Before Kenny slammed into Oliver, the last thought he had was delivered by the Queen to Micheal. Even though the Queen's voice was monotonous, lacking any emotions, Micheal easily figured out that Oliver was in trouble. Thus, he immediately tried to pull him back.
Unfortunately, he pulled and pulled, yet Oliver's body didn't budge.
Micheal was scared out of his wits by the implication of this, as he understood that only one thing could cause his ability to fail in such a critical situation.
WEIGHT!
His grey wire couldn't handle pulling anything beyond 100 KG!!
That's right! His ability was similar to *Upsurge* in that it had a limit. Though, all of the bloodline abilities had a limit one way or another.
The only way that was known in public to reduce this limit was by having a good affinity rating!
For example, when Felix had 59% poison affinity rating, his aura's range limit would have probably stopped at 6 meters. However, after increasing it to 100%, the range increased to 8 meters simultaneously!
This meant if Micheal had a higher affinity rating, the 100 KG limit would have increased by a lot as well.
Unfortunately, that was merely a big if.
Felix didn't think of throwing Kenny towards Oliver as a prank only, but to actually add weight in order to stop Oliver from getting pulled to safety!
He knew that Kenny had nothing to worry about, as that transparent barrier around Oliver was able to only defend against elemental projectiles.
As for physical attacks? It was totally useless against them.
Moreover, after Felix saw how Noah saved Olivia and Lexie, he understood that he could totally stop Oliver from relying on his *Upsurge* ability if he kept stepping in the tornados responsible for lifting him.
However, doing so would merely force him into retreating back to his teammates!
Felix would be a retard to let go of the captain of the Waltons, who delivered himself to them on a silver platter.
Thus, he had to throw someone to stop that from happening. And Kenny with his *stealth* was the best candidate for this task!
Even Johnson was given orders by Felix before the battle began, telling him to focus only on blocking the sight of the Walton team in order to stop Micheal from pulling Oliver before their plan kicked off.
That exactly what Johnson did, puffing out fog ceaselessly until a separating wall was created between them!
Everything was calculated!
In Felix's eyes, the battle was already won before it even began the moment he saw the abilities of those two and the synergy they used against the Alabama Team.
He only needed to understand the limits of those abilities to create a plan that would secure the victory without having him use a single elemental ability!
Thud, Thud!
"Argh! F*ck, Let me go!"
"Ouch!"
The sight of Oliver squirming in Noah's arms after getting caught from the fall was exactly as he envisioned at the end of the plan.
Though, Kenny's lying on top of Oliver in such a suggestive manner was a bonus he didn't see coming.
The moment Kenny yelped in pain, his stealth was removed again, exposing him to viewers, who were absolutely dumbfounded and confused by the entire situation.
They kept chatting with each other, wanting to get an answer. Some of them were smart enough to understand what happened while some had absolutely no clue.
"I see! what a Marvelous strategy!" Mr. Jones, who was quicker on his feet was one of the first ones to instantly recognize Felix's plan after spotting Kenny holding Oliver tightly. Everything clicked in his mind, clearing all of his doubts.
Thrilled, He slapped the arm of his chair and said with his head facing the governor, "Whoever thought of such a plan, truly has an absolutely brilliant mind and neat understanding of abilities and their limitations."Can you elaborate?" The governor asked a bit confused.
It wasn't that he lacked the necessary intelligence to look through Felix's multilayered plan as quick as Mr. Jones, but he was simply not as knowledgable about the human bloodline system that well. After all, he had other important matters to put his mind to. Like governing the state.
"I will tell you about it after the battle." Mr. Jones gestured with his head at the arena and said, "They are about to finish soon."
...
"Alright little Oli, please say the magic words, so we can all go home." Felix requested while stretching his hands behind his back in a lazy manner.
The rest of the team all laughed out loud after hearing Olivia's pet name getting used for a thickly bearded adult.
"Screw you! I will take you all with me." Humiliated, Oliver couldn't help but lose it, threatening to use his *Wind Blast* on them all.
Who could blame him though?
He was being caught in the arms of a man while on top of him another man. If this wasn't enough, he was being called with such a feminine name on national TV. His family, friends, people close to him were all watching him getting treated like this.
Smack!
Too bad for him, Felix had no thoughts of entertaining his emotional breakdown, as he gave him one slap at the back of his neck, making his eyes roll backward.
He passed out instantly!
Felix shrugged his shoulders casually at the disbelieving looks of his teammates and told them, "Don't worry, there is still their vice-captain."
"Let me go threaten him! Let me do it this time! Please! Please..." Spirited, Olivia kept jumping with her hand raised above her head in front of Felix.
