Martial Arts Worlds

Chapter 36 Two Weeks Left

In the backyard of Karuza High's cottage, the young men and one young woman trained under the watchful eye of their coach.

Ryan and Kang were doing slow sparring, meaning they were moving at slow speeds to focus on technique and precision rather than speed and power.

Nath was striking a heavy bag nearly, his arms fully extended to their limit. He had one weakness, and that was that he was a worse fighter when his arms were stretched.

It was because he had focused on fighting in his default state. Thus, Jin made him fight only with his arms stretched to their limit. It was a difficult challenge for him to overcome, as those extra seven centimeters made his arms feel like they didn't belong to him.

On the other side of the backyard, Leon sparred against Klaus, and Shura faced Timothy.

Jin and his new assistant coach, Madigan, who arrived yesterday night, were watching from the sidelines, whispering with each other about the training techniques.

Meanwhile, on the inside, Jonathan was making the food today. He was on the food duty because he was the weakest person around—usually, the youngest person would be on the food duty, but Kiernan was going to participate in the nationals.

Kiernan was striking against a wooden dummy. As his legs and arms smacked against the dummy, it sounded like a drum.

After last week's rank up to the middle stage and level up, his strength has reached a whole new level. Yet he wasn't satisfied. After all, last week, he lost a fight.

"Coach!" Suddenly, Jonathan's voice came from the kitchen, and he hurried to the backyard. "We have visitors!"

"Who?" Jin asked with a frown.

After hearing that, everyone stopped training.

"That person looked like someone important." Jonathan said and then heard footsteps behind him. He stepped aside, and they saw three suited individuals walking towards them with serious expressions.

"Is everything alright, sire's?" Jin asked with concern.

"Yes, is this Karuza High?" The man in the middle said with a deep voice. He sounded and acted like a very important figure with an aura of power and authority.

"That's us," Jin said.

"The tournament bracket has arrived." The man said and handed over a piece of paper to Jin. "The tournament starts next week's Friday."

'We do not have a long time left.' Jin said with a sigh and accepted the piece of paper.

"We also have a few important people wanting to meet you." The man said, "They're from Martial Academia. They are here to look out for potentially talented younglings."

"Martial Academia?!" Jin exclaimed in shock.

"Huh?" Muriel stopped waving and dropped her hand, feeling embarrassed and confused.

This was the first time she had been ignored like this, and she couldn't understand why.

Godfred's muscles tensed as if he were about to burst out. He wasn't watching their interaction, but he was still able to see everything that was happening in the backyard with his exceptional peripheral vision.

It allowed him to see everything without turning his head.

'How dare he ignore her?' Godfred's nostrils flared. 'Maybe I should be happy? No, she clearly looks distressed. Humans are truly trash! Wait, I am human as well; how troublesome! I didn't expect being a grandfather would be so complicated.'

"Wait, do you know her?" Ryan asked Kiernan. "She was waving at you."

"No, I don't." Kiernan replied while looking away. "She got the wrong person, I suppose."

"Sir, we are honored to have you here." Jin, without knowing what was happening, greeted them with a humble smile.

"This is Karuza High, correct?" Godfred asked as he scanned the students gathered in the backyard. 'Weak, not a single one in Martial Fighter. They're going to lose in the first round.'

"Yes," Jin replied humbly.

"Well, nice to meet you." Godfred turned around and said, "Cadell, Muriel."

After seeing him depart, Cadell and Muriel followed after him.

Muriel still turned her head towards Kiernan, pouting enough to make her cheeks look like chipmunks, and then left the backyard with Cadell.

Jin wryly smiled as he saw them come and go in a hurry. He knew their team wasn't strong enough to make them interested for even a little bit, but it still hurt.

'Our school is not strong, we all know, but I want everyone who hears the name Karuza High to at least remember us!'

"Everyone!" Jin shouted and waved the sheet of paper in his hand. "Our first matchup has been revealed! Come check it out!"

Everyone gathered around Jin, who showed them the sheet of paper. There were indeed 256 teams in the tournament. Karuza High was just one of them, but they were determined to make a name for themselves this year.

"Our first match is against Seisen High School!" Jin announced. "They're average high school, at best, but so are we. We cannot underestimate them!"

"Yes, coach!" Everyone echoed.

"Go back to training; there's only less than two weeks left!"