My Soul card is a Reaper

Soon, a seal with mystical runes appeared on the ground before a giant beast rose from it with five snakeheads.

"A six-star realm Hydra." 

Not just Azzy, but even the other teachers were also shocked to see the students pulling off such a move.

However, Azzy was shocked for a different reason. He was familiar with this joint skill card formation.

This joint skill card formation needs atleast three individuals. Each of them will be holding a part of the skill card, which is nothing on its own. But, when it is used jointly, they can summon a beast from the wild zone and summon it and even control it to do their bidding.

However, to summon it, during the creation, they must use any solid part of the wild beast containing its DNA and also its blood.

These students don't have such capability to do it by themselves.

Unfortunately, that's not the important part. 

Azzy had faced this very same skill formation and also this specific beast in the Champions League finals against a team from the Dragon Academy.

"Is this just a coincidence or is there something I don't know about?" thought Azzy as he stared at the gold-grade beast that sent shivers down the spine of every member of Team JB.

As the rest of the members of Team SA backed away, Bill jumped high and landed on the Hydra's back, and looked at his opponents.

"We reserved this technique for the tournament but after watching your earlier battle, we decided not to underestimate your team and risk the result," said Bill as he controlled the five-headed Hydra.

The beast started walking toward its five opponents while Julius hurriedly shouted to go into the pyramid formation and let the earth-attribute Arcana beasts raise the ground as in their earlier battle.

However, it proved fruitless as the five-headed Hydra could fly and possessed all the basic elements (fire, water, wind, earth, and lightning). Their tricks couldn't overpower its mighty strength.

The finals ended up being a one-sided match and Team SA ended up being the representatives of the Emerald Academy.

As the runner-up, Team JB claimed two spots in the seven-member team as substitutes. As their homeroom teacher, Flora gets to decide it. 

Without any surprises, Julius and Susie made it to the team.

The next day morning;

Principal's office, Emerald Academy;

"What!"

Snivy slammed the principal's desk as she glared at the old man as well as the blindfolded man standing beside him. Meanwhile, Azzy narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why, Mr. Danvary?"

Principal George meaningfully glanced at the vice principal in response to his question and the latter answered, "We can't do anything about it, Mr. Gary. There was an attempt made on a student's life in the Sun Academy. It was the heir of 'Westro Group'. And they are making a ruckus with the investigation."

"So, our tournament is indefinitely canceled or are we postponing it to some other date?" asked Azzy.

The principal answered instead of Aaron, "We are in talks with Phoenix Academy, Dragon Academy, and Maple Academy for the moment. Dragon Academy has some conditions that are slightly difficult for us to accept but we will see what the other two academies will tell us. You will be informed in a couple of days."

"Are you serious, Mr. Principal?" Snivy shouted at him in a fit of rage. "Maple Academy, Dragon Academy, and Phoenix Academy? Do you want to humiliate our students or something? Except for Raydon, no one from our academy remotely has a chance to battle against those students."

"C'mon Snivy, have some confidence. We have produced two junior world champions," commented Aaron, implying that she doesn't need to be pessimistic.

Snivy countered him with a statement, "Those two champions graduated from the academy long ago. Both of them are absolute geniuses who had platinum-grade Arcana spirits and made a breakthrough into the 6-star realm at the age of 15 and 16 respectively."

As the principal and the vice principal were feeling headaches as they don't know how to deal with this short-tempered woman, Azzy also joined the conversation with a question, "Mr. Danvary, what is the condition put by the Dragon Academy?"

"Eh? Ah, well, it's not exactly a condition but more like a proposal. They said that they intend to introduce the Arcana festival to the world," replied the principal, glancing at his deputy once again to do the explanation.

Aaron continued, "This Arcana festival will include debates, indoor and outdoor games, art performances, exchange of knowledge, and also a combat tournament. However, it isn't limited to students. The teachers should also be included including the principals and vice principals of the participating academies too. 

As a preliminary version, they intend to invite three academies to their academy. WAMO's representative will be assigned to inspect the festival.

Heavenly Academy seems to be participating. If our academy accepts the invitation, then, we can also have the multi-academy tournament we want but…"

"But, you don't want to involve the teachers as it affects the academy's reputation." Azzy finished it for him, understanding their thoughts.

As Aaron and George Danvary nodded in unison, Snivy asked in confusion, "Why?"

Azzy gave her the answer in place of the other two, "it's because the students are temporary. Their bad performance doesn't affect as much as it affects the bad performance of the teachers, especially if Principals are involved. The admissions will be affected a lot."

"So, is this about you?" Snivy looked at the principal. "You aren't confident about facing the unknown?"

George Danvary bitterly smiled and gave her his reply, "It's not about facing something, Snivy. We can't risk our academy's future just for the sake of participating in some ridiculous festival. Our academy is almost like a baby. It is like cutting our own legs before we even had the chance to grow up into adults. You understand what I am saying?"

"I'm afraid I beg to differ, Mr. Danvary," Azzy stressed that they don't need to go all out to participate in this Arcana festival. The principal and a few other teachers could stay back citing the security issues at their academy. Instead, the vice principal can lead the team.

Since it is an opportunity for the students of Emerald Academy to mingle with geniuses of Dragon Academy, it is quite foolish to lose it. And if they fared better than others, their reputation could even increase further, attracting potential talents.

Vice Principal Aaron's face changed a bit as he heard Azzy's words. He was against participating in such a festival as he might have to reveal a bit of his secrets in a spar against his counterparts. 

However, to his dismay, Principal George was tempted. "Okay, I'll take your suggestion into consideration. Both of you may leave."

The students especially the ones selected from 10-B were quite disappointed by the news of the abrupt suspension of the tournament while 10-A students rejoiced.

However, there were some people like Daniel, who were angry, not just because of their failure but also felt like they humiliated themselves for nothing. Obviously, they couldn't blame their own bad luck or their actions. Hence, they blamed Azzy and Snivy who brought such a mini tournament with their challenge.

Meanwhile, Serestia decides to return home as there's nothing to do on the weekend.