It was only the first day of the power ranking competition, but both Kamys and Boe became somewhat famous. Kamys managed to defeat young master of Vito family in a single strike even though he became a student of the school only couple of months ago. And Boe defeated one of the top five geniuses of all the new rank 1 wizards.
Black Scorpio school had 3218 new rank 1 wizards entering power ranking competition this year. All these students were local geniuses with decent battle aura affinities, but everyone knew that there were five outstanding young geniuses from the five strongest families of the Kayteese City.
Kayteese City is one of the middle-ranked cities in the Shadow Kingdom. Officially the city is under the rule of the Mayor, but in reality it’s being ruled by the five ancient wizard families. Each year there are five geniuses from five families entering the Black Scorpio school, people call them “The Five”. Almost every year top five spots of new rank 1 wizards are held by those geniuses. From time to time, few geniuses appear from other families who can contend with The Five, but they have never been placed lower than tenth place in last fifty years.
First family is the Vito family, which specializes in the death attribute. They’re responsible for the internal order of the Kayteese City and considered to be the protectors of citizens. Harson is a third son of the current patriarch of the family. Loseac is considered to be the strongest wizard of a current young generation of the Vito family, but he’s the weakest of The Five.
Second is the Kenthy family, which specializes in the water attribute. They’re responsible for the healthcare of the Kayteese City. Patriarch of the family is a famous healer even outside of the city. Ella is the only daughter and second child of the current patriarch of the family, she is the third strongest of five geniuses of previous young generation from five families. Charles Kenthy is the strongest wizard of a current generation of the Kenthy family and people believe that he’s a little stronger than Loseac.
Third is the Ligu family, which specializes in the shadow attribute. Common people think that they’re just a merchant family, but in reality they’re responsible for espionage and assassinations. The strongest rank 1 wizard of the current generation is Shi Ligu, he’s ranked third of The Five.
Fourth is the Popov family, which specializes in nurturing spirit and beast companions. People of this family do not specialize in any particular attribute, they’re born with random attributes. Founder of the Popov family was the legendary Alex Popov “The Ferocious Beastmaster”, he was one of the strongest wizards of the Shadow Kingdom five hundred years ago. Members of this family each have a beast by their side from the moment they’re born, they spend each and every moment of their lives with a beast by their side. Their strength isn’t determined by their own might, but by the level of their connection to their beast. The most talented people can even turn their beast into the spirit animal and train in legendary “One with the beast” battle teaching. They’re responsible for food provision and taming of the wild beasts. The most talented youth of this family is Ivan Popov, it is known that he managed to turn his Ironback Bear into the spirit animal when he was 14 years old. He’s considered to be the best beast nurturer in the past three hundred years. But for some reason he called himself “#2 of the current generation of The Five”.
Fifth family is the Carter family, which specializes in the destruction attribute and sword techniques. They were always the strongest of all the families and responsible for protection of the city from outer dangers. Patriarch of the family is the Commander of the Kayteese City’s army. He was once the General of the Shadow Kingdom, but for some reason he left the army and came back to his hometown. No one knows how old was the patriarch, but everyone knows that he’s definitely the strongest person in the city, even director of the Black Scorpio school is inferior to him. Most of the members are part of the army, but all the best geniuses of previous generations are just disappearing after graduating the school and no one knows where they are now. Richard Carter is the strongest member of the current generation of The Five, but common people don’t know how strong he is and why four other geniuses agreed to call him the strongest. He may be from the strongest family, but how could he be stronger than Ivan Popov?
After the first day ended, the news about Kamys and Boe spread faster than forest fire. Boe and Kamys were now sitting in the cafeteria, they were waiting for Ella to come so Kamys could brag about his one hit win to her.
“You know what? I now think you have a chance with her.” Boe was smiling from ear to ear when he remembered Ella’s reaction after Kamys’ fight.
“What do you mean? Did she say something to you? She said she loves me, didn’t she?!” Kamys didn’t even give a chance to Boe to answer before he got excited and started jumping around the table like a little child.
At this moment Ella appeared in the doors of the cafeteria, she was walking with her friends when she noticed Kamys. She immediately turned around and started walking away from cafeteria.
“Ella, my love, where are you going? Are you embarrassed after you confessed your love to me? Boe already told me everything. Don’t be shy, let me hug you!” Kamys already ran toward Ella.
“When did I say anything like that?” Boe said it, but Kamys completely ignored him.
Ella glanced at Boe with an obvious killing intent, then moved even faster and vanished from Kamys’ sight. But Kamys didn’t give up and kept chasing after her.
“And this was the idiot who humiliated Harson? I guess Vito family has really deteriorated after all.” When Boe heard these words, he turned around to look at person who said it. It was a short and thin young man in a very tight black clothes, he had short black hair and his face was extremely ordinary.
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“What are you looking at?” When young man noticed Boe looking at him, he turned around and asked Boe in a very aggressive manner.
“Nothing, I’m just wondering why would a weakling like you dare to call my friend an idiot?” Even though Boe didn’t want to create troubles for himself, he still couldn’t stand people offending his only friend for no reason.
“Who the fuck are you to call me a weakling? I’m Han Ligu of the Ligu family, do you dare to repeat what you just said?” Young man looked like he was an emperor and Boe was just a trash in his eyes.
“Alright, W-E-A-K-L-I-N-G, why don’t you call my friend an idiot in his face, if you dare?” Boe wore a very sinister smile while he slowly pronounced every letter of the word “weakling”.
