hotmtlnovel Chapter 373 Targeted
Chapter 373 Targeted
Since Kain had gotten a taste of the sweet life in delegating tasks to others, upon learning what Bea and the others did when he woke up, his first thought was not fear at having almost been disqualified, nor was it self-reproach for failing to get up, but rather…"That could be done?! Great! We'll continue like this from now on!"
For one thing, he would not have to waste his time attending matches in the early group stage, only needing to attend Phase 2 of the competition where the first place of each group will compete against one another
Moreover, Kain had been quite worried about what would happen if he went on a Pathfinder Mission for a prolonged period of time and missed the re-ranking. However, knowing that he doesn't need to be present means that he could always leave one of contracts stationed at all times at the College to participate. While it may be difficult for that one contract to fight one against many, Kain firmly believed that any one of his contracts could at least maintain a top 5 ranking even if competing alone.
Not to mention that Kain is now a 4-star beast-tamer and needs to find a fourth contract, which would give him even more options to select from.
Yeah it'd suck being one spiritual creature down within a relic, especially since every one of his contracts can have a practical role in a relic: Bea for obtaining information and controlling spiritual creatures in the relic; Queen is the team's healer while her guards serve as the best scouts; and Aegis is the team's shield during unexpected emergencies.
Every single one is indispensable. But Kain is really not willing to replace Aria as the last ranked student of their year…
There is a possible extended leave option, but during that period he'd have to forfeit all of his resources, room, rank and retake many of his courses—this was the absolute last choice!
Over the following days of the group matches, Kain continued to not show up. And while there were many voices of discontent at his choice, Kain wasn't exactly around to hear it, and even if he did hear their grumblings, he still wouldn't care.
He felt as though he was extremely close to making a breakthrough in his re
The infected split dissolved instantly, its presence eradicated so thoroughly that Bea couldn't even sense a fragment of it remaining.
The memory continued, showing how the sword disrupted not just Bea's abilities but the cohesion of their entire team.
To better coordinate the movements of everyone in the absence of Kain, Bea had always infected Aegis, Queen and the Vespid guards with a split as well so that they could communicate in battle mentally.
However, that infuriating sword upon realizing their connection also made great pains to cut her connections to everyone else as well.
With her essentially rendered useless, and the others unable to coordinate as well as before, they'd only managed to win by the skin of their teeth.
However, Goddesss of Victory eventually smiled down on Kain's team and the sacrifice of several guards was able to take Kairos' puppet and book out of commission.
Meanwhile, due to the sword's lack of physical offensive ability, Aegis was able to imprison it into a stone prison before tossing it off of the stage.
But in the process of the battle, Queen had lost several of her guards while some kind of corrosive skill emitted by Kairos' cursed book in its efforts to free the imprisoned sword had managed to erode quite a lot of the stone composing Aegis.
Thankfully, Kain always kept suitable stones that Aegis could easily incorporate on hand, so he should be able to restore himself by the next day. However, Kain was definitely not expecting for his spiritual creatures to end up so embarrassed in a fight against peers of the same age. After all, they'd been on challenging Black missions and partaken in battles to the death with beast-tamers and spiritual creatures of a higher level.
However, it seems like Kain had underestimated the talent and determination of his peers. While he was improving, so were they. Absolutely nobody, aside from Serena that is, was satisfied with their current rank—everyone was striving for a higher position.
Kain was a little frustrated upon watching what had transpired through the scenes transmitted by Bea.
To think that Kairos would contract a spiritual creature that so perfectly counters Bea—did he actually seek out a spiritual creature for that purpose or was it a happy coincidence?
Kain was more inclined to the former. After all, while practicing as a team in preparation for nationals they'd all gotten to know one another and each other's contracts much better.
Kain was sure that the other members of the top 5 also had similarly targeted strategies against him as well as each other.
Kain's mouth couldn't resist twisting into a sneer. "Should I be honoured that you factored me into the decision of your lifelong contract? But if you guys think you've figured us out…"
Kain sat up straight from where he was previously lounging on the couch and smiled, his exhaustion completely forgotten.
"…we'll just have to prove you wrong."