No." He muttered as the blades pierced through his body and as soon as that happened, the ropes released him and his body dropped.
He quickly drowned in the liquid which began to boil before shooting up into the sky through the roof and just like that, the dark portal appeared in the sky of Eukerion.
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