91: Points

Points

"Haha… I've come to challenge your group, Lion Group. To think that you're using Leo to be the symbol. As expected of my rival, Shadow Queen, Michelle."

She had been silent for a few days, making Michelle think that she wouldn't come. Sadly, the trouble finally came.

"I... We refuse," Kai replied.

"You… I still haven't forgotten about what you did, Leo," Isabelle crossed her arms, complaining. "Are you even a Zodiac? To think you don't dare to accept a challenge. I can't believe you're the first Zodiac."

"Zodiac?" Ayaka was clueless. She took a few glances at Kai, wondering if he would explain to her about the Zodiacs or not.

"We don't have any obligations to accept your challenge." Michelle stopped Isabelle.

"Indeed. You don't need to accept my challenge." She nodded, making them think she would stop, even though she had another trump card. She looked at Michelle and smirked. "Think about this. He's the first-ever Zodiac, right?

"I'm also a Zodiac… I'm sure a lot of people are curious about what kind of children two Zodiacs would produce."

"!!!" All of them instantly realized what she wanted.

"Hehe…" Isabelle grinned, continuing her explanation. "That's right. Do you think I haven't been doing anything these past few days? Too bad, I've been explaining the possibility of Leo and myself to my family.

"Which is why, if you accept my challenge, I'll leave you guys alone. I'll also stop them from making this thing happen."

"You b*tch. If you want a Zodiac, you can take that Evan Young or that brute man." Michelle gritted her teeth.

"Hmph. Pisces doesn't interest me and I don't like that brute man, Taurus." She snorted. "Besides, I'm sure a lot of people would like to know about the man that Michelle Graham fancies and the first Zodiac ever created."

Isabelle made a smug smile, thinking she won the argument.

"I agree." Kai suddenly answered, accepting the challenge.

"Oh? This is truly surprising. For Leo himself to agree to this proposal… Do you find me ugly?" She looked at Kai, making a sexy pose.

"Why do you think you fell on your face last time?" Kai indifferently said, striking back at her.

Michelle couldn't help but laugh, not even bothering to restrain herself.

Isabelle's face turned red, ashamed. She gritted her teeth and said, "Since you've agreed, we'll have a group battle a month from now."

She turned and walked away, but Kai stopped her. "Wait. There's another thing you need to do."

"What?" Isabelle glared at him.

"I want you to make a written agreement. I don't like the possibility of you making your family and the government pair people up like that," Kai said with a serious face.

"Fine!" Isabelle suddenly thought of a good plan, making another threat, "If my group wins, then you'll need to promise you won't stop me from doing that."

"That's not possible," Michelle answered. "I'll make the written agreement later. You can come back tomorrow to sign it."

"Hmph." Isabelle walked away, leaving the room with anger.

Kai then scratched his cheek with his finger, turning toward Ayaka and Tasha with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry I decided it on my own."

"I'll protect you from that vixen." Tasha and Ayaka said at the same time, both agreeing to it.

"Well, the duel is in a month from now." Kai sighed as he turned to Michelle. "I need you to gather as much information as you can about her group… and if possible, I want you to gather some information about Evan Young too."

"...Evan Young?" She furrowed her eyebrows, looking at Kai with a confused look. "I can understand if you want to know about our enemies… Still, Evan Young? Are you planning to recruit him?"

Kai shrugged. "I don't know. But his ability is useful. If his character is okay, I won't mind having him here. I'm the only male here anyway, it'll be good to have another male in our group."

"..." Michelle looked at him before glancing at Ayaka and Tasha. "I don't particularly mind about it, but I don't know about these two."

Tasha and Ayaka exchanged looks before shrugging their shoulders. Ayaka thought about his well-being, thinking it would be good to have another male to chat with. On the contrary, Tasha thought there wouldn't be any more potential candidates if Evan Young joined their group.

"Fufu… Why do you seem to be against the idea of having her on your side?" Michelle asked. "I mean, she's pretty and has a good body. She also has a good family background and she herself is strong."

Tasha and Ayaka pushed their hair behind their ears, wanting to hear Kai's answer.

