Chapter 20: Conclusion

"1000 chains, 1000 powerful chains, 20 of them destroyed, I feel stronger than I have ever been for the past 14 years, but I am nowhere near how powerful I was," Tomarus says. "That boy Sul he didn't know what deal he signed when he broke 20 of these chains I may not have enough power to break free of this prison, but I do have enough power and time to slowly eat up his Brain and corrupt him, poor humans all so fragile," Tomarus says with a mischievous grin.

Jimmy was out cold on the floor, as Sul stood opposite of him leaning on his sword, trying to keep himself from tumbling over. He was struggling to catch his breath as he slowly Rose, he then raised his hand giving the crowd a thumbs up. The crowed cheered and applaud Sul for his win. "I did it, I DID IT, I BEAT A DARN NOBLE." Sul cheered as he jumped around and danced. Soon regret hits him as he feels a tremendous amount of pain all around his body and blacks out.

[5 hours later]

Sul woke up in an hospital room with a nurse watching over him. "Huh? Where am I? And Who are you?" Sul asks. "You're in one of the school's 7 hospitals." The nurse says. "Oh right one of the schools 7… WAIT SEVEN!?!??" Sul exclaimed as he shoots up from bed. The nurse simply nodded. "Wait, how long have I been out?" He asks. "28 years" the nurse says. "Oh 28 years that seems norm- WAIT WHAT 28 YEARS." Sul exclaimed again.

"Don't listen to her" Mr Phil says as he walks in. "Don't worry Sul you were knocked out for 5 hours." He finishes. "5 hours. Wait then the tournament." Sul says in realization. "Oh it ended 2 hours ago." Mr Phil says. "Wait really? So I missed the whole thing?" Sul asks.

Mr. Phil nodded and took a seat. Sul looked a little saddened, he didn't get to witness or participate in the other battles. "You did well against the noble" mr Phil says to break the silence.

"So by the way mr Phil who won?" Sul asked.

Mr Phil looked at him and made his way out the door, but before he fully left he said something to Sul. "You did well against the Noble". Sul didn't know what to think of this until Isaiah an Vil showed up.

"You did a great job out there Sul," Isaiah says. "Honestly you scared us many times." Vil replied. "gee guys have a bit more faith in me" Sul says to them. The trio chat for a few minutes before being interrupted by a figure

"Yo" the figure says. The boys look towards him, Isaiah and Vil bow immediately, recognizing who he was just by taking a glance at him. Sul just stared at him not moving a single muscle. "Hahaha no need for formal greetings we're all people here" the captain says. "Your the captain of squad 5" Isaiah said. "Yeah yes I am the captain of squad 5, and you must be Isaiah." He says.

"Good job in your battles, You all are outstanding fighters." The captain says. "Isaiah, Vil could you please excuse me and Sul for a second. I need to have a word with him.. in private." He says. Isaiah and Vil looked back at Sul who nodded. "See you later Sul" Isaiah says. As he and Vil walk out of the room.

"Now then" the captain says. "Vibe technique silent room." A purple energy surrounded the room from corner to corner. "What is this?" Sul asks with a hint of amazement. "It's a technique I created, it makes the room secret. Meaning no one can sense, smell, see or even hear us. He explains. "Thats a really a sick move you have, how many years did it take you to master?" Sul asks. "It took me 3 months to develop the technique and 5 months to master it," The captain says.

"If you ask me I think it's an awesome ability, but why use it here?" Sul asks. "Well you see as a captain I have worked with countless amounts of soldiers, especially newbies such as you, and one thing I notice about all of you especially, the new ones is the trait of being nosy." The captain says as he walks towards the door opening it as Isaiah and Vil fell down.

Sul. Looked at both his friends with a pale expression. "Juding by how you look at them, I guess this isn't their first time doing it." The captain says. "Not even the 40th" Sul replied.

"sorry about this" Isaiah said as he and Vil hurriedly walked out. "Those friends of your's they sure can be a hand full." The captain says. "Yeah I suppose." Sul says.

"By the way I never really got to ask." Sul says. The captain looked back at him. "What is your name um sir?" Sul asks. "Apologies for my rudeness, I am the Vibe Master of squad 5, Jeremi Vontiac, but you can call me Captain Jeremi. "Well that's a pretty cool name if you ask me." Sul says. Jeremi smiled as he found a chair and took a sit.

