Small upgrade system

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Back to Sam,

They finally reached the central area of the forest. Compared to the inner area, this central area has fewer trees so sunlight can enter this area.

Sam and others just needed to search for the boss. The boss will be the peak D-grade monster. They also meet some intermediate D-grade monsters in this area. To make the competition fair, the warrior association didn't add many intermediate monsters or peak D-grade monsters.

Sam and the others were walking in this area. They were extra careful because here they will face powerful monsters. When they were walking, Alexa and Sam suddenly heard many voices. They instantly become serious. Sam quickly signals his team to become alert. Seeing Alexa and Sam this serious, Jeni and others also become alert.

Sam and Alexa heard the voices of five humans that were coming from the left side of the forest. Not that they weren't cowards that just Harding hearing voices will make them scared and they will retreat. Because of this, they were waiting for those humans.

A few minutes later,

Five people come out from the woods. Jeni, Tony, Alexa, and others who were from the royal school didn't know these people, but Sam and Elena knew them. It was Lila and her teammates. Lila Majur is also a peak E-grade warrior from base school. It was natural for Sam and Elena to know her. This Lila, also an elite student like Elena, when they were in school. Elena and Lila were quite good friends. Lila was better than her other friends, who looked down on the people whose strength was lower than theirs. She didn't look down on people.

"Elena, talk to her and her teammates," Sam said to her. He wasn't familiar with her.

Elena nodded and walked toward Lila and her teammates. Seeing that Elena was walking toward those five people made everyone relax. Now they were in the central area, so everyone knew it was just a matter of time before students came here or many students had already come here.

'I think the enemy is waiting for all the students to come here. When all the renaming students come here, he will attack them.' Sam was thinking about the motive of the enemy. If the enemy wants, he can already attack them, but his guess can be wrong. What if the enemy didn't have enough to finish the symbol? What if the enemy had little spiritual energy?.

Sam shook his head and stopped thinking those useless thoughts. He looked in Elena's direction. She was now talking with Lila. She and Elena were from the same class and they were good friends. Sam didn't know what happened, but Lila was coming toward them with Elena. 'What did Elena tell her?' he was thinking about that.

"Flashback"

"Hey Lila, how are you?" Elena walked toward them and asked. At first, Lila and her teammates get startled, but after seeing that it was Elena, they relax.

"Fine. Also, how are you? Why are you alone?" Lila asked Elena. Lila can't see any of her teammates.

"It's a long story, but you can tell that almost all of my teammates are sent back to the association. Now, I am a part of another team." Elena said that.

It surprised Lila after hearing her words. She never thought that Elena, the genius of the Base school, joined a team. If she is willing, then many students will become her teammates. But she didn't do that and joined another team.

" Who else was on the team? And how many students do you have in your team?" Lila asked Elena.

It took some time to finish explaining her team. Lila got surprised after he heard that Sam, the loser of their school, was a part of the team. Also, Elena said that Sam was like them, an early D-grade warrior. It was also quite shocking news for her. Who thought that the famous loser of their school was actually hiding his power?

"Ok... Stop thinking about those useless thoughts. Actually, I came here to ask you something. Answer me honestly," Elena said seriously. Seeing her serious look, Lila and her teammates nodded.

"Do you know about the dark Association? Previously, many of our teammates got controlled by the enemy who belonged to the dark association." Elena said to them. Lila and her teammates were seriously listening to her. When they heard her question, they all nodded. They also know about the dark association and also know that many of their classmates got controlled by the dark association's warriors.

"Ok. It was good that you know about the dark association. I don't need to tell you about them. So, my next question is, do you know about the Forbidden symbol and summoned monster?" She asked, but didn't get any answer from them. Lila and her teammates with questionable looks looked at her.

"Ok... ok..... I will tell you about the forbidden summoning and the summoned monster," she said and explained about the Forbidden summoning and the Summoned monster.

After explaining everything, Elena asked them if they wanted to come with them. Lila agreed instantly and because of this, they were now coming to Sam and the others.

"Flashback end"

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At this moment,

"Mam, some time ago, three of our camera bots in that area suddenly malfunctioned. We quickly sent other camera bots to that area, but they saw nothing. Because of this, we thought it was just those three camera bots that were damaged somehow." One warrior in charge of monitoring the camera bots reports it to Maria and Alena.

"Also, mam we got something that might help you. Before the camera bots malfunction, one of the camera bots captures a shadow of a person. If we didn't see the footage carefully, then we also missed that." He also said to them, Alena and Maria, at this time, silently listened to the report.

"Quickly, send the footage," Maria said.

" Yes, mam." The warrior replied and instantly sent the footage to Maria.

She instantly opens the footage. She and Alena watched the footage.

"In the footage, it was showing a normal picture. Everything is normal in the footage. The camera bot is in a tree's branch. From there, the bots look at the surrounding area. It had a 180-degree camera view. The camera bot was capturing the footage of the right side of the river, then just when it was about to turn around to capture the left area's footage, the screen became black. It means at this moment the camera malfunctioned."

Maria once again plays the footage and pauses the footage when the camera bot turns around on the left side. Now it was showing the footage before it malfunctioned.

Alena and Maria look at the footage carefully. At first, they see everything was normal, but then they once again look at the footage carefully with more focus.

It was then they discovered a person's shadow on the footage. Previously, they ignored it, thinking it was the tree's shadow. But it wasn't.

​ Maria zoomed at the shadow. It was clearly a human shadow that was near the river. Maria plays the footage and the next moment, the footage becomes black.

So, it was only the capture of the human shadow who was near the river before it malfunctioned.

" Did you check the other camera bots?" Alena asked.

" Yes mam, we also checked the other camera, but they also captured nothing," the warrior replied.

" Ok, continued searching in the area when the shadow was showing in the footage," Alena said, then cut the call.

"Maria, what did you think?" She asked.

"Alena, now seeing this footage, I have some questions. Whose shadow is this? If it was the shadow of the enemy, then what is he doing here? Why the hell was the other camera not able to capture him? How didn't he know where the camera was? These are questions I am having. But, sigh, I know that nobody will give me an answer. I need to find the answer."

"Alena, look here. I think the enemy came from the river. If you are thinking why, then think if the enemy came here by walking or running, then one camera will capture his figures. But no other camera captures his figures, which means he came from the water. Also, I think the enemy is aware of the camera's position. If not, then how did he avoid all the cameras?" Maria said that to Alena. Alena nodded, hearing her words.

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