The Author's POV

Chapter 424

After the incident with Emma, the tournament was put on hold for a couple of days.

The reason why it was put on hold had nothing to do with Emma, in truth. Instead, it was because the preparations for broadcasting the tournament throughout each domain were ready.

Since it required a lot of mana to broadcast the events, the leaders only chose to start broadcasting them at the round of thirty-two.

With radio frequencies being blocked by the barrier enveloping Issanor, normal broadcasting means couldn't be used. Hence, the long waiting time.

At least this applied to the human side as they needed to make the proper arrangements. They weren't as advanced as the other races after all.

"Congrats on passing the round."

Meeting up with Ava and Hein, I first congratulated Ava who had actually passed the round.

Because of the incident that happened, I was unable to watch her fight live. But after gaining access to replays of the video, I spent a good couple of hours analyzing her fight. And I had to say, I was impressed.

At first, I thought that she wouldn't have made it this far as, like Hein, her specialty didn't lie in 1 v 1. But, I was quickly proven wrong.

With her now improved flute, she could summon up to eight beasts, with all of them ranked at around rank.

Typically, this many beasts wouldn't have been able to deal with a rank, but the synergy that Ava was able to create between each beast made her a known threat, enough to bridge a rank gap.

Watching her fight in the video I was really left amazed and made a mental note to myself to pay close attention to her next fight. Perhaps she would once again surprise me.

"Thank you."

At my words, Ava replied with a smile.

"I wasn't really confident in my chances, but I guess I got lucky."

"No."

I shook my head.

"Luck can only get you so far. This was all you."

Turning to look behind Ava, my eyes paused on Hein.

"You seem to be doing a lot better than before. You managed to get over your loss."

"Not really…"

Hein replied with a bitter smile on his face.

"Although I always knew that I wasn't going to win… I at least wanted to make it past the round of thirty two."

"There, there."

Turning around, Ava patted Hein on the shoulder… Or at least tried to. She was too short to reach him.

Eventually, after realising that she couldn't reach him, she gave up.

"Whatever."

She softly mumbled as she crossed her arms and pouted. Hein, who was already used to such a scene, didn't seem to mind it and continued.

"I don't know, I just feel like I still have a lot that is lacking."

"Don't we all?"

Honestly, I felt gratified that Hein felt this way.

If someone did not think they were lacking in anything then their growth would just stunt. Even Kevin whom I had talked to last night realized just how many flaws he had.

No one was perfect.

That included me. I was nowhere near perfect. But, just because one had flaws didn't mean that they were weak.

"Well, since you realized that you have many flaws, just work on them. The less they become apparent, the more you know you're doing something right."

regard to giving advice, but I

intent behind my words and nodded his head

"Yeah."

"That's good."

a smile on my

way, where are

others?"

"Yeah."

It was

Ava's next sentence

went back to the

"…Eh?"

process her words, I blinked

you just

on

they went

"You can do that?"

confusion within me grew

right. You were probably busy with everything that happened so you didn't know the portals have been opened up.

"I see…"

could've told me

was a bit salty about this development, but I wasn't too mad. After all, once the tournament ended, I was planning on settling back in

whether everything that

that they would help me, but I hadn't heard back

whatever. I guess I should use this

the only people that could go back were the ones

didn't really matter. I was going to meet

now. Hein said that he will help me train for my next

of my thoughts was Ava who waved goodbye

glancing in their direction,

"Bye."

left, leaving me alone, standing in

should

much for me to do at the moment. I couldn't really talk to Kevin since he was probably sorting his stuff out, and Melissa probably headed

wasn't any- actually, there was

there, scratching the back of my head, I let out

I'm that bored. It

communication device,

couple of rings, someone finally picked up. It was

—…What do you want?

"Cough."

and recalling the past we had with each

been a while.

***

time, in

"Khrrr…khrrr…"

rough nasal sound resounded throughout the

over ten figures, each of which was an

projections, depicting the image of all

Voss. These are the most

the orcs seated said while sorting out the

at a certain individual. The moment their eyes landed on him,

younger generation. With a rank of , he was one of the individuals with the

at the hologram, Kimor

is

he spoke softly, his voice rang throughout the whole

unfazed by this was the orc who had previously spoken. His name was Artian, and

If we directly look at it from what we've seen, Vaalyun, Borerlig, Ignar, and Amelia are the only ones that truly pose a threat. Maybe the human Kevin can

" ranked?"

face as soon as he heard that

the strongest amongst the

"Yes."

head over on his hand that was clenched into a

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