“Hahahaha, I guess you are really tired of living. You don’t even know what Ligu family means and you can’t even recognize your senior when he stands before you.” Boe now understood that Han was from some kind of big family and he was studying in the Black Scorpio school for more than a year already.
“Senior? You are rank 1 wizard just like me, why would I consider you to be my senior? You are studying in this school more than a year already and couldn’t even break through to rank 2, aren’t you a weakling then?”
“Don’t waste your time talking with an idiot, you can’t beat him up on a school’s territory and he knows it. Just challenge him in power ranking competition and you can do whatever you want with him there,” one of the Han’s henchmen proposed it to Han.
“Yeah, that’s right, you think you can offend anyone you want just because teachers will always protect you? Do you dare to accept my challenge in power ranking competition then?” Han looked at Boe with a very vicious look in his face, he was obviously trying to scare Boe by challenging him.
“Sure, why would I be scared to accept a challenge from a weakling?” Boe wasn’t sure he would be able to win against Han without using his demonification form, but he couldn’t back down now, when all the people in cafeteria were watching this show.
When Boe left the cafeteria and just came to his own room, he was summoned by SV for some reason.
“You are an idiot. Why would you accept the challenge from him? Don’t you know who he is?” SV seemed to be very upset with Boe.
“Is he really that powerful? He is rank 1 wizard just like me and I even defeated one of The Five after all…”
“He isn’t very talented, but it’s already his third year in school. He became a rank 1 wizard more than two years ago and already mastered more than twenty shadow attribute techniques. And the most important part is that he’s from Ligu family.”
“What’s so special about Ligu family? Didn’t I defeat number one genius of current generation for the Vito family?” Boe was genuinely confused. After he encountered Harson, he came to know about the five ancient wizard families, but they didn’t seem so special to him.
“Ligu family is different. They’re all trained to be professional assassins from their childhood. All their children are born with shadow attribute affinity, and they’re training in their own shadow attribute battle teaching. They have special shadow techniques, which even our school doesn’t have. All these techniques are created to kill their targets. I was hoping that you would be able to befriend that family or even marry someone from there, so you could get all those mysterious techniques or even practice in their unique battle teaching.”
“Big sis SV, I don’t need their battle teaching or any shadow techniques. I would never humiliate myself just to get resources.”
“If you don’t want to become part of their family it is fine, but why would you decide to pick a fight with Han of all people? He’s the youngest son of the current patriarch of the Ligu family, his father loves him more than all other children. He isn’t the most talented or smart of patriarch’s children, but his looks and character are identical to his father. You should forfeit the match and apologize to the kid. You will already never be able to live here in peace after you offended Vito family, but if you will offend Ligu family you might die in an accident.”
“What? Forfeit the match and apologize to that idiot? I wouldn’t call myself the proudest child of the heavens, but I still have my pride to protect, big sis SV. Is there really no other way to solve this problem?”
“Even if the director of the school will personally try to protect you within the school, Ligu family will be able to kill you if they’ll decide to do it seriously.” Big sis SV was very serious as she looked in Boe’s eyes and tried to persuade him. Ligu family were after all professional spies and assassins, so if they wanted to infiltrate and kill someone, they had abilities to do so. But in this case, they didn’t even need to infiltrate, there were a lot of students inside of school ready to act at any moment already.
“Thanks for an advice, big sis SV.” Boe was very dispirited, he didn’t expect that he had to bow his head to someone in his life after he became a disciple of The Strongest.
Boe was walking from SV’s office to his room, he was now thinking which path should he choose. Did he really have to humiliate himself in order to survive or was there another way to solve this incident?
‘Maybe I can ask my teacher to help me out with this, I bet he doesn’t want to see his disciple humiliating himself in front of these people.’
“Don’t even think about involving me in your little problems, kid.” Boe suddenly heard a familiar voice in his head.
‘You can even read my mind, master?’ Boe was shocked when he realized that The Strongest reacted to his previous thoughts.
“I can’t read your mind, you are just too predictable, idiot.” Voice of The Strongest rang in Boe’s mind again.
“Will you really let me humiliate myself in this lowly world? If I humiliate myself, I’ll humiliate my master too, you know that right?”
“If you can’t even handle this kind of problems by yourself what will you do when you will get into higher worlds?”
“Fair enough. Can you at least give me an advice on this situation?”
“Nope.”
Boe was sitting in his room, thinking what he should do when he received a magic notification.
“Your fight with Han Ligu will be in three days at the Golden Dragon scene.”
‘They even chose the biggest scene for our fight, I guess Ligu family made this to humiliate me in front of as many people as they could to set an example for all students. I guess I’ll just go with the flow and decide what to do right before the fight, I need to train now while I still remember the feeling of combining my 26 moves.’
On the next day, Kamys came to Boe’s room, took his hand and ran toward battle scenes.
“What happened?” Boe was shocked when he saw how excited and scared Kamys was.
“Ella… Ella is going to fight in a few minutes!” Kamys barely managed to speak.
“Ella? She’s already a rank 2 wizard, her fight will definitely be spectacular.” Boe was now very excited too, he never saw rank 2 wizards fight before.
"ELLEANORE KENTHY AND DAGU BRONALES, PROCEED TO GOLDEN DRAGON SCENE, YOUR FIGHT STARTS IN ONE MINUTE."