Chapter 136 - A Lone Lion Searching For A Prey
Chapter 136 A lone Lion searching for a prey
Author: M_W Cancer
Grammar checker: M_W Nomral
Leo quietly left the Class 1S- to do something much more important.
Teacher Marvin had said before, "Each student of the class is worth 100 points and that the base is worth 1,000 points."
That then made Leo think, "Why don't I just go and eliminate those students first?"
Immediately, Leo thought of a plan; he would go and hunt students rather than hunt nexus. He could in fact just proceed immediately with meeting up with either Carlos or Justine's group, however, by doing that he would then be sharing to them their supposedly Class 1S- points.
He doesn't want that! His goal was to claim first place, so in order for him to do that, he needed to earn more points first.
Teacher Marvin had also said to them before that the points are what decides the winner for this trial competition. So, even if they can't become the last class remaining alive on this island, they could still win if they have the most amount of points!
Eliminating nexus is one of those sources of points, and in fact, he can earn more by doing so. However, he doesn't have the capability to do that since not everyone was weak.
"Not everyone is weak, indeed. But, that doesn't mean he can't make them weak, right?"
Eliminating them one by one!
That is Leo's exact plan!
He would go and hunt for those students of other class first, weaken them bit by bit until he would finally target their nexus.
Moreover, by doing that, he can also claim all the points for the Class 1S-. After all, eliminating the base first doesn't literally mean that he had already eliminated everyone from that eliminated nexus and claim all the points.
Eliminating a base basically meant that the remaining students of that eliminated class can run around the place, which also meant that he would be giving other class those points.
If Leo starts eliminating the students first before the base though, then he would have the total points earned base from the number of students from that eliminated class plus the nexus points. Simply put, if a Class has 20 students, then successfully eliminating all the students would earn him 2,000 points plus 1,000 points from destroying their nexus.
Moreover, by starting to eliminate every class at the early phase of the trial competition, he could also finish this trial competition quickly.
The longer the competition, the more points each remaining class would earn, and the more points a class earns, the more careful they would be, and the more careful they would be, the more prepared they are for any kind of attack.
Simply put, by then it would be hard for him to earn points.
This also meant the more points he earned in the beginning, the harder it is for other classes to overtake their position. The harder it takes to overtake their position, the highly likely for them to win the trial competition!
Moreover, the faster the trial competition finishes, the lesser the unknown variables can take place!
Even though his plan almost sounds perfect, there are still some unknown variables that he should always take into consideration.
Those unknown variables were exactly what he should be wary about. And he was sure that those unknown variables would likely be caused by either the three Class 1E's or the other two Class 1S's... Unless of course if a dark horse amongst the other class suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Although the two Class 1S's were currently his allies right now, he would still be eliminating them in the latter part of the trial competition, since every point would count at that moment, and hence every alliance would be broken by that time.
It would be at that time that the two Class 1S's would be able to cause some unknown variables.
On the other hand, the three Class 1E's have a lot of Monsters, so assuming them as unknown variables is only natural.
.....
Moving around from one tree to another, Leo finally spotted two students from an unknown class. The two students are obviously tasked to collect food and resources for their class, just like what he had tasked to his Class 1S-.
"Ayst, why are we even assigned in the logistics?" One of the students exclaimed in annoyance.
"Yeah, our Leader already knew about our capability, yet he still put us in the logistics instead of the main force!" The other one agreed.
"That's because you guys are not yet experienced!" Leo suddenly appeared in front of them as he points two of his hidden dagger to the two students' necks, "Go and activate your armguard!"
The two students stared in shock, but they were quickly able to calm themselves down.
"Ha! As if we can't jump away from..."
"Go and try!" Leo interrupted with a mischievous smile on his face.
The two quickly tried to jump backward but a rock had unknowingly formed around them, blocking all of their path of escape.
The rock that blocked the two student's path of retreat was obviously the doing of Leo's Earth Elemental, currently in an ant form hiding in his pocket, Earth Manipulation.
Leo could only turn his Earth Elemental into an ant form in order for it to escape the eyes of the teachers. Moreover, the Earth Elemental in an ant formed was also well hidden in a hidden pocket on his clothes, in order to further hide it. He needs to be extra careful right now.
To be honest, he can actually turn the Earth Elemental into a Golem. But since he was in a rush, he didn't bother to do so yet.
"Activate it before I force you to do so!" Leo said as his eyes turned cold.
"Okay..."
The two could only agree helplessly. If this trial competition was a real combat, then they would have long died from Leo's ambush.
*Whoosh! *Whoosh!
Both students were immediately covered by a blue-colored shield, and soon after a teacher quickly came down and took them away from the trial competition.
"200 points..." Leo whispered to himself as he quickly chooses the direction of where the two students had come from. He was sure that their other classmates would be found around there.
Just like what Leo expected, he found another group of students, specifically 3 students. They were currently carrying a basket full of fruits and some other edible food. One student was even carrying 2 rabbits.
Leo's eyes shone brightly as he can't help but feel excited. These 3 students are really the perfect target since they can't move that fast or even attack due to them carrying a load of stuff with them.
Without wasting any more seconds, Leo sneakily went closer to them as he ordered his Earth Elemental to block their front, left, and right with its Earth Manipulation.
*Schiiz!
*Clang! *Clang! *Clang!
*Whoosh! *Whoosh! *Whoosh!
Without them being able to react, Leo had already attacked them, specifically in their Magic Tool, Blue Shield, as that was what the teacher that went to fetch the two students from before told him about.
He actually doesn't need to threaten them or force them to use the Blue Shield, but just my simply attacking the Magic Tool itself, he could immediately eliminate them.
"300 points!" Leo whispered to himself as he quickly went straight towards where the 3 students were going to.
Leo finally realized that the students he had been hunting before were part of Class 1B just by basing on where they were going to. Due to the location of Class 1B and Class 1C, he wasn't able to conclude whether those students he had eliminated before were really part of the former or the latter. Only now when he sees that he was moving straight towards the base of Class 1B did he finally confirmed everything.
"Base on what Carlos had said before, Class 1B has 30 students, so I already caused them to only have 25 students now!" Leo can't help but chuckle.
After a while, Leo finally arrived close to their base. He was hiding in a bush nearby, observing 16 students moving around the place while doing their respective tasks.
"There are still 9 students who haven't returned..."
Looking closely, Leo suddenly thought of an idea as he then walked back towards a corner.