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."

took the

Aaron one last look,

***

Ashton city.

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

on the projections were

a male while the other was a female. With blonde hair and blue eyes, the woman looked

hand, the male looked less impressive, however, his

the woman, Samantha Dover,

didn't let

"Yes."

nodded his head. He completely agreed with her

was especially so after the last match where they saw a contestant being cut in half by someone. The scene was just too gruesome for someone as young as Nola

her hand on her cheek,

wondered when it will be Ren's

words, a look of anticipation

tip from someone that Ren was going to

be

could feel the excitement and nervousness in his voice as he

seeing his son shin in the tournament, and nervousness at the dangers that lay

those words, the front

Ding—! Dong—!

other, the duo curiously turned to look in the direction of the

"Oh my."

who it was, a look of shock appeared on Samantha's face not long after as she quickly headed for the

Ci clank—!

brilliant smile on her face, she

"Welcome."

***

At the same time.

transmit the contestants to the platforms, Kimor

did not have any excitement about his next

was merely rank

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

the fact that not all humans were

for

of sight met with one of the people managing the

taking a step forward he slowly

***

"What's with that look?"

who had just come out of the portal,

out of the portal, just...well, how should I describe it? It felt as though he was

moment Kevin heard my words, his

you on

what I'm

towards his right and left before he leaned his body forward slightly and

was trying

"Imitate me?"

"Yeah."

nodded his head

know...when you go all edgy and stuff, and to be honest,

"Eh?"

my expectations that I was unable to reply to him

smirk appeared on Kevin's

the stands. If you can, try ending the match as

I could say anything back, Kevin bid goodbye to

things that I wanted to say to him before he left, like how he had doped himself to victory, but then again, they were within the rules so I

tournaments at the Lock, this was not a children's

was set up purposely with the intent of limiting the

on purpose. After all, in a

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

were only there to initiate and

although it would look

only through these types of tournaments

no soft tournament where everyone just cuddled with each other after the end

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