Chapter 143: Preparations [REWRITTEN Chapter]
Chapter 143- Preparations
The next day came quickly and it was time for the last and final event of the sports section of the school festival.
After this would be the award ceremonies to award the winners of the respective events. The focus of the festival would then shift to the other exhibits available.
[And now, let us move on to the last event! Event No. 5, Wall Break!!]
Matching Tom’s commentary, the students in charge of preparing the stage produced several large blocks mid-air. These blocks slowly fell down and combined together almost as if they were Tetris blocks, constructing several layers of walls, and then a gigantic square wall enclosure.
Written on each side of the enclosure was A, B, C, and D respectively to mark each team’s spot, which each participant was pointed towards.
[In the middle of these walls, lies a treasure, so the first to destroy the walls and get their hands on it will be the winner!]
Each team’s fate was placed on the shoulders of a single participant.
Team A’s Silva was the first to compete, utilizing his formidable fire magic with precision to attack the walls with flaming spears.
A normal wall likely would have been blasted to smithereens by that attack. And even walls produced by magic probably wouldn’t be able to withstand it unless it was imbued with plenty of magic power.
However, for this event, that was far from enough...or so it seemed.
While the wall appeared to be unscathed on the surface, the interior structure was significantly damaged, unbeknownst to Silva.
He eventually broke it with an explosion spell, moving on to the next while Arthur switched the cameras to display the other participants.
Team B’s Kiara and Team C’s Kerry adopted a different approach, focusing on finding the weak points in the walls where the blocks interlocked.
Their weaker magic led to the discovery of these weak links, but to their surprise, even targeting these areas did not result in an immediate collapse of the walls.
This unexpected challenge led to a drawn-out competition, but Silva ultimately dominated, swiftly breaking through the walls with his ’Explosion’ spells, eventually securing first place.
Kerry’s diligent efforts earned him second place, Kiara took third place due to her lower power, and Team D’s Magnus ended in fourth place as he struggled to break the walls.
[Silva! He easily broke the last wall and took the treasure inside!
This marks the end of the event!! And the end of the sports section of the school festival in this arena.
We will be tabulating the scores for the teams and announcing the total winners shortly.]
The final event was undoubtedly Silva’s complete domination and Silva finished in first place. The second place was taken by Kerry who diligently damaged the walls, the third was Kiara as she was lacking in power, while Magnus ended up in fourth place, as he couldn’t destroy the wall.
The moment Tom finished his announcement that declared the Event over, Arthur stood up and left the commentary box while looking at his phone.
"Lute..."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Arthur called out to Lute who appeared from nowhere, as usual, he sent a message on his phone before turning to him and speaking.
"Tell my mum that I’m going over to Margrave Boffin’s territory, after that, ready the spacecraft, ’we’ are going over to Margrave Boffin’s territory."
Lute sighed in exasperation before nodding and disappearing again. Arthur then happily jogged over to the teleportation gates that led to the class block.
After arriving at Class A’s classroom building, he went over to his classroom while occasionally branching into some other class exhibits and doing a little bit of advertisements for them on his social media.
Upon arriving at his class, he walked over to where Layla was coordinating his other classmates/ staff of their cafe exhibit and dragged her over to the makeshift back room without a word.
"Why?!"
Naturally, Layla did not seem to be happy with that, however, Arthur conveniently ignored that and spoke.
"So, after the festival, I’m going over to a special realm where a year is about 730 days to do some...training. Care to join?"
"Before I reply to that can you tell me why you could not wait for the day to end before telling me this?"
"No reason whatsoever."
Arthur shamelessly replied to Layla’s question and the two stared at each other in silence. Until Layla abruptly pulled out a pistol and fired two shots at Arthur.
**BANG! BANG!!
"Owwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The sound startled the other students who were in charge of the cafe and even the customers present causing them to all turn towards the back room where the noise originated from.
Layla nodded in satisfaction as she saw Arthur crouching while holding his arm that got grazed by her flame-attributed bullets as she put her gun away.
She then walked out of the back room and smiled at the customers while giving them a reason for the disturbance,
"Apologies for the noise just now, a certain magic tool was refusing to function properly so I had to use some... ’heavy-handed’ methods.
As thanks for your understanding, we will be giving out a free drink to all the parties present."
She gave a light bow and ignored all the questioning stares from her classmates and those who wanted to know what magic tool required two gunshots to function properly.
On a side note, Layla’s bullets had a regeneration negation effect so until Lute came over and healed Arthur, he remained injured.
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"One week..."
Arthur spoke up while reading the reports sent by Lewis on his tab. He was counting the amount of time it was supposed to take for him to move from Kreiz to the territory of Margrave Boffin, home to the genius Alchemist and Magi-tech engineer, Weinbert Boffin.
Unfortunately, he had spent an extra three days due to some complications and was getting tired of seeing darkness and distant stars every time he looked out the windows of the spacecraft.
As it was a craft that was equipped with all that was needed for its inhabitant’s survival for at least two months, there was no need to dock at any star systems in between.
Due to this, the journey had been one with minimal interruptions, besides the short event that resulted in a three-day delay, courtesy of a certain Arch Devil of Destruction.
Arthur had missed the final hours of the school festival and the ball that occurred on the night of the second day simply because he wanted to make this trip but ended up being delayed anyway.
’On to more important things, they found a law crystal with the law of water this time, it’s cool and all but it’s not what I need.’
Arthur put that event at the back of his mind and looked at the reports from Lewis on his tab. He had taught Lewis the spell to reveal if a crystal realm planet core was a law crystal and he had used it on another planet that met the criteria.
It was indeed a law crystal but that of the law of water, as such, Arthur told them to let it be and not attempt to extract it.
As he was having those thoughts, Tasha appeared in front of him and spoke.
"Your Highness, the alchemist is here."
"Huh? I thought ’we’ were the ones going to meet him?"
"That was the plan but he seems to have come to us instead."
Although it was weird, Weinbert coming over to meet Arthur saved him a lot of time so he found no problems with it.
After giving permission, two other of Lute’s team members led a trio of alchemists into the room. One of them, was Weinbert Boffin, the genius Alchemist and magi-tech engineer, as for the other two...
"My Assistants..."
Arthur looked the two over and nodded before gesturing to the seats that were prepared for them.
"You were later than scheduled so I set out to meet you myself, did not expect to see you on the way though, Your Highness."
"Some certain events that occurred, delayed us quite a bit."
Arthur replied to Weinbert as he looked the man over. Standing at 6’5 ft. tall, with ash grey hair that made him look old, Weinbert Boffin was a man with dark circles under his eyes and an unkempt beard.
Nevertheless, his dark eyes seemed to shine with the wisdom and knowledge he had acquired in his nearly nine centuries of life.
Weinbert gestured to his assistant who brought over the briefcase he was holding, he collected it and opened it up, showing the contents to Arthur.
At some point, Lute came over and scanned the case, before nodding towards Arthur in affirmation.
"Most people would trust in the reputation I’ve built over centuries and take them without any further checks you know?"
"Unfortunately, I happen to have trust issues. Especially in these trying times."
