The Two Factions [C74]
Seeing all the students convulsing on the ground, the headmaster felt pained, "Since all the fifty students got beaten, Shu Himo will pass to the B class!"
Nodding, Shu Himo then took back the silver rods and walked away from the stadium, returning to his usual training.
Aura Azusa, after seeing Shu Himo's fight has a radiant smile, 'So he wasn't all talk...' She then walked away, as she is already in B class too.
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The rest of the test proceeded normally, as there aren't the abnormalities known as 'Shu Himo' and 'Aura Azusa'.
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The next day, as always Shu Himo woke up seeing the face of Phylia.
"Good morning."
"Good morning, master."
A couple of minutes later, after preparing himself, Shu Himo had suddenly a weird feeling while he went out of his room, 'System, is about to happen something fun?'
[How would the system know?]
Ignoring the usual mood breaking voice of the system, Shu Himo went to the stadium.
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The moment Shu Himo entered the stadium, he suddenly felt all the eyes staring at himself.
All the 564 students of the B class are staring deeply at Shu Himo, making him feel shivers on his back.
'Eeeh? System, what's up with them?'
[The User showed off too much.]
Speechless, Shu Himo looked around the stadium but noticed that everything became different: the stages are all vanished, and at their place, there is only an enormous green plain, surrounded by the stands.
The actual size of the stadium seems to have increased at the very least ten times, which brought bewilderment to Shu Himo, pondering of how it works.
On the stands, the first row is occupied by the A class students, and while there are only a hundred students, they release a pressure reminiscent of more than a thousand B class students. Behind them, there are the other classes, but it seems they don't dare to get too close to the A class and stood way behind from them, leaving some rows empty.
Meanwhile, the headmaster seeing Shu Himo just chuckled, who knows how he will fare today.
While wondering about what will happen, he made his announcement, "Today the fight is going to be different compared to the earlier days, as you all will not be limited to a mere stage, and you will be free to go all around the area inside the stadium! Instead of the usual duels one versus one, you all will be on a battlefield, this will be a battle royale! Anyone who is about to take a mortal hit will be teleported away and get eliminated, while only the last thirty that remain will pass to the A class!"
The moment he completed his announcement, he suddenly teleported away, while every student got teleported at the same distance from each other to about a couple hundred meters, to prevent any sneak attack at the start.
Shu Himo, teleported in a random part of the stadium, immediately looked around him to see how many students there are close. Suddenly, an arrow could be seen coming from far, aiming at Shu Himo.
Puzzled, Shu Himo looked in the direction it came from and saw a 15 years old male student at around 200 meters of distance, using bow and arrows. Abruptly, the arrow modified, and from the quiet and calm arrow it once was, it became completely black, seemingly possessing the ability to corrupt everything.
*Fiuu*
With a speed of 346m/s, the arrow seemed impossible to dodge, but Shu Himo just used [Hopper], gaining enough thrust to dodge toward the left. Noticing that Shu Himo managed to dodge the arrow, the student immediately regretted his action, but as it's too late he took out further five arrows at the same time, shooting them toward Shu Himo.
All of them reached easily over 350m/s of speed, but Shu Himo did not seem to care and just jumped with a stacked [Hopper_x2], rotating then in mid-air using the force of propulsion from the hopper and threw instantly a silver rod.
*Fiuuu*
Reaching over 250m/s, it seemed slow compared to the arrows, but anyone who precedently saw their real use fears already at seeing them, and that student is no different.
Immediately running away from the silver rod, what the student did not expect is that Shu Himo would use lightning even before the rod reached him!
"Lightning." Together with Shu Himo's voice, the student suddenly saw everything turning bright to the point he had to close his eyes, until the lightning reached him, giving him a pain enough to make him pass out. A moment later, he could be seen teleported away by the headmaster.
Shu Himo then looked around and noticed that the students are fighting far enough from him, so he took out both silver rods and formation rods, placing them everywhere in the area.
A couple of minutes later, he suddenly sat down and started playing the violin, as if the chaos from the fights of the other students was nothing he cares about.
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In the room from where the headmaster and the teachers are watching the battle.
"What is Shu Himo doing?"
"I have no idea..."
They all are looking at Shu Himo, who is now calmly playing the violin.
"Wait... is he perhaps..." Understanding what Shu Himo is trying to do, the headmaster went into a frenzy, with eyes wide open and a jaw that may hit the floor.
"What? Fast explain to us, headmaster!"
"Presumably... he is warning the other students to not come closer..."
Hearing what the headmaster just said, the teachers felt baffled and fell in thought, if Shu Himo were to roam around, some poor students would get unfairly thrown out of the test by him, but if he warn them like this, does this mean that Shu Himo is purposely giving others a chance to not get eliminated by him?
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In an area of the stadium, there could be seen thirty students, seemingly planning together.
"Everyone, remember that we will fight together to pass together, our first aims are Shu Himo and Aura Azusa, once we beat them there will be no other that will be able to stop us."
"Will we be able to beat them?"
"We can only try to know it, after all, if we give up already why are we even coming to this Academy?"
Hearing their leader, all the students in the group nodded.
This group is the one that watched the test from the start, who earlier valued Shu Himo as nothing important.
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In another area of the stadium, around twenty students are in a spread formation, seemingly trying to gain more view possible about the area.
"Did you see them yet?" A scream from their leader was heard.
"No! No trace of neither Shu Himo or Aura Azusa!"
"Perfect, remember to immediately say if you see them so that we will do our best at running away!"
With the conviction that even running is a strategy, the twenty students continued to look around.
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Seeing the situation, the teachers and the headmaster felt stifled; It seems that the students devolved into two factions, one that escapes from Shu Himo and Aura Azusa, and one that searches them...