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 weakly

Aaron one last look,

***

Ashton city.

people sat in front of a sofa, staring at

on the projections were the images of the

sofa, one was a male while the other was a female. With blonde

his solemn

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

glad we didn't let Nola

"Yes."

nodded his head. He completely

cut in half by someone.

her hand on her cheek,

wondered when it

said those words, a look of anticipation

anonymous tip from someone that Ren was going to participate, they dropped everything they were doing

be

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

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

even a second after he said those words, the front

Ding—! Dong—!

the duo curiously turned to look in the direction of the door.

"Oh my."

look of shock appeared on Samantha's face not long after

Ci clank—!

brilliant smile on her face, she

"Welcome."

***

At the same time.

transmit the contestants to the platforms, Kimor had a calm

not have any

previously dismissed him for being human, but after witnessing Kevin's strength not too long ago, he

that not all humans

opponent. After all, it was already rare enough for the humans to have someone as strong as Kevin, but to have two? Kimor did not believe in

line of sight

taking a step forward he slowly

***

"What's with that look?"

Kevin who had just come out of the portal, my face leaned

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

words, his brows

are you

know exactly what

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

trying

"Imitate me?"

"Yeah."

nodded his

you 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

was then that a victorious smirk appeared on Kevin's

the stands. If you can, try ending the

say anything back, Kevin bid goodbye to me and directly

he had doped himself to victory, but then again, they were within the rules so I really

the tournaments at the Lock, this was not a

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

purpose. After all, in a real fight, rules did not

would've normally been banned in tournaments held in the human domain, everything was allowed

only there to initiate and

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

honest. After all, only through these types of tournaments would someone truly be able to

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

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