Chapter 230: All Of Them Out

|Sorry for less upload this week and next, exam week and I'm in tons of trouble, most of my courses are fine , I can even fail and still pass, except 2, which are my most troublesome ones.|

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3rd Person POV

"It's quite boring." Lilith sighs as she watched the fight with the rest of her comrades

"Why?" Amethyst asked "Isn't he your boyfriend?"

"Well, he is, but he'll easily win if he turns into that demon form that earned him the nickname of 'the devil' from that cult."

"It was indeed powerful." the demon lord agreed "We can feel the pressure from here and the amount of pressure emitted was somewhat terrifying. Too bad his bloodline wasn't that special, he just seemed to be born the sole genius from that family."

"He's physically blessed too." Roxa commented

"In more ways than one..." Lilith mumbled under her breath but was overheard anyway "If you're wondering, yes, I was implicated exactly what you think I meant"

"No one is wondering that." Kano wanted to gag

"Even by the standard of him being from that village, and now he's the protégé of that chief whose strength is equivalent to ours." Roxa chimed in and ignored Lilith's statement "But why does he want to join this competition? His wealth is more than enough to buy artifacts with values equivalent to the ones in this competition, why is he trying so hard?"

"Well, we have one person who knows." Kano said as he then turned to Lilith "When we say get close, we didn't mean for you to fall into his clutches."

"I didn't, he fell into mine." Lilith corrected

"Then tell us, your duty should come first."

"Hah no, I'm not letting you pry into our private matter." Lilith said while crossing her arm

"Our?" Amethyst picked up "You're involved?"

"See, the Lilith we know would've told us without even needing to asked." Kano continued his complaint "Duty always comes first, even more so for us generals where our role are to serve the state."

"Now now, calm down." Lachlan interfered before it could get ugly "Lilith has every right to keep this private unless it's treason, she can keep whatever happens in her private life secret. Roxa, remember your task after this, protect the successful subjects, the humans have already attempted 2 assassination attempts so far, won't be long till they send in some of their bigger swords."

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Perseus POV

"Terrence told me about you." my opponent said as we shook our hands during our greetings.

"Well Our meeting was like super brief, so I assume that my first impressions were good."

"It was, but I don't like you." She said straight to the point " People like you are most likely to abuse your powers and talent for selfish reasons."

"Finally someone said it to my face, people usually just scheme against me behind the scenes I'd rather they just say it to my face. Well, I am using my powers for selfish reasons and there's a prize I want to get to complete my collection."

To everyone, now it would look like I'm just one of those collectors aiming for the artifact, I make it so, otherwise, they'll be extra motivated to just get in my way. For now, it's like I'm one of you readers who creepily collect lewd anime figures except I'm not as down bad as y'all. And that should at least keep the thought of me joining this with ulterior motives.

We then distanced ourselves and I can then see her take out a spear, should be a bit harder for me since that thing got length, a longer range should slow me down a bit since I'm more of a person who'd rather get real close to the target and just deal damage with my fist or sword.

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3rd Person POV

Rowan and Reiner were walking the halls and they then meet up with Edward where all of them collectively walked away from the arena, not watching the fight in the arena despite it being Perseus, one of the participants who are amongst the favorites to be in the top 4.

As they are walking around, they made sure to keep a careful eye around them and made sure to walk a certain path to meet up with other important figures from the other continents.

One of the participants included Russo, the man who survived the poison given to him by Perseus.

"Well, I'll take the lead." Reiner said after clearing his throat "As you all know, those on the demon continents have unusual demons with abilities resembling that of the rose, beings who were born out of the love of the moon god for the sun goddess. Though they are not as powerful, they are proving themselves to be a large obstacle."

Edward then got a book out and showed it to everyone around them.

"In this book, the first hero mentioned something he overheard in his final fight with the first demon lord." Edward said "A project that was supposed to make the rose guardians and rose lord useless, even though the first hero never found out what that was, we now know the answer, and the project was said to take tens of thousands of lives for some chance of success, considering that it's been centuries since the incident, the numbers are much more than that."

"Right." Reiner said "We have to stop this, I know that all of us here know of secret projects of our own that can be considered immoral and unethical, but it doesn't compare to this, not just that, what they're doing in unnatural, they're creating beings that shouldn't exist."

"What's your plan?" Russo asked "I've helped with sending assassins here, but look how that turned out, 7-star and 8-star mages dead without even a dent in their defenses, much less even injuring or killing our targets."

"We have a plan, but it will happen after the tournament ends." Reiner proposed "We have only one chance and that's it, we have to eliminate these successful subjects, and we'll also send some to find any remainders on their continent, we'll take all of them out."