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Chapter 116 - CHAPTER 112 THE CHOSENS

"Thank you for letting me speak, Lord Granger." Elcio smiles proudly. Suddenly, a bad feeling swells in Granger's heart. Unfortunately for him, it will be rather unbecoming of him if he stops him now.

"Master is quite famous in the academy for his ability to enter the forbidden ground, Nightmare Valley, multiple times. He did not only survive once but multiple times at that. There are times that both he and his teammate would return with heavy injuries, but no one can deny that they are quite amazing for being able to survive such a place with just their meagre strength." He brags about it as if it were his own achievement.

Granger snorted.

"Maybe that forbidden ground has become weaker."

He refuses to bow down to his cousin's greatness. In the academy, he might be famous in their small circle, but in its entirety, he is nothing but a regular student. This hurts his pride as he considers himself the rightful successor of their family.

"That notion was debunked after multiple individuals, including Aces, entered that place; many rankers died there, causing the academy to put on a red warning in that specific forbidden ground." Everyone was shocked by this.

"Wait what!? Why was I not informed about this?" This question stunned everyone, as the person who asked this was none other than the person in topic.

"Master, you were so busy in your upcoming match that you do not know about many events that happened throughout the academy." Elcio sighs as he knows just how focused Cleo becomes when he sets a goal for himself.

"Oh, that is probably right. Well, who can I blame? I did not expect our opponents would be so weak that just at the start of the battle, we immediately bulldozed them." He sighs, thinking that they worked so much just to fight a rather disappointing battle.

Elcio laughs bitterly, inwardly. He is complaining about just how much of a monster his master is. He is confident that even though there are people who have improved as much as his young master, they are considered abnormal freaks from ancient lineages or hidden powers.

"Wait, wait! We are going off topic here! We should be discussing what is going to be our following plan of action." Granger realises that talking about Cleo's situation in the academy will only worsen his already crumbling position, so he decides to change the topic.

"He is right; I know that you did not bring me here just to talk about stuff not related to the upcoming battle, big sister Flare." Cleo agrees with his obnoxious cousin.

"Right! We are getting sidetracked by your shocking achievements. Right now, we should focus on the current situation at hand. Our army is now getting pushed back by the continuous assault of the genetic lifeforms. We are at a disadvantage. With each battle, we are only getting weaker, even though the amount of soul blessings and gene enhancement we received has tripled, almost quadrupled. We are still growing weaker." Flare sighs after stating this.

Cleo nods his head and says,.

"Gene enhancement is amazing and all, but it has a massive drawback: it has strict requirements for one's physique. The only thing that we, especially physically weaker races like humans, can do is train our racial techniques, which are body tempering techniques."

Elcio swallows nervously. It seems that he has been neglecting his training on his own body tempering technique. Hearing his master's words, he has to quickly increase his stage, or else he will only continue to be a burden even with opportunities prevented in front of him.

Everyone realises that what he said was true; they now realise the greatest crux of their problem revolves around the stages of their army's body tempering technique.

"So that was the case, no wonder! No wonder! Even after obtaining such a large amount of resources at their disposal, their strength did not abruptly rise; it was because of such an obvious problem. How can we have not noticed this!?" Margaret slams her fist on the table. She cannot believe that they had not noticed such a flaw that is quite common for their race.

Cleo pats her back and pacifies her.

"It is not your fault; you should know that obtaining gene enhancement during normal times is quite difficult, so training in such a painful practice is not something that many people will do; in fact, the majority of our warriors only train their technique to a certain stage to accommodate their current condition or for their upcoming ascension."

Flare pats her shoulder and agrees with his words.

"Little brother is right, you should not blame yourself for this; for now, we should let our soldiers train their techniques to accommodate the drastic upsurge of gene enhancement."

Cleo shakes his head. This was not a good idea.

"No, we should let them rest; if they continue on this path, it will not be long before they start breaking down. We should let them eat and rest, especially sleep; this will not only help them regain their energy but also help them with their mental condition."

Everyone frowns; they feel that this is quite foolish.

Cleo shakes his head after seeing their reaction.

"How about this? Give them a week to rest. My group will be responsible for fighting against our designated base. You might not trust my plan, but you guys can vouch for my strength."

Other than Granger and his associates, everyone agrees with this; his strength is just below theirs; in fact, they cannot say with confidence that they will be able to escape unscathed against him.

*Sigh* "I actually do want to tell this to everyone, but in order for you guys to agree with my proposal, I will share this with you: half of the Azure Berserk Monkey carcass given to me by uncle Bob shockingly gave me two supernatural genes."

Everyone was stunned speechless by this. Elcio freezes. He predicted that this would happen and quickly uses this opportunity to leave the tent with the map. With this, they are not going to be able to deny his request.

Elcio knows that he is too weak to join his master; hence, after snapping out of his daze, he leaves the room and decides to train his body tempering technique for the next stage.

Arriving at their designated location, Cleo smiles as he orders Glutton and Leon to go crazy. He lets out a loud roar and transforms into his malevolent tiger form.

As their figure disappears into the ruined battlefield, rumours start to spread in the base of the Oriend Family, especially about how Cleo "selflessly" puts the mental and physical health of the servants first rather than his own wellbeing.

Days pass by, and after resting for five days, the people of the Oriend Family start to realise something shocking: their strength has risen drastically. It seems that because of their exhaustion, they were not able to refine the energy they obtained from their gene enhancement.

Deep in the base, in a certain room, multiple warriors were talking loudly and drinking alcohol made from the fruits and other plants they found in this realm.

"Man! I am jealous of Crazy Hyena and Iron Captain for being chosen as warriors under Lord Miracle Child!" One of the drunken warriors loudly shouts.

"Yes! Yes! I concur!" Many agree with him; they are also jealous that they were not chosen.

"Actually, I heard from a reliable source that the reason they were chosen was because they fought together with Lord Miracle Child before, and Crazy Hyena is basically the personal subordinate of Lord Miracle Child," one of them whispered.

"Hahaha! Who does not know that? That f*cker Regi always bragged about this, f*ck! Sometimes I want to punch his face!"

"Sometimes? I always want to punch that bastard's face!" Shouts another drunk warrior.

"Hey, at least our camp is in a much better state! Other than giving us time to rest, Lord Miracle Child even taught us new words for swearing." Everyone laughs.

BAM! The door was swung open, and Elcio and the flare guards, naming themselves from a small burning hope and their master, entered the place.

Elcio takes a deep breath and announces.

"Everyone, my master has told me to share something with all of you. Since you guys have the loudest mouths in the camp, I decided to share this with you guys first in order for others to hear it afterward. I do not want anyone to hide this information."

"Say it already, you yapper! We want to hear what Lord Miracle Child wants to say!" After this, everyone clamours for him to make the announcement.

BAM! Iron Captain, the captain of flare guards, slams his rather big sword to the ground and shouts.

"Silence!"

Everyone becomes quiet; they are not weaker than him, but his status is rather special, and they do not want to fight against him.

"Okay, I apologise for dilly-dallying; the slots that my master has put out are still not filled. We want to host a contest in order to pick the individuals that will join our group."