"Nathan, Dale, go with her please." Annoyed, Felix shooed her away with his hand. Though, he still requested those two to protect her.
"Yes!" Immediately after getting his permission, Olivia bolted forward with an excited expression.
Nathan and Dale soon followed after her with bitter smiles, not daring to let her toggle more than she must.
Since the teams didn't really move from their positions, the distance between them was still quite far. Thus, Olivia needed to get closer so her voice could reach.
After seeing that trouble maker had finally left, Felix focused his gaze on Kenny, who was still holding onto Oliver like his life was dependent on it.
"Alright, you did enough." Indifferent, Felix jerked Kenny by his arm, making him drop to the ground, leaving only Oliver on top of Noah's arms.
Till this point, Noah still didn't show a single hint of discomfort on his face while carrying two grown-ass men.
Feeling discomfort or not, Felix wasn't planning on making him carry Oliver the entire time, as he swiftly removed Oliver's belt that had the wire tied to.
After seeing so, Noah nodded his head and dropped Oliver to the ground. There was no need to worry that he would get pulled anymore.
Meanwhile, Felix was looking at the belt in his hand with an amused expression. He kept feeling a soft tugging pressure.
It seemed like Micheal never stopped trying to save his captain.
'Trying to pull me?' Felix mused while touching the stretched thin wire, that seemed like it was about to snap at any moment.
With Felix's strength, it was impossible to be harmed or pulled by this wire since his weight far surpassed 100KG by a mile.
It was only common sense that Felix weighted more than he appeared. After all, it was impossible to have that kind of strength while being an 80kg average human.
This meant Felix could hold into the belt unworried about being pulled. Heck, he could even be the one dragging Micheal!
Though, he decided not to, since that would create too many issues that he had no time or energy to deal with. It was better to keep hold of the belt for now until Olivia informs Micheal about the situation of his captain.
Thankfully, that didn't take long as the moment Olivia reached the wall of fog, she put her hands near her lips and yelled with a solemn expression, "YOU BETTER SURRENDER! WE ARE HOLDING YOUR CAPTAIN AS A HOSTAGE!"
In her eyes, she sounded tough and mean, but honestly, everyone who heard her was on the verge of melting by how cute she appeared when she tries to act serious.
Her short height, an oval face, and that yellow flower on top of her head made it almost impossible for her to be taken seriously!
Fortunately for Olivia, the fog wall was blocking Micheal's vision from seeing her. Thus he took her words very seriously.
However, he still didn't believe what she said as he shouted, "Bullshit! No one could touch the cap..."
Whooosh! Smack!
Before he could even finish his sentence, his chest was hit by a belt!
Ignoring the pain, Micheal stared with a dumbstruck expression at the belt in his hands. He didn't want to believe it, but the evidence was lying right before him.
Felix let go of the belt at the best possible timing, right when Olivia sounded her adorable threat. He knew that the moment Micheal see that he only pulled a belt, he would recognize that he wasn't being played.
Oliver was truly caught! Just as Felix assumed, every member of the Waltons reached this conclusion in a heartbeat after seeing the belt.
"How the hell did they do it?" Confused and a bit shocked, Micheal wondered out loud.
Sadly the only response he received was Olivia's cute loud voice, "YOU HAVE THREE SECONDS! OR ELSE..."
Dejected, he massaged his temples for a second before calling out loud, "We give up!"
The host, who was waiting patiently for this to happen, immediately brought the mic to his mouth and shouted loudly, "Make some noise for the first team to reach the finals!" He drew a deep breath and yelled fervently, "THE MAXWEEEELLS!!"
The stadium rumbled and shook as everyone was cheering with an exhilarated expression. This battle was played on a completely different level than what they have expected.
Who would have expected that the moment Oliver went to test the waters, he never came back again?
That was all it took for the battle to be over. The Waltons were confident in their one-man army synergy as it never failed them before.
Sadly, they met Felix, who broke through it without showing a single elemental ability!
Nicely done Johnson." After reaching their resting area, Felix patted Johnson's shoulder with a satisfied smile.
"Thank you, captain." Johnson gave Felix a polite smile as he sat on the bench sweating all over. His jacket could be seen wet and sticking to his skin.
It was apparent that he worked his ass off to create that massive wall of fog and also sustain it. If Felix had to guess johnson's current energy tank level, it would definitely be below 5%.
If Johnson puffed out any more fog using his *Fog Breath* ability, he would have passed out on the arena!
...
After a few minutes, Felix was lying on the bench with a hand supporting his head, wearing a new set of clothes. Since his pants were torn slightly as well, he had to change at the backroom in their resting area.
"Felix, are you planning to watch?" Olivia asked.
