Aiden was now about to fight his second fight to reach the top 12 of the tournament, and he was against pretty much a random person as he didn't know anything about him.
That person he would be facing wasn't even part of a founding family like all the other participants now.
He was the only one left which wasn't part of the elite, well... apart from Aiden who wasn't even part of a high-level family.
Aiden was now on the platform against such a person and there was honestly not a single doubt inside his mind, that this fight would once again be his win.
Aiden, personally, knew that there was only one person who could potentially threaten him and that person was Lucius Nightshade.
Even those who were part of other founding families weren't being considered seriously by Aiden. They were just small rocks which were in his way that he would simply have to kick out of his way.
That was it, there was nothing more to them. Whatever techniques they would be pulling out would probably be rendered useless by Aiden.
He didn't know how he was going to do such a thing, but he just knew that he would be able to reach that final.
He had a goal and he wanted to achieve it, he wanted to prove to the Nightshades that the old him hadn't been a person without talent.
Aiden wasn't sure why he felt such a need to prove them wrong as he hadn't even been inside this body when it happened.
Maybe he was being affected by the old owner of this body, but who cares about any of that?
Aiden for sure didn't seem to worry, as he even agreed with proving them wrong as he would give him personal satisfaction.
There was also the fact that Aiden didn't want to finish this tournament early as he had made a lot of promises over the course of it.
By the end of this tournament, Aiden knew that many changes would be happening in his life. The first one is changing family and territory completely.
This change, in particular, he didn't mind much as he would give him protection against the Nightshade family, nonetheless, he would still be careful over his actions as he didn't know how Melinda's family were in general.
The second one is that more people would learn about his face, especially Lilia who was even part of the Nightshade family.
However, Aiden didn't know why but he felt that he could trust Lilia for some weird reason, maybe it was because of his past or something similar.
But, he just knew that there was something about her which was great, he knew that he could trust her somewhat.
Nonetheless, Aiden would still be careful around her as what he was feeling right now were only intuitions.
Dismissing those thoughts, he looked ahead of him ready to destroy his opponent and that's exactly what he did as the fight had only lasted five minutes.
Aiden had dominated the fight the whole way and he was now getting closer and closer to the final fights as there were only twelve people left.
'12? How are we going to finish this tournament when we're twelve?' thought Aiden, trying to figure out what scenario they would use.
As he was wondering about what was going to happen, the four founding families' heads appeared in front of everyone for the second time.
As they appeared, Aiden had been teleported off the arena.
However, he didn't mind as he simply looked up from the ground once again looking at the Nightshade Patriarch with some rage bubbling up inside him.
And, for the first time in a while, Lucius who had been looking at the ground raised his head observing the four founding families' heads for a short moment before putting his head back toward the ground once again.
The crowd also reacted quite heavily, cheering for their second appearance.
Aiden however was still thinking about how the rest of the tournament would be proceeding, he knew that they had said that when reaching the top 50 it would be simply duels but Aiden had to realize that this simply didn't make any sense as they were twelve left.
If they wanted to reach a one versus one in finals, then they would need to be sixteen which was now impossible to attain.
Then, he dismissed those thoughts as the people on the stage started talking.
"Maybe some of you had noticed, maybe some of you didn't. But there was a problem with the tournament from the very beginning," exclaimed Thorin with a big smile on his face.
"We had given one small cue at the start of the tournament regarding how it would proceed, however, it seems that not many picked up on it."
Aiden nodded in agreement with him as neither he nor Emma had noticed that problem with the number of participants.
Thorin was right about this one, it really had been a small cue that Aiden should have picked up right away.
But, he didn't as he hadn't done the mathematics, simply trusting the organizers which was something that he shouldn't have done.
But, Aiden shouldn't have been so stupid, he should have been wondering about every little aspect of the tournament, but he hadn't done so.
He admitted to himself that it was his mistake.
Then, he once again began paying attention to what Thorin was about to say, wondering how the rest of the tournament would be proceeding.
"Basically, we can't continue doing duels the way we are currently doing which is why, I have thought about a way to determine the winner in one final fight," said Thorin, smiling from ear to ear, putting emphasis on the word "I".
The others heads only shook their heads as they couldn't believe that he was actually trying to make himself more important in this sort of situation, they just couldn't believe it.
"So everyone is probably shocked right now like: Wow! I didn't expect such a thing!" said Thorin, imitating the reactions of many in the crowd.
He even put his hands on both of his cheeks to amplify that surprise effect.
Aiden had to admit that Thorin was kind of a funny guy.
Then, after making that face, he made it go back to normal as he now had a serious face.
"You will all be reaching the final of this tournament."
Then, Aiden and the others couldn't help but be confused thinking what he meant by that.
However, they soon found out about what he meant since Thorin quickly explained it.
"Basically, the final round won't be a team fight or any sort of duel. It will be something completely different which in my opinion is going to be a lot more representative as to who is the best awakener here."
'Just say it goddammit why are you talking without saying anything,' thought Aiden, frustrated that Thorin still wasn't explaining it making some long sentences for no reason at all.
"You will all be undergoing a fake trial, yeah I think that pretty much explains it," said Thorin with a big smile looking on his right and left.
He loved seeing all those confused faces.
"And the one who will perform the best in their trials would be the winner of this tournament," concluded Thorin still with a giant smile on his face.
Aiden, however, was extremely serious not letting a single emotion show on his face as he currently had many questions.
"How will you decide who performs the best? Is it going to be the system?" asked someone on Aiden's left.
"Um, the short answer is yes. Just like all trials, the system will be a judge of how all of you perform. However, the trial won't be in a team of four but alone."
'Well, it won't change that much for me,' thought Aiden as he had already done one of the trials completely alone.
In fact, he was in a better situation than the other participants of the tournament, having already done one.
Nonetheless, Aiden couldn't help but be frustrated as he had no idea how the people who were currently on the stage could control that system.
It was just weird that they were able to give tasks to the system when no one else could.
Aiden knew that they had much more knowledge than the rest of the families but he couldn't help but wonder why no one was worried about such a thing or even realizing it.
It really was weird, however, it wasn't like Aiden would be able to make a change that easily.
"Then, shall we start this fake trial and finish this damn tournament once and for all," shouted Thorin as he could already hear the crowd cheer as loud as they potentially could.
Then, the usual beeping resounded inside Aiden's mind.
*BEEP*
[You are being summoned to participate in a Trial.]
[You will be summoned in three seconds.]
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[Teleporting...]
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