Air Hero

1st stage finished

“Look at what we have here. Another hero has successfully repeated Giovanni’s feat and carried her team to victory. Let me look up her information first. Chloe Aurora from the Aurora family, that’s a reputable lineage for you. As for her stats, Strength A, Speed D, Sensitivity D, Energy B. Although her speed and sensitivity are dragging her overall stats, she could be considered C or even a B-rank hero from her strength and energy alone. That’s one scary lass for you.”

At this moment, Chloe becomes the center of attention. Of course, the reason that she doesn’t want the other to do anything is to make herself the focus of this moment. She looked at what Giovanni did before, and she is jealous of that. As a child from a renowned family, Chloe wants to make herself stand out, especially stop herself from being compared to her brother. She is secretly relieved that Elrisa didn’t mention anything about her brother, or else everything that she has done will be overshadowed again.

Max, Jhonny, Norton, and Linda is now finally exiting the arena. Jhonny especially still couldn’t believe that she carried the team alone through the first round. He is now looking at Chloe differently. Although it was confirmed that her manner of speaking is harsh and not like a lady at all, her strength prevails the other aspects.

After returning back to the waiting area, soon the second round is finished. Nineteen other teams alongside Max’s team have been victorious, and then the third round commenced. Nothing is exciting in the third round as there’s no one that Max is familiar with, and the battle shown on the screen is typical.

After the dazzling display of Giovanni and Chloe, everyone started to expect the same thing to happen in the third round, but unfortunately, it didn’t happen.

When the fourth round is announced, Max is looking at the screen with anticipation again. Since finally there’s someone that he wanted to see. Hyacinth, her team, is finally going to the battle on the fourth round and the rest of the strong contender for the hot newcomer award winner is present.

Iki Hawthorn, someone who has B-rank strength and C-rank energy, is in another arena too. He is expecting to see his prowess since he could possibly replicate Giovanni's and Chloe’s performance. He also saw Heinrich that goes through the same hero examination as him. He expects to watch those three matches, but Norton let out a surprised yelp that he couldn’t ignore.

“Look at that, screen number seven. Elica Rosebud is coming out. Her stats on top of the paper is all C-rank. She is a strong contender to win this competition.”

While Norton is looking at her with a look full of admiration, Chloe, on the other hand, gritted her teeth. It is because aside from Giovanni, who is the favorite to win, Elica is someone that she needs to defeat too.

Max also now looked at screen number seven and saw Elica Rosebud. Donning a black and red dress, she looked like a refined lady. The aura she emitted is like a rose, just like her family name. Beautiful, yet anyone that looked at her knows that she has her thorns.

“Rather than Elica, I am more concerned about Kieran.”

Linda, who rarely talks, makes her remarks, and Norton looked at her after she said that.

“Kieran? Kieran Sonus from the Sonus company? He is in this competition too?”

“Yes. He wouldn’t want to miss this chance, look. He is on-screen number ten. Although his stats on paper doesn’t look amazing, his rare attribute is something to watch out for.”

Max remembers hearing about him from Marie. His stats is something Max doesn’t feel wary of, but the sound elemental attribute that he has is something that Max has never seen before.

When the battle started, Max doesn’t know which one to watch as there are five different screens that he wanted to see. He is a bit disappointed to see Iki didn’t go 1v5 like Giovanni or Chloe. As soon as the battle started, he and his teammate coordinated forward, and with his overwhelming strength, he leads his team to victory. There’s nothing out of expectation as he faces the enemy straight on and pulverizes their ability.

Heinrich’s battle, on the other hand, is very stable as he seemed to have matured. His joining the Tidal Wave agency seemed to benefit him a lot in his growth. Not to mention his foundation is deep as he comes from the United Heroes academy.

On the other hand, Hyacinth’s, Elica’s, and Kieran’s battle is something that Max didn’t expect before. If Giovanni’s team is taking advantage of his superiority, the three’s team does the opposite. Four of the team member moved while Hyacinth, Elica, and Kieran don’t do anything as they are hiding their ability rather than showcasing it.

 The rest of their team member doesn’t even show any grievance as they need to battle 4v5 as they know that even if they failed, the last team member that becomes their secret weapon could bring them victory.

Because of that, they performed better than usual as they don’t have any burden. They also have extra motivation to show their ability to the world, and although 4v5 isn’t ideal, it is still enough for them to perform their best move.

Without anything out of his expectation, all of the team that Max is watching got their win quite easily. He knows that they will be his opponent in the next round. As there are still 200 D-rank heroes divided into forty different teams, Max knows that the next round will still be a team competition.

“As the first stage of the competition is over before we move to the second stage, we will have our lunch break. You can head to the eating area as the United Heroes association has prepared some food, or you can go out to eat. Just remember to gather here at 1:30 p.m.”