Chapter 140: New Hiding Spot

While Kraftvoll was climbing upward the Mt. Verrater while he was riding at his shadow familiar's back, the battles in the lower part of the mountain were started to get more frequent as more batches started to join the fray.

Almost all of the first graders, except those who represented their class in the two previous competitions, were already eliminated from the Battle Royale competition. Now, it was only a matter of time before the other first graders get eliminated as well.

The first to be eliminated among the representatives of the first graders was Aredhel. It was truly unfortunate for her because she was found out by one of the sixth graders who just entered the mountain.

She tried to escape and resist the might of that senior of hers that she faced. In the end, her current strength was not enough to defeat or even escape the senior who attacked her so she was defeated by the hands of the seniors that just entered the fray.

Meanwhile, the other remaining representatives of the first graders managed to defeat some of the opponents they had encountered in the Battle Royale competition. Some of them also managed to find a place where they can hide properly from the incoming enemies.

While everyone was busy surviving at the lower part of the mountain, Kraftvoll managed to find another hiding place in the upper part of the mountain. 

He regained some of the inner seishin that he lost earlier but it was not enough for him to be able to fight at full capacity so he sought a better hiding place than his previous hiding place. Coincidentally, he found another cave but this was even harder to find than the previous one.

'Yes! I must replenish the inner seishin essences that I used earlier so that I can continue my hunt in the competition.' he thought to himself. 

A moment later, Kraftvoll decided to get off his shadow familiar so that he will be able to see the hiding spot that he had found. Before entering, Kraftvoll decided to start chanting a seishin spell to make sure the cave doesn't have anyone there.

He chanted, "Oh ye who represents the breath of the world, give me the ability to feel the world, Wind Scan!"

Green seishin essences started gathering around Kraftvoll when he started chanting. One by one, those green seishin essences started to fuse in Kraftvoll's body which gave him the ability to sense using the air in the surrounding temporarily.

After conjuring that seishin spell, Kraftvoll did not feel any presence inside the cave when he used that seishin spell. That's why he thought that it was okay to enter and use this cave to hide for a while.

When he stepped on a puddle using his right foot, it immediately crawled to his right leg then it suddenly froze.

"What is this!? Crap!" he shouted after his left foot and leg suddenly froze. 

After Kraftvoll stepped on that puddle and it froze his left leg and foot, the rubble of rocks and pebbles suddenly collapsed.

A moment later after the rubbles suddenly collapse, a young human lady immediately came out of it shortly. "It seemed like someone fell into my trap!" said the one who just came out with a smile.

The young lady who just came out managed to be undetected to Kraftvoll because she used a concealing seishin spell from the element of earth to hide from her enemies and their detention seishin skills.

She was a sixteen-year-old young lady from the sixth grade of the Verrater Academy. She was also one of the members of the three-man team of the sixth grade. Unfortunately for her team, they lost to the team of the seventh grade which fought with the eighth grade and the tenth grade in the tripartite match of that competition.

Her appearance exudes a sophisticated look of a lady but her actions say otherwise. She naughtily said, "Who's the lucky person who caught in the trap I set up?"

When she gazed toward where Kraftvoll was standing. She was a little shocked after seeing Kraftvoll's face.

Earlier, during the three-man competition, since her team lost their first match right away, she was able to watch the next matches after her wounds were healed by one of the great healers of the academy.

During those fights, she didn't mind those first graders who won against the team of the second graders. But when those first graders managed to win against those representatives of the fourth grade, she was very surprised to her core.

It definitely shocked her when Kraftvoll and the others managed to win against those students three years older than they were. The one who mainly responsible for it was Kraftvoll which was why Kraftvoll left an impression on her.

"You belonged to that team of first grade that managed to enter the finals, aren't you?" she said as soon as she recognized Kraftvoll.

Kraftvoll didn't say anything in response. Instead, Kraftvoll tried to give a command to his shadow familiar to do something for him. "Attack her!" he commanded to his shadow familiar which the shadow familiar immediately followed.

Kraftvoll's shadow familiar charged toward the young lady. In response to this, the young lady, who managed to entrap Kraftvoll with a, decided to fall back. She decided to run toward the inner part of the cave.

The shadow familiar that Kraftvoll had summoned quickly pursued the enemy as his master commanded him to.

The shadow familiar didn't reach that young lady right away because she used a seishin spell of the element of the wind to boost her speed and mobility earlier even before Kraftvoll entered the cave. Her speed surpassed that of the shadow familiar's so it was unable to catch up to her.

While his shadow familiar was chasing his enemy, Kraftvoll decided to cast a seishin spell to remove the effect of the enemy's trap.

He started saying his chant. "I command thee, ye who constitute strength, let your passion burn the world to its roots, Blaze Overload!"