Shaking his head, he answered ambiguously, "I just don't like the idea. I want to choose for myself."

Michelle and Tasha smiled upon hearing this while Ayaka blushed, wondering if she was on the list. Michelle said she was one of the potential candidates, but... If Kai decided that, then her opinion wouldn't matter.

"Well… Just like my element, I'll be your shadow and support you from the back." Michelle smiled.

They all forgot about Kai's new skill because of this incident.

"By the way, what's this group battle all about? Are there any benefits in accepting the battle?" Kai asked Michelle.

Hearing that question, Michelle simply walked toward the computer and projected the screen so everyone could see it. On the screen, there were ten names with numbers beside them.

Dawn - 113,100

Golden - 108,500

Brave - 105,400

Bronze - 101,800

Thunder - 91,300

Tempest - 88,400

Grace - 81,300

Eagle - 78,900

Honor - 77,900

Slayer - 72,500

"These are the first ten groups in our generation. These numbers are their current points. Well, these numbers don't really bring about anything good other than recognition.

"Even so, there are of course people who fight for fame and pride… I mean, they have a huge background, so it would bring about shame if they're not the best.

"I don't care about such a thing, so I didn't create a group again after my former group graduated. Even my father gave me permission to do anything I wanted. So here I am.

"As for this group, this is more like a place to hang out with you guys and do missions. I don't really care about the points as long as we're at the top 100 so we can have our personal helicopter. By the way, we need at least 40,000 to get into the top 100.

"There are two ways to acquire points. Firstly, we can get them from missions or emergency missions. The second is from group battles. If we beat our opponent, we'll get ten percent of our opponent's points.

"Our points will reset the moment one of our group members graduates. Considering how you can recruit an elite third-year to your group despite being a first-year, I think such a rule is normal. This is to prevent someone from taking advantage of the system.

"Most groups consist of people of the same year. There are other reasons besides this rule. If you graduate from this school together with your group, you'll be thrown into the front lines to help expand our border.

"However, if you have the same group, you would know each other's fighting style and the others, thus increasing your survival chance. Anyway, they made the rules after considering a lot of things," Michelle explained.

Kai and the others could understand that. "Well, since we still have a month, do you want to go for another mission?"

"I personally don't mind, but how about the others? Besides, there's a cooldown period of a week. We can't take any more missions right now. This cooldown period is to make the others rest.

"You can say that the monetary reward is great. However, there were a few reckless ones who tried to get as many missions as possible… This led to numerous unnecessary deaths due to continuously doing missions despite being too tired. They thought they would be able to get more rewards, but what they got was death. The school then made this rule to prevent that from happening again."2

"I see. So we basically have free time for the time being." Kai nodded. He wanted to research another skill to begin with, so he had no problem with this rule.

"Yes. Everyone is free to research on their own…" Michelle said, taking a glance at Kai. "Maybe we can have a date after this."

"!!!" Tasha's eyes flashed while Ayaka kept glancing at him, hoping she could have one too. Although she had yet to reach Michelle or Tasha's level, she had realized that she also liked Kai.

Kai shook his head, making an apologetic look. "Maybe after the group battle… I want to focus on this first."

"Fine." Michelle shrugged as the others also nodded inwardly.

...

A few days later, they finally could take another mission. However, they weren't as lucky as they were previously. They couldn't find a mission that was good enough, so they decided to wait for a bit.

The next day, they started looking for a good mission again, but found nothing. Finally, on the third day, they found a good mission. The mission wasn't from the school's system. Instead, to their surprise, it was from the student council.

Michelle and Kai decided to go to the student council room.

"I've been waiting for you two." The president greeted them with a simple smile. "A very good job back then. I don't have any complaints about the wolf mission, and can only give praise for the emergency mission."

"Enough pleasantries, just give us the mission." Michelle stopped him.

"Fufu… After having her man beside her, she doesn't want to hang out with us anymore." The vice president chuckled.

"That's not what I meant…" Michelle turned to her with an apologetic expression.

"All right, since she wants to finish this as soon as possible…" The president gave her a paper. "This is the mission."

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