Everyone’s breath hitched, and it felt like they all forgot how to breathe for a moment or two, including Alaric. Yes, it was his plan, but he wasn’t a hundred percent sure that it was going to work, anything could go wrong.And that moment they forgot how to breathe was the moment Elena stepped so close to the field. There was a faint barrier that indicated the range of the field. Elena didn’t stop in front of it for even a second, she kept moving and walked past that field. Most of them drew in a sharp breath and steadied themselves in preparation, but… Nothing happened. Elena kept moving perfectly, the core didn’t see her as a threat. Most of the squad members’ brows furrowed in confusion, but they weren’t the only ones confused.The core also didn’t know whether to attack or not, the programme was glitching, and the core was gently vibrating. Alaric let out a sigh of relief, his shoulders, which had been tensed, suddenly slumped. That was phase 1 of the plan executed. The

Headmaster Thorne intertwined his fingers in front of him as he stared at the young men standing in front of him, Silas and Cyrus. They looked so different from the last time they had seen him, more fierce, but at the same time calm. A little bit of a paradox, but that is one thing that spending time in the secret realm will do to you when your only goal is to join the ranks of every single creature in there and play by their rule of kill or be killed, their rule of the strong preying on the weak. The three of them were the only ones in the headmaster’s office. “Let me guess, you guys had to feed on the creatures there to survive, right?” Silas scratched the back of his neck, looking away as he answered the question, “We didn’t have much of a choice, did we?” Remembering the things that they had eaten, both the disgusting ones and the ones that were pretty normal. It all depends on whatever beast they have come across. “If I had even the slightest idea about what the both of you

Time seemed to drag for a long while, but the students of Imperial Academy loved it, they made sure to make the most of it. Alaric kept returning to his trainee the moment he healed from a previous injury inflicted on him by no one other than his trainee, and with time, he was able to go three to four days without sustaining injuries that required him to stop fighting. They were mostly accumulated injuries, ones that he mostly gritted his teeth to fight through. But he wasn’t the only one training. The academy suddenly introduced a strict system that required them to push their beast hard, forcing them to level up as much as they could. The tournament was fast approaching after all. Of course, that wasn’t all, Kira kept sparring with Andrew, and at first, it wasn’t a pretty incident for her, although it wasn't as bad as that of Alaric. Tristan turned to Josh to train him, their beasts have one particular similar ability. Andressa kept sparring with Silas, who didn’t take it easy o

The city in which the tournament was being hosted was a very huge one, and it was mostly used for matches in the main bracket, but not all, they only started from the round of thirty-two matches, while the rest, including the preliminaries, occurred in smaller arenas in the city. And that is not all, hotels were also provided for the academies throughout the period of the tournaments. It doesn’t matter whether an academy failed in the early stages of the tournaments, they were allowed to stay till the end. The Holy Mountain Academy was having a team meeting among their students, they weren’t that many, so they were all able to contain a huge room. “The students that will be used for this tournament have been picked, and it is for various reasons. The first name on that list is Cyrus, the second name is Silas, the third name on this list is Alaric, and these top three will be the ones to participate in the preliminary, while for the last one, our representative will be Kira White,”

Alaric saw the attack coming, and he hastily moved away from the swing range, acting hastily with the intention of baiting his teammate, and he was able to do just that. Justin saw Alaric roll on the floor, increasing the distance, but there seemed to be a period when he would want to rise to his feet with his back turned towards him. The former saw that moment as a chance to strike, so he pressed forward, and that moment thus presented itself. “I will not only defeat you, my beast will also defeat yours, a double win that would crush the spirit of your school and whoever they plan on sending next,” Justin declared through clenched teeth.Everything was going in his own way, too conveniently, like…His eyes suddenly bulged, and he hesitated to move forward, which saved him and also cost him at the same period because Alaric rose to his feet at the exact time Justin had planned, but what he didn’t expect was that Alaric would turn around, swinging his dagger behind him to take down h