"Now then Sul I'm sure you didn't expect me to come here taking precious time from my duties just for some small talk." Captain Jeremi's smile turned into a dead serious face. Sul began to sweat as just being in The captains presence made him uneasy. "When you fought that noble Isaiah you had a black energy force that even us captains had never seen, energy so dark it resembled the devil itself." Jeremi says with his eyes locked on to Sul's. "Um honestly I don't even know how that happend, it was the first time something like that ever even happened to me" Sul says.

"In that stage I felt an overwhelming amount of power burst into me, my power had reached above noble ranking and it felt nice." Sul said looking at his palm then making a fist. "Oh right that reminds me I fell unconscious after the battle ended so I missed the fun stuff, what happened, who won?" Sul asks eager for the details.

"Sul well sorry to break it to you, but nobody won." Jeremi says "what do does that mean It was a tie? Between two others?" Sul asked. Jeremi just shook his head. "You told me you were unconscious after your battle with Jimmy right?." He says looking at Sul. "If that's the case then you don't remember what you did after the match." Jeremi says.

"What I did after the match?" Sul asks as he is confused. "I'll tell you everything that occurred." Jeremi says

[Flash Back: 5 hours earlier]

"Impressive the boy actually did it" the captain of squad 2 says with a smile.

"Simmer down captain Myra the boy almost lost the battle as well, but I will admit he beat a noble." Captain Silva says. "That's two times now that two peasants have beat more than one noble in a match." Jeremi says.

"Well it's just like Sul to surprise you when you think you have him beat he brings out a surprise." Mrs Kan says with a smile.

The medics quickly get Sul up from the ground, but before they could touch him dark energy sore from Sul. "Huh? He can still move" one of the medics says as he gets grabbed by the energy, just like the other medics. A sword cuts through the energy as the medics fall down almost coughing as. They breathe for air.

"If you can move, I highly suggest you get the hell out of here," Jeremi says with a sword on his shoulder. The energy then engulfs Sul controlling Sul's movements. "So you're taking control of the young man's body, tch, what's the point of using such a great technique if you're just going to let it take over you." Jeremi says.

The dark energy forms 20 tentacles which all enlarge and attack various spots in the arena. 'I didn't think I would have to fight a student today, these god dang competitions' Jeremi thought to himself. 'Well if that's the case I guess I might as well show off for the thousands of people here.' he thought.

"The every it's getting out of hand shouldn't we do something about it?" Mrs Kan asked.

"Don't worry about it," Captain Myra said.

"Jeremi alone can handle this situation." She continued.

"Vibe technique," Jeremi gathered some of his energy in his sword turning it red. "Open field slash" the tentacles that threatened to kill the attendees were each slashed into three large diagonal pieces. The figure controlling Sul backed up a little bit then charged at Jeremi with full intent to kill.

"Too slow" Jeremi says as he holds his sword up and hits Sul's, back with the bottom of the handle. Making Sul fall to the ground and forming a crack in the process. "I guess I went a bit too far" Jeremi says. He was still standing in the same spot as before the battle. Sul stood up from his spot.

Jeremi was able to get a better look at him now, half of his body had been engulfed by a dense layer of dark energy, while his teeth and nails grew longer and sharper.

Sul ran around the whole arena trying to find a blind spot in Jeremi's defense. He then jumped towards Jeremi who easily dodged his attack, and hit him in the same spot he did before with the bottom of the handle.

Sul tried attacking Jeremi multiple times, but to his avail nothing worked.

Jeremi hadn't move an inch from where he stood as he continued to look down on Sul.

The dark energy that engulfed half of Sul's body had begun to disappear with only a few patches on Sul's arm. Sul falls on his knees as the energy had completely vanished,. Then fell over from exhaustion, he had gone past his limits as his body had just battled a noble and a captain.

[present]

"I see, I didn't realize how much mayhem I caused, if I had known I wouldn't have tried to use that power in my battle, Sul says to Jeremi. Jeremi stared at Sul before getting up and making his way to the door. "Sul" he says. Sul looks up confused paying attention to what jeremi is about to say.

"This world is very dangerous, you beat a noble, it's an amazing task, but there are far more things in life powerful than a noble. Also you are eligible for early graduation, there was a debate about it after what happend in the tournament but I was able to vouch for you." He stops

"So as of now the only squad that is willing to take you is my squad. So then Sul do you accept?" Jeremi's asks.

Sul looked at the captain, and then looked out the window.

'Join squad 5?' He thought

To be continued….