Chapter 254 Bait and hook  

"Where am I?" Zirrix opened his eyes slightly and looked around, only to see that the world was quite peaceful and green.

It was a beautiful scenery, and he felt refreshed.

But why does it look weird.

Those trees seem to be opposite, upside down.

Just when he was confused, he heard a voice that broke his train of thoughts

"So you're awake now?"

"Who_ " Zirrix said as he tried to stand up but found that his hands were free and he wasn't on the ground or on his bed.

He opened his eyes wide, as he Looked up where a rope bound him from a tree and left him hanging, he tried to look for his staff or any other weapon to free himself, when the same voice echoed again.

"Try that, and my arrows won't miss the target next time."

'Rio'

Zirrix saw Rio's figure sitting on a tree top, where the branches around him had gathered together in a way that looked like a chair or table for him to sit upon. While he was leisurely sitting there, few wooden arrows floated behind him in a ring, constantly moving in a circle.

Zirrix waved his hands around, swinging his body backwards, trying to gain momentum and move upwards or use his strength to free himself, when an arrow grazed past his hands. Leaving behind a shallow cut.

Urgh'

Zirrix grunted in pain, as his brain recollected the scene where he was fighting with Leon and this guy sneak attacked them and he was thrown out of the bearer's circle.

As if he remember something, he quickly squirmed around and looked at his private parts, thinking if Rio blew them up with his arrows.

But thank goodness, they survived. Atleast his staff was still a staff. "What do you want?" He asked.

"Nothing much" Rio replied with a playful smile seeing this monkey's dance.

Another arrow moved forward on his signal and stopped just an inch away from Zirrix's face. "Just hanging a monkey on a tree. It's normal right?"

"You… .." Zirrix was furious over the insult of his God, as his face started to turn red and purple. (Like a certain monkey's ass??)

Maybe it was because of him being turned upside down and blood flow, or being too angry and humiliated, but whatever it was, Rio enjoyed it.

And so did Loki.

Though Rio couldn't hear him, he was sure that trickster was probably enjoying this scene very much.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you. You're useless dead." Rio said and the arrow moved a bit lower and stabbed Zirrix on the arm, where the watch of the academy was.

"Just stay still like a statue and enjoy your time. I'll kill your teammates and send you all back together." Rio said, pointing upwards.

Zirrix tried to look at his watch but he found he couldn't see anything except broken screen. The arrow floating in front of him was the warning, if he tried to channel his mana or aura, so he could only stay still and hope his teammates would free him.

'Just wait, I'll show you what a monkey can do, when you make him angry.' Zirrix thought in his heart and shook his head as his brain registered the fact that he called himself a monkey.

"I could've handled it myself." Leon said as he dusted his clothes and stood up slowly. Looking at Rio who was enjoying his time, eating fruits from the trees and playing with the artifacts he got from those other students. Trying to see what effect they had.

From what he understood in his fight, all artifacts only had one effect. And now they were all in Rio's hands. Even the artifact he found when he first teleported here.

Leon wanted to get that back, but his pride didn't allow him to ask for it from Rio. And seeing Rio, who completely ignored him, not even taking a glance in his direction - it was obvious that he had no intention to give it back.

So he could just stare at him in anger.

[Calm yourself.]

[Don't pick a fight you cannot win.]

Apollo's words echoed in his head again, reminding him to be careful around Rio.

Leon knew it too, but he didn't know why, but every time he saw Rio, there was this indescribable feeling in his heart confusing him and occupying his mind. Leon took a deep breath and decided to focus on healing his injuries and recovering some mana back.

[Apollo's watching.] System sent a message to Rio when Apollo started his conversation with Leon.

'I know.' Rio said and looked at Leon from the corner of his eyes. He didn't even need any scans or skills, he already knew all the habits of that bastard.

Shaking his head, he closed his eyes, rested his head on his hands and just waited there for some stupids to take the monkey bait.

On the other side,

"Some of our teammates are dead?" Heath, who was the student of Zirrix's class, said when he noticed a few red dots on his watch.

"According to the map, they died near the token bearer of class A-3." Another student replied.

"One of them is still alive. Maybe they're still fighting. We should go and help him too."

In class A-4 there were a few rankers and important characters of the plot too. Namely - Heath Lewis (the dragon halfling), Zirrix Drakkar (the monkey King's avatar), Moksh Blackwood (the second ranker) and Vanessa Belmont (Duke Belmont's daughter).

Currently other than Zirrix they were all grouped together.

They had a plan to group together once after teleportation and then start the fight with other classes.

At first it was all fine, as they all started moving together, but then Zirrix, who found 3 other students, changed routes midway and started the fight with Leon beforehand.

"If one is still fighting, then chances are that's Zirrix. His strength is the highest among them." Moksh said and a few others nodded their heads.

"I would've solved the strongest first." Heath replied, disagreeing with his classmates.

"Doesn't matter, let's go there." Vanessa, who was standing silent all this time, spoke up and next second flames appeared below her feet, projecting her upwards.

Leaving behind a charred ground in her place. Heath thought something as he glanced at the dots on watch, and then he used his mana too and ran behind Vanessa without saying anything.

Moksh looked at both of them with an annoyed expression. He looked at the other students who were staring at him with eager eyes, and he clenched his fists.

"Let's go." He said as he ran behind Heath's disappearing figure.

'What's the point of me being a leader, if you just wanted to do whatever you want.' Moksh cursed his team as he remembered the scene of their pre match meeting in hub.

All 10 of them had decided that he would be their team leader, so it makes coordination easy during the match.

Yet now first Zirrix, then Vanessa and now even that damned halfling ignored his command and ran off by themselves. Not even asking him for his opinion first. magic

'It looks like I need to teach them a lesson too later on.'