Team[2]

Taking a deep breath, Kayden simply waited. It didn't take long and the tree started to fall, luckily it fell on the opposite side to where they were, the speed was increasing faster and faster.

"Kayden!!!!" Linus was desperate while Kayden remained calm. When the tree reached an inclination of 45 degrees, the boy activated acceleration at its maximum power.

With a gigantic leap that elicited a scream from Linus, the two managed to land on the nearest tree. It looked like a scene from a movie, but there was almost no effort on Kayden's part, it was just a matter of calm and quick thinking.

"Come down quickly." The two wasted no time before quickly descending from the tree. As soon as they got down, they saw a green-haired teenager carrying a large ax running towards them.

"I'll do hand-to-hand combat, try to support me with explosive spells. Close your eyes at my signal." Kayden gave the commands as he removed his katana from its sheath and got into a fighting stance.

Even though he was nervous, Linus knew that now was not the time to be a coward. As soon as the knight got close, he insulted them both.

"Two cowards forming a team, what rubbish." His sentence didn't even affect Kayden's psychology in the slightest, but on Linus, it went down like a sledgehammer, mainly because he wasn't used to being offended.

Kayden's response was a simple sentence.

"Attention!" His scream caused the opponent to stare at his raised hand. At this moment, a pop flash burst right into the opponent's vision, and along with that, Kayden rushed towards him at high speed.

The green-haired teenager started to walk away without even thinking twice. Unfortunately for him, a concentrated beam hit his leg, stopping his movement for a few thousandths of a second.

That was enough for Kayden to reach him and deliver a sharp kick to his axe, knocking him away.

"Shit," the knight thought as he jumped prone towards the axe. His thought was to turn quickly and try to absorb the next blow with the flat part of the axe.

"Do not even think about it." Along with this sentence, the boy felt the characteristic cold of steel on the back of his neck. It's over, all your training up until now has simply gone down the drain in seconds.

"You will answer whatever is asked of you with short answers." The boy tried to retort, but received a small cut, causing him to break out in a cold sweat. Normally, when someone was defeated in this test, they would leave before they died, but nothing saved them from being tortured.

"Are you a noble?"

"No."

"What's your rank?"

"7 rank, 14 years old." It wasn't anything spectacular, but considering he wasn't a noble, it was still quite impressive.

"My friend over there is a nobleman, not only a nobleman but also the son of a duke." Neither of them, apart from Kayden, knew why the boy was saying this.

"But so what?" With a neutral reaction, the knight simply didn't know what to say.

"I will give you two choices: obey my command until the end of the competition or be expelled now." For a few seconds, the boy was shocked and didn't respond at all.

"For you to use me and just discard me later? I'm out." His first thought was that Kayden was going to use him as cannon fodder.

"I promise on my honor as a noble that I will not do that and that you may leave as soon as you fulfill the favor I am doing of leaving you alive in the test." At his sentence, Kayden fell silent as he waited for the boy's response. Linus was surprised but didn't say anything, as he was sure that Kayden was not noble.

It didn't take long for him to make a decision.

"Okay, I accept, can I get up now?" As soon as Kayden removed the blade and the boy stood up, he began to introduce himself. "I am Pedro Askov ." With his friendly tone, the two boys introduced themselves and then Kayden gave the orders.

"We will continue looking for new members, our methods will be an ambush and forced recruitment." A smile appeared on Kayden's face. "We will form an army in this test."

An hour later, the small trio grew to five people, one mage specialized in fire magic and the other in wind magic, one was ranked 8 and the other was ranked 6. Thanks to the amount of people in their group, it was easy to overwhelm anyone else. adversary.

The problem was that a minority chose to be part of their team, in total there were six who refused. At that time, the number of participants also quickly dropped to four million, a drop of 60%.

However, this was normal considering there was little space for so many people, especially when the event administrators were throwing people to the next test area without mercy.

"Be careful, the test area will start to shrink, we have to try to catch as many people as possible before it becomes too small and only about the big fish." After going through a few battles and seeing the boy bring several opponents to their knees, none of them had any more intentions of causing problems.

Even more so when Linus' name was mentioned, the fear of the nobility was ingrained in the bones of the commoners.

"Hey kid," a voice came out of nowhere. "How about you let me join your group?" A golden-haired teenager appeared, his eyes were as light blue as the sky and with strong golden eyebrows, the tone of his hair resembled gold. He looked strangely familiar to everyone, but no one knew exactly who he was.

"Of course, what's your specialty?" Kayden didn't even ask his ranking, a head higher was a head higher in the end.

"I am a healing and support mage, my name is Apolo Los." His sentence took everyone by surprise, normally auxiliary or secondary classes participated in other selections, as it was unfair to put a blacksmith against a wizard in combat.

"Then let's go, we don't have time to waste." Kayden had no idea who this extra member was, but if he knew his true identity or power he would be stunned.

Another hour passed and the number of participants fell by half, in addition, Kayden's group received an increase of four more people, and slowly they were causing a wave of buzz among people who began to follow the huge group on television. event.

Considering that several groups formed and that this was nothing new at the event, the problem was the size of their group and how quickly it was growing, even more so with the size of the test decreasing.

"Han, you said he was unique." Lucian couldn't help but laugh at the commotion that Kayden was making at the event, unlike Heimer who was just sitting near the center of the forest with dozens of matrices protecting him.

Anyone who tried to get close received dozens of instant spells that simply eliminated them before they could do anything.

Another hour passed and the number of participants decreased to 700 thousand, this rapid drop was mainly because of the geniuses who were hunting everyone they could.

Kayden's team had almost 20 members at that moment, this time everyone's attention was caught, even the king paid attention to this group, even if for a different reason.

"Isn't that unfair?" The first to speak was a duke, the lesser nobles did not dare to speak among these people and be accused of disrespect.

"In the rules, it is allowed." The one who spoke was Leonardo, the rector of the academy, his sentence ended any buzz that had been raised before.