[Island]
The movement of the Elludkal Academy after the declaration of war, was precise and efficient. After their declaration of war, they then begun to visit and talk to other academies into joining their cause while offering splits and benefits.
After all the prospect of being based near the waterfall has many benefits aside from food and advantageous position. Because of that, some of the academies became quite interested in the waterfall causing some of them to greedily agree to their cause.
All in all the students of Elludkal Academy manage to draw in the students of Ballad Academy and Horoscious Academy. Right now they are on the verge of trying to pull in the students of Ascalon Academy.
In fact it was quite obvious of what they are doing right now. They are planning to pit the other 5 academies agaisnt them. With all of them working together, it would even be hard for Shun to defend their base no matter how strong he becomes.
In that moment, an unexpected ally visited the Gritonnia Academy base as the representative for its whole Academy. Basically Akito was visiting Shun, as the representative of the whole Orbium Academy.
In fact Akito could have taken this chance to talk it out with Rosalyn, the representative of the Gritonnia Academy students, however he prefers to talk to Shun since they have been acquainted for so long and had fought together long enough to establish a bond.
Naturally Rosalyn didn't mind Akito's attitude. In fact he admires his boldness and strength to be able to contend against monsters like Shun and Loruis by just being a simple swordsman. Unknown to him, almost all the swordsman students who saw his swordsmanship had looked up to him. After all with swordmanship alone, he was able to stand besides Shun and Lorius at the top.
"Shun... I guess I don't have to tell you right? It seems like the students of Elludkal Academy is targeting your Academy... what do you plan to do?"
Hearing this, Shun set aside caring for Sephiria, as he stood up before talking to Akito.
"Well isn't it already a given? I'll fight them of course"
"It won't be easy tho, those students from Elludkal Academy are gathering the other academy's to eliminate your Academy... it won't be long till they manage to gather an army, I also heard that they are currently trying to pull in Ascalon Academy where Lorius is"
"I see... what about you guys?"
"Us? Well naturally they also approached us, but in the end I just gave them a vague answer... I know your full capabilities Shun, a simple army of students stand no chance against you... unlike a real scenario where they needed to take down the leader to cripple an army, this scenario is different... in order to fully eliminate Gritonnia Academy they needed to eliminate you, and that would be hard for them considering your titled as a 1 man army"
"Well maybe that's the reason why they are trying to pull in Lorius, after all they knew that the only people that can suppress me is you and him"
"Indeed... but do you think Lorius will accept their offer?"
"He will... as what we know about him, Lorius would always take any possible chance to test his limits and the only people who could do that is the both of us... plus he is not killing us so it's not against his morals"
"I guess your right"
"So you mentioned that they approached you right? So what's your decision? Would you take their offer?"
"Well... nah... that offer is just inefficient"
"Well now I'm curious... do tell what's on your mind?"
"Well think of it for a second, would I take the chance to eliminate 1 Academy or take the chance to eliminate 4 Academy? This test would only end if there is only one person who remains... since we don't know where the treasure is, this is the only way to pass the test with high marks... plus I'm tired of this test already"
"So your refusing them but you'll join us in our cause? We never offered you anything tho"
"That doesn't matter, your side looks fun... however there is a bit of problem tho"
"Problem?"
"Yeah! I think that Elludkal Academy students had sent someone to monitor me... there's a traitor on my side, so I guess by now they already knew that I made contact with you and will regard the whole orbium Academy as an enemy allying together with Gritonnia Academy"
"And you came here despite knowing that?"
"Well of course but that isn't the problem itself, but rather the problem is Orbium Academy is currently sandwiched between Ballad Academy and Ascalon Academy... so it will be hard for me to send some reinforcements to help you"
"I see... so your in a predicament... but don't worry about that, we'll be the one sending you some reinforcements"
"Huh? How?"
"I'm a 1 man army, so unless they sent Lorius to go after me, they will never be able to take me down"
Just like what Akito had claimed a spy within the Orbium Academy did inform Elludkal Academy about Akito's movement. Due to that they immediately branded Orbium Academy as an enemy and put them on their target list. At the same time they are now right infront of Lorius who seemed to lord over the whole Ascalon Academy.
The pressure from the students alone was crazy, it was like each and every students of Ascalon Academy are monsters, and all of these monsters hover around Lorius himself. If they want to win this war, they would need to get Lorius help, considering both Shun and Akito are now against them.
"Lorius! That is our offer, so please help us take down Gritonnia Academy... if you help us, we will offer this much to your future endeavors"
"Hmm that is tempting, but since we're talking about the Gritonnia Academy then I guess my target is Shun?"
"Yes! Your the only one who can eliminate Shun Kurosaki"
"I see... alright! That sounds fun"
With a smile, Lorius accepted their offer to target the Gritonnia Academy in order to have a chance to fight Shun himself. Thinking about their oncoming battle, Lorius couldn't even hide his excitement.