Chapter 338 Diversion
338 Diversion
"Kill them all," Asher replied.
"They were given the time to choose their sides," Asher said in the voice message.
There was no need for people that couldn't make their minds in time.
<Okay Boss> Tom replied.
<But are you sure about doing it like this?> Tom asked.
"Go forward with it," Asher gave his last reply.
The reason for Tom's hesitation was the fact that this time they were not using Zephyr's name.
Asher wanted to use Aztech's name which meant he wanted to use his own identity for this making Tom a bit worried about the repercussions.
Although Tom was aware of power that Greville had, but this time they were meddling outside of Somaria, and if things went wrong there was a chance that the people they managed to control till now might think of betraying them.
But Asher reached this conclusion after reading all the information that Tom had sent him.
The documents that Asher was studying were about the hierarchy of various Criminal Organization, and involvement of Elite Families in them.
And some of them were even related to Neville and Allister Family.
Usually such connections could not be traced, as the Elite Families usually kept their hands out of such organizations, but there were frequent exchanges.
To maintain power for so long, the number of dirty tactics and illegal things that were done were numerous.
Not every Elite Family was stable like the Greville Family. Internal and External fights were far too common.
Being the Heir of an Elite Family was a powerful position, but that also meant the number of threats on your life increased.
There were some families like the Levoure that were quite rich and had status, could have similar issues as well.
That's why some Elite Families didn't announce their heir until the suitable candidates turned 18 or above.
"It will be interesting," Asher muttered as he remembered Leonard.
This tournament was going to decide the Power Hierarchy among students, and Leonard wanted to change it.
Although it looked like Leonard wanted it to make it fair for every student, to have a group of Individuals sitting at the Top of the Student Assembly, not a single person making every decision.
He wanted to introduce something similar to the High Council in World Academy.
The power of Student Council was quite big in the World Academy. It was made so that part of Faculty Council was not above the Student Council, and all the power was currently inside Raelyn's hands.
In his previous life, Leonard had managed to win the Tournament, as the method of competing was a simple voting of the Top 100 Students in all four Years.
Fourth Years voted for the Student Council, while Third Year was surprisingly a tie, and the Second Year was on Blood Faction's Side.
But it was the First Year voting that supported the Blood Faction.
But this time, due to Asher's actions the format was changed entirely and Asher knew the Awakening of the Calamities was part of the reason why such a change was introduced.
At the time nobody knew what Leonard wanted, but Asher found out later what the real motive behind the Blood Faction was.
"It's a shame," Asher said standing up.
Either way, Blood Faction and Student Council but had their advantages and disadvantages but Asher didn't care about the power structure of World Academy anymore.
His position as the Rank 1 and the President of the Duel Committee made it difficult for Raelyn to do anything, and the same went for Blood Faction.
"There are so many devices here," Lucas looked around.
"Yeah, most of them are upgraded to suit his needs so some of them are specifically for C Rank Hunters," Damian replied.
"Well, let's try that one," Damian pointed at the humanoid puppet that was made for reflex training.
"I will turn down the settings for this one," Damian said as he lowered it to Peak D Rank difficulty.
He stood against the puppet as he put his guard up, and got in close combat position.
"Let's start," Damian said as the puppet lit up.
In an instant, punches that were comparable to the speed of an average D+ Rank Hunter was being thrown at Damian.
Damian covered his body with mana as he dodged all the attacks.
The speed was so high that Livia and Lucas couldn't even see Damian.
And it was obvious because they were only at F+ Rank right now.
They needed a lot of more time for their mana core to grow bigger and denser with mana to reach the next E- Rank.
Their bodies was still getting adjusted to the mana, and they were slowly getting stronger.
After the First Awakening, the body of a human went under many changes, and the mana slowly strengthened every single part of the body.
That is why the twins were still stuck at F Rank, and it would remain the same for now even though they were in the World Academy.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The puppet kept punching towards Damian targeting his body but Damian was extremely quick while reacting.
"The main thing to dodge is the footwork," Amelia said looking at the twins.
"Even a mage is needed to learn basic martial art to master footwork," Amelia told Lucas who was carefully watching Damian.
Livia had learned a bit from Nathan, but her rank limited the things she could learn and implement.
For a few more hours, Damian had his 'fun' showing and mostly using everything training equipment that was present there.
Amelia just kept watching Damian while Asher joined them for a few minutes, and Damian's fun time ended with a spar with Asher.
Lucas was excited to watch Damian spar with Asher, but the spar ended quickly with Damian on the ground.
Part of the reason was Damian was already tired but the gap between Asher and Damian was big.
"I got one punch in," Damian looked at Asher while lying on the ground.
Asher scratched his forearm, that was a bit red due to Damian's punch, but Asher was unaffected by it.
But it was impressive for Damian to hurt Asher in a spar but that one punch came at the cost of him receiving a high kick his face.
'He is improving at a faster rate,' Asher judged as he turned to drink some water.
He could see that Damian and Amelia both were improving themselves a bit faster than his previous life.
Their little trip ended as Amelia decided to intervene and told Livia to sleep in one of her rooms and Lucas to stay here with Asher.
Asher didn't minded as there were many empty rooms and he even gave Lucas the access to the meditation room if he wanted.
The Second Day of the Tournament began, but today most of the matches were from the Second and Third Years.
While there would be few matches from the First Year and the Fourth Year.
And for today another Seat Holder was present and it was Dalton Rothschild that also made his first appearance after a long time.
While the crowd was cheering, Alfred and Dalton were sitting at the opposite side.
And the reason was obvious, Rothschild and Greville didn't had the best relations right now, and Raven Family also supported Greville.
It was obvious that their relations were also not the best.
Farnus deliberately made such an arrangement, and Nathan was also supposed to attend today.
But it didn't happen as Nathan was already in his secluded training.
Although it would have been perfect for Farnus, but it was fine either way after all one of the unpredictable people were not attending this time.
"I heard that the Grandus Twins would be attending the World Academy," Dalton asked Silvus.
"They are, and they must be looking around the Academy right now," Silvus replied.
Dalton heard Silvus's answer and he had already told James to contact Elena so that she could make connections with the Grandus kids.
It was no secret that Silvus was quite protective of his Grandchildren, and the way he sheltered them and also used his favor from Farnus Calmort for those kids.
Dalton and many others, saw this as an opportunity to make Silvus ally with them.
Silvus wasn't unaware of such things, but he knew that it was part of life and those kids needed to learn who to trust and who to not.
He had given them ample advice and knowledge and it was up to them to utilize it and spend their time at the World Academy.
But what Dalton didn't knew was that the Greville Twins were also enrolling in World Academy.
"It seems the Rothschild are pretty interested in the Mage Association," Alfred said.
Dalton glanced at Alfred.
"My Granddaughter is a Mage, I am just looking out for her," Dalton replied.
Part of it was true as Dalton wanted Silvus to take Elena as his disciple.
Silvus didn't like the Elite Families, but he didn't turn his back on a good mage with lots of potential.
It was his responsibility as the Head of the Mage Association to make sure the future of the Mage Association was in good hands.
"There are easy routes in the path of magic," Silvus said.
"These young kids, need to forge their own path, and people like us can only guide them," Silvus spoke.
It was a polite to rejection to Dalton's proposal, but Dalton didn't seem to be affected by it.
Dalton was confident in Elena's potential.
With his resources, and connections, making Elena get a high position in Mage Association wasn't an issue for Dalton.
"Guidance is enough," Dalton said as the match on the stage started.
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