The Author's POV

Chapter 430

Inside of a small room.

With his head lowered, Octavious studied Aaron's dissected body.

Next to him was a man with neatly combed black hair and squared glasses. He was currently wearing a white lab coat with blue gloves in each hand.

Beep—! Beep—!

In his hand was a small transmitter that repeatedly beeped throughout the room.

The man was called Conrad Johnson, and he was the one assigned with the task of finding traces of 876. The wanted fugitive that the Union and the Monolith had agreed on hunting down together.

The first time he saw traces were a few matches back in the tournament. Before he could get a proper read on them, the signal quickly disappeared.

Then, after that, he was able to find traces once again, and as he had reacted quickly, he was able to find where the traces came from, but when he did, he was left with more questions than answers.

"You're saying that the transmitter the Monolith gave us is indicating that 876 is none other than Aaron?" Octavious asked as his deep and emotionless voice rang throughout the whole room.

"Yes, yes, it appears to be so.

Conrad nodded his head in a helpless manner before placing the transmitter next to Aaron's head. Beep—! Beep—!Beep—! Beep—!The moment the transmitter touched his head, the transmitter started to beep even more loudly.

With a complicated look on his face, Conrad took out a small tube that was about the size of a finger. Then, taking a small sample of his blood, he put it in the tube and shook it.

This process only lasted for a couple of seconds before he stopped.

Once he stopped, he turned to look at the tube and when he did, he shook his head.

"His blood is also contaminated just like the Monolith said."

Doubt started to creep inside of Conrad's head as he softly and carefully asked.

"...It's him, isn't it? 876 is Aaron."

But contrary to his expectations, Octavious shook his head.

"It's not him."

"Not him?"

Conrad replied with a confused look on his face.

Be it the tracking device and blood test, all evidence pointed that he was indeed 876, so he really couldn't understand.

Without sparing him a glance, Octavious continued.

"Aaron's whereabouts during the time 876 was in the Monolith can easily be found. It is impossible for him to be 876."

Before the tournament started, Octavious paid close attention to all the promising contestants and so he naturally knew that it was impossible for Aaron to be 876.

Once his thoughts paused there, with a frown on his face, Octaviois suddenly thought of something.

What if...

Placing his hand over Aaron's face, he suddenly squeezed it.

Crack—

The sound of bones breaking resounded throughout the room as blood spurted all over the room.

Conrad, who had been watching the whole time, opened his eyes in shock as he couldn't quite make out the situation.

Before he could say anything, Octavious retrieved his hand back.

It was then that Cornard suddenly noticed it. A small device that was resting in the middle of his finger.

Supposedly, this was the tracking device.

Calmly analyzing it for a good minute, Octavious handed it to Conrad.

"Analyze it. See if there is something hidden inside of it."

"Y…yes."

trembling fingers, Conrad took the chip and

last look, Octavious left the

***

Ashton city.

private residence owned by the demon hunter guild, two people sat in front of a sofa, staring at a

on the projections were the

the two people seated on the sofa, one was a male while the other was a female. With blonde

his solemn and sharp look

woman, Samantha Dover, covered her mouth with

we didn't let Nola

"Yes."

his head. He

where they saw a contestant being cut in half by

hand on her cheek,

it

a look of

of them weren't very interested in the tournament, however, upon receiving an anonymous tip from someone that Ren was going to participate, they dropped everything they were doing and decided to watch the tournament

should be coming

sounding stoic, Samantha could feel the excitement and nervousness in his voice as he anticipated his

the tournament, and nervousness at the dangers that lay in the tournament. Especially after having seen so many injuries and

after he said those words, the front doorbell of their house

Ding—! Dong—!

in the direction of the door.

"Oh my."

appeared on Samantha's face not long after as she quickly headed

Ci clank—!

on her face, she greeted the

"Welcome."

***

At the same time.

Kimor had a calm look on his face.

any excitement

merely

witnessing Kevin's strength not too long ago, he decided to no

that not all humans were

have high regard for his next opponent. After all, it was already rare enough for the humans to have someone as strong as Kevin,

there, his line of sight met with one of

step forward

***

"What's with that look?"

just come out of the portal, my face leaned back a little as my eyes

way he came out of the portal, just...well, how should I describe it?

my words, his brows twitched

you

what I'm

Raising his brow, Kevin glanced towards his right and left before he leaned his body forward slightly

was trying to

"Imitate me?"

"Yeah."

his head

all edgy and stuff, and to

"Eh?"

expectations that I was unable to

that a victorious smirk appeared on Kevin's face as he patted me

at the stands. If you can, try ending

Kevin

how he had doped himself to victory, but then again, they

the tournaments at the Lock,

with the intent of limiting the contestant's space, there were very few rules placed

all, in a real fight, rules

killing, or anything that would've normally been banned in tournaments held

referees were only there to initiate and end the

if someone died, although it would look bad on

was against this, to be honest. After all, only through these types of tournaments would someone

just cuddled with each other after the end of each match. No, this was

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