Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 127

In the morning, Aaron woke up and prepared his breakfast before leaving for the grounds. There are still a few matches before the final five are selected.

Since there are only 16 remaining in the Winner Set, as long as he won the next two matches, he would make it into the five-member team.

After that, though the vice-headmistress didn’t tell about that, Aaron learned from Zara that the four members of the five would fight each other. It would not be just one against one, and the remaining two would fight against each other.

No, each one has to fight against the other three.

Each win gets a point, and the one with the most wins would be the final winner. At least that’s what happened last year. The chances that the selection process would be the same this time around are very high.

So, that means there are a total of five matches that Aaron needed to fight before the end of the day.

At noon, he wouldn’t have time to prepare his own food. He had to eat at the dining hall, which is costly, and he wants to avoid that. So, instead of a heavy lunch, he decided to have a heavy breakfast.

Though it was against the routine of life that he followed all his life, there was nothing that could be done. Eating poor-quality food wouldn’t give him much energy. Eating high-quality food prepared and sold by the academy or other restaurants is costly and considered a waste of resources on his part.

Instead of using those credits like that, he can use them to improve his knowledge or use them to enter dungeons to level up faster. Using credits for purposes that he needed is a good usage, not for food when he can cook his own food.

Though it won’t be as good as what chefs can do, it is still better than what some newbie can cook.

Sure, though he can cook very well for now, dealing with higher rank foods is not easy, and someday he has to stop cooking his food and hire a chef to cook for him or else that would be a waste of ingredients, but that time is still some far away.

For now, he is more than enough to cook for himself. freewebnσvel.cøm

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"Okay, everyone who should be here is already here. Let’s start the matches and quickly select the five-member team as soon as possible", the vice-headmistress spoke.

Following that, two stages were allotted to the Winner Set matches, while two were allotted to the Loser Set matches.

Erika was selected to fight in the first round, while Aaron’s match was in the second round. Both won easily, especially Aaron, who has increased his Dual Cast skill, which, after increasing to Rank 7, reduced mana wastage and increased the ease of casting double skills, even if they were not the same skill.

It should be known that if a user casts two different skills, the mana usage, waste and time to cast them would be higher than when compared to casting two same skills.

With the increase in the rank of the skill, the difficulty decreases, bit by bit, and when the same skills are used, the ease of casting them would be much closer to when casting a single skill.

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The next matches were also done quickly. Both Erika and Aaron won easily against their opponents.

The good thing was that they didn’t face each other, which made it possible for both of them to reach the final four of the Winner Set. It means both of them had made it to the final five-member team, and all that remained for them was to check which one sits in the first position as the winner of the final four would get a lot of resources from the academy in hopes that they would show their prowess in the upcoming tournament.

Aaron and Erika were two of the four selected, and the other two were Viren Ironheart and Bronn Hellfist.

Viren was the same one who ranked second after Aaron in the first tournament, while Bronn made it to the top ten back then. So, when the final four appeared, there was not much of a surprise, as three of them were top three, only one was not in the top five but was in the top ten, ranked seventh.

So, there was no cussing from the spectators about someone cheating or anything like that. It can be attributed more to the presence of the staff, rather than that they believed the four deserved the seats.

The ones that can enter one of the top five academies wouldn’t be idiots to make such a mistake. Even when Harry confronted Aaron back then, Harry, though not considered smart, felt that something was wrong quickly.

While the winner set was done, the loser set wasn’t, as they had access to only two stages similar to that of the winner set, but they had to fight more fights than the winner set. So, even though there were only four that remained, they had to finalise the last one from among eight.

At that moment, the vice-headmistress appeared before the final four of both sets, "Now that four members of the five-member team were selected, there is still one member that has to be selected and also has to determine the positions of the four".

"The loser set would take three stages and should complete the matches as soon as possible, while the four from the winner set would fight against each other on the remaining stage".

"Now, who would be the first participant? Remember, everyone has to fight the other three, so it doesn’t matter in the end".

Hearing those words, everyone looked at each other.

Aaron looked at Erika and was about to speak about the match. Though they hoped that they wouldn’t fight each other back then, they are now part of the five-member team and have to fight each other.

He wanted to speak about that, when there was a movement from one of the other two. A participant has decided to take the stage, and that one is Viren. While Viren was walking towards the stage, he glared at Aaron for a bit but quickly retracted.

Though that was only for a second, Aaron felt the glare. He felt jealousy, a lot of it.

Aaron understood one thing, and that is Viren is not someone he can make friends with in the future, nor can they even be acquaintances ever.

Being friends with jealous people means drowning oneself on purpose. That is something no one should do.