"So the competition is going to be held in the mightiest academy here, the Locek academy? And the competition is all arranged under a special suppressive environment except for the fighting arena?" Arthur asked after his team gathered up again in the next morning.
He rested, for one rare moment since coming to this world. He had his mind clearer and his thoughts much organized than before.
"Yes, and that means no one can transform to any monster from there," Amelia said before adding, "but pets and special abilities are allowed."
"Good," Arthur noted this before adding, "we have an advantage upon others then. Did you know the themes of this contest? Its main teams?"
"Many rumors are there," Omar sighed, "but from what we heard, this would be a fierce competition."
Arthur had no doubt in this. He already realized this was his own tribulation in this world. These assassins, these limits to his own powers were all part of his tribulation no doubt.
Coupled with the loss of the clan, the loss in the academy, and the biggest challenge wasn't in winning the competition but to rescue his two girls, he realized things wouldn't go smoothly as he expected.
'They'll try to use the two as a pressing card over me,' he muttered to himself, reminding himself of the importance of relieving this threat. 'But the issue isn't to rescue them, but primarily to find these two.'
For him, he had the pillar he got from George from before and the guards sent by him to protect his safety. 'He won't complain if I used them to do a couple more things for me,' he thought, and reaching this far he realized the main hurdle now was to find those enemies first.
After he found out their location, things would turn out to be much easier to plan a trap for them.
"By the way, teams are ready to move on," Deem said, "but they are still waiting for you."
"Let them wait then," Arthur sighed before returning his head to rest over the seat, "let's enjoy a moment of peace, a rare one, as long as we can."
Everyone exchanged glances before Madly directly asked with red puffy eyes:
"What do you plan to do with those invaders?"
"What are you going to do with Amanda and Cesile masters?" Amelia asked with a hesitant tone apparent to everyone.
"I intend to kill them all," Arthur simply stated.
"But…" Madly paused, as this seemed quite heavy on her to say, "they are strong. Losing our lives won't be the best thing, won't be the thing Grandpa Regil wanted."
Arthur gave her a calm smile before saying, "don't worry, I won't move until I became sure of our victory. But I won't let them be at ease. At least they won't leave us alone."
"Aren't there guards coming from higher planes to help us?" Gor said before he hurriedly explained when he noticed the stern look of Arthur, "rumors are spreading all over the academy about this."
"They are coming," Arthur slowly said before adding, "but this doesn't mean we are totally safe."
He noticed the weird glances of everyone here. He sighed as he knew they were just green offsprings in this world, not like him. "There are many ways you can't imagine away from fighting to make a man fall," he simply said and didn't explain more.
Yet his words left a profound impact in their souls. "Now, ask someone to deliver food to us. We didn't eat anything normal for so long," he said with a smile over his face.
A smile that told them all one thing; he wasn't a bit worried about the terror everyone was afraid of in the near future.
The morning went peacefully as he ate his breakfast with others. "Sigh, the last time we had this was back at the Nystic clan…" saying this made his pause as he suddenly recalled those seemingly far memories.
"How is Rayan doing? Noura? And Iman?" he asked while moving his eyes between his old mates who attended these events with him and knew them.
"I met Rayan once," Omar said, "he is greatly wounded, but he is surviving."
Arthur sighed, before turning his gaze to his team again. This time only silence was what met him.
"Noura? Iman?" he asked.
"We never saw them," Amelia said before adding, "we can go out and ask directly about their whereabouts."
"Good, send someone to do this then," Arthur said before he glanced over the clear sky from the window of the hall. "I have a bad premonition about this."
He waited for the rest of the day before he finally received news about the two. Noura was injured as well, lost in coma and was now healed by the best mage in the academy when others realized she was related to him.
As for Iman… things were a little more complicated with her.
"No one saw her after the fight?" Arthur asked to make sure he got it right. "She wasn't killed, yet nowhere to be found?"
"Masters here said the place was chaotic. Many were lost after the fight and were nowhere to be found," Madly said, "they believe they died."
"Died…" Arthur mumbled before losing himself in thought. "I don't think so," he firmly said. He didn't think Iman would fall without a proper fight, and if that was the case then everyone would have noticed her.
"She might have run away," Deem said, speaking about something he totally didn't know.
"No way," Arthur firmly shook his head before adding, "Iman won't do that. Something else must have happened to her."
"Kidnapped as well?" Madly asked.
"Perhaps," Arthur sighed, "as they reached my clan and destroyed it, they must have learnt much about my deeds and relations here. Iman was with us when we went to the Nystic clan, and we have many enemies there."
"It's possible," Amelia said, "but if so then we have three to rescue."
"And we don't know the place of any of them," Omar sighed, "I asked around, and no one has any clue about where those invaders are. They all said they instantly vanished, instantly teleporting away."
"Rumble!"
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