Tournament!

The day of the tournament finally arrives. The tournament will be held at the Capital One Arena, it's a place specially designed for tournaments. The participants will be placed in the center of the arena and viewers will be sitting across the arena, yes it's just like a stadium but the ground is built with adhesive. All the second and third-year students gathered at the arena to see today's battle, including the Child Of Lights. The first year's Child Of Lights aren't going to participate since their magic level is already high, thus, all the chosen ones from year one to year three gathered at one place to watch the tournament including Claire. "So it's today ahh. All the preparations are ready, but I heard the first year's chosen ones are not participating. Sigh! can't be helped but I know how to make him move," a figure stretching its hands up in the air waking from the bed yawning. It was dark and what can be seen was the movement of the figure. A smile as if the devil itself is woken up.

Everyone gathered at the arena and waited for the further announcement. Soon, the speaker announced that the headmaster is coming to give the opening speech. "Hello students, this is just a friendly tournament. I hope there won't be any casualties. Well then, I offer my luck to everyone. Let's begin the first year's first tournament. "Beeppppp!" the whistle was whistled. The tournament started, the group that has many majorities in standing, wins, as expected the mages didn't hold back, not at all. They rushed towards the non-mages with everything they have. The non-mages are struggling to defend themselves. The non-mages built defensive mechanisms to defend against their magic but it didn't work against the mages since they are still beginners in mechanisms. The mage students are being pleased with it since it's just a one-sided battle but..."Haha, this is too easy," one of the mages mounted smiling releasing his magic.

As the battle was going on, every mechanism was getting destroyed one after another except for one mechanism. "Guess it's time to play uhh," Claire said smirking putting her gaze on a figure. "Ehh! Claire sis, what do you mean by that?" Olivia asked as she was sitting one row below Claire. With a smiling face, she replied "Well, you will see soon enough." As all the mages taking pleasure in destroying the non-mages creation, suddenly, "Hey! Hey! Look at that, that single guy's mechanisms is not breaking no matter how hard we strike," one of the mages shouted in fear, the mechanism is not breaking no matter how hard they hit. There was a figure standing behind the mechanism with its hand in its pocket "Sigh! You guys are all boring. I am not here to play with you guys, hurry and come down, Lucas-kun...hehe," he turned his gaze towards Lucas who was sitting there "I know that you won't be able to keep quiet after seeing this. Come down now, mama's waiting,"

"Is this what you meant Claire, sis," Olivia asked turning her head towards Claire. "Yeah, when it comes to mechanisms, no one can beat him. He's been studying mechanisms since he was a kid after all." Because Aether's family had taught that Aether doesn't have any magic, they taught him studies on how to build mechanisms instead. At first, it was boring but soon Aether was enjoying it since he was able to create many new creations. Everyone in his family knows about his knowledge in mechanisms. "That's one of the reasons why they send me to this academy after all."

No one In the stadium stood a chance against Aether. They weren't able to scratch his mechanism using their magic. As they begin to run out of mana, Aether's classmates realized that and took advantage to beat the mages. Everything is turning around. The arena which was full of laughter begin to become lulled. Everyone in the crowd froze as if they were witnessing something impossible happening and this all happened with a single boy standing there unfazed by everything. Tides have changed, and even the headmaster is surprised to see what's happening. "Tch, that kid is just lucky," Ryan screams seeing Aether's unfazed body. At the same time, seeing all of those faces and reactions worked up Lucas. Everything has started to go as Aether schemed.

"Tch! You guys are all weaklings who are good for nothing, you all can't even crush one useless guy with his useless mechanism," Lucas shouts standing. Aether smiles and mounted "Ohh ohh you are worked up more than I thought you would, crap I really love this kind of guy. Coming in and falling right into my trap," he...yeah he was excited I guess!

[To Be Continued] (Jojo'z Theme)