Supreme BeastTamer: I Can Copy and Upgrade Skills 10x!-Chapter 527: The Next Round [2]

As soon as the matchup was revealed, a pandemonium erupted in the spectator stands.

"Hahahaha, the Frostpire team is going home!"

"Yes, so what if they eliminated us? In the end, our two kingdoms are no different."

The Wind Dragons, who had already been eliminated, wore very happy smiles on their faces and couldn't resist the urge to gloat at the Frostpire Kingdom's unfortunate luck. After seeing what Lumi did to Nyxirith—who was said to be among the most promising fighters in this competition—no kingdom thought Frostpire would win.

Their dreams ended here.

"Dammit, we were so close." Even the Frostpire Kingdom felt disheartened at this revelation, their mood greatly soured.

The Frostpire stand became the quietest among the other seven kingdoms.

"At least we made it to the second round." Mira smiled bitterly as she stared at the Light Team from the corner of her eye.

"Don't say that. Have some confidence, will ya!" Toren sneered as he casually smacked the short girl's shoulder quite hard, making her wince in pain.

"It's not that I'm not confident, it's just the painful fact," Mira muttered in a barely audible voice, rubbing her shoulder, trying to soothe the slight pain radiating from it.

Though her voice was low, everyone had heard it. Whether it was because they knew what she said was true or not, for some reason none of the seven made another comment. Some of them seemed hesitant, their eyes dull, while a few—like Drake, Zara, and Toren—had a burning gleam of determination shining in their eyes.

As for Nox, he was rather cool about the whole scenario. His expression was unreadable. The reason he wasn't affected by the matchup was because a part of him had already suspected that something like this would happen.

Nox had come to realize that he was both the luckiest and unluckiest person in the world. When fortune smiled on him, it was grand and overwhelming. But when misfortune struck, it hit just as hard—if not harder.

Still, Nox didn't think the outcome would have been any better if they were against the other team, as they had all displayed very impressive skills—especially their respective leaders.

But Nox could see where they were coming from. The reason for their unease was because of Lumi.

The innocent girl had powerful skills in her arsenal, no doubt. Everyone had come to accept this, but what left them baffled was the fact that they knew absolutely nothing about those skills, which was very troublesome.

"I guess we'll be fighting each other then." Lumi smiled brightly, gazing up at Nox.

"Yes," Nox responded and stroked the little girl's head. She seemed delighted, her eyes closed in pleasure.

"Hmm… you still want to place that bet?" Dracos suddenly asked.

Thomas didn't respond immediately. His attention was solely fixed on the interaction between Nox and Lumi. Then his eyes flashed as he recalled something, and a grin broke out on his face.

"Yes," he said, turning to Dracos. "Whoever loses will have to hand over 200 monster cores to the other, and each core must not be below the intermediate rank."

"Deal." Dracos smiled.

Thomas paused and then said with narrowed eyes, "May I ask where the new confidence is coming from? Are you that confident in beating my team?"

Dracos only smirked and didn't respond. Even though everyone else had lost hope, when he stared into the eyes of Nox, he realized he had never believed in someone like that before—not even in himself.

After the matchup was made, the netizens of the Dragon Realm slowly left the arena, everyone talking about the next match tomorrow. The entire city was filled with debate and speculation at every corner.

After a grueling night, the first light of day appeared, and by noon, the arena was already packed.

Some time later, both the Light Team and Ice Team stood opposite each other. As usual, the match officiator came over and gave a brief rundown of the rules again. This was to refresh the participants' knowledge so that even if they were in the heat of battle, they wouldn't forget.

As soon as the match started, the first team to attack surprisingly was the Ice Kingdom. Zara, Kaisy, and Mira went after three of the enemy team, and Toren, Nox, Fenix, and Drake went after the rest.

Drake went for Lumi. He fired dozens of deadly ice projectiles toward the kitten girl, ignoring her innocent appearance. The projectiles, their edges gleaming under the light, whistled toward the little girl.

After witnessing what had happened to Nyxirith, Drake was very cautious.

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Just as the ice projectiles were about to slam into their target, dozens of glittering white cores appeared before her and started orbiting around her.

Drake narrowed his eyes as his spear slammed into one of the crystals. He had expected his projectiles to pierce through the obstruction, but they easily bounced off the crystal like a pebble hitting steel.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Drake had thought this was the end of the skill, until all his fired projectiles suddenly stopped in midair and shot back toward him. A panicked expression appeared on his face.

Toren, who had taken his full dragon form, attempted to snap his opponent in two with his powerful fangs, but the latter slammed his dragon fist into the side of his jaws, sending the creature staggering back.

Here and there, fights broke out in every direction, but the main attention of the spectators was on the fight between the two dragon royals. As such, they didn't witness how swiftly Nox had dealt with one of the Light Dragons, bringing their total number to seven.

After dealing with that dragon by impaling him with an ice spear just close to his heart, though the dragon was still alive, the injury was too fatal for him to continue anymore. Hence, he was disqualified.

After defeating that dragon, Nox quickly rushed back into the fight to help his teammates, failing to realize that the amulet was once again revealed. And although Lumi seemed occupied with Drake, in reality, she was actually faking it.

The Light Princess's entire focus was on the amulet, which her father had instructed her to get rid of.