Returner's Revenge

Rivals

The next day, the others were wondering if that student from the other low class is coming and Kris told them to focus on the training. “Don’t worry, that guy will not show his face today. He must have been furious that he almost humiliated himself in front of so many people.” Kris laughs differently from the usual. The others sees this as normal but Johannes on the other hands knows that its not the real reason that the student will not appear.

[So evil, that guy will definitely not show himself. But to even use Mr. Mephisto as his wall to block others. What an extremely crafty thing to do.] Johannes felt bad for the student for falling right into Kris’ trap and continues to struggle and find ways to fight his friend.

A few hours later and their training ended. Johannes brought them dinks to cool themselves after an intense training. “Ever since eating that plum, I feel my body so light. Its like I don’t weigh like I used to.” Richard, one of the students that continuously the advancement test said while looking at his body.

“That is because of the effects of the plum. You felt heavy maybe because of the impurities in your body. The plum rejuvenates and cleanse the body of impurities, a small bite from it will show slight changes but if consumed whole, the changes occurs almost instantly or within the day.” Jhonas says while sitting in the chair after observing them.

“How do you know about this?” Jamaica, the second student that failed during the recent advancement test asks. “Hmmm, my family experiments using the '300 year old plum’ so its only natural that I know such things.” He responds with a rather bold tone. “What’s suspicious is hoe Kris Grindall knows all of this. That’s what's bugging me more. Is there a spy in my family? Our employees? Our connections? Is there a snake that sells our information and results of experiments? I thought about it deeply yesterday and nothing comes to mind. No one in our family will hire a person that we can’t trust.” He added.

“Gug! Didn’t I tell you that there is one? If you want to save what your family has been keeping safe all these years, you need to act fast before you all lose it.” Kris says while drinking his ice cold tea. “That’s why I’m asking you to tell me the truth! How and who is the person that’s betraying our family!”

Kris stares at him blankly for his brief outrage and then sighs. “I have one word for you ‘Tisara’ does that ring a bell now? Now who always goes to that place? I don’t know. But I’m sure there is a person that frequently visits that place.” Jhonas fell silent as he realize what Kris is talking about and even lost his balance, the others were surprised how their discussion turned out and wonder what is in Tisara.

Tisara is a huge town near the border of the two kingdoms, the kingdom of the west, and the kingdom where the academy stands. Tisara is also considered to be a big market for everything that everyone needs. Food, goods, equipment, weapons, clothing, even selling humans and information is held there.

It has also been the center of debate for almost  years what to do with the town due to the evil things that is occurring almost all the time. The two kingdoms even decided to establish two stations that will try to establish peace in that town but that proved to be useless in the face of lawless people trying to do their business in the dark. The kingdoms saw that it was futile and gave up, the town is now a place where you can buy anything if you have the money to pay.

“Are you certain of this Kris?” Jhonas ask and the young man nod his head. “Is there a reason for me to lie to you? You should just let them observe first and let them confirm it themselves. That way, the perpetrator will not have the chance to lie their way out.” Kris suggested.

“We are going to keep this training for a few months and then after that, we are going to train our mana pool. Consecutive casting of spells to catch our enemies off guard and other techniques, I will also research somethings to add to our arsenal so you all better be ready.” Kris returns to talking about their training after his talk with Jhonas.

“Uhhm, isn’t the techniques that the academy is teaching not enough?” Kris remembers her name, Dajan one of the students that showed him care in his past life when Johannes is not around. “Well, the academy’s techniques and methods are quite predictable and common. We need to stray away from what the academy is teaching and use it as base instead. In battle, we need to be flexible and effective. Sometimes being different or unique has its usefulness.” Kris says with a convincing tone.

“That’s true, we should be more flexible when fighting. Kris mentions that we should dominate the annual competition. We should prepare for it completely. That will be a good chance to experiment our abilities and how we’ve grown.” Xia says but then terror almost immediately surrounds her. It was too late for her to remember that Flora and the other three belong to another class. “Xia, your mouths is not something to be trusted with.” She then hid her face when Kris talk about her slippery tongue.

“So that is what you are aiming for huh? No wonder you are training yourself to the bone. For you to have a grand goal like that, it makes me feel bad to have been training with you without a clear goal in mind.” Flora says without being surprised. “Xia really have to blew the plans away. Talk about surprise.” Kris says boringly to press on Xia’s fault even more.

“Well, its Xia we are talking about. She does that all the time so I am not even surprised.” Jamaica says like a joke but Xia did not take it as what she made it to be. “Now that our competitors know about our plans then we just need to train even more than them right?” Richard says the most probable thing that they might do.

“Well, good thing Xia opens her mouth about it. Now we have to go all out as well.” Ophir says with a competitive spirit. “Don’t even think that we will just hand over the champions to you that easily.” James added with confidence. In that day, the competition for being the winner of the annual competition is born.