Not long ago, outside the Serene Forest.
The lord of Fagard City received communications from mentors at Doria Kingdom National Academy.
Not one, but two communications.
Both conveyed similar messages, and he confirmed receipt of each one.
Yet after the communications were cut off, he immediately returned to the group as though nothing had happened.
"Was there something important?"
Elvis asked.
"No, nothing. Just some simple reports..."
He shook his head and looked at the rankings. "What comes next will be the truly exciting part."
No one suspected anything. As he had said, the coming days would indeed be the most exciting and fiercely competitive stage of the Hunting Competition.
"The weather in the distance seems to be changing..."
Elvis looked at the faint clouds gathering along the horizon. For some reason, he had a bad feeling.
"It's just a bit of rain. Although it is indeed uncommon this season, it isn't anything strange."
The academy representative from Lisard Kingdom shook his head. "Rather than that, perhaps you should be concerned about your academy's students... Setting aside first place, Miss Eve in second place hasn't seen her points change for quite some time either."
He had become smarter. That brat named Lin Mo in first place was simply too unpredictable. Everyone had thought he was finished before, only for him to suddenly kill another high-level monster. So even though his points had not increased for a while, the man did not say anything.
After all, no one knew when that guy would suddenly pull off something huge again.
But Eve's points had always been rising steadily, and now they had suddenly stopped. That was surely worth mentioning, wasn't it?
"She's probably just resting."
Elvis said this partly to argue back, and partly to reassure himself.
Logically speaking, the venue would