Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 126

"Okay, that’s it for today. The remainder of the matches would be held tomorrow", the vice-headmistress spoke, and the students dispersed from the grounds.

It is almost dark, and the students had multiple matches against each other. If they continue the matches, no one will be able to exhibit their power fully.

So it was decided to halt the matches for now and conduct the remaining matches the next day.

Anyway, there are only sixteen that remained in the Winner set and that remains the same for Loser set too.

It means that there are only twelve matches to ascertain the last four of the Winner Set and fifteen matches to find the last one standing from the Loser Set.

Of course, this last one has to fight another match with the one from the losers of the last eight.

He doesn’t need to fight four members. No, this winner from the loser set would fight one of the four losers from the last eight.

Who this one would fight depends on who remains among the four. It means an addition of four matches to the twenty-seven matches, making a total of thirty-one matches before the final five that would participate in the Inter-academy tournament.

Once those five were selected, the other matches had nothing to do with the others. Their positions can be determined later on.

These positions are just to see which one of them is most likely to win more matches and secure a better position for the academy in the tournament.

This is so because this tournament decides which academy will be ranked higher and get more resources from the alliance for the next term.

The better the rank, the better the resources that are allocated towards the academy, which means they would have a better chance at recruiting good talents next year.

The better the talents that they would be able to recruit, the better their ranks would be in the Inter-academy tournament that would take place that year.

The academy can improve its rank with students who have better talents, which means more resources.

It would be a cycle of benefits.

So, as long as the agents sent to recruit new awakeners can fleece and recruit Good talents, then the academy would be happy, as these talents can help them gain good benefits.

So while selecting the five-member team, it’s best to make sure that they are chosen right.

Instead of continuing the matches with tired students, which wouldn’t give the best results, it’s best to continue the next day.

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After returning to his house, Aaron went to freshen up before he started preparing food for himself.

Due to the matches, he couldn’t make his own lunch and had to eat at the academy’s dining hall.

The cost of food is very high there.

Though there are foods that are available for cheap, but those foods are of low quality foods.

These foods are no longer capable of satisfying his appetite. He had to eat high-quality food in order to fill his stomach to the full.

Buying such high-quality food costs a lot of credits, which Aaron felt was a waste. This was why he never ate at the dining hall.

He would buy the groceries and prepare the food that he wanted to eat.

This way the cost would be low, and also he can eat whatever he wants to.

While eating dinner, he thought about the matches that he fought and also about the matches that he watched from the spectator’s stand.

Though he has a lot of skeletons and ghosts that can easily win him the matches, he didn’t want to use them at full power.

Aaron wanted to show only a few skills to the world, and that too not at full power, especially the summon skeleton and ghosts skill.

This is after all just a competition, not a death match. There was no need to show all his skills.

He decided that these skills should be kept secret from others as they would be his trump cards.

There are people out there that wanted to kill him. There was already someone who tried once. Who can say that no more attempts would take place.

Moreover, Aaron was sure in his time to reach the top, there would a few more enemies.

It can be understood with the goons that followed the one called Harry, who was following someone else’s orders.

So, if he shows everything here, his enemies would be prepared to counter his strength. So trump cards are important.

This is why he decided to show enough to earn a spot in the team but not more than enough.

"If I wanted to make sure that I would get a spot, I need to show more than what I did today, but I can’t show more undead. That would be troublesome as everyone knows how many undead one would have at every rank".

"So, I have to improve my other skills. Mana Ball and Dual Cast are the best to improve at this point. I can feel that Mana Ball is on the verge of improvement to Rank 7. So it’s best to ignore that for now and should improve Dual Cast", Aaron thought and decided what to improve so that he can be sure to make to the last five.

He immediately used 100 SPs to increase the rank of Dual Cast to Rank 7.

"Status"

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Name: Aaron Skyhart

Age: 18

Bloodline: Death Swallow (SS-Rank)

Physique: Death Physique (SS-Rank)

Talent: Supreme Growth (SS-Rank) (Unique)

Class/Profession: Death Mage, S-Rank

Grade: Elite

Rank: 2

Level: 130

Vitality: 2,945 (+5%) >> 2,965 (+10%)

Strength: 2,945 (+5%) >> 2,965 (+10%)

Stamina: 2,945 (+5%)>> 2,965 (+10%)

Agility: 2,945 (+5%) >> 2,965 (+10%)

Intelligence: 4,300 (+10) (+5%) >> 4,330 (+10) (+10%)

Wisdom: 4,300 (+5%) >> 4,330 (+10%)

Health: 29,450 (+5%) >> 29,650 (+10%)

Mana: 43,000 (+5%) >> 43,300 (+10%)

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Death Energy: 43,000 (+5%) >> 43,000 (+10%)

Perception: 4,300 (+5%) >> 4,330 (+10%)

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Skills/Spells: Summon Skeleton (1270/1270) (Silver Rank 1); Death Lash (Rank 5); Sprint (Rank 6); Death’s Disguise (Rank 6); Summon Ghost (630/630) (Bronze Rank 7); Mana Regeneration (Bronze Rank 1) (+300%); Mana Ball (Rank 6); Dual Cast (Rank 6) >> (Rank 7); Death Gaze (Bronze Rank 1); Death Drain (Rank 9); Insights (Rank 9); Analysis (Rank 2);

Free Status Points: 92,130 >> 91,690

Skill Points: 149 >> 49

Items: Wolf Fang Pendant (+10 INT); Holder’s Defence;

Blessing: Silvermoon Blessing;

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Once that was done, there was not much to improve. So, after dinner, he went to sleep. He needed to be at peak so that he could win the matches the next day.