"And do you remember that seventeenth team?" Sheriff asked.
"Yes, do you know anything about them?" Sky asked back.
"Yes, the leader is my friend and I clearly know that her team is not that weak, they should be at least able to qualify for the quarter-final, but the night before the first elimination, she told me she has a feeling that her team will be a sacrificial team for the first elimination. At first, I don't understand what's the meaning of it, but since her sixth sense is always very accurate, so I paid a close attention to her team during that survival match." said Sheriff in a slightly heavy mood.
"Did you see anything?" Sky asked.
"Yes, just before Mr. Chris's dragons reached the members of Royal Guard, my friend's whole team vanished from the field, or rather, they are totally gone." said Sheriff.
"What do you mean by gone?" Sky asked.
"After the match, I tried looking for them but can't find any trace of them, it's as if they had vanished from the world. However, none of the other contestants seem to notice or care about that. I had asked the organizers about it too, but they insisted my friend and her team had left the field as soon as they had been defeated on the field which is obviously a lie." said Sheriff a bit emotional.
"Ah... I thought sacrificial team's issues are bad enough, but this..." said Sky, a bit troubled.
"Yeah, didn't expect it to be this way." said Chris who had just returned to the waiting area.
"Chris-chan!" Maria exclaimed.
"Chris? I thought you are having some confidential discussions with Itsuki." said Sky rather surprised to see Chris.
"Well, I had. It's just a short briefing and the matter you are discussing right now sounds more important." said Chris as he seated down and joined them.
"And now, with this formation of the match, I believe that the sacrificial team will be my team." said Sheriff.
"What?" Sky and Maria are a bit shocked while Chris is getting into a deep thought.
"What makes you think you so?" Sky asked.
"Out of the eight teams, only four teams will progress to the semi-final." said Sheriff.
"What do you mean by that?" Maria asked.
"Actually what he is trying to say is quite obvious. Since only four teams will progress, that means another four teams will be eliminated. Aside from the three weaker teams that pretty much wouldn't be progressing, five teams were left with a high possibility of progress to the quarter-final, which means one team has to be eliminated. Now, assuming the organizer is on the Royal Guard's side, one of the remaining four teams has to be eliminated. Alliance as the official authority here will probably be left undisturbed, while for our team, the rumors of framing our team for cheating for the qualification test had been spread widely for now, so to avoid the rumors gets worse, they wouldn't have the courage to mess with our team right now. So the only possible team left is Blair's team and Sheriff's team, but Blair's team is too well known all over the dimensions, it's not a wise idea to mess with them either." said Chris.
"Yes, just like Mr. Chris, my team is the only possible team to be a sacrifice... This is why I had decided that if our team had unfortunately met the Royal Guard in the next round, we will withdraw from the tournament." said Sheriff.
"Ah..." Sky can't find a word to express his feelings right now.
"But even if we would withdraw, I'm still very serious and anticipate about the match I am going to have with you, leader of team 'Kneel Before Me'." said Sheriff.
"Ah... Right! I just realized that we will be fighting with each other in the fifth match!" Sky exclaimed, rather excited.
Sheriff nodded, equally excited.
"Ah... Damn! What a miscalculation." Chris murmured...
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Later, the fourth match started. Itsuki is competing with a really thin and tall man, yes, even with Itsuki's height, that man is still considered as tall, so you can imagine how tall he is. Just before the match, the man greeted Itsuki with a friendly talk.
"You look kind of nervous, not familiar with such a match?" the man asked.
"A little bit... Kind of..." said Itsuki, a bit awkward.
"Actually, you don't really need to be worry, I am the weakest in my team, so, let's just have some fun, shall we?" said the man, Itsuki nodded.
"Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!" As usual, the bell rang.
And all of the sudden, the man's hands grow into two gigantic palms before clasped together and pounded directly towards Itsuki causing the whole ground to crushed and fall apart. However, when he lifted his hands from the ground, Itsuki is not there, but instead, Itsuki is now flying magnificently in the air in his half-vampire form with both of his wings wide open. Then, without any further delays, Itsuki immediately explodes a magic burst directly at his opponent as the man was still amazed by his vampire transformation...
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Waiting area.
"Woah... So now he had learned how to do a magic burst, I wonder where he learned it from." said Sky.
"Well, it does look similar to Junior's magic burst though." said Chris.
"Actually, he sought my help once back then, so I trained him a bit. He is a fast learner." said Junior.
"Ah... What an initiative boy." said Sky...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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