Humanity Return

Ch. 82 – Mind Load

Before everyone there could figure out the identity of the dog, he had already jumped up high and was preparing to launch his follow-up attack.

This time Leinn reacted by swinging his left hand backwards without letting go of the black dog in the air.

“Ruff?!”

Another black dog appeared and showed a surprised expression when he saw the palm that greeted him. He could not react as the hand clasped his muzzle and threw it into the sky, hitting the dog still in the air.

The two black dogs spun around for a while and managed to land smoothly beside Tenma's body.

“Come out, I've seen you” Leinn said with a smile towards one of the black dogs.

A moment passed and the shadow of the black dog began to move and change shape.

A third black dog appeared and was seen staring at the black-haired young man in front of them in shock.

Yes, these three black dogs appeared from within the shadows.

The first dog emerged from Tenma's shadow, the second dog emerged from the shadow of the first dog that was behind Leinn when he jumped high, and the third waited for the perfect time to deliver the next surprise attack.

Spectators throughout the stadium started a commotion when they saw the three dogs.

“Three Shadow Hounds?!” shouted one of the Guild higher-ups in the audience seats.

The Shadow Hound that got their name was from their pitch-black fur and the ability to hide within their shadows. Beasts that had an extremely rare element of darkness, and now there were three tails on top of that arena.

From the size and speed of those three Beasts, it seemed like they had only reached the peak of Rank C.

It seemed that Tenma was dividing her developmental materials for the three of them, slowing down their development.

“About possible..”

Isaac jumped up from his seat after realizing something.

Coming from the Life-Defining Shadow Army, reaching a high position in the group at such a young age, added with Shadow Hound as its Contracted Beast. These were all too identical to someone who was quite famous within their Academy.

It seemed that he was someone more important than they had previously thought

“Stop..”.

Tenma forced her pain-filled body to get up on her feet and call back her three Contracted Beasts.

“I can't beat you. You win..”

He managed to pull out the sentence with great difficulty, stating that he had given up.

“Completed!”

All the spectators there cheered and shouted the two young men's names, satisfied to see the fierce battle.

But Leinn just stood up with a serious expression, not moving from his place. He realized the condition of the young man in front of him was a little strange.

“...?”

Tenma raised her face and saw the young man in front of her frowning, she also saw his two eyes changing in an instant while looking at her.

Before he could say anything, a small object floated towards him and with the rest of his strength he managed to catch it.

“Huh?”

“Drink, the drug will reduce the side effects of the pill you swallowed”

Tenma looked at the high quality healing bottle in her hand with a shocked expression, it turned out that the young man realized his condition was getting worse due to the side effects.

The black pill, the Berserker Contract that forced his body to use all the energy in his body in one minute would increase then drastically weaken the physical strength of the wearer, followed by excruciating pain.

The green pill, Slyph’s Essence which made the body able to absorb the Mana in the air and force all the Mana in the body into the Mana wind element, making the wearer enter in an Overflow state by the Mana of the wind. It also only lasted for one minute, then the wearer would not be able to use Mana for 12 hours.

Both of these pills fall into the category of toxins because of side effects that are not comparable to their function.

Although it could not eliminate it completely, the high quality healing medicine in his hands would greatly ease his pain.

“Thank you”

“Not to think of”

Leinn turned around and walked over while waving his hands at the young man.

On the podium beside the arena it can be seen Adeline who is very upset. The healing medicine was none other than the healing medicine he gave Aura, who gave some of his gifts to the young man as well.

Now he gave the prize to his opponent, just like that.

“I can't believe, he just gave my gift away. He really isn't-“

Adeline turned her head and found the blond young man beside her already gone.

He tried to search the surroundings and found Roland was walking towards the entrance of the stadium.

Isaac's voice grew smaller as he looked at what the audience at the stadium was seeing.

The two finalists who will fight next are walking away from the stadium through two large hallways to the outside of the stadium.

They said nothing and disappeared from their sight.

...

The stadium was filled with people who did not dare to leave their seats and continued to wait, as they were already impatient to see the next fight.

After the announcement of the fight, Tenma refused the help of the medical team and chose to walk on her own. He only turned his head towards Aura once before disappearing in the huge hallway of the stadium.

Now the area around the arena was already filled with most of the teachers and supervising disciples who were building something.

Large carvings coiled around the stone arena began to form, coupled with many Magic Users who were strengthening the arena itself with earth element magic.

Other than those at work, only two people could be seen sitting there doing nothing.

“I can't believe they left us just like”

“Ya..”

Adeline snorted in annoyance while talking to the listless-looking Aura beside her.

“At least they can invite or anything before leaving so..”.

“Ya..”

Adeline turned her head and looked at the girl's face that felt like she wasn't with him.

“I like human meat, I think they are delicious after fried half-cooked”

“Ya..”

“I'm actually a boy, I only use this dress because of my hobby”

“Ya..”

“I'll take you to see my father as my friend, don't you mind?”

“Ya..”

Adeline's face began to redden, she extended both her hands towards the girl's face.

“Yes...Hue?!”

Aura flinched in shock when she noticed the two hands clamping down on her face and forcing her to look into the eyes of the blue-haired girl in front of her.

“Why did you become like this?!”

“B-hue...?!”

Adeline started to shake the face of the girl who was in both palms for a while, then let go. He turned back to face forward, turning his gaze away from Aura.

“...do I bore you..?”

Aura heard a voice smaller than that whisper and gasped in shock. He immediately grabbed Adeline's shoulder.

“T-certain no! I-I like being with you!”

“B-really...?”

Adeline looked surprised to see Aura who suddenly raised her tone, and started to feel awkward after hearing that.

Aura seemed to be aware of what she had said and started to blush in embarrassment as well while chuckling.

“E-ehem! So, what's on your mind?”

In an effort to eliminate the awkward atmosphere, Adeline conveyed the question she had saved.

The aura did not directly answer that question and simply stroked the transparent lump on his lap. He showed a clear worried expression on his face.

“...too many things are on my mind”

Was he already good enough after losing against Roland?

What's the reason Tenma showed up again in this moment, here?

And the most confusing for him...

“You're still thinking about what he said earlier?”