But soon an expression of surprise adorned her face as she looked at Zavier who was beside her and was cautiously looking in the direction of the enemies.
AT this point even she had to acknowledge that the perception of Zavier was good enough to be even better than her. He had seen the enemy long before she had even managed to get the tiniest inkling about their advances.
"Looks like there is something you are good at. It is comforting to know at the very least. It appears as if I should give a little more credit to the Merion High School for at least producing a slightly useful one instead of pure losers like others."
This could have barely passed as a compliment seeing as it had come from a snobbish, petty and arrogant girl. Zavier didn't gloat as the enemy had gotten closer. Still he couldn't help but mutter under his breath.
"You would have known had you bothered to ask us about it."
Zavier had said this in a very low voice as if he intentionally didn't want Rebecca to hear it. But she still felt like Zavier had said something.
"Did you say something?"
"Nope…nothing at all."
"Huh…I could almost swear I heard you say something."
"Still nothing…didn't say a word."
Zavier was adamant on not falling for her bluff. Even if she might have seen his lips moving, she wouldn't have heard a word of what he had said. From her earlier sensory skills, Zavier had already felt that perception was not her strong suit. She could barely be called average when it came to sensory skills.
When Zavier refused to say anything, Rebecca felt that she might have had a misunderstanding so she didn't bother anymore about the subject as there was something more important than that headed their way.
She became fully alert and was focused in the direction of the enemy.
Zavier on the other hand couldn't help but hate his condescending teammate more and more. Zavier was only tolerating her because his twisted fate and ever increasing bad luck had made sure that he got stuck with this disaster of a teammate. He vowed in his heart to defeat her miserably if she ever crossed paths with him during the competition. She was safe from him at the moment only because she was currently his teammate and attacking her wouldn't be in his favour; otherwise he would have long since discarded her or at the least spanked her back to her best behavior.
It wasn't long before the enemies they had been waiting for revealed themselves to Zavier's team.
Despite the number being twice of their team, neither Zavier nor Rebecca had a single crease on their forehead. Zavier of course wasn't fazed by the strength of the enemy team; after all he had already fought against S rank mages before. On the other hand Rebecca was overly confident in her own strength so she didn't take enemies in front of her very seriously. She was sure that she could take them all on without suffering a loss.
There was a sneer on the faces of the enemies who had encroached on them as if they were their next victims. Their leader was a man with full beard who looked more like a middle aged man than a high school student. All the high school boys were either in the period where their beard was still a few scraggly hairs on the chin but this person had a fully grown and strong beard that made him look older than he truly was. Either that or he really was a mature old man who was shamelessly pretending to be a high school student to take part in the competition.
,m Andrew was the first to recognize the leader of the group. His expressions changed into that of panic and fear as he gazed at his face with wide eyes as if he was unable to believe that the person was really in front of him.
"I know the person who is their leader. I mean, I don't personally know him but I have heard about him. His name is Kevin. He is another one of those elite five star students who have been judged to have the most monstrous of talents among all the high school students of the continent. I have heard that he is very powerful and hasn't ever lost to anyone. He is considered to be one of the few who will definitely be able to pass and enter the university. Physical body augmentation skills coupled with his close quarter combat skills are his specialty. I will advise you to avoid fighting him if possible and in order to do that we need to move…and fast."
Rebecca had a disdainful sneer on her face as she listened to the information. She once again felt that the teammates she had really didn't have a backbone. One strong enemy and all he could think about was running away to avoid the fight.
"So, you make the decisions now?"
Andrew couldn't help but flinch at her questioning gaze and looked down to avoid that condescending look on her face. He constantly shook his head to the side so as to indicate his answer to her domineering question.
"Then do me a favour and stay the hell back and don't think about anything while keeping your mouth shut."
That seemed to have stopped the raging thoughts of Andrew who calmed down slightly.
The leader of the enemy force on the hand was unconcerned about what the three of them were talking about. He was busy ogling at Rebecca whose seductive visage was enough to intoxicate anyone who gazed upon her.
Kevin looked her up and down as if he was busy scanning her insides as well. His lecherous grin was enough to tell Zavier what he was imagining at that moment. He was practically looking at Rebecca through her clothes.
Rebecca wasn't fazed by his excessive behavior. Instead she looked slightly proud as there was an inkling of a smile at the corner of her lips that was more like a twitch rather than a smile but Zavier had witnessed it in that passing moment. It looked like she was enjoying it all.
"These two uglies are dead anyway but I can consider giving you a chance. What do you say?"
Rebecca looked both intrigued and excited at the proposal given to her by Kevin. Zavier was wondering what the malicious woman was planning since he was sure that there was no way that Rebecca was going to give in to the enemy leader. He knew how prideful she was and people like that didn't bend easy.
"Oh…what would I have to do then?"
