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."

the chip

last

***

Ashton city.

private residence owned by the demon hunter guild, two people sat in front of

were

sofa, one was a male while the other was a female. With blonde hair and blue eyes, the

the other hand, the male looked less impressive, however, his solemn and sharp look did give off his

hand on the male's thigh, the woman, Samantha Dover, covered her mouth with her

we didn't let Nola

"Yes."

head. He completely agreed with

saw a contestant being cut in half by someone. The scene was

on

it will be

look of anticipation flashed

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

Samantha could feel the excitement and nervousness in

and nervousness at the dangers that lay in the tournament. Especially after having seen

not even a second after he said those words, the front doorbell of

Ding—! Dong—!

the duo curiously turned to look in the direction of the door. Then, standing up Samantha calmly

"Oh my."

a look of shock appeared on Samantha's face not long after as she quickly headed for the door

Ci clank—!

brilliant smile on her face,

"Welcome."

***

At the same time.

the portal that would transmit the contestants to the platforms, Kimor had a

any excitement

rank

previously dismissed him for being human, but after witnessing Kevin's strength not too long ago, he decided to no longer look down

the fact that not all humans

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

his thoughts paused there, his line of sight

a step forward he slowly

***

"What's with that look?"

the portal,

just...well, how should I describe it? It felt as though he

heard my words, his brows

you on

what I'm talking

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

I was trying to

"Imitate me?"

"Yeah."

nodded his head

go all edgy and stuff, and to be honest, I think

"Eh?"

was so out of my expectations that I was unable to reply to

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

stands. If you can, try ending the match as

could say anything back, Kevin bid goodbye to me and

like how he

the tournaments at the Lock, this was

purposely with the intent of limiting the contestant's space,

all, in a real fight, rules did not

it artifacts, potions, killing, or anything that would've normally been banned in tournaments held in the human domain,

to initiate and end

so if someone died, although it would look bad on them, it was

these types of tournaments would

other

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