"Yea, the battle will probably not take 5 minutes, and I am too lazy to drive back to the hotel." Felix yawned as he replied.
"Oh? Is it because of the Hilton's captain bloodline?" She trembled a bit after recalling yesterday's battle, "His element and bloodline are truly too destructive."
"Well, what did you expect from a magma Elementalist?"
"I honestly don't wanna end up battling him."
Everyone who heard her shimmed in with worried expressions. All of them stayed yesterday and saw how the Hiltons absolutely destroyed their opponents. What scared them the most was Adam's destructive abilities.
Two players were taken yesterday on a stretcher completely scorched black! Though they would be alright later on, the sight of them burning was imprinted in the Maxwells' minds, and they honestly wanted to void the same happening to them.
"As long as we have Felix, I doubt we will get a single strand burnt off."
"Hmm?"
Suddenly everyone quietened down as they heard Sarah's voice coming behind them. They turned their heads and saw her looking at Felix with a gentle smile.
"Sarah! Where did they take you!" Delighted, Olivia immediately jumped from the bench and hugged Sarah.
"Nothing serious, just for a quick checkup." Sarah answered as she hugged Olivia back.
"You really missed a lot after you left." Olivia giggled and said while pointing her finger at Kenny, "Felix went for it and threw Kenny at that prick, forcing him to fall down as well."
"He did? I need to catch the replay later." Sarah's eyes brightened up after hearing so.
She was really holding a grudge after getting thrown in the air like that. If it wasn't for Felix, she would have probably broken most of her bones after the fall.
Thus, she was extremely grateful for Felix's timely save.
"Thank you brother Felix for your help earlier." Without fanfare, she bowed her head slightly in appreciation.
"Don't mention it. Just don't lose focus again during a fight." Felix advised her with his trademark easy-going smile.
"I will keep your words at hea..."
"Will the last semi-finalist teams step into the arena please!" The host requested exactly ten minutes after the ad period finished, interrupting Sarah.
"Alright go take a seat, you are blocking my sight." Felix said while waving his free hand at her.
Sarah bowed her head one last time before going to sit in her seat with Olivia. She neither blushed at Felix nor felt any fluffy feeling after getting saved like that.
At the end of the day, they were cousins! They might be distant cousins, branching away far in the family tree, but they were still blood-related.
Sarah like any normal person definitely felt no attraction to Felix who was a part of her family.
....
"Adaaaam!!"...."Janna, I love you!"...
The moment the Hilton team climbed the arena, deafening cheers erupted in the stadium!
The team wasn't the one being cheered for but the captain Adam and the vice-captain Janna. Their popularity didn't come from their battles at all, as those two were social media celebrities with millions of followers on all of the platforms, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter...etc.
Especially Adam, who was being labeled on the internet as the perfect man! He was handsome, intelligent, confident, polite, humble and the list goes on and on.
"Thank you...Thank you."
Adam and Janna both displayed their most charming smiles to the camera as they waved their hands to their fans.
"Here he is! Adam, the first heir of the Hiltons, Mr. Perfect man! The strongest bloodliner in the USA, the Magma Elementalist! The only holder of an epic bloodline in the entire USA!" The stream MC kept firing off one title after the other, informing and hyping the viewers at home.
Meanwhile, Felix only gave a nostalgic look at how hyped the stadium got after Adam's foot stepped on it. In his previous life, he envied what Adam's had, and especially the love he was receiving from all around the world.
But now, he merely gave him two seconds of his interest before switching his sight to the Vanderbilt team, looking at their tall blue-haired captain.
"Oh?" Only after his eyes landed on her did he remember her somewhat.
She was a supportive water Elementalist, who specialize in shielding her teammates. Since the majority of formations revolved around the captain, it seemed like their formation was going to be defensive-oriented.
Just like he expected, her team immediately stood in a tight defensive formation, putting her and three other bloodliners in the middle of a circle made out of 6 front-liners, who either carrying metallic shields and swords or nothing at all.
"Get into your positions." After seeing that the Vanderbilts were already ready to battle, Adam stopped caring about the audience and focused on the battle before him.
Janna and the rest of the team all heeded his order, as they surprisingly stood in one horizontal line, leaving only two members behind them.
"Oh? So they are planning to rush them out?" Felix mumbled to himself as he saw their extreme offensive formation.
He knew about Adam's bloodline and its abilities. However, he had no idea about the rest. But after seeing their formation, he knew that most of them were all rangers!
This meant this battle was going to be an extreme offense against extreme defense!
"Sadly, playing defense isn't the correct choice here." He yawned, "This might end even faster than I thought."
....
