9 THRONES

CHAPTER 137: THE GUEST?

The entire arena became silent, they all stared at the arena where Myro fought against Atrea full of disbelief.

Who's Atrea? He was the 3rd strongest disciple of the Wood Sword Academy, but many people acknowledged his strength was not necessarily weaker than that of Poris as they had never fought directly.

Atrea is nicknamed the Queen of Birds and has hundreds of bird spirits, among which there are 3 giant bird spirits that have frightening abilities.

It was unknown how many people lost against Atrea, even in Talper Province, it was likely that Atrea was the one with the most spirits even though not all of his spirits were useful for fighting.

Whereas Vann was only a freshman who joined the academy for less than a year, when he had just arrived here, he started as the one who cleaned up the academy.

But Vann continued to make various surprises in the Wood Sword Academy both from suddenly becoming a cultivator, joining the class, defeating Yun Tian who was the strongest Qi Gathering disciple, the strongest Qi Gathering disciple, defeating Horge and sitting in the top 10 of the Wood Sword Academy, Vann did not stop there but continued to fight until he was in position 3, he won from Atrea.

Though everyone knew, the 3 strongest people in the Wood Sword Academy were different figures from the 10 strongest elite disciples.

Even a figure who was ranked 4 was too far from being an opponent of Atrea, let alone Vann who should only be ranked 9.

The war mask master came to his senses first, he raised his hand and shouted excitedly "The winner is Vann, he will be the 3rd rank strongest disciple of the Wood Sword Academy!".

"Great!", the cries and applause of the spectators echoed throughout the arena, they stared at Vann full of admiration, envy and purpose that they had to pursue.

Vann kept his sword and smiled kindly, he did not show the slightest arrogance due to this return but rather he extended his hand to Atrea who was sitting on the ground "Are you able to stand up? It seems that I was a little exaggerated, I should have weakened my fire a little so as not to hurt you too much".

Atrea received Vann's helping hand and stood up, she shook her head "You don't have to weaken your fire, it was so great! Most likely you will have to fight Tarion in the next fight, you will have to be careful! As long as you try your best, you can definitely defeat Tarion! Show everyone, I'm not necessarily weaker than Tarion".

"I will try my best to defeat Tarion later" Myro said, not refusing as he was aiming to defeat Tarion and become the strongest figure in the Wood Sword Academy.

Atrea smiled amiably which made everyone's faces in the arena freeze, they stared at the smile on Atrea's face that persisted for a few seconds before disappearing full of disbelief.

"No way! Did I just dream? Miss Atrea smiled, she was really smiling!".

"Crazy! New headlines today, Miss Atrea is smiling! Why can't I bring a camera to the academy? Though the time Miss Atrea smiled was an event to be saved!".

"Basically weak, I don't need a camera! With my memory ability, Miss Atrea's smile just now will not be forgotten!".

"Wait first! Doesn't that mean Miss Atrea's smile was given to Vann? No, how could Miss Atrea who was a cold beauty end up falling for another man? I can't take it".

"Vann, why don't you die so quickly! Don't bother our Miss Atrea!".

The cries of the audience continued to resound throughout the arena, they had never seen Atrea smiling as kindly as just now. Most of Atrea's face is cold, even if the interlocutor is Tarion or Poris.

Under the envious and murderous gaze, Vann sat on seat number 3 while Atrea was at number 4. For rank 4 and below, they also experienced a 1 rank drop.

As he sat down, Vann observed the fight between Tarion and Poris. However the next Vann opponent is 1 of them, Vann must understand the abilities they have and use in order to win.

On the other hand, Hasel who was in the audience seat continued to stare at the surrounding teacher chair full of confusion "Why hasn't Gostaf come yet? Although he was not happy to leave his martial hall, yet he should appear at an important event like this? Is he bad again?".

Hasel shook his head and did not think much, if until the fight was over and Gostaf still did not come, Hasel would just meet him.

However, as a close friend of Gostaf, Hasel knew very clearly about Gostaf's misfortune.

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In the Gostaf martial hall, the figure of Gostaf who had just finished cleaning his body was in the middle room of the martial hall.

He picked up the sword beside him while muttering "How could I have misfortune on such an important day? I hope that the Head of Tardi Academy does not realize it, if he finds out, I will definitely not be spared from punishment! The thought of having to stand for hours at his house bore me so much, especially if I really had to go there".

When Gostaf had just finished preparing and was about to leave, he heard a knock from his door.

Gostaf felt a little strange, in the middle of the great festival that Academy Head Tardi had made, who still came to his martial hall.

Opening the front door, Gostaf found that the figure who came was the person he knew "It turns out you, why did you come here? Didn't you go to the Peak Festival? Wait a minute, I forgot to take something, I'll go to my room first and pick it up".

"No need" said the figure who had just come to the Gostaf martial hall.

"What did you say earlier?", said Gostaf looking at the person who had just arrived full of confusion, after all, he was planning to go straight to pick up something before heading to the arena which made him not listen to the words of the guest who came earlier clearly.

"I said you didn't have to take it" said the guest "Because my purpose here is none other than to take the thing as well".

"Stabs!".

Before Gostaf knew it, the figure of the guest he knew in front of him stabbed himself with a sword.

Gostaf opened his eyes wide in disbelief at the sword piercing his stomach, he stared at the figure of the guest who was none other than the one who stabbed him "Why? Why are you doing this?".

The figure of the guest who came shaking his head "There is no special reason, since the beginning I was not part of a human cultivator or the Wood Sword Academy, I was a shadow monster! You must blame yourself for never being aware of my disguise all along".

Gostaf tried to escape from the sword that pierced his stomach, but he found his body weakened until he could not move anymore, knowing that there was most likely poison in the sword that pierced him.