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 firmly believed what

understood the intent behind my words and

"Yeah."

"That's good."

smile on my face, I

the way, where are

Smallsnake and the others?" Ava asked. I nodded

"Yeah."

the city? It was

sentence completely caught me

back to the human domain

"…Eh?"

her words,

did you

a strange look on her face, Ava

said that they went to the human

"You can do that?"

within me grew even

right. You were probably busy with everything that happened so you didn't know the portals have been opened up. Unfortunately, only those who are not participating

"I see…"

told

all, once the tournament ended, I was planning on settling back

course, that depended on whether everything that I

did message Donna and Monica regarding it, too. They said that they would help me, but I hadn't heard back from

guess I should

Since the only people that could go back were the ones that weren't participating in the tournament, I couldn't go back

really matter. I was going to meet them soon

will go now. Hein said that he

out of my thoughts was Ava who waved goodbye

and glancing in their direction,

"Bye."

the two of them left, leaving me alone, standing

what should

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

any- actually,

scratching the back of my head,

It won't make

out my communication device, I

someone

—…What do you want?

"Cough."

had with each other, my voice raised

Jin, it's been a while. You

***

time, in

"Khrrr…khrrr…"

rough nasal sound resounded throughout the whole

over ten figures, each of

table were multiple projections, depicting the image

Borerlig, Ignar, Amelia, and Kevin Voss. These are the most

the orcs seated said

as everyone gazed at a certain individual. The moment their eyes

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

Kimor

is

spoke softly, his voice rang throughout the

spoken. His

seen, Vaalyun, Borerlig, Ignar, and Amelia are the only ones that truly pose a threat. Maybe the human Kevin can be

" ranked?"

across Kimor's face as soon as he heard

he the strongest

"Yes."

his eyes, Kimor leaned his head over on his hand that was clenched

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