Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 149

Soon, Aaron and Diana encountered the other three as well. Among them, James was caught in a fight with two other students, who belonged to the same academy, which was inferred from the lapel on their attire.

At that time, Aaron and Diana had already met up with Erika. So, the three joined with James to repel the two students who were ganging up on James.

The group encountered Bronn when they were almost at the edge.

He was hiding from the group of students who seemed to have camped at the edge to get tokens from weak students or injured ones. It was easier than getting tokens from monsters, as it depended entirely on luck.

After finding the other four, he was happy as he was hiding there for hours to get a chance to leave the area, and now there was a chance with all five together.

Though there were five together, the students who were camped at the edge were more than five. So, when they saw Aaron and his group coming, they surrounded them to intimidate them, but they were quite unlucky by doing so.

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"Are you sure you want to do this? You can just let us pass and we can forget that this has ever happened", Aaron spoke in a calm manner.

"Pffft, hahaha, that was the best joke I ever heard", a huge boy with a large sword on his shoulders laughed out loudly.

From the boy’s appearance and the lapel on his shirt, one can easily say which academy the boy belongs to. It was not some lesser academy that Aaron failed to recognise, like when they rescued James.

The symbol was a sword diving into the earth, belonging to Sword Academy, which was a rank higher than Dusk Academy in the last tournament.

They, too, like Dusk Academy, were in the top five for years. Of course, the rank was not always stable and would go up and down, but most of the years, they stayed in the top five, and even reached the second rank once or twice.

"We outmatch you dimwit", one of the others spoke.

There are a total of ten students surrounding the five. It would be 2 to 1 if fighting starts.

"Are you sure you want to start a fight?" Aaron asked again, this time less enthusiastic about letting them go.

He had already tried to be nice and not start a war with other academies, but since they are the ones who initiated it, he was not going to back down if it came to war. He was trying to diffuse the situation, and if that didn’t work, he was ready to bring them down.

"Enough words, give us the tokens or else", the big one who laughed loudly at first warned Aaron and his group.

Aaron sighed, "Don’t say I didn’t warn you".

"What do you mean by..."

Before the big man asked about what Aaron meant, he saw a lot of skeletons and ghosts appear in front of and around them.

"Attack", Aaron gave the order, and the undead started to attack the ten who surrounded them without showing any mercy.

They are undead and have no intelligence to think about anything except for the fact of blindly following their master’s orders without any question.

Once the order was given, the skeletons didn’t stop until the group of ten were submitted in defeat. Aaon deployed thirty skeletons and thirty ghosts, which made it impossible for the ten students to deal with.

Seeing the outcome, Aaron’s teammates were surprised, while others who were watching nearby were shocked.

The campers had a policy to make sure that they won’t bite each other. They took turns when students appeared near the place, trying to leave the area. This time it was the turn of those ten students. So, others waited and watched to see what would happen.

What they saw shocked them.

While those watching the show were shocked, Aaron’s teammates were surprised. During the matches between the students while selecting for the five-member team, Aaron didn’t show this much prowess.

Though the number of undead remained almost the same, the prowess they showed differed.

He single-handedly took down all ten members.

As the ten members admitted their defeat, Aaron ordered his undead to stop the assault, but made sure to keep an eye on them and others in case they acted.

He walked to the fallen members and spoke in a domineering voice, "Hand over all your tokens".

The fallen students looked at each other in worry. The time to leave the mountains is almost up. It means they would be eliminated without tokens in their hands. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

Even though that was the case, they couldn’t do anything but hand over their tokens.

There is an old saying, You reap what you sow. This works well in their situation. They targeted students who were about to exit and eliminated them by this method. Now, they are going to be eliminated from the tournament.

Other than lamenting on their loss and their chosen way to attain tokens, they could only cry. It was their mistake in not recognising the students.

Only when they fell did they see that the students were wearing the symbol of Dusk Academy. Though Sword Academy stood at fourth rank, that doesn’t mean the ones in a lower rank than them are weak.

It was just what happened with students last year. They shouldn’t have considered that at all and should have seen the students from a new perspective, which they failed to do, and now they are going to pay the price.

They were not worried about the price that they are going to pay now. No, they feared what they would pay after they returned to the academy.

They are injured, and now they can’t get any more tokens. The entire sword academy is here, and that means the academy that stood in fourth place last time would now become a part of the lower ranks.

They shivered in fear, thinking about what their headmaster would do after they returned.

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After clearing the gang and getting their tokens, they soon reached the area where they arrived the previous day, the area where the teleportation circle was. Once the Sword Academy gang and the ones that followed them were cleared, no one dared to stop them.

Once they did, they went to the coordinators for the count of tokens.

The coordinators quickly took the count and were actually surprised to see so many tokens in their hands, but they are professionals who know how to act and didn’t make any commotion at all.

Once the tokens were counted, Aaron and his group joined their chaperones, well, the two male teachers to be exact. The vice-headmistress was away chatting with heads of other academies.