Chapter 131: Start of the tournament

The day passed swiftly as Alex went on a killing spree outside of Balon City, killing magic beasts and storing their corpses. After reaching the Saint rank, the space inside his space pocket had become so enormous that it couldn’t even be called a pocket anymore.

When evening came, Alex returned to the City and went straight to the Union building to sell off the beast corpses. This time, he had brought over ten thousand corpses with lots of mutated and transformed rank magic beasts among them.

The number of beast corpses that Mr Chen had brought this time had startled William and Clint, grateful. For the first time, the large room that would shrink whatever was brought in so they could fit was almost filled to the brim and there was barely enough space to move freely.

It took quite some time for the two of them to finish sorting out the corpses and mana cores, they even called for some staff to come and help with the sorting.

After two long hours, they finished sorting out the corpses and mana cores. Alex received 860 million Zen after Clint finished calculating everything, and the money was added to his Union card.

Alex now had over a billion Zen to his name, but he wasn’t too excited because he knew that all of his wealth could be spent on just a few magic items; he was still far from becoming one of those wealthy second-generation young masters.

Alex returned home after he finished with his business at the Union building. The outskirts were peaceful and quiet as Union officers in uniforms and magic weapons in their hands patrolled. A few roughly dressed people still roamed the dark alleys of the outskirts, but they didn’t dare to cause trouble with the Union officers around.

Alex got home around 21:00 that evening. His father was reading a book in the living room while his sister and mother were busy in the kitchen.

Alex’s mother poked her head through the kitchen door at the sound of Alex entering the house. She informed him that they were about reheating dinner, and he should go wash up and come down quickly.

Alex nodded and went to his room. He came down some time later, and everyone sat together to have dinner.

While they ate, Emily brought up the topic of the all-academy star tournament that was starting the next day. Her eyes flashed with anticipation; she couldn’t wait to watch her brother’s performance and cheer for him.

She still remembered the first time she saw her brother use magic, he was so cool and dashing!



She wanted to be just as cool as her brother when she awakened.

Their parents jumped on topic as well and gave Alex some words of encouragement, telling him to do his best and not to push himself too hard. His mother’s priority was still his safety as she repeatedly emphasised that he should surrender if the opponent was too strong so that he didn’t get hurt.

Alex chuckled at those words but didn’t say anything. An opponent too strong for him in an academy tournament? How laughable, his joining the tournament alone was already unfair for the other students.

But did he really care if it was unfair or not? He had his own plans, and joining the tournament was one of the steps to his plans; no other side’s thoughts mattered.

As for his father, Zoran, the man told Alex to do his best and that he had faith in him. After all, Alex had joined an explorer group and was an explorer; he had gotten experience with fighting magic beasts, which the majority of students who were still in a magic academy didn’t have. He was sure that Alex would perform well during the tournament.

Alex smiled in response and thanked his father for his trust. The man’s judgment was accurate; many students of the magic academy didn’t have much experience when it came to real combat.

The family continued to chat through dinner. After they finished eating and Alex helped with the dishes, they all went to their respective rooms.

Alex opened his phone after getting into bed. He saw that he had been tagged several times by the members of the Rising Wave group in the group chat.

Alex opened the group chat and saw that there were messages wishing him good luck on the tournament. The members of the group all had confidence in him to perform very well, and they also promised to come watch and cheer for him.

That was to be expected since the tournament was a big event for Balon City, literally more than half of the city’s population would be attending the venue while the rest would watch through the broadcast; after all, the venue for the tournament couldn’t possibly fit in all of the people in Balon City much less visitors who had come from other cities.

But that wasn’t all, Joan had also tagged Alex in a message, telling him what had happened after the auction.

The members of the group had been teasing Aunt Mia since that night, but the skin of the woman’s face was thicker than brick; she didn’t even get red whenever the matter was mentioned or when she was called Mr Chen’s little girlfriend.

That was the new nickname that the members of the Rising Wave group had given to their leader, the esteemed water witch.

Alex "..."



Mr Chen’s little girlfriend? Where the hell did that come from? Who created such a name?!

Upon asking, Alex found out that the culprit was Selena. This stunned him, the poker-faced woman who always looked like she was about to black out could actually make such a joke?

As for Mia’s response, she had only said that she would kill anyone who would be responsible for the nickname going out. So to put it shortly, she was fine with it as long as it stayed within the members of the group.

Alex "..."

He decided not to make any comments on this matter, it wasn’t in his place to speak.

Alex spent some time on his phone before going to sleep. he didn’t necessarily need to sleep, but still chose to.

Morning came quickly and Alex set off for the academy in his uniform after having breakfast with his family. He didn’t go with Emily today as all other schools and learning institutions were closed during the tournament period.

Alex reached the academy after minutes of walking and found many students had arrived earlier than usual. Although there won’t be classes during the period of the tournament, the students had been unable to hold back their excitement and had all come early to the academy.

All of the students who saw Alex had idolising looks in their eyes and excited expressions when they looked at him. Some tried to speak to him, but Alex ignored all of them and headed for his classroom.

He met a few teachers along the way, and they all had expectant looks when they saw Alex and even gave him some words of encouragement. But Alex gave a poker face in response, and his eyes were void of any emotions.

This made the teachers smile awkwardly, they couldn’t deny that they were ignorant of why Alex was behaving like that. After all, they weren’t strangers and had known each other for over four years.

Alex also ran into teacher Arnold on his way to class. As usual, the man shot him a distasteful glare, clearly pissed by the sight of Alex, before storming off.

Alex grinned, he was happy that this particular teacher hadn’t changed even after he stopped being trash. He was only dissatisfied that he didn’t get to defeat teacher Arnold’s precious student in front of him during the competition.

Reaching his classroom, Alex found many of his classmates there already. This included Glen who was now replacing Laura.

After some time, teacher Christi came into the classroom and called Alex and Glen out.



The two of them got up and followed their teacher out of the classroom while the other students followed behind.

They went to the field where a few people were already waiting in the ring; they were Amelia, the two other fourth-year students who would be joining the tournament, Ryan and Jason.

Standing in front of the three were the vice dean of the academy and some of the teachers, teacher Arnold was also present and didn’t fail to throw a disdainful look at Alex.

Teacher Christi walked over with Alex and Glen behind her. The two boys stopped when they reached the three students, while teacher Christi went to stand with her co-teachers behind the vice dean.

The vice dean started her briefing immediately they got into position. What she talked about was how the tournament would be taking place.

The rest of the students occupied the seats around the field and watched the group in the ring.

A few minutes later, the vice dean was done with her briefing, and it was time to head to the tournament venue.

The vice dean glanced at Alex, whose uniform and cloak were obviously very old compared to the rest of the students. She asked if he would want a new one since it was the tournament.

Alex rejected the offer with an expressionless face, he wasn’t impressed.

The uniform of the academy cost a few thousand Zen, which his parents weren’t able to afford since they had other important things to spend money on. He had been using this one, which he had received a long time ago, and the academy didn’t try to change it for him.????????????????????????????????????????????????.????????????

But now that he was going to represent them in the tournament, they suddenly felt the need to change his uniform to a new one.

How thoughtful.