15 minutes later, in the parking lot belonging to the participants and the VIP spectators, Felix was leaning on one of the family's cars while reading the daily empire news on an invisible hologram.
The rest were either sitting inside the cars or chilling outside like Felix.
As he anticipated, the Hiltons demolished the Vanderbilt in merely 3 minutes. Four front-liners ended up on the ground with burnt flesh forcing the captain to surrender in order to send a medic team in and heal them up.
After the Hiltons were proclaimed as winners, Felix and the rest left the stadium, not interesting in hearing the host hyping up the final that was about to be held tomorrow morning.
At present, they were waiting for the elders to join them in order to head back to the hotel.
Ti-ring!
After hearing the elevator opening sound, the Maxwells all turned their heads, expecting to see the elders stepping out. Unfortunately, their expression couldn't help but harden after seeing that the one who stepped out were the Hiltons!
"Good afternoon." Adams nodded his head politely towards them.
Though, he was the only one who bothered to greet them as the rest of his team were all giving the Maxwells' condescending gazes.
In their eyes, the Maxwells were even weaker than the team they just destroyed since the Vanderbilt was known for having the best defense in the tournament.
This meant, the finals tomorrow were already in the bag! That's what they believed...No, certain of!
"Good afternoon to you as well!" Olivia being herself, would never leave a greeting hanging. The rest though just gave Adam a slight head nod and stopped focusing on them.
Throughout all of this, Felix still had his head buried in his hologram, not showing a single hint of interest towards the Hiltons.
This rubbed some of them in the wrong way, as their captain was humble enough to greet them first, the least thing Felix could have done was greet him back respectfully.
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"What an arrogant prick." Janna scoffed while turning around, "Let's go, no need to waste our time on them."
"Good luck tomorrow." Adam gave one last charming smile before following after Janna.
Ti-ring!...T-ring!
The moment Adam turned his back, two elevators opened up at once. The Hiltons and the Maxwells both glanced in the direction of the elevators, and what they saw made them gulp a mouthful.
The Maxwell's Elders and The Hilton's Elders, both stepping outside from each elevator!
The juniors knew that a battle was going to start raging immediately after they make eye contact. Too bad, what they didn't see coming was that both of the elders already met before they stepped into the elevators!!
"I can't fathom how can you possibly believe that your juniors are any better than ours." A white-bearded elder scoffed while looking at Abraham.
"Heh, your juniors might have won all of their battles in a swift manner, but they already exposed all of their abilities." Abraham pointed his finger at Felix, who didn't bother to lift his head, and bragged, "Our team's captain wasn't even pressured to use his 2nd ability! The battles were too easy he weaved through them using only his brain and passive! So how can you compare him to Adam, who was simply relying on his bloodline rank to overpower his opponents?" He asked with a smug smile.
"What a joke! If he had the strength to do the same, he wouldn't have bothered to create plans and strategies! He could have just smashed into everyone with his strength and got it over with." The Hilton elder sneered, "You might have gotten lucky with 9 awakeners, but none of them could amount to Adam's finger even if you combined them."
"You mean Adam, who you sold an awakener to get him an epic rank bloodline?" Charlotte interjected in the middle of their argument with a shocking Intel that sent shivers at the back of everyone who heard her.
'Uhmmm?' Felix's finger that was scrolling down the news froze at what Charlotte just said.
accusation, you should expect a lawsuit for slandering our honorable family." The Hilton elder glared at Charlotte for a second before waving his hand to his family members, "Let's leave, my celebration mood was totally ruined."
Seeing from the car window, the Hilton elders ride their cars and take off, Felix was in deep contemplation. 'I never thought the Gama Organization has started laying their hands on planet earth's awakeners this early in time.'
"Gama Organization?" Asna asked in confusion.
"Look at my memories during the next year and the one after." Felix sighed as he answered.Asna swiftly went through that period of time, wanting to see what kind of Originazation made Felix this interested and especially livid.
A couple of seconds later, Asna exclaimed in understanding, "No wonder you got mad. Those bastards actually wanted to kidnap you as well!"
"Sigh, I thought before that the planet earth was still invisible to those organizations, but who would have known that one of them, or probably all of them were already hiding in the planet and doing 'business' with us for months now." Felix smiled bitterly as he said, "Who knows how many awakeners were already kidnapped behind the shadows and sold to them in the past months."
This sudden shocking news truly blindsided Felix.
He was always walking with a laid-back attitude, unworried about the dangers of the universe because he believed that his planet was still off the radar of those criminal organizations.
He believed that although the planet coordination was already sold to the public by the Alexander Kingdom, no one actually bothered checking on them.
Whether they were other planets in the kingdom or those criminal organizations. However, this all changed when earthlings played their first game and lost it horribly.
They showed to every criminal organization that they were an easy target to bully, especially when they investigated and realized that the planet was divided into multiple countries, who each had their own interest before the planet's interest.
If they were united like some planets, treating each one of them as their own, those Criminal Organizations wouldn't have bothered to have thoughts about them.
Sadly earthlings were anything but united.
Thus, the top 6 criminal organizations in Alexander's kingdom, sent their own spaceships to planet earth, each in a different continent!
The Gama Originazation took hold of North America!
This was the reason Felix knew the name of which organization made a contact with the Hiltons. The other organization never stepped on others' territories after they split the planet Earth between them.
That being said, splitting Earth between them verbally was one thing but carrying their criminal activities on a planet that was clearly part of the alliance was another.
Especially when those criminal activities included mostly kidnapping awakeners!!
Of course, they weren't the ones doing the act, as they could never handle messing with a member of the alliance no matter how weak it was.
But, what they could do was contact the natives and promise them coins, AP bracelets, bloodlines, and resources they never dreamt of if they managed to bring them alive awakeners on their own!!
This offset massive chaos in each country as any group, gang, mafias, rich families, and such who had firearms went full rogue and started hunting down awakeners.
They had nothing to worry about, as bullets were still effective against bloodliners below the first stage of replacement.
This meant, just a group of commoners could successfully capture a bloodliner, who didn't have defensive abilities or escape abilities.
The best part about this was that those Criminal Organizations were absolutely safe on Earth!
Their spaceships were completely hidden from the Council's radar and neither the Alliance nor the Queen had any reason to interfere or bother helping earthling's plight.
After all, it wasn't the Alliance problem to solve if earthlings were greedy and remorseless to kidnap their own people and trade them like currency with those organizations.
This made those Criminal Organizations feel like they own planet Earth. No one was strong enough to stand against them on the planet and the natives themselves were working for them as slaves.
They just needed to throw some coins or AP bracelets, and even a thin weakly commoner would buy a handgun and risk his life to kidnap an awakener!
Without being said, in that period, Felix and the rest of the awakeners all around the world, lived each day in fright, not daring to leave their homes or the public camps.
After Asna read Felix's memories and saw the hell he had gone through in that period, she understood his livid outburst towards the Hiltons.
Felix survived three kidnapping attempts in his previous life!!!
In one of them, he almost committed suicide after getting caught by them. If The USA government task force didn't save him, he would have been dead!
Felix would rather suicide than land in the hands of the Gama Organization! He knew what they do to the bloodliners and just thinking about it made him tremble in dread and wrath!
Wrathful about almost experiencing a fate far worse than death. He was always thinking that after he joined the earthling's team and destroy the first game they were put in, those Organizations would see that earthlings weren't to be messed with as they could reach new heights in the PSG.
However, after finding out that the organization that was responsible for his kidnapping attempts was currently hiding in North America for months now, he knew that the chaos that happened in his previous life was bound to repeat in this time-line.
The good news was that he was completely safe against their kidnapping attempts with his strength, but Felix wasn't a person that let bygones be bygones that easily. Thus, if they didn't come at him, he was going to head to them!
However, being wrathful wouldn't change the fact that his current strength wasn't enough to deal with the Organization. He knew that before attempting to approach them, he needed to increase his strength as much as he could.
The Gama Organization's members' strength was too much for him to handle. Especially their infamous leader.
Thankfully, he still had 9 months or so before the Organization switches from contacting others in the shadows as it did with the Hiltons to making its offer public to all and turn the continent into chaos.
But that's for the future, for now? He still needed to deal with a pest, who willingly threw a junior of their flesh and blood to a fate they wouldn't wish for their own enemies.
Felix would have never known about any of this if he didn't mess with the timeline slightly.
That's right, this information coming to light was merely due to a thoughtless decision he made before. That decision was when he decided to change the awakening practice during the training camp!
Because of it, the family got 9 awakeners, this made the Hiltons propose to the other families to protest into changing the rules of the tournament, forcing the families teams from bringing 10 to only 6.
When this happened, Charlotte used her Intel resources and found out that the 7th awakener in the Hiltons didn't actually die as they claimed but they sold him to the Gama Organization, who was in contact with Hiltons for months.
Felix didn't know how exactly she achieved so, but the fact she managed to find out about the family deals with the Organization, which happened months ago was a solid achievement in his eyes.
All of those changes happened from a single mindless thought.
This was the true meaning of a butterfly effect!
'I will make you regret the day you accepted their deal.' Loathful, Felix narrowed his eyes at their last car that was speeding away.