BXBX NOVEL Chapter 23 New Event: The New Year!
"As you may already know the new year festival will be held in a week\'s time, be ready with your preparations for it." (Anna)
The new year festival, as the name suggest is celebrated in the first year of the students in the academy and it gives the students to participate in several competitions and other things which will not affect the rankings of the students so they can enjoy the new year festival without any worry of affecting their grades.
Obviously only the first years are allowed to carryout this festival every year and the second- and third-year students don\'t have the liberty to celebrate they have more strict routine to follow in order to become stronger.
During the New year festival students can have friendly duels or can participate in functions like singing and dancing etc. The academy has established this new year celebration to relieve the stress from the first-year students who are still new to the academy.
But it is also an obvious thing that the festival will not be so ordinary as always, this time and is one of the starting events of the novel Rio read in previous life. This new year celebration event will be one that will cause a huge sensation in human race. Questioning if the great Freya academy really stand up to its big name.
A Mind demon will be teleported through the nearby portal in disguise of an ordinary person and will enter the academy as a parent of one of the students of the academy. Since during the new year celebration parents are also invited to visit the academy, he will enter without much of suspicion.
But it was actually just a bit of laziness from the security staff of the academy that caused the demon to enter the academy so easily without so many problems, otherwise it would have been impossible for even A rankers to enter the academy without any restriction.
At that time the demon was able to control some of the staff members mind and made them install a high-rank mana bomb near the middle section of the celebration area, this caused a huge blast and about 300 people along with 50 academy students were killed and several were injured in this incident.
The celebration area was located in the open field on the back side of the academy where most of the celebrations of the academy are carried out every year. The mana bomb is dangerous bomb which can cause the surrounding mana of the area in its radius to go chaotic and cause mana blasts randomly in the region causing the people in the area nearby to be blasted away.
It damages a human just like a missile would have on Earth. The only difference is that you will die more painfully in this kind of way. This was one of the reasons why mana bombs are banned all over the human continent and anyone carrying them is directly captured or killed.
Not to mention a mana bomb have its own levels from low to perfect (Low, intermediate, high, perfect). Each version is more dangerous as its rank increases. While Perfect mana bombs are said to extinct already and are only mentioned in legends and myths. They are said to be 10 times stronger than any regular nuclear bomb back on earth. Such bombs are capable of injuring a SS rank and even destroying continents.
But the most terrifying thing about the Perfect-mana bombs are said to be their after effects. They cause mana of the environment become chaotic. Chaotic mana can say to be equivalent to a high-grade poison and can kill a being from insides. Corroding every single part of the body.
The Maya continent is the living example of the terrible perfect-mana bomb. It is said that dark elves lived on that continent but the demon race used a perfect-mana bomb and the whole continent is now nothing more than a wasteland.
Nowadays it is said that dark elves are already extinct with no records of them being surviving anymore. Even the S ranked individuals perished. It is a pity that the race did not had a SS rank individual, if they had someone of SS rank, he could have stopped the extinction of dark elves by reducing its damage on the cost of personal injuries atleast.
From this we can already assume the threat a mana bomb can have but the good thing is that making them is even more so, a very difficult task and the demon race of today is not capable of creating perfect-mana bomb anymore. It is possible they have some in their armory even today but they must be saving those bombs for the time they have to fight for survival.
Every race has its own trump cards when it comes to survival of the race. Like the elves have the great world tree, the dragons have the collision breath, the orcs have the hammer of death and the humans have the spatial teleportation.
Coming back to the main topic, the protagonist will find the existence of the bomb due to his suspicion on the person who infiltrated the academy. He will inform Ms. Anna about it but before she could have confirmed it all the bomb was already triggered and caused several deaths.
But fortunately, it was still a good thing that the effects of the bomb were drastically reduced due to the early finding of the bomb otherwise it could have been even more dangerous then it is right now.
You must have thought why Fade not directly stopped the demon from installing the bomb in the first place. Well I will give you the same advice I always gives, just close your brain and think with your knees you will be able to see this vast and colorful world more carefully this way your perception, your way of seeing it will improve. Cough…..I mean it\'s obvious this whole event is to make the reputation of the protagonist to have a drastic improvement.
Up until now, Fade have a terrible reputation of being a trash and by saving some lives he can improve his standing in the class, he can improve his face, he can improve his impression in the mind of Ms. Anna, he can improve his chances of catching more harem members, cough….I mean making more friends in the class.
The other reason is also that he simply is too weak to even stop the demon. Fade has recently entered the D rank and is still not capable enough to fight a Peak B rank Demon who has the advantage. Even though Fade is the son of heavens, he still can\'t cross-kill such a powerful enemy.
Even though luck may be a very powerful factor in this world but it is also restricted if the power difference between the people are too high.
Since Fade have appraisal he can estimate if he can fight against an opponent or not this all affects his last decision. Well appraisal is a very convenient skill in this fact. But it also has its disadvantages like you will start to depend on appraisal for your every action and your instincts will start to decline.
Just as Rio was thinking all this the class was already over and most of the students has already gone out of the class Rio also walked out of the class and left for his dorm room to carryout his usual training session.
But he had forgot one thing during his analysis and that was the involvement of the heroine and the villainess in this event. There was a description in the novel that Fade became suspicious of the person when he was crossing through a dark alleyway and secretly contacting someone through his phone, it would not be that unusual if the person carrying the mana bomb was seen by anyone else, but Fade had appraisal which helped him find the man suspicious.
At that time Fade came near that suspicious man because he was sent by Kira to bring some stuff from the classroom to their supposed competition area. At that time Kira had taken part in a history-based competition and was going head on to fight with several teachers with her huge history knowledge gaining the praise of several teachers.
But Lia as the villainess was unhappy about all of this due to which she started arguing with Kira as usual. Kira sent Fade out of the place so as to prevent him from being affected by their arguments. As you know Lia is the daughter of a S rank and can obviously harm Fade\'s family by using her background.
The twist now is, that recently Lia has started to behave different she has stopped arguing with Kira and nobody know where she is busy nowadays, she seems to be staring at her phone, seemingly on someone\'s photo and don\'t interact with Kira anymore. (Tell me in the comment who is the one Lia stares at.)
This can lead to a different and unknown situation now, since Fade will not be passing through the place and will never find out about the person. This can lead to uncertain possibilities.
Yet, Rio oblivious to all this was now busy on his daily workout like a madman as always. He was not that much interested in training in his past life but now everything has changed and he had developed an obsession with extreme training which even he himself doubts.
"Maybe I have started to get addicted to the mysterious feeling of becoming stronger every time I train."
Thinking about it further, life in itself is very mysterious and can go in the opposite direction when don\'t expect it to go making all your planning go to waste, giving a feeling of powerlessness and regret in the end.
"Sigh~, can\'t a extra have a smooth life, Sigh~"