9 THRONES

CHAPTER 132: THE GOLDEN CROW

Many people thought Tarion was talking about Atrea, however everyone felt that the man who was ranked 4th would win.

However he had from then on attacked all the Atrea birds to killing almost all of them, as long as the last bird spirit was defeated, Atrea would lose.

Each ability must have a weakness, Atrea is able to turn into 10 birds to avoid his opponent's attack or escape.

But when all the birds were defeated, the original figure of Atrea would reappear and be heavily injured.

Therefore, in everyone's eyes, the defeat of Atrea was in sight.

But before everyone thought the 3rd position of the Wood Sword Academy would change, the last bird figure that was almost pierced by the opponent's sword avoided the 5 swords that tried to stab him without any problem.

After dodging, he did not at all try to escape but instead rushed towards his opponent.

The size of the bird that had looked normal slowly changed to 4 meters high, the bird was a crow that had a golden feather.

Under the red eyes of the crow, he raised the claws on his feet and slashed towards the opponent.

The rank 4 man tried to resist the slash of the golden crow wearing a low-tier grade 3 artifact sword that was none other than his best sword.

"Shelf!".

The man's sword was broken by a crow's claw.

But instead, the rank 4 man was unharmed and had to be thrown a few meters away.

The rank 4 man broke out in cold sweat, if he took another step back just now, he would have fallen from the arena and been considered a failure.

When the man thought he still had a chance of winning as long as he had not fallen from the arena or lost consciousness, the crow changed his attack pattern.

It flew high into the sky and flapped its wings, a powerful storm pushing the man at rank 4 to fall from the arena.

A rank 4 man fell from the arena due to the wind thrust through the wings of a golden crow.

After knowing the match was over, the golden crow landed on the ground and turned into the figure of Atrea again "Good match! You improved a lot compared to our last match! This time you're able to stay in the arena for about 5 seconds longer, you can be proud of your development".

Atrea's figure turned into a bird again before returning to his seat, there were no injuries or changes to Atrea's body as if he had not fought at all.

The man who was at rank 4 smiled bitterly, he sat on the ground without being able to say anything.

From the very beginning he knew the difference in strength between the top 3 of the Wood Sword Academy and the rank 4 even though it was far different.

Based on the opinions of those in the top 10, a figure who was ranked 7th might succeed in defeating a disciple who was ranked 4th. But those who are ranked 4 have absolutely no chance to beat rank 3, this shows their ranking is only 1 level different but actually their power distance is too far.

Therefore, the people in the Wood Sword Academy who knew the truth referred to those in the top 3 of the Wood Sword Academy as the true monsters in the academy be it Tarion, Poris, and others, and Atrea.

But of all those who tried to fight, those at the bottom ended up losing to the high ranks.

The winners are ranked 5th and 7th while the ranks 6th and 8th must end up losing.

The audience who saw all the matches just now had to admit the strength of the top 10 elite disciples was indeed very frightening, they were simply not the opponents of the strongest 10 elite disciples.

But on the other hand, many people were disappointed that there was nothing surprising or a big change in the academy rankings like rank 7 managed to beat rank 4 or whatever, however those at the lower ranks always ended up failing which left people disappointed, did the Peak Festival finally end without any change in the ranking list of the strongest elite disciples of Wood Sword Academy?

When some people started thinking about leaving, Poris felt that the time had come, he would challenge Tarion and then rise to become an elite disciple of rank 1.

Not only did Poris think of raising his rank, the Atrea who was on the other side was planning to challenge Poris. He was drawn against Poris and Tarion, then defeated them and became the strongest disciple of the Wood Sword Academy.

Even though they were planning to go on stage, the figure of a man walking onto the arena stage first "Gertias, since all the fighting is almost over, why don't we try it out? Me and you, let's decide who's strong and who's weak!".

The one who went on stage was none other than Vann. Although the effects of the Golden Medicine were quite reduced for the increase in Vann's strength because he had eaten too much of it, but the 10 Gold Medicine just now managed to increase Vann's strength to a tier 6 Gold Core.

Gertias who felt Vann's strength was shocked, whereas Vann had previously been at level 4, why had his strength increased by as much as 2 levels directly.

Vann had always increased his strength quickly, was he not afraid of his cultivation foundation becoming weak as a result of him increasing his strength too quickly.

Hesitating for a moment, Gertias decided to advance against Vann.

Even if he was only a tier 5 Gold Core that was 1 level below Vann, Gertias remained confident he would win.

The reason for Gertias's confidence was that Vann increased his strength too quickly, surely his foundation was weak in exchange for cultivation speed.

As a student who had been in the academy for a long time, Gertias knew that the weaker one's foundation was, the weaker one's strength was as well.

For that reason, many people were slow to increase their cultivation even if they had enough treasures.

They had to strengthen their foundations first in order for the future path of cultivation to become even easier and stronger.

Gertias didn't know in the slightest that Vann's strength might increase too quickly, but that didn't mean Vann's foundation was weak but rather as long as one looked at Vann's cultivation foundation, they would definitely find Vann's cultivation foundation extremely strong.

While the reason why Vann was able to absorb many medicines or other cultivation treasures without weakening the foundation, Vann himself did not know.

But according to what Vann thought, his foundation did not weaken due to cultivating too fast, the reason might be related to him always fighting against Horge's followers recently.

Fighting against monsters or humans could strengthen one's cultivation foundation as well.

As Vann and Gertias were staring at each other, the silver mask master raised his hand "Fight, start!".