Rebecca asked him in an increasingly seductive and charming voice.
Kevin couldn't get over the urge that had risen in him as soon as he had laid his eyes on the seductive girl. He wanted to have her as soon as possible. For that he didn't mind letting go of a few insects even.
"It's simple. Sexy women like you are meant to serve true men like me in bed. If you agree to do that, I will consider sparing you since you would be my woman by then. I am soft like that…to my women I mean."
"What if I don't agree?"
"Then I would have no choice to first dispose of these two hindrances before I help you decide to willingly submit to me."
Rebecca understood the hidden meaning in his words. He was going to forcefully **** her if she didn't give in to him.
Zavier was somewhat dumbfounded as to what was happening in his presence. He had only seen such cheap dialogues in the B grade movies in his past life and even then he had found them to be quite dumb. But now that he was witnessing it live, he finally believed that such incidents could really happen in real life. Dumb people like these who didn't feel any shame while uttering such disgusting words truly did exist in this world.
Still he wanted to know whether doing such a thing was against the rules or not. As far as he knew, the there was no rule preventing such a thing from happening during the competition. After all the rules stated that the participants could do anything and employ any means to acquire points within the duration of the test apart from killing or dealing a fatal blow to the other participants.
Therefore, such a thing was within the bounds of the rules of the competition. Zavier felt that the rules had to have been made by some kind of sadistic bastard.
As he was wondering, Andrew answered the question that was bugging his mind until then.
"It really can happen. No one from the university will interfere for such a reason. There is precedence for such a case in the past. The previous year, a girl had been raped during the competition by another participant but the authorities had refused to intervene at that time too. Though the rules at that time weren't as strict as they are now, they still didn't care enough about such an incident."
Zavier heard his words and deduced that although nothing had been mentioned in the rules, this kind of thing had a tacit approval from the university itself. He wasn't sure what kind of kick the university was getting out of the sick situation but he could establish one fact at the very least; he couldn't rely on the authorities even to save his own life.
The fact that anything other than killing was tacitly allowed made this competition a truly terrifying one. The possibilities were endless since there was no limit to the madness that a single individual like Kevin could bring to the testing grounds.
While Kevin was making his perverted offer, Zavier was switching his gaze between Kevin and Rebecca in order to determine how angry and furious would the girl be upon such disrespectful remarks.
But contrary to his expectations, Rebecca's lips curled upwards in a smile that was close to a seductive charm or a love potion.
Zavier could hardly believe that Rebecca would lower herself to such a degree. He figured that there must be some underlying trick of that woman's.
Rebecca unaffected by Zavier's or Kevin's gaze continued to play the part of a charming minx.
She brought her hands to the sides of her huge breasts and pressed them inwards as if to make them collide with one another. The softness of those jugs could be imagined just from the fact that her hands were not visible when she tried to press her hands inwards. They had gotten lost somewhere in between the softness.
Kevin could hardly hold himself back anymore. There was a fire in his loins that he was unable to suppress. If he waited any longer he would have been spraying fire from his crotch at this rate.
Rebecca could see him twitching with excitement so she decided to nudge him a little more.
"If your dick is hard enough to satisfy me, I might open my legs for you. If you are strong enough I might even let you penetrate me to the deep end. Let me tell you something else; if you do manage to get me into bed, you would be the first to explore it. But it all depends on your dick whether it can handle the strength of my grip or not."
She was teasing him openly using crass words that Zavier would never have expected from a girl. Yet this girl Rebecca was surprising him at every turn.
Kevin was looking at her crotch as she talked her conditions. He was thinking of being the first explorer to ever invade that space. A flush could be beneath all the hair on his bearded face. He was sure that he would succeed in bringing the woman to his bed because if there was one thing that he was confident in, then it was the hardness of all his body parts.
The reason behind that was that Kevin had been adept at augmentation magic. He could turn all his body to steel at will through the consumption of a relatively small amount of mana. It was an exclusive and rare ability that only he had managed to learn in his entire school. The usage of his skill meant that his member too was as hard as steel.
"You don't have to worry about my dick being hard enough. It will be as hard as steel. Strength is my forte so prepare to be ravaged until you submit to me."
As he said this, Kevin's hand started to turn to steel as the metallic lustre of the metal started to spread all over his arms.
Sparks were flying between the horny bearded man and the minx like woman who was toying with the man.
Suddenly, Andrew jumped in between the two of them and shouted as loud as he could. He announced that he was going to defend against the attackers and would buy enough time for the two of his team members to escape from their grasp.
He alternated looking between the team members that didn't need his rescuing at all. Rebecca looked at him in disdain as if he had ruined her mood by opening his mouth in front of her despite his unnecessary attempt at self sacrifice. On the other hand, Zavier at the very least looked slightly appreciative of the kid.