Chapter 54: The Continuation of the Tournament

'One child and one man, serves the chaos. Both personalities, the polar opposite, yet the same. Both born humans but monsters shalt they be. Both born from the same womb, yet only one shalt live, at the end, to serve, for the death of one of them will be by one another's hands, once of age.'

Vane woke up, dripping with sweat as he had just dreamed of that moment from a decade ago. The one still haunting him in all these years; the prophecy of his fallen clan.

The coming of age ceremony is when he heard that prophecy as his older brother turned 21 years old. He was 7 at the time but that prophecy haunted him in his dreams because of something he doesn't want to ever think about again.

Getting up, he went to his kitchen to get something to drink.

After drinking some water, he decided to go back to sleep to forget all about that.

But outside of his house, a man wearing a black coat and black hat stood on his courtyard, smiling sinisterly. Even though no normal person could see his face, the man still let his long-white hair flow behind him. That hair... looked almost similar to Vane's.

Then, the man was gone in the blink of an eye after saying these words: "Soon, little brother… soon."

(May 8, Year 1336)

A month has passed since the incident, and everything has been as hectic as ever.

It was revealed to the entire sect that the one who made that undead back at the tournament was none other than the ancient terror himself, to which, let me tell you, everyone suddenly lost their minds after hearing that.

But the patriarch, my new martial art teacher/master, explained that this is not confirmed yet and is only a speculation. But if it was indeed the ancient terror, then they are already prepared for him. They had given a message to the main sect about this matter, and they are expecting a response soon.

Now, the day comes for the Tournament to start again. This time, they made sure to tighten and strengthen the security around the stadium, so that if some creature ever attacks, they can be ready to counter it.

Yawning, I looked around to see the same scene that I saw when I first entered the rank battles a month ago. Loads of D-Class disciples still entered the tournament, and 100 teams were participating again. I am just thankful that this stadium is quite big, or else everyone will be sweating all over.

Even though everything is almost the same around me, I am now a bit different than I was a month ago. My master had taught me humility through strict training, which consisted of sparring him, working on my stance, and practicing the basics of martial arts from him. And to up my training a little bit, he told me to only use martial arts during the tournament and rank battle, and never use a single shred of mana.

While rough, I can handle that. While I might be overconfident again, every D-Class Disciple participating in the tournament is weaker than me, physically.

As I was thinking, Alice said, "W-Why do y-you have to s-sit on my l-lap, A-Auguste?"

"No particular reason. It's just comfier here. I'd rather not sit on those stone-hard seats," That's right, I am currently sitting on top of her lap. She looks cute whenever her face goes red, to which I realized earlier that I might be having an attraction to the opposite sex. While that wouldn't have been bad, if you haven't noticed yet, this sect is full of GROWN WOMEN!

I can't just let my small d*ck go hard whenever I meet someone who reveals too much of their body, because a lot of women here seem to like seducing young, helpless boys like me!

Yawning, I then said to Scarlet, who is currently fuming right beside Alice and me, "Can you please stop breathing so heavily? Your mouth isn't exactly good for my functioning nose."

She then replied… with a whine, "But you chose Alice's lap over mine! That's so unfair! I want you to sit on my lap also!"

"You have to realize, Scarlet, being touched all over isn't my thing. Do you know how creepy it feels when your hand just wanders somewhere on my body?" I said, as I still remember the time she almost molested me unknowingly when she visited my house. We were alone that day and we decided to take a nap on my bed together, which was one of the biggest mistakes in my life.

I don't want to describe it but you can already guess how it went…

"But that was simply a mistake on my part! I didn't mean to do that…" She said, but soon realized that everyone around us was looking at us.

Her face became as red as her hair, embarrassed.

Really, I can't wait to become an adult and have facial hair to get rid of these pedo-women around me. I'm just thankful that Alice isn't attracted to me like how Scarlet is.

"Hm, by the way, Alice, have you gone to Vane's house yet?" I asked her.

"Uhm, y-yes. We have met a c-couple of times o-over the p-past few d-days, W-Why?" Alice said.

"Nothing, it's just that he's been a bit weird lately. When we were talking, he would suddenly space out. That's not like him, he used to listen to every word I said and would laugh from time to time from my jokes."

Yes, Vane's been odd lately. It seems like he has some problems of his own, maybe I should talk to him about it after the rank battles.

"Mhm, I-I also noticed t-that about V-Vane. I-I hope he's o-okay," Alice said.

"Yeah, me too," I said.

Looking around, I saw Randy working on something on his lap. It looks look like a metal orb.

"Randy, what's that? A new bomb?" I asked, curious.

Randy gestured for me to wait with his hand, and continued working on that metal orb. He looked so careful when dealing with it as if it's so fragile that it would break if he touched it. But that was strange, considering that the orb is made of metal.

He breathed out a sigh of relief after finishing the metal orb, and then turned to look at me, and said, "As for what you were asking later, this is a nuclear grenade that I took inspiration from the books I read about fantasy bombs. The nuclear bomb thing fascinated me, so I decided to make it into reality!"

I spaced out, letting what he just told me to sink in.

So, a nuclear bomb means radiation, and radiation means death. Not to mention its high-explosive power, this tiny grenade could probably wipe every living being in a 50-meter radius with a single blast!

What the f*ck!? Did my teammate just literally make a tool made only for killing millions!!??

I've read much about Earth in the books I bought from the [Shop] months ago, and I know the nuclear bombs there can do so much damage that with a single mistake, every life in that world could go extinct!

But my worries disappeared when I heard him say, "This is only a prototype though, and it won't work like the nuclear bombs from the science-fantasy fictions I've read. But it still packs quite a punch, it could probably take out a lot of enemy disciples if used correctly. By the way, why were you asking?"

"Nothing, I just had some worries."

By "some worries", I meant, "the world leaders might kidnap you to learn everything about how to make nuclear weapons and they would use it to wage war with each other, which I know will happen from what I've read from earth's history books."