The sounds of murmurs filled the training ground as Klent and his team broke into successful smiles.
"We did it?!" The fire user asked as he reached his hand to Klent's shoulder.
"We di..." Klent's sentence was cut by Sebastiene who came down from above.
"That was close." Sebastiene said with a smile as his feet gracefully landed on the broken stage.
Klent's team looked at Sebastiene in shock. Disbelief that with their combined attack, that was enough to destroy a house to smithereens, he was able to come out unscathed. Sebastiene stood at the center of the crater where he stood before.
"H-how?" Klent asked.
"That binding ability was indeed strong." Sebastiene said looking at an older man with a mustache. "But, a binding ability used on a stronger opponent is useless."
The black haired older man with mustache flinched at what Sebastiene said. I remember him during his test to be a knight, Sir Nikanor Velius, a binder who used to be a Royal Knight. He got married to a woman from the water clan and relocated to our territory, he quit in being a knight to become a regular inn owner. When he heard the news that our house was hiring experienced and capable people, he begged his wife to let him come and serve us as a knight. As he said, "I was born to protect my kingdom." House Castellan, is one of the perfect places to be if you want to protect the kingdom.
"The flame, electricity combination was good and powerful, but what would you do if you burned the flag with me? Hmmm.." Sebastiene looked at Klent.
"Ahh.." He said as he scratched his right cheek with his right index finger. "I actually did not think that far ahead."
Everyone was quiet stunned at his reply.
"What an idiot." Father facepalmed.
I narrowed my eyes at the idiot.
His team went into position again, this time with their weapon bearers all in front. They attacked Sebastiene together while Klent and the binder stayed behind to support them.
I focused on the binder. I wanted to see his binding ability which was praised by Sebastiene after his test. Sebastiene said that he was using some kind of thread, like a spider. It was hard to see the threads unless you focus on looking for it.
The weapon bearers started attacking Sebastien aided by Klent's wind. The three of them were using spears while the others had swords on them. Other ability user started to attack at close range. The electricity user covered the spears with electricity while also attacking here and there. The flame user also started attacking with balls of flames. When the electricity merge with the flame balls, it created explosions.
Sebastiene's smile never left his face, he bounced around dodging the attacks. He deflected the attacks using his right hand and his left hand now holds the flag.
The attacks never stopped coming and Klent's team keeps on attacking. Three spear bearers, one lance user, two have swords, with one of them a flame user. Klent and the other wind user was supporting their movements with his wind ability, an electricity user and a binder.
Ten people against one.
Huh?
I counted the people up on the stage against Sebastiene. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. There were really only ten of them.
I frowned a little.
Shouldn't there be eleven of them instead? Klent should have invited ten other people to be on his team. Did he make a mistake and thought there should be ten members including him?
No.
I'm sure Sebastiene would have noticed if they were missing one member. So where could the other one be?
I wonder if Sebastiene knows that there were only ten people fighting with him.
As Sebastiene was dodging another expolosion, I saw something that looks like a string glimmer under the sunlight. It slithered like a snake around Sebastiene's foot.
A trap!
The moment Sebastiene's foot touched the ground, the threads entangled themselves into his legs, quickly making their way up his body. Sebastiene's movements were stopped by the threads. The opponents all attacked him at once yet Sebastiene easily stopped their attacks.
"Your attacks won't be able to peirce me." He told them while shaking his head.
Klent smirked at him.
"We are not aiming to defeat you though?" He retorted with a smirk of his own making Sebastiene raise his eyebrow.
A shadow suddenly appeared behind Sebastiene with its hand reaching the flag on Sebastiene's hand.
Father leaned on the edge of his seat while Athy sat straight on her chair. Everyone else were on the edge of their seats as they excitedly wait for the shadow to take the flag from Sebastiene's hand. I narrowed my eyes at the sight. With Sebastiene being in a bind, will they be able to take the flag from him or does Sebastiene have a way out of this?
As the shadow's hand reached for the flag, Sebastiene suddenly threw the flag high up in the air and the shadow jumped up to get it. He then used force to unbind himself from the threads before jumping up with force that can compare to a bullet being shot. He overtook the shadow guy kicking him in the abdomen and reached the flag. The shadow guy crashed unto the stage and Sebastiene gracefully landed on top of him with his smirk still in place.
Klent and the others were shocked by what happened. Their plans failed miserably.
"Unfortunately, I already know that a member hid himself and where he always have been." Sebastiene said as he dusted his shoulder.
"Then, were you just waiting for him to move?" Klent asked through gritted teeth.
"Yes, I was just waiting for the ambush and I even stepped willingly on the trap your binder carefully set." Sebastiene answered.
Dong!
The gong sounded again, indicating that Klent's team has reached the time limit.
Sebastiene stepped down from the shadow guy. Klent clenched his fist while looking at Sebastiene who was smiling annoyingly. He let out a big sigh before smiling at Sebastiene and bowing down. They helped shadow guy up as he was unconscious. He also bowed down to his members and thanked all of them and they went down to get healing potion to recover.
"Now," Sebastiene looked at Marionne smilingly. "I hope